Chapter 7

Camille continued to gasp in speechless horror at all of the evil that has unfolded before her eyes by her friend. She did not even say one peep out of the entire incident…..she was too afraid to even speak.

Please so like help me…., she cried to herself as she collapsed to the floor approaching the locked door

Veruca then noticed Camille's crying expression and smiled, "What's wrong, Camille?"

"You're…..you're….." Camille stammered, pointing at Veruca.

"Evil? I know!" Veruca smiled gleefully as she took all this in as a complement.

Camille tried to explain, "Like Veruca, that was so like our best players….we…..we could risk expulsion for this?"

Veruca still smiled, knowing all of Camille's weaknesses, "But what about your thirst for adventure, the time that you came with me to that silly Baptist place and that you put the sexy hunk magazines in the pews while I did the coup de grace - the pouring of alcohol into that baptismal pool or whatever they call it? You are my yes-girl, you are supposed to silent, you are supposed to submit to me! You will do everything I say without any questioning! You are a weak-willed friend who I love to mold in my image! You are under my control! If you don't do what I say, I will simply cut off all your money to the Leon family into bits, like…."

She then snapped her fingers to her butlers. "Butlers, bring me a pair of scissors and a one-hundred dollar bill!" One of the butlers bowed to Veruca and brought to her a $100 bill and a pair of scissors. Veruca then took the scissors in her right and the $100 bill in her left. She also instructed her butler to open the doors once her golden throne came in. The butler pressed the button to open the doorThis speech and actions by Veruca shattered Camille's self-determination to fight her own demons. She could not even move.

"You….you like win, Veruca!" Camille cried in submission to the peanut deb.

"Heh," Veruca smirked as she put down the pair of scissors and the $100 bill to one of her servants. "I knew you were always weak-willed. Now, in just 20 minutes, all I have to do is wait and the police will take these idiotic football players away to jail!" She smiled as she turned away from Camille and clapped her hands for her golden throne. The four butlers of the strong type bowed and sought for the throne where Veruca usually sat upon. The deb spotted the butlers carrying the golden throne from the front doors, now unlocked, as Camille, powerless to do anything, moved out of the way. Another one of her servants waved around incense and two of her other servants and maids were waving their palms around.

"All Hail the Cheerleading Princess! All Hail the Cheerleading Princess!" the butlers, servants, maids, and most of the guests present chanted in unison as Veruca prepared to climb up to her throne.

The butlers lowered it.

Ron, Kim, and Rufus went into the Stoppable garage.

"I wish if we got a car or something…." Kim continued to groan as she got the helmet from the rack. Ron got his and Rufus got a little one from the other end.

"Sorry, KP, but as Wade said, my scooter is the only thing that we have to get to Veruca's."

Kim sighed as Ron got onto the driver's seat of his rickety scooter and she followed behind in the passenger's seat. Rufus followed up on his master's shoulder. Ron turned on the motor into the ignition and kick-started the scooter up. He pressed one of the buttons, which opened up the Stoppable's garage and sped the motorcycle, albeit slowly, out onto the street, headed for the police station.

Their time of arrival was only 10 minutes. And the storm rumbled out another low booming of thunder and an in-cloud flash of lightning brightened the sky.

Meanwhile, in the limousine that Veruca's tech-savy butlers were in, they were conversing among themselves to try and create a powerful computer virus.

"Is the Trojan horse ready yet?" one of the butlers asked.

"Yes, it's ready, just as soon as I upload these worms to join it!" another one of the tech savy servants nodded his head, typing in a few keys to make the virus work effectively.

"Make sure you add in the final adjustments to that spy ware and malware too!" a third butler laughed as he made final adjustments to a virus that would be so devastating to any computer in the world that it would be hard to recover.

"And it is….. Done!" the hench-butler exclaimed in triumph, fists raised in the air "Now to send it to that computer!"

And so he pressed the send button to one particular set of computers.

_Kim and Ron continued to race against time in the scooter as they traversed through the city of Middleton. She then pressed the button on her Kimmunicator.

"Wade, anything on Veruca's place?" the red-haired agent asked the young college genius.

Wade was furiously typing on the computers, "I'm trying to hack into Veruca's computers but they are so encrypted….almost like Global Justice-style encryption."

"Uh, English, Wade?" Kim asked for a clearer interpretation.

"In other words," Wade continued, "I can't get into the cameras inside of Veruca's mansion. All I can get is static on my monitors!"

"Hmm…why is Veruca's system so hard to break through, but other super villains are totally easy?" Kim confusingly asked.

