I do not own Kim Possible or Blue Gender. Don't I wish... 'sigh'
2 Cry
They continued on into the city as night began to fall. Along the way, Kim had been given a different set of clothes to change into. At the moment, she was just sitting there, staring down at her shoes.
When they finally stopped, Kim looked up and saw the abandoned streets, her eyes widening in shock. Buildings were crumbling, power poles were bent, even the lines were dangling on the ground. Down the street a ways was some more of those goo balls. She even noticed that some of the buildings were covered in the goo, forming mushroom shaped tops.
She couldn't believe what she was seeing. She didn't want to believe it.
Kim watched as a few people from the group that had found her went off into the surrounding buildings.
She jumped when she heard a rustle of leaves in the trees as the wind swept through. Once she saw it was the leaves, she slowly started to calm down.
"You stay that uptight for too long and you'll ruin your health."
Kim looked up at the person speaking. He was holding a box.
"Pretty soon there won't be anything left of you. Try and get some rest. A little sleep might do you some good."
The man then sat down and started rummaging around in the box.
"What's that?... A joke?"
The man held out a can of what appeared to be food.
"Want one?"
Kim slowly took the can from the man.
"Eat it now," the man with the white hair said. "Once they come out, it'll be too late for regrets..."
"So how long have things been like this?"
"Let's see... I guess it's been like this for as long as I can remember... I guess they first appeared something like, I don't know, maybe fifteen years ago?"
"Keith!"
Kim looked over at Shelia.
"What's the problem? The kid just woke up! Of course she wants to know what's going on around here. Wouldn't you?"
"We haven't been given orders to fill her in. Now go relieve Minnie at watch!"
Keith stood up.
"The operation doesn't go as planned so the elites have to take it out o me..." he said as he hefted his weapon. "That's great..." he walked over to the box and picked up some of the food. "Your wish is my command... Ma'am!"
He then walked off.
Kim then turned back to Shelia.
"Operation?... What's that?"
The man named Joey answered her as he continued to stare straight ahead.
"Our team was to recover everyone in the building while you were all asleep. But the Blue became active around the installation, and well, they changed our plans a bit..." He turned to look at her. "Had it been a zero harvest, the e-vac team had orders to abandon us here... It's lucky for us that we got even one of you..."
Kim glared at the man.
"Oh, lucky is it?!"
"Huh?"
"Well that's not the way I feel! Being suddenly awakened, then nearly getting killed without any warning? Without any idea of what's going on?" She jumped to her feet and clenched her fists, still glaring at Joey. "Is that what you call lucky? Is it? When the hell did I ask any of you to wake me up?! Look around! Did you really think I'd want to wake up to this?" She pointed at Joey. "Did you actually think that you guys were helping me out?! Did you?!"
"Pipe down! They might hear you!"
Kim glared at Shelia.
"And what if they do? How can you be so calm? I mean, can't you even... Cant you even understand what it's like for me, waking up alone in this place?" Kim yelled gritting her teeth.
Shelia sighed as she closed her eyes.
"It's unknown how long the Blue have actually existed. The first confirmed sightings came in 2017. That was fourteen years ago."
Kim's face relaxed.
"At first," Shelia continued, "it was thought they were a biological weapon that some rouge nation had developed. But we soon learned that they were very different. Their ecology shattered all of our conceptions about biology up to that point. They not only fed on organic matter, but inorganic as well... turning all of it into functional energy. And in an era when modern civilization was at its peak, they must have found this world the perfect feeding ground. Almost in the blink of an eye the earth was overrun and turned into a planet of death. I suppose to them, humans were merely an annoyance, like insects crawling on their food. By themselves, our bodies are only a minuscule source of energy for them..." She looked over her shoulder at some of the goo balls, or meat dumplings. "So they wrap us in tight cocoons... When the number is large enough, then they feed."
Kim gulped as she looked at the dumpling.
"But the Blue do more than just eat and multiply..."
Kim looked down at Joey.
"Every time we try to attack them they change. Like they evolve to protect themselves."
"The battle has lasted longer than we anticipated. Gradually people started running out or places to hide. The Blue had turned the planet into their nesting grounds, and there was no choice but to escape to outer space."
Kim looked up at the sky.
"Outer space?"
"That is were we live now..." Shelia continued. "Beyond our orbiting satellites... In a space station called 'Second Earth'."
Inside the trailer, Minnie was typing on the computer with Keith sitting next to her.
