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The original creators were Mark McCorkle and Robert Schooley.
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This is a Kim and Ron Fanfic.
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Previously
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Big Daddy smiled as he reached into his jacket and pulled out a photograph and handed it to Ron.
Ron examined the picture and before he could say anything, Big Daddy said, "It is authentic. I don't deal in false information. It's bad for business."
In the background was a bank's sign that displayed the time, date and current temperature. According to that, the picture had been taken this morning around eleven o'clock. It was what was in the foreground that was most interesting.
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"Wade, see what you can find out about it please. I know you have your laptop with you and you are wired into the world. If anyone can get the intel about this, it's you."
"I'll have something for you by the time you get back, and put it out of your head." replied Wade.
"What do you mean Wade?"
"It's your wedding day and tonight is your wedding night. I'll figure out how to deal with this problem and still let you two have today and tonight. Uninterrupted."
"Thanks Wade."
"Hey. It's my job. I am your best man."
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During the dinner, Wade informed them about what he'd found out concerning the photo that Big Daddy Brotherson had given them. He outlined his plan, explaining that Kim or Ron's involvement would only endanger innocent lives. It irked them both to not be involved, but they agreed with Wade since they didn't want to put anyone's life at risk needlessly. Kim made one suggestion to his plan and Ron made one after that. Wade would have to talk to Betty to arrange transportation and then have to talk to his suggested partner to see if she wanted to be a part of it. Both Kim and Ron were pretty sure that his suggested partner would be all for it.
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The heat of the day had mostly dissipated as the cool of the evening brought a welcoming relief to her, but with relief came wariness because relief came at a high price. Danger, the evening was the time of the hunters too and that meant death.
A sense that could not be described suddenly went off and triggered an instinctual response; she jumped just as the much larger body pounced on the spot where she had been enjoying the cool of the evening. Know that it was only a very temporary reprieve. She took off running and dodging as fast as she could because to fight would have ended the chase very quickly and not to her favor.
After less than a minute she knew that the outcome would be the same unless she could do something and very quickly. She had an idea when she started to feel the heat again. What she had been trying to escape from all day may end up being her salvation as she sought out the direction of the heat once again. No matter what she tried, she felt her death closing on her. She was losing her race for life.
She saw the light as it came closer to her as her second race was now starting. If she timed it wrong, there would be no second chance. All options pointed to one possible outcome, her death. No matter what else happened, she would be dead.
She cut right just as the jaws of doomed snapped and missed once again, but she knew that was the last time. They wouldn't miss a second time.
She gave her last leap putting everything she could into it, hearing the blaring sound and seeing the glaring light rush by her. The wake of it padding turned her fully around as she landed in a heap and fell to the earth. She also heard the sickening crunch of her would be predator's body as it was shattered into more pieces than she could count and scattered across desert floor.
She had survived the night's encounter with only a little loss of hair and skin. It might grow back, but she didn't care. She had beaten the odds and survived the night once again.
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"Damn it!" muttered the bus driver seconds after the coyote failed to make it across the road like the jackrabbit did. The mess that was now a part of the front of his bus would be his responsibility to clean off at the end of the trip. This unplanned stop off didn't have the personal or equipment to clean it off so he would have to wait till they arrived at their final destination, five hours from then.
Another bus belonging to the same company had broken down and he had to pick up three passengers to finish their scheduled trip to California. It would only put them behind by maybe thirty minutes. All of his passengers were asleep so he wouldn't bother with an explanation till one of them woke up and asked.
He was relieved by the fact that they were asleep since that would keep any tree hugger or animal rights person from raising a stink over the fact that his bus just ran over a wild animal. No one saw it, so no one would report it. If he had swerved or tried to brake, someone might have gotten hurt and he was responsible for their safety during this trip.
The driver was mostly right. No one besides himself was awake on the bus. But that didn't mean that events had gone unnoticed.
The #KPR-0001 unit had devoted part of it's processing allotment to a low level threat surveillance of the bus, the driver and the other passengers. It was aware of the fatality of the biological organism known as a coyote, the fact that the impact had little effect on the bus and it had intercepted the message that the driver had received to divert them from their original route to pick up other passengers. The latter had raised the possibility of a discover threat assessment up 5.9 percent.
The #KPR-001 unit (Kim Possible Replicant) was the first of its kind. The first one manufactured after the move to the secondary base and was the prototype for the ones that followed, after several necessary alterations were made. Unit 0001 was totally manufactured with all of the remaining circuitry that was originally used in BeBe type androids that was useable. Several of the disassembled units, or parts of them, were stored in the area that was the original base of operations. (Global Justice storage room #52. See "Broken Heart, Broken Mind," Chapter 11.) The rest of the units had to be built with flawed circuit boards that had a resonating crystal on them that could were traceable. This unit had been able to escape detection at the secondary site because it didn't have one of those flawed circuit boards in it.
