The Middleton Pact - Redux
Written by fulwiz
Beta by Wirenfeldt Jr
Disclaimer: I don't own Kim Possible, Disney does. I make no money from this story. The other characters come from my own twisted mind.
Warning: This story contains explicit sexual situations, mature themes, explicit violence, death and warped philosophy.
The story is KiAnGo. (And More)
If you find any of the above offensive, please don't read further.
CHAPTER 37: Where Evil Dwells.
The darkness was pierced by a flickering green glow. Everyone turned toward Shego as her flaming hands illuminated the immediate area.
Kim tried to peer into the blackness surrounding the small area of light her wife's power provided. The slits of her eyes grew to large circles. Even with her enhanced vision, she could see next to nothing. “I don't think we're in Middleton anymore.”
Shego snorted. “Ya think Princess?”
Anne peered around. “Where are we then? And how did we get wherever here is? I didn't see any teleporter flash.”
Wade's voice came from somewhere in the darkness. “Oops. Hold on, tripped a breaker.”
Brightness flared, as a multitude of portable work lights came on. A gigantic rock walled cavern was revealed. That it was not natural was obvious, nature didn't create perfect rectangles. They stood on the bare rock floor near the center. A short distance away, Wade was climbing out of a makeshift looking conglomeration of machinery. “It was the teleporter. I had to do some reconfiguring, no more flash of orange light.” He walked over to the puzzled group and smiled wearily. “Welcome to your new lair.”
Shego let her glow fade. “OK. Nerd boy's lost it.”
There was concern on Anne's face as she looked at the young man. She could see the ashen pallor under his dark skin and the puffiness of fatigue showing around his eyes. “Are you alright Wade?”
His forced smile relaxed a bit. “I'm OK, just tired.” He turned to Shego. “And I haven't lost anything, except some sleep.”
Kim hoped that was all it was. “You did say you had a surprise for us. I guess this qualifies.” She waved her hand at the large bare space surrounding them. “But isn't this a bit low tech for you?”
Shego stared at him. She wasn't convinced her assessment wasn't correct. “I get it. There's no way anyone would expect us to hide in a cave.” She made no attempt to hide her sarcasm. “All we need for defenses is a fire in front of the entrance.”
Tim entered the discussion. “Nope. No door...”
Jim continued. “...Or windows.”
Kim frowned in their direction. “Chill out guys. Let's let Wade explain.”
Wade began walking back over to his machine. He motioned for them to follow. “I know it doesn't look like much now, but I figured you wouldn't believe it all unless you saw for yourselves. After I took the cryo chamber with Betty in it to the warehouse, I returned to the old lair. I searched through all the things GJ planned to store there. Once I had everything I needed, I used the teleporter to transport it all here. Using explosives from some of Duff Killigan's confiscated golf balls, and one of Dr. Drakken's disintegrater rays, I carved out this space.”
Jim and Tim began looking around wildly, together they asked. “Disintegrater ray? Where?”
Wade shook his head. “Back where GJ put it. Sorry guys, but we can't risk keeping anything from there.” He looked at Kim. “You told me you needed a new lair as quickly as possible. This is where it will be.”
Kim sighed. “Yeah. But this isn't very livable. It'll take ages to build and stuff.”
He reached into the machine and withdrew a small box. It was gray with a pattern of pink circuitry running over it's sides. He held it up for everyone to see. “No, It'll only take a minute or two.”
Both Shego and Kim gasped in recognition.
Shego's jaw dropped. “Color me impressed Nerdlinger. Where the hell did you get one of those?”
He ran his hands lovingly over the device. “From you guys. It's one of the things you grabbed when you broke into the Annex.”
Betty's voice held a dark humor as she spoke up. “I should have known. We never did figure out what happened.”
Kim grinned. “Sorry Bets. I forgot to tell you about that.”
The one eyed woman grinned. “As you usually say Mistress, no big.” She looked over at Wade. “However, I don't remember anything like that on the list of things that came up missing.”
Wade nodded. “It didn't look like this then. In their deactivated state they look like flat black squares. I'd only figured out what it was just before the attack. So when Kim told me we needed a new lair, I activated and reprogrammed it.”
