Author’s Note: Okay folks, here is the first normal episode in the Kim Possible The College Years Series. Again, I squeak by just a few hours before my deadline runs out, but I made it. So enjoy. I’ll see you at the end.

Kim Possible
The College Years

“Birthday Bananaza”

By: Linear Ranger

It was a bright September afternoon, September sixteenth to be specific. There were some cumulus clouds scattered through the sky, but all together, the sun shone its light over the entire Tri City University. The new freshmen had been living on campus and attending classes for about a month now, and were now settling into their new lifestyle.

Two of these freshmen were walking back to the Delta Dorm Building on campus. Well, to be correct, one young man was walking, while the other was rolling along in his cyber robotic wheel chair his genius mother had constructed for him. These two were Ron Stoppable and Felix Renton. Felix was in his wheelchair wearing his purple Zombie Mayhem shirt, with its green flaming skeleton head on the chest. His college books were in his lap, sitting on his kaki cargo pants. Ron had on a black t-shirt with a very familiar ‘no ghost’ logo on the chest. Finishing off Ron’s wardrobe was a dark red pair of shorts and his normal backpack on his back.

As the two were walking back to their home dorm, their conversation consisted of the normal class talk, the latest mission Ron and Kim had been on, but a new conversation came into play.

As the two friends started to pass by the Campus Museum, Felix stopped for a moment, turned to Ron and asked, “So what ya doing for your b-day tonight?”

Ron stopped, leaned against a tree in the middle of the sidewalk and answered, “Kim has kept telling me to keep my plans empty. She’s had some big surprise planned for quite sometime now. I’ve been trying and trying to find out what this ‘surprise’ is, but I got nothin’.”

Felix grinned as he glanced over to his right. He saw the college museum with vertical banners hanging. These banners were meant to highlight the newest exhibit to be added.

“Oh, I know what the surprise is,” Felix said with a sly voice.

Ron, surprise, asked, “Really? What?”

Felix motioned with his thumb towards the banners. Ron looked at what his friend was inferring. The banners were green and displayed ancient monkey statues and other primal items. The text on the advertisers read, “Primal Primate Exhibition”.

Ron shuddered, and Rufus popped out of Ron’s shorts pocket and squeaked, “Monkeys, phooey!”

While Felix was enjoying a good laugh, at Ron’s expense, neither of them saw a certain red-haired female walk up behind them.

“Felix, now you’ve spoiled the surprise,” the voice said with tease in her tone.

The two friends turned around to Kim standing there with a mischievous grin on her face. She was wearing black jeans with a white t-shirt that had two intertwined flowers on the chest.

“Not funny Kim,” Ron said, in his own serious tone.

“Ah come on Ron, I thought it’d make a nice birthday date idea.”

“Oh yeah sure, nothing like looking through a bunch of furry tree swinger junk to just make a guy’s birthday complete,” Ron answered with sarcasm.

Kim giggled a bit, walked up and put her hand on Ron’s shoulder as she said, “Okay, okay we’ll skip the primates and go on with the other surprise.”

“Which is,” Ron tried to get an answer for, while sporting his trademark grin and hopeful eyes.

Kim returned the look with her own ‘not a chance’ look.

“If I told you, then it wouldn’t be a surprise now would it.”

Ron started to admit defeat as he said, “I guess so.” But just then a new idea came to his mind. He reached into his pocket and pulled Rufus out. Ron put Rufus to Kim’s face and said, “Say how about you tell Rufus, he doesn’t need to be surprised.”

Ron’s little trick didn’t fool Kim as she said, “Rufus is in on the surprise too Ron.”

Ron’s face turned to shock as he turned Rufus towards him, “Rufus!”

The Naked Mole Rat just sat in the palms of Ron and whistled and acted innocent.

Kim giggled a bit again and said, “Felix, you’ll have to excuse us now. Ron’s gotta get ready for tonight and I’ve got to put the finishing touches on the ‘surprise’.”

“No problem,” Felix said, “I’ve gotta get some studying done at the library. See you guys later.”

Felix then started off, leaving Kim and Ron standing there.

“Come on Ron, we need to get going,” Kim said as she turned to her boyfriend.

However, Ron was concentrating on the Primate Banners.

“Ron?”

Ron snapped back to reality and said, “Oh sorry KP. Um, KP you promise the surprise isn’t the Primate Exhibit?”

Kim put both her arms on Ron’s shoulders, looked him straight in the eyes, smiled and said, “I promise Ron, you birthday surprise has nothing to do with the exhibit.”

Ron smiled as he said, “Thanks KP. Okay, let’s go.”

With that the two started off towards the Delta Dorm.

However, what Kim and Ron did not happen to see, were a small group of creatures lurking in the tree above them. Hiding in amongst the green leaves of the tall tree, were about five or six small warriors. They wore black ninja outfits that covered all of their bodies except their eyes, fury hands, fury feet, and finally their tails.

The Monkey Ninjas had been waiting and listening to the conversation going on below. Once Kim and Ron were a safe distance away, the ninjas jumped down from the tree, landing silently on the ground and moved off away towards the forest that surrounded the campus.

A short distance from the Tri City University, a cave laid hidden deep within the forest. The secluded natural structure could only be found if one knew what they were looking for. Within the cave, the area was lit by lanterns, hanging from hooks embedded in the stone walls. In the center, a circular rug was on the floor, along with a strange creature sitting on that rug. He looked human, but he also had distinct characteristics of a monkey. This man was, of course, none other than Lord Monkey Fist.