The KPR unit's exterior shape was that of a previous primary target, Kim Possible, who along with her sidekicks had managed to cause the failure of the two primary plans for taking control of this world till the Lowardian civilization could be notified and this world, its resources and peoples turned over to them when they arrived.
The KPR unit had acquired some non descript clothing for a female at a local used clothing outlet and it had altered the reflective qualities of the modified battle suit it wore under the clothing, so that it now appeared to be transparent thus making it more difficult to be detected under the outer clothing, as anything other than a female human. It was wearing sunglasses that should conceal the visual organs of a human and a baseball cap pulled low to obscure a lot of its facial features. The long red hair, that was a part of its original design, was pulled back in a pony tail.
The bundle of human hair that had been found at the secondary concealment site in the manufacture plant was stored in one of the cases along with the backup disk. The KPR had deducted that the hair had belonged to the human that it had been modeled after, since the abrupt change in the length of the original's hair was a contributing factor in the loss at the secondary site. Having a list of the file directory for the main program in its stored memory showed a directory devoted to "Cloning." the KPR unit had surmised that the bundle of hair could be used at a later time after its main objective was achieved to create cloned units to assist in the execution of the directives of the Master Program or the ERIC-1000 as it had designated itself. The "humanness" of them, might make the real humans reluctant to destroy them. A decision for the ERIC-1000 to make.
It's primary main objective was to make its way to the facility in Silicon Valley, which housed a new computer system that would be managing the world's biggest server access point in the world, without being discovered, which meant it had to travel from Middleton to Silicon Valley and maintain a low profile to avoid discovery. The new computer system would be able to store, replicate and operate the hybrid computer program that was part Lowardian and part of a program that had been created by the human known as Doctor Drakken. This new hybrid program, or ERIC-1000, had created the cases of backup disks that now rested in the buss's luggage storage area as a part of a secondary contingency plan. This KPR unit was to load the backup disks into the computer and start the programming. In order to accomplish that goal, it would have to insert a subprogram into the security system in order to gain access into the highly restricted area. Before that could happen though, it would have to finish penetrating the final eight more layers of security protocols, having already cracked through the first twenty different. The only problem that might be would have been with the photographer that had been taking pictures of the Bus Station when then Unit boarded the bus and there was nothing it could have done about that without raising an alarm.
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By the time the bus had pulled off at the little town in the middle of nowhere, the unit had penetrated another level and it decided to hold off till the bus was on it's way again. It was then that the threat assessments it was running went up an additional 20 percent.
Two young people that appeared to be students, one male and one female, one older male and then a female of about the same age were the additional passengers. The two young people went to the back of the bus with the younger male settling down to go to sleep while the female activated a laptop computer while. After starting the boot sequence of the laptop, the female plugged in a device that attached to the back glass of the bus with a sucker cup. Doing a quick search on the human's internet, the KPR unit found that it was a device that was sold for bus trips. Occasionally the onboard wifi signal would fade out and this device was supposed to assist in picking up random signals to fill the gap for uninterrupted game play for online gaming. In other words, a total waste of time and resources. Time wasted for the human and resources of available wifi signal wasted for the KPR unit. After hacking in through the meager firewalls of the laptop, the Unit saw that the human was indeed playing an online spy game called Jane Pond with most of the computations occurring in a cloud environment. It would slow things down for the Unit, but if it caused to much of a delay, it could introduce a virus into the laptop to disable it's online capabilities.
The increase in the threat assessment came from the woman. Her age could not be determined since she kept her face turned away, her hands in her pockets and she didn't say anything so an ID from her voice print was not possible. The increase was because of the woman's hair. Long and black hair with a slight green sheen to it. Running the available data on the new passengers, just as it had already done when it first boarded the bus on the passengers then, the possibility of this new person being the human designated as "Shego," one the known associates of Kim Possible, rose to fifty nine percent. No action was to be taken unless the threat rose above sixty five percent.
Quickly switching over to a different visual mode to run more checks on it's environment, it checked for possible air displacement. This was an improvement added to all of the units when they were created with the possibility of a battle suit with a stealth mode being used, rendering them invisible to normal sensors. While it was possible to become invisible, it was not possible to mask the air being displaced by an invisible object occupying that space. This had come in useful at the secondary concealment site to detect not only the other units that were using the stealth mode, but also the heterocephilus glaber (naked mole rat,) that was using some method that duplicated the same effect. Its capture was simple after it was detected only costing four units to accomplish the task.
