Chapter 29

(still the series bible timeline)

(Friday night, MHS Football Stadium, 5:40pm)

Kim could feel the crisp autumn air blowing through her red hair. She was now in her cheer uniform, ready to cheer on her Mad Dogs to victory over their arch-rivals, the Lowerton Lemurs. It was a district game as the two teams were fighting for a playoff spot. The winner ends up getting the Ton Town Trophy and has bragging rights until next school year.

She was walking with Ron, whom still served as the Mad Dog Mascot. Rufus popped out his owner's pants pocket, waving an M pennant.

"I'm in da zone, KP!" he exclaimed, holding the mascot head. "The crowd's gonna love my act tonight!" Of all the things during the school week, this was the event he looked forward to the most. "For once, I'm not going to be jeered and have food thrown in my face. Or, in the case of the bullies in D-hall, having chocolate ice cream shoved down my pants."

"Of course, Ron!" Kim giggled, "You got the banana foam ready?"

"You always know that I do, Kimbo!" Ron proclaimed while holding the tube that contained the banana cream foam. "Friday night is my time to shine!"

"Agreed with you on that point, Ron. Football games are almost the perfect way to unite the community of Middleton together." Kim replied before bumping right into Bonnie.

Kim sneered, "Key word being almost!"

"Hope you have that routine down for the annual MHS-LHS cheer-offs, Possible." Bonnie sneered at the cheer captain.

Rufus then blew a rasberry at the brunettte.

It was also an annual tradition during the Middleton-Lowerton football game for the cheerleader to perform a routine at the end of the game. The winner would end up with the annual Middleton-Lowerton cheer trophy that would be kept until next school year. Under many occasions, the crowds on both sides of the stands do not file out until the conclusion of the cheer offs. According to the tradition, the away team would be the one that would go first. In this case, it was the Mad Dog cheer squad that would go second.

"That routine, Miss Prissy Pants, is going to give us the W. And it's so pat down 120%!" Kim countered.

"And I hope to have my cheer uniform clean unlike last time!" Bonnie snarked, "Your little mad dog nearly had an accident!"

"Don't blame me if he couldn't control the spray on the foam, Bonnie!" Kim smirked. She enjoyed Ron spewing the banana cream foam...even more so if it landed on the brunette.

"I am going to neuter that mascot if it is the last thing I do, Kim." Bonnie growled, grabbing her pom-poms. "See you on the track...loser!" With that, the brunette picked up her cheer bag and headed to the track.

Kim then turned to Ron and said grinning , "Good luck out there, mascot!"

"Same to you, cheer captain!" Ron said as the two of them held hands. Rufus, from Ron's pocket, widened his beady eyes. This was something unexpected, something new.

They quickly recoiled back, realizing what was happening.

"What just happened?" Ron asked. "Were we...holding hands?"

"This is so awkward central!" Kim exclaimed. "We're not the whole 'BFGF' thing, right?"

"Huh?!" Ron nervously laughed, "Pfffft! Of course not!"

"Yeah, we're just good friends!" Kim agreed. "We'll chat later after the game!"

(2 hours and 40 minutes later)

The game itself was as exciting as advertised. Like the past five contests, it went all the way down to the wire.

Here we go! Four seconds left in the game and no timeouts remaining! Your Middleton Mad Dogs trail the Lowerton Lemurs by the score of 24 to 22. They would need to make this 34-yard field goal to win the game.

And here's the snap! The kick is up and...IT'S GOOD! IT'S GOOD! THE MIDDLETON MAD DOGS HAVE DEFEATED THE LOWERTON LEMURS 25 TO 24! THE MAD DOGS WIN THE TON TOWN TROPHY!

At that moment, the whole Middleton crowd exploded in an aurora of excitement and pandemonium.

Kim led the cheerleaders, as she always had, with an exciting cheer of the team's fight song .

"Go Mad Dogs! Purple and Gold are True!

We won the game tonight!

We always had it in you!

You always fight! Fight! Fight!

We go all the way! We yell, yell, YELL!

We make them run like Hell!

So stand up and cheer

Let us hear

For our Mad Dogs!"