Vivian peered closer. She still wasn't sure what was going on. “What is it?”
Wade sat it on the floor. “It's a factory. A nanobot factory to be precise.” He looked up at Kim. “It's not low tech, It's Lowardian tech.” He grinned at his own pun as he motioned her forward. “Would you care to do the honors?”
Kim remembered the last time she'd seen it's like. It had been in Drakken's lair, or actually, it had been the lair. She'd only seen it collapse into this shape after much of it was destroyed. “Sure, but I got to ask, won't the same thing happen to it that happened at Drakken's the first time we met and fought Warmonga? I mean, will it collapse like that one did?”
Wade shook his head. “Not unless you do massive amounts of damage to it during the first 30 hours. After it's setup for longer than that, it becomes stable and self repairing. That is what made me choose this location.”
She looked at the cube. If there was one thing she knew, it was she could trust Wade to know what he was talking about when it came to technology. Even if it was alien in nature. “What do I do?”
Wade stood up and took a step back. “Just touch it and think of it activating.”
She glanced up at the people surrounding her. With the exception of Shego, they all looked confused. “Here goes.”
Her finger rested on the cube as she thought a mental command at it. Immediately it sprang to life. She backed away as the microscopic machines began their work. Panels, pipes and other things she didn't recognize formed seemingly out of thin air. It was like being inside an unfolding piece of paper. It spread and moved of it's own volition. None of then were able to move away fast enough. The unfolding matrix enveloped and passed beyond them. It kept spreading until it almost reached the rock walls.
They stared in wonder as the rock was covered. Soon a ceiling began to form. Within the now completely enclosed space, separate levels began to take shape. Their view of the construction was obscured as each level filled in it's floors and walls. They now stood in a large bare circular room. To one side a door formed out of the blank wall. Around the edge of the room screens and consoles protruded from the walls. The center of the floor bulged and grew into a table. Lastly the odd looking machine and portable lights were seemingly sucked into the floor. Again it was dark. Along with the lack of light came a feeling of dizziness and disorientation.
Lights came on as the finished lair powered up. The odd feeling passed as quickly as it had arrived. They all found themselves standing in an exact replica of their former lair's command center.
Wade moved to the center table. He could feel the need to rest catching up with him. As he input commands on the tables keyboard, he could feel his fingers reacting slower than usual. It wouldn't be much longer before he could sleep. A holographic image formed above the center table. It showed a complete three dimensional rendering of the lair.
Wade enlarged the image. “Sorry there's no chairs. As I only had limited time, I could only program the bare necessities. Except for this room, everything else is still Lowardian in size and shape.”
Kim reached out an put a hand on his shoulder. “No need to apologize. What you've done already is remarkable.”
Wade smiled at his friend. “Thanks Kim.” He pointed to the hologram. “As you can all see, this place is about four times larger than the old lair. There's twelve floors. We are on the bottom one. Only the three lowest floors are usable right now. The rest can be setup in any way we need later.”
Kim watched as he pointed out the features of the lair. She noticed that even though it was larger, it didn't fill the entire space of the cavern. Then there was what her brothers pointed out earlier. She waited until Wade was finished, then asked. “What's in the rest of the space?”
Wade changed the display. It showed the areas surrounding the lair. The entire space between all four of the liar's walls and the caverns rocky sides was filled with complex machinery. “When I decided on this location for the lair, my primary concern was security. We thought we were safe in the last one. Needless to say we were wrong.”
Betty gave him a sympathetic look. “It was extremely well hidden. It's a simple fact, there's no place on earth a person can hide something without it eventually being found. It was just bad luck that it was found as soon as it was. This place isn't any different, no matter how hard you try to hide it.”
Kim nodded to him. “She's right. Someone is bound to stumble across it sooner or later. That's just the breaks of having a hidden lair. We just have to make plans to deal with it when it happens.”
Wade grinned. “You are both right. Someday, somebody will figure out where we are. It's my desire to make sure that doesn't happen anytime soon. That's what all the stuff you see here is for. Each side of the lair has an identical complex of machinery. All four of them do exactly the same thing. If one fails there's three backups. Without these systems we couldn't live here.”