"She's rich and she's usually your rival, Kim, so she must be guarding something privately…." Wade wondered as he tapped his head.

"Yeah, Wade, but what? And Ron, we're gonna go to the source...the Salt Mansion!"

"Right away, KP!" Ron made the sharp turn to the road that would guide them to West Middleton.

At the mansion, one of the players, whom has the least amount of alcohol in his system, screamed out to the deb as she was getting on her throne.

"Veruca Salt, you are nothing more than a dirty, rotten slut!" he said within earshot of the deb.

Veruca then violently turned her head, the smirk on her face disappearing.

"What the HELL was THAT?" she angrily glared at the Middleton football player who made the offending remark.

The football player stumbled but stood up, daring to challenge Veruca's seemingly unstoppable prestige and reputation.

"Yeah, you heard me right, you downright nasty evil Spawn of Satan! You're a SLUT!" the football player declared before the entire guest crowd, servants, and butlers that were present.

The deb bared her teeth in sheer anger, "You SHOULD wish you'd never say that s-word in front of MY PRESENCE!" She clenched her fists tight.

One of the servants gasped when he saw the Princess in an angry mood, "You shouldn't have made Veruca angry….."

Turning to her servants and butlers, Veruca angrily instructed to them, "Get the guests out of my sight, except for the football players! I want to teach these idiots a lesson they'll never forget!"

The servants, fearing the power Veruca possesses, obeyed their leader's command. Veruca continued to growl as she began to saw the guests leave the restaurant on both doors. The only people that remained were Veruca, Camille, and the nine drunken football players.

"O My Holiest Veruca, your duties will be obeyed!" the servants feverishly obeyed. They instructed the guests to leave the restaurant and guided them to the outside of the mansion.

They do NOT want to see Veruca when she is like this.

Back on the streets of Middleton, the scooter carrying Kim, Ron, and Rufus was trying to take them as hard as it could to Veruca's mansion. They were on the main road leading to West Middleton.

They were rapidly running out of time.

"Ron, can't the scooter go any faster?" Kim asked if the vehicle could increase its speed.

"Well, there's this experimental rocket fuel that Wade put in my motor and there's the red-button thing. But KP, you know that red buttons and I don't get along well!" Ron replied while trying to keep his eyes on the road.

"Ron, we don't have any other choice! This mission is so totally my responsibility!" Kim said in shaking her head, "If we don't get the football players out of trouble, it's going to be totally my fault!" She then made the trademarked saddened Puppy-Dog Pout towards Ron.

"Aww….mmm….okay, KP! For the Mad Dogs!" Ron groaned but then smiled when realizing that the two of them are doing it for the good of the team.

Kim smiled and then turned to Rufus, "Rufus, do the honors!" Rufus did a mini-salute and then pressed the red button, unleashing the full potential of the scooter!"

Hope this works! the cheerleader prayed.

At the instant, the scooter started to go faster and faster!

"It so totally works, Ron!" Kim beamed at the increased speed, "We're so gonna get Veruca!"

Kim then went back to the Kimmunicator, clenching it tight, trying to find a way into the seemingly impregnable mansion of Veruca.

"Wade, still nothing from Veruca's mansion?"

"I'm trying my best, Kim, but Veruca's system is foolproof! There's no way that my computers could…."

Then, Wade stopped as a familiar chant began to echo from his computer speakers. Kim's smile faded off into a frown.

"Uhhh…..what's happening with the lack of typing, Wade?" Kim asked.

Wade frantically typed into the computer. "I'm trying everything to get my computer back to normal!" He stopped momentarily and then got out a big book titled, "The Book of Computer Viruses".

"Let's see." Wade analyzed the computer virus directory until he stopped thumbing.

His jaw dropped, "Oh…..no!""What is it, Wade?" Kim frowned.

"It's a virus infecting my computer….." Wade explained, and then turned one of his monitors, "Recognize this?"

All it took was one look at the monitor to turn Kim's frown into anger. She stared at the monitor display of the horde of Veruca's servants worshipping and prostrating endlessly while her four butlers carried around Veruca in the golden throne every 30 seconds.

And it never…..ever…..stops….an endless loop!

"Ughhh…Veruca…you despicable, EVIL CHEERLEADER!" Kim growled, gritting her teeth.

Wade had an angry look to his face "Veruca must've put a virus in my computer system…the Veruca Virus!"

"How could she?" Kim exclaimed, "She barely makes Cs on her report card ….. Unless it was her butlers that did the deed! She does not do anything alone!"

