Chapter 33 – Revelations
The waitress said to them, "Ah, the Stoppables! Welcome to the Downtown Deli!"
"Ah, yes, we had placed an order." Kim replied, "Two to-go orders. Me, a chicken club salad and Ron, his Mexican-style pizza with extra cheese!"
"Is that a challenge to expand Mr. Stoppable's food palate?" the waitress grinned.
"He's taking baby steps when we go out to eat." Kim said, winking at her husband.
"Oh yeah...last week, I ate Indian food for the first time!" Ron proclaimed. "But the curry betrayed me..."
"Five antacids later, Ron!" Kim said while taking the food.
A few seconds later, Dr. Lipsky and Sheila came on.
"Hey, Dr. L! And Mrs. L!" Ron said, giving Dr. Lipsky a bro hug.
"Hey, Ron and Kim Stoppable!" Dr. Lipsky laughed. "How's the family!"
"Good, very good!" Kim replied to her former archenemy-now-turned-ally, "The little tykes are all growing up so very fast!"
"We're just going to pick Alexa up from daycare and Justin from Pre-K so that we can have a family picnic together." Ron added.
"That's wonderful!" Dr. Lipsky chimed, "Alicia is already in the third grade and is doing quite well!"
"She can be quite sarcastic..." Sheila smirked.
"Just like her mother!" Dr. Lipsky groaned.
"Especially when some of your inventions blow up in your face." Sheila smirked.
"Sheila...not in front of the Stoppables..." Dr. Lipsky muttered.
"Moving on, you pretty much decided what you're going to wear to the Fannies ceremony tonight?" Kim asked.
"Black leather jeans from CCB... $2,500 smackeroos!" Sheila said.
"What about Drewbie?" Ron chuckled a little at seeing Drew's face turn beet red. Only his mother, and sometimes his wife, usually call him that, to his annoyance.
"He'll choose something that's not over-the-top for the holiday season, right, Dr. L?" Sheila said, darting her eyes at her husband.
"Oh, yeah, right! I won't go that far!" Drew chuckled.
"Same thing with Mr. Stoppable, right?" Sheila asked to Kim.
"I'm hoping the same thing, Ron!" Kim said while smiling at him.
They then heard a sneeze coming from the deli. Ubel was the one who sneezed, temporarily putting down his menu before putting it back up.
"Gesundheit...wherever you are..." Ron replied, not aware of whom sneezed.
"Ah...there we go!" Sheila smiled, "A roast beef sandwich for Dr. L and a club chicken sub for me, no mayo!"
"I'm hopeful that we can make it to the 4:45 promo of Snowman Hank!" Drew boasted. "Got that DVR-ed so that I can watch it after the ceremony!"
"Right with ya, old bud!" Ron grinned.
Sheila's smartphone started to vibrate, "Oh, great...not again..."
"What is it?" Kim questioned.
"Couple of students...not to name any names...got out of Saturday detention, again! I gotta order the MUSD resource officers." Sheila groaned.
"Okay, hope you catch them!" Kim replied, "I'll see you two tonight at the Fannie Awards!"
They waved to each other and left with their lunches.
Ubel, Shego, and the Killer B's all put their menus down.
"Phew! That was extremely close!" Ubel sighed in relief.
"One universe-destroying encounter aborted!" KB One added.
"Let's just get our grub and get back to business!" Ubel insisted before some police sirens interrupted the peaceful air.
(at the Middleton Smarty-Mart)
Two students from Middleton High, one aged 15 and the other 16, were running out of the Smarty-Mart. They had just stolen three expensive yChatPhone Xs, worth about $800 each.
"Stop! Thieves!" the Smarty-Mart storekeeper yelled, trying to chase them! "Come back with those yChatPhones! They're going to come out of my paycheck?"
The male, named Tom, who kinda looked like Ron but his eyes were green instead of brown, taunted him. "Hah, come and get us!"
The female, named Samantha, who looks a lot like the SB Kim with the oddly-parted hair, also laughed at the storekeeper.
The storekeeper then slipped on dog poop and fell on his rear on the sidewalk.
"Aww...man! Wish if Smarty-Mart gave me healthcare..."
