"How in the hell is he still breathing. How is he even alive and well?" Fury asked as he watched Stoppable through the mirror, and watched the young man stuff down mountains of Nacos as he sat in the large medical wing inside SHIELD.
"I don't' understand it either. I've run my programs several times with the incomplete formula and the amount of Gamma radiation he was exposed to. Each time it comes out different." Wade said.
"What do you mean, Load?" Fury asked him.
"The first time, it was on the setting for a normal human being and the model died. So I put in all the data I knew about Ron, and it came out confusing. I'm still trying to figure out all the data." Wade told him.
"I want the bottom line, Load. Is Stoppable going to die?" Fury asked.
"Some day he will. Just not for a long time. I don't know what happened, but the formula isn't a threat to him anymore." Wade said.
"Gamma radiation stabilized the formula?"
"No. But for some reason, it caused his immune system to adapt enough that the formula isn't a threat. It's made him healthier, but it won't kill him." Wade told him.
"God, how I hate science sometimes." Fury said.
"It isn't all bad." Wade said.
"Try and say that after loosing dozens of finely trained men, military equipment, and tax payers dollars to bring in a scientist that has four mechanical arms welded to his spine. And out of all of that, one punk kid in a pair of spandex pajamas brings him down after you made an ass out of yourself in front of your superiors." Fury said as his scar seemed to make itself look even worse than it really was.
"Oh, S-Spider-Man. Um, sorry?" Wade asked nervously.
"It wasn't your fault, son." Fury said to him.
"So what happened to Octavious?" Wade asked him.
"We were able to remove his mechanical arms, but he still had some kind of link to them. So I made him watch as I melted them in a vat of molten steel." Fury said with no emotion what so ever.
"Oh." Wade said and decided to look back at Ron.
Wade only knew one definite thing about General Fury that was obvious. This guy scared him to no end.
"Sir. I was told to give this to you as soon as possible." One soldier said and handed Fury a file folder while saluting at the same time.
Fury returned the salute as he took the folder and dismissed the soldier. Fury took a few glances through the first few pages of the paper work, and then seemed to take a long pause at one of the pages in the middle of the small stack. This got Wade a little curious.
"Anything wrong?" Wade asked him.
"Not really. More reports on that tin clown in the red armor." Fury said.
"The one everyone's been calling Iron Man?" Wade asked him.
"That's him. I can't prove it, but I'm positive he got his armor from Stark." Fury said, but Wade noticed that his attention was still on the same page.
"Anything else up?" Wade asked.
"Maybe. It looks like what I hired you for may be happening very soon." Fury said as he closed the folder and put it under his arm.
"Do I get any clue on what it is?" Wade asked him.
"Let's just say it's a game of Hide and Seek." Fury said, but still remained stone faced. Wade knew that could mean anything, but didn't want to guess. He didn't want to see what Fury looked like when he was upset.
Ron had just finished stuffing the last of his four Naco dinner when he let out a belch that was louder than an air horn. He let out a deep sigh as he leaned against the small stack of pillows that was against his back. When he had seen the green blast, everything went black. When he woke up, he was here at SHIELD. All he knew was that Kim was okay, he was okay, and Rufus hadn't been found yet. That was the one thing that was upsetting for him right now.
What had happened to Rufus? Where was he? Dementor abandoned the castle, and they didn't find anything even close to a naked mole rat in that castle. Nothing was buried, they even examined the dog mess that was left behind and nothing. Ron just prayed Rufus was okay or hiding somewhere. Somehow, Ron knew he would find him again. He didn't know how, but he would find him. Ron looked up when he saw the automatic door slide open and saw Kim walk in with a worried smile.
"Hey, KP. You feeling better?" Ron asked as she sat beside his bed, giving her his usual goofy grin.
Kim looked like she hadn't slept all night. She was wearing the same light blue gown he was wearing, but was a little sad that the backs weren't open like in normal hospitals. He mentally slapped himself for that one.
"I can move again, so that's a big plus. Have they found anything on Rufus yet?" Kim asked him.
