Here's another idea I had, and thought I might try and see if y'all like it.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters invovled, 'cept for Little Kaley Martin.
Rescue"Help me…"
A small voice floated up a darkened shaft as a small face with brown eyes, framed with matted dishwater-blond hair, showed nothing but fear.
I'm alone… Nobody knows I'm here…The little girl moved slightly, trying to figure out why her lower right leg had gone numb.
"Owwwwww… oww, oww, owww!" Tears fell from her puppy-dog brown eyes as pain shot up her leg, and into her lower back.
Whimpering slightly, 8 year old Kaley Martin settled back down the best she could so that her leg wouldn't hurt anymore.
My parents have got to be missing me by now. She thought as the light of the sky was getting darker. She could see up the mining shaft and out the opening she had fallen in to. It was so far away though, she felt there was no way anyone would know she was down here.
Why did I have to go off by myself? Kaley started to admonish herself. I left my bike a few feet from here, so maybe someone will see it and look for me down here.
What Kaley didn't know was that a couple of boys had happened upon her bike and decided to have some fun and ride it down the nearby bikers trail. The little girls Scwhinn with a pink basket was not made for that kind of torture, and came apart on the boy's second trip down.
Time almost literally stood still for little Kaley as she went in and out of consciousness. Her inadvertent fall down the old abandoned mine shaft had done more to her than just a broken ankle. When she initially landed on the hard bottom of packed dirt, she smacked her head on a fairly large rock, knocking her a bit silly.
Now her head just really hurt, and her hair was all matted and sticky with drying blood behind her left ear.
Blackness…
Kaley awoke to a dull thump…thump…thump. At first, she thought it was her own heartbeat, but then realized it was coming from above her.
Rescue? Her foggy mind thought, and she fought the urge to close her eyes again, and lost.
Blackness…
Her eyes fluttered open again, as dirt seemed to be falling down from the entrance high above her. At first she thought it was a cave-in, and she fought down panic. Her parents had taught her better than to jump to conclusions before resorting to freaking out, but again… she was only 8.
The Kaley thought she heard… voices? They sounded so far away, but somehow she could tell what was being said.
"Kim! Come look at this!"
"What did you find Ron?"
"It looks like part of a… torn shirt. Maybe."
Kaley looked down at herself, cringing at the stiff muscles in her neck, to look at herself. Her shirt was torn, and some of it was missing! She looked back up and realized that it was now starting to get dark, and she was also starting to get a bit cold. They just HAD to know she was there.
She tried to call out, but because she hadn't had any water for better than 6 to 8 hours, it wasn't much more than a croak. Working her tongue a bit, she was able to work up a bit of saliva, and she swallowed, making things feel a little better, but not much. She tried calling out again.
"Help… I'm… h… here!"
Instead of a reply by a human voice, she heard chattering of some kind, and Kaley would swear later that she heard a small voice call out, "Over here!"
The next thing she heard was almost music to her little ears. It was an almost angelic voice.
"Kaley…? Is that you? Are you down there?"
"Yes… Help me, please."
"Hang on Kaley!" The voice said. "We'll get you out. Ron! Over here!"
"Yeah Kim?"
"If we set up a rig, think you could make it down to her?"
"I should be able to. I'd say the diameter is about 5 feet, but these sides look a bit loose. I should be OK though."
Kaley was so relieved. She was going to be rescued! Help had arrived. Once again, she relaxed.
Blackness…
"Kim! Can you lower me any further? I'm almost there!" Kaley looked up, and noticed that someone was coming down the shaft, but very slowly. They had a flashlight, and were shining it on her. Her rescuer spoke to her.
"It's OK Kaley. My name's Ron. We're going to get you out of here."
"R… Ron…?"
"Thing's are going to be OK now. I'm here. KP!" He yelled up towards the top. "What's going on? Why have I stopped?"
That same angelic voice from before called down again. "It's jammed Ron! Let me…"
Sproing… TINK!
"Ron! The braking pawl just broke!"
Almost immediately, Ron fell the last 10 or so feet, and came to an abrupt stop just before falling on Kaley, who had brought her hands up as a reaction to his almost landing on her.
The sudden stop had jerked Ron violently, and he slammed into the side of the shaft, dazing him.
"Ron! The rig is coming down, look out!"
Ron dropped the last few feet, and leaned on the side over the top of Kaley, protecting her. The spool of cable and part of the rigging crashed down the shaft hitting the sides knock a bunch of dirt on his back, and then it hit Ron's back. Part of the cabling continued to fall on the ground next to his foot.
"Are… you… OK, Kaley?" He grunted out.
"Yes… what about you?"
"I'm…" He shifted a bit. "Fine."
Ron was far from being 'fine'. Almost the entire cable rigging that was over the mouth of the shaft was now sitting on his back. It was about 200 pounds of steel cable and struts. If he let it fall any further, it would crush poor Kaley.
"Ron…! Ron…! Are you OK?" That same angelic voice called.
"Yeah KP. We're… good. I'm… keeping the rig from falling on Kaley. Could you maybe… get someone down here?"
Ron then heard the sound of Kim's grappling gun, and heard the steel hook connect with a part of the rigging on his back, and then felt some of the weight let up.
"I can't lift it all the way up, but I hope this helps!" Kim yelled down the shaft.
"Yeah… it does."
Something dark, warm, and sticky landed on Kaley's hand. Ron's flashlight was attached to him and it swung loosely from a lanyard, swinging a shaft of light back and forth over her. She then noticed that what had fallen on her was blood.
She looked at Ron's face with questioning eyes, and Ron just smiled back at her, trying not to show just how much pain he was in.
"It's OK Kaley." He said, and swallowed hard while shifting again. "That's Kim Possible up there. If anyone can get us out of this, she can."
Little Kaley finally realized who her rescuers were. Team Possible!
To be concluded…
Guess I'll call this a… "One and a half-Shot". Another experiment, so please bear with me…
Might be a dumb idea, but let me know what you think anyway…