After the final verse, all the 18 Mad Dog cheerleaders threw their pom-poms in the air. Ron, as the Mad Dog mascot, spewed his banana cream foam. On cue, all of the MHS cheerleaders moved out the way of the vicinity, including Bonnie. She did not want to get that foam on her cheer dress...again.

Of course, most of the crowd did not file out the stadium, as it was time for the cheer-off between the two rival squads.

As the away team, the Lowerton cheer squad performed their routine first. They performed a variety of cheers and flips before ending in a cheer pyramid.

"Ugh..." Bonnie scoffed at them, sticking her tongue out at them, "I can cheer circles around those Loser-ton people!"

Kim sneered at her rival and replied, "Bonnie...are you not forgetting good sportsmanship?"

"To those snobs? No way!" the brunette huffed.

"We're up next, Bon-bon! You are going to have to be a good sport, like it or not!" Kim insisted.

"Fine...whatever!" Bonnie replied reluctantly.

The Middleton High cheer squad was next. They too performed a variety of tumbles and flips. The crowd ooohed and aaahed at their moves with wonder. The final act featured a cheer pyramid with Kim flipping and somersaulting her way on the top with a perfect 10. The Middleton side gave a thunderous cheer as the PA announcer declared the winner.

A stage was set at midfield to present the award with the mayors of Middleton and Lowerton present. Both the captain of the Lowerton High squad, and Kim were next to the mayors.

The PA announcer proclaimed:

And your winner of the annual MHS-LHS cheeroff is...your MIDDLETON MAD DOGS!

Upon hearing this, all the MHS cheerleaders went off in a sense of euphoria. Kim was the first to be handed the trophy by the mayor of Middleton.

Once the cheerleaders disassembled themselves from the pyramid, Kim went up to Ron and high-fived him, exclaiming and shouting, "We won! We totally won!"

"Two trophies in one day!" Ron shouted, "A bon-diggety day being a Mad Dog fan!"

"We so aced the Lemurs!" Kim laughed. "Wanna go to BN afterwards?"

"Snackage is so up the Ronster's alley, KP!" Ron said, "We'll find where Tara's mom is so that she can take us there!"

Of course, the only person that would put a damper on Kim's night would be Bonnie. Kim was in the midst of packing up her cheer bag when the brunette came up to her, alongside with Amanda.

"That was so not the cheer routine that I wanted the squad to perform!" Bonnie huffed.

"Are you being Miss Bossy to me again, Bon-Bon? The last time I saw you, I do not see a cheerleading captain C patch on your skirt!" Kim snarked while pointing out the C patch on the hem of her skirt. It was a unique Middleton High tradition that dated back to the founding of the squad in the late 1940s.

"If you were the captain of the squad, you would've already have a date to the Freshman-Sophomore dance, right?" Bonnie taunted her, "Oh wait...you don't have a social life!"

"I do, Bonnie! It's called 'saving the world'!" Kim snarled.

"Against the weirdo villainy freakos? I don't think so!" Bonnie countered back.

"No-date wonder!" Amanda chuckled.

"Not everyone at the dance is going to have a date!" Kim exclaimed.

"It's, like, the law, Possible! Everyone who attends that dance is going to have a date!" Bonnie said.

"Says who?" Kim asked.

"Says the law of the Food Chain." Bonnie proclaimed.

"Great...not this again!" Kim complained, picking up her bag "I don't have time for your 'food chain' nonsense! Me and Ron are going to Bueno Nacho anyways."

"So says the girl who flibbed on her lines on Romeo and Juliet! The balcony scene is still echoing in your head!" Bonnie smirked, still enjoying her teasing of her redhaired rival.

"That's enough, Bonnie!" Kim growled.

"Your jellin' meter is high enough. Time for me to have a sleepover with the girls." Bonnie chuckled, also grabbing her cheer bag.

And for me to really turn up the humiliating factor to 11 on Thursday!

Finally able to be free of the brunette's strand of hair for now, Kim can turn her attention to the much-needed issue of food at Bueno Nacho.

Ron said as he was exiting the gate "Diablo sauce is calling my name, KP! Tara's mom is going to meet us in front of the gym!"

"I'm on my way, Ron...I'll race ya to the SUV!" Kim grinned.

"Last one will have to pay for the food!" Ron exclaimed.

"You're so on!" Kim laughed.

