YEARS AGO
Three men sat in their college lab waiting impatiently. After some time had passed, one of them sighed.
"Where's Sam?" James Possible asked. "He was supposed to be here with girls to dance with us."
"I knew he wouldn't come through with dates for us" Chen said.
"What did you expect?" Ramesh asked. "He cannot even come through with a date for himself."
James sighed. "It was a nice dream though."
Just then, the door opened up and a fourth science major jumped right in. He dramatically presented himself.
"Gentlemen, hold onto your coats! The dream is real!"
"Sam? You found girls?" Chen asked.
"Better than that, my Three Caballeros." Sam answered. "We're living in a time where the most beautiful girls reject the clearly successful geniuses like moi… and you guys, I suppose, in favor of the neanderthals in the football teams or the police force. One day, that may change, but for now, I give you the future of dating. BEHOLD!"
The other three scientists looked on over to the door where three robots wheeled in. They looked to be in poor condition, and they wore blonde wigs and makeup.
"My name is BeBe." One of them said in a robotic tone. The other college students weren't amused, but Sam had the highest confidence.
"BeBe, would you like to dance?"
"Affirmative. BeBe will dance."
One of the robots took Sam's hands and spun him around chaotically. It was hard to look at, but his friends couldn't help but chuckle.
"Okay. I admit, they're not perfect." Sam said. "I'm just having trouble finding the right power source for them. But as soon as I find it, BeBe will be better than a real woman."
"I highly doubt that." James snickered. "Sorry, Sam, but it looks like you fell short again."
"That's putting it mildly." Ramesh shared in the laugh.
"More like it fell off a cliff." Chen said making himself and his two friends explode with laughter.
Sam looked at the laughing trio before him and growled. A fuse within him began to light up.
PRESENT DAY
It was another day at Bueno Nacho, except for the discontent Ron. He slumped down in his seat with Kim and Jen watching him sympathetically. Rufus, in the meantime, began munching down on Ron's order.
"Ron, Rufus is eating your burrito." Jen said.
"Good. He can have it." Ron said lowly. "Call it my last will and testament because I am officially dead."
"Ron, lay off the drama." Kim said. "The guidance counselor just said you needed to join an extracurricular activity."
"Because it would look good on my college application." Ron said. "But what am I supposed to do?"
"There are plenty of stuff to do after school." Jen said. "How about… the mathletes?"
"You know I can't get into that kind of shape."
"Then… the debate team?" Kim suggested.
"I'm not arguing with you two over this. Let's face it. I'm done. What about you, Jen? Don't you need to do an extracurricular activity?"
"Well, yeah, but I'm not worrying over it like you. Just about every athletic club wants me to join them. The real hard part is choosing."
"Lucky you." Ron slumped.
"There are plenty of stuff to do after school." Kim said. "Like cheer squad for me."
Suddenly, Ron's eyes lit up and a smile flashed across his face. "Cheer squad!"
"…For me, not you." Kim said.
"This is perfect!"
"What is?" Jen asked.
"Hello! Cheerleader! I'm upbeat! I can do it! This calls for celebratory nachos!" Ron jumped from his seat and headed to the front desk. While he did that, Kim sighed full of regret and lowered her head.
"Something wrong?" Jen asked.
"Didn't you hear him?" Kim asked. "He wants to be a cheerleader."
"And what's so wrong with that?" Jen asked. "There are male cheerleaders, he's allowed to try out, and wouldn't it be fun if you two were in the same team?"
"If it's fun, why don't you join us?"
"Kim, I don't think your team could carry me if I end up on top of a human pyramid." Jen said. "Look. Just give him a chance. Who knows? Maybe he'll surprise you."
"That's what I'm afraid of." Kim said with a deadpan look.
Jen whistled to herself while exchanging books in her locker. Just then, her eyes caught the heated argument between Kim and Ron.
"Ron, I'm sorry, but the idea is stupid."
"Well, that's one person's opinion!"
"One entire cheerleading squad's opinion!"
"Well, maybe you and your squad just don't get it!"
"You don't get it!'
