"She Will Do Anything," written by Freedom Fighter We now continue to pedal along towards the finale! I bet you're all hankering to get to the story already, so here we go! Disclaimer: None of the characters from the animated series "Kim Possible" belong to me. The character Jenny 'Jen' Able does, though. ****** Chapter Seven - Decoy Deludes Daredevil Damsel Dauntingly (04.08.03) ****** Two miles and closing, outside of Tokyo, Japan, on a blimp... Doctor Drakken was observing the robot's destruction of the Japanese metropolis from a safe distance. For him, the attack served two purposes. The first was to help further develop Jenny Able's battling skills by putting her physical and mental capabilites to the test. The second was to show to the city's governing bodies, and the rest of the country, that he was a force to be reckoned with and that he wouldn't hesitate to destroy large cities at will. "Everything is going according to plan!" Drakken announced to the henchmen around him. "Once my little hero-in-training has finished saving the city, she'll be ready for the main event!" Three henchmen, all sitting next to each other and in front of a control panel for the rampaging robot, seemed to be confused as a fourth, the one piloting the blimp, decided to speak up. "You mean this isn't the main event?" the pilot asked. "Of course it's not!" Drakken shouted back. "The main event is having Jenny to fight and defeat that wretched Kim Possible! That cheerleader has been a thorn in my side for far too long! I must get rid of her!" "Doctor Drakken!" one of the panel-monitoring henchman interrupted. "What?" "The power signal transmitter on the robot has been shut off." "She's done already? She might be a whole lot better at this hero thing than I thought. Maybe we should have her go after Kim Possible right here and now!" Drakken then walked up to the pilot and pointed straight ahead at Tokyo. "Head into the city! It's time to pick up our little friend!" ====== Drakken's little friend, Jenny Able, was hanging 30 feet above the ground, with her grappling gun still attached to the robot's power supply. Below her were Ron and Rufus, who were stuck between deciding whom to help... Jenny or Kim, the latter of which was standing face-to-face with Shego, Drakken's former partner-in-crime. "I knew there was something fishy about you!" Kim stated with a serious look on her face. "Doctor Drakken gave me the chance to be a superhero, just like you!" Jenny said aloud. "I'm not a superhero! I'm just an ordinary teen girl who does the whole saving-the-world thing!" "But all of the films Drakken showed with you in action were so way past cool! I wanted to be just like you!" "You mean those films that you were talking about that had me in it were from Drakken?" Kim started gagging, as she stuck her tongue out and pointed towards it. "This is getting majorly freaky." "I'll say," Ron spoke up. "What do you think he does with those tapes?" "I really don't want to know," Kim replied, shaking her head. "Excuse me, hello?" Shego cut in, trying to draw attention to the fact that she was still standing there. "Drakken's not the one here right now. I am!" "Hold on... you work for Drakken too?" Jenny asked. "I did, before he decided to bring you into the fold!" "Oh, so you must be the one Drakken got rid of because you weren't faring well in training!" "What?" Shego growled angrily. "Drakken said that. I'm gonna ring his neck the next time I see him!" "Actually, I'd have to agree with him," continued Jenny. "You definitely don't have the whole Kim-style look in your clothing." "Why would I want to look like her?" Shego pointed at Kim. "My sentiments exactly," Kim added. "I can't believe Drakken's trying to create someone that's my equal." Ron raised his hand to get the girls' attention. "Is it just me, or does this whole plot seem way too familiar?" "Definitely way too familiar," Kim said in agreement. "Then you won't mind this plot twist!" Shego yelled, reaching out to give Kim a sock to the jaw. Kim ducked just in time to avoid Shego's right fist. She then quickly countered with a right-legged roundhouse kick, but Shego jumped over that with no problem. The two continued to go at it, both throwing an assortment of punches and kicks. Kim's bad left ankle was hurting her though, as her moves were a bit more predictable since she could use only three of her limbs to fight, as opposed to four. Suddenly, Shego connected with a deep flying kick to the stomach, quickly sending Kim to the ground. Shego immediately went