"This is General Nicholas Fury. Interview with Doctor Drew Lipski; alias is one Dr. Drakken. He is currently in the lower ranks of Global Justice's most wanted list. Dr. Drakken is currently being questioned about the incident at his last known residence in upper Maine. The time of questioning is at 1500 hours. Mr. Lipski, can you tell me what happened three days ago in your lair?" Fury asked the doctor that was in a hospital bed as he sucked his thumb with a cast on his hips that went to his knees.
"Find my happy place. Find my happy place." Dr. Drakken said.
"Dr. Drakken, can you please answer the question?" Fury asked him.
"Find my happy place. Find my happy place." Dr. Drakken said again.
"Dr. Drakken, what happened to Ronald Stoppable after you assaulted his partner Kim Possible?" nick Fury asked him, his temper growing short.
"B-buffoon. Buffoon fall down, Kim fall down. Buffoon no like Kim get hurt. B-b-buffoon g-got m-m-m-mad." Drakken said as his words became more of a whimper.
"What happened when Ronald got mad?" Fury asked him.
"B-buffon change. Buffoon got b-big. B-b-b-b-big and s-s-s-s-s-scary." Drakken said as he started to shake like crazy.
"Drakken, what happened to Ronald and your machine?" Fury asked him again.
"Buffoon b-became big. V-very big and green. Green, mean. B-big green meanie." Drakken said, and started to suck on his thumb.
"What do you mean, Drakken? Drakken, what do you mean by that?" Fury asked him.
"Find my happy place. Find my happy place. Find my happy place. Find my happy place." Drakken repeated over and over again.
"Do you want me to try sodium pentothal, General?" one SHIELD agent asked him.
"No. He's too loaded on pain killers and it might have a negative reaction. It's also been proved not to be so helpful after all. Keep an eye on him in case he says something. I'm going to go interview the other one." Fury said.
"Where did they find her, sir?" the agent asked.
"They found her in Go City." Fury said as he left the hospital room.
SHIELD Headquarters; Interrogation Room 3C. 1700 hours.
Shego was still shaking a little as she sat in the temperature controlled room. The one good thing about being here was that the room was better looking than most Global Justice and police interrogation rooms she had been in during her criminal career. She knew the broad, bald man was sitting in the room with her, but she didn't want to acknowledge him at the moment. She was trying to put what was left of her pride back together before she wanted to talk.
"Do you need anything before we begin Miss Gogh?" the man asked.
"Got any cigarettes?" Shego asked him.
"You do know this stuff will kill you?" the man asked as he pulled a flip top box of cheap cigarettes out of his pocket and handed them to the young woman.
"If you've already taken a look at my medical records, you'd know that I don't really have to worry about that problem." She said as she took a cigarette and lit it with a small plasma flame on her finger. She let out a deep relaxing sigh as she blew the smoke out.
"I didn't know you smoke." The man said.
"I've been trying to give it up." She said and finally turned to take a good look at the man who was sitting with her. "So how have you doing, Old Iron Pants?" she asked him.
"You know I don't like that name." Fury said to her.
"I know. That's why I said it. So what does the great and mighty SHIELD want with me today?" she asked him as she took another long drag of the cancer stick she held.
"Three days ago, Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable were trying to shut down your employer's latest half brain scheme. I'm trying to find out what the hell happened." Fury said.
"No, you want to know the side effects that little drug of Dementor's gave him." Shego said. "I'm not as dumb as Drakken, Fury. You could at least give me credit for that." She told him and puffed on the cigarette again.
"Then tell me what the hell happened. His lair looked like a damn war zone." Fury said.
"Simple. Stoppable got mad." Shego said, tying her best not to say anything else.
"Miss Gogh, I've seen Stoppable in person and I've read his medical reports. Ho can a kid as skinny as Gilligan cause that much damage?" Fury asked her.
"You've got me there, Fury. All I know is that things have been going as they normally would. Drakken brags, I could care less, cheerleader and Stoppable drop in. Of course, I actually stopped him from hitting the self destruct button. That was a high point." Shego said with a small smile.
