The Monkey's Tail

Darkness...........................................


Silence..............................................


Nothingness......................................


"Um, hello?"

"Is it over?"

"Any one there?"

"Um, why can't I hear my own voice?"

Silence..............................................

"Kim? Kim are you there?"

"Alright Ron. Work it out. Last thing I remember was....a....I was fighting Monkey Fist. Usual stuff: Take over
the world. I wanna be the monkey king. Blah, blah, blah. It's always been about him. So predictable. Oh! and then he
said some stuff about Kim. Then I hit him........................... several times.........Oh yeah. That felt good. Blah, blah, blah.
Oh! Someone was behind me. A trap. And I fell for it. "

"Damn it!"

"Kim?"

"I hope she's okay." Damn I screwed up.

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"Well, Ya know, if this is death, then I'm really not to impressed with it. There seems to be a lot of room for inprovement here. Maybe a greeter's booth or at least a receptionist's desk. Pamphlets. Something.

"RON!!!" came Kim's voice sounding like she was almost screaming.

"Kim's voice! I'm coming Kim!" Ron yeld or thought to himself. "Okay! Gotta move! Her voice came from......that direction! It feels like I'm moving."

Sounds of a person running.

"I can hear my feet!"

"I'M NOT DEAD YET!"

"I heard that!"

"I heard that too!"

Whoosh.

Ron ran through two doors that closed with a "whoosh" into an area that had various shade of tan with red trim. A white chair sat in the center and a claxon was blaring with red lights flashing on and off with the sound.

Ron looked around and said, "Hey. Wait a minute. I know where I am. Or I at least know where this is suppose to be."

Just at that moment a familar looking girl with red hair and green eyes, wearing a red cadet tunic and black trousers, came bounding into the room with a whoosh! Looking at herself and then around the room, she looked more confused that Ron felt.

"Kim!" Ron shouted.

The girl looked first behind her, as if someone was there, then at Ron and then pointed a finger at herself and mouthed the word, "Me?"

Ron ran to her and again shouted her name again. The girl held out her hand and stopping him and said, "You're Ron, right? Ron Stoppable?"

"Okay Kim. What's with the games?" Ron asked as he crossed his arms and started tapping his foot.

"Uh....Ron, do you know where we are?"

"Com'on Kim. Back when Drakken hit us with that cannon powered by the Pan-dimensional-vortex-inducer and we were zapped into TV land, this was the first place you went."

"Oookay. Playing along. And where was that?"asked the girl.

"We're on board the XMS Revenge. A punisher class cruiser. "Our mission, to brazenly go where ever we want." Remember? Space Passage! " recited Ron from memory.

"Righttt. Okay, you know where we are. What's wrong here and can you please turn off that noise?"

Ron walked over to the Captain's chair and checking the right hand arm, pressed a button. The claxon and the flashing red light both stopped. He then walked over to the panel that had a flashing red light. Others had a bright red light near them but this one was flashing.

"Well, this is the consol they always said was the life support station." Looking at the monitors, gauges and readouts, Ron continued. " According to this, the ship is on minimal emergency life support with only 6 hours left."

"Can you fix it?" the girl asked.

Ron looked around a little bit, bent down as he said, "Whenever they had a problem, Dr. Nilock would open this panel here and," as he opened the panel," here's the problem. All of these wires seemed to have been riped apart."

As the girl bent over to look where Ron indicated, she saw what looked like hundreds of wires that were seperated in the middle and they did appear to have been riped in two.

"But can you fix it?"

Ron found two ends that looked like they use to be one wire and started to put them together. When the two ends touched, they seemed to meld and it became whole again.

"Yeah. I think I can reconnect all the wires. That should probably repair the life support systems."

The girl crossed her arms, looked at Ron, crossed her arms and flatly said, "Good. Fix it then."

Ron stood up, leaned against the consol, crossed his arms and said, "Look, I know your not Kim. She woldn't be acting this way with me and she stopped being this bossie with me at camp Wannaweep several years ago. Give me one good reason why I should follow your orders."

The girl, looking like she hadn't ever had her orders questioned like this before, thought for a couple of seconds.

She unbuttoned the cadet shirt and opened it up to reveal her breasts to him.

Ron looked her straight in the eye............................................................for about fifteen seconds and then his gaze drifted down to her breasts. Four seconds later, he bent back down to the open panel saying, "Okay, that works for me. But you are going to have to tell me what in the hell is going on while I'm working on this."

The girl smiled as she closed the shirt and said, "Deal."