"'Oh, I'm Kim Possible. I can do anything… EXCEPT BELIEVE IN MY BEST FRIEND!'"
"Whoa, whoa!" Jen interrupted. "If you two are gonna fight, I'll referee! What's going on? Did the try-out not turn out so good?"
"Oh, it worked out perfectly." Ron scowled. "I decided to be the Middleton Mad Dog mascot, spent all night making a mask with my movie makeup magic kit, and Bonnie said that the idea was stupid! And the worst part, KP actually agreed with her!"
"Ron, your mask was foaming!"
"It was banana cream!"
Kim groaned. "Jen, please tell Ron how ridiculous he's being."
Jen shrugged her green shoulders. "Actually, I'm with Ron on this one."
"What?" Kim asked in surprise.
"Booyah! Told ya!" Ron declared.
"How can you be onboard with this?" Kim asked Jen. "Everyone's going to laugh at Ron."
"Ron gets laughed at all the time." Jen said. "Besides, I really think Ron can pull this off."
Kim was about to say more, but her Kimmunicator began beeping. She answered. "Yeah, Wade?"
"I've got a weird one."
"Me too."
"This astronomer, Professor Ramesh, has requested your help."
"Ramesh? I heard that name before." Kim said. "I think my dad knows him. What's the sitch?"
"His old friend, Professor Chen, has gone missing. He wants to talk to you face to face at his
observatory."
"We'll be right there." Kim said. "Ron, are you…"
"I'll find my own way." Ron said. "Jen, do you think you can talk some sense into KP?"
"I'll talk to her." Jen said.
After calling in another favor with a certain traffic copter pilot, Kim and She-Hulk stood just outside of Ramesh's observatory in their mission suits. Once the pilot left, Kim held out her Kimmunicator. "Ron, are you there? …Ron?"
"What?" Ron asked. Although, after every other word, there was a static-like noise that were clearly fake. "I can't… Hear you… Bad… Connection."
"Come on, Ron! I know you're doing that yourself!" Kim said.
"What… Only hearing… Every… Other… Word."
"Ron, stop being a…" She made the same fake static noise. "…Baby."
"Okay. Let's not pour gasoline into the fire." She-Hulk said making Kim lower her Kimmunicator.
"Jen, I can't believe you're encouraging this!"
"Are you kidding me? I'm the one trying to stop you two from fighting."
"Not that. I mean Ron's idea. He's going to look like a spaz at our next game, and you're telling him to go through with it."
"I'm supporting him. It's what friends do."
"Jen, friends are supposed to save friends from being humiliated, even if it means being brutally honest."
"That's not being honest. That's being superficial."
"How am I…"
BOOM!
The sound of an explosion caught the attention of the two girls. They headed to the observatory where the sound came from and found the door busted open. They entered finding the good Professor Ramesh surrounded by three robot women with blonde hair and black outfits.
"Professor Ramesh," they all said in rotation, "We have come for you."
"Who are you?" Ramesh asked in a panic. He tried to run away, but in an instant, the three girls ran right back around him.
"I'm BeBe."
"I'm BeBe."
"I'm BeBe."
"Is there an echo in here?" Kim asked getting the robots attention.
One of the BeBe robots took a long look at Kim and She-Hulk. "Analysis. Subject: Kim Possible. Threat: Minimal."
"That hurts." Kim said.
"Subject: She-Hulk. Threat: High."
"At least that part's accurate." She-Hulk said cracking her knuckles. "Now, let's recycle these tin cans into lawnmowers."
Kim somersaulted over to kick at them, but one of the BeBes caught her and threw her aside. She landed on her feet just as She-Hulk ran at the robots ready to punch at them. However, another BeBe stopped her with a punch to her stomach followed by throwing her over to Kim.
"Okay. Those overgrown waffle irons are tougher than they look." She-Hulk admitted.
"BeBe is perfect." The robots said before their eyes began to glow.
They shot out a bright green of light that nearly hit Kim and She-Hulk. Thankfully, Kim was able to take a chair and push it to Professor Ramesh carrying him in it. They almost made it to the door, but the BeBes ran at superspeed blocking their path again. One of them took the high ground by latching
herself on the wall.
