KP in Starfighter

What happened after the Last Starfighter left to go into outerspace? What does this have to do with the KP team? Read on to find out!

Chapter 25: Ouch! Too close?

(On Earth)

Beta-Kim uses her memories to sneak up on Shego even as Beta-Ron makes his way over to where Drakken was to do, well… whatever he could without blowing his identity but Shego somehow hears her coming or something and turns to face her.

Shego smirks as she slips into a pose and then says, "I was waiting for you to show up Princess."

Beta-Kim remembered that was one of Shego's nicknames for her and says, "You won't get away with this!"

Shego's smirk disappears into a snarl, as she hated when Kim would say that because she was always right whenever she did. She ignites her hands and shouts briefly as she charges Kim.

Even as Shego charges Beta-Kim, Beta-Ron sneaks up to where Drakken was and sees some sort of weird, green glowing box labeled, "AR-01-RE". He then turns to Drakken as he says, "There's no way you're getting this thing Drakken!"

Drakken growls and straightens up as much as he can to look intimidating to Beta-Ron, making him do a small "eep!" but unlike the real Ron, he stands his ground as a strange feeling makes him stay rooted where he was.

Drakken just says, "Out of my way you buffoon!" and swings his container at Beta-Ron but he catches it before it can hit him and says back to Drakken, "No way, I am not letting you at that "Arre" thing or whatever it is!"

Drakken struggles to reclaim the container as he shouts, "Get out of my way! I will have that technology and use it to improve my synthodrones to where they are invincible so I can rule the world!"

Shego is grappling with Beta-Kim hand to hand as she turns her head to Drakken and shouts, "You're telling them the whole plan again Dr. D!"

Beta-Ron smiles at Drakken and says, "She's right you know."

Drakken growls in frustration and pushes right at Beta-Ron, causing him to stumble backwards with his pants falling to his ankles even as Beta-Ron thinks, "What? Why? Why does this happen to me?"

Shego says, "Smooth move…" Before Drakken trips over the fallen Beta-Ron and his head hits the container, causing to blink and pop open, spilling its contents into Drakken's container with the lid that was off it but not before Beta-Ron could get a very good look at what it was!

Drakken shouts as he hops up to his feet, "I've got it Shego! Let's get out of here!"

Beta-Ron gets up to his knees and tries to grab onto Drakken, managing to only get one ankle as he cries out, "Oh no you don't! You're not leaving here with that!"

Shego pushes Kim back and does a back-flip kick to push Beta-Kim who instinctively blocks the kick and says to her, "Later!" She then runs over to where her boss is and steps on Beta-Ron's back, causing him to cry out and let go of Drakken just long enough for her to grab Drakken, pulling him away before Beta-Ron could recover.

Beta-Kim cries out, "Ron!" and then growls as she runs at Shego as she was angry but Shego quickly tosses Dr. D. into the drill and hops into the driver's seat. She watches in frustration as Ron shouts, "Don't let them escape! Put a homing beacon on them quickly!"

Beta-Kim is shocked by Beta-Ron and could see that Shego couldn't see them already as she was roaring forward to drill a fresh hole on the other side just as easily and quickly as they had coming in! Still, she opens a secret hole on a middle finger and launches a tiny homing beacon onto the back of it.

Beta- Ron tries to get up but his pants had hopelessly become entangled around his feet and he falls back down again before he pleads, "A little help here?"

Beta-Kim walks over and says, "What is going on Ron? Why did you have me tag them? That's not Kim tech, and you know it." She helps him untangle as he says, "Well, it should be, it would help in a lot of their problems where they are trying to find the bad guys after they escape."

Beta-Kim shakes her head as she tightens his belt and says, "That's what they have Wade for and he's incredibly good at finding them. This whole team is just incredible the way they work together."

Beta-Ron knew from his memories that there was no denying that but it still very much irked him that he had the "Ron Issue" with the pants falling down on him. He says, "Why do you think my pants fell down anyway?"