"Hah!" Samantha shouted, "That was so easy!"
"We should take a selfie with this!" Tom grinned. The two shoplifters embraced each other and took a selfie with one of the stolen smartphones.
"So where do you think we should go?" Samantha giggled.
"Same place as we always go! The alleys!" Tom chuckled. "That's where our secret hideout is!"
The two of them ran into the alleyways.
(1:30pm)
After they finished their lunch break, Ubel, Shego, and the Killer B's walked outside the deli.
"We're going to have to tear apart this downtown area to see the location of where this rare element is!" Ubel insisted. "Shego, since you still have the guide, where is the library from our current position?"
"It's about three blocks to the west. The Middleton branch library isn't far!" Shego replied.
"Good. Me and Shego will hit the library. KB's One, Three and Five, cover the northern part of downtown. KB's Two and Four, cover the south." Ubel replied, pointing the directions to which to go.
"That way...we can finally get the material that I seek! MUA-HA-HA-HA-HA!" Ubel cackled, giving his traditional evil laugh.
At the same time, the USSN car was hot on the trail. Kim had just finished studying her Romeo and Juliet script.
"The tracer from Shego's car is still beeping." Agent Du remarked, pointing to the radar. "If my calculations are correct, they should be in downtown Middleton."
"More than likely, they're trying to find that element to the Doomsday device!" Kim replied. "We have to stop Drakken before he obtains it."
"But the million-dollar question is where the element is." Ron said. Rufus nodded his head as well. "Wade doesn't exactly have this 2017 tech...or whatever's out there! And we don't have any...wait...KP?!"
"What is it this time, Ron?" Kim asked with a slight groan.
"Check out the people!" Ron shouted, pointing to some nearby people. They were all just sucked into their smartphones, answering texts. Rufus was amazed at this odd behavior that they have never seen before.
"Whoa! It's like they're mindless zombies!" the blonde exclaimed.
"Yeah, yeah..." Kim said, ignoring Ron's comment. "Eyes on the prize, Ron! We're here to stop Drakken, not to marvel at the..."
But even a red-headed teenaged heroine couldn't ignore the sleekness of those phones.
"Wow...we have to ask Wade to design a Kimmunicator like that!" Kim exclaimed while peering through the window.
"You think Bonnie would be jellin'?" Ron laughed.
"Like jelly between two slices of bread!" Kim snickered.
But Agent Du wasn't laughing, "I don't see the humor in that, Miss Possible. The tracker from Shego's car should be in this parking garage!"
They came up to a three-leveled parking garage where they saw Shego's car...still parked.
"Hmm...they're not in the vehicle." Agent Du said.
"Duh, Mr. Top Agent!" Kim mocked him, "Ya think by the obviously empty seats?"
"I do not want the snark and sarcasm, Miss Possible." Agent Du replied with a scowl. "The only thing I do want is to see the perpetrators brought to justice for theft..."
"And for the kidnapping of those prison guards." Ron chimed in.
"Yes...that too...clumsy sidekick." Agent Du muttered. Ron was miffed when he said those words.
"Drakken and company must have gone to the downtown area to find where the element is!" Kim deducted. "If I were a corporate super-villain, I would research the element first...what its properties are, how it was created and, most importantly, where it was created."
"The Downtown Library!" all three of them said at the same time.
"If we can catch him there..." Ron excitedly squealed.
"...then we can stop him right at the source!" Kim shouted with a smile. "Spankin', Ron!"
"I'll take lead, since I am the senior agent."Agent Du said, pointing to himself, "You two follow me! And don't get lost!"
Kim and Ron both growled at him while following behind Agent Du.
(2:00pm)
At the library, Ubel and Shego were going through the Dewey System.
"If we want to look for anything scientific, it would be in the 500s." Shego suggested. "But it's quite broad."
"On the contrary, Shego! That's why all libraries have a computer system to make things a lot easier for the common person to find what they're looking for!" Ubel said as he tried to log in.
"Password incorrect!" the computer voice said.
"What?! I thought computers would be smarter in the year 2017!" Ubel muttered. He then tried again.
"Password incorrect!" the computer voice said again.
"GRAAAGGHH!" Ubel yelled with frustration before someone hushed him, reminding him that he was in a library.