"What happened after that?" Fury asked her.
"Me and Princess started to duke it out. I figured while we were doing that, Dr. D would run and hide again while Stoppable hit the self-destruct button. Then Dr. D actually did something different" Shego said and took another puff.
"What did he do this time?" he asked her.
"He bashed her on the back with a crowbar. That was lower then I would go. T-that's when everything went south." She said and took a longer drag on the cigarette.
"Shego, what happened?" Fury asked her.
"Stoppable got mad. I don't what the hell Dementor pumped him up with, but it changed the rules right then. Stoppable – he told us to let the Princess go. I made fun of him, and that really pissed him off.
"The next thing I knew, he started roaring like a bear with its nuts stuck in a bear trap. That's when things turned from strange to freaky. His eyes were glowing, Iron Pants. I mean, they were glowing like my hands would glow. He looked a little pale, and that's when it happened. He grew. His clothes actually ripped apart because of his muscles.
"He kept shouting and screaming, and he kept growing bigger and bigger. He screamed again, and smashed the floor in front of him to marble. I mean, the floor – was – crushed." Shego said slowly, trying to make her point.
"I heard Dr. D whimpering, and then heard him screaming before he hit the wall like a bug on a windshield. When part of the dust cleared, I saw Stoppable; but he wasn't Stoppable. He had grown to a huge giant. He ripped Dr. D's machine in half and just – just – beat the hell out of it. After he was done with it, he threw both pieces through the wall. Through them, Fury. A-and then he turned to m-me." Shego said as she started to tremble a little more and finished off her cigarette.
"What happened?" Fury asked her.
"General Fury, I've known the Princess and Stoppable for years now. Enemies, rivals, whatever you want to call it. I know them like they were one of my friends. I've seen what Stoppable can do, and what he's capable of. That thing- that – that – hulk - was like something from a nightmare. It looked square at me, in the eyes. I know all it said was boo,"
"Boo?" Fury asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Yes, boo. Anyway, after it said it, I ran away screaming." Shego said to him.
"Shego, I find that hard to believe." Fury said.
"YOU WEREN'T THERE, FURY! The only time I've ever seen that was – was – anyway, it scared me. That thing was pure living rage. I didn't wait to see what it would do next. I got the hell out of dodge as soon as I could." Shego said as she took another cigarette from the pack and lit it before it hit her lips.
"It scared you?" Fury asked, unable to believe the words that came from the pale woman's mouth.
"Fury, you've known me for a while now. When I was a kid, I never wet my bed. I didn't have any kind of problem like that. Not when the meteor hit, not when I jumped out of a plane for the first time, and not even against my first super villain. When I looked into that thing's eyes, and I saw what was looking back at me, I pissed myself. I don't mean a little wet spot in my shorts, I mean I totally, freaking, pissed all over myself! I didn't even know it until I got back to my hideout." She told him, almost in tears.
"I noticed you don't call Ronald buffoon anymore." Fury said to her.
"After you saw what I did, would you?" she asked him as she looked away and took a long drag on her cigarette.
That's when Fury turned off the tape recorder and walked to the other end of the room where another high ranking soldier stood.
"Do you think this is all a crock?" he asked him.
"I've known her for years, Colonel; she's not making this up. I want a full medical work up on Stoppable ASAP." Fury told him and left the room.
Two days ago, 0700 hours.
Kim woke up after a long dreamless sleep. She hadn't slept like that in years. For some reason though, she couldn't remember when she fell asleep. As she looked around the room she had awaken in, and knew right off the bat that this wasn't her room. This was Ron's room, at his house. How did she end up here? She was laying on his bed and sat up to find her friend. She covered her eyes briefly to filter out the sunlight that coming through his window. When she looked around the room, she found Ron was asleep on the floor. Something was wrong though.