"Hey, isn't there already a spider guy in New York who can do that?" She-Hulk asked.
Heavy breaths filled the room as Ron Stoppable stopped his bicycle at the door which was busted open. He was exhausted talking through his heavy breaths.
"Kim… don't think… I didn't hear… that baby comment."
Ron gave one last heavy breath before seeing the BeBe right in front of him. He was so startled, he fell onto his back.
"Ron?" Kim asked, but while she was distracted, the BeBes made their move and snatched Professor Ramesh. They escaped through the door before anyone could do anything else.
"Well, that could have gone better." She-Hulk said as Ron was getting up. "What were those things anyway?"
"I don't know," Kim said, "But they must have also been what happened to Professor Chen. I'll have Wade figure out what those robots want with Chen and Ramesh. We'll just have to wait."
Both She-Hulk and Kim walked off. Ron was about to follow, but he felt something under his foot. He picked up a photo of the just-kidnapped scientist along with two other men.
"Professor Ramesh. Back in his old college days. Check it out."
Rufus looked at the same photo, and one of the other men caught his eyes making him gasp out in surprise. He pointed at the picture, but Ron didn't get the point just yet.
"Oh, that must be Professor Chen."
Rufus chattered again trying to emphasize his point. This time, Ron got it.
"Oh, it is! It's Kim's dad! Oh, this is terrible. I mean, what was he thinking wearing his shirt like that with the sleeves rolled up. Totally 80's."
Rufus then pointed to Chen followed by Ramesh. He then kept pointing his little fingers at Dr. Possible. He kept doing so until Ron got the message.
"Kim's got could be the next target! We've got to tell Kim… No, wait. We don't need Kim. I know exactly what to do."
During an evening walk around the neighborhood, Jen took the moment to look at the night sky. Then, a different light caught her eye. A car rolled up and stopped right in front of her. The windows rolled down revealing Kim and her father, the latter of whom was driving.
"Jen, I think Ron's in trouble."
"What? Why?" Jen looked at the roof with confusion. "And why is there a hole in your car."
"It's Ronald." James said. "He told me he had a mission to do, but then, I found my car with a hole in its roof."
"It looks like he got taken by the BeBes." Kim said. "I think he might be trying to stop them on his own."
"What?" Jen gasped as she got in. "Do you know where he is?"
"Wade's tracking him right now and we're following his directions." Kim said as her dad began to drive again. "I hope nothing bad happens to him."
Ron Stoppable had on a very convincing disguise of James Possible. It was so realistic, it even fooled the BeBes who kidnapped him. Soon enough, he found himself in an electric cage standing right next to Professors Chen and Ramesh.
"Why do you think someone is after us?" Ramesh asked.
"It's obvious." Chen said. "Some bad guy wants to use our genius to take over the world."
Suddenly, a forced laughter echoed from the shadows scaring the three prisoners. "HOHOHOHO!
HEHEHE! HAHAHAAAAA! Don't flatter yourselves. I'm the only real genius in this room. The rest of you are merely footnotes in my autobiography."
"Do we know you?" Ramesh asked.
"Oh, you used to." The man began to walk out of the shadows and toward the light. "I was once your friend. Your colleague. A member of your posse. That is, until you made a mockery of me. I would've thought my BeBe robots would give it away."
Chen and Ramesh both gave surprised expressions. "Sam? Sam Stern? Is that you?" Chen asked.
"That was my old name." The man finally revealed himself. He was a thin man with an orange-and-red jumpsuit on. He had green skin and an abnormally large head. "Now, I am called… The Leader!"
"AHA!" Ron cried out as he finally removed his mask and tossed it to his captor. "Finally caught you! You and your jumbo head are going to jail!"
The Leader widened his eyes before shifting them around. "I believe I know you. You're the forgettable sidekick to Kim Possible and the She-Hulk. So they're nearby."
"Oh, yes! …Actually, no." Ron confessed.
