13) Under no circumstances is an expelled Creator allowed back into the order unless proof of their innocence can be shown.
July 9th, 2012
Los Angeles, California
5:00 P.M.
Alone.
Lately he had always been alone.
He knew that previous sentence made very little sense but he was in one of those moods. Something Wolf referred to as a self-imposed pity session.
Alone in a crowded room as he liked to say.
Pity session for no good reason as she would later tell him.
Sure he had friends and he was with people that he could call friends but in all actuality, he was alone. A shadow of a human being.
A shadow the Creator thought with a laugh as he stared at his complexion in the mirror next to his computer. He paused and stared at his complexion in shock, A very pale shadow. I need to get out more.
He sat back in his old wooden chair, the computer screen flickering before him as it waited for him. It waited for him to do something to it.
Anything.
He watched as his computer screen blinked the same command over and over again:
Execute? Y/N
But he didn't move. He didn't act, he just stared. Wondering how did it come to this? How did everyone he know end up with someone, and he, how did he end up alone?
He knew the plan, it was his brain child after all. The Creation that would save its Creator and all it would take would be a simple keystroke from him.
A keystroke that would give him the chance to live even as he stare into the face of his own death.
He looked out his bedroom window, watching quietly as the sun slowly descended beyond the horizon. The golden beams pouring through his window and warming his skin.
The Creator thought at the implications of this keystroke. To do so would result in the loss of everything he knew.
The Founders would expel him if he failed.
His friends would abandon him in disgust and revulsion.
Even Wolf, his one true ally would leave him alone.
"It's not fair," he murmured as he ran a frail hand over his nearly bald head.
He heard a crash in his kitchen and he let out a sigh.
She was up from her nap, probably cooking some dinner for him to go with his medication but ultimately it didn't matter.
No matter what she did to cheer him up he would always and forever be:
Alone.
November 28th, 2017
Shegoton, Colorado
9:15 P.M.
Truth be told, Jim Possible could have been having a better day.
He could have been on the moon colony with his parents, he could have been sleeping, heck he could have been building new inventions with his brother but instead, Jim Possible was flying for his life through the streets of Middleton.
Normally flying into Middleton-Shegoton he mentally corrected himself, The Supreme One renamed it Shegoton.
Normally flying into Shegoton was uneventful provided you kept away from the citadel and your trip took only a few minutes. But today was different, today Jim knew she was coming today.
A smile formed on his lips as he thought about his seeing his sister for the first time in over ten years. She wouldn't have aged a day but to Tim and him, James let out a sigh as he struggled to remember Kim's face-
BRZATT
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING UP THERE?" his brother called back from the cargo hold and Jim shook himself out of his daydreams as a laser blast zapped around the jet he was flying.
"Sorry!" he shouted back and banked the Kiminator around a building. In the cargo hold his brother who happened to be leaning out at the time braced himself the door frame to keep himself from falling out of the blue jet and yelled up to his brother.
"ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL ME?" he shouted over the wind whipping through the cargo hold.
His brother's reply was filled with a mixture of anger and laughter as it piped over the PA system, "How 'bout you do your job and I'll do mine?"
Tim shook his head and leaned out the door to see if they were still being followed.
BRZATT
A yellow laser bolt lanced past his head and tore through one of the multicolored buildings the Kiminator was zipping past, instantly setting off a large explosion that sent flames racing into the sky.
Tim let out a cry of shock as he pulled his head back into the jet and felt around his face, making sure nothing had been lanced off by that bolt of electricity.
"How many still back there?" his brother called back as Tim pulled his laser pistol from its holster and leaned outside the door to shoot.
"About six more drones," he shouted back as one of the black spheres trailing the ship zipped in close only to be blown to bits as a well aimed laser bolt blew it out of the sky, "FIVE MORE!"
BRZATTBRZATT
Twin bolts of yellow laser flew past the jet, passing so close that the paint on the side scorched and blistered as they passed.
"JIM, PEDAL FASTER!" his brother yelled as he returned fire.
"Tim the Kimminator is powered by a fusion core producing enough energy to-"
"Just shut up and go faster," Tim interrupted angrily as he leaned out of the door and fired several more shots at the chasing drones.
