Authors/Notes: If this doesn't make sense, you can go back and read RSVP I & RSVP II. Or just try to keep up as best you can…
Required Disclaimer: Kim Possible and all Related Characters are © Disney, Bob Schooley & Mark McCorkle. Main Plot and numerous detours are products of my own, uncompensated psychosis.
Chapter 1 – Back in the Game
Ron Stoppable—the real Ron, accept no substitutes—opened his eyes to chaos.
A moment—or a timeless eternity—ago, he had been lying next to his long-lost wife in a white room, in a place between time and space.
She had been fading for some time now and, at the end, she had slipped away with a contented but wistful sigh…
He had wasted no time in searching for her.
But Time had become a fluid and uncertain thing for him…for both of them…ever since he had found himself yanked out of the world of the living and brought to his love as she hovered between life and death.
So he did not know how long he had wandered through the vast, foggy whiteness in search of her…again…
Then, without warning, the mists faded away and he found himself surrounded by chaos: screaming, snarling, pandemonium.
And he was ill-prepared to sort it out after being immersed for so long in the Deep Stillness.
He tried to draw on Sensei's teachings from his time at Yamanouchi: Focus!
And it came to him: He was immersed in a game of Zombie Mayhem!
He was in a cemetery—natch!
There were zombies! Everywhere!
But what was odd was that the other people around the graveyard…were people that he knew!
His senses kicked in.
The feel of the breeze on his skin.
The solidness of the ground beneath his feet.
The stench of death and decay in his nostrils.
The smell of blood!
And…above the shrieks of his friends and former classmates…the sound of his little sister…CRYING!
He thrust out his arm.
Opened his fingers.
The Lotus Blade smacked into his palm with a sound of thunder!
Soft brown eyes blazed actinic blue!
He began to carve a path to the overturned limo that was drawing the undead like a roach motel.
ABOUT THE TITLE: "Back in the Game" is a slang expression for returning to active status. Which not only works as Ron "Prime" has returned but the situation he encounters upon regaining full consciousness is very much like his favorite video game: Zombie Mayhem!
A/N 2: Yes, it's a short chapter: gotta take small bites for the newbies…
REVIEWS FOR CHAPTER 1
CajunBear73 chapter 1 . 2/11/15
Well, look who's back, and what he's woken up to...Bet after this he never plays 'Zombie Mayhem' ever again, he's living it. But will it be brought home to him when he starts taking down recently turned friends or family, that he'd better get a handle on things that are rapidly getting out of control?
Or will Kim, in her current condition lay waste to him and all he loves?
CB73
Good questions, CB: we'll have to wait and see... R~13
GabrielBlade chapter 1 . 2/11/15
... wellllll that mollifies me a bit.
A-booyahahahah!
Yeah, well wait until everyone else finally figures out who really died at the end of RSVP II... R~13
Guest chapter 1 . 2/12/15
Always wanted Ron mystic martial arts master/ring tower of muscles/Drakken/Zorpox super genius brains
Well, we'll see how integrated Ron will be this time around. He's definitely going to have to step up his game. R~13
A very odd fellow chapter 1 . 2/12/15
That epilogue plus this intro chapter...looks like Yori didn't make a full recovery after all. Looks have certainly been deceiving before though, so I can't be certain just yet. Still, it's great to have Ron "Prime" back in action, and I can't wait to see how he handles his return to the group and vice versa.
-Avof
I can't wait, either! R~13
sparrowhawk63 chapter 1 . 2/12/15
Mind still in tactical mode from part two...more on that this weekend. However, for now...
YEEAAAAAH! Chosen One in the House! Let the whoop-ass commence!
I think we're going to need more than one can on this!
Just a thought...these are not the zombies we humans are used to. They are not a biological accident, natural or man-made. Nor are they demon spawn. They are reanimated corpses weaponized by an alien technology. Weapons. If you get hit with an axe, you do not become an axe. COPY?
Interesting points, SH! We'll see more of the Lowardian machinations behind all this very soon.
Keep on keeping on...