"Team Grand Seil. Access Code FE-2035-C. Operation name 'Cytokine'. Collating recovered sample... Possible, Kimberly... E-D carrier... Sleep treatment – National Immunity Laboratories – 2009."
Minnie continued typing.
"With the exception of Possible, Kimberly, the facility's entire Sleeper population was lost, due to increased Blue activity. Request instructions concerning rendezvous point with recovery vehicles."
Keith walked over and removed Minnie's body armor and started fondling her breasts.
"Our location..." she continued as her breasts were still fondled with, "is... JP E-204... There are seven in our party. Standard platoon outfitting."
Back outside, Shelia was still talking.
"The surviving humans organized themselves into combat units to resist the Blue. The higher command began to research how these creatures could be exterminated. And in 2031, Second Earth finally began operations to take back the planet."
"So what you're saying is that saving me was all part of the plan?" Kim asked.
Shelia frowned.
"Saving you?" she asked. "You've got it all wrong. You just happened to be one of the samples we recovered... Nothing more than that."
Kim stared at Shelia in disbelief.
"What? A sample?"
"Our orders are very specific... We're to wait for the recovery vehicle, then return via spaceport to the station. So have you heard enough yet?"
"Have I heard enough?" Kim asked in shock. "What are you crazy? This is nuts! Who's the one that gave you that order?" She glared and pointed at Shelia. "Why do I have to go into outer space with you?" She started walking towards Shelia. "What do you people want?"
Shelia was unaffected.
"You wont be getting any of those answers from me..." she replied. "That's your problem."
Kim roughly grabbed Shelia by her collar.
"No! I want answers now! Listen, I went to sleep to cure my illness... Why couldn't you and your team just leave me alone? If I would've known it would turn out like this... I would've... I would've..."
"You would have rather died. Is that it?"
Kim's glare turned to that of shock.
Beeping caught Kim's attention.
"Their coming!" the team leader yelled.
Shelia slapped Kim's hands away before turning and walking toward the trailer. She stopped a few feet away and looked over her shoulder at the girl.
"If you want to die, I won't stop you. But first, it's my duty to make sure you get up to the space station... Until then you stay alive."
She then turned back and ran to the trailer.
The others of the group started firing at the Blue that was on the other side of the street. Inside the trailer, Keith and Joey were getting in their robot, or Armor Shrike.
"Time to run a system check?" Joey asked as he leaned down to look at Keith.
"We'll have to take out chances," Keith replied.
As soon as the Armor Shrike was out of the trailer, it shot off toward the Blue.
A few seconds after the Keith and Joey's Armor Shrike shoved the Blue to the ground, Shelia's Armor Shrike stepped out of the trailer.
Once Keith and Joey saw Shelia's Shrike out of the trailer, they moved off to the side and let her have a clean shot to the head.
Kim just watched this in shock.
The next day, Kim was in the jeep with Shelia next to her again. Kim kept her eyes to the ground while Shelia kept a look out.
The device on her wrist caused her to look at it. Once she read the message, she looked up into the sun. There, hidden in the blinding light was a transport.
Kim, hearing the props of the transport, looked up and saw it as well.
The next thing that Kim knew, she was on the transport looking out the window. She looked out at the city in horror.
'Have I really been asleep for twenty-two years? Even after all that time, my mom and dad wouldn't be that old. They could still be alive... Nah... But knowing him...' she thought of Ron, riding his motorcycle. 'Even now, he's probably riding out there somewhere...'
The transport landed at what looked like a massive ramp. It was in the middle of a massive lake.
Once they landed, Kim watched as several more trailers loaded up onto the plane.
"So why this airport? Why here?" Kim asked as she stood in the back of the jeep and looked around.
"One reason," the man in front of her, Robert, she recalled, answered. "Blue don't swim. At least as far as we know. So out here, all we have to worry about are Blue attacking from the air." Robert then looked at the trailer rolling next to them. "We're behind schedule! Load that transport in the cargo hold as is!"
The woman behind the wheel of the trailer gave the thumbs up to show that she heard and understood.
The trailer shot forward. Keith and Joey, still in their Shrike, just leaned back in their seats.
"Huh. Looks like we're riding with the luggage again..." Keith stated.
Kim looked over to one of the other transports.
"What's that?" she asked.
She saw forklifts carrying several other pods like her's.
"Sleepers like you," Shelia replied. "Recovered from other areas... There were a number of similar facilities all over the country."
After watching some of the forklifts move the pods around, Kim suddenly leaned forward.
"Hey! Stop the car! Stop now!"
