If you haven't figured out what this story might be about just from the title, you will for sure know by the end of this chapter…
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Kim Possible characters. Please also note that there are some OC's of my own in this as well, which would probably be considered as mine.
Chapter 1
"Mom? Dad? Tweebs? Where are you guys?"
Kim had arrived home after a particularly grueling mission in which her and Ron had to rescue Phillipe Boullione from the Seniors. Señor Senior Senior had attempted to kidnap him in an effort to get back in to the Billionaire's club, but it backfired when Junior tried to stop his father from destroying a lock of hair from Elvin Preston. Phillipe had bought the hair for an obscene amount of money, and he had it preserved in a vacuum-sealed container. Senior thought that by destroying his foes prized possession, he would break the man and force him to reinstate his membership into the club.
Kim and Ron had finished the mission on a Friday evening, and after dropping Ron off at his house, Kim continued on to her place. All the lights were on, and both of her parent's vehicles were in the garage. The TV was on with a game of Space Squid set on 'Pause'. In the kitchen it looked like her mom was starting to get dinner ready as a casserole was sitting on the stove, ready to be placed into the oven which was set at 350 degrees.
"Where is everybody?" Kim said silently to herself as she methodically checked every room, not finding any of her family home.
Her mind went into 'Mission Mode', and Kim started to check things off in her head. Both cars are still here, Jim and Tim were here by the fact of the game hooked up to the TV, all the lights were on as if they had been there not too long ago…
The next thing she did, was check all of the doors and entrances. They were all locked, and Kim didn't find any evidence of tampering.
Pressing a button on her wrist Kimmunicator, Kim called the only person who could help her at this point. "Wade… High strangeness here at home. I arrived here fine, but no one is around. All the lights are on and there's no sign of forced entry. There's a game of Jim and Tim's sitting on pause on the main TV, and both cars are still in the garage."
"That is strange Kim. Let me check the house security system and see if it recorded anything out of the ordinary." Wade furiously typed at his keyboard for a few seconds, and then a beep was heard from his computer system. "Nothing out of place here Kim. I checked the security cameras as well, and nothing seems out of place there either. It looks like a Pizza Delivery guy arrived about an hour ago and…"
"Wait!" Kim said, interrupting Wade. "Mom was cooking a casserole, and it was ready to be put into the oven. Why would they also order a pizza?"
"Maybe they were making sure there was enough food if Ron and Rufus stopped by for dinner as well?" Her Tech Guru suggested.
"No way Wade…" Kim said shaking her head side to side. "Mom always makes extra food just for that reason. I'll bet anything she was going to either make something else, or put together another casserole."
"OK… here's something weird Kim. I've done a quick sweep of your house using the internal cameras and motion detectors, and I can't find any evidence anywhere of a delivery pizza."
"Can you at least figure out where the Delivery guy came from?" Kim suggested, and the small screen on her Kimmunicator split in two, Wade on one side, and the entrance of the house on the other. Kim watched as someone in a red hat, white t-shirt and jeans arrived at the front door and rang the bell.
James answered the door almost as soon as the doorbell rang. "Yes?
"Delivery for the Possible's." The young boy said, as he held a large pizza box in front of him.
"I'm sorry, but we didn't order a pizza." James answered.
"Huh… I've got your address here on this receipt, and the pizza was already paid for by credit card. I can't bring the pizza back since it's been paid for, and it's against policy for me to carry it around in my car. If you don't want it, I'm going to just throw it away."
What kind of pizza is it?" James asked.
"Pepperoni and double bacon. If you don't…"
James quickly snatched the box of the delivery-boy's hand. "That's OK, we'll take it. Might be a good midnight snack."
"OK then Sir… Have a good night."
The delivery boy then walked away and James shut the front door.
Wades face once again filled the small screen. "Nothing looks too out of the ordinary here Kim. I don't understand though why he isn't wearing anything with his company's logo or name on it though. Even the pizza box just says 'Pizza'."
"We usually order pizza from Sato's Takeout Wade, and they always at least wear a hat that says 'Sato's'. Their box has a distinctive design on it was well."
"So we've got a strange Pizza Delivery guy, everyone is gone, and it seems like they were all there just before this guy arrived." Wade placed his fingers to his chin while thinking.
"There's got to be a connection between my family's disappearance and this pizza guy." Kim said while sitting down on the couch opposite the TV. "But I don't know what the heck it could be."
Kim then dropped both of her hands down on the couch in exasperation, and her right hand landed on one of her brother's game controllers. She picked up the controller and looked at it a bit, trying to figure out how to take the game off of pause before shutting the TV off.
She finally saw a small button that was labeled 'Pause/Reset', and she tapped the button with her thumb. The word "Pause' disappeared from the screen, but then a new picture came on, taking her by surprise. The game didn't shut down, as now there was what appeared to be an hourglass on the screen.
Then a voice that she thought she recognized came from the speakers. It wasn't high pitched, yet it wasn't a low voice, but it did have a distinctive accent, which sounded almost… British.
"Hello Kimberly. I'm sure by now you have noticed that your entire family is missing, and I am sure you are worried sick about them. Let me assure you that they are fine, for the time being, and they will stay that way unless you do not do what I ask of you."
"Who are you… what do you…" Kim started to demand, but then she realized she was talking to a recording.
"Your family is currently resting comfortably at a secret location that only I and a select few know of. The hourglass you see on the screen is a representation of time that you have to perform what I want you to do. The exact amount of time in fact, is 2 hours from the point that you pressed that button on the game controller.
"You are now probably wondering what it is that I want you to do. First off though, I should inform you that if your Technician tries to glean any information from this game console of your brothers, his own system will be irrevocably damaged beyond repair. What I want you to do will be hard for you, Kimberly. It will send you on a mission that may define the rest of your very existence, and make you realize what and who it is that you truly love."
Kim just sat on the couch with her mouth open in mute shock as she continued to listen.
"Now listen to me very carefully Kimberly, as here is what will happen next. You have less than two hours now to complete your task, and save your family from a very painful… end of existence.
"The task that I want you to do, is to take the life of the one person that denied me something that I wanted. He denied me a great power that he has no right to keep to himself, since in a sense, he had stolen it himself. The person I want you to kill is none other that your boyfriend, Ronald Dean Stoppable.
"Oh… and if you have any doubts as to who I am," The screen then changed, and now the face of the one person that Kim hated more than anything else in the world, even more than Shego, appeared. "I am none other than… Moriarty."
Kim's lips mouthed his name at the same time that Moriarty said it, and then the screen went blank and the game console powered off. Kim slowly raised her Kimmunicator up and looked at Wade, who was still on the small screen.
"Wade… I think we have a serious sitch here."
To be continued…
This first chapter is just an introduction, and the following chapters should be longer. This story is a sequel to my other story "The Power of Ron", so please check it and you will see where Moriarty originally came from. I didn't want to mention this at the beginning or in the summary, as I wanted it to be somewhat of a surprise at the end, so I apologize to those who hadn't heard of Moriarty.
Also, before I forget, (which I actually have and had to add this later) "Sato's" is a Restaraunt first used in cpneb's stories. (I forget which one it first appeared) Just my way of keeping his memory going.
Well, folks, here is something that I hope that I don't regret starting. As in, I hadn't wanted to start this so soon when I have so many other Plot Bunnies sitting in the wings. But for some reason, they just didn't appeal to me at the time. Instead, I've started a story that I have virtually no notes for, except for the general idea of what I want to do. So… we'll see how it goes.