The man-monkey was sitting in a meditating position. His eyes were closed, his hands at his sides with thumb and ring finger touching. He wore his normal ninja wear. What lay around the man were various ancient texts and scrolls. All of these dealt with the same topic, ancient Mystical Monkey Magic.

Lord Fist had been meditating for hours. However, his session was soon interrupted. The small group of Monkey Ninjas stepped into the glowing light of the lanterns. Though their ninja skills and techniques kept them from being heard by the normal human hearing, they were not good enough to escape that of a proclaimed monkey master.

Monkey Fist opened his eyes to see his small army before him. The ninjas bowed to their master, and remained in the bowing stance until Monkey Fist was on his feet. Lord Fist stood there, no expression on his face, his hands clasped behind his back, and gazing at his minions.

“What have you to report,” Fist said in his distinct accident.

The next sounds heard where that from one of the Monkey Ninjas talking monkey speak.

After a few moments of this chatter, the Monkey Ninja that had been reporting to his master handed him a sheet of paper. Monkey Fist took the sheet from the Monkey Minion and looked it over. The paper was a flyer for the Primal Primate Exhibit at the Tri City University Museum. One item that was highlighted was that of a stone monkey warrior creature wearing some form of ancient armor.

“Excellent my Monkey Ninjas. Tonight we shall strike. Those foolish humans have no idea what power lies under their noses.”

Another Monkey Ninja got up a bit of courage to step forward and interrupt his master’s rant. The Monkey Master gazed in concentration as his warrior explained something to him. After the ninja completed his statements, Lord Fist gazed at the ancient text hanging on the wall, that of the Mystical Monkey Monks.

“Ah yes Ronald Stoppable, destiny has once again insisted in bringing us in yet another conflict.”

Though a dangerously evil smile started to develop on Monkey Fist’s face as he concluded, “However, once I gain the power of the Primal Armor, not even young Stoppable or his girlfriend Possible, will be able to stop me. But just in case, perhaps it would be wise to prepare ourselves.”

Inside the dorm room of Ron Stoppable, the young, or now eighteen year old, male was finishing getting ready for the ‘surprise’. Ron had changed into his bluish-green & black bowling style shirt, along with a pair of tan cargo pants.

Ron was looking in the mirror of his dresser as he licked his palm, slicked back his hair, and said, “Booyah, I am the man.”

Though the slicked back hair look did not last long as his normal cowlick sprung back into place, quickly followed by the rest of this well-known hairstyle.

“Aw man.”

The squeaky mole rat laughter was coming from the top of the dresser. Ron picked up his pet and held him in front of his.

“Uh hun yeah first you keep this surprise from me, and now you mock me.”

“Heh sorry,” the Naked Mole Rat replied.

“Come on buddy, you can tell me about the surprise.”

The only response Rufus gave, was him turning around Ron’s palms and shaking his head. Before Ron could continue any more begging, a familiar knock came from the door to the room.

“Ron, you ready to go yet?”

Rufus jumped up onto Ron’s shoulder as he walked to the door. Ron opened the door revealing the one and only Kim Possible. Ron’s girlfriend was wearing her white t-shirt with red heart on the chest. Finishing the montage was another pair of tan cargo pants. Kim stood there smiling and hiding something behind her back.

“Hey KP, what are ya hiddin,” Ron asked as he craned his head around to try and see what Kim was keeping from him.

“Not yet, first you weren’t trying to get answers out of Rufus were you?”

“Who me, nah no not at all. I mean I would not want to ruin the surprise KP.”

Though Ron’s statements held no ground. For one thing he couldn’t make eye contact with Kim as he stated his lie. Secondly, he rubbed the back of his neck while stating the falsehood. Finally, Ron did not see Rufus grinning and nodding his head to Kim.

“Riiiiggghhhhtttt.”

Ron then looked over and saw his pet betraying him.

“Traitor,” Ron hissed while trying to act tough. However, Rufus just smiled and said, “Bye,” and then scampered back into Ron’s pants pocket.

“Okay Kim, let’s go then.”

“Not just yet, first turn around.”

Ron shrugged his shoulders, “Okay, and I’m looking at…”

Before Ron could continue, his vision became total darkness. His arms immediately went out in front of him and started feeling around.

“Hey, what, huh, what’s going on?”

Ron felt Kim turn him back facing her.

“Sorry babe, but I had to blindfold you to keep the surprise extra secret.”

“Uh huh, sure KP, but uh how I am supposed to walk?”

Kim rolled her eyes a moment and said with tease, “With your legs?”

“Okay, funny ha ha.”

“Just take my hand Ron, I’ll lead you.”

So Ron raised his right hand out a bit. Kim took his hand with her left. As they started to walk away, Ron closed his dorm room door with his left hand.

The first thing Ron was able to tell, from his other senses, was that he and Kim had made their way to the dorm elevator. This fact was evident by the ever-present elevator music. Next, Ron could tell they were going down, due to the lunge of the elevator.

“So we’re going down in the elevator,” Ron stated.

Kim giggled a bit and said, “Captain Obvious returns.”

After a few seconds, the device reached the ground level. The doors opened and released their small ‘dinging’ sound. Kim, still holding hands with Ron, led him out and into the main entry of the Delta Dorm. Kim walked to the entry & exit doors, pulled one opened and the two set off outside.

Though Ron could not see the moon hanging in the night sky, he could hear the crickets out chirping. Kim continued to lead her boyfriend along the sidewalk, which was lit by lampposts.

