"She Will Do Anything," written by Freedom Fighter Disclaimer: None of the characters from the animated series "Kim Possible" belong to me. Fanfic Rating: This fanfic will be rated PG for some intense battle sequences... but that will be much later on. ====== Chapter Four - Challenger (12.06.02) A pub in Scotland... Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable had flown here, hoping to stop rogue golfer turned supervillain Duff Killagan before he had gotten away with a top-secret experimental transport device that he had just stolen. But they didn't expect to see Killagan caught by a girl Kim's age. One they had never seen before. Yet, the new girl knew all about Kim. "I can't believe it!" the girl screamed. "It really is you! THE Kim Possible!" "I... haven't saved you before, have I... Jenny?" Kim asked, trying to figure out if she had seen her somewhere. "Definitely not," Jenny replied, "But I know all about you! I've watched all of your adventures on film! They're the bomb!" "On film?" Kim's eyebrows raised with interest as she glanced at Ron. "What?" Ron asked, catching Kim's glaze. "Oh... nothing." "It is SO NOT nothing!" "Whatever you say, Ron." "KP, I'm not a Madison Taylor-like person! I don't have a camera taping your every move!" Ron then thought about it for a second. "Come to think of it Kim, Monique would probably be more Madison than me!" "You've got a point there," Kim agreed. "Monique would be more likely to pick out my wardrobe than you." "So you WERE thinking that I videotape you!" "Excuse me," Jenny interrupted, "but who is this Madison Taylor girl?" "Oh, just some cartoon character who videotapes her friend as she collects magic cards. The costume designs are to die for! Ron watches it all the time." "Only because you turned me onto the show in the first place!" Jenny then let go of Kim's hands, which she had been holding onto for the past minute or so, and then runs over to Ron. Ron's knees began to knock as Jenny looked over Ron carefully. "What's wrong?" Kim asked Jenny. "Is there something on Ron?" "Yeah, what's with the freaky once over?" Ron added, taking a step back. "How come I don't remember seeing you in the films?" Jenny asked. "What?" Ron was in disbelief. "I'm the sidekick! I'm always by Kim's side!" Ron began to pace around. "How can I NOT be in the film? What kind of cameraman taped those anyway?" "Probably some amateur filmmaker," Kim deduced. "Then again, I guess it would be right. After all, I am the one who always stops the bad guys." Ron sighed. "And I'm always the distraction. KP, can you for once be the distraction?" "We'll see." "Again with the 'we'll see' bit?" "Ron, we'll talk later, okay? We've got more important matters right now." "Yeah," Jenny agreed as the three turned to look at the tied up Killagan, who was awfully quiet. And with good reason... all that were left in the chair were the ropes that had held him there. Suddenly, the sound of gears clicking and whirring filled the air. Kim, Ron, and Jenny ran outside just in time to see Duff Killagan making his getaway... in a turbo-charged plastic bubble. "What the..." Kim started to say before Killagan's yelling cut her off. "Looks like the luck of the Irish is on my side," Killagan snidely remarked as he was quickly getting out of range. "Not so fast!" Kim yelled as she pulled out her hair dryer, which was actually a grappling hook gun. Of course, Jenny didn't remember that for some reason, as she snatched it from Kim. "Why didn't you say that you had a hair dryer?" Jenny asked as she turned it towards her and searched for the on button. "My hair's a mess!" Of course, that made Kim go into panic mode. "Wait!" Kim shouted as she reached out just in time, raising the angle so that the grappling gun was no longer pointed at Jenny's head, but at the wall of a nearby pub. Before Jenny knew it, she had been sent flying towards the aforementioned wall, hitting it somewhat hard with her back. "Owwie..." Jenny gasped as she gritted her teeth in pain. "That's not a hair dryer," Kim told Jenny, shaking her head before turning to Ron. "Help Jenny get down from there. I'm going after Killagan!" Kim simultaneously activated her portable jetpack and the pair of skates built into her shoes. In seconds the jetpack ignited, sending Kim barreling down the street. "Okay... uh..." Ron muttered incoherently as he tried to figure out how to get Jenny down. "Sidekick!" Jenny shouted. "Can you help me down from here before I fall and hurt myself? Like, today already!" Ron walked towards Jenny until he was almost right under her. "Just let go! You're not that high up! I can catch you!" "You're serious?" "Yes, totally serious! I can catch you!" "But what about this hair dryer thingy?" "Oh, I can get that down later. Now, stop being so fussy and let go!" Deciding to trust in Ron's abilities, Jenny took a deep breath before releasing her grip on the grappling gun. Her fall down to the ground was rather quick, giving Ron barely any time to prepare himself for the catch. As a result, Ron miscalculated and ended up face first in the sand as Jenny landed on top of his back. To boot, Jenny was pretty much unharmed. "Not bad," Jenny said, grading Ron's performance. "Predictable for a sidekick, but not bad at all." As Jenny was still sitting on top of his back, Ron found himself unable to move. "Just great," Ron quipped sarcastically. "Who would have ever thought that having a girl fall for me would be so painful?" ====== Duff Killagan seemed to be in the clear. As his captor made goody-goody with Kim Possible, he had managed to escape using the very device he had just stolen. Even if Kim had given chase, it would be almost impossible to catch him at the speed he was going. But something was bothering him. Killagan wanted to make sure that he had made a clean getaway. That Kim Possible was nowhere in sight. But he didn't want to risk looking back, for fear that she may actually be closing in on him. Temptation got the best of the Scotsman though, as he quickly glanced behind him. And sure enough, Kim Possible was right behind him, getting closer and closer with each passing second. "End of the line, Killagan!" Kim yelled. "Not yet, lassie!" Killagan yelled back, shaking his fist at her before trying to figure out what to do next. "Isn't there a way to make this bloody thing go faster?" he asked himself as he glanced at the control