Chapter 10
(Feb 8, 2006, 7pm)
The Possibles, Ron, and Rufus had finished their meals at Bueno Nacho and were putting their trays up. Then, the familiar four-beep tone of the Kimmunicator sounded.
Beep-beep-be-beep
"I'll get that!"Kim said, instinctively, picked the device up.
"Hey, Wade! What's the sitch!"
"Hey, Kim! We got a hit on the site from the Louvre in Paris!" Wade explained on why he beeped in, "Several of the artworks from the museum have been stolen!"
"Whoa! France! I totally love their French toast, KP!" Ron exclaimed.
"I do not believe that is where that type of bread comes from, Ron." Kim muttered.
"Can you get me the deets on what was stolen so far?" Kim asked.
"Global Justice will fill you in. You should be accessing their Bueno Nacho pneumo tubes right about..." Wade replied before clear tubes suddenly appeared out of the ground, encapsulating Kim, Ron, and Rufus.
"...now."
James and Ann smiled at their daughter.
"You go get them, Kimberly!" James said, pumping his fist.
"Just simply knock on our bedroom door as you always do once you get back from your mission!" Ann replied.
"And Ronald, bring back some croissants for us!" James added.
"Sure can do, MrDrP!" Ron said before the tubes sucked them into the ground.
(7:10pm)
The tubes finally reached one of the many underground lairs of Global Justice. They opened up for both Kim and Ron. Kim stepped out of it easily but Ron tripped on his untied shoelaces and nearly fell face-first into the ground before stepping out normally.
"Whew! Avoided disaster there, KP!" he smiled.
"Ron, you are one of a kind!" Kim laughed before a familiar face approached the pair.
"Kim Possible and the former subject of the Ron Factor, Mr. Ron Stoppable!" Betty Director said before the two.
"Look at me, Kim! I'm getting recognition!" Ron beamed with pride.
"Ugh...don't remind me." Kim muttered from the time that she and Betty had to rescue Ron from the clutches of Sheldon Director, known as Gemini, and the Worldwide Evil Empire or WEE for short.
"I am glad that we contacted you two on such short notice." Betty said. "Follow me to the meeting room where I will brief you two on the art theft."
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After a few minutes, the three of them reached the conference room.
"So what exactly was stolen, Dr. Director?" Kim asked.
Betty turned on the overhead projector, which was similar to the ones that Kim sometimes saw at Middleton High.
"According to reports from local police and INTERPOL, there were actually four things that was stolen on the night of February 5, at 2am local time, from the Louvre" Betty said as she activated a remote that showed a picture of the Lovure.
"The four things that were stolen were two statues and two paintings." she continued to explain as she showed a picture of the paintings and statues from the projector
"The Coronation of Napoleon , the Wedding of Cana, the Venus de Milo and the Winged Victory of Samothrace were all stolen in a span of two hours." Betty told them. "The police do not know who was behind the thefts."
"What do we have to go by?" Kim then questioned.
"Security camera footage shows several males carefully taking the arts and wheeling them out of the museum." Betty said as the projector showed footage of several men taking the aforementioned arts.
"Something tells me that we may need that footage." Kim said. "Wade can try and piece something together."
"Be my guest!" Betty replied with a smile.
"Can you provide for us with a return tube to the surface?" Kim asked, "Me and Ron need to get back."
"Of course!" Betty replied.
The trio left the meeting room as they headed to the tubes to take Team Possible back to Middleton.
Once Kim and Ron popped back up a few blocks away from the Possible house, Ron then asked a question.
"So what is the whole thing with MrsDrP's side of the family?" Ron asked.
"Have you got all night, Ron?" Kim questioned. "It all started when I was six when Mom and Dad took me and Jim and Tim, then toddlers, to Mere and Pere Nomally..."
(8:40pm)
"...but then Cousin Issac's pet iguana swallowed up my gerbil..."
(Feb 9, 2006, 9am)
"...and not to mention that Ray almost threw pumpkin pie at me last Thanksgiving."
Kim finished up her tale of woe of dealing with cousing on her mom's side of the family to Ron as she closed her locker in the halls of Middleton High. She was wearing her white croptop, the baggy CB dark denim overalls with both straps hooked, and white sneakers.
They were transitioning from first period to second period.
"Wow...talk about issues with the extended fam on MrsDrP's side!" Ron exclaimed. "And I fought with Ray against that pie."
"Speaking of pi , I gotta jet to AP Calculus." Kim exclaimed, grabbing her backpack. "See ya in third period for English Literature, Ron!"
"Trust me, KP, I'll be there!" Ron exclaimed.
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(10:55am)
"I hope you have completed your assignment of reading 'Jane Eyre' from pages 146 to 174!" Barkin exclaimed in English Literature class. Kim and Ron were sitting near the front of the classroom at their desks.
Then the oft-gruft substitute teacher added. "Because...we're taking a surprise pop quiz!"
Most of the class grumbled and Ron gave a loud groan. Kim, however, was unfazed by Barkin's announcement.
"KP? Why aren't you groaning with me?" Ron moaned.
"I actually read the assignment, Ron. You were playing on the Kimmunicator for five hours, trying to play checkers." Kim whispered to Ron.
One by one, Barkin put the quiz on the desks of the students and they began to take the quiz.
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(12:47pm)
"Good thing we got that boring book out of the way!" Ron exclaimed as both he and Kim headed towards Drama class.
"Yeah...boring!" Rufus sqeaked in agreement.
"Ron, it's what we are assigned to do." Kim replied. "It's for our grade."
"Good point, KP, but what happens after we graduate?" Ron asked, "It goes in the memory hole where no one remembers it at all!"
"Let's just focus on the here and now." Kim said, "I got to handle the whole assistant director thing for the 'Glee Three'." She added the later part with disgust.
"Right, for Romeo and Juliet!" Ron reminded. "There is a store in downtown Middleton that specializes in tree cosumes."
"We'll go there sometime tomorrow." Kim said, "We have to get through the rest of the school week first."