“And we’re outside,” Ron started.

“Yep,” Kim quickly answered.

“Remember, NO MONKEY MUSEUM.”

“Ron, I promise, there will be no monkeys tonight.”

After a few minutes, Ron could tell that they had come up to another set of doors to go through. This time however, they were entering a building. Kim had done the same as she had as they left Delta Dorm, only this time she held the door open and they entered the building. Once inside, they took a few steps over to the left, and Ron heard another elevator ‘ding’.

The doors to the new elevator opened and the couple entered. Ron felt this elevator start upward.

“Oookkkkaaaayy, so we’re in another elevator.”

“Becoming a regular Sherlock aren’t ya,” Kim said with a loving grin.

Ron turned his head to where Kim’s voice had come and said, “You’ve having a lot of fun with this aren’t you?”

“Just a bit yeah.”

Moments later, a final ‘ding’ sounded, the doors opened, and Kim led Ron out. They walked about ten feet into the room and then stopped. Ron felt Kim let go of his hand. Kim went around to Ron’s back and untied the blindfold.

“Okay birthday boy, you can look now.”

Once the blindfold was removed, Ron opened his eyes, but to his surprise, he still couldn’t see anything. Though he knew he could see clearly, the room he was in was completely dark.

“Uh, KP I still don’t see anything.”

“Oh, sorry babe.”

The lights to the room were flicked on quickly, actually too quick for Ron’s eyes.

“Aahhhh,” Ron yelled as his eyes had to try and adjust to the sudden burst of instant light. He covered his eyes immediately, but after a few seconds, he managed to slowly remove them and look in front of him.

What Ron saw before him was Kim, along with Rufus, Monique, Felix, and the hologram projection of Wade. They were all in the dinning hall of the university. Plus, there was a dinning table with a lit birthday cake and a large pile of wrapped presents.

As he finally was able to get a clear view of everyone and everything, he jaw dropped open as everyone in the room yelled, “Surprise! Happy Birthday Ron!”

Ron just stood there in awe for a few moments. His mouth was still hanging open. Kim walked over to the birthday boy and put a party hat on his head and gave him peck on the check, “Happy Birthday Ron.”

Ron came back to earth as he smiled, turned to Kim and said, “Thanks KP.”

“No big, now let’s get down to business.”

“Yeah, you’ve got some presents to open,” Felix added.

“And plenty of cake to go around,” Monique said.

Rufus was already sneaking up towards the white iced cake, his mouth watering.

“No Rufus,” Kim voice commanded, “Not until Ron’s opened his gifts.”

“Phooey,” Rufus said as he plopped himself down on the table.

Ron walked over and took a seat at the head of the table. Kim and Rufus sat to his left, and Monique and Felix sat to his right. Wade’s hologram projection of himself was at the other end of the table. All of them were now wearing party hats and a wide array of wrapped birthday gifts lay before Ron.

“Thanks guys, this is great. I just wish my fam could have been here too.”

“Oh, I’ve got that covered too,” Wade said with a grin.

Just then another hologram projection came online. It showed Ron’s mom and dad sitting in their kitchen.

“Happy Birthday Son,” both of them said.

Ron was happy to see his parents for his birthday, “Thanks Wade, this rocks.”

“Sorry we can’t be there in person hun,” Mrs. Stoppable said.

“I’ve got a big business trip tomorrow and we’ll be gone for a while son,” Mr. Stoppable explained.

“It’s fine dad. It’s just good to see you.”

“Go ahead and open you present from us son,” Mrs. Stoppable said, “It’s the green one Kim.”

Kim reached to her left and took hold of the box wrapped in green wrapping paper. She handed it to Ron and he quickly began unwrapping the present. After a few seconds, the wrappings were gone and the package was revealed to be a state of the art Digital Camera and Printing Station.

“Wow, thanks guys. This is awesome.”

“You’re welcome son,” Mr. Stoppable said.

“We figured you needed a new camera to keep your scrapbook up to date,” Ron’s mom explained.

By the time Mrs. Stoppable had finished her statement, Ron already had the camera out of the box and was putting batteries inside it.

“Let’s try it out,” Ron said with a grin.

Ron then started taking pictures of everything. He took some shots of everyone at the surprise party. A few of Rufus, who was still trying to sneak a piece of cake. Then Ron handed the camera to Felix and said, “Hey, take a picture of me and Kim.”

Felix took the camera and looked through the viewer. Ron stood there with his and Kim’s arms around each other’s waists, and they both had mischievous grins on their faces..

“Three, two, one…” Felix said.

Then just before the camera flashed, Ron turned to kiss Kim and Kim turned to kiss Ron. Neither of them was expecting the other to do the exact same. Their eyes were first surprised, but after a moment they enjoyed the kiss. Felix took the picture at that moment.

“That’ll be one for the books,” Monique added.

Everyone laughed at Monique’s statement, while Kim and Ron blushed.

After the friends and family were through laughing, Ron’s mom said, “Open the gift from your Grandma next, I think it’s in blue and white.”

Again, Kim searched the table, but this time she not only found one box matching the description, but two. But not only were the gifts wrapped the same, the size and shape of the boxes were identical as well.

“Uh, Ron would your Grandmother have sent two of the same gift?”

Ron looked a bit confused as he said, “I wouldn’t think so.”

“Check the tags Kim,” Monique suggested.

Kim looked at one tag and read out, “From Grandma.”