The jeep stopped and Kim jumped off, running towards the other pods with a grin on her face.
"Come back here, now!" Robert yelled at her.
'I'm not the only one!' Kim thought as she ran. 'I'm not the only one they brought here after all!'
Shelia looked at Robert and got a nod of approval. She then turned and jumped out of the jeep after Kim.
"Move out!" Robert ordered to the driver.
All of a sudden, the ground started to shake and crack.
"What's that?!" Robert yelled.
Shelia stopped running and looked around.
Kim fell face first as the ground shook.
Then out of the ground a few hundred feet away, a Blue shot shot out of the ground.
"What the...!" Robert yelled when he saw the Blue.
Shelia stood in shock.
"It's a Blue!"
As Kim got to her feet, several Armor Shrikes rolled by.
Robert watched from the jeep as the Blue was about to attack.
"Oh no! Malcolm! Get over there now!"
The driver nodded his head and the jeep took off.
Kim watched as several of the Armor Shrikes started shooting tethers at the Blue in an attempt to restrain it.
Shelia continued to watch in shock.
"How are they come at us out here?!"
Looking to her right, she saw Kim standing there, her face a mask of utter horror.
"Damn her!" Shelia yelled before taking off after Kim. "Snap out of it! Com on!"
Kim jerked as she looked to her right.
"That's right! I've got to wake them!" she said before she ran towards the forklift. When she got there, she started pounding on the ends of the pods. "Wake up! C'mon! Wake up! You've got to get out of there or you'll all be dead!"
"What are you doing?" Shelia yelled from right behind him. "Get away from there! Now!"
Kim turned around and gave a pleading look to the other woman.
"No way! I've had enough of being alone in this freakin' place! You understand?" Kim then turned back to the pods and started pounding yet again. "I don't care who you are! Please just wake up!"
Having taken enough of this, Shelia grabbed Kim by her shoulder, turned her around and slapped her. Kim then looked up at the woman.
"You've got to stop this. It's hopeless! We can not resuscitate them down here!"
Kim looked at the pods.
"Come on," Shelia said quietly.
All of a sudden, a flying Blue shot over them and flew around the complex. That was when the ground started cracking more and more Blue started to rise from the ground.
Kim turned to watch as Keith and Joey finally got out of the trailer that happened to be in the center of the action.
"Dammit! Why is this taking so long?! Joey!... Get me in closer to that thing! We can't shoot it, but we can still use our arms to smash this bastard!"
"Keith, man I don't know!"
"Shut up and do it!"
"All right!"
Kim saw the wheels come down on the back of the Shrike before it shot forward. The Blue's tusk went through the Shrike's front plate while the fist went through the Blue's face.
More blue started to spring up.
Robert, bloodied up real bad, got back in his teams trailer and kicked out the shattered windshield. After getting the trailer out of the pit it was in, he drove it over to Kim and Shelia.
"Get in!" Robert ordered.
Shelia, having a hold on Kim's shirt, forced her to get up and get in the trailer. The trailer and Joey's Shrike then took off for one of the transport ships that had taken them to the spaceport.
The flying Blue that had started all the trouble took off after them and nearly caught up. Just as it was going to make a move, Shelia opened the back of the trailer enough for her to get her gun out and shoot the Blue down.
With the Blue dead, the trailer and the Shrike both got on board the transport and took off.
"Hey!" Kim said when she got to the cockpit. Shelia was in the pilot's seat. "Hold on! Wait a minute!"
Kim watched through the windshield of the transport as the ground started to crumble all the way over to the pods. She watched helplessly as the pods slowly descended into the ground, never to see the light of day again.
"It can't be..." Kim said, holding her head. "It can't..." She then cried out in pain for those who had died.
In a matter of minutes, the transport was airborne. Shelia, still piloting, looked down into the water and noticed a pipe under water that had Blue crawling through it.
"There! That's how the did it... They came through a underwater pipe..."
Down in one of the bays of the transport, Joey decided to take a look at the extent of the damage delivered by the Blue. What he saw, he wish he hadn't seen.
"Keith..."
The entire front of the Shrike had been crushed in. And Keith along with it.
Robert, in the other bay, looked at his two other downed officers. But he couldn't worry about them just yet.
Shelia kept an eye out for flying blue as Kim kept looking down at the water of the lake.
'If I'd known this was going to happen then maybe i would have been better off dead. No! I won't go down without a fight! Not to them!'
The transport flew off into the distance.
And there is my version of 'Cry'. Hope you enjoyed!
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