Jim pushed the controls to the jet forward and felt his stomach lurch at the sudden course change. The jet dove through the sky and careened towards the ground like a stone only to correct itself at the last possible second, the pilot pulling up and the jet screamed above the streets of Middleton at less than two meters.
Jim's eyes took in everything as it came to him, those under Shego's control diving for cover, cars spinning out of control as they saw a small jet whipping through the city streets at breakneck speeds.
Jim pulled up lightly on the stick and the Kimminator rose just enough to clear an overhead walkway teeming with mindless workers walking too and from their shift at Shego's factories.
BRZATTBRZATTBRZATT
Jim winced as one of the blasts cut a hole through the windshield, instantly raising up a storm as a hole the size of his thumb appeared in the Plexiglas. Jim reacted almost on instinct and spun the controls so the jet ducked down a forgotten alley way just as a multitude of laser beams tore through the air they had just been in.
A curse escaped Jim's mouth as he heard the wings scraping against the close confines of the alleyway and he held his breath as another turn came up and he spun the thrusters around, completing his turn but at the expense of chipped paint and a partially bent wing.
"JIM!" his brother shouted from cargo hold, "WE'RE TAKING HITS BACK HERE!"
Jim ignored his brother's comments as he pulled up on the controls and just barely missed a dumpster overflowing with garbage. Behind him he heard his brother cheer as one of the drones didn't pull up in time and exploded as it ran straight into the metal box.
"HANG ON TO SOMETHING TIM!" Jim shouted back to his brother and switched the vehicle into reverse.
Instantly two enormous clangs and Tim's loud cursing echoed from inside the cargo hold as two of the drones couldn't stop in time and slammed into the back of the Kiminator as Tim tumbled forward and slammed into the wall separating the cockpit from the cargo hold.
Before he could shout at his brother to be more careful, he was thrown back as the Kiminator powered up and shot through the alley way with more drones on its tail.
Jim's eyes flashed to a screen that showed a view behind the Kiminator and silently counted the drones that were still behind them. His eyes looked up just in time to see one of his greatest fears, an end to the alleyway.
Without thinking, Jim's thumb hit a button that rested on top of the controls and twin smoke trails shot out from the wings of the jet. The smoke trails hit the end of the alley, the missiles exploding and creating a hole large enough for the Kiminator to pass through.
Jim increased the speed and allowed himself to be pushed back into his chair even as the side of the building that he just blew a hole in started to collapse. As the jet ducked into the building, the entire side of the wall tumbled down, sealing off their trail from the drones. Those drones not caught in the collapse stopped in confusion as they waited for orders. A muted buzzing sounded from the drones as they received their new orders and several seconds later, the remaining drones rose into the green sky and were soon lost among the pollution.
Tim had thankfully pulled his head inside the jet before Jim had taken them inside the collapsing building. He sighed and closed the door to the outside as he joined his brother in the cockpit just in time to see his brother steer them down an office hallway where people ducked out of the way with screams of terror. Behind them, the building continued to collapse but still Jim pressed the Kiminator to her limits.
"No, No, NO, NO!" Tim shouted as the Kiminator rocketed towards a large plate glass window. Jim didn't answer but instead thumbed a trigger under the controls as a laser gun affixed beneath the nose of the jet whirred to a high pitched whine.
A moment later a multitude of red lasers lanced out and cut through the glass, instantly melting it and the Kimminator passed through moments later as the rest of the building behind them collapsed in a massive heap.
Tim looked behind them as the building continued to collapse causing the ground to ripple in all directions as the building fell. He shook his head after several long moments before turning back to his brother who was flying the Kiminator nonchalantly. He struggled to maintain the calm his brother set but after a minute he turned to his brother and shouted, "ARE YOU CRAZY?"
Jim smiled as he flipped a switch and turned to his brother, "We're here aren't we?"
"Well-yeah-but," Tim struggled for several seconds before a beeping noise echoed in their cabin. Jim reached over and pressed a large glowing button and instantly the holographic face of Rufus 3000 appeared before them.
"Rufus," Jim greeted with a grin, "We've been waiting for your call."
