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Deep in the Australian Outback, in a subterranean facility, a bizarre team up was occurring. “So then, Mr. Scam, you believe this Brainilator of yours will work well with the Attitudinator I had Shego steal?” Dr. Drakken asked, examining the device Tim Scam had developed as it stood next to the HenchCo. Helmet.
“Indeed, Dr. Drakken.” Tim Scam said, a smirk present on his slimy face, as he held up the device. It was an odd thing, looking somewhat like a cross between a ray-gun and a handheld vacuum, its handle positioned in such a way that when you held it, your knuckles were at the same level as the ‘barrel’ would be, were it a gun. It was a sleek metallic silver, barring a rubber-like accordion tube section just before the tip, which ended in a sphere atop a long and thin cone. “My Brainilator has the ability to absorb the intelligence of anyone who is hit by its beam. I had developed it to turn my enemies into bumbling brain-dead morons, such that they were no longer threats to my plans. However, when I heard about that prototype of HenchCo’s… well the idea that I could also take the intelligence to add to my own? That became rather tempting. I’d intended to steal it myself, but you beat me to the punch. I, however, see no reason we can’t both benefit here. There is room in the world for two evil geniuses. I desire revenge on WOOHP more than I desire world domination. Combining our strength, I can get my revenge, you can rule the world, and I’ll be satisfied ruling over a smaller domain as a… trusted lieutenant. And it all starts by combining our devices." Scam explained, gesturing with the device, although keeping it pointed away from the blue-skinned doctor. “My Brainilator takes their intelligence, and your Attitudinator allows us to add it to our own.”
“Hmm… I have already promised Shego Iceland.” Drakken mused, tapping his chin as he thought about it. “Would you take Greenland?” He offered.
“Yeah, no. Don’t want him as my neighbor. Move him somewhere else.” Shego dismissed casually, flippantly waving her hand.
“I would prefer someplace more tropical, time on the beach sipping martinis does sound better than ice and snow, although that is nice from time to time. Perhaps Brazil? I’ve rather enjoyed my time there.” Scam said with a pleased look on his face that the discussion had gone this far. The team-up was ‘accepted’, it was just a matter of details. “Perhaps we can discuss it after we’ve taken over? I’m sure negotiations will go far better once the world’s leaders are licking at our boots.” Scam and Drakken began laughing at that image, unknowing what was going on just above them.
“So, Drakken made a new friend? I don’t recognize this guy KP. Have we met him before?” Ron asked as he gazed through the grate of the airvent, he and Kim prone on either side of it.
“I don’t think so, Ron. Wade, you got any info on this Tim Scam guy?” Kim asked, shuffling the Kimmunicator out of her pocket.
“Not a lot to go on. Most everything’s redacted. WOOHP stuff, and enough of it is still paper files that I can’t exactly hack my way through it.” Wade said, a look of furrowed concentration on his face.
“It’d be something I’d need to ask the girls then, but they’re on mission.” Kim said with an eyeroll. “Doesn’t matter. We’ll get down there and stop them like always.”
“Booyah, KP!” Ron exclaimed happily, getting ready for the drop.
On a lower part of the facility, three catsuited spies snuck around the side, gazing around the corner, they saw Scam standing alongside Drakken and Shego. “Hey! That’s Kim’s bad guy, the one who we had to fight when he was possessed by that pirate!” Alex said, looking on in surprise. “He’s working with Scam?”
“So not surprising that they’re in the same lame-o supervillain club.” Clover said with an eyeroll. “So what’s the plan here? Grab the weird brain gun and kick his butt?”
“If it was just Scam, sure. But look at all those guards he’s got. Plus Shego. Kim says she’s every bit the fighter she is, and I don’t know about you, but I don’t trust my chances against Kim one-on-one without gadgets.” Sammy said, analyzing the situation a bit.
“There’s an air vent up there.” Alex pointed above where Drakken and Scam were. “We have that explosive lip gloss, we could probably get it up there and set it off. That’d be a distraction that we could use, then use the turbofan hair dryer to clean up the goons and get the weird doohickeys away?”
“Good a plan as any, I’d say.” Clover said, and Sammy nodded. “Alright, let’s see if we can get up there… and hope that these ducts are clean, I do NOT want to be pulling dust bunnies out of my hair again.”