“So who’s the other one from,” Ron asked.

Kim read the other tag, sighed and said, “Nana.”

“Your Nana sent me a present, cool.”

Kim handed both gifts to Ron, but the one from ‘Grandma’ first. Ron made quick work of the paper, but then had to pretend to be pleased. Ron pulled the item out of its thin rectangular box, “Wow, a sweater, just what I needed. Tell Grandma I said thanks Mom.”

“Now hun, you know your Grandma only wants you to stay warm.”

“Sure mom,” Ron said as he rolled his eyes.

“We need to get going son, we need to get our rest for our trip tomorrow,” Mr. Stoppable said.

“Sorry we can’t stay longer Ronnie,” Mrs. Stoppable added.

“I understand mom. Thanks again for the camera.”

“Love you son,” both parents said.

“Love you too,” Ron replied and then the hologram of Ron’s folk flicked off.

“Thanks for that Wade,” Ron said,

The young genius just shrugged and answered, “No big.”

“So what’s the next present,” Ron asked with anticipation.

“Here, open mine next,” Felix said as he handed Ron a box in purple and black paper.

Ron open the gift and let out a loud, “BOOYAH! It’s a GBG!”

“A GBG,” Kim asked confused.

“That’s way fly,” Monique stated.

“Too cool,” Wade added.

“Thought you’d like it,” Felix said.

“WHAT IS A GBG,” Kim had to shout to get attention.

Ron laughed a bit and said, “It stands for Game Box Go. It’s a portable game system.”

“It’s a video game thing,” Kim said dryly.

“Not just any video game thing KP. The GBG is the latest and greatest portable gaming system to go on the market. Now I’ve got something fun to do on our way to missions.”

Kim gave Ron a look and said, “And being with your girlfriend and talking to her isn’t fun?”

Felix, Monique, Wade and Rufus all said, “Ooooooooooooooh.”

Ron grinned and laughed nervously before he said, “Uh that is to say, umm, that, uh, it will only add to the fun I already have when we’re on our way to the missions.”

“Nice save,” Kim said smiling.

“Okay B-Day Boy, mine’s next,” Monique said handing Ron a yellow wrapped gift.

He torn into the paper and said as the gift revealed itself, “Cool, the entire Fearless Ferret TV Show on DVD. Thanks Monique.”

“Just so long as you don’t go around as the Ferret Wonder again,” Monique added.

“No problem.”

Next, Rufus came running up caring a small, thin square gift, “Here.”

Ron took the green and white present from his pet and said, “Thanks buddy.”

After a couple quick moments, Ron said, “Awesome the new Oh Boyz CD ‘Famous’. Thanks Rufus.”

“No big,” Rufus squeaked.

“My gifts for you should be arriving now,” Wade said as he looked at a digital reading on his systems.

“Arriving,” Ron asked.

But before Ron could wonder any more, the elevator dinged once more. The doors opened and Ron’s blue scooter flew in and then landed a few feet away from the table. Everyone was in awe of the new scooter.

This was no longer the old and busted scooter Ron had had back in April. Now the scooter was sleek and more aerodynamic. It was in a bright metallic blue paint now. Plus, it looked like Wade had added quite a few new features to the motor vehicle.

“Say hello to the Roninator Mark One.”

Everyone had gathered around the scooter and was looking at it and all it’s glory.

“Wow this is too cool,” Ron said.

“Oh, but that’s not all,” Wade said as he pressed a button on his control panel.

Just then, a small section of the seat of the scooter popped open and a small wrapped gift popped out. Ron caught the present, though clumsily as the catch was. As Ron unwrapped the gift, Kim smiled since she knew what the gift was.

“Kim asked me to whip this up for you too,”

Ron gasped as he pulled the device out of the box, “My own Kimmunicator!”

“Correction,” Kim started, “Ronnunicator. You can call me, or beep me. Ya know, if ya wanna reach me.”

In Ron’s hand was another new ‘Ronnicator’. It was designed exactly like the new Kimmunicator, but the main difference was that Ron’s was done in a metallic red and white paint scheme.

“Thanks Wade,” both Kim and Ron said together.

“Rewind a sec here,” Monique started with a confused look, “You two live next door to each other. You have every single class together. And you both go on missions together. When exactly is Ron ever that far away from you?”

Kim thought for a moment and Ron said, “Well, you never know. We might need to split up on a mission.”

“That’s true,” Kim said.

“Okay, only a few more gifts to go Ron,” Felix stated.

Everyone walked back over and took their seats at the table.

“The gifts from my fam are next,” Kim explained, “Wade, can you patch mom, dad and the tweebs through?”

“Done and done,” Wade answered as he pressed another button on the control panel. Then Kim’s mom and dad showed up as a hologram projection, just like Ron’s parents had before. Actually, all that was being projected was a close up view of Mr. Possible’s tie.

“Hunny, are you sure you connected everything correctly,” Mrs. Possible’s voice said.

“Well, I think so. I can put this in orbit, so I think I connect a simple camera feed,” Mr. Possible tried to defend himself.

“Hi mom. Hi dad,” Kim said getting her parents attention.

Mr. Possible stepped back and the hologram projection showed both of Kim’s parents sitting in their living room.

“Hello Kimmie,” Mrs. Possible said.

“Hi Kimmie-cub,” Mr. Possible added in, though causing Kim to blush a bit.

“Happy Birthday Ron,” both of them said together.

“Thanks Doctors P Squared.”