"Nothing yet." Ron said sadly.
As he looked at Kim, he could tell something was really bothering her. Every time something was really bothering her, she would bit her lower lip like she was doing now.
"Anything wrong, KP?" he asked her.
"Ron, I was really scared in Dementor's lair." She told him.
"Hey, I told you I had your back." Ron said to her.
"No, Ron. I wasn't afraid of being on the receiving in of that radiation. I was scared that I was going watch you die. That terrified me. I was so scared that I was going to have to watch you die like that, and I would never see you again." Kim said as a few tears began to roll down her face.
Ron leaned over and embraced her in a tight hug. All he had been trying to do was make sure she wouldn't get hurt. E didn't have any idea that she would be affected like this. Some friend he was. He was just trying to do a good job and ended up making the girl he loved cry all over his shoulder.
"I'm sorry, KP. I just didn't want you to get hurt." Ron said as he softly stroked her hair.
"I know, Ron." Kim whispered as they clung to each other. "I know that you would never hurt me, Ron." She said.
"Not even if a gun was pointed to my head." He said as they squeezed each other tighter and then let each other go.
"So how long do you think it'll be until they let us out of here?" Ron asked her.
"I don't know. Wade said there's nothing wrong, but they might keep us here a few more days to make sure." Kim said.
"Well, at least they brought me Bueno Nacho." Ron said. Kim almost gasped when she saw four trays worth of what Ron would usually eat in a week.
"Ron, you're not trying to prove nothing but Bueno Nacho is healthy again, are you?" Kim asked him.
"No, I'm just hungry. It's kind of weird, but I didn't fill up until a couple a minutes ago." Ron said.
"Do you think it's because?" Kim asked and made the gesture of getting a shot in the neck.
"I hope not. Wade said it didn't work, but he was acting funny."
"What do you mean he was acting funny?" Kim asked him.
"I don't know. It was like he was trying to go into detail about everything." Ron told her.
"That's not like Wade." Kim said as she began to think.
Ron and Kim had known Wade for years now. Even though they couldn't understand half of the stuff that came out of Wade's mouth, he just couldn't pass up the chance to explaining every single thing about any device he created or he that was best thing since ice cream was invented. The idea of Wade holding back just didn't make any kind of sense what so ever. There had to be more about that formula than he was letting on.
"Kim, you're making me worried." Ron said.
"Huh? Oh, I'm sorry Ron. You know how my brain works." Kim told him with a small smile.
"I think I'm going to take a nap now. You think you can stay here with me until I dose off?" Ron asked his girlfriend.
"Sure, Ron." Kim said as Ron leaned back and closed his eyes.
Fury entered the genetics lab at the other end of the flying fortress, his single eye narrowing on the scientists that were hard at work building a large, round chamber while a few others were hard at work working on computers and chemicals.
"Any luck yet?" Fury asked the woman that was hard at work.
"Some. We could have used a sample of that formula to see how far Own and the others got." The young woman said as she moved her coffee brown hair aside and rubbed the bridge of her nose.
"That's no longer an option. Whatever is left of it is in Ron Stoppable's blood supply, and we can't trust it. What about the other doctor that survived? Your fiancé?" he asked her.
"Bruce is still in the hospital, General Fury. I don't know if he'll still want to help after he gets out." She said as she stood to let her eyes rest from the constant vigil at her computer monitor.
"What about your friend, Sampson?" Fury asked.
"As I said General, we've only made a little bit of progress. He's been researching this for months, and he's at the same place we are. The main thing we have to go on is a hypothesis that's longer than the report Ken Star made on Bill Clinton's Oval Office antics." The woman said. "How's the kid doing?" she asked him.
"He's doing fine, despite the fact he should be dead. I was always told a crap load of Gamma radiation could do that to a person." Fury said.
"It does. Bruce would know this, he's one of the experts on Gamma radiation. He was working on some sort of Gamma based weapon when you hired him for this." She said to the tall military man.
"I'm well aware of both your background, and your soon to be husband. I don't need to be reminded of them." Fury said.