Beta-Kim says, "Didn't you plan that? I thought it was a very convincing thing for you to do. Tripping up Drakken like that and revealing what he wanted all in one swoop."

Beta-Ron's face flashes a look of surprise as he realizes that his memories of Ron had overcome his programming once again and caused the pants malfunction without his even being aware of it! He smiles a little, smiling up at Beta-Kim and says, "You know… If we ever meet the real Kim and Ron again, remind me to tell him that he's a real piece of… well, I don't know what yet, but he overrode me again just to make my pants fall and if we hadn't fallen. I might never have seen what it was that Drakken had just stolen and then we'd all really be in a fix!"

Beta-Kim looks at Beta-Ron with a questioning look as the Kimmunicator goes off and without even realizing that she was doing it on automatic, she activates it and says, "What's the sitch Wade?"

Wade says, "Kim, I just hacked the database and learned what it was that Drakken and Shego just stole! You're not going to believe it!"

Beta-Ron says, "I saw it with my own two eyes, and I *still* don't believe it. Well, actually I do but that they had it for this long really says something about the planet."

Beta-Kim looks in annoyance as she felt like the only one who didn't know what was going on and says, "What? What was it that they got?"

Wade says over the Kimmunicator, "They got something a piece of alien technology that is twenty years old but still far more advanced than anything else on the planet. The scientists were trying to reverse-engineer what it was but…" He is interrupted as Beta-Ron says, "Wade, no offense but I think this is my moment to shine here because I know exactly what or should I say, 'who' they got in this case."

Beta-Kim says, "What do you mean by that? What or Who? You're not making any sense Ron."

Beta-Ron starts to laugh to himself and says, "The label for the container, it suddenly makes perfect sense about the name of the label! AR-01-RE! Well, all but that last RE part really but it makes sense to me now!"

Wade says over the Kimmunicator, "Ron, if you know. Then just say it already!"

Beta-Kim looks at Beta-Ron with eyes that told him to get on with it and crosses her arms, signaling that she wasn't going to wait any longer.

Beta-Ron says as he holds up his hands, "Ok! Ok! The thing they just stole was a piece of us, more precisely. The first one of us to land on Earth to do just what we are doing."

Beta-Kim's eyes go wide as she says in a hushed voice, "Ron, you don't mean…"

Beta-Ron nods to her as he says, "AR is Alex Rogan, Model 1 but I still don't know what the RE is for. That shouldn't be on the model tag."

Wade says, "I can answer that, the military thought it was a cybernetic lifeform of some sort given the way the survived pieces looked and the answers they got from the people at the StarLight, StarBright trailer park. The RE stands for 'Robotic Entity'."

(In Space)

Ron turns in his chair, shooting some more ships coming up behind them as he cries out, "What? You want to get shot up? Please tell me you banged your head or something, no… no… I know you. You have a plan right?"

Kim nods as she dodges some more shots and says, "That's right, I have a plan. It involves our ultimate weapon."

Ron thinks for a few seconds as he spins and blasts two fighters coming in at them from above and says, "The power of positive thinking?"

Kim smiles at Ron and says, "Something more effective than that. Remember our first time out in this ship?" She watches as Ron looks confused for a moment before he starts to say, "What do you mean? Oh! Ohhhhhhh… I get it now! Good idea Kim!" She says to him, "Thanks Ron."

Kim dodges two very close blasts as Ron blasts the ship the fired on them and another ship that was about to shoot at them before she radios out, "Don't come to help us, we've got this in the bag!" She watches the other Gunstar lingers on a course to help them before turning away.

The two of them continue to dodge and shoot as the fighters keep them from going anywhere with the battleship and Xur's ship coming in closer and closer by the second.

(Battleship Anma)

The battleship captain says, "Report!" and very quickly the tactical officer says, "We are approaching as ordered by Lord Xur and it appears that the Gunstar is unaware of our plan as they have made no plan for escaping yet even after having destroyed more than half the squadrons around them without taking a single hit themselves."