for another flying kick, but she missed and hit pavement instead as Kim flipped back into a headstand to avoid the hit. Kim then flipped backwards to get right side up, but she barely had time to gasp as Shego continued to aggressively go at her. "Kim!" Ron yelled, knowing that there was no way who could step in and fight with Shego. He wouldn't stand a chance at all. Above him, Jenny was also worried about Kim. The problem is, she didn't know how to get down from her current position without hurting herself. It was then that she looked down at Ron and got a brainstorm. "Sidekick boy!" "I have a name!" Ron answered defiantly. "Ron Stoppable!" "Whatever. How about helping me down?" "You're working for Drakken!" Ron pointed right at Jenny. "We're on opposite sides! I'm not helping you down just so you can help Shego beat Kim!" "But I don't want to beat Kim! I just want to be like her!" "I've heard it all before! And I'm not fallin' for it!" "But..." "La-la la la la," Ron sang to drown out Jenny's voice as he covered his ears. "I can't hear you!" Jenny mumbled something under her breath. But her anger was overshadowed by a bright idea that had made its way into her brain. Down below, Ron slowly lowered his hands down from his ears. But in doing so, it gave Jenny an opportunity to put her plan into action. "Please Ron!" she pleaded in a soothing voice. Unfortunately, Ron had no intention of falling pray to her whims as he covered his ears once again. "If she thinks that's going to work..." he said as he slowly looked up and stopped his statement mid-sentence. That's because Jenny was giving him the old patented puppy dog look. "Uh oh," Rufus said as he ran back into Ron's pants pocket. "Not the puppy dog look!" Ron said out loud. "That gets me every time!" Ron reached into his other pocket and pulled out his own hair dryer/grappling hook gun. He aimed right next to where the hook from Jenny's gun was positioned. Firing, the hook embedded itself right next to Jenny's own. Once Ron made sure it was secure, he slowly began the climb up one of the robot's legs and up towards where Jenny was hanging. "That must be some tape," Ron commented. "Drakken even taught her how to do the puppy dog face!" ====== Meanwhile, Kim sidestepped to avoid another one of Shego's right hooks, with this one going straight into the outer wall of the building behind her. "Stand still so I can pulverize you!" Shego growled as she pulled her arm out. "You'll have to do better than that to catch me," Kim shot back with a confident smile on her face. Shego went for a low roundhouse kick to sweep Kim off her feet from the left. Kim easily hopped over the attack, but she didn't expect Shego to reach out with her arms and grab her ankles. The sudden move was enough to get Kim off balance mid-air and land on the ground on her back. As Kim gritted her teeth in pain over her swelling ankle, and now her sore back, Shego was going for the knockout punch. "I've got you now!" Shego shouted, leaping into the air and aiming her glowing fists towards Kim's midsection. "So not!" Kim retorted back as she raised her legs into the air. She did it just in time so that Shego's stomach was the contact point. The two-legged stationary kick made Shego keel over and fall to the ground, gasping for air and barely able to get to her feet. Kim wasn't in good shape either, as the pain from her left ankle had intensified three-fold from before. "I hated to... ow... do that," Kim said as she slowly got to her feet. "Ugh... but I couldn't let... ooh... you get away with that last one." Shego was still getting her breath back, unable to respond to Kim's statement. Kim then limped over to the stationary robot, not forced to hop one foot to avoid putting any more pressure on her injured left ankle. It was then that she spotted Ron and Jenny repelling down the robot's side. "Ron, what are you doing?" Kim asked, questioning Ron's actions as the duo finally got their feet on the ground. "Solid ground!" Jenny exclaimed, kissing the pavement below her. "I've never loved the Earth as much as I do now!" Kim winced as Ron answered her question. "I couldn't help. She gave me that puppy dog look that you always give me. Only she does it better than you!" "Nobody can pull off the puppy dog look better than me, Ron." "Except maybe your mom." "Okay, she's the exception. But no one else!" Kim and Ron then turned to face Jenny, who had finished worshipping the ground. "Jen, um, Jenny, if that is your real name," Kim began, "how did you end up working for Drakken