The young college genius gasped, "Of course! A couple of days ago, I accessed the profiles of her butlers and servants. They graduated from MIT and Cal Tech, are usually tech savy and would do anything to shield Veruca and her property from any outside interference! I'm afraid this virus Veruca's butlers put on me is going to take me a couple of days to permanently remove, Kim. I'll try to send you any missions concerning Drakken and company through the Kimmunicator while my computer's going through repairs!"

Kim sighed, knowing that there was nothing she could do about the virus, "Okay, Wade….."

Ron, meanwhile, overheard everything, "Veruca, is there any evil that cheerleader wouldn't do?"

Even Rufus growled upon hearing the name. He got out a small bugle, blew it, and yelled "Charge!"

Kim was not going to allow Veruca to get away with this transgression of her friends._She looked at the rich carefully-decorated stone sign with gas lamps that says, "Welcome to West Middleton!" within 1500 feet of her. But then she looked above and that the storm was almost upon them with the in-cloud flashes of lightning and the thunders in between.

"Hurry up, Ron! We don't have much time left!" Kim hastily explained to her best friend.

"KP, I'm going as fast as I…" Ron's brown eyes widened as they turned to the gas gague. The red arrow was right on the E.

The scooter, which was zooming down at 25 mph down the road to West Middleton, suddenly came to sputtering mode.

"Oh no…..please no…..please not now!" Kim prayed as hard as she could so that the cycle could keep on going.

Then… it stopped! The experimental rocket fuel was gone. "Well, this is just sick and wrong, KP! We're so out of gas and stalled!" Ron complained, "What could possibly go wrong?"A large boom of thunder suddenly echoed after a flash of lightning. It scared the hell out of Rufus and he was forced to take shelter in the bag. Rain then began to suddenly fall down on the three heroes, as poor Kim's hair suddenly became wet.

"Why am I sometimes the one that's always jinxed when it comes to Veruca?" a wet Kim sighed in frustration as she took off her helmet and threw it into the grass.

"I dunno, KP, but always remember that good always triumphs over evil!" Ron proudly declared, trying to instill confidence in Kim.

"But it seems to so not work out with Veruca, what with her butlers, and her golden throne and her mink coats….." Kim tried to explain why the good vs. evil debate just doesn't compare with Veruca when three Middleton PD police cars sped by them, sirens blaring and all. A flash of lightning came momentarily and went away followed by a rumble of thunder.

"Oh no…..we couldn't have…" Kim stammered at the sight of the three police cars seemingly headed toward the Salt Mansion.

"We shouldn't have…." Ron was completely shocked at the scooter first, and then the sounds of the sirens blaring behind them. Rufus came out of his hiding pouch and came up to his master's shoulder, dropping his jaw.

They tried to run as fast as they could, on foot, to the Salt mansion before it was too late.

_At the mansion, a yellowish glow began to surround the angry Veruca as the football players watched in fright. Camille backed away in shocked horror to a corner of the restaurant. Her eyes began to turn yellow and her golden bikini transformed into a black dress with the red numbers 666 on it and an image of a goat's head on top.

But the most glaring of these changes that Veruca underwent was the growing of two of her fingernails into little blades, almost as sharp as prison barbed-wire.

She turned those yellow eyes onto the football player who called her 'that word', "You dare to defy and DEFILE me by calling me the s-word?"

The football player whom offended Veruca was trembling in fear at the sight of the deb. "Y…..yy…yes…." came his reply.

Veruca growled and used her two irregular fingernails to make a cut wound into the player's left leg. Even though it was not much, he was bleeding a little bit, clutching the wound.

"Owwwwwwwwww…." cried the player as he sobbed loudly over the wound. He hadn't experienced pain like this before.

"Now you WON'T disrespect me like that ever AGAIN!" the possessed evil cheerleader sneered at the wounded Mad Dog football player.

With a yellow glare of those eyes, she turned to the inebriated football players and glowed even brighter.

"Now…bow to me!" the demented cheerleading captain commanded of the football players, whom she spread her controlling powers to. She completely overwhelmed all the nine players present.

The players tried to resist the control but didn't as they fell on their knees to the floor, bowing to Veruca and saying "Hosanna is Veruca! Long live the Princess of Middleton High! What can we do for you "

"That's more like it!" Veruca yelled with laughter over the players' helplessness. "Now, turn yourselves into the police for the attempted rape of myself! Lie down on the grass face first with your hands behind your back to be arrested! "

"Yes, O Great Veruca!" the football players shamelessly said in defeat as sirens began to sound in the distance. They walked off to the entrance of the mansion, awaiting to be arrested by the Middleton police and lied down face-first in the grass, in the midst of the thunderstorm, with their hands behind their backs.