Ron was filthy, especially his feet. They were caked in dried mud and grass stains, with what looked like gravel stuck in the mud. His pants were ripped from the mid thigh down, and they were barley keeping themselves together. It also looked like the waist had been broken. Part of the waist band, along with the button and zipper, had popped. His shirt was in shreds, if they could be called shreds. Kim couldn't believe the state he was in. What could have caused all that?
That's when she remembered. Why she had passed out, why her boyfriend's clothes were ruined. Ron had changed. He had turned into some kind of green giant, and it wasn't jolly. She passed out when he carried her all the way back here. He was leaping by miles, and it almost seemed impossible. But the fact that he had transformed into that thing and tore Drakken's place apart made her worry. What had happened to Ron to do that? That's when her mental gears started to click into place like the tumblers in a lock. The Super Soldier formula.
"Oh my God. What did that maniac do to you?" Kim said as she started to cry. What had Dementor done to him?
That's when Ron woke up from the best sleep he had ever experienced in his short life. He stretched out all the sleepiness from his body when he noticed a weird noise. Ron sat up and heard his back pop into place when he saw Kim sitting on his bed, and she was crying. Ron was instantly at her side to see what was wrong.
"KP? Kim, what's wrong?" Ron asked her.
"Oh Ron, I'm so sorry." Kim said as she held him as tight as she could.
"KP? You're squashing my ribs." Ron squeaked.
"I'm sorry." Kim said as eased up and looked at Ron as she gently stroked his face.
"Kim, are you feeling okay?" Ron asked her.
"I should be asking you that question." Kim said.
"Why?"
"Ron, don't you remember?" Kim asked him.
"Remember what? We were on a mission and – wait. Drakken hit you. I saw you go down and Shego and Drakken were standing over you. I remember getting so mad that I could scream, and the rest is kind of weird." Ron said as he recalled the previous events.
"Weird? How weird?" Kim asked him.
"I don't know. I got these weird flashes in my head. What I remember kind of feels like I'm being born. I remember sparks, smoke, and Shego screaming. After that, I just remember feeling like I was almost flying." Ron said and noticed his clothes.
Ron looked at the tatters looking more confused than ever. He also noticed the state his feet were in, and looked like he had just been given the world's hardest algebra question.
"KP, what happened to me?" Ron asked her.
"I wish I could explain, Ron." She told him.
SHIELD HQ; Present Time.
Ron was being scanned in the medical wing again as Fury, Wade, and Kim observed on the other side of the two way mirror. Kim was chewing on her fingernails while Fury just stood absolutely still, showing no signs of emotion at all. She was anxious and frustrated because they had been scanning Ron for the past two days and hadn't said anything yet, and Fury's total lack of emotion. That's when Kim decided she had enough of this.
"General, do you know what's wrong with Ron? I'm getting tired of waiting!" Kim said to the older man.
"Nothing conclusive. Your friend Wade just keeps looking at his computer screen every time I try to ask him something." Fury said and glanced to the young man next to him.
"What? Oh! Sorry. When you brought Ron in the other day, I think I found something interesting." Wade said.
"Which is?" Fury asked him.
"He still had some adrenalin left in his system, but this is the weird part. It was irradiated with Gamma radiation." Wade told them.
"What?" Kim asked.
"You better not be telling me he's a walking nuclear reactor!" Fury said.
"No! No, no, no, no! Not at all! His body absorbed the radiation he was blasted with. His body has somehow made it apart of his own body and into non lethal levels." Wade told him.
"But what about what happened to Ron? Why did he –he – change?" Kim asked him.
"You remember how I said the formula wouldn't do any noticeable change?" Wade asked.
"Yes." Fury answered.
"I was wrong. I don't know what happened, but somehow the radiation altered the formula. It changed Ron's body to when his adrenaline starts being released, the formula begins to take effect." Wade told them.
"But you said it was altered. So you mean every time he gets angry, he'll change?" Kim asked him.
"Any kind of stress or emotion that releases his adrenalin." Wade told them.