After rebuttoning the shirt, she sat down in a chair near Ron. "First off, you are right. I am not Kim Possible. I chose her form to appear to you as because I know that you trust her. I'll tell you who I am in a little bit. If I said the word Chi-ez, would you know what I meant?"

Ron, with his head in the panel working on the wiring said, "Sure. The main topping for pizza. Kidding. It's the thoughts, knowledge, emotions and very soul of a person. Anything that isn't a part of the body. Plus any hidden strengths. For me it would be my MMP."

The girl looked at Ron with a shocked face. "That's right. Very good. Now, if I asked you who was the first person to use the four jade monkey statues to obtain the MMP. what would your answer be?"

" The warrior Toshimiru, or the monkey Tosh. I don't remember which he was at time."

"Okaaay. This might be easier than I thought it would be." the girl thought to herself. "Ron." she said aloud. "Someone, somehow, tried to steal your chi-ez. It was torn from your body, but was not contained in any sort of magical jar to hold it. Some how, your chi-ez managed to find it's way back here, to your body." She paused to let what she had said to sink in and then resumed.

"Some how, it created this place as way for it to rejoin itself. This ship, as you called it, is really your body and you are reconnecting your soul to your body before it dies, in less than six hours."

Ron was silent for several minutes as he continued working. Finally he said, "You know, that sounds like the stupidest thing I ever heard. Do you have any idea how hard it would be to do, to reconnect a soul to a body? That would be like comparing brain surgery to putting a band-aid on a boo-boo."

"Then why don't you stop working on it?

Ron sighed and said. "Because. It also feels like it's true, and it's the only way for me to get back to Kim. I have no idea if she's in trouble or not." Ron kept putting the wires back together.

"You know Ron, it takes a pretty special person to have been able to created such a setting to be even able to try this."

"Yeah, yeah." Ron brushed it off. " Okay. Now, who are you?"

The girl smiled and said, "I am the warrior Toshimiru."

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Darkness...........................................

Lightening.........................................

A man standing on a hill.

"WHO.......ARE.......YOU?" came a thundering voice loud enough to almost knock the man down.

"I am Lord Monty Fiske. I am an archeologist."

"THE BOND HAS BEEN WEAKENED!................REMEMBER!"

(Flashback to the insides of a buried temple.)
As Lord Monty Fiske entered a chamber, carring a torch, he said, "At last! I knew that there had to be a chamber of the tribes deities. The writing said there should be a stone statue. Ah. There it is." Walking over to the statue on a pedestal, he noticed the eyes seemed to catch the light. As he bent low to examine it, the eyes started giving off a glow from within. When he was at the same level, he coudn't break eye contact with it. Soon, a black smoke came from it's eyes and mouth and drifted to him. It almost looked like he was inhaling it, but it was actually forcing itself into him, till his eyes glowed the same hue.

"FIRST IMPRESSION!"

A small dark form of a monkey with glowing eyes appears before Monty Fiske on the hill.

"REMEMBER!"

(Flashback to the hidden chamber in Castle Fiske)
Monty Fiske is being lifted into the air by the magic of the four jade monkey idols.

"POWER..........................AQUIRED"

The form of the dark monkey tranforms into the shadow of a hairy man, bent over with his hands almost dragging the ground. Monty Fiske takes a step back in horror.

"REMEMBER!"
(Flashback)
A hairy man standing before a dark temple shaking hands with a monkey in a robe.

"FINAL TRANSFER!"

Glowing discs now appear on the hands of shadow man. It crouches and springs at Monty Fiske.
He backs away and raises his arm to ward off his attacker to no avail. The shadow wraps itself around him till he is totally engulfed by it. The now still shadow lays on the ground in a heap.

"WHO.......ARE.......YOU?" came the thundering voice again.

The shadow slowly stands, shakes it's fist at the sky and loudly proclaims.
"I AM MONKEY FIST!!"
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Monkey Fist awoke with a start. Confused when he sat up he looked around. Memory flooded back to him.
"The loss of the Monkey's Tail, by his own hand.......er......foot. Another defeat by Kim Possible . The explosion that released all of that magical energy and almost shattered my mind. What did I accomplish?" he thought.

"Revenge!" The thought came to him as if someone was standing behind him screaming it in his ear."Yes, revenge." He got off the bed and started walking to find the others. "We have robbed Stoppable of his very soul and he will be dead before tomorrow. And now to see if my loyal ninjas have captured Yori. Her suffering and humilation will be great. Maybe it wasn't such a bad day ater all." he said as he left the room.