“Kimmie, our gift for Ron is in the white box with the blue ribbon,” Mrs. Possible explained.

“Got it mom,” Kim said as she took the thin box and handed it to Ron.

Ron removed the ribbon and opened the box to reveal a book entitled, “The Master Chef Cookbook.”

“Thanks Mr. and Mrs. P. This is great.”

“Your welcome Ron.”

“Kimmie, hand Ron the give from Nana next,” Mrs. Possible instructed.

“Already got it Mrs. P.”

Ron pulled the other blue and white wrapped gift out and held it up for the Possibles to see. He then started to unwrap the gift, and after a short time, it was shown that not only was the gift-wrapped exactly the same as the one from his Grandma, but the gift itself was the same. It was another sweater, exactly like the one before.

“Wow, a sweater,” Ron started trying to act pleased, “tell Nana I said thanks.

Just then Jim and Tim ran into view.

“Now open,” Jim started.

“Our gift,” Tim finished.

“We made it ourselves,” both of them said together.

As Kim handed Ron the present, she turned to Wade and said, “You might want to have the fire department on standby just in case this gift blows up.”

“Hey! We heard that,” the twins said.

Ron opened the present and then pulled out, what looked to be just another normal belt for pants.

“It’s…a belt,” Ron asked a bit confused.

“Oh it’s not,” Jim started.

“Any normal belt,” Tim finished.

“It’s an anti fall belt,” Jim began.

“Guaranteed to keep pants from falling,” Tim concluded.

“Total score,” Ron exclaimed, “I’ll give it a try now.”

As Ron reached for the belt he had on, Kim tried to stop him by saying, “Uh, Ron maybe you wanna wait until…”

But before she could finish, Ron had his old belt off, and since he had no hold of his pants, they feel down to his ankles. Kim held her head in her right hand, embarrassed for her boyfriend. Ron blushed bright red as he reached down to pull up his pants. Meanwhile everyone was having a good laugh.

While everyone was still laughing, Kim looked onto the table and realized that all the presents had been unwrapped.

“I thought I brought my gifts in this afternoon,” Kim thought to herself.

As Kim started to get up, and everyone’s laughter was dying down, an alarm sounded in Wade’s Command Center style room. The laughter was now void from the room. Kim and Ron ran up to a few feet from Wade’s hologram.

“What’s the sitch Wade,” Kim asked.

Wade looked over some of his monitoring screens.

“The University’s Museum’s Security Systems have been tripped.”

Ron’s eyes went wide as he said, “You mean the Monkey Exhibit?”

“Looks like it,” Wade said, still looking over his data.

“We’re on it Wade,” Kim said.

Kim and Ron left the party and made their way to the side of the museum. They were hidden in the shadows of the building. They both leaned around to see the glass entrance doors of the structure broken.

“I don’t like this,” Ron whispered.

“I know, it feels…” Kim replied.

“Trapish,” Ron asked.

Kim looked at Ron as she said, “Again, that’s not a word, but yes. We better suit up.”

“Right.”

The two stood up straight, pressed the faces of their watches and quietly said together, “Battle Up.”

As always, the faces on the watches rose up a slight bit and began releasing millions of tiny nanobots. Ron’s being red and white, and Kim’s were blue and white. The bots began covering their entire bodies. Within a few short seconds, the nanobots had covered the teen’s bodies from the neck down. Then with the normal small pop sound, the techno wonders merged together as one piece and formed the Battle Suits for the two heroes.

The two made their way into the building and were tiptoeing through, still thinking that whomever that had broken in might still be inside. They made their way into the central exhibit room that contained all the pieces for the Primal Primate display. The evening lighting allowed Kim and Ron to see most of the items in the room, but strangely enough, it did not look as if anything had been disturbed or stolen.

“This is just wrong,” Ron whispered as he was looking around.

“I know,” Kim said, “Why would someone break in and not take anything.”

“No, I meant all this exhibit about freaky furry tree swingers.”

“Ron, could we stay focused here.”

“Sorry KP, so what do we do next?”

“I’m not sure, nothing seems to be disturbed.”

“Yeah, and it’s too quite in here.”

However, what Kim and Ron did not see was the team of Monkey Ninjas waiting for their moment to strike. They were hanging by their tails, onto the rafters of the ceiling. This soon changed though, as Kim and Ron took a few step further into the room, the ninjas released themselves and fell gracefully to the floor. Kim and Ron were taken by surprise as the Monkey Ninja fell into place and surrounded them.

“Monkey Fist,” Kim said with a bit of annoyance, “Saw that one coming.”

“Bring it furry freaks!”

The battle began, each teen taking on about three Monkey Ninjas. Kim’s foes formed a triangle around her and started by all three of them doing tornado kicks towards her. Before any of them could make contact, Kim did the splits and ducked down below the attackers. The next attack the monkeys tried was all three of them doing a flying kick, in unison, towards Kim. The teen hero crossed her arms created a force field around herself that as soon as the ninjas struck the barrier, they were thrown back. Finally, the ninjas stacked themselves onto of one another and started towards Kim. But again, Kim was ready and she went on the offensive. Kim got in a crouching position, with her right leg stretched out ready for a leg sweep. As the ninjas neared, Kim began spinning at a rapid speed. Then, once the tower of Monkey Ninjas got within distance, one at a time, the tower fell, from the bottom up, as Kim spun around sending out three rapid leg sweeps. Each ninja was sent crashing against the wall and they stayed there.