The Leader looked back at Ron with a devilish smile upon his face. "So you fooled my BeBes into taking you to make me reveal myself… and you didn't plan after that?"
"Uh… Guess I didn't think this through." Ron said.
"Worry not, my fuzzy-headed jailbird." The Leader said. "Sooner or later, your friends will swoop in for the rescue and fall right into my trap. And once I have Kim Possible—Hehehe—I'll have her moronic father soon enough."
"I still can't believe Ron would do this without me." Kim said. "What was he thinking?"
"He wasn't." Jen said. "He's still mad at you for not supporting his decision."
Kim groaned. "How do you do it, Jen? How do you support such a crazy idea?"
"Because I know him. He'd live with the fact if the whole student body would laugh at him, but we're his best friends, the people he'd count on the most. He wants our approval over everyone else. That's why he got so mad. Besides, if you think about it, don't you think that Ron Stoppable is crazy enough to pull off a Mad Dog mascot?"
Kim raised her eyebrows realizing her friend's point. "Wow. I guess I never thought of it like that."
"All right. We're here." Dr. Possible said. The car was parked in front of a large lodge made of forest wood.
After leaving, the three entered the lodge seeing a whole bunch of people already inside. But much to their surprise, they were all sleeping.
"What's going on?" Dr. Possible asked.
"It looks like they were hit by knockout gas." Kim said. "We must be at the right place."
The three walked deeper into the lodge until they entered the mess hall, where Ron, Ramesh, and Chen stood waiting in their electric cage.
"Ron!" Kim cried out.
"Kim, Jen, Dr. Possible, run! It's a trap!" Ron yelled, but it was too late.
Suddenly, the BeBe robots dashed into the room surrounding the three intruders. Following behind them, the leader walked in displaying an evil snicker.
"Why, hello, James. Welcome to the class reunion. You didn't tell me you were bringing kids. I would've laid out an extra plate of crackers for them."
"Wait a moment." She-Hulk said. "I know that nutcase. That's the Leader."
"Who?" Kim asked.
"This pretentious mad scientist who's been bothering my cousin for years." She-Hulk explained. "He radiated himself with gamma energy, but instead of his muscles being affected, his brain was,
making him super smart. And what does he do with his gamma radiated mind? He tries to take over the world."
"I see Dr. Banner talks a lot about me. Too bad he doesn't know me well enough to know about my grudge against my old college buddies."
"Sam? Sam Stern?" Dr. Possible asked.
"Wait. HE'S the guy from college?" Kim asked.
"You went to college with that wacko?" She-Hulk asked.
"Well, he wasn't always green. I can tell you that much." Dr. Possible said.
"Sounds like the kids are in need of a story." The Leader said. "You see, many years ago, I used to go to college with Possible, Ramesh, and Chen. They were by best buddies. We were a quartet of brainiacs always having each other's backs. That is, until one faithful day. My buddies and I were in need of dates for a symposium, so I thought I'd fill up everyone's dance card with prototype BeBe robots. They didn't have the most compatible power sources, but I did my best. But when I showed off my BeBes to my friends, they just laughed at me… mercilessly… for days. I spent the rest of my college days being laughed at by those I called my friends.
"After graduation, it's been one critic after another. Even the military poked fun at me. So when I heard of the Hulk and how he could tear apart entire armies with ease, I thought I'd be just like him. But instead of gaining super strength, I got the next best thing: a gamma-charged boost to my already superior mind. Now, I am smart enough to rule the world. However, Bruce Banner tends to disagree with me."
"So how does kidnapping your old college buddies help you take over the world?" She-Hulk asked.
"Oh, this particular plan has nothing to do with world domination." The Leader explained. "This whole thing has been about one purpose only… revenge. I put all my effort into this idea, and they didn't have my back! Do you have any idea what that's like?"
Kim looked on over to Ron who stared at the floor. She lowered her head too. "You know, I think I'm starting to understand."