"I apologize, General. I've been locked up in here for the past fourteen weeks trying to figure out your wonder drug." She said as she rubbed the bridge of her nose again.
Fury just took one deep breath and let it out slowly. "Take a few days off and visit your fiancé. I don't need doctors who can't think." Fury said.
"Thank you." The woman said.
"Just try and get me that formula, Dr. Ross. We need it more than you realize." Fury said as he left.
One week later; 1200 hours.
"How does it feel to finally be out of that hospital wing?" Kim asked Ron as they walked through the streets of downtown Manhattan.
"It feels great, KP. I thought I'd be locked up inside there forever." Ron said as he inhaled deeply, and choked on the smog that was in the air. "Not as clean as Middleton." Ron wheezed.
"You got a point there, but it's a nice place to visit." Kim said.
"So when do you think we can head home?" Ron asked her.
"I don't know. Fury said he still needed us for a few things. At least we can enjoy each others company." Kim said as she looped her arm with Ron's.
"That's a very good point." Ron said with a wide smile
"Well, this is a pleasant surprise." A deep voice said, causing Kim and Ron to look behind themselves and saw a tall man with black hair and goatee wearing a custom made business friendly suit.
"Mr. Stark. It's nice to see you again." Kim said, doing her best to be polite.
"I was hoping I would get a chance to meet the ravishing beauty who tricked me into helping SHIELD bail their butts out again." Stark said as he gently grasped Kim's hand and kissed it.
Ron quickly cleared his throat to try and get the man's attention away from his girlfriend.
"Mr. Stark, this is my boyfriend Ron Stoppable." Kim said while trying to be polite, but you could still hear the pride in her voice.
"You're the one she decided to shack up with, huh?" Stark asked as he eyed Ron. "May I ask what your specialty is?" Stark asked him.
"Ron is a master at Tai Ching Pek Wa" Kim said, making Ron smirk a little.
"Monkey Kung Fu, huh? I've always heard that was one of the simpler styles of martial arts to master and not quite useful." Stark said, and causing Ron to narrow his eyes and ball up his fist.
"That was pretty rude, Mr. Stark." Kim said to the young billionaire.
"I apologize, I didn't mean to offend. But I was hoping that you might be able to join me for that dinner I mentioned." Stark said.
Now this was making Ron upset. This guy had not just insulted him in front of his face, but was asking out his girlfriend in front of him? Ron didn't know he was doing it, but his fist had begun to tighten so much that his knuckles began to pop by themselves one at a time and his veins bulge.
"Mr. Stark,"
"Call me Tony, Miss Possible."
"Mr. Stark, I'm here with my boyfriend. And not only are you being rude to him, you are acting like one of the biggest, boorish, chauvinistic pig that I've ever seen in my life." Kim said, trying her best to keep her temper in control.
"I guess that's a no?" Tony asked, trying to still act charming.
"You better believe it." Kim almost growled.
"Okay, I can live with that. By the way, you might want to have a doctor look at your friend. He's looking a little green around the gills." Tony said as he stepped into a limousine that had pulled up to the curb.
As soon as the limo drove away, Kim turned her attention back to her BFBF Ron. She noticed that Stark had been right. Ron's complexion had started to look like Shego's.
"Ron, are you okay?" she asked him as she placed her hand against his forehead.
"I'm fine, KP. Just too much smugness." Ron said as his temper started to cool off. "You know, I think I don't want to do too much sight seeing anymore." Ron said.
"Neither do I. I'll see if we can go home now." Kim said as she pulled out her Kimmunicator.
"Sorry, Miss Possible, but I'm afraid you can't head back yet." Fury said as he faced Kim on the monitor in SHIELD's control room.
They had adapted their communications system to be similar to the way the Kimmunicator worked. So Kim was mildly surprised she had received SHIELD instead of a young chubby genius.
"General Fury, Ron and I are fine and its obvious that the formula Dementor stole from you isn't going to work. What else do you need us for?" Kim asked.
"For starters Miss Possible, since the day you first set foot onto the installation you have been full fledged members of SHIELD. So that means if I give you an assignment or order, you do it! Is that clear?" Fury asked her.