The Spies' plan fell out the window though, as Kim and Ron jumped down from the vent, landing on the table and flipping it, sending the Attitudinator flying across the room. “Sorry to drop in like this, Drakken, but you’re not stealing anyone’s intelligence today!” Kim said, a smug smirk on her face as she stood proud.
“Kim Possible! Shego! Get her!” Drakken commanded, causing Shego’s fists to glow their normal eerie green as the woman lunged for the red-headed superhero.
“Ron, get the helmet!” Kim said as she blocked a hit from Shego, engaging her rival in combat for what felt like the millionth time.
“On it KP!” Ron said, as he dashed towards where the helmet was, racing against Drakken who seemed to have the same idea.
“Ugh! So our luck that Kim would pop in and ruin that plan.” Clover said, stepping out and rushing forward to deliver a flying kick to one of the goons rushing towards the Attitudinator helmet. “Sammy! You’re on Scam! Alex, help me with the mooks!”
“On it!” Came the chorus from the other two spies, who rushed into action.
Kim, Ron, and the Spies had the capacity to work very well together on missions. They’d been on more than enough together to manage that effectively, but that had always come with two caveats. One is that Danny was always with them, and despite on paper being the one least qualified for the position, he’d been their defacto leader, and kept everyone focused on the one goal, forming a singular way of working together, that was a midpoint between the spontaneity that Kim and Ron worked with, and the planned calculated actions the Spies took. The other was that there was an awareness that they would be working together. A need to think about the others when making moves. Without either of those things? The brawl on the floor was utter chaos.
“Getting soft on us Kimmie? Felt the need to bring in more back-up than just the sidekick? Should I expect Flyboy too?” Shego taunted as she and Kim clashed, a dance that was all too familiar for the pair.
“Please, not like I need the help dealing with you, Shego.” Kim said, as she delivered a solid punch to the older woman’s solar plexus, following it up with a snap kick to her gut that knocked her back. “Looks like your new friend wasn’t as good at hiding from everyone else as he thought he was.”
Ron dashed around the red-suited henchmen Drakken always had, making his way towards where the Attitudinator sat on the floor just as he reached out to grab it, Drakken also had his hands on it. “Release the Attitudinator, sidekick! I will not have you get in the way of my glorious world domination!”
“Not happening Dr. D.” Ron said, determination in his voice as he tried to wrestle the helmet from the blue skinned man. “A Drakken controlled world is certainly no bueno. Probably doesn’t even have any Nacos!” Ron yanked and pulled at the device as Drakken tried to hold it close, the two more or less equally matched as they gave it their all.
The stalemate was broken however, when Rufus ran down Ron’s arm, biting down hard on Drakken’s hand. “OW!” The mad scientist screamed as his grip was forcibly released from the helmet. Ron didn’t expect the sudden lack of resistance though, and fell onto his back as he pulled the helmet away. Drakken recovered, pouncing forward to try and grab the helmet. As he did though, the helmet was slammed into the ground, Ron’s loosened grip combining with the weight of Drakken pressing down on it forcing the helmet to break in half, causing a red glow to briefly surround Ron and Drakken.
Sammy rushed up the staircase, dodging the clumsy grabs of Drakken’s henchmen as she stood face to face with Tim Scam again. “Oh, dear Sammy. Come all this way to see me again? Still infatuated with me?” Scam teased as he pointed the device at her, circling with her as he tried to provoke her. The beam for the Brainilator was not particularly fast, one of the reasons Scam had been on the lookout for improvements, and Sammy was certainly capable of dodging the slow ‘projectile’ it shot. He needed her to be distracted for it to work.
“Puh-lease, like I was ever ‘infatuated’ with you. So gross.” Sammy said, spitting his teasing back at him. “I thought you were an authority figure, someone to look up to. I was certainly wrong in that department. Plus, I’m WAY too young for you. Kinda creepy that you bring it up.”
“Well my dear, I AM a villain after all, or at least that’s what those quacks at WOOHP have labelled me. They never could see my brilliant vision!” He said, getting slightly manic. His grip tightened on the device once more, subtly moving in closer. Sammy was fast, but not fast enough to dodge it at point blank.
“Well the only vision you’ll be seeing is the kind behind bars!” Sammy said, kicking her leg up and activating the drill in her heel, extending the length of her boots by just enough to catch the device, forcing it out of Scam’s hands and up into the air. It clattered to the ground, misfiring with every bounce. Most of the beams harmlessly landed on inanimate objects, but one managed to land squarely on Sammy, as her eyes glazed over and she suddenly lost balance. “Huh? Wha?” She asked dumbly.