James frowned at the display. “I can understand having backup systems, but isn't three overdoing it?”
Wade shook his head. “No. In fact It might even be a good idea to add more backups later. You all noticed a disorienting feeling when we switched over to the lair's power systems?”
There were nods all around the table. Wade continued. “That was because it took the lair's systems a moment to kick in after it absorbed the machine you saw earlier. What you see here are hydrogen fusion reactors for power. Processing plants to break down water into hydrogen for fuel and oxygen for air. There's also gravity generators and a few other subsystems. I surmise the original intention for this setup was as a space station. Warmonga used it as a lair because it fit her need. Same as our need now. If it weren't for all this stuff, we couldn't live here.”
Kim looked around to see if the rest of them were as confused as she was. Judging from the looks on most of the faces they were. “I don't get it. Does it have something to do with there being no exit that I can see? Or the lack of ventilation shafts?”
Wade nodded. “I figured you'd be the one to notice that. To answer your question, yes that's exactly why. There's only one way in or out of here and that's the teleporter. There isn't any physical access because it might be spotted. It's the only way I could put the lair in a place where there was the least likely chance of someone finding it.”
James let out an amazed gasp. He figured it out before anyone else only due to his extensive experience. “Ingenious Wade! You're right. The chances of someone accidentally finding this place are astronomically slim.”
Kim pursed her lips together. She knew she was no rocket scientist like her father. It seemed apparent to her the only way she was going to find out was to ask. “Spill it Wade. Where the hell are we?”
Wade tapped on the keyboard. The hologram disappeared. “We are approximately one thousand meters below the Sea of Nectar.”
Kim thought hard. She couldn't ever remember hearing of such a body of water in all her globe spanning travels. She was about to demand Wade explain when she heard a thump. She spun around to see her father sitting on the floor. He broke out in a fit of laughter. Moments later, her brothers joined in with him.
Everyone stared at the three Possible men. After a few moments James noticed. He pointed toward Wade. Kim turned to look and saw the young genius calling up another hologram. Her eyes widened as the image of a silvery-white orb formed.
Kim stared at the pockmarked and familiar shape. Her thoughts drifted back to her days in the Rocket Rangers. To the many field trips they took to the Middleton observatory. She could still hear Prof. Chen rattling off the names of the features she was looking at. She remembered hearing the name Sea of Nectar. She reached out with a raised finger. It landed on a large dark patch. “Sea of Tranquility.” Her finger trembled slightly in her excitement as she moved it slightly lower to a smaller dark spot. “Mare Nectaris. We're on the Moon... Spankin!”
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DNAmy operated the controls of her genetic zipper. The look of manic glee that usually accompanied this activity was nowhere to be seen. Instead, there was an unnerving blankness to her features. The other noticeable difference in her appearance was on her forehead. It was a small black chip with a glowing red dot in it's center.
Standing nearby in the large laboratory were three men. General Simms and Special Agent Smith were engrossed in conversation with a shorter, white bearded, and bespectacled scientist. Simms looked up as the zipper finished its work. He watched as an extremely well muscled soldier emerged from one of the pods and joined a group of his fellow soldiers, all of which looked like Hego on steroids. Simms returned to the conversation. “Of course when we heard you were joining us we changed our tactics.”
Smith pointed to a spot near the lab's door where a blonde android stood. “Instead of infiltration, we decided to employ more forceful methods. That's how you wound up with your first two test subjects Dr. Bortel. In fact we hope to have more very soon.”
Bortel chuckled. “I could hardly refuse your offer gentlemen.” He remembered the terror he felt during his interrogation by the Possibles. “Security at my last lab was extremely lacking. I believe I will be quite happy working here.”
Smith's lips twitched, which was the equivalent of a grin for him. He moved toward the other side of the large room. The other two followed. “I'm impressed by your work.” He stopped a few feet away from where Dr. Drakken was attaching a head to a familiar looking female robot. “They seem to have no problem working non stop under the influence of your chips.”
Bortel nodded toward the blue scientist. “In the short term they can go for about 20 hours before needing rest and food. I estimate only 4 hours of sleep will be needed before they can get back to work.”
