A\N Hi! UPDATE! Wow, this one was heavy to write! I hope it ended up being ok. Also i'm going to try to write and post next chapter sober than usual, but that depends on how much free time i will have.

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Chapter 11

Reborn

Monty hated his existence at this point. He was gliding through the air on Drakken's hovercraft, loaded with stolen technology. It took around three days to locate and quietly steal all of it, while making regular trips to the base for, so called, recharging procedures. Metal plate, with circuits hidden behind it, served as a constant reminder of his pitiful state. And Monkey Fist knew who to blame for this. No, not Drakken, who put it in his chest, but a boy, who put him in stone.

The night when Yono were freed supposed to be the greatest in Monty's life. He had power he dreamed of for a long time, and soon he was going to obtain an ultimate weapon of all time. Though he was surprised that a small infant appeared to be the thing he looked for. With Yono's power Kim Posible, old man and young kunoichi, were transformed into stone statues, leaving only a blond boy, tied up by monkeys, humiliated. As Monty got baby in his hands and prepared to leave, a choir of monkey screams echoed through the mountains. Covered by a blue shine, Ron Stoppable, a bafoon, broke from his binds and leaped towards him, pushing him back and taking the child away. The power that came from a boy was immense and beautiful. Mystical Monkey Power in it's pure form. After a short battle Monty was defeated and dragged underground by Yono himself.

'Why he has access to such power. Why not me? We both bathed in a Jade Monkey idols light. So why?'

This thought bothered him every day since his return in a world of living. Why all this potential resides inside the one who can't realize it properly. After meeting Stoppable again it was clear, that the boy had no idea of how to use it.

Monty landed hovercraft near the base. He didn't know what Drakken is going to do with him today, but one thing was clear as day, it's going to be painful.

Meanwhile, Ron Stoppable was looking at his reflection in fountain, in the mall. He was waiting for his friends. School day was over couple hours ago, Kim immediately went to the cheerleading practice, Shena went home and Monique went to her part-time job. Ron usually waited his red-hair friend at the bleachers until the end of practice, but not today. It was awkward for both of them. If they usually went to school together, picking up Shena in the process, now it's Shena who is picking them up, Kim first, then Ron. He hoped that one day he could be around his best friend without feeling so uncomfortable, and guilty.

"Hey Ron!" Shena waved to him, with Kim walking by her side.

"Sorry, practice went longer than i thought." Kim said.

"No problem KP." he smiled as usual.

"Alright! Since both of you here." Shena put her palms together. "I need your help!"

"Help?" Ron blinked.

"Of course." Kim nodded. "What's the sitch?"

"Well…I want you two to travel to the Go City this weekend. It's my little twin brothers birthday."

"I'm fine with it, but why do you want for us to go with you?" Kim asked.

"Thing is..." Shena sat on the edge of the fountain. "I want you to go with me to not fell so awkward around them. Also i want to introduce my new team to them."

"I'm in!" Ron raised his hand.

"Me too." Kim smiled lightly.

"Great! But it wasn't the only thing i wanted to ask." Shena pulled out several photos from her bag. "I need a help in choosing a present for the little ones. I have no idea what soon to be 13-years old boys want nowadays. I asked one of my brothers to take pictures of their room, to know what they are interested in…but."

Kim took pictures from her and looked at them. Right on the middle of the shot, on every picture, was someone's face, smiling smugly and posing.

"Yikes." Kim handed pictures to Ron.

"Yeah." Shena's brow twitched.

The group went to the big toy store, located inside the mall. Kim was near Shena all the time, while Ron ran around, trying to find a perfect present.

"Relax." Shena said.

"What?"

"I said relax. I can cut tension around you with this!" she waved a small plastic shovel.

"It's that obvious?" Kim sighed. "I hope Ron hasn't noticed."

"Nah. That guy is amazingly simple."

"And simply amazing." Kim took a doll from the shelf, her hand started to slowly squeeze it. "If only he didn't meet that floozy!"

"Wow, wow, easy girl. Don't break the product."

"What?" Kim looked at the doll in her hand and put it back to the shelf. "Oh…sorry."

"Hey! I have an idea!" Shena looked at some stuff animals. "How about a little sparring fight?"

"Sparring fight? With who?"

"Me of course!" Shena smiled. "You know, get some aggravation out, it will calm your mind."

"It's actually might be a good idea!"

Shena smiled widely. She wanted to test her martial arts skills against Kim's since the first day she saw her in action. And she also, sincerely, wanted to help her deal with current hardships. Shena couldn't bring herself to blame Ron for the situation in current circumstances. She had something up her sleeve to cheer him up too, but that must wait until the trip to Go City.

"Did you found anything?" Ron appeared behind her shoulder.

"Nah, not yet." Sheena shook her head. "And you?"

"No, but i have an idea, give me a minute."

Ron disappeared between aisles filled with plush toys.

'Where does all this energy comes from?' Shena thought in amusement.

"How about a radio controlled cars?" Kim pointed to the nearby stand.