"Yes, sir." Kim said, getting the feeling she used to receive when she was younger and her dad fussed at her for doing something bad.
"Second, we just received something interesting. It appears that your old friend Dr. Drakken is up to his usual tricks again. It appears he's been sending his little pet Shego to steel enough equipment to build another weapon. I need you and Stoppable to go in and shut down that weapon before he decided to use it. Before you ask, we already have transportation en route to your location." Fury said to her.
"Thank you, General Fury." Kim said and deactivated her Kimmunicator. "And I thought Mr. Barkin was bad." Kim said to herself and noticed that Ron looked a little depressed. "Ron, are you okay?" Kim asked him.
"I don't know. It's just going to be weird going on a mission without Rufus. I really miss him." Ron said to her.
"I know it's hard. I tell you what. After this mission, I'll get you a half pound Grande burrito from Bueno Nacho." Kim told him.
"Two of them?" Ron asked.
"Okay, two." Kim told him, and was glad to see the smile on his face.
"Behold, Shego! The greatest that has ever been built in the entire history of man kind's scientific achievements! Greater then Tesla's discovery of Alternating Currents! I give you,"
"The next stupidest and lamest machine created by Dr. Drakken that will fall apart as soon as he sneezes." Shego said as she flipped the page of the Club Banana spring catalog she was browsing through.
"Now that's no fair, Shego! Do I ever say something nasty about your jump suits?" Drakken asked, acting like a child that just dropped their ice cream cone.
"That' because I'd light your butt like a Roman Candle if you did." She said to him flatly.
"Shego, I worked hard on this!" Drakken whined.
"Whoa, wait a minute! You worked hard? I'm the one that had to break into those places, I'm the one that had to figure out how to haul this crap out, and I'm the one that has to make sure I don't get caught by Global Justice or the cops, and you worked hard? They're practically legos you twit! How did you work hard?" Shego demanded as she threw down the catalog and got in the mad doctor's face.
"Um – I had to figure out how to put them together?" Drakken asked her.
"Why you little," Shego said as her hands began to glow.
"I'd hate to break up such a love fest, but I think you can save us time by just putting the handcuffs on now." Kim said as her and Ron dropped down from a overhead air vent.
"Kim Possible? SHEGO!" Drakken bellowed, causing the villainess to wince and cover her left ear.
"How can he always be surprised by this?" Shego asked herself as she ignited her hands and leapt at the two teens.
"And I thought Dementor as telling the truth when he said he took out you and your lap dog. I guess he is just a big bag of hot air." Shego said as she looked at the two heroes.
"At least I'm not the one that's being called Drakken's pet." Kim said with a sadistic smile.
"WHAT? Princess, I'll – hold on." Shego said as she spun around and gave Ron a sift uppercut into the stomach, stopping him from going for the self destruct button.
Ron collapsed into a coughing, wheezing heap to the floor as Shego smiled.
"You witch!" Kim screamed and started to lay on a full attack on Shego, actually having to make the woman try her best to make sure Kim didn't get a contact blow in.
Ron was still wheezing every time he breathed as he looked up at the fight that was happening in front of him. Kim was and Shego were both going at it full force as one tried disable the other. Ron knew that Shego didn't stand a chance against Kim. There fight was moving all over the lab until they finally were under Drakken's machine. Ron was getting to his knees when looked at the fight again when he saw Drakken coming out of his hiding place with a crow bar. Like the rat he was, he placed one good blow against Kim's back, which caused her to fall to the floor.
"That was low." Kim groaned.
"I have to agree, Dr. D. That was a low blow, even for you." Shego said to him.
"It got the job done didn't it?" Drakken asked his assistant.
"Good point. Never look a gifted horse in the mouth." Shego said with a smirk as she saw the teen hero try to get up.
"Leave her alone." Ron growled as he felt his blood boil. He was balling his fists hard enough to make his knuckles white and his veins expose themselves.
"Did you hear a squeak, Shego?" Drakken asked the emerald villainess.
