Ch.59
As Ron is doing his best to control the boat, Wade begins typing on his keyboard and the Wade bot reveals a propeller that it inserts into the water.
Just before Wade took control of the boat Ron is pushed by a wave and looses his balance falling. In the second or two it took Ron to regain his footing Wade manage to steer the boat to avoid the rocks and sail downstream. After a while when Ron felt they passed the Rapids he begins to celebrate.
"How you like me now mother nature! Who's your daddy? Who's your daddy's daddy?" Ron sings till he feels Rufus tug on his pants.
He looks down and sees Rufus pointing ahead and pales. They were heading straight to a waterfall.
"That's not on the map either." Declares Wade.
Ron does the only thing before impending doom that he's used to, he grabs the Wade bot and Rufus and screams as they go over the edge.
A couple feet after the initial fall Wade grabs onto Ron and Rufus and deploys a glider and says. "It's good to get out of my room once in a while."
Shego has been bored the last few hours as they waited for princess to disappear. Then as night is arriving Drakken makes a phone call and an hour later Kimmy goes out on a date. Shego of course shucks it to a coincidence as they follow the couple into a restaurant not ten minutes later.
"Table for two please." Drakken announces and they're led to a table on the second floor that over looks the first.
Ten minutes later, after observing Kim and her date Shego says. "He's kind of cute, I approve."
"What are you her sister all of a sudden?" Drakken asks and continues. "We are trying to banish Kim Possible from the face of the earth remember."
"One heaping helping of embarrassment coming right up." Shego declares and leaves the table.
Sneaking into a service closet, Shego grabs ahold of the next waiter to walk by, dragging him inside before knocking him out with minimal noise. She then steps out in the waiter's clothes and goes into the kitchen for a soda refill. Shego walks right to Kim's table and replaces her drink with a new one the cup having holes meant to spill the drink and steps away.
Shego observes Kim grab the drink and it starts spilling and closes the distance again as an embarrassed Kim tries to dry herself up. Slipping a whoopee cushion onto the seat, Shego once again disappears.
After gliding for a while Wade speaks up. "This valley is the only place on earth where the Aurora Orchid grows."
Hearing this Ron looks around and spots a clearing. "See if you can set it down there Wade. That looks like a safe spot."
To Ron's horror shortly after landing and before Wade manages to collect the glider a panther stalks towards them and begins it's chase.
"Maybe safe wasn't the right word." With no time to hesitate Ron grabs Rufus and starts running in the opposite direction with Wade, having ditched the glider, close on his heels. There were a few close calls where Ron took ninety degree turn to avoid becoming dinner but their road came to an abrupt halt as they came upon a cliff.
Ron starts thinking fast. Calculating the odds of tricking the panther into jumping of the cliff when Wade speaks. "Hang tight guys I got this covered."
Grabbing Ron and Rufus before pulling them of the cliff.
Typing Wade announces. "Initiating parachute measures now." A second or two of free falling and he says. "Oops."
"Wade we're free falling of a cliff this is no time for oops." Ron screams.
"My bad, I never got around to sitting down and actually installing the chute. It's sitting here in my closet." Wade explains.
"Aaahh." Ron and Rufus scream seeing the jungle quickly approaching.
Thankfully their decend, although painful, was not lethal. They started hitting some massive leaves and vines on the way down slowing their momentum enough to survive.
First thing Ron did after knowing he was okay was call out to Rufus and Wade. "Rufus, Wade! Please tell me you're okay."
"Hey!" Rufus squeaks pointing at the Aurora Orchid right next to him.
"Extract it without damaging the roots buddy." Ron instructs. "Wade check it out, we're home free."
When he hears nothing from Wade, Ron looks around and spots the completely damaged Wade bot. Seeing as they just secured the one thing that would save Kim's life Ron decides to lighten the mood.
"No Wade, hang in there buddy. Just listen to the sound of my voice." Ron yells and runs to the Wade bot. "It's going to be okay." The screen that was displaying static shots off. "It was his first mission, he was so young." Ron says dramatically lifting the Wade bot onto his arms. "Stay with me pal."
Rufus tugs at his pants. "Leave him."
"No Rufus, no one gets left behind, not on my watch." Ron declares now hefting the Wade bot onto his shoulder.
"Ron I'm fine, get back to the flower already." Wade announces from the Kimmunicator.
'All that effort and not one laugh.' Ron thinks dropping the Wade bot and moving to puck up the flower. "Got it."
"How about I have her sit on some gum, that should do it." Shego says.
"Relax and enjoy the show Shego. I've brought in some experts to finish the job." Drakken declares.
"Experts?" Shego wonders when two shadows startle her into dropping the popcorn she was holding.
"These ninjas have been trained since birth in the art of inflicting humiliation." Drakken announces as the two shadows attack and defend in front of them.
One of them reaches out for a handshake and Shego subconsciously responds getting joy bussed. "Aah, embarrassment ninjas are you kidding me?"
"I guess in their field it pays to specialize." Drakken argues then points to Kim. "Go get her."
Shego proceeds to watch the embarrassment ninja get owned in a quick bout of martial arts above the unsuspecting movie watchers and Kim return with some popcorn back to her date.
Just as Ron was about to pick up the flower a couple of kunai stab towards his hand. Reacting quickly he retracts his hand and looks around spotting the ninja hiding in the shadows.
"This is as far as you go, outsider." The one in charge declares.
Ron instantly recognizes the voice. "Fukushima."
"Nice of you to remember me but after today you and Kim Possible will cease to exist." Fukushima declares.