Rufus didn't grin back but instead his normally dour face took on a more serious look, "I've lost your sister."
Silence.
Tim tapped at the side of his head, "Now Rufus I think the explosion from a few minutes ago must have blown out my hearing because I thought you said you lost my sister."
Rufus nodded, "And Stoppable."
Tim was about to yell some various string of curses but a calming hand from his brother stopped him, "How did you lose them Rufus?" Jim asked.
The naked mole rat puffed his chest up defensively, "I was only a few seconds behind them but when they went through the portal, they ran."
Tim peered at the hologram, "They ran?"
"Correct," the baritone voice confirmed, "The second they were in our time, they bolted."
Jim looked at his brother before turning to Rufus, "Why?"
"I do not know," Rufus 3000 answered, "But by the time I caught up with them, they were already in custody of the drones."
"Where were they?" Tim questioned as he checked his laser pistol.
"That's what was odd," Rufus answered quickly, "They were stopped in front of the citadel. Miss Possible was on the verge of tears as they led her away while Ron seemed more concerned with the destruction of Bueno Nacho than Shego's presence."
Where are they now Rufus?" Jim asked in an effort to change the subject.
Rufus took a deep breath, "They're being processed at Middleton High School."
Jim heard the whispered curse from his brother and nodded in agreement, "Rockwaller still teaching there?"
Rufus nodded, "Indeed. I advise extreme caution when dealing with her."
Jim smiled, "The Car Monkey? We can take care of her."
Before Rufus could reply, Jim switched off the hologram and plotted a course towards Middleton High School.
November 28th, 2017
Shegoton, Colorado
9:35 P.M.
"Ok let's start," the high pitched voice asked the filled classroom, "Does anyone know why they're here?"
From the middle of the room a confident hand rose. Bonnie's personal computer instantly pulled up everything about them and in a heartbeat she knew more about the answer giver than they knew about themselves, "Yes, you," she took a breath as she scanned the man's file again, "soulless worker drone number 5889."
"Well, uh...I think-" his answer was cutoff as the ground beneath him opened up and swallowed him. Everyone's eyes widened as he fell screaming into the black abyss.
Bonnie smiled evily as the whole sealed itself, "Exactly, you're here because you think."
Kim's eyes glazed over as she'd already heard what Bonnie was going to say and more importantly she needed to figure out why she was here.
All right, Kim started off mentally, The Machine is with the Lowardians and Felix, Kim shook her head at the thought of her husband in that universe, what sick and twisted choice brought that universe into existence?
Kim shook her head to clear the thoughts and continued, the symbol of Royalty was in that middle ages version of Middleton, she paused as she thought about the bag those drones had taken from her.
Kim hadn't seen it since but she was willing to bet the bag had been taken to the "Supreme One." She shook her head at that, only Shego would be vain enough to call herself that.
Mind back on what you know Possible, she mentally chastised herself as her head jerked to the side as if she possessed a tic, no idea what the symbol of royalty does but you need it. Josh's ring was the love not returned, she sighed as she thought about Josh and how much she actually missed him, POSSIBLE her mind screamed as her head ticked again, quit letting your mind wander and focus on what we need now.
Kim nodded in agreement, All right, we have two of the items, we've almost got a third item. That just leaves the immortals soul and the power from beyond the stars-
Kim froze as the realization hit her like a ton of bricks, "Oh I am good," she murmured as she figured out the fourth item.
Kim looked around the room with a smug look on her face. Now all she had to do was get out of this room, get the item and jump.
She stopped and her smile faltered as she saw a group of armed guards enter the classroom and their leader pull Bonnie aside. They spoke in hushed tones for several moments before the guard started gesturing in Kim's general direction.
Kim felt an initial wave of panic as she saw a confused nod from Bonnie towards Kim. The guards didn't return the nod but instead walked in an almost unified rhythm towards her.