Simms stepped closer to Drakken. “You know, this looks a lot like Dr. Fen's design. I wonder if that's where he got the idea?”
Dr. Drakken, under the influence of the mind control chip, couldn't discern that the question was rhetorical. In a syrupy sweet voice, he said. “Indeed not Sir.”
Smith stepped up. “Explain that.”
Drakken continued to work, as he'd been instructed, while he spoke. “I am the one who designed and built the robots you call Cee-Cee. Not Dr. Fen. They were originally like this model which I call Bee-Bee. To the best of my knowledge, after they were destroyed, the parts were confiscated by Global Justice. I do not know how Dr. Fen acquired them.”
Smith and Simms looked at each other. Simms turned to Bortel. “Doctor. We'll leave you to your work here.” He looked again at Smith. “I think we need to have a little talk with Dr. Fen.”
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Ron Stoppable stared out the large window. The nighttime world outside of the Tower of Ronatude was bathed in pale moonlight. In the distance he could see the lights of Middleton glowing and twinkling. It all looked so calm and peaceful. He wondered if there was anyone else in the world who saw it for the lie it really was. Evil lurked under the thin veneer of happiness that covered the world.
The sound of elevator doors made him turn away from the window and his morbid thoughts. He saw the blonde woman enter the darkened control room. “Hey Justine. I thought you'd already gone home.”
She frowned into the darkness. “That was my original intention. The visit this afternoon by Dr. Director made me reconsider. I decided to remain here as it will allow me to begin working earlier in the morning.” As she spoke, she walked across the room to stand at the window next to him. “I have already completed a through check of the computer and security systems. I can guarantee Wade Load no longer has access to either.”
Ron nodded. He remembered the guilt he felt at the arrival of Dr. Director that afternoon. Seeing the injuries she'd suffered at the hands of Kim Possible was all he needed to convince him she was on the side of good. It came as a surprise to him when Dr. Director informed them Wade had hacked his way into their security systems. Apparently he'd known everything they'd done or said since the day they moved in. He saw Justine look out the window at the night. More than ever, he was glad she'd accepted his offer. At least now Kim would not be able to spy on them.
Justine reached out and touched the transparent material with her fingertips. “How is Joss doing?”
Ron felt a surge of anger in his gut at the question. “Not good. Rufus is keeping an eye on her.”
She turned to look at him. “She still doesn't want to see anyone?”
Ron shook his head. He could vividly remember Joss slamming their bedroom door in his face while screaming at him to leave her alone.
Justine could see the pained look on Ron's face. “Give her some time. I must be very difficult for her to know her grandmother is dead.”
He remembered the look of shock on Joss's face when Betty Director told them. How it turned to horror when the head of Global Justice told them Kim was the one who killed her. “Tell me something Justine. Do you think Kim did it on purpose?”
She thought about the question for a few moments before replying. “From what you've told me of Kim Possible's actions recently, I believe there is a high probability she did. Without confirmation there is no way to be sure. That is why I decided to remain here. We must be prepared as soon as possible for any eventuality.”
Ron reached up and rubbed at a phantom pain in his chest. The spark of anger was becoming a full fledged flame. “I know she did. I don't need proof.”
It was tempting for her to try to explain to him the need for empirical proof. One look in his eyes, made her decide against it. “I think I should be heading to bed. I'll just turn on the security system before I go.”
Ron shook his head. “Yeah go ahead. Don't worry about the security, I'll take care of it before I turn in.”
She nodded and made her way to the elevator.
He watched her go before turning once again to the window. Vengeful thoughts coiled in his mind like a bunch of poisonous snakes. For many long minutes, all he could think of was ridding the world of the evil that lurked under the surface. The evil called Kim Possible. When his anger could no longer fight his need for sleep, he turned and walked toward the security console.
He paused when he heard the elevator doors open again. He saw the blonde figure step out. “Forget something Justine?”
He looked into the smiling face of the woman who approached him. A lump of fear formed in his throat. Her hair was blonde, but much longer than Justine's. She moved toward him like a jungle cat stalking it's prey. He could see no hint of humanity in her bright blue eyes.
Desperately, he lunged for the security console.
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