The Captain turns sharply and says, "Repeat that last bit? Am I correct in hearing that they have not taken a single hit yet?"

The tactical officer nods and says, "Yes Sir, according to our instruments they have no damage yet."

The Captain turns to his viewscreen and says, "Exactly how long have they been in battle and against how many squadrons?"

The tactical officer looks down at his screens and says, "Almost 19 minutes and in that time they have destroyed a total of 26 squadrons."

The Captain stiffens in shock at the numbers. He had never, ever heard of anyone or anything being capable of avoiding so many lasers for so long and against so many! He doubted even a computer could do it and says softly to himself, "Just what is in that Gunstar that could be capable of such avoidance and shooting?"

Meanwhile on Kim and Ron's Gunstar, Ron says to Kim, "I think my ears are burning… does that mean someone's talking about us?"

Kim shakes her head for a moment and says, "Or it could be windburn from how fast you're whipping about in that chair."

Back on the battleship, the Captain turns to the tactical officer and says, "This smells like a trap. Is there anything or anyone positioning towards this way?"

The tactical officer looks at the screens, "Nothing within range that could help the Gunstar defeat or damage any of us."

The Captain turns back and says, "What about that asteroid?"

The tactical officer says, "Apparently it was just used to hide the two Gunstars. It's course remains unchanged."

The Captain says, "And the other Gunstar?"

The tactical officer says, "It is busy with another squadron at the moment."

The Captain hmms in deep thought before he says, "Continue on approach, lock weapons onto the Gunstar as soon as we're in range. We fire only with Lord Xur has given the command."

(Xur's Ship)

Xur laughs evilly as he says, "Look at them! Like a bug, it will be squashed between two mighty forces!" He then turns and says, "Is the main weapon still locked on the planet?"

"Yes Lord Xur, it is still locked on and awaiting your order to fire." Came the quick response.

Xur turns to face the planet on the main screen with a large target scope on the center of it as he says, "Not even the Star League's Gunstars will be enough to save the planet." He starts a low, evil chuckle that starts to build up quickly to a very evil laughter that just gives everyone on the bridge a moment where they must repress a shiver for one reason or another.

Xur says to everyone on the bridge, "I think we've kept everyone waiting long enough. Tell the Anma to fire on the Gunstar the moment they are in range." He then turns and shouts, "We've got a planet to destroy!"

Meanwhile at that exact moment, the asteroid that everyone had been ignoring gets close enough to Xur's ship for someone to shout, "Let's give Xur some payback!" This gets some cheering even as the surface of the asteroid begins to change and powerful weapons begin to pull out from within very quickly.

Even as the asteroid pulls out some very powerful weapons, Kim says to Ron, "Initiating Starburst, hold onto your seat!"

Ron holds on tight with Rufus doing the same in his seat as he says, "You don't have to tell me KP, I remember last time!"

The next few seconds are a very confusing explosion of light over the planet.

AN: Well everyone, I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I've been very busy getting ready for my finals. So what do you think of Beta-Kim and Beta-Ron going up against Shego and Drakken? Did it seem like something that would happen to the real Kim and Ron? What did you think of the AR-01-RE thing? After all, advanced tech like that wouldn't totally get destroyed in a simple truck explosion, don't you think? With Maggie and Alex off in space, there was no one was left to make sure the remains of the Alex's Beta Unit was totally destroyed. Can you imagine what would happen if Drakken mixed Sythodrone tech with Beta-Alex tech? What do you think of Kim's plan to deal with the ships coming at them? Think it will work? If you were Captain of the battleship, would you be surprised or even a little bit nervous in approaching Kim and Ron's Gunstar? –wink- Do you think the asteroid will be able to take out either the Battleship or Xur? Can the planet even be saved with Kim and Ron's help?

As usual all reviews, thoughts on the chapter, votes of confidence, names of loud, good dual-alarm, alarm clocks that do not have iphone/iwhatever attachments, ideas of where my Black Widow artwork picture disappeared to, and more are always welcome.