Kim quickly replaced her panic with solid determination and instantly started analyzing the situation around her for ways to escape. As her eyes flicked around she saw the guns strapped to the hips of the guard unit and she started calculating how long it would take her to break out of her seat, pull the gun from the guard's hip, use his body as a shield and shoot his comrades with the gun before they killed both her and Ron. Then she'd have to-
Kim stopped herself mid thought in a vague mixture of horror and anger at herself. When did she start thinking about how to best kill someone? Sure she'd wanted to kill Shego just a couple of days ago when she kicked her into a radio tower but this was different.
Or is it? she questioned herself as she looked for nonlethal ways of escape.
Kim's gaze roamed around the room but stopped on the painted cinder block wall that she was sitting next to. She'd seen this wall before when she was in detention oh so many years ago, but that sense of nostalgia wasn't what grabbed her attention.
Instead what really gripped her attention was the paint on the bricks that was bubbling and boiling. Kim reached out a hesitant hand and touched the paint but instantly jerked her hand back as the now boiling hot liquid paint stung her hands. She looked on in confusion before it finally dawned on her.
Kim looked up in shock to warn Ron as the wall next to her exploded into a wall of flame, instantly engulfing everyone in the class room.
November 28th, 2017
Shegoton, Colorado
9:40 P.M.
Tim looked at his brother who was silently flipping through the switches of the Kiminator and moving it from manual control to autopilot mode. He finished typing as the laser gun beneath the nose of the jet lanced out and started to bake the wall with a steady laser beam.
"Are you ready?" he asked his brother.
Jim looked up and nodded as he climbed out of the pilots seat and tucked his trusty laser pistol into the holster on his side, "And when have I not been ready?"
Tim smiled as the wall continued to heat up, "Wanna blow the wall now?"
Jim shook his head as the wall seemed to ripple from the heat generated by the laser, "Give it a few more seconds."
Beep
Jim smiled as his wrist beeped and pressed a button on his wrist to silence the noise. He looked to his brother and with a confirming head nod, pressed a command on his watch.
From the side of the Kiminator, a missile's smoke trail lanced out, impacted on the wall, instantly caving the side in and sending a flash fire through the room.
They waited until the count of five before bursting in, shouting in unison and blasting everything that moved.
November 28th, 2017
Shegoton, Colorado
9:43 P.M.
Pain.
Kim shook her head at the fiery pain that enveloped her entire body as she struggled out of the remains of her seat.
Pain and Screaming.
Ron, her head throbbed at the thought, where's Ron?
Kim crawled around as the classroom's walls flickered as a fiery glow started to envelope everything. From around her she heard screams of pain as laser blasts hissed and whizzed over her head and slammed into targets in the smoke filled classroom.
The screams of pain continued for several more seconds but eventually all that was left was the hissing and flickering of the flames on the walls.
Still Kim continued to crawl on her stomach away from the sounds of battle as memories of the Lowardian universe sprang unbidden to her mind. She pulled her weakened body over warm concrete that was slick with wet paint, or what she prayed was wet paint and struggled to clear her throbbing head. From behind her she heard footsteps approaching and crawled faster to escape.
On cue the sprinklers overhead clicked on and instantly covered the entire room in water.
Water hissed as it made contact with the flames, the ground soon became slick to the touch and she pulled her body groggily through the debris.
She was nearly to freedom when Kim felt someone place a hand on her back and she instantly spun around. She grabbed their hand and pulled it towards the ground even as she threw her weight around. By the time her assailant had hit the ground she was already straddling them with a fist raised and ready to strike.
"I trust that isn't how you greet Ron every morning," Jim laughed as he easily shrugged Kim off.
Kim stared in a mixture of wonder and confusion as her brother rose to his feet and methodically started clearing the room of rubble and debris, "Ron and I aren't dating yet," she argued back.
Jim smiled and nodded as he picked Kim up by her shoulders as if she weighed nothing. Before Kim could move he was pulling Kim in for a hug and holding her tightly, "It's good to see you again."
Kim leaned her head on her brother's shoulder and let out a sigh, "I've missed you Tweebs."
Jim pushed her back and lightly set her on the ground, "And how did nothing happen between you and Ron?," he smiled suggestively, "I figured that ten years in the time stream would have done something for your relationship,"
Kim shook her head and coughed hoarsely as she struggled to breathe through the smoke, "It wasn't like that. It was in the blink of an eye that we got here."