"Maybe…wait a second." Shena quickly glanced over photos and stopped on one of them. "No good, they already have them."

Something caught Shena's eye. One of the radio controlled cars had a weird logo, letters EP crossed by what looked like a scar.

"Hey Kim." she took one of the EP cars and showed it to her friend. "Have you seen this sign before?"

"Yeah i have." Kim answered. "It's a new brand. They produce almost everything, from toys to microwaves. Mom bought toaster from them yesterday."

"Oh, now i remember!" Shena put the toy back. "I saw their commercial! They had a rapping dog in it."

"It was major lame." Kim cringed a bit.

"Found it!" Ron approached them, with a big rectangular box on his shoulder. "There weren't any on display, but manager found one in thestore room."

"What is this monstrosity?" Kim raised a brow.

"Behold! Mechalopocalipsis! It's a strategic board game. You create your own squad of giant robots and compete with other player's squad. It includes several different fields and a bunch of customizable models, though you need at least four players to play it properly…"

"It's perfect!" Shena's eyes shined and took a box from his hands.

"You talked to Cousin Larry recently, aren't you?" Kim asked him.

"I met him in comic book store last week." he answered and looked around. "Uh…where is Shena?"

"I think she ran to cashier."

Couple minutes later, a very happy Shena walked out the toy store with her friends by her side.

"They're gonna love it!" she almost squealed. "Thank you, Ron!"

"Ah, no problem." Ron tried his best to hide how much he liked to see her smile like that.

Suddenly he felt like someone's soft hands hugged him from behind.

"Hey Ron!" a familiar voice said. "Missed me?"

Ron turned around, freeing himself from the embrace. Before him stood the same girl with curly pigtails that he met several days ago.

"Rica! Good to see you again!" he smiled.

"Same here." She smiled back, switching her view to girls. "And who's your friends?"

"Should you introduce yourself first?" Shena smirked.

"Oh yes, sorry, where were my manners?" she lightly tapped her head in a cutesy way. "My name is Rica."

"Kim Possible." Kim smiled and raised her hand.

"I'm Shena." Shena said shortly. "So, how do you know our Ron?"

"We met in Smarty Mart. He helped me and we became friends." she giggled.

Ron felt like her heart fell into his stomach. He noticed how Kim's face changed after these words.

"I see." Kim regained her smile. "It was nice to meet you, Rica. See you later Ron!"

Kim turned around and went towards the exit.

"Hey! Wait for me! Bye Ron!" Shena waved to him and quickly followed her with giant box in her hands.

"Did a say something wrong?" Rica blinked in confusion.

"No, it wasn't your fault." Ron said. "It was mine screw up."

"Ow. In that case... I have a question for you!" She took his hand and looked into his brown eyes. "Will you be my boyfriend?"

Ron's jaw dropped.

"W-why?" Ron asked nervously.

"Is it yes or is it no?" she pouted.

"It's…" Ron cleared his throat. "No. Totally No. Sorry but i barely know you."

"It's ok." Rica smiled and giggled. "I'm not going to give up so easy. Bye bye Ronnie!"

She waved to him and went away, leaving him alone with his thoughts.

'What was that? Firstly Kim, and now Rica! Why this keeps happening to me? Why am i complaining? Because it's wrong? Not really. It's weird. I don't recall myself to be a popular type. It is nice to get girl's attention…But why now?... Why these two, and not Shena? I'm a mess.'

Ron sighed deeply and went to the arcades to calm down.

Hour later, in Shena's house, Kim was changing her clothes to a sport top and sweatpants. Shena lend it to her, for a sparring match. After the change, Kim went straight to the basement. It was large, well lit and contained several training apparatuses, a punching bag and several mats on the floor.

"Are you ready?" Shena was leaning on the wall.

"Yes." Kim stretched a bit. "So, what are rules."

"No rules." Shena smirked. "Just fight."

Kim dodged a sudden punch, thrown by her sparring partner. Immediately after this, another fist flew toward her face, missing its target. Shena followed by a series of punches, followed by a kick, aiming at her hip. Red-head simply dodged it again. Keeping the pace, Shena continued throwing one punch after another. Soon enough Kim couldn't keep up with attacks and started to block some of them, dodging the other ones. Occasionally, she countered the attacks, but to no avail. After ten minutes of sparring, Shena became irritated.

"Stop!" Shena said. "That's no good."

"What do you mean?" Kim was slightly out of breath.

"You're not fighting full force! Pulling punches!"

"Sorry." Kim fixed her left bang behind her year. "I'm just…a bit distracted because…you know…"

"That's it!" an idea appeared in Shena's head. "Channel that distraction toward me. Imagine i am that Risa girl."

"Rica"

"Whatever. Wait a second."

Shena ran upstairs. She was back a minute later, with her hair gathered in pigtails.