"Here..." Shego said silently, "...lemme do it for you!"
Shego put a hacking device to the side of the computer. She adjusted a few knobs until it got the right password.
"See? Was that so hard to crack?" Shego insisted, "Now...let's see where the updated periodic table is!"
The two of them finally found the book!
"Yes, we found it!" Drakken said, pumping his fist in triumph before his cell phone vibrated.
Ubel picked it up. "Hello?"
"Does that do any apps, mister?" a library passerby asked.
"None of your business, you little pipsqueak!" Ubel sharply criticized before he ran away.
"Anyways...as you were saying, KB One?"
"Sir...I think we have some bad news!"
Ubel's smile faded away. "What is it?"
"Kim Possible, the buffoon, and Agent Du have been spotted in the downtown area!" KB One exclaimed.
Ubel gasped...but seeing that there were others around him, he and Shego couldn't draw any attention.
"I'll take the call in the alleyway in the back of the building...keep on the line." he insisted.
Ubel then added, "Shego! Follow me!"
(10 minutes later)
"What?! They disarmed the bomb at the lab?!" Ubel furiously shouted.
"Yes! I don't know how, but they did! And now they are in the same timeline as we are!" KB One exclaimed.
"They must've tracked our position and used a second time machine to travel to this day!" Ubel concluded their motives.
"It seems they're trying to pick up on our scent on what we're doing!" KB One said, beginning to panic.
"No...we're not going to let Kim Possible win this time!" Ubel replied in a demanding tone. "We have to find the location of that element and get the hell out of here without her even noticing us!"
"But how...?"
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(at the same time)
"We shouldn't be far from the library now!" Agent Du said, "Drakken and his goons are soon going to jail!"
He only wants to arrest Drakken so that he can get all the attention! Kim said to herself, He never really was interested in the clues that I myself found!
Just as he said those words, he bumped into both the Smarty-Mart shoplifters, Tom and Samantha.
"OW! Watch where you're going!" Agent Du exclaimed, brushing off his USSN uniform.
"Let me help you up!" Kim said, helping Samantha up.
"And who are you supposed to be?" Samantha asked.
"We are from..." Agent Du began to explain before Ron and Rufus elbowed him on the shoulder.
"Ix-nay on the ast-pay." the blonde whispered to the agent.
"...someplace far away and are new here to Middleton." Agent Du continued.
Samantha observed their clothes and said, "Did you get your clothes from the thrift store of what?"
"Why do you ask?" Agent Du demanded.
"Those clothes are so not in since the early 2000s!" Samantha replied.
Unknown to Agent Du and Team Possible, Tom sneaked one of the stolen yPhones down Ron's backpack.
"Retro chic is so in!" Kim said, trying to attempt to fit in the current year.
"Please, flash-forward to fashion. It's so not lit!" Samantha said, "Let's go, Tom!"
"Right with ya, Samara!" Tom said as they went on their way.
"That was random." Kim said about the unexpected meeting.
"Let's just continue with our search of Drakken and his 'associates'." Agent Du replied with air quotes around associates.
"Air quotes...how interesting..." Kim said unethusiastically.
They were coming around the corner of the alleyway where Ubel and Shego were at.
KB Two saw this and whispered under the bushes across the street from them.
"Team Possible and that USSN agent are near your position! I repeat, Team Possible and the USSN agent are near your position!"
Ubel gasped, "We have to hide, Shego!"
"But where are we supposed to hide from three teenagers?" Shego asked.
Ubel spotted an empty dumpster right behind him. "There! We can hide in there until they pass!"
"You've got to be kidding me!" Shego groaned.
"It's either that or being sent to prison!" Ubel replied, describing their alternate fate if they didn't hide.
Shego shrugged her shoulders and went into the dumpster with Ubel and closed the hatch.
Kim, Ron, and Agent Du looked at the alley behind the library. There was no one there.
"Hmm...not behind there!" Agent Du muttered, seeing every single square inch with his observant eyes.
"We have to continue to find them! Search the northern side of downtown!" Kim insisted.
Ron panted, trying to catch up. "Wait...for me...KP!"
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Shego peered open the lid of the dumpster.