“Sammy!” Kim called out in concern as she watched the beam hit the spy, distracting her just long enough for Shego to kick her away.
“Plan’s shot, I guess. Come on Dr. D!” Shego yelled, rushing and grabbing the villain by his collar as he held onto the two halves of the broken Attitudinator.
“Au revoir, spies. When next we meet, I’ll be ruling the world, and you’ll be grovelling at my feet.” Tim Scam said, scooping up the Brainilator as he rushed with Shego to escape, hitting the large red ‘Self-destruct’ button on the way out.
“Base set to self-destruct in 1 minute.” Came the automated voice over the sound system. The Henchmen who were engaged in combat with the spies immediately broke rank, scrambling to get out of the building as fast as possible.
“Sammy!” Kim, Alex, and Clover all called out, rushing to the green-clad spy.
“Huh, what’s going on?” She asked, completely disoriented.
“We’ve got to get out of here. Come on!” Alex called out, throwing Sammy’s arm over her shoulder and rushing the red-head out of the room, towards one of the exits.
“This way!” Kim called out, having watched Ron run in that direction. It was… odd for him to be this far ahead of the pack, but Kim imagined he was just trying to find a clear path for them. He was the fastest afterall, he could probably lap them on an escape route.
They managed to make their way out of the facility, getting about thirty meters away before the rumbling of an explosion could be felt beneath their feet. They put some more distance between them before looking at the large crater, glad they weren’t caught in it.
“Ugh! I can’t believe Scam got away!” Clover screamed, before taking a deep breath and huffing. “Alright, that’s out of my system.” The blonde turned her attention to Kim and Ron. “Why didn’t you guys call us to let us know you were following Tim Scam? He’s one of our villains!”
“We weren’t, we were following Drakken, who is pretty squarely one of mine.” Kim said, shrugging. “I didn’t even know you guys were here, I would have looped you in, we probably could have managed if we’d gone in together.”
“Yeah, you’re right.” Alex said, before putting her hand on her chin in a thinking pose. “I wonder if we could find a way to like, ping each other if we’re in the same building on a mission or something? Sammy, can you think of anything for that?”
“Why would I be able to?” Sammy asked, her words a little slurred. Everyone turned to look at her with raised eyebrows. “What?” She asked.
“You’re the supergenius here.” Clover said, taking a closer look at her face. “Are you feeling okay?” Clover gazed into her eyes, grabbing her phone and using the flashlight directly in her face. “Your eyes aren’t like… dilating weird. Did you hit your head in that fight? Maybe you have a concussion.”
“I didn’t hit my head, but what’s a concussion?” Sammy asked, causing everyone to look at her strangely. “Why do you keep looking at me like that?” She asked again, her speech still slightly off.
—-
“So… you’re saying Sammy got her intelligence taken away from her?” Danny asked as they were all set up in the lab at Fentonworks, where said formerly brilliant spy was gazing in quiet wonder at an ectoplasm sample moving up and down like wax in a lava lamp.
“As far as we can guess, yeah.” Clover said, looking sadly at her friend. “Scam mentioned his device would take away the intelligence of whoever he used it on, but he was intending to use Drakken’s Attitudinator to transfer it to him. Did you guys ever find out anything else about it, by the way?”
“Yeah, apparently it can suck the good, or evil out of someone and store or transfer it.” Kim said, sending a file from her Kimmunicator to the large screen on the side wall of the lab. A display and marketing blurb for HenchCo’s Attitudinator came up, talking about its various benefits and uses, alongside its price tag of ‘only $1.7 Billion’.
“How do you even take someone’s good or evil? It’s not like there’s a chemical component to morality.” Star asked, pretty confused by the entire concept.
“I have no idea either, but we accepted we live in a world with ghosts and magic at this point, it seems like anything is possible. We fought a brain in a jar last month.” Kim said, waving off the issue. “Ron and Drakken broke the thing, so hopefully that’ll delay their plans a bit. Drakken didn’t make it, so he’ll have to figure out how it works before it can be repaired, even with Scam, that’ll probably take some time. Wade’s keeping an eye out on all our normal ways of tracking Drakken, so if he shows up, we’ll swoop in.”
