Ch.58
Ron's school week was filled with short bursts of hormonal overloads as in school Monique, Tara and Bonnie sneaked kisses and made passes at him.
This, of course, led to intense and passionate nights with Yori that he couldn't thank enough for. By the time Friday arrived and Ron was going to meet Kim at Bueno Nacho he knew that if the girls asked him to he'd do anything for them.
Shego had stolen everything that was needed for Drakken to proceed with his experiments once he had the Aurora Orchid. By Wednesday afternoon he was in his lab trying to make the serum that would make Kim Possible dissapear.
It took Drakken till Friday morning to make sure he synthesized the serum correctly. By the afternoon he was above the local Bueno Nacho waiting to spray Kim Possible.
"This serum is derived from the rare Amazonian Aurora Orchid. When it makes contact with the skin and the subjects embarrassment causes them to wish they'd disappear, this serum will make them vanish before our eyes..." Drakken excitedly explained when Shego's words cut him off.
"Question 32, you feel prettiest in a, pink, b, purple. Definitely green." Shego puts down her answer.
'She's not even paying attention and it's in the contract!' Drakken thinks to himself. 'Whatever I'm about to rid me of Kim Possible once and for all.'
"..you have to admit they sound a lot, a lot, alike." Ron says as he walks out of Bueno Nacho with Kim.
Time to spray her.
"Arh, Ron would you let the Mankey, monkey conspiracy die already!" Kim snapped as Ron quietly closes his eyes to finish the soda. "I'm begging you."
Now!
Lowing himself to the right height Drakken sprays Kim with the serum with no one seeing him.
"Hey! ...did you see that?" Kim asks.
Opening his eyes Ron asks. "See what?"
"I don't know, nothing I guess." Kim replies already leading the way to their next destination.
"Muhuhahahah." Drakken laughs now standing next to Shego who brought him back on board the hovercraft. "Now we have front row seats to Kim Possible's demise, follow them."
After arriving at the Mall Shego asks. "So what now?"
"Haven't you been reading Shego? The mall is the ideal place for teenage embarrassment. Now we just sit back and watch the show."
Kim is walking with Ron right next to her and as she goes to take the stairs she spots Josh with Bonnie and a couple other girls and panics.
"It's Josh! I should bail. No he's probably seen me by now. He'll think I'm stalking him. I'll make my entrance from the health food stores so he'll think..." as Kim thought aloud going back and forth by the stairs Ron simply pocketed his hands and waited till Kim took a step to far and fell.
"Kim!" Ron screams.
Kim landed on her ass and in the process of falling nearly ripped Josh's shirt of his body.
"Smooth entrance Kim, very subtle." Bonnie comments.
"I'm sorry Josh, I tripped. I...I..." Kim is trying to explain when she felt something odd from her belly and looks down to see a near transparent swirl where her bellybutton was.
Panicking she stands and runs away from the situation, deeper into the mall hearing Josh call out to her. When she's forced to stop she reached the end of the line and was standing in front of Club Banana. Looking at her stomach again, Kim pales and cover the area with her hands and runs into the store looking for a mirror. Once there she looks around to make sure there's no one in the area and moves her hands away.
Originally she thought that her bellybutton was gone but now looking at it the swirling, transparent, vortex is just above it. Bringing her left hands index finger near Kim feels a strong pull nearly suck her finger inside.
"Ah."
"Hey Kim, wait up." Ron calls out to her.
Covering her belly Kim turns around.
"Are you okay? That was nasty." Ron says.
"Ron something critical is happening to me, look." Kim says and pulls away her hands.
Taking a step back in surprise Ron speaks. "I'm no doctor but you might want to get that checked out."
Half an hour later Ron was in Kim's room as he held Rufus who was holding the Kimmunicator to scan Kim. A couple seconds later they had a scan.
"Scan complete, compiling data now. You said this started right after lunch, right?" Wade asks. "Check out this footage from a Bueno Nacho security camera.
The clips displays Drakken spraying Kim with something as she and Ron talked.
"Drakken." Kim declares.
"Got it!" Wade declares and explains. "According to body temperature readings Drakken's rigged it so that every time you blush cue the disappearing act."
"What does it mean? I'm turning invisible?" Kim asks.
"Well that doesn't sound so bad, it kind of cool actually." Ron comments trying to lighten the mood.
"Sorry guys but it's more serious than that. If the transformation becomes complete Kim would be gone." Wade explains.
"Gone, gone like how?" Kim asks.
"Gone, as in gone forever." Wade explains again.
"Kim you could embarrass yourself right out of existence." Ron declares.
"The good news is I've isolated the cause. The polen of the Aurora Orchid. It's only found in the remote regions of the Amazonian jungle. Another dose of the polen should negate the effect." Wade says.
"Quest time! Come on Rufus." Ron says moving to the stairs.
"Oh yeah." Rufus exclaims and jumps onto Ron's hand.
