Chapter 9

Monique heard Kim screaming from across the hall and ran as fast as she could.

"Kim! Kim! I'm running as fast as I can!"

She came up to Candace's room and opened the door, but there was no sign of her best friend."Kim? You there?"

"Monique! Oh thank goodness you're here!" came a voice from the closet, Kim's voice. The door was closed.

"Kim? What happened to you, girl? I heard you scream and all!" Monique asked with concern that something horrible had happened to her.

"I got hit by some sort of ray thing through Candace's window, so I had to hide in the closet!" she replied. The only thing visible in the dark closet were her green eyes.

"Well, I can't see the effect of this 'ray thing' on you from behind a closet door, Kim!" Monique replied.

Kim groaned, "Ugh...fine..Monique. Just open the closet door, slowly!"

Monqiue complied and opened the closet door slowly and gently.

Kim stepped out of the darkness of the shadows and suddenly, she saw Monqiue's pupils widen in horror. Monique's jaw also dropped.

"Monique? How did you grow to be 80 feet?" Kim asked.

"Um...Kim? I...I...I think you should take a look at this..." Monique stuttered, handing Kim a handheld mirror.

Kim grabbed the mirror and, for the first time, saw her own reflection in the mirror.

She now looked like Perry, except that the three strands of hair on the top of her head were red and her eyes remained the same color of green.

Kim screamed at the top of her lungs. She smashed the mirror against the wall, shattering it.

"OH MY GOSH! I'M A PLATYPUS!"

Candace and Ron ran into the room after hearing Kim's yells.

"KP? KP? What happened..." Ron shouted before reaching Candace's room and seeing his best friend transformed into an animal, "...to...you...?"

Kim was standing upright on her hind legs. She touched her skin and gave a weak reply, "Oh no..." It was all she needed to confirm the fact that she had transformed into a platypus right before her very eyes.

"What's going on here?" Candace asked, looking around before seeing Kim as well.

"Ron...Candace" Kim replied speechless in horror, "...please tell me that I am dreaming this!"

Ron studied Kim and touched her hands.

"Well..." he tried to mince it into words, "...you got the same eyes, and the three strands of red hair...but other than that, KP, you are now currently a platypus!"

"I'm with him on this one..." Candace agreed.

Rufus came out of Ron's pants pocket and crawled onto the floor. He stood on his hind legs and observed Kim.

"Platypus?" the mole rat squeaked.

"Yes, Rufus, for some odd reason, I am now a semi-aquatic mammal that you see here!"

Kim bemoaned, "I can't imagine my day getting any worse..."

Bonnie then came in Candace's room, for she too had heard Kim's yells.

"Oooh...what do we have here?" she smirked, as Candace and Ron moved out of the way.

"Don't tell me..." Kim groaned.

The brunette then took a first look at Kim, then giggled a little, and then exploded into laughter.

"Oh my...oh my gosh! Kim? As a platypus?! This is pure gossip gold! Wait until the cheer squad sees this!"

"Oh yeah..." Kim sneered, "...yuck it up, Bonnie!"

Bonnie teased her, saying "Kim, you have been downgraded from the 'girl who can do anything' to 'an animal that doesn't do much!' I can picture the headlines in the Middleton Examiner! Kim Possible transformed into a smelly and stinky platypus! The school, and the local news, will eat it up for breakfast!"

She immediately took out her camera phone and snapped around 20 pictures of the now-platypusized Kim.

Kim could only watch in helplessness as Bonnie began to send out pictures of Kim the platypus out to other students at Middleton High.

"Oh..." Bonnie reminded to her longtime rival, "I do have one picture left of you, and I saved the best for last!"

"Oh yeah!" Kim mumbled, her dignity being crushed by technology. "And who would that be?"

Bonnie said nothing but turned her cell phone around, revealing the person she intended to send the last humiliating photo to.

"Oh no, Bonnie! You so are not doing it!"

The picture of Josh Mankey on Bonnie's cell phone was the intended target.

"You wouldn't dare send it to..."

Then Kim came to a horrible realization.

"Oh NO! My date with Josh is in 7 HOURS! He can't see me like THIS!"

Candace sighed, Good thing I'm not gonna end up in a platypus's body!

"I could spare you the humiliation by sending the photo to him!" Bonnie snickered, "But then again, I'd prefer the hands-on experience: seeing Josh's reaction to you in that platypus body! And..."

An even more devious idea came into Bonnie's mind.