“WOOHP’s doing the same for Scam. I’ve already told Jerry to keep Wade in the loop. If we find them, we’ll have to bring Sammy with us to get her fixed, but until then, someone’s going to have to watch over her while we’re out searching.” Clover said, looking on sadly at her best friend, who had found a newton’s cradle and was watching it click away happily.
“I’ll keep a watch over her, and when you find them, I’ll come with you to take them down. It’ll be a full team mission anyway, since it’s both of your villains. No reason for me not to be there.” Danny said, earning nods from Kim and Clover.
“I’ll help Danny take care of Sammy, if she’s too out of it, there might be some things she needs help with that Danny can’t handle.” Star chimed in. “Danny and I will get to play house for a bit while you all play hero. It’ll be fun.”
“Yeah! I can stay with Danny!” Sammy said, grabbing onto his arm and planting a kiss on his cheek. “I love my Danny.”
“I love you too, Sammy.” Danny said as he held her, gently rocking her a bit. “You guys focus on finding these guys so we can get our brainiac back to normal. I can handle taking care of her.”
—-
Danny was unsure of his ability to take care of Sammy. He had put on a show of confidence for the others, since having them worry about whether or not he was going to be able to take care of their friend would distract them from the important work they were doing, but he wasn’t as confident about the situation himself. The morning with Sammy had been awkward to start with. She’d tried to make breakfast, and while Sammy was a terrible cook even with her intelligence, she was even worse without it. Her initial attempts at pancakes, something with her normal intelligence she could usually manage, even if she burned them, had gone awry when she attempted to use diet cola instead of water. That failure had led her to try something simpler, a bowl of cereal. Things were already bad enough when she poured the milk first, but she’d poured an entire gallon into a bowl that was at most only a few cups, letting most of it hit the floor. Then she’d emptied the entire brand new box of cereal into the already overflowing bowl, making an even bigger mess. Danny had eventually made her a normal bowl of cereal and cleaned the mess up.
After that were the incidents in the lab. Danny had been tasked with cleaning it, and had brought Sammy down with him, knowing leaving her alone and unsupervised wasn’t a great idea. Sammy had offered to help, and Danny had accepted, hoping that by letting her help he would help her feel better about her situation. Such was not the case, as she really only succeeded in making more messes. While trying to sweep, she managed to knock over all the trash cans. While trying to get everything back into the trashcans, she opened the ghost zone portal and caused an Ectopus to emerge. She freaked out and grabbed the Fenton Ghost Weasel, trying to suck it up, but managed to also suck Danny into it in the process. After Danny did get out, and put the Ectopus back in the Ghost Zone, the lab was in a messier state than it had been when they’d arrived, and Danny finally called Star over to watch Sammy while he cleaned up.
That had led them to the afternoon, where Danny had finally managed to make them some lunch, while Sammy worked on a children’s crossword puzzle under Star’s supervision. “Hmmm.” Sammy hummed, tapping her chin with her pencil as she looked over the page. “A five letter word for planet…. Pluto!” She said happily filling it in.
“Pluto isn’t a planet.” Danny said out of instinct. The junior astronaut in him remembering that fact.
“It’s not?” Sammy asked, a dumbfounded and sad expression on her face. “But it fits. It has to be!”
“It’s a dwarf planet, that means that while it meets some of the definitions of being a true planet like Earth or Mars, it doesn’t meet all of them. Pluto mostly hasn’t cleaned up the other stuff in its orbit, so it doesn’t get the moniker of planet.” Danny explained. He knew this was something that Sammy knew already, so seeing her unable to recall it made Danny very upset. Danny already had a VERY low opinion of this Tim Scam guy. He was a villain for starters, that automatically put him on a ‘stop at all costs’ track, but not all villains were equal in that regard. Danny would always feel Skulker would need to be stopped less than Walker, because Skulker wasn’t the type to needlessly cause harm. He wanted to fight Danny, and would terrorize, but very rarely truly endanger the populace. Tim Scam though, went even deeper than that. He apparently had some kind of personal vendetta against Sammy, and from what Alex and Clover had told him before, had some kind of… incredibly creepy fascination with her. That had really pushed Danny’s hatred of the man from merely transactional as hero and villain, to a personal one. But now, seeing the results of his work taking away something that was so critical to a girl he loved dearly? He was glad he wouldn’t be facing the man alone, because Danny wasn’t sure he could hold himself back from displaying just how much damage he could do to someone without powers.