in the first place?" "It all began a few days ago..." Jenny said, recalling the whole recruitment process. ====== Jenny flashed back to her pre-superhero days, as she was returning home from a busy day at high school. "I'm home!" Jenny yelled as she opened the front door to her house. Mrs. Able, Jenny's own mother, shouts back a question. "How was your day, dear?" "Fine!" Jenny sat down on the lowest step of the staircase leading up to the second floor as she took her shoes off. "I'm going up to my room to study!" "Okay dear! Dinner will be ready in about 40 minutes!" With her shoes now off, Jenny ran up the stairs and bolted for her bedroom. "You see," narrated Jenny, "before I ever dreamed of being just like you, I was just an ordinary girl with an ordinary life. It was so boring." Once Jenny had gotten in her room, she went straight for her desktop computer. With it being already on, Jenny only need to click on her mouse once to get onto the World Wide Web to check her e-mail. "I was checking my e-mail, as I do everyday once I get home. I got the usual... junk mail, mail from my girlfriends, more junk... and so on. But it was then that I came across this e-mail from someone claiming to know you!" "Me?" Kim asked. "Yeah. But I live in Australia, where no one's really heard of your exploits before." "I thought we went down there once, KP?" "That's right, Ron. There was this one time we had to go to Sydney to stop someone from stealing the Olympic torch." "Yeah, but the guy didn't realize he was two years too late!" "Sydney's on the other side of the country," Jenny told them. "I live in Melbourne." "Why don't you talk Australian? Aren't they the ones that greet with you by saying 'Hey, mate!'?" "I've only lived in Melbourne for a few months. Not enough time to pick up the accent. My family's originally from Hawaii." "That explains the tan," Kim said, referring to Jenny's skin color. "Anyway, back to the e-mail," Jen interrupted, steering the conversation back on topic. "It was offering a chance to train a teenage girl to become a hero just like you, Kim. Naturally, I decided to follow through with the offer just to get out my boring life." ====== Present day, Tokyo... "Wait, wait," Ron cutted in, not completely understanding. "You read this e-mail from Drakken, who's a total stranger..." "And you fly halfway across the world just to adapt a new lifestyle?" finished Kim. "How did you manage to get your parents to approve of that?" "I just told them that I had won a one-person trip to Disneyland! Parents are so gullible these days!" "Mom and dad would never let me do something like that," commented Kim. "I think it helped that it was partially true. After all, I was to fly in to Los Angeles, and then the e-mail's writer, Drakken, arranged for a private plane to fly us to his hideout." "Us?" "There were about thirty girls there altogether. Almost all of them were from out of the country just like me. But most of them also couldn't speak much English, if any." "So how did you end up getting chosen over all of the others?" Jenny counted the reasons off on her fingers. "He said I was smart, athletic, pretty, and popular... not to mention I was the only girl he could understand." "Where does he get this stuff?" Ron asked aloud. "It's like he taped our everyday conversations!" "Next time we infiltrate one of Drakken's hideouts, remind me to find those files so that we can get rid of them." "Oh yeah, definitely. If he has so much on me, then he must have stuff on me too! He'll know every one of my secrets!" Kim smiled as she tried to hold in her laughter. "You don't have any secrets worth stealing, Ron." "That is so true!" an ominous yet familiar voice yelled as a spotlight shined down on the trio. Kim, Ron, and Jenny were relieved when the light was quickly turned off to reveal Drakken's blimp... and Drakken standing at the entrance as the blimp floated ten feet above the ground. "But you, Kim Possible," Drakken continued on, pointing at the cheerleader, "you have loads of secrets that I can use against you! Mwa ha ha ha!" ============================== End Chapter Seven ============================== Preview of Chapter 8: "A Stoppable Enable?" - Pleased with progress so far, Drakken has Jenny turn on Kim! - Jenny has explained everything, but are her loyalties still with Drakken? - And what's this? Ron steps in to protect Kim? No way! This is the third-to-last chapter you have just finished reading, and the intensity level goes up another notch in next week's installment! See ya then!