"Then why did he change back?" Fury asked him.
"As I said, the formula is incomplete. It only takes effect with the adrenaline. When he calms down, and the adrenaline disappears, the formula goes dormant." Wade told them.
"Just great. A Super Soldier turned Frankenstein with a dash of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." Fury said as he observed Ron putting on his normal clothes.
"What's going to happen to him?" Kim asked the General.
"I honestly don't know. Until we can find out more, Ronald is going to have to stay here until we figure something out." Fury said.
"General, he has a life out there! Family, a job, he can't just abandon it!" Kim shouted.
"Look at it from my end, Miss Possible! I have to make sure the whole damn planet doesn't blow itself up. That means I have to think of the lives of billions of human beings every second of every day! I can't even order a meal without thinking of the impact it might do! No your friend is a walking tank when he gets upset. I can't just think about his life and yours, I have to think about others that might get hurt if and when he changes again!" Fury said to Kim in a stern and firm voice.
"He wouldn't hurt anybody!" Kim said to the older man.
"But can you guarantee that when he changed into that Hulk?" Fury asked her. Kim didn't say anything as she turned to look at her friend, trying her best to hold back tears. "I thought so." Fury said as he looked back at Ron.
"Then I'm staying too." Kim said.
"Out of the question." Fury said.
"You said Ron and I became full SHIELD agents as soon as we set foot here. That means Ron and I are partners no matter what! And I won't leave his side now, and not when hell freezes over!" Kim said sternly to Fury, taking a big risk by trying to intimidate one of the most well known and feared men on the planet.
"If you choose that, Miss Possible, then you are to obey my orders at all times! You will become a full time agent if you ant to stay here. You eat when I say, you work when I say, and you even shit when I say. Do you understand?" Fury asked her, holding nothing back from her.
"Crystal." Kim said, trying to match his stubbornness.
"Then I'm assigning you to your friend, Stoppable. As of this moment, you are to keep both eyes on him at all times. If anything even remotely close to him changing happens, you report it to me as soon as it does. Are we clear?" Fury asked her.
"Yes, sir." Kim said.
"Good. Load, I need you to come with me." Fury said as Kim entered the medical lab.
"I can hardly believe what happened back there." Wade said.
"Believe what?" Fury asked him.
"That you and Kim stood toe to toe with each other." Wade said, still in a state of awe. "I'm also very surprised that you made her a full SHIELD agent." Wade said.
"What makes you think that wasn't my plan?" Fury asked him.
"Sir?" Wade asked.
"Follow me into the war room." Fury said to him.
"How are you feeling, Ron?" Kim asked him.
"Is there another word for stressed out?" Ron asked her.
"I highly doubt it." Kim said as she sat next to Ron on the hospital bed.
"So any word on when I'm getting out of here? I could really go for a Naco right now." Ron said with his goofy smile, but he noticed Kim was only half smiling and bit her lower lip again. "Something up, KP?" Ron asked her.
"Ron, t-they found out why you changed. And until they better understand more about it, they're going to make you stay here." Kim told him.
To say Ron had looked crest fallen at Kim's words would have been an under stating how low Ron felt at that very moment.
"Can they do that?" Ron asked her.
"I'm not sure, Ron." Kim told him and looked down at the metal floor.
"B-but what about my spot on the football team? Our missions? My job at Smarty Mart? Trying to find Rufus? Kim, what about us?" Ron asked him as he took his best friend and girl friend's hands in his own.
"That's the other part, Ron." She told him.
"I don't like the sound of that." Ron said to her.
"I made a deal with Fury. I told him I wouldn't leave you no matter what. Now I'm a fully active SHIELD agent, and I've been assigned to you." Kim told him.
"KP – I – what about your life? I can't ask you to put everything on hold just for me." Ron said, unable to believe the words that had just come out of Kim's mouth.
"I already did. Ron, I've treated you in the worst ways over the years. Especially when I was with Josh and Eri- that syntho drone. I don't deserve you as a friend, but you stayed with me. You never quit covering my back. Now it's my turn, Ron. And I don't mind at all." Kim said as she caressed the side of his cheek.