“I… I knew that didn’t I? Before this.” Sammy asked, pulling Danny out of his thoughts. He looked at her again, seeing that dejected look on her face. “I don’t like this Danny. I don’t like… feeling like this. Like there’s a part of me I don’t have. I KNOW I was the smart one. That before this I wouldn’t even bother with a crossword like this because it’d be too easy.” She said, waving the kid’s crossword puzzle she was working on in the air. “It’s frustrating. I don’t like it.” She seemed even more frustrated that she didn’t even have the proper words to even articulate her feelings. Sammy could get verbose if she really wanted to, but this seemed to have taken that from her. “I’m glad you’re here with me. I feel wrong. But with you here, I at least feel safe. I know you won’t let anything happen to me.” She looked up at him, her green eyes wide and innocent and full of love.
“You’re right. I won’t.” Danny said, sitting beside her and pulling her into a hug. “You’re a big girl who can handle herself, a big bad superspy who can kick bad guy butt all day long, but I’ll still always make sure you’re safe.” Danny leaned down, pulling her into a kiss, which she happily reciprocated.
“I like your kisses. They make me feel fuzzy inside.” Sammy said, pecking his lips again. “When my brain works again, I’ll say it better. I promise.”
“I know you will.” Danny said, pressing his forehead to hers. “I love you, brains or not. I just want you to be Sammy.”
“I love you too.” Sammy said, snuggling into him.
—-
Kim and Ron were in Kim’s garage, Ron rummaging through some of Jim and Tim’s old projects, fiddling with them in ways that Kim didn’t really get, but brushed off out of her other concerns. “So, have you found anything on Drakken yet?” She asked Wade as she looked at her Kimmunicator, the heavyset boy on the other end of the connection shaking his head.
“He’s really gone to ground this time. No massive power fluctuations, no mysterious melted vault doors at banks, nothing. Either he hasn’t had a need for any of his usual stuff, or this Scam guy is really good at covering their tracks.” Wade said with a shrug. “I’ve got feelers out for any traffic or security cameras that see Drakken or Shego, but they’ve always been decent enough at avoiding those.”
“Thanks for trying, Wade. It’s just frustrating that we can’t find him.” Kim said, kicking her feet from where she sat on one of the workbenches that filled the garage.
“I’ll keep you posted if I find anything, or if I come up with any better search ideas. I’ve been working with GJ and WOOHP, so hopefully between the three of us we can find something.” Wade said, before closing the connection. Kim could only sigh, before looking over to where Ron was digging through the tweeb’s spare parts.
“What are you even looking for, Ron? If they stole some parts from your scooter or something, you’d be better off asking them directly for them. Be easier to find.” Kim said, as she watched Ron pull out a box full of scrap and a separate toolbox, before beginning assembly on… something. “Come on, Ron. I know you’re probably bored, but the tweebs probably won’t be thrilled about you messing up their parts.”
“Ron’s in our parts bin?” Jim asked, as he and Tim came from further in the house, the pair of them looking on at where Ron was working.
“That’s the orbiter parts bin, isn’t it?” Tim asked, looking to his brother for confirmation, who nodded.
“And the brain scanner from when we tried to make AI constructs of each other.” Jim noted, seeing some of the other pieces Ron had.
“Why were you guys making AI constructs of each other? You already share one brain.” Kim asked with an exaggerated eyeroll as she ruffled her brothers’ hair.
“I mean yeah, but we wanted to see how similar they were!” Tim said, chuckling. “Then we figured we could make copies and put them in robot bodies to send to school and do chores while we played video games.”
“You know, with the supergenius part, I sometimes forget you are just kids.” Kim said, smiling a bit at her brothers. Of all the weird ways Danny had affected her life, her relationship with her brothers had been a big one. She still got annoyed by them a lot of the time, but where she used to be a little jealous of just how smart they were, especially in comparison to her, she now was just proud of them all the time. Danny had really helped her overcome that small inferiority complex she had about her intelligence when compared to the rest of her family.
“Wait Ron, is that…” Tim started, looking over what was Ron’s finished creation.
“A brain scanning satellite, yes.” Ron said, as he set it out on the driveway and pressed a button, launching it into orbit. “It will scan the planet for Dr. Drakken’s brainwaves, and once it finds a match it will text their coordinates to my phone. I imagine we’ll find them in a matter of hours.” Ron’s tone was flat, none of the normal exuberance Kim would expect from him.