The two raced each other to the vehicle.

(40 minutes later, at Bueno Nacho)

"That was filling..." Ron groaned. He had two Nacos, a chimmerito, and a diet soda. "The Mad Dog really needed his chow! Even on game day!" He then belched loudly for all the restaurant to hear. Rufus too also belched loudly as well.

"Good one, Rufus!" Ron laughed, patting his naked mole rat on the head.

"After said chow, it would be the right thing to say 'excuse me'!" Kim groaned in trying to correct her best friend on manners.

"My body can't help it, KP! It's one of those sudden moments!" Ron said.

"Lunch-age meter on full, huh?" Kim grinned, sipping on her diet soda. She had ordered a caesar salad and was about three-quarters of the way done.

"Snackage, KP! It's called snackage for a reason!" Ron countered.

"Food is food, Ron, no matter how you slice it!" Kim said before hearing a cell phone ring.

"Oh yeah, I can't wait to hear my cell phone ring!" Ron exclaimed in song.

"That would be MY cell phone, Ron!" Kim said grinning before pulling out her new cell phone.

K: Hello?

James: Hey, Kimberly. Are you and Ronald at Bueno Nacho?

K: Yep, Dad. We're just cleaning up the food. Ron and Rufus had another belching contest.

James: They should really say 'excuse me' after they eat.

K: Manners is the first thing that I'm going to teach him.

James: Exactly. Are you excited about me being one of the chaperones for the dance?

K: Excited? Uhh...erm...uhhhh, yeah, I'm excited about you getting the position!

James: You don't seem to exactly be all doggity-dog for it...

K: No, no! I'm serious! I'm all down with it!

James: Perfect! I'll drop you, Ronald, and your friend Zita at the dance tomorrow at 7pm. That is, if I can finish my demonstration of my latest snack cake at work.

K: (nervously laugh) I have a Plan B as backup if you get stuck.

James: Hopefully, that won't be the case! Oh...I almost forgot one thing.

K: Yes?

James: Your mother is flying out of Washington DC tonight to Middleton! She's going to be here for a week!

K: Sweet! Hope she's not busy or anything!

James: Considering all the hard hours she puts in at DC, I wouldn't be (static) sur...prised...

James: (static) Kimm...ie...cub...I'm...det...ect...ing...inter...fere...nce!

K: It must be the Kimmunicator! Something's going down! I'll talk to you later, Dad!

James: (static) Bye...Kimm...ie...cub...

"There goes my chance of having a quiet night." Ron sighed.

"Nothing is quiet when evil is out there...plotting...scheming!" Kim said as she pulled out the Kimmunicator, which is very similar to the model used by the canon Kim from her freshman thru junior years of high school. Also, instead of making the classic four-beep of the canon Kimmunicator, this model carried the first four beats to the infamous song "It's A Small World!"

Wade appeared on-screen and looked very much like the Wade from the canon Kim's high school years.

"Hey, Wade! What's the sitch?" she asked.

"Kim, there's been a break-in within the last hour!" Wade exclaimed while typing.

"Jewelry store? Gold depository?" Kim questioned on the possible sites of said break-in.

"Try prison! The Killer B's have escaped!" Wade shouted. The Killer B's were another one of Kim's villains that specialized in high-profile robberies, especially if it had to do with jewelry.

"I thought we put them there for the theft of the Crown Jewels in the UK." Kim said.

"Evening, Guv'nor!" Ron added a poor British accent.

"No time for silly accents, Ron!" Kim muttered. "Can you fix us a ride there?"

"I can do that in my sleep!" Wade boasted as he typed in the coordinates. "Ken Du will also meet you there at the rendevous point."

Kim rolled her eyes, Oh great...him again.

"Okay, Wade. Spit the coordinates out and we'll be on our way!" Kim said as she ended the transmission with Wade and put it back in her cheer bag.

"Aww...man!" Ron complained, grabbing his tray. "Not another help trip!"

"Ron..." Kim uttered, "...what did we say about that behavior."

Moaning, Ron replied the words, "Fighting evil is far more important than a fight with Pain King."

"Correct! Now let's meet up with Ken to see what this whole sitch is really about!" Kim said, grabbing Ron's hand to lead him and Rufus out of Bueno Nacho.