"Is the coast clear?" Ubel asked in the shadows.
"It is. The trio of twerps aren't here anymore!" Shego replied. She lifted herself out the dumpster and helped Ubel out.
"Ah...thanks for the quick idea of hiding in a smelly dumpster. My pants are going to reek of rotten bananas for weeks!" Shego complimented sarcastically. "We need to rally the Killer B's to a rendezvous point."
"How about that electronics store over there?" Ubel asked, pointing to an electronics store about three blocks away from the library.
"Sounds like a good idea!" Shego replied. She activated a device that tapped into the hive microchip in each of the Killer B's to tell them to rally at that point.
(40 minutes later)
Ron and Agent Du were exhausted on a park bench, completely out of shape. Kim, on other other hand, was keen and alert.
"Why are you two sitting on a bench?" she asked the duo.
"We're tired..." Ron whined.
"And we searched the entire downtown area! No sign of Drakken, Shego, or the Killer B's!" Agent Du complained.
"And you call yourself the top agent in the entire USSN!" Kim taunted him.
"Hey, I am the top agent of my class!" Du snarled, "And I'm ready to fight!"
"Then start acting like one!" Kim countered.
What the trio didn't know was that a passerby had contacted the Middleton Unified School District resource officers, which were pretty much like the Middleton Police Department, only that they were their own separate force. Their duties were to patrol MUSD property, and to protect their inventory. They also have a heavy hand in enforcing MUSD policy, often sentencing students to Saturday detention, suspension, expulsion, or worse, juvenile hall for any sort of wrongdoing.
Ubel, Shego, and the Killer B's assembled at the electronics store.
"Progress report!" Ubel insisted.
"No sign. I totally checked out the library and on the periodic table book. They had what the element looked like and its attributes, but no location!" KB One said.
KB Two added, "We searched every store, top to bottom, and still no sign of this element that you speak of!"
Ubel, at this point, was on the verge of ripping out his hair.
"How the hell are we going to find this material before midnight?! Deviotix's legal team is going to railroad me in court!"
As he spoke those words, a row of Smart TVs and QED TVs turned to the local news.
The female news reporter was live at the Rockwaller Mansion.
"And here we are, live at the Rockwaller Mansion! We are just 5 hours away from tonight's ceremony of the 12th Annual Kim Possible Fannie Awards with an exclusive interview with Miss Bonnie Rockwaller, billionaire heiress to the Rockwaller empire of wealth!"
"Bah! I don't want to hear Kim Possible's name!" Ubel insisted, covering his ears.
"Mr. D! I think you should take a look at this!" Shego exclaimed, pointing to the TVs. The Deviotix communicator was going off.
The TVs showed the news reporter about to conduct an interview with a very familiar lovely brunette woman. But it was the device behind her that Shego was pointing to.
The news reporter sat down in her chair while Bonnie herself was on her throne.
"So tell me, Miss Rockwaller. How does it feel to have your place play the host site of this years' Fannie awards?" the reporter asked.
Bonnie replied, flipping her hair, "It is a wonderful and monumental occasion to have my personal home, and especially my opera house, to serve as a site. It is also a happy day for the Rockwaller family name!"
"How much money do you expect will be made tonight?" the reporter asked another question.
"Oh, roughly around $1 million, which is a small drop in the bucket for my total wealth! Twenty percent of that money will be given to charity." Bonnie said before all attention then turned to the device.
"So, what do you have right behind you?" the reporter inquired.
"This thing is a laser machine what-cha-ma-call-it. It is powered by an element made in a lab on my property called Rockwallerium! It has the ability to generate temperatures of up to 8,000 F or whatever and have the ability to cut through solid rock. So that's why I've decided for these nerd scientists to make a carving of me along the side of Mt. Rockwaller after tonight's ceremony...weather pending. Of course, if fallen into the wrong hands, it would burn an entire forest to cinders!"
"Isn't this going to give a villain an evil plan to use the material?" the reporter questioned.
"Seriously?! K's freako villains are on a 3-week truce! They aren't going to steal this laser thing for their own purposes."
Ubel dropped his jaw in amazement,
"Did you hear that, Shego?"
Shego was on the communicator with the Deviotix underling.
