A\N Hi! UPDATE! Something to mention! Some people asked me about when in canon this story is. At THIS point(this chapter) it a bit more than a month before So the Drama event. Basically almost 2 months passed since Shena was forcefully transferred through time. That makes BEGININIG(first chapter) of this story taking place 3 month before So the Drama. But how than Hana is Ron's sister, and Monkey Fist is cursed by Yono you ask? Simple…well not really… Basically because of Shego disappearance from the villain roster, events changed from the canon stories: some didn't happen at all, some happened later, and some sooner(like Yono one). In next chapter i'll probably ty to lit some light HOW events came to be if Hana were merely an infant at that point. I hope i made all clear and didn't confuse you even more.
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Chapter 10
Aftereffect
Ron rode on his scooter through the streets of Middleton, trying not to think about what happened half-hour ago. But the image of broken-hearted red-head teenager didn't want to leave his mind. He felt heaviness inside his chest. Hurting a friend and lying to her face right afterwards was one of the most painful experiences for him. But there were no other way. He couldn't date Kim with half-assed feelings, it would be unfair, and he couldn't confess that the other girl he likes was actually Shena. Ron couldn't bring himself to put her in the awkward position, considering that she just joined their lives. So he lied, he made up some person in his head instead.
'Can't answer Kim's feelings, and can't confess mine to Shena.' he thought, while parking his scooter near the Smarty Mart entrance. 'Great…just great...'
As Ron entered the magnificent building part of his worries dulled a bit. With a list of things to buy and his Mom's credit card he is going to make a greatest dinner in his life. Cooking was something Ron loved from his heart. Creating a new magnificent dished from a simple ingredients felt almost like magic. Minutes later his cart was half-full. He picked three different types of meat, some vegetables and fruits, and also species.
"Hello international meat galore!" Ron mumbled under his nose with smile. "Indian curry, Italian meatballs, and American steak!"
As Ron went to get some rice and spaghetti, whistling some happy tune, he felt as somebody lightly tapped his shoulder.
"Excuse me, can you help me please?"
A petite brown-eyed teenage girl stood near him with a basket in her hands. Her dark blond hair curly hair was perfectly gathered in pigtails.
"Uh?" Ron turned toward her. "Yeah, what can i help with?"
"I can't reach canned peach over there." She pointed to the top shelf.
"Uno memento!" he said and quickly disappeared around the corner, only to be back ten seconds later with a pick up tool in his hand. "Smarty Mart have this near almost every aisle for cases like this."
Ron used pick up tool and handed canned peaches to a girl.
"Thank you!" she smiled and put it in the basket.
"No problem!" he put a tool on one of the shelves.
"You know, i'm not really familiar with this place, could you help me to find some things?" she asked sweetly.
"Ok." he shrugged his shoulders in agreement.
"My name is Rica, by the way."
"Ron. Ron Stoppable."
After helping a new acquaintance in navigating inside an enormous supermarket, Ron and went toward his scooter and started it. As Rica waved to him, saying goodbye, he waved back and drove away. As Ron got closer and closer to his house some thoughts rose in his head..
'It's almost funny that met a girl in Smarty Mart today. It would be funny if i didn't lie about it to Kim earlier. Rufus is probably worried right now, i left without telling him anything. Oh, dang it. At least i will cook today. Did Mom ask me to do it because…Nah. Well…maybe. Ok stop thinking Ronster, it's only making you feel worse, changing the channel….tralalu…Fearless Ferret…movie Kim…changing the channel…doodeedoo…Yo', listen up, hap a holla from Ron. 'Naked Mole Rap' is the name of the song….'
Ron was humming the song for the rest of the way. He knew that he had to face all of this soon again, during a talk with Rufus, so it felt better not to stress about it beforehand. Just a boy on his scooter, with tons of food, and a song.
Next morning was terrible for a cheerleading red-head teen hero. She woke up at least for an hour earlier than usual, but couldn't get out from the bed. Emotionally drained, her mind failed to start working, while her body laid in one position all this time, without moving once. But it was going to change, as a familiar tune came from the device on the nightstand. Slowly, body rose from the bed. Kim took the device and pushed the button. An image of her tech whiz friend appeared on the screen. He had bags under his eyes, and clearly tired look in general.
"What the sitch, Wade?" she asked in a slightly raspy voice.
"I got a hit on the site…gee Kim, you look awful!"
"Look who's talking." she said back.
"Something happened?" he asked worriedly.
"No, don't worry about it, so what's our mission."
"A genius techno scientist Dr. Wasnik got apparently caught in his own home by his own creations. He asked us for a help."
"Do i have at least 30 minutes for a shower?"
"Of course, i will contact Shena and Ron about…"
"Wait!" Kim interrupted him. "Don't call Ron, i'll get him myself, tell Shena we will meet her at the scientist's house."
"Ok…i'll send a taxi to you in 40 minutes, be ready."