"You still working for Monkey Fist?" Ron asks. "He doesn't dare appear before me?" Ron taunts hopping he is not around.
"My master has deemed you unworthy of his time and I am more than enough to get rid of you." Fukushima explains before declaring. "Monkey ninjas attack."
With that command, all turned to chaos. Ron lost track of Rufus as a rain of shuriken started flowing down on him and the flower.
"Evasive actions Rufus." Ron yelled incase Rufus was unaware of the danger.
As he yelled, Ron jumped towards the flower with a front flip. Before he flipped back up his hand was holding a kunai and he used it to fend off some of the incoming projectiles around the flower. Still he was hit by shuriken while protecting the flower but all lethal attacks were blocked along with any that targeted the flower.
Grunting in pain Ron yelled. "Is that what your confidence amounts to Fukushima? An attack from the shadows?"
Ron was dripping blood onto the flower and out of the corner of his eye he spotted Rufus safe and sound, relaxing a bit. Relaxing proved to be a mistake for Fukushima appeared silently behind him and slashed a blade across his back.
"Aahh." Ron yelled as he spun to face Fukushima.
"You were saying." Fukushima taunted.
Ron gathered his concentration this time and reached with his mind to Rufus. "Rufus can you get the flower and go into stealth mode?"
"Got it." A deep voice responded nearly making Ron turn his head around.
"I'll toss it in three." Ron began counting.
"Two." Rufus supplements.
"One." One says Ron putting his foot under the flower.
"Now." They said in unison as Ron spins and kicks the flower in Rufus' direction.
This earned Ron another slash, this time across his leg but although it hurt, he could still move it though he suspected that was thanks to adrenaline. Outnumbered and on a time sensitive mission, Ron did what he never did before, he attacked first.
He started by pulling out some the shuriken stuck to his body and throwing them at Fukushima, then he launched himself at the nearest monkey ninja. Slashing at it's neck with the kunai, Ron could have killed it in one blow but hesitated. The monkey ninja took the extra second to duck under the blow and slashed at Ron's side.
Seeing the exchange, Fukushima declares. "You're weak, outsider."
Ron grits his teeth and continues running into the jungle so they are forced to give chase. As expected they do, with the monkey ninjas in the lead but even among them some are faster than others. What Ron does next aggravates his injuries but was necessary to stay in the lead, he jumps onto the trees to pick up speed among them.
Now above the ground and moving much like the monkey's, Ron was able to gain some control on who attacks him. Ron slowed down enough for the closest monkey to attack him and countered in the air with enough force to crack its skull, hopefully taking it out of the fight before speeding up again.
"You're loosing too much blood." Teacher Xu warned him.
"You're right." Ron quickly agreed and took another drastic decision. Ron dug into his pocket for the lipstick laser and before he had a chance to change his mind, opened it and swiped it on the wound on his side. Stifling a scream he flipped forward and did the same for his leg. The smell of seared flesh permeated the air. "That should help."
"You're right, now you must control the sound you're making." Teacher Xu cautioned.
"Do you have something in mind?" Ron asked as he tries to erase his sound and presence.
"It is time for you to hunt." Teacher Xu announced and guides Ron. "Take a ninety degree turn and conceal yourself a few trees ahead."
"I understand." Ron said and took the ninety degree turn, speeding up. After jumping a few trees ahead he hugged a tree he was passing, disappearing from sight and scaled it to get some height and surprise his pursuers.
"Now!" Teacher Xu said just as Ron let go and kicked off the tree towards the back of two monkey ninjas. Ron landed on their backs with enough force to slam them onto the tree branch below and snap it in half. "Grab one of their weapons while continuing to run towards the right. They should spread to intercept you."
"Divide and conquer, got it." Ron said following the instructions to the letter and now holding a kusarigama.
A few hundred meters later teacher Xu spoke again. "Turn around and incapacitate one of your pursuers."
Ron didn't hesitate, he bit onto the kunai handle and took a proper hold of the kusarigama before jumping onto the tree trunk and pushing off in the direction he came from with a grunt of pain.
Holding onto the sickle in his left hand and the chain in his right, Ron spun the chain as he headed back. Spotting the ninja in the lead Ron attacked with the chain when it was mid jump. The monkey ninja brought its sword up to defend and it got trapped by the chain. Ron yanked the chain trying to disarm the ninja but it refused to let go of its weapon and lost it's balance as it was dragged towards Ron. Seeing the opportunity, Ron impaled it's side into the tree with the kusarigama and left the weapon behind trapping the ninja as it howled in pain.
Ron started to worry as he was running out of strength. 'How many left? Can I hold on?'
There were two monkey ninja closing in from the front. Ron waited, hoping for instructions from teacher Xu but when none came, decided to attack. Closing the distance to the one on the left, Ron used the kunai as a distraction and delivered a right hook to the temple, grabbing the sais at it's waist. The other ninja tried to assist it's companion but Ron quickly spun, stabbed one of the sai into it's arm and then the tree they were standing on.
Ron turned to the one he punched across the temple to intercept an attack but he spotted it falling to the ground below.
"Four remain, do not relax." Teacher Xu warned.
"Okay." Ron said and kept moving.
Shego piloted the hovercraft above the cinema as she and Drakken looked at Kim and her date exiting. Shego saw them stop in the sidewalk and talk.
As they were talking, Shego noticed something strange. Kim's date stepped subtlety back and the embarrassment ninjas passed by the puddle splashing Kim. Then he proceeded to yell at the car but never really showed surprise.
'Interesting.' Shego thought.