"Let's go." Kim says moving to follow Ron with the Kimmunicator in hand.
"No way. What if you barf on the plain or get gum stuck to your shoe. You have to stay here and avoid embarrassment at all cost." Ron counters.
"Oh, come on. I can do anything. I can keep myself from getting embarrassed. Totally mind over matter." Kim says tapping her head.
"Sorry too risky KP. I mean if it were me." Ron's says going back up the stairs.
"You what?" Kim asks.
"If I got hit by Drakken it wouldn't matter." Ron declares confidently.
"How so?" Kim asks.
"Oh, I don't get embarrassed." Ron says.
"Never?" Kim asks.
"Not that I can remember." Ron says thinking about it seriously.
"But what about the time you lost your pants?" Kim asks still reluctant to concede the point.
"Times, too many to count my friend. And did I blush? I did not!" Ron says.
"Hate to admit but he's right. You're grounded. " Wade declares.
Ron closes the distance and takes the Kimmunicator.
"I'll bring back the flower just unplug and relax." Ron promises.
Kim listens to Ron's advice and isolates herself in her room. She closes the blinds, locks the door and turns off the computer before laying on her bed.
"Blinds close, door locked and computer off." Kim counts before looking at her phone and reaching to turn it off when it rings. She hesitates a moment before answering. "Hello?"
"Kim, it's Josh." Josh greets.
"Josh! Look I'm so sorry about your shirt, I'm..." Kim begins.
"Kim, I just wanted to see if you're okay?" Josh asks.
"I'm fine, for the most part." Kim says.
"Listen I know this is kind of last second but want to hang out tonight?" Josh asks with a smirk on his face.
"Yes!" Kim says then remembers her dilemma. "No, I mean yes. Yes, yes, definitely yes." Kim says pacing around her room now.
"I'm sorry is that a yes or a no?" Josh asks.
"Yes, just give me time to get changed." Kim declares.
Ron stopped by his house to get his mission pack and let Yori know that an emergency mission came up. After making her promise to hang out with Monique he was off on the experimental craft Wade had come up with.
The flight to the Amazon was taking too long and Ron couldn't calm down. He kept looking at the Aurora Orchid and memorizing every detail of the flower. Then he looked at the time and start all over again.
"Ron, I'll be meeting you at the location, this is an opportunity to test something I've been working on." Wade said.
"Wade I don't think this is the right time to take on a field challenge. This is a time sensitive mission so it's going to be extremely hard even on a ten year old surper genius." Ron tried to dissuade.
"Don't worry Ron, I'm sending a Wade bot." Wade soothed. "It's practically ready for field testing and I figured you could use the back up."
"Thanks Wade, I appreciate it. Now I'm going to try to relax before we arrive, let me know when we are there." Ron says.
"You got it Ron." Wade agrees and cuts the connection.
Ron spent another twenty minutes memorizing the flower before he tries meditation to some success. Now with his mind cleared of all but the task at hand he follows Wade's instructions into the Amazonian jungle.
A half hour hike later he got to the spot he was supposed to meet the Wade bot at. He was at a dock with no one in sight.
"Ron, Rufus meet the Wade bot XR prototype." Wade announced his presence from behind some foliage.
What came out of the foliage was a computer monitor with a camara and was mounted on the bottom part of a motorized wheelchair. Knowing Wade he gave it enough gadgets to make a difference with it's harmless appearance.
"Alright let's go." Ron said and led the way to the boat.
While Ron helped the Wade bot on board, Rufus got the boat ready to move. Turns out the Wade bot also had extendable limbs of sorts, one of Wade's gadgets.
Within minutes Rufus had them sailing downstream following the map Wade had on display.
Ding dong!
With the sound of the doorbell ringing the twins yell 'we'll get it' in unison and run towards the door. Knowing who is at the door Kim flips off the couch and dashes to intercept.
"Don't even think about it dweebs." Kim commands while blocking the door the turns around to open it.
"Hi Kim." Josh greets.
"Hey Josh." Kim says when her brothers start making kissing noises in the doorway.
"You ready?" Josh asks.
"Let's ride. Bye mom, bye dad, I'll be home by ten." Kim declares closing the door but opens it again and reaches for a coat.
Back in the Amazon Ron, Rufus and Wade are listening to some music when Ron asks. "How are we doing on time?"
Wade types something and answers. "As long as Kim stays in her room we are fine. It's just another six to seven miles down river."
Nodding Ron leans back into the seat when he notices the boat picking up speed. Sitting up and looking around reveals they entered some rapids.
"Rapids!" Ron yells as Rufus tries to control the boat.
"Uh, that's not on the map." Wade says looking as his monitor.
"No, they're right in front of us." Ron yells and grabs the monitor to point it in front.
Now there's the sound of something breaking and Rufus squeaks. "Oh oh."
Ron looks back to see the just lost the ability to steer and grabs a paddle. Pushing it into the water Ron does his best to keep them from crashing into the sides but it's a quickly loosing battle.