"It sounded more like a mouse fart." Shego said; both of them laughing at her remark.
Ron got angrier as they laughed at him. Sure, what they said stung him. But what was really pissing him off was how they hurt KP and were enjoying it. His breathing became more like panting as every muscle in his body tightened, and a faint green color became to form where his veins made themselves known. That's when his mental damn burst. Every taunt, every tease, every rude remark and beating Ron had ever taken in his life came to make themselves known inside of Ron's mind and fueled the wild rage that was fueling him and making him growl a little bit. Ron closed his eyes tightly as everything began to come to it's limit and made Ron rise to his feet.
"I said – leave - KP – ALONE!!!!!!!!" Ron roared as loud as he could scream, making his voice sound like it came from the roar of a Tyrannosaurus Rex. That's when Ron felt tremendous pain flood his gut; making him clutch and bend over which added to his rising anger.
Shego and Drakken turned to the young man as he bent over in pain, groaning and moaning as a voice that sounded like it belonged to a fierce dinosaur and a Kodiak bear. Both could clearly see the faint green his skin had become as he began to groan and moan even more.
"Shego, what did you do to him?" Drakken asked his assistant, scared that his assistant had caused severe internal damage to the young man.
"I just socked him in the gut. This doesn't usually happen when I do that." Shego said to her boss.
That's when Ron put his right fist through the four foot concrete wall next to him, and ripped/threw out a large titanium pipe that was five feet wide and ten feet in length. The titanium bounced along the floor, cracking the floor as it went, and deeply embedded itself into the wall on the other side of the lab.
"Okay, that definitely never happened before." Shego said with worry in her voice, and caused the teen hero to sit up and look at what was happening to her best friend.
That's Ron looked up at them; his teeth bared in a mad grimace and his eyes glaring at them. But that's what the wrong and scary part was. His eyes were glowing with a bright green as he glared at them. Ron moaned again as he doubled over, and the sounds of bones popping echoed through out the lair. That's when his body began to glow and his skin went from pale to a green that you see on the leaves of a tree during the summer. AS he was doubled over, the back of his sweater ripped down the middle, exposing the growing skin underneath. His pants then split as his thighs and calves also grew in size; his shoes and socks were soon torn to shreds when they could no longer hold his feet. Ron covered his face when his groaning and cries grew worse and deeper. As he bent his arms, his muscles tore through the sleeves of his shirt as they flexed. Ron straightened himself, almost like he was screaming at the sky, his hands covering his face. That's when the front of his shirt tore away and exposed all the swollen, and well defined muscles that were underneath the cloth.
Ron's hands then balled into fists as a he let out one loud, rage filled roar of pain and pure undying rage before he slammed both fists into the concrete floor as hard as he could, cracking the floor and causing to jut upward and produce a small cloud of dust. The tremendous blow caused the entire building to shake from its roof to its foundation. More and more blows were struck, causing part of the roof to break loose and fall, and more dust and concrete to fly everywhere. There as one more roar of rage before everything went quite.
Nothing could be seen in the thick cloud. Drakken squinted his eyes to try and figure out what had happened, and to keep the dust out of his eyes. His eyes were watering from the irritation, and quickly rubbed them to remove the dust that had been trapped in them. What he saw standing in front of him caused to whimper like a whipped puppy and start crying like a little girl with a skinned knee. Drakken quickly turned away from the creature and assumed a duck and cover position while he sucked on his thumb.
"Find my happy place, Find my happy place, Find my happy place, Find my happy place, Find my happy place." Drakken repeated over and over again.
That's when the creature that was behind him let out a menacing low growl, and gave a swift a powerful kick to Drakken's butt as it stood in the air. The force of the blow caused Drakken to be punted across the room like he was a mere football.
"THAT'S NOT MY HAPPY" SLAM!
Shego's breathing was still even and calm as she tried to search through the cloud. When she heard Drakken's scream and impact with the wall, she turned to where she had heard it come from. When the dust finally cleared, she gasped at hat she saw standing there.