“Since when can you make a brain scanning satellite?” Kim asked with a raised eyebrow. The tweebs building one she could see happening. Wade and Tucker building one? Also pretty possible. She could even see Danny and Sammy, when they were working in full capacity being able to put one together, but Ron? That was way weird.
“I believe you’ve just been underestimating me.” Ron said, his tone barely concealing a deep edge. “Everyone has, for far too long.”
—-
It was only a matter of hours for Ron’s satellite to find Drakken and Scam’s new base, which was located on a small island off the coast of Madagascar. Kim, Ron, Danny, and the Spies all suited up, ready to take the fight to the villains who had stolen Sammy’s intelligence away, despite Sammy’s nervousness about it.
Convincing her to come had been quite the endeavor, as she worried that her mere presence would cause enough issues that they wouldn’t be able to stop them, but they informed her that she was still an amazing spy, and even without her intelligence she would be an invaluable asset to the team. Clover and Alex would be with her the entire time, they’d manage.
With the whole team present, subtlety wasn’t exactly on the docket. While each of them were normally highly competent infiltrators, capable of getting in and out undetected, Sammy’s diminished capacity, and Danny’s unyielding anger at the damage they had done to Sammy had required a more bombastic approach. As such, their arrival was announced by an entire section of wall of the compound Drakken and Scam were using being knocked in by an angry superpowered teen, his eyes glowing green with rage.
The room they’d entered fit the visual aesthetics of every evil mad scientist lair. Rows and rows of machines and workstations filled the space, with a large platform in the center that looked to be attached to some kind of elevator guide rail system. The center of the platform had what could best be described as an anti-air gun, although where one would expect to load ammunition, instead had a groove that looked like it fit a smaller hand-held device. In Drakken’s hands was what appeared to be the missing piece, which was a combination of Scam’s Brainilator, and the HenchCo Attitudinator.
“Oh, so you brought flyboy this time? Upset that you couldn’t beat us last time without his help?” Shego teased, as she rushed forward from the central platform, joining the advancing group of henchmen that stood between the team and the mad scientists in the center.
“Says the one who found a whole new partner to work with because they couldn’t beat a couple of teenagers.” Kim said, as she rushed Shego, locking herself in combat with her. The longtime rivals traded blows back and forth like always, Kim’s superior martial arts training and athletic abilities more than enough to close the gap that Shego’s powers gave her. She had struggled fighting Shego for a long time, but ever since she and Danny got together, and especially since they began training together, Shego became less and less of a threat each time they fought. Shego wasn’t as strong as Danny, wasn’t as maneuverable, and infinitely more predictable. Kim had gotten good enough at fighting Danny that unless Danny flew or used his intangibility, she could usually beat him in their spars. Shego wasn’t Danny, and it showed. Where before Kim was normally on the backfoot in fights with Shego, trying to simply wear out an opponent who had a tendency to overcommit, Kim nowadays could simply beat her with pure skill. It wasn’t easy by any stretch of the imagination, and Shego was still improving as well, but it was easy to see that if Shego didn’t have her powers, Kim would be wiping the floor with her.
Danny took it upon himself to clean up the henchmen, as he was undoubtedly the most well suited of the group for dealing with multiple opponents. Compared to the ghosts Danny usually fought, even the most experienced of henchmen were little more than nuisances to him, and he managed to clean up the two dozen or so red-suited goons in only a few minutes.
The Spies had rushed for Tim Scam, determined to take him down quickly, but the genius inventor had prepared for the physical confrontation, hopping into a mech suit he’d created. The machine with its hydraulic arms, was obviously intended to be used primarily for moving heavy objects around, as it even had forks that could extend from the arms for picking up pallets, but the machine seemed fully capable of being used in a combat capacity as well. “So, dear Spies. How does it feel knowing that WOOHP has sent you here to die? I’ll do more than just drain your intelligence, like I did your little friend there, I’ll kill you. I won’t allow you to stand in my way any longer!” Scam slammed one of the robot’s fists into the ground, leaving a large crater where Alex had been standing a mere moment before.
“That suit’s bad news.” Alex said nervously, as she watched it reset back to a neutral fighting position, as she, Clover, and Sammy circled the ex-WOOHP agent. “Don’t get hit! I don’t think you’re walking it off!”
“Right!” Sammy said, as though it was good advice. Clover cringed a bit in sadness at seeing her friend so far removed from who she was, but doubled down on it. Without Sammy to be their brainpower, it was up to her.