After a shower, Kim dried he hair and put on mission gear. Some make-up helped to hide her pale look and puffy eyes. As soon as taxi cab arrived she got in it, alone. Kim just couldn't force herself to go and see Ron. She flopped it, she ruined their friendship with her own hands. And now she can't even get enough courage to simply talk to him, let alone going on a mission.
As Kim got out of the cab she saw a sleepy Shena, yawning wide.
"Hi." Shena waved lazily. "Wade told me about the mission…where is Ron? And why you look so bumped out?"
"I just didn't sleep well...and Ron won't be coming, he is…"
"Did your date failed?"
Kim didn't answer, and just looked in shock at Shena.
"Yeah yeah, i know about it, blame Monique. But seriously what happened?"
"He…rejected me…" Kim said quietly.
"Rejected as…"
"I confessed my feelings, and he said that he can't answer them, because he likes some other girl he met at Smarty Mart."
"Ow…" Shena's eyes were wide at this moment. "Tough… So he is not here because he feels awkward to see you now or something?"
"No." Kim looked on the ground, avoiding Shena's eyes. "I didn't tell him about the mission."
"Wow…bitch move."
"Anyway! Let's get inside, Dr. Wasnik won't save himself."
Kim rushed toward the front door and turned the doorknob.
"Drat!" she tried couple more times, but door didn't budge at all.
"Let me."
Shena pushed her away, lightly, wrapped both palms around doorknob and inflamed them in strong green glow.
"What are you doing?" Kim asked in confusion.
"Just waits couple more seconds and…" she forcefully pulled the doorknob, tearing it from the door with part of the lock.
"Shena!" Kim looked in shock.
"What?" Shena answered with most innocent look she could give at the moment. "Poor Dr. WhatsHisName is trapped somewhere inside for at least more than an hour. I think he'll pardon us for couple broken locks."
"Yeah…you're right." Kim sighed. "Let's split, i take this floor and you take the second one."
"Alright."
While Kim was busy looking through the living room, Shena, as soon as she got to the second floor, pulled out her cellphone and wrote short message to Ron: Kim and I are on mission, drag your ass here!
"Shena! I found something!" Kim's voice came from downstairs.
Shena quickly came down and followed her friend to the kitchen. Kim pointed on a small metal door on the floor, that didn't have any doorknob or handle.
"I found it under the carpet. Can you open it?" Kim asked.
Shena didn't answer, just flamed her hands again and hit it near the edge. Something clicked.
"I think it worked." she said and slid metal door with ease discovering a ladder under it. "After you!"
Kim went first, carefully climbing down the ladder, as Shena did the same above her. Soon both of them appeared in a strange lit corridor with metal walls and ceiling. After they made couple steps forward, holes opened in the walls and shoot several lasers beams toward each other, creating a net.
"And here i thought it would be easy." Shena sighed in slight irritation.
"Déjà vu…" Kim mumbled. "Follow me."
With several jumps and flips Kim managed to go through it without breaking a sweat.
"Are you serious?" Shena raised a brow.
"Come on, it's not THAT hard."
"Alright, but if i'll burn my hair, you will pay for a beautician!"
"I have a best beautician of France on a quick-dial, no problem."
"Well, in that case…" Shena quickly followed Kim's steps. "Damn, no burned hair…"
With loud metallic click on the walls started to expand throughout the walls creating a series of channels in them. Girls felt like an adrenaline flows through their bodies as net of lasers started to moving toward them, fast, constantly changing position of the beams. They had only one option ran forward through the corridor, in hope that there is the exit in the end. Right at that moment when a thought 'It couldn't become worse than that!' popped inside their heads, square-like holes started to appear on the ceiling. Several spinning sharp circle blades were launched from them toward running girls. Shena, in a flash, shot several of them with green flare, coming from her hands. Thankfully it stopped them, but there were more to come. Kim dodged some of it that Shena couldn't shoot at time, and took out laser lipstick and tried to hit them with it, successfully. After a minute of running away from laser net of death, and equally deadly sharp discs, girls finally saw an end of the corridor, with a metal door in it.
"Kim." Shena said out of breath. "Cover me!"
She rushed forward, while her teammate protected her from the projectiles. Shena , as soon as she was near the door, with Kim not that far behind, pierced her fingers into the metal, melting and bending it momently, and, with a forceful push opened it. She immediately jumped through it into the dark room, followed by Kim several seconds later. Net of lasers disappeared as soon as it reached the end of the corridor.
"Shit!" Shena was breathing heavily. "Broke a nail!"
"You just tore apart a metal door!" Kim was out of breath too. "I'm surprised your hands are intact!"
"Glow protects them from heat and sharp edges, my fingernails sadly are less durable…"
Light appeared in a room, making eyes of teen heroes hurt a bit. An old bald man, in a gray robe and blue bunny-slippers stood in the center of it. Behind him were a big keyboard-like panel with display.
"Who are you?" he said grouchy. "Are you here to steal my work?"
"No, no sir." Kim smiled. "Are you Dr. Wasnik?"
"Depends on who's asking."