panel in front of him. A panel that consisted of only three round buttons: a red one, a yellow one, and a green one. "I've got to get in front of him somehow," Kim thought, now speeding down the street and currently positioned next to the pod's boosters. "You'll never catch me at full power!" Killagan shouted as he began to rapidly pound the green button on the console. "Full power?" Kim asked, a bit fearful for what might happen next. And with good reason, as she noticed that the booster rockets began to shake furiously. Kim quickly skidded to a stop, looking on helplessly as Killagan seemed to be pulling farther and farther away. "I knew she was no match for this baby!" Killagan said to himself as Kim's figure disappeared into the distance, now far behind him. And then, it happened. The prototype's rocket boosters separated from the bubble pod, bursting the cockpit immediately thanks to the extreme heat coming from the booster's exhaust. With nothing to protect him or hold him up off the ground, Duff Killagan tumbled onto the sandy road, rolling and rolling for close to seventy-five or eight feet before coming to a stop, face up towards the sky. Although bruised and battered, Killagan was conscious enough to shield his eyes with his hands just as the rocket, now several hundred feet in the air and still going higher, explodes. "How could I 'ave failed?" he asked himself as he laid back, waiting for Kim Possible to come after him... which she did rather promptly, arriving on the scene seconds later. "I guess I know now why that thing's still a prototype," Kim said aloud as she smiled while standing right next to Killagan's nearly limp body. "Aye. That's the last time I steal an uncompleted top-secret project." ====== As Kim was walking back to the pub where she had left Ron and Jenny, she spotted her sidekick running towards her. "KP, are you okay?" "No big," Kim replied, waving off the perilous capture as if it were nothing. "Killagan won't be bothering us for awhile. Can't say the same for the prototype though. Whole thing blew up in his face." Ron winced as if he felt Killagan's pain. "Whoa. Hate to be him." "Seriously," Kim agreed as she put her hands on her hips. "Where's Jenny?" "You wouldn't believe me if I told you." "Try me." "She left." "She left?" "Yep. Just like that. One moment I was helping her get down from the wall, the next she's gone. She flew the coop!" "She's probably a bit shaken up after what she almost did. I don't blame her, either. That could have been real messy." "You have to admit though, she did manage to capture Duff Killagan singlehandedly." "Yeah, but she seems too much of a fanatic to me. We need to set her straight before she really hurts herself. I'd never live with myself if she did something just to prove she could be like me!" "Nobody can be like you, Kim! Not even me!" "Thank goodness for that." ====== In a helicopter soaring above the city, Jenny was having a quiet moment of reflection as Drakken lectured her on being a good superhero. "Heroes don't get distracted as easily as you do!" Drakken told her. "You can't let your guard down for a second! Even around... blech... Kim Possible! You never know when a supervillain might appear to try and take over the world! Now, when we get back to the lab, I want you to blah blah blah and blah blah..." Jenny sighed, as she had stopped listening to Drakken and instead started to focus on her near-death experience. "How could I make such a stupid mistake?" her conscious asked her. "The whole 'gadgets looking like regular, everyday appliances' thing is still new to me. Maybe I'd be better off just watching Kim Possible save the day herself. At least then, I wouldn't be in the way or risking my life. "Why am I risking my life anyway? I only wanted to be a hero because it would make me more popular in school. And no one's forcing me to continue. Then again, I can't just quit and leave the good doctor hanging. After all, he's put so much into making sure that I succeed. I don't want to blow this for him. "I guess I'll give this a second chance. But I have to make sure I don't fail ever again. Not if I want to prove to my friends that I can save the world. Just like Kim Possible. "Just like Kim Possible." ====== Back at home that night, Kim was up in her room, lying on her bed as she worked on her homework. But her train of thought was interrupted as the cordless phone sitting next to her began to ring. "Hello there, K." Kim sighed the moment she heard Bonnie's voice. "What's up, B? I'm kinda busy." "Just wanted to let you know the squad isn't complaining about your routine anymore." "Well, that's good to hear." Kim said, a smile creeping across her face. "And it's all thanks to the new routine that replaced it!" "Hold up... new routine? Since when?" "Well, when you didn't show up for practice today, I assumed that you didn't want to do your routine anymore." "You assumed wrong, Bonnie. I'm not giving up on MY routine!" "Everybody wants MY routine now. Face it, Kim. The squad's lost faith in you. They want me to be captain." "Remember what happened last time I let you be captain?" "That's in the past! Besides, you said that if someone could show you a better routine than yours, you'd accept it." "I haven't approved of it yet, Bonnie." "Kim, the competition's only a week away. We need a captain who can make decisions at a moment's notice! Not someone who makes it only when she's available." "But you're not cut out to be squad captain! Only I can balance so many things at once and still bring my A-game to all of them." "But you haven't seen how good I can be! Trust me, the routine is gold medal material!" "We'll just see about that." Preview of Chapter 5: "New Sensation" - Is Bonnie's new routine really all that or so last month? - After some training, Jenny tries to stop a rampaging robot in Tokyo! - And as Kim tries to do her own thing, a careless mistake may prove fatal. Originally, I had planned to release two more chapters before Christmas, but certain circumstances have left me with no other option than to forget it. "She Will Do Anything" will resume after the holidays, probably during the first full week of January. Also, I will no longer be working on the one chapter-per-week schedule as of the new year. Whether that means new chapters will be posted faster or slower is yet to be seen. So until then, have a happy holiday!