Clover reached into her backpack finding a can of hairspray within. “Alright, this should do it!” She said, before uncapping it and sliding under the mechanical mech suit, spraying the ankles with WOOHP’s 24 Hour Hyper Adhesive Pomade, making it solidly rooted in the ground.
“Well done, shame you still won’t be able to do anything to me.” Scam said, as he continued trying to hit them with the mechanical muscles of his suit. “I’m still far too strong for you, you pathetic spies.”
“We still need to turn off the hurty suit!” Sammy called out dodging out of the way of another wide swing of the hydraulic arm. “Take out his batteries!” She called out, treating the suit like it was a giant toy.
Clover’s eyes widened, noticing the large power pack on Scam’s back. “Even when you don’t have your smarts you’re still a genius, Sammy!” Clover exclaimed, rushing behind Scam and pulling out another gadget from her bag, the Fenton Laser Lipstick, given a WOOHP upgrade, cut through the power pack with ease, disabling the mech suit, and trapping Scam inside.
“Woo! One down!” Alex said, shifting her focus away from the trapped Scam.
“Henchmen are dealt with too, that just leaves Shego and Drakken!” Danny said as he tossed the last henchperson aside, turning his attention to the central platform where the blue-skinned man seemed to be fiddling with the gizmo. Danny watched as Ron snuck up behind Drakken before stealing the device. “Alright! Bring it over here Ron. We’ll figure out how to reverse it and fix everyone.” Danny said, shooting the blond boy a confident smile, thankful the event was over now.
“No… I don’t think I will.” Ron said, starting to chuckle maniacally as he pointed the device towards the group. “You see, you all were so worried about the little spy, you failed to realize what else occurred in our little scuffle in Australia.” Ron glowered over the group, his gaze moving to each one in turn. “While she lost her intelligence, I absorbed all of Drakken’s evil, and combining it with my innate abilities… I believe I’ll show the world just how Unstoppable Ron Stoppable can be.” An evil cackling filled the air, the echoing “Boo-yah-ha-ha” casting an icy chill down everyone’s spines.
“Cut the act Ron, this is no time to be fooling around!” Kim said as her fight with Shego stopped as the pair of them had their focus on the sidekick, each of them trying to feel out what was going on with the boy.
“Oh, I’m not fooling around. Drakken and Scam were truly onto something with this device, but they were woefully misguided on its proper use.” Ron said, running his finger along the barrel as he brandished it like a weapon. “They believed it would be best served stealing the intelligence of the leading scientists in the world, a useful secondary objective, but far from the ideal use of such a device.” Ron pointed it towards Danny. “No, it would be far better served incapacitating their greatest threats first. Let us see who could dare to stop me once this world’s greatest heroes are little more than bumbling idiots!”
“Sorry Ron, but you’ll thank me for this once you’re better.” Danny said as he shot forward rushing the boy to try and separate him from the weapon. Ron however, reacted far too quickly, backhanding Danny with a bright blue flash and the spectral scream of a howler monkey sending him flying into a wall, leaving a crater within. “That… that shouldn’t happen.” Danny said as he tried to pull himself up.
Alex, Clover, and Sammy tried their luck as well, the trio bolting towards him to try and knock the weapon away, but with little interest he merely pulled some bolos from his pocket and tossed them at the Spies, subduing them. “I had the time to make those while at Kim’s house, the twins truly do have some interesting toys they’ve developed, I believe they’ll be my first stop once I leave here, since I’m sure they’ve got that Possible heroism in them, they’re too smart to be left unchecked.”
“Ron, this isn’t you!” Kim called out, trying to reason with him. “You’re not a bad guy! You like Bueno Nacho and video games. Not world domination!”
“You don’t get to decide that anymore, Kim.” Ron said, his gaze focused solely on her. “I’m done being merely your sidekick. Being a laughing stock. Losing my pants, not being taken seriously. Our primary villain can’t even remember my name. The organization that created the Team viewed me as a secondary member. I’m done playing second fiddle. Done being the comic relief. The world will tremble in fear before the monster it created.”
“You know what, I like this new guy. You looking for hired help? My rates are negotiable, I want Iceland when the world’s conquered, and 10% of all monetary gain.” Shego said, walking casually up to him.
Ron seemed to toss the idea back and forth in his mind for a moment. “I suppose you’re effective enough. Make it 8%.” Ron countered.
“Works for me.” Shego said, coming to stand beside him.