"KP, I don't know what to say." Ron told her, unable to believe that someone as graceful intelligent, and as beautiful as her would willingly choose to be with such an idiot like him.
"Just be you." Kim said as she kissed him, and neither let the other go.
A few minutes later, they were in a circular room that almost looked like a small theatre at a multiplex, with a large screen in front of the stadium style seats and a round metal table with chairs sitting around it and the SHIELD logo laser etched into its surface.
"Mr. Load, there's a reason you and your friends are here and why that formula is so damned important to us." Fury told him.
"This isn't going to be good, is it?" Wade asked him.
"No, it isn't son. Do you recall rumors during World War II about strange glowing objects that flew with, or buzzed by fighter planes?" Fury asked him.
"I vaguely remember hearing about that. Why do you ask?" Wade asked him.
"Because not all of those reports were false. During World War II, Captain America had several encounters with a sadistic Nazi General who went by the name of Kleiser. No matter how many times Captain America wounded him, the bastard wouldn't die. For years, Captain America's superiors thought that Kleiser was the German's own Super Soldier. After the Battle of Berlin, we found out why Kleiser wouldn't die."
"If he wasn't a Super Soldier, then what else could be the answer?" Wade asked him.
"Remember when I mentioned the Nazi's weapon? The Nazi super weapon Captain America had stopped was a nuclear missile that was as powerful as one of our modern day weapons, and aimed at Washington. Come to find out, the people who were giving the information to the Nazis on how to build something like that were a race of aliens that Hitler had made a deal with." Fury told him.
"Whoa, wait a minute. Aliens? You're saying Kleiser was an alien?" Wade asked him.
"Don't even try to give me that look. We have so much proof of it that it makes me sick to even think about it." Fury said.
With Fury's seriousness and his stone cold expression, this made believe that he wasn't joking around about this.
"Aliens?" Wade asked him.
"Yes, Mr. Load. And the reason we're still concerned about them is because they never left. We've been trying to track them because there's probably a good chance they could launch another attack. And if they do, we need to be ready to fight back and I need all the help we can get." Fury told him.
"That's why you need the Super Soldier formula?" Wade asked him.
"Correct. We were able to retrieve Owen's records, but they aren't enough. That's where we bring you in." Fury told him.
"Wait a minute, General. I'm a techno geek, not a chemist." Wade told him.
"I know that. Since we can't make the formula from scratch, we have to go after the source."
"The source?"
"That's right. We've gathered enough information to begin this little hide and seek mission, and I need you to help program and guide the computers when we start." Fury told him.
"Hold on. A-are you trying to tell me that - ?" Wade asked him.
"Yes, son. We're going to retrieve Captain America." Fury said.
"Hmm, this is an interesting development. Thank you mien friend, you have been most helpful." The short man said as he smiled and slid his cold black helmet over his face.
"I guess that was good news?" the lumbering hench man asked his leader.
"Indeed it vas. My mole has discovered an interesting side effect with the formula. Have the heir doctors created more?" the small man asked.
"I think so. Some of them claimed that what was left was more than enough to dup-dup- to copy." The tall man said.
"Very good. I need the same amount ve used on heir Stoppable a few veeks ago. Speaking of moles." The man said as he turned to the cage that contained a very annoyed and upset naked mole rat as it went on about its prison. "Maybe ve shall see vhat happens vhen something as inferior as you gets a taste of true power." The man said to the mole rat, causing to stop its chattering and retreat to a corner of its cage as the small man began to laugh like a man insane. Where was his master when he needed him the most?
Author's Note(s): Don't you just hate cliffhangers? Don't worry, there will be more Ron/Hulk fight scenes coming up. Maybe an Avenger or twp. I've still got to figure out a few more things before the next chapter. Thanks for the reviews you've given, and thanks for taking the time for reading my story. FAH3