"This is exactly the material you seek, Mr. Drakken!" the underling exclaimed, "Go the mansion of this...heiress...and capture the element! Time is not on your side, so move now!"
The hologram faded away. Ubel looked at the time, for it was now nearly 3pm.
"We have to find a way to get out of this one-horse town without Kim Possible noticing us!" he said, "Or maybe something to happen to her!"
Kim noticed that officers from the MUSD were coming towards her and her group.
"Guys...I think we're being watched! We gotta jet!" Kim exclaimed.
Agent Du gasped and began to run as well.
"Huh...whuh..." Ron asked, a bit confused before Kim grabbed him by the collar!
"There are the troublemakers that stole those smartphones from Smarty-Mart earlier! We're going to give them back to their rightful owners!" Sheila insisted to the officer, "Get me my administration car! I want to see those jokers go downtown where they belong!"
The officers began to chase the trio.
"Oh no! What did we do?! WHAT DID WE DO?!" Ron screamed, beginning to panic like a little girl.
"Why don't you ask them?" Kim quipped.
"Stop! Stop you thieves!" the MUSD officers yelled at them.
Turning to Ken, she yelled, "Agent Du, get your vehicle now!"
"You are in luck, for I have my remote-controlled GPS positioning system, standard issue..."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, for all top agents!" Kim copied him. She knew exactly what he was going to say. "You are so very predictable!"
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Ubel, observing that his nemesis was being chased by the cops, giggled with sheer joy.
"Oooh! Looks like little Kimmy is going to end up in the slammer!" he mocked, "Serves her right for throwing me in jail all those times when my plans with south!"
"Mr. D! Are you going to continue to mock, or are we going to skip town?!" Shego said, interrupting his speech. "You got your distraction, now let's get out of here!"
Ubel got his goals straight. "You're right! Shego, Killer B's, let's get out of here!"
And so, the dastardly villains made their way out of the alleyway into the parking garage with Kim still being distracted.
The USSN SUV rapidly came on its own from the garage to where the trio was, still being chased by MUSD officers. It opened its doors.
"Everyone, in the car!" Agent Du ordered, getting into the car first. Kim was the next person to run into the vehicle.
Ron was the last one to try and get in.
"Almost there..." he exclaimed. He jumped in and the vehicle automatically closed the sliding door.
"Yes! Finally made it!" Ron said in triumph. The blonde tried to make his way to the seat...but then felt a rip.
"Don't tell me you ripped your pants...again!" Kim moaned.
"Aww man! Even in the future!" Ron complained "I hope my other self doesn't have the same problem!"
Rufus quipped, "Oh man."
"Ron, ripped pants is the least of your worries right now!" Kim exclaimed, pointing to the chasing and MUSD cars. Sheila's car was right in front of them.
"Stop the vehicle and surrender right now and I can make your Saturday detention a lot less painful!" Sheila shouted through the megaphone.
"I don't wanna go to jail! I don't wanna go to jail!" Ron whined.
(2:30pm)
The USSN vehicle gave chase from the Downtown area to the Presidential Hills area, which was the eastern part of the city.
Ken, meanwhile, was still using the controller to steer the vehicle.
"Agent Du, if there is anything you can do to lose them, now would be the perfect time!"
"I've got just the thing, Miss Possible!" Agent Du replied.
The car started to emit both smoke bombs and tacks in the middle of the road.
The MUSD cars then ran over the tacks, causing flat tires and effectively causing a blockade that prevented Sheila's administration car from going through.
Sheila growled that the apparent two Saturday detention students got away from them.
(3:45 pm)
Once they were out of the city limits, Agent Du regained control of the wheel.
"That was extremely a close one!" Kim said, brushing dirt off her shoulder.
"You can say that again!" Ron agreed.
"I'll get Wade and see where we are!" Kim replied while getting on the Kimmunicator.
"Hey, Kim!" Wade said, coming on-screen.
"Wade, we need to find the latest coordinates on Shego's car!" Kim insisted, "Put them into Agent Du's vehicle and we can track the villainous team!"
"I'm inputting them in right now!" Wade replied, typing in the latest coordinates.
The vehicle continued on down the highway to where Wade was taking them.