Jim smiled as he heaved a piece of concrete that was almost as large as Kim, "Dad will enjoy hearing that then."
"Ron," Kim coughed weakly as she remembered Ron and started to look around the room, "Where's Ron?"
"I'm here," an equally weak voice called back from across the room, "I think you need to see this."
Kim shook her head, "This isn't like I remember it," she said mostly to herself as she clambered over the debris of the classroom.
Jim looked at her questionably as he clambered with her, "You OK little sis? Tim's explosion didn't hit you too hard across the head did it?"
Kim shook her head as Tim shouted from the smoke, "that was you and you know it."
Jim laughed, the red armor gleaming in the orange light of the fire, "Shego's drones are going to be here in less than three minutes. We need to get out of here before then."
Kim stumbled through the smoke, her ears ringing and found Ron and Rufus crouched over a still body face down in the debris of the room.
"It's Bonnie," Ron nudged the still woman's form and was rewarded with a pained moan.
He saw Kim shrug and held a bag aloft, "Bonnie's purse," he reported, "And it looks like Bonnie here was going to meet Shego later today."
Kim stared in shock but before she could react, the semblance of a plan formed in her head, "There's no way it could work," she argued with herself as she walked away to confer with herself.
Why not? her mind argued back, your being here has already changed this universe's original path. That's why this is different than when you were here last. Kim looked out at the gaping hole towards Shego's citadel, You're making it up as you go along.
Kim didn't know how to respond to that but instead turned back to Bonnie, "Could it work?"
You're asking the crazy voice in your head if that plan might work, her inner Kim asked back, Why are you even asking that?
Kim nodded as Bonnie started to cough herself awake, Decision time, the voice argued, You either go through with it or you don't.
Kim's breath caught as she asked, "I can change this universe can't I?"
No, just create a new one, the voice answered, follow this one through to the end.
"Right," Kim sighed sarcastically and hauled Bonnie roughly to her feet, "Jim I need to borrow your gun," she said to her brother.
Jim looked up as Kim held the slowly returning to her senses Bonnie, "What?"
"I need your gun," Kim heard herself ordering.
Jim looked at her, confusion dominating his features, "I don't think-"
Kim interrupted him, "I don't care what you think, I'm still older than you Tweebs and you are going to give me that gun."
Jim looked at his brother who nodded slowly in response. Turning back to Kim, Jim pulled his gun from its holster and gave it to her. Kim took the gun and shoved it roughly under Bonnie's chin. Instantly the older woman jerked awake and tried to move away but found herself in the iron grip of Kim Possible.
Bonnie stared into Kim's eyes and asked, "w-who are you and wha-what do you want? The soldiers just said you were a terrorist-"
"Where's Shego?" Kim interrupted the sputtering woman, "we know you were going to meet her later today, where was the meeting place?"
Bonnie looked confused for the a moment before shaking her head, "The Supreme One never leaves her tower."
Kim's smile chilled Bonnie to her cold, black heart, "Good, you're going to take me there."
Everyone in the room started speaking at once in protest but finally Ron's voice carried above the rest, "Kim, what are you doing? We need to regroup and get out of here."
Kim shook her head, "I'm not going with you."
"But we're a team," Ron argued, "We stick together through everything."
Kim looked from Bonnie to Ron, a sad look in her eyes, "Not this time Ron."
"But what am I supposed to do?" he asked, his childlike wonder slowly being replaced with anger at Kim's one woman supposed suicide run.
Kim nodded towards the Tweebs, "do what you were originally going to do. Assault the tower from the sewers and destroy the Tempus Simia," she thought for a moment, her eyes looking away, "hopefully I'll be finished before you destroy it."
Ron looked ready to argue with Kim but he saw a look in her eyes and nodded slowly as he remembered the trust they shared, "I'm the distraction?"
Kim smiled, "This time, yes."
Ron nodded and turned away before he pulled a gun from the holster of a knocked out guard, "Not this time Kim."
Kim stared at him in shock, "Ron what are you doing?"
"We were separated once before," Ron hoisted the gun up and balanced it on his hip.