"You know nothing about me." The Leader said. "After receiving the letter to the class reunion, I thought I would have my own college reunion. And what better form of irony than to use the very BeBe project that you all laughed at? And do you know what the real kick-in-the-pants is? I managed to perfect these BeBes with the very power source I was looking for…"
"Gamma radiation?" She-Hulk asked.
"Steal my thunder, why don't you?" The Leader asked. "Well, now that everything is all said and done and everyone's all together, it's time to move onto the main event. BeBes, tear them apart!"
"BeBe will destroy." The BeBes said before approaching the captives.
"Well, time to pound these blonde bots to the ground." She-Hulk said.
"I'm right here with you." Kim said.
Kim somersaulted to stand on the shoulders of two BeBes and bashed their heads together. Meanwhile, She-Hulk ran to the third BeBe and threw a punch that sent it to the wall.
"Oh, no. The one weakness to my BeBes: punches. Who could have prepared for that?" The Leader mocked. "Okay, BeBes. Here's the strategy. Two take the She-Hulk and the last one breaks the cheerleader. Ready? Break!"
All three BeBes recovered from their attacks and confronted their respective opponents. One BeBe lifted up a chair and threw it at Kim, who backflipped away to dodge it. It then used its super speed to rush right at her. Kim picked up a microphone stand to use as a weapon, but her BeBe broke it easily before attacking Kim. Thankfully, she dodged her attacks, but that was all she could do.
As for She-Hulk, her two BeBe robots charged at her at super speed. She managed to catch one and lift her up with one hand, but the other one slipped behind her and shot the back of her leg with a karate chop. She-Hulk fell to her knees and the BeBe behind her grabbed her head with its arm. The
other BeBe launched a roundhouse kick that shot her over to where Kim was. The cheerleader tripped over her, and the two of them found themselves surrounded by three killer BeBes.
"Boom! Bada boom, boom, boom! HA!" The Leader cheered. "Face it! The hive mind connection gives my superior BeBes a fantastically big edge over you two! They… are… perfect!"
"We got a room full of geniuses here!" Ron yelled out. "Can't comebody come up with something?"
"Don't look at me. I'm an astronomer." Chen said.
"Ditto." Ramesh said.
Just then, Dr. Possible got an idea. He held out the Kimmunicator and made the call to Kim's guy in the chair.
"Wade."
"Dr. Possible?"
"I need a sonic disturbance. Make it loud. Make it ultra-high frequency."
"Something that can jam a wireless network signal?"
"Please and thank you."
Just then, the Kimmunicator let out an incredibly loud tone. Everyone who heard it immediately covered their ears trying not to hear the high pitch.
"OH, MY GOODNESS! WHAT IS THAT?!" the Leader yelled. "IT'S LIKE ONE DRILL GOING IN ONE EAR AND ANOTHER DRILL GOING IN THE OTHER, AND THEY'RE MEETING IN THE MIDDLE!"
The BeBes turned away from Kim and She-Hulk to look at the Kimmunicator. "Analysis. Subject: Dr. Possible's attack strategy. Threat: substantial. Destroy electronic device." They walked away from Kim and She-Hulk to go after the Kimmunicator. Dr. Possible tried to run away, but the BeBes had him surrounded.
"Dr. P, I'm open!" Ron cried out.
Dr. Possible threw the Kimmunicator over to Ron, but one of the BeBes caught it first. Thankfully, the others accidentally pushed her into the electric cage and made her drop it. The Kimmunicator landed in front of the leader's feet and he prepared to crush it, but Kim slid in at the last minute to save it. She kept it up to keep the noise going. The BeBes moved in, but they stoppd moving and started shaking.
"Hive mind command… c-c-connection… l-l-lost."
"You know what that means?" She-Hulk asked as she approached the three robots from behind. "SHE-HULK SMASH!"
She-Hulk grabbed one of the BeBe robots and ripped it into two pieces over her head. She then used each half to beat down one of the others. She picked up all that remained and threw them all the way across the mess hall to blow up.
After the explosion, there were BeBe pieces all over the floor. She-Hulk approached the electric cage and destroyed the top of it. The bars disappeared and everyone inside was free to walk out.
"Way to go, girls!" Ron cheered. "You too, Dr. P!"