The Monkey Ninjas Ron had to deal with however, took a more individual approach. The first ninja to take Ron on tried a battle of hand-to-hand combat. With each attack the monkey attempted, Ron was right there to block him with an arm. This went on for a time, until Ron decided to fight back. As Ron blocked one attack, he sped up faster than anyone could see, and then delivered a tornado kick to the attacking Monkey Ninja. The monkey was sent into the same wall as Kim’s foes were. Before Ron could celebrate, the next ninja took his place. This one tried to kick Ron in the chest, but Ron managed to jump out of the way before contact could be made. As soon as the foe landed, he spun back around and started running straight towards Ron. Once he got up enough speed, the ninja jumped and started flying at Ron with a flying kick. Ron decided to match his foe, he started running at the ninja. However, after Ron got a good start, he aimed his right wrist for the ceiling and fired a grappling line from his wrist, and then went airborne at the same level of the monkey. Just before the two made mid air contact, Ron shifted his weight and went to the side of the Monkey Ninja. This caused a deal of confusion, as the ninja landed on the ground and looked back to Ron, but he was not there. Instead Ron was coming back around. Ron gone full circle and was coming back to complete the circle. Just as the Monkey Ninja turned around, he saw Ron’s foot make contact with him. He went right to the wall with the other five passed out ninjas. As soon as Ron landed and disengaged the line, he turned just in time to see the last ninja coming at him through the air. Ron moved slightly to his left to avoid the blow. Just as the tail of the monkey started to pass by Ron, Ron reached out and grabbed the tail. He then spun around and threw the finale monkey to the wall with the rest of his friends.

With all six Monkey Ninjas defeated, Kim and Ron regrouped at the center of the room. Ron dusted off his hands as he said, “Well that was easier than expected.”

Kim was a bit uneasy as she rubbed her chin and said, “Yeah, a bit too easy.”

“Or maybe we’re just that much better,” Ron said with a confident grin.

“I’m not so sure Ron, I mean…”

Before Kim could finish her statement, a small black ball fell into the room.

“What’s that,” Kim said with a small bit of panic.

“Not good!”

As Ron said, the mystery ball was not good. After the ball stopped, it then released a great deal of green smoke around Kim and Ron. The two began coughing, from lack of clean air. Once the heroes had breathed in a few breaths, they realized what the smoke was. Their bodies were becoming heavy and weak. They then fell to the ground and passed out.

Once Team Possible was incapacitated, Monkey Fist himself stepped into the evening light.

“So predictable.”

A while later, the teens slowly began to regain consciousness. Ron eyelids slowly lifted and he tried to focus on his surroundings. As he slowly became more aware, he realized that he lying in a rope net. He blinked his eyes and noticed that his net was about ten feet off the ground and hanging from the museum’s rafters. The thought of Kim then came to Ron as he started jolting his head to try and find her. It did not take long though. Kim too was in a net hanging from the ceiling; only she was about fifteen feet to Ron’s left.

Kim too was just beginning to stir a bit.

“KP, you okay,” Ron yelled.

Kim moaned and replied, “Besides a killer headache, yeah I’m fine.”

Ron looked down and saw the six Monkey Ninjas standing in battle ready fighting stances.

“What do you want with us you tree swingers?”

But it was not the Monkeys that answered, instead the Monkey Master himself stepped into the light of night. Monkey Fist stood there grinning as he said, “What I want is for you to not interfere with my destiny in becoming the ultimate Monkey Master Warrior.”

Kim and Ron were now shooting Fist looks that would scare any normal person.

“So what is it this time Monkey Fist,” Kim asked in anger.

“I already told you Ms Possible, I wish to become the ultimate Monkey Master Warrior. And once I harness the power of the Primal Armor, I will be invincible!”

Kim and Ron looked out ahead of Monkey Fist and saw a very strange set of armor. Though it was old, it did not look to be damaged by time. There was a samurai style helmet and then chest, leg, and arm armor. Perhaps most interesting of all, was the banana shaped talisman, that hung around the neck of the faceless manikin wearing all the armor.

“The ancient mystic text states, that once I place the Primate Banana Talisman around my neck, under the crescent moon light, the armor shall come to life once more and I shall be empowered with the force of the Primal Armor.”

The monkey minions began jumping and chattering in excitement for their master. Meanwhile Kim and Ron looked at each other. Ron made a ‘cuckoo cuckoo’ movement with his hand, to which Kim smiled and nodded her head in agreement.

After the ninjas finished their monkey cheers, Monkey Fist looked up and saw the crescent moon come into clear view, thanks to the skylight.

“And now, let the dawn of the Monkey Master Warrior begin!”

Monkey Fist removed the talisman from around the manikin and placed it around his own neck. He then moved into the full moonlight, leaned his head back, closed his eyes and spread his arms out to his sides. Then the crescent moonlight shot down and struck the talisman. With this part of the ceremony underway, Monkey Fist then began to glow a bright green color. All six of his Monkey Ninjas watched in awe, however, Kim and Ron decided not wait any longer for this show.

Kim and Ron looked at one another and nodded, knowing what they needed to do. They both stiffened up their right arms, forming glowing metallic blades of energy. Together in a fluid motion, the two heroes swung their arms out, this cutting the ropes of the nets and freeing themselves.

They landed on the floor swiftly and Kim said, “Shows over Monkey Fist. The only new clothes you’re going to be wearing is a prison uniform.”