“Now I’ll start my conquest, by turning Kim Possible into a brainless vegetable!” Ron said, powering up the device and firing it towards Kim.
As the device wound up though, something went wrong, causing it to zap Ron and the nearby Shego. The pair screamed in pain for a moment before they were knocked unconscious by the blast.
A brief silence fell over the room as the gathered heroes attempted to process what had just occurred. “Was it a dud?” Alex managed to speak up, confused as she looked over at the unconscious Ron and Shego.
“No… I’d simply rewired it.” Drakken said as he walked over and picked up the device, turning a few knobs. “Mr. Stoppable was correct, he did obtain all of my evil during our scuffle. What he perhaps didn’t recognize, was that I had the brains to understand what the consequences of that would be. I knew that my evil would put him toward this plan, and that you all would be so focused on fixing the obvious sign of the Spy’s diminished intelligence, you wouldn’t notice his insidious plans. So I hid as well, pretending to take the lead on the project here knowing that this would happen. That you all would arrive, and he would make a play for the device. I had admittedly thought he would attempt to steal mine and Scam’s intelligence, but the end result would be the same.”
“Wait, so you’re not evil right now?” Danny asked, his eyebrows raised in shock.
“Correct, Mr. Stoppable’s mind contains all of my malice. I’d imagine at this point you have more evil in your heart than I do, Phantom.” Drakken said, pointing the device at Sammy and firing it.
The bright beam enveloped the green-clad bound spy, and after a moment, she looked around. “I’m… me again guys!” Sammy said, a broad smile on her face. “All of my intelligence is back!”
“Yes, I managed to reverse all the effects of the device. One of you will need to take it and fire it at Mr. Stoppable, as leaving it in my hands once it is done is particularly unwise.” Drakken said, holding the device out for someone to take. “I apologize for what I’ve done to you all until now, and for what I will do from here on. I hope you will continue to stop me.”
“Hey, we can probably find a way to keep you like this, Drakken.” Danny said as he pulled himself up, making his way over to the blue-skinned scientist.
“No… I don’t think there is. Without me, I imagine there will be some kind of power vacuum. There are few thieves in the world as accomplished as Shego, and of the other villains on the market, she really only works with me because of the benefits. Should she team up with someone like Dementor, I worry for what might happen. No, we’ve proven that I am beatable, time and time again. Perhaps it is this part of me that continues to sabotage these plans.” Drakken looked to Danny as he handed the device over to him. “Free your spy friends, and use the bolos on myself and Shego. This is all I can do for you, I believe. Your friend is a much more dangerous villain than I am, and I hope to never see a world where he taps into his potential for evil.”
Danny could only nod as he handed the device to Kim, going over to the spies and removing the bolos, tying up Drakken and Shego with them. “Well, Ms. Possible. You and your friends think you are all that, and I do believe you are. Now, let’s set the world right. Make sure to destroy that device once you’ve confirmed that Mr. Stoppable and I are back to how we are meant to be.”
Kim nodded and fired the beam at Ron, from which a beam from him tethered to Drakken, Ron flashing blue for a moment as Drakken flashed red. Drakken’s eyes widened, before he scowled. “No, no, no!” He screamed, his intonation back to his normal pattern. “I will not be outdone by a mere sidekick! Scam! Surely you have some contingency in place for this?”
“You were the contingency Drakken, and you ruined it!” Scam said from his place trapped inside his mech suit.
“Grr! Kim Possible! You think you’re all that? But you’re not!” Drakken screamed as he wiggled inside of the bolos, unable to free himself.
—-
WOOHP and Global Justice appeared shortly thereafter, taking Drakken, Shego, and Scam into custody, but not before the Brainilator was destroyed. Ron had come to his senses, and was resting on a table as a WOOHP doctor looked over him. “So… I was some kind of bad guy?” Ron asked, seemingly unaware of what had happened with him.
“Yeah, you were kind of terrifying.” Danny said, keeping an eye on him. “If Drakken hadn’t come in clutch with sabotaging the thing, you might have turned all of us into vegetables.”
“I guess I’m just glad I didn’t pick some dumb villain name like… Zorpox the Destroyer or something.” Ron said, causing a round of laughter to go through the gathered teens.
“And I’m glad to be back to normal. Thanks for taking care of me while I was… incapacitated.” Sammy said, smiling at all of her friends. “Especially you, Danny.” Sammy said, leaning over and planting a kiss on his cheek.