Having detected no abnormal air displacements, the threat remained under the sixty five percent level when the woman sat down behind the driver but out of sight of the mirror that was positioned above him for him to watch over the occupants.
Devoting an increased percentage of it's processing allotment to the threat surveillance, especially the woman and the program that was being run on the laptop, the Unit resumed the delicate task of hacking into the security system of the far away computer.
Shortly after the bus had returned to the main highway, the older newcomer male did interrupt it at one point when he attempted to make small talk when he asked it if they had met before, stating that she looked familiar. The Unit's reply, although not considered rude by human standards, not only denied any previous knowledge also indicated the lack of any reason for any further conversation.
As the trip continued in silence now, the speed of its progress was now greatly reduced. Not only was the student playing the Jane Pond, but she was also attempting to download a cheat patch for the game to allow her to disable a detonation device on that level, both using up available bandwidth. The Unit found that it no longer had the available resources to introduce a virus into the girl's computer while keeping the high surveillance up and maintaining the link to its objective. Its own programming did not allow it to reduce its surveillance under the current circumstances so it checked the estimated time of completion of its accessing its goal and found that it was still within acceptable parameters if it cut back on its internal diagnostics. Since it was feigning sleep, it computed that it was an acceptable risk, which its programming allow it to do.
An hour later as the Unit had just completed hacking through the previous level of security and now only had four more to go, the girl shrieked, claiming that she had finally beaten the game she was stuck on. Several things then happened. The bus stared to slow down, as if to pull over to the side of the road, all of the new passengers came out of their own faked sleep to look directly at the unit and all wifi access to it was terminated.
As the woman, that had been the center of its surveillance stood up and turned around, a facial recognition could be made. It was the head of Global Justice, Director Betty Barkin, minus her customary eye patch and wearing a wig. As the emergency programs started if the Unit was discovered, two systems shut down. The first was its control over the battle suit. The suit had become rigid and refused to allow the unit any movement or any activation of any of its other systems for personal protection. The second was its own body's motor controls as they were over ridden. The Unit then tried to self destruct, but it only received a message from that subprogram saying, "Good Morning Captain!"
As Betty Barkin walked back to the unit before the bus finished pulling over to the side of the road so everybody could disembark, she said, "Allow me to return the favor that one of you gave to me and my team." She then pulled out a device that would give off a specified charge of electricity, one that would cause the Unit to shut down without destroying any of its internal circuits, and discharged it into the side of the Unit's head. The device worked as it was expected to do having been created by Dr. Wade Load after studying the remaining pieces of the Kimbots from the manufacturing plant where they had been destroyed one month prior.
As Wade entered the bus to check out the sitch, Betty turned to him and said, "Dr Load, thank you for giving me a chance at a little payback and thanks to you and your plan, the mission is successful. The Kimbot has been deactivated and everybody is safe."
Wade had been following the bus in a black car and while the driver drove it, he had been accessing the laptop and with Joss's help, they had hacked into the battle suit that he had originally created for Kim, but the ERIC1000 had been able to download the specs and dupilcate. Once they had accomplished that, together they had been about to hack into the Unit itself to disable the self destruct that Wade knew was there. He had been connected to Joss's laptop by using a narrow beam directional transmitter that was being received by the antenna that she had stuck to the back window.
Wade replied, "You mean thanks to you for acting as a distraction to it, Joss here providing a way so we could hack into first the battle suit and through it into it's subsystems, Steve for giving an added distraction so I could make the initial connection to Joss's laptop and your Agent Rex Havoc coming along to provide backup should any one of our actions started to backfire on us. All in all I would almost have to say welcome to a Team Possible operation Director, if you weren't already a member of Global Justice."
"Aww, shucks, tweren't nothin." replied Joss. "I was just happy ta be a part of it."
"That's alright Dr. Load, but I can see one of the reasons why Kim has always been so successful and if you ever decide to jump ship, you'd be welcome at GJ. What I don't understand is why you were so adamant about capturing this "thing" intact."
"I'm happy doing what I'm doing Director, but thank you. There are some things I want to check and study that I can only do with a fully intact model. Kim and Ron pretty much demolished the others so I could only get the basics from them. This one will do just fine."
"Are you going to call them to let them know that the mission went well?"
Checking his Kimmunicator, Wade said, "No. I'll wait till tomorrow to do that." as he pocketed the device after seeing it had an emblem of a necktie tied to the door knob of a closed door.
"They've got other things on their minds right now."
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