Sparrowhawk63
Will do. (Do with an "o", not a "u") R~13
Sentinel103 chapter 1 . 2/12/15
Oooooooo we get to see Ronnie boy turn things up a notch or two...did he find a Zombie Kim?
ST-103
He should be so lucky. More developments on the Anubis-possessed Kim coming up in the next chapter. R~13
the Desert Fox chapter 1 . 2/14/15
"Some say that his voice can only be heard by cats, and that he has two sets of knees. All we know is he's called the Stig."
Well seeing as how Zorpox is not the original, the Lotus Blade was not going to come to him. It only works for Optimus Ron.
Optimus Ron! I love it! R~13
Uberscribbler chapter 1 . 2/14/15
So now Ron thinks he's in his favorite video game, and has no clue whatsoever that this is in fact the first wave of another Lowardian action against Earth? Man is he going to hit the proverbial roof when he finds out who is in the limo.
I'm still kinda in shock over what you were doing with the Ron clones, but I'm sure I mis-read that section and it was nothing. Right? RIGHT!
Anyways, o demented genius, if you tarry over-long in updating, I shall PM you with the thousands of bad jokes I've taken to collecting. Very, very bad jokes that archaeologists shall unearth in a thousand years time as proof-positive of our species' collective death wish! I shall do this thing! Don't you dare doubt it!
Your bad jokes do not frighten me! Remember, I can strike back with multiple "lemon" scenes which I know that you dread and abhor! (So there!) R~13
the Desert Fox chapter 1 . 2/20/15*
*Yay, you're posting on my birthday again!
I figured I'd comment here since commenting for Chapter 46 of book 2 for the 3rd time is a little silly.
If Kim is going to be a villain, she should be more like Senor Senior Senior in that she should be respectful of her adversary and try not to have her get a swelled head. To paraphrase Drakken, she may think she's all that, but she's not.
Well, thanks to Jackie Oaks' Pendent of Anubis, she should have a "swelled" head since the Egyptian dark god of the underworld may be renting some space in there...
Anubis possessed Kim? Would've thought he was busy annoying his former comrades Dais, Kale, and Sekhmet. Maybe he was bored. Well if need be you could always summon Ryo of the Wildfire.
I haven't really been emphasizing the other part of the "ritual" gone awry at the end of RSVP I: many of my readers were focused on the obvious, external part of the explosion-the overdriven moodulator chip. The pendent-or its after-effects-is still in play and we'll see those effects more in the chapters to come... R~13
Joe Stoppinghem chapter 1 . 2/21/15
Well it took about 2 weeks but I finally got caught up on this story.
Only 2 weeks? You must have been skimming...
First thing, DAMN IT! Did Yori have to die?
Yori originally died early in RSVP I. It was the feedback from all of you pesky readers that made me bring her back for an extended arc. You lot are a pushy bunch: I've even been threatened if I should so much as harm a single hair on Mrs. Dr. Possible's head! Sheesh! I can't wait for the "fan" mail for Chapter 2...
Second, HOLLY CRAP! At this pace everyone will be dead and there won't be anyone left to write about.
That's the plan: one or two more chapters and I can be done. Whew! Will save me all that work of turning out a Part III with another 40-plus chapters!
Third, didn't Yori make it to the, 'final five' to have a chance to be with Ron?
Being a reanimated Zombie should not count.
Well, the "Final" Five was never intended to be completely literal in the sense of Ron ending up with a harem of five. I think I elaborated on this once (many, many chapters ago...) I was looking to "thin the herd" down to a more manageable group to back Ron in his conflict with Dark Kim. And, while somewhat guided by reader feedback (see "Yori's death") I wasn't going to lock myself into a "Choose Your Own Adventure" straight-jacket. The story has literally and on multiple occasions been altered by reader input and feedback...but the original plan remains (for the most part) largely intact. It's an interesting gestalt!
However, if she is out of the picture, then there may be a slight change that Ron and save Kim and himself, (being a K/R ship supporter)
But...but...Uberscribbler tells me that that wouldn't work, now. I'm so confused... ;-)
Thanks for all the work you have done with this story.
Thank you! Words of appreciation and encouragement give me wings! R~13