Doing so he accidentally pulled the trigger and blasted a hole in the ceiling and as debris reigned down he continued without missing a beat, "We've been away from each other for far too long and now we're going to do this together."
Kim's mouth hung open in shock as Ron asserted himself before her and she felt herself nodding, "You have no idea how true that statement is," she whispered before nodding, "All right, we'll do this together."
Tim stepped forward a hand raised, "What about our rescue?"
"Thank you but now I need to go to Shego," Kim shook her head, "Your take down of Shego is not why I'm here."
Jim took a cautious step towards Kim, "Then why are you here?" He didn't know why but he knew something was wrong with his sister.
"I'm not from here," she explained while praying she wouldn't have to go into the multiverse theory again, "My real goal is to get to Shego."
Bonnie looked up in shock, "Possible?"
Kim smiled, "Nice to meet you too B."
Bonnie shook in terror, "The Supreme One is going to kill me."
"Why?" Ron asked as he joined Kim's side.
"Shego has been looking for you," Bonnie explained, "Orders are to capture you and bring you to her alive."
Kim smiled, "then it looks like today is my lucky day."
Bonnie shook her head, "But having you in my class and not informing her..." Bonnie trailed off, "She's going to kill me."
The smile never left Kim's face, "I'll put in a good word with her."
Tim placed a hand on Kim's shoulder, "So what are we supposed to do?"
Kim looked at her brother and making sure Ron had a grip on Bonnie pulled her brother in for a tight hug. She held him for a moment before pushing him away, "Go back to Wade and plan your assault on the Citadel."
Tim pulled Kim in for a hug, "So we're the distraction instead of Ron?"
Kim laughed into her brother's shoulder, "I knew all you two needed was a few years to mature."
Tim chuckled and looked her square in the eye, "Can you do this?"
Kim laughed, "Anything's possible..."
"We know, we know," Jim answered and started walking towards the Kiminator, "Dad tells us that all the time."
This stopped Kim cold, "How are Mom and Dad?"
"They're good," Tim answered as he swapped his pistol with Ron's gun, "They'll want to see you once this is all over."
"Yeah," Kim lied, "I'll go see them soon."
Kim paused as more memories flooded back to her, "Just remember, Killigan has a spare golf ball hidden in his kilt and all you have to do with the Tempus Simia is just kick it," she smiled hesitantly, "That should revert time back to how it should be."
Tim looked at her as he made sure Ron's gun was charged up, "How do you know all this?"
Kim smiled, "I've been here before," she saw their looks and nodded towards the Kiminator, "Don't ask for an explanation, just trust me."
Tim shook his head as the jet slowly pulled out of the rubble of the classroom and spun in the sky. Kim saw Tim standing in the open door of the jet and smiled at him. She saw him return the smile before the jet disappeared into the green sky.
Turning back to Bonnie, Kim's look of kindness was instantly replaced by one of ice and snow, "Now B, you and I are going to visit Shego. If you mess around I'm going to start pressing buttons. Do we understand each other?"
Bonnie looked down at the blaster in Kim's hands and recognized that it was set to vaporize her, "Perfectly Kim."
Kim smiled darkly and shoved Bonnie away from her roughly, "Good," Bonnie dusted herself off as Kim gestured towards the tower in the distance, "Start walking."
Disclaimer: Disney owns everything, I own nothing.
Author's Notes: So a Sitch in Time. Last chapter I said all I wished to about my feelings of that episode. Great premise, lousy end.
Special thanks this week goes to Anthony1 (I think I spelled your name right), Mr. Wizard (Just wait until Paris), Darev (Thanks for the grammar correction), Twuscany (Is there Twuscany? Is there?), Joe Stoppinghem (*Insert Punchline Here*), Sentinel103 (I just might take you up on that), Taechunsa (I'm a writer not a scientist), CajunBear73 (Sometimes a dead end is all we need), temporaryinsanity91 (Here's a rope and hang on), and Katsumara (Speak the sentences aloud, that is my secret).
And thank you once again to you the silent reader who continue to put up with the long and confusing road to the end. As always if you have any question, concerns or general praises for me I will gladly respond to them and I might even give you some behind the scenes hints.
TRS