"We are Team possible, we here to save you…"
"Bah!" he exclaimed. "Save? From who?"
"Uhm…" Shena scratched her head in confusion. "Didn't you leave a message on our site, asking for help? It said that you got trapped in your own house."
"Nonsence! I wasn't trapped!"
"And what about laser heavy metal show over there?" she pointed toward the corridor.
"That was my defense system against an unwanted guests…failed system, if you here."
"That doesn't make any sense." Kim said. "If you didn't…"
A loud shrieking sound came from the corridor. In several seconds to large male figures flew into the room on the jetpacks on their backs. They were dressed in full red and black bodysuits, which also covered fully their heads, including their faces.
"Great, OTHER unwanted guests."
"Master instructions…" one of them said in a robotic voice. "Announce a message: Ha ha. Kim Possible. I thank you for doing all dirty work for me. Message ends."
"Phase 1 - humiliation is finished." said the other one and shot some device from his wrist right into one of the panel's sockets. "Phase 2 – steal the data starting now."
"WHAT!" old man shouted and ran to the panel. "Like hell i let you to steal my work! Damn thing infected my system with a virus!"
"Hey, flying robo-jocks!" Shena said and flamed her hands again, her brow twitched slightly. "Wanna hear a little secret? I HATE being used!"
She leaped toward it, while Kim high-kicked the other. Shena tried to tear up his shoulder with her green inflamed hands, but the man was to agile and easily dodged all here attempts to hit him. Kim had the similar problem.
"What ARE those guys?"
"Our speed is superior to your. Surrender and your death will be quick and painful."
"First- i don't like the last word you said." Shena said. "Second- there is no way we're going to give up! And third…"
She punched his chest.
"Who's superior now…EWW"
Her inflamed fist went right through his chest. Green gooey liquid came from the wound spilled from a body, falling right on the floor. Body itself looked more like a broken inflatable pool toy now than actual human.
"Synthodrone № 838 – out of commission. Tactical retreat."
The other man flew to the corridor with help of his backpack.
"What IS this?" Kim looked at remains of his pal.
"I know one thing…gross." Shena said. "Though i think i saw it somewhere…don't remember where though."
Sound of the jetpack came louder from the corridor again.
"It's coming back!" Kim prepared to fight again.
"It sounds a bit different…" Shena noticed.
A scream could be heard in a mix of sound of the jetpack.
"aaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAA!"
Man in body-suit flew in the room again, with somebody on his shoulders, and his view covered by the hands of unknown load. Half-second later he smashed to the wall, in a full speed, splashing green goo all over the place. A person stood, covered in green goo.
"Yack!" he said. "What is that thing…"
Shena knew who it was the second he flew into the room. Only one guy on earth was that unexpected and unpredictable.
"You almost missed all fun Ron." she said, while trying not to snicker.
"Ron…" Kim made half-step back and looked at the floor.
"Kim!" he quickly shook of some goo from himself and went toward her. "What did you think? Leaving on a mission without me?"
"But…"
"NO BUTS!" he said loudly. "I vowed to be near you as your best friend until he end! And as far as i know Earth didn't blown up today! So what's your excuse?"
"I'm sorry i…" Kim was on a verge of tears.
"Geez!" Ron's knees shook and he dropped on the floor. "Don't make me worry like that anymore, ok?"
Kim just nodded.
"And you owe me Bueno Nacho full menu treat."
Kim unintentionally smiled, nodded again and stretched her hand toward Ron, to help him to get up.
"That's better." he said, took her hand, and stood properly again.
"This is OUTRAGOUS!" Dr. Wasnik stood now in coat, with a suitcase in hand. "My defense system worked poorly, virus stole all my work on a self-upgrading technology, and now my lab is covered in some weird goo. I had enough of this town!"
He left, grouching with every step.
"Wow, we really flopped this time." Shena said.
"See, this is what happens when you leave me behind?!" Ron said.
"Yeah, i got it. I'm really sorry!" Kim said. "Let's go, we all need a shower. Let's meet at Bueno Nacho in couple hours, and i will pay my price."
"Oh! And an extra burrito for Shena." Ron added.
"What? Why?"
"I kinda…sorta…snitched to him about you…" Shena shrugged shoulders innocently. "Sorry?"
"Whatever." Kim sighed. "Shower first, talk later."
Meanwhile in outskirts of Middleton, under the abandoned factory, Dr. Drakken sat in his comfy chair, with laptop on his lap and fresh cocoa in his hand.
"My poor Syntodrones № 837 and 838. Well at least i got data i wanted, and humiliated poor little Kim Possible. Oooh, i'm so evil. Hmhmhm."
"Sometimes you are creeping out even me." Monkey Fist appeared nearby. "Did you call for me?"
"I did in fact." he drank some cocoa, and handed a sheet of paper with list of things to Monty.
"What is it? Another gizmo for your plan?"
"Partly for a plan." he made another sip of cocoa and smile deviously. "But mostly for you, my friend."