The massive creature was growling as it saw the massive machine Drakken had put together, and it looked like just the sight of it was pissing the creature off even more so. To her amazement the creature shoved one hand through it, causing sparks to fly. He punched his hands into the other side, causing to sparks to shower everywhere as it began to short circuit. With a massive shout, it ripped the machine in two like it was construction paper. That's when the creature was slamming the two pieces into each other with everything it had had, causing small explosions to goo off. She could tell the blasts was making the creature mad, and caused him to smash and bash the two pieces with even more force than it previously did. The two halves of the machine were so warped and twisted now that even if you had a picture of what it once was with you, you would never believe that was the creature was holding used to be it. With a loud shout, the creature threw one piece of the giant machine threw one of the walls, and the last piece threw the other wall. This scared and surprised the hell out of Shego because the walls were made with five layers of thick concrete, seven layers of the thickest steel you could find, and five more layers of concrete. The creature let out one massive shout that almost hook the building and almost made Shego cover her ears.
Shego could only gasp at all the massive destruction it had caused in the room. The was when creature then turned to her when it heard her gasp, and just looked at her like it was studying her. What was in front of her was eight feet tall, maybe eight and a half. Its skin was a slight shade darker than the green of her jumpsuit, and it's muscles were so massive and chiseled that it would win every body building contest known to man and cause them to be disbanded because no normal man's muscles could grow to that size. Its eyes were a bright green as it looked through the bangs of shaggy hair that was even a darker green than that of its skin. It balled its fists, causing each knuckle in its hands to pop and echo like a gun was being fired.
"S-Stoppable?" Shego asked as she saw it looking at her.
The creature gave a slight growl as it walked toward her, each footsteps echoing and making the room shake slightly. When it was in front of her, it bent down until they were nose to nose with each other, and his look of anger just seemed to increase as every muscle in its face just tightened and a small growl emanated from its throat.
"Y-you look good Stoppable. Really. T-that looks suit you. Believe me, green can be a good color." Shego said as her breathing increased, and her voice was sounding a few pitches higher than it normally would.
Then creature's growl grew louder as it looked at Shego, and she started to tremble as her breathing and heart rate increased by leaps and bounds.
"Boo." The creature said.
That's when Shego bolted out of the room as fast as she could possibly could, screaming as loud her vocal cords would allow as she did so. The creature stood and smile as it watched Shego run away. That's when it heard another gasp, and turned to see Kim who was still on her back and looking shocked at what she was seeing.
"R-Ron? Is that you?" she asked as she saw the creature in front of her.
The creature's face softened as it saw Kim staring at him. When Kim tried to move, she let out a yelp of pain from the blow Drakken had given her earlier. The creature rushed a hand to her side, catching her as her elbows gave out. It used both hands to gently lift her up, and cradled her in its arms to make sure it wouldn't hurt her or cause her any pain at all.
"KP." It grunted as it saw Kim and gently stroked some of the hair away from her face with one of its massive fingers.
Kim could see the taters of Ron's mission clothes around its shoulders, and what was left of his pants were still veering his lower extremities. And even though the color of his eyes had changed, she could still the warm emotion in his eyes. The same look she saw every time she looked at Ron. It was him.
Ron then looked to the roof, and let out another frustrated growl. It tried its best to cover Kim in a protective embrace and began to squat down. With one more loud grunt, it leapt up and through the roof of the building, and landed right outside of it. To explosions caused both Kim and the creature to look back at the lab, and saw that one was from a piece of the machine Ron had thrown outside, and the other was coming from inside the building itself. With a dismissive grunt, the creature turned and began to take one bounding leap after another that crossed miles and miles of terrain as they left the building to burn and explode behind them. As the creature carried her, she recognized where they were heading to. They were heading back to Middleton, Colorado. They were going home.
Author's Note(s): Now I bet few of you are asking about the scene with Fury and the woman doctor. Well, instead of confusing everything, I decided to alter it to where Bruce Banner doesn't become the hulk. Instead, Ron has theat proud role, as you just read. I hope you like what I've got so far, and I hope to have mroe up for this and my other stories soon.