Monkey Fist’s head snapped back up and he commanded, “Monkey Ninjas ATTACK! They mustn’t disrupt the ceremony before its completion!”

The ninjas spun around and quickly jumped into action. They all started attacking Kim and Ron with greater force than before. They were not holding anything back now, they meant to defeat Kim and Ron, and it showed. While Kim and Ron were able to stay toe to toe with the Monkey Ninjas, it was started to wear on them. Plus, Monkey Fist and the Primal Armor were both now glowing green.

As she continued to block attacks, Kim called over to Ron, “Ron, you’ve gotta get outta here.”

“I’m not leaving you Kim!”

“Ron, trust me. You have to get to my car and get your gift out of the trunk!”

“KP, I really don’t think this is the time for gifts!”

“RON, you have to trust me. You’ll need what’s in the trunk!”

“Okay, okay.”

Kim then quickly pulled out her keys and threw them to Ron. He caught them, did a few tornado kicks to clear him a path for the door and ran for them.

“I’ll be back KP, just hold on!”

With that Kim was left to defend herself alone against six Monkey Ninjas, while the Primal Armor was now glowing and starting to float over to Monkey Fist.

Ron was running as fast as his legs and his suit would allow. However, he had already spent most of the hyper speed energy in his earlier fight. He finally got to Kim’s black convertible, parked outside the Delta Dorm. Ron pressed the remote key device and the truck popped up. Ron reached down pulled the truck up. Inside the storage area lay two boxes, but the one that Ron’s gut told him to open was the largest one. It was a long rectangular box, wrapped in metallic red paper. Ron tore away the paper in a matter of seconds. What then lay before him put him in amazement.

There, lying in the trunk of Kim’s car was one of the most powerful weapons Ron had ever seen, and once held. Sitting inside its glass case was none other than the Lotus Blade. Ron leaned down, opened the case, and removed the saber. He held it in his hand for moment thinking, “I…I…I don’t know if I can use this. I mean…this is something meant for someone with greater power than I could ever…” But Ron stopped himself and closed his eyes, thinking, “NO! I am powerful enough now. Sensei would not have given this away if he did not believe in me. Most importantly, Kim believes in me. That’s why she got this for me. She knew I could handle the power now.”

Ron opened his eyes, smiled with confidence, looked at the weapon and said, “Hang on Kim, I’m on my way.”

Kim had continued fighting all six Monkey Ninjas without stopping. After a great deal of fight, she finally managed to beat all six warriors. However, it was not done in enough time. While she had been distracted with fighting, the ceremony had completed itself. Monkey Fist now had on the entire ancient Primal Armor and the talisman. However, the armor now glowed with powerful green and black.

Kim turned just in time to see Monkey Fist approaching. She was breathing heavily, but still maintained a ready fighting stance.

Monkey Fist just smiled as he said, “I’m sorry Kimberly, but your fight ends tonight.”

Fist raised his right arm and a mystical staff developed out of thin air. His smile grew eviler and broader as he drew his arm back and was about to strike Kim with the staff. But just as the staff was drawing down on Kim, it came in contact with something else and was being held there with great force.

Monkey Fist opened his eyes and saw Ron standing there, but what he was holding surprised him even more. Ron had blocked and stopped the attack with the Lotus Blade.

“NOBODY ATTACKS MY KP!”

Ron thrust the blade upward and this forced Monkey Fist back, where he then had to regain his balance. While doing so, Kim got up beside Ron.

“Happy Birthday Ron.”

“Thanks Kim, you okay?”

“Now that you’ve got the Lotus Blade, I’m fine.”

“Good, how about you take a break and I’ll handle Fist.”

“Be careful Ron.”

“I will,” Ron started, “Here, take Rufus and wait for my signal.”

Ron reached into his holster and handed the Naked Mole Rat to Kim. She took the small pet in her hands and said, “Gottcha.”

Kim backed away a bit to allow Ron some room to take on Monkey Fist.

“I don’t know how you got that blade, but I do know you are not skilled enough to master such a weapon.”

“We’ll just see about that.”

The two Monkey Kung Fo Masters engaged in battle. Each one trying a number of different attacks; kicks, punches, weapon attacks. They were evenly matched though. Ron got in a few good hits on Monkey Fist, but Fist got a few in on Ron. They were going at one another with everything they had. At some points they were running up the walls and then lunging off them, towards their foe. Kim and Rufus just stood there in awe of the pure strength and skill Ron was displaying.

“Ron Stoppable, your interference ends on this night. You will not keep me from my destiny any longer!”

The two combatants charged one another and locked weapons. There they remained for a time. The two mystical weapons were glowing in bright energy.

Ron thought to himself, “This is the best shot I’m gonna get.”

So Ron started allowing Monkey Fist to overpower him and force the Lotus Blade down. Once the blade was almost at the floor, Ron strained and held the locked weapons there.

“Any last words?”

“Yes. NOW KP!”

Kim sprang to attention, as she knew Ron was about to act. And he did, Ron, glowing in metallic blue, used all the strength he had and forced the Lotus Blade upward with an incredible amount of force. The power of Ron’s attack was so great, that Monkey Fist went flying into the air.

Kim knew this was the time to act. She took Rufus into her right hand, drew the arm back for a pitch, and then threw the pet directly towards Fist. Rufus knew what he was meant to do as well. Just as he started to pass by Monkey Fist’s neck, he used his sharp bucked teeth to chop down on the cord of the talisman, thus releasing it. Ron saw the artifact come free and jumped into the air to meet it. As Ron approached the talisman, Monkey Fist knew what was about to come, as he yelled, “NO!”