"Ok, let's start." Shena made a deep breath, opened her eyes wider and started to talk in a cutesy voice. "Hi, i'm Rica. I like ponies, sunshine and your best friend. Ron is such a cutie. Especially when he stuffs a whole naco in his mouth. Maybe i should ask him to go with me to the prom? It would be SO romantic. Also he has such cute ass…Woah"

With a whistling sound, Kim's foot hit the space, where the second ago was Shena's head. Series of punches followed immediately. It certainly wasn't half-assed hits that she managed to make before, these one were much stronger. Shena tried to keep up. She knew that each one of this hit would hurt a lot, unless she dodge or block it. Kim was almost blinded by anger. Shena, meanwhile, adapted to her new pace and started to hit back. Several times they managed to lay a hit on each other, mostly in torso. After dodging another kick, Kim swiftly did a low sweep on her opponent. Shena fell on the mats, briefly closing her eyes from the impact. As she opened them again, she saw Kim's fist flying right into her, in its way to deliver a finishing blow. Thankfully it landed slightly to the left from her head. Kim fell into mats near Shena and looked at the ceiling. A chuckle came from her, followed by a full laugh. Soon after, Shena was laughing too.

"Gee Possible!" Shena said in between laughs and out of breath. "Who knew you got this in you, for a second i thought i was done for."

"I never thought i could be like that too." she was breathing heavily.

"Remind me NOT to piss you off, please."

"Of course." she chuckled again, and stood from the mats.

"Do you feel better?" Shena stood up too.

"Surprisingly, yes!" Kim admitted.

"Great! But…" Shena patted her slightly damaged side. "Let's not do this therapy more often than once a week ok?"

"Yeah." Kim giggled again and sighed. "You know…when Rom told me that he loves someone else, at first i thought it was you."

"Really." Shena was surprised.

"I even asked him about it." Kim leaned over the wall. "Part of the reason why i decided to finally confess, was because i was jealous."

"Because of me?" Shena raised a brow. "Wow. I had no idea."

"But, you know what?" Kim smiled lightly. "I think it would be better if you were Ron's crush than that girl."

"Why?" Shena was shocked.

"Well, firstly i know you, you are great friend, and won't use or hurt Ron on purpose, and secondly…" Kim clenched her fist and smiled innocently. "I could fight you without worrying about your head cracking up."

Shena didn't say anything, and just stared at her friend, with her jaw open.

"Stop looking at me like that! I'm kidding!" Kim's face turned red.

"Yeah…Kidding…I think i just go upstairs…" Shena teased her and ran toward the stairs, trying to suppress the laughs.

"I SAID I WAS KIDDING!" Kim went after her.

That evening, inside Drakken's lair, petrified Monty laid on the operation table, restrained by leather belts. Metal plate in his chest was wide open, showing a system of small circuits inside it.

"Hm, interesting, very interesting." Drakken muttered under his nose, pulled out one of the circuits and inserted the other on its place.

"Aaargh" Monty's body started to un-petrify slowly.

"How do you feel buddy?" Drakken said sweetly ten minutes later.

"After six transformations in a row?" he growled. "How do you think?"

"Now now, don't need to be so grouchy, it's only four tries left. After all, they are all untested and highly unstable. But i have a hunch, one of this babies will help you to keep you out of stone state for longer time."

"A hunch?" he growled again. "Shite!... Whatever, just do it already. The less time i spend as a pigeon toilet the better "

"That's the spirit! Now, i'm going to try this one. It will either lower the energy consumption, or drain your own energy dry, turning you all stony again. Oh, i can't wait to see what it will do!"

Drakken, carefully, inserted circuit into the empty slot in Monty's chest. Within seconds monkey kung-fu master become a statue again.

"Hm… didn't work…wait , what is that?"

Blue light appeared around that circuit. Suddenly, Monty's body was covered in a blue light, stone slowly transformed back into the flesh and clothes. A choir of monkey screams filled the room.

"This sound. This feeling, This power." Monkey fist smiled widely, while his restrains broke one after each other under the force of mysterious light. "Drakken, you are bloody genius!"

"I am?" he stuttered. "Yes….yes i am! But what is this…shiny stuff…"

"This is the power that resting deep inside me since the day i bathed in the light of Jade Monkey idols. This is Mystical Monkey Power!" he did monkey scream.

"In short – some mumbo jumbo." Drakken sighed with disappointment.

"Now. I need some meditation. Please don't disturb me. And ask the girl to add bananas to the grocery list "

"What's the magic word?"

Screams of monkeys become louder and room started to shiver.

"Listen here. You used me as pet monkey, as guinea pig, as SLAVE." Monty's voice echoed through lair. "I'm being kind enough to continue helping you with your plan. So. What's the magic word?"

"Uhh….thank you?" Drakken said in shaky voice.

"That's better." Monty left the room.

"Don't need to be so pissy." Drakken got confidence in his voice back and dialed someone on the phone. "Number 901! Are you still in town? New order, buy bananas, as much as possible. I'll sent number 852 to help you."

"Yes father." brown-eyed teenage girl with pigtails answered.