"Now, there's only one more thing to take care of." She-Hulk said looking behind her.
The Leader tried to sneak out. Thankfully, Kim jumped right in front of him before he could reach the door.
"What about your college reunion… Sam?"
"There's always more opportunities for revenge." The Leader said. "And even more opportunities for world domination."
"You're not going to get those opportunities in prison." She-Hulk said.
"Well, thank goodness I have an insurance policy. BLONSKY!"
Suddenly, something crashed right through the ceiling. She-Hulk tried to grab the leader, but a massive, green arm swung at her knocking her back. It was revealed then to belong to a massive, Hulk-like being with fins on the sides of his head. He grabbed the Leader and jumped right out the same hole he came out of.
"LATER, HATERS!" the Leader shouted before disappearing.
"What was that?" Kim asked. "That looked like the Hulk."
"Worse. That was Abomination." She-Hulk said. "He's kinda like an evil Hulk. I'll tell you about him later."
After the whole ordeal, Dr. James Possible took everyone, including his old friends, to his house. Ann was kind enough to cook for everyone.
"I can't believe Sam Stern turned into a mad scientist." Ann said.
"He always was abnormal, but I didn't think he'd go that far." James said.
"But my man knew what to do." Chen said giving James a playful elbow bump.
"Possible, you rock." Ramesh said.
"Oh, please. The Leader dug his own grave telling me how his BeBes work. The hive mind behavior was clearly the result of a cybertronic linkage through a wireless network. Poor Sam though. Maybe if we hadn't laughed at him back then, there would be one less mad scientist running around."
Kim overheard the whole conversation from the adjacent hallway and knew what to do. She headed to the living room where Jen and Ron were.
"Hey, Ron," Kim said, "The fact that I was so rotten to you, that's not going to drive you to become some mask-wearing villain, is it?"
"If I said yes, would you let me do my Mad Dog routine?"
"That's not a good reason for me to say yes."
"I know."
"Because you're my best friend. That's a good reason.
"Booya! Mad Dog lives!"
While Ron celebrated, Kim turned to Jen. "You were right. I guess I was superficial."
"I didn't say you were superficial. I said you were being superficial. If you were, then you wouldn't have me as your friend. After all, I'm a green-skinned, radioactive, teen bombshell. A few of your cheerleader friends probably wouldn't want to spend the afternoon with me at Bueno Nacho."
"Good point. You know, you make some good arguments, Jen."
"Thank you."
The night of the big basketball came began. The Middleton Mad Dogs won by two points. The cheerleaders did their dance routine while Jen watched from the bleachers. During their dance, Ron made his debut as the mascot. Like a wild animal, he pounced across the room in his Mad Dog mask and jumped around excitedly. He turned on his foam device in his helmet and swished it around. The crowd cheered at this routine.
"No way!" Bonnie gasped in total shock. "They like him?"
"Yeah. Kinda surprises me too." Kim said proudly.
Jen leaned back in her seat with a proud smile on her face. Just then, a thought entered her mind. "So Kim's a cheerleader and Ron's a mascot. Wonder what I should do?"
Author's Note: As you can see, I've taken a certain liberty to keep this chapter fresh. Instead of Dr. Drakken being Kim's father's old college friend, in my fanfic, it is the Leader. I've also given him a Jim Carrey personality because he kinda reminded me of Dr. Robotnik from the Sonic the Hedgehog movie.
I'd also like to address something. As stated in this chapter, Kim is a cheerleader and Ron is a mascot. Jennifer Walters might need a extracurricular activity too. I'm open to ideas. I had an idea suggested to me earlier to make her like a Student Court type of thing to get her started as a lawyer, but I've been thinking hard on that decision, and I decided that it's too soon for Jen to start thinking about being a lawyer. I'm holding onto that substory for the senior year. For now, she's a teenager with gamma-radiated strength. If anyone can think of any other activities for her, I'd love to hear them.
Anyway, next up, we look deep into Ron's dark history with a certain summer camp and an enemy of his past. Any and all comments are welcome.