But it was too late; Ron drew the Lotus Blade back and then swung down directly onto the Banana Talisman. When the two made complete contact, the talisman shattered into tiny pieces and went falling to the ground. As soon as the necklace was destroyed, the Primal Armor lost all its power. It ceased to glow and then fell completely off of Monkey Fist.

Lord Fist himself then fell to the floor and hit hard. As he regained he composure and looked up, he saw Ron and Kim standing before him with determination in their eyes. Then a third member joined the party as Rufus landed on Ron’s shoulder.

“It’s over Monkey Fist,” Ron said as he pointed the Lotus Blade at his arch foe.

The monkey man gave a look of hatred as he said, “You may have won this battle, but we will fight another day.”

Monkey Fist quickly threw down a small gray ball, which then released a great deal of gray smoke. This smoke however was not knock out gas, but just a smoke screen. Kim and Ron coughed a bit. After the smoke dissipated, the two looked around and saw the Monkey Fist had managed to escape. They also saw that the defeated Monkey Ninjas were gone as well.

“He got away,” Ron said a bit let down.

Kim put her hand on his shoulder and said, “Yes, but you stopped him Ron.”

A smile returned to Ron’s face as he said, “Yeah, I did, didn’t I?”

“Uh huh,” Kim said as she gave her flirty smile and nodded.

Rufus agreed as well as he gave a thumbs up.

After briefing the museum personnel and police on what had occurred, Kim and Ron returned to the dinning hall where the party had been. When they got there, the wrapping paper had all been thrown away, but Ron’s gifts remained, along with his cake and two paper plates. They both walked up to the dinning table, they were back in their normal civilian clothes.

“Sorry you ended up having to have monkeys on your birthday Ron,” Kim said.

“It’s cool KP. At least it’s one birthday I’ll never foget.”

“That’s for sure.”

“Ya want some cake?”

“Please and thank you.”

Ron then smiling took the Lotus Blade and used it to cut two pieces of cake, and serve it out onto the two plates. Kim just giggled at Ron’s use of the blade, but still accepted the desert. The couple walked over to the windows and looked out as they ate. Ron placed the Lotus Blade on the windowsill. Rufus stayed at the table to finally scarf down some cake.

Kim looked at Ron and said, “Thank you for saving me tonight.”

Ron blushed a bit as he said, “No big.”

“Wrong VERY big. Ron you proved yourself to be a great warrior tonight. You went toe to toe with a rough squad of Monkey Ninjas and took Monkey Fist on all by yourself. Not to mention you came up with a smart plan to defeat him. You have everything to proud of.”

“Thanks Kim, but I gotta know, how did you ever get the Lotus Blade?”

“Well, it wasn’t easy. I knew it was something powerful and too many forces would want to get their hands on it, but I knew if you had it, it’d be safe. I wrote a letter to Sensei and sent it to him. That itself was no easy task, do you know how hard it is to find an address for a secret ninja school? But after Sensei finally got my letter, the response I got was a package delivered by a ninja that appeared and then disappeared as soon as he gave me the case.”

“Wow, thanks Kim.”

Ron finished his cake and picked the weapon back up to look at it.

“But where am I going to store this thing. I mean I really don’t have any safe place to keep it. The only safe place would be to just keep it with me at all times.”

Just then something happened that neither of the two expected. The Lotus Blade glowed blue and began to shrink. Within seconds, the blade had decreased down to the size of a two-inch version. Then a cord developed and attached itself to the weapon, creating a necklace. It then floated and placed itself around Ron’s neck.”

Kim and Ron were in amazement of the events.

“Well, I guess that will work,” Ron said looking at the new version of the Lotus Blade.

“I guess so.”

“Wait, wasn’t there another present in the trunk of your car KP?”

Kim’s eyes grew as she realized she forgot about the other gift. She put her plate down and ran back to the table, where she had placed the gift when they had come back in. Kim picked up the square red package and walked back to her boyfriend. She held it out for Ron to take and said, “Happy Birthday Ron.”

Ron took his last present and unwrapped it. Inside the box was a heart shaped picture frame. Ron took the frame out of the box and looked at it. The picture held within the frame was one that was taken of the two of them the past summer. They were wearing their typical clothing; Ron in his jersey and Kim her green top. They were holding one another and had the looks of a couple that had been in love all their life. Ron then looked at the frame and saw words on each side of the frame. On the lower left of the heart were the words ‘My Friend’. On the lower right were the words ‘My Hero’. Finally, on the top of the heart spread across the left and right were the words, ‘My Love’.

Ron had to fight back a bit of tears, but Kim already had a few falling from her eyes. Ron looked deep into Kim’s eyes as he said, “Thank you Kim.”

The two hugged one another for a time. They broke apart a bit, but still held each other. They looked deep into each other’s eyes.

“I love you Kim.”

“I love you Ron.”

The two then kissed each other and melted into the moment. It had been a night that neither of them would ever be able to forget.

Author’s Note: So, what do ya think? Yes, I know this wasn’t as long as the first three episodes, but keep in mind, the first three are really meant to be read as a movie style story, so they needed to be longer. I enjoyed this episode a lot with giving Ron the spotlight and writing action sequences with Monkey Fist. Plus, it was kind of a challenge to come up with all of Ron’s gifts, but I’m pleased with what I came up with. I hope you enjoyed Ron’s gifts and the story.

Thanks for reading.