She changed from her demonic controlling form back to her normal self, with a whimpering and crying Camille to witness it all. The black dress with the red "666" number changed into that of an elegantly-golden dress. She got one of her mink coats from the hangar rack. Knowing that Camille could have the potential threat to expose her, she quickly set to diminish this threat.

"Camille," Veruca evily smiled at the shocked 'friend' of hers with the lightning flashing through the windows, "I know that you have been exposed to whatever powers I have used against the football players. Now, I do NOT want you to tell this news to your parents. If they, or any other authority figure, comes up to you wanting to explain what has happened tonight, tell them this instead: Nine Mad Dog football players came to my party to rape me but my butlers came and acted in self-defense against those brutes. If you do not testify this in their court trial, you know what happens to the Leon money!"

Knowing that she had no other choice in the matter and knowing the financial consequences, Camille silently replied, "Like…..yes, Veruca…..I shall never betray you…"

Camille submitted to Veruca again as she bowed and touched her nose to the floor to show the 'admiration' and loyalty and compliance to Veruca with a bolt of lightning flashing outside the Salt Mansion and a loud crack of thunder. Veruca gave out her most evil laugh of triumph for the next 20 seconds before she saw the image of her father approaching downstairs from the second floor to the restaurant.

As if on cue, Veruca made her evil laughter fade away into the process of crying and bawling loudly. Because of the padded walls, Henry did not hear the evil laughter of his daughter. He only saw the tears in her eyes as he looked through the windows of his restaurant.

Henry, wearing a bed robe over his pajamas, came into the restaurant, fearing for his daughter's safety. "My daughter, my sweet little precious princess! What happened to you…"

Veruca sniffled her own tears, "Daddy…..these players…the players…." She turned to a defeated and submitted Camille, "Tell him, Camille."

While crying, Veruca also took a watchful eye on Camille to make sure she didn't try anything funny.

Camille walked up to Mr. Salt and told him "Mr. Salt, Veruca so like almost got raped by like nine Mad Dog football players, but her butlers defended her in like self-defense against them. And now they're like outside the mansion, about to get arrested by the police!"

"Oh my!" Henry exclaimed in great aghast and emotional distress. He then turned to his seeming-crying daughter and embraced her, "Oh my Veruca…my dear sweet Veruca…don't worry…..don't worry….shhhhh...Father's here!" Turning to Camille, he exclaimed, "Camille dear, it's not safe for you as of the moment. Can you go back to your parents for safety?"

"Yes, Mr. Salt, I should like go and do that!" Camille exclaimed and left the premises.

"Ohhh….thank you, Daddy!" Veruca cried with a faux pas joy for the presence of her elder but her father interpreted it as real joy instead.

Henry then looked down at his watch for the time. It was now 11:30pm while a low boom of thunder rumbled outside the pouring rain. "Veruca, darling, it's almost time for bed and…" He then heard the sirens of the police, "…is that the police I hear outside?"

Veruca dried up her tears when the sirens arrived and replied with a yawn, "Yes, Daddy, I would like to go to bed! And yes, those are the police outside." Henry then got out a golden bell out of the pocket of his bed-robe and rang it. Instantly, the four strong butlers with the golden throne Veruca usually travels in marched through the doors. They lowered the throne before Veruca as she climbed up onto the purple cushions of the throne and the butlers hoisted the throne in the air. They carried her to a specially-made elevator in the main hall designed for the throne on up to Veruca's luxurious bedroom.

_In the rain, Kim, with Rufus now on her shoulder, and Ron ran as fast as they could to the Salt Mansion, away from the scooter. The rain continued to pour down on Team Possible like a thousand daggers.

"Hurry up, Ron!" Kim insisted on keeping on going, despite the obvious fact that the inclement weather was getting worse for them "We're almost there! Just a few more blocks!"

Ron was rapidly running out of breath, "Can't…try…and…..go….on….trying…to….keep….up!" "Ron! We don't have much time left!" Kim exclaimed with her wet red hair all over her, turning her head quickly in Ron's direction

"We need to save the Mad Dog football players before….." She turned back her head and gasped, 200 feet away from the Salt lighting of the blue sirens and the surrounding of the mansion by police officers meant only one thing.

Team Possible was too late…too late to save their own team from a crazed cheerleader…..

Kim gasped open-jawed as the police van came in and began to escort the nine Mad Dog football players away in handcuffs behind their backs to the local county jail.

"Oh my God!" She then rushed up to one of the police officers. "Hello, Miss Possible" the officer smiled.

"Why did this happen? I thought that Veruca was supposed to be the one getting caught!" Kim exclaimed in disbelief.

"Unfortunately, we got a dispatch saying that the football players attempted rape on the deb, so we had to come in to bust them!" the officer replied to the two.

"But …. Uhhh… Veruca's …. y'know, the bad guy in all this…" Ron tried to explain the simple equation of good against evil.

"Sadly, her money…" the officer continued as he shook his head in disapproval, hitching his utility belt up. "…has control of my job. If I arrested Veruca, good-bye job!" He then made the sound effect of a toilet flushing. "In fact, most of the jobs of these officers rely on Veruca's money to operate the precinct. No money…no fighting crime….no officers….equals lawlessness!"

Kim interrupted"Uh….officer….she is an EVIL cheerleader. She caused me to lose my cheer captain position three years ago…..she caused cheerleaders to walk off the squad….she….."

But before Kim could continue her rant, the officer cut her off. "If I hear another word out of you two, I'm afraid I'm gonna have to arrest you, Miss Possible, for obstruction of justice, and …ummm….."

Ron decided to step in at the most inopportune time, "Ron Stoppable's the name and….."

"Ron, please….. Don't do it!" Kim begged to Ron to not make a scene with her hair completely drenched by the rainwater by this point.

Unfortunately, the clicking of handcuffs on both her wrists behind her back and Ron's by another officer that had two pairs of handcuffs. The officer even used little cuffs on Rufus for both his hands behind his back and his feet.

"Oh noooooooooo" Rufus cried with little tears streaming from his eyes.

"Oh no…I'm so not a criminal! This is so totally the drama!" she exclaimed with anxiety, frustration, and fear with the restraints behinds her. Two other officers gathered for extra protection and then confiscated the Kimmunicator.

"This is not happening to me!" Ron bawled with tears streaming from his eyes, "I'm tooo young to be a hardened criminal…."

"Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable, you are under arrest for violating Veruca's Law which 'you cannot incite any hateful words against the Great Veruca'. According to the punishment, you will face 10 days in jail plus 20 days of community service. You have the right to remain silent, anything you ca you also have the right to an attorney, if you can't afford one, the state'll provide you one at no cost!"

Kim growled at the sheer frustration of the law's inability to see through the evil cheerleading captain, but realized that there's not much choice that she had, now that she was incarcerated, treated like a common criminal.

She, Ron, and Rufus were all crammed into the backseat of a patrol car and the door closed in on them.

All the red-haired cheerleader could do is look up at the Salt mansion and whispered to herself, "Someday, she'll collapse…someday…"

Rufus, with his chains shackling, look up and cried once more and Ron hung his head low, a couple of his tears falling on the carpeting.

Veruca evilly looked overhead from her bedroom window facing the street, especially a distraught Kim and Ron, hanging their heads low in the storm and trudging away from the scene, being escorted in handcuffs to the nearest c. A bolt of light flashed and a loud crack of thunder coincided as she laughed maniacally at the window.

The police van carrying the nine detained football players drove away first and then the police car carrying a handcuffed Kim, Ron, and Rufus off to jail.

"Yes! The two idiots are no match against me…..the Great and Evil Veruca! HA-HA-HA-HA-HA! My plan worked to perfection!" the satanic deb evily smiled as she walked to her bed. "Oh, the many evil things I could do against that rotten Kim once school starts next year! For right now, she'll be singing the blues this time!"

She then went to her bed and began to sleep with that demonic look in her eye and another flash of lightning and a boom of thunder echoed in the distance.

It seems that Veruca, unlike most other villains Kim has fought, had won over the red-haired cheerleader.

_Camille, meanwhile, struggled to sleep, in her bed at the Leon mansion.

The image of Veruca cutting up a 100 bill and the echoing word of "under my control" never ceased to exit her head.

"Under my control….

Control….

Control….

Control…..

(present day)Camille woke up back in the present on her bed with a loud boom of thunder and looked at the bottom part of the headline of the paper.

Ughh….I like need to get out of this, but like how? Camille thought to herself. Everything is so like my fault ever since that day…I'm totally the one to blame…..

She then heard her cell-phone ring and looked at the caller-id.

Camille looked at the text, wide-eyed.

It was none other than Veruca.