The Road Not Taken 1

EAD: Kim Possible

Ron Stoppable
Alternate Universe

Ideas from Ron Stoppable’s Crazy Love Life by Karmealion: https://archiveofourown.org/works/36349516/chapters/90622774

Much less sex as I put the ages at 15 to start instead of 18. And no harem.
Unlike the original this takes place in the first season, their sophomore year, not their senior year, as the scene that starts this happens in the pilot episode, which I’ve put at the end of September of 2002. The actual timeline is Tick-Tick-Tick, Number One, Pain King, Monkey Fist, Attack of the Killer Bebe’s, then Crush.
Ron will show himself to be skilled at using tools, building devices, multitasking, and planning ahead. But only once he gets his head out of his arse.

I have chosen here for his parents to be mostly absent and Anne Possible to be in charge of him. Even if they don’t live under the same roof.
His parents pay the taxes and mortgage and house stuff, with money going into his account every month to pay for his needs with anything extra he deems he needs, he needs to pay for himself. And a deal was struck right from the beginning, when James Possible all but forced them to accept their pre-teen son going on missions to protect his daughter from herself and others, that the Possible family would be paying for all his health care in full. No matter what, or how he was injured or needed care.

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost.

Chapter 1:

Friday, September 20th, 2002: Middleton High School: 9 pm:
It was Dance Night to celebrate the end of Spirit Week. And little ‘ol Ronnie had been locked in the
Janitor’s closet since school let out at 2 pm.
He had his cell phone with him, but no one answered him anytime he tried to call. And the latest call to Kim was hung up on.
He finally gave up and called emergency services with the last bit of power on the phone and they were able to get people out to get him out of the closet. To his humiliation at being seen doing so under the eyes of everyone at the dance.
And the fact that it had been his best friend who had done this just added to the burn.

The thing was, he had had lots of time to himself to think about things while locked up and was going to enact several of his thoughts right at that moment. The first thing was for the first responders to put in a call to his MPOA (Medical Power of Attorney) and Guardian, Anne Possible. To force through the call, if necessary, unless she is doing surgery. If so, then immediately get a hold of his second, her husband and do the same. He wanted to be looked at, at the hospital. And needed an adult to sign off on things. But he had not been able to get anyone on the phone. Hence the forced call from emergency services. Plus, either one of them would have to legally sign off on his release from the hospital’s care. And the only authorized ones were the two mentioned. Otherwise, they abridged their duties to him, and his parents, and he could sue for emancipation. And support from them for their actions.
And what do you know, suddenly the Possibles were available, and they said they’d meet the crew at the hospital. Not only that but agreed with him in signing off on the detective over his case getting the warrant needed to get copies of the security tapes showing just how he got locked in, in the first place. And possibly charge them with it.
He was going to have fun at their expense when the recordings show their daughter doing it. If nothing else, it would allow a renegotiation of the deal made between them.

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A mass of blood tests later and he was taken home by James Possible, who tried to give support with a talk on how to handle bullies. And it was all he could do not to say anything.

Once inside, he put his phone on the charger and pulled the wireless phone off to make the call to a contact he had made working with Kim. A man in the Justice Department. Getting his voice mail, which he expected, so left a message with both his phone numbers and e-mail address to contact him to answer a question on two terrorists for him.
Personally, he wondered if Shego and Drakken were in a weird D/S relationship with her as the Dom to his Sub.

The next call he made was to the school’s office to have them call him back if there were any problems with the doctor ordered time off next week. And to make sure to e-mail him his homework. And call if any of the staff have a problem doing so. And, also, let the Cheer Coach know it was not his fault he was not there for the game as he was indisposed. As proven by the first responders. And he would ensure a law firm would be quite happy to see to it he was not punished in any way for that indisposal. But, please, do call with the complaints. He would dearly love to hear them.

After that, he made a note on the post-it’s near the phone to call the family lawyer in the morning, then went to bed finally.

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Even as stressed as he had been the night before, he still awoke early the next morning. He had chores to do to keep up the house and make calls.
So, after a quick shower, he headed to the kitchen for breakfast and made a quick grocery list. One thing he will say about the local shops is if they were big enough orders they would deliver the groceries, so he planned out a two-week order while he ate his meal.

After the dishes were done and the kitchen cleaned, he made his first morning call to the family’s lawyer at home. With the business both his parents did, they felt it was common sense to keep him on retainer, so Ron had no problems calling him over this mess. And laid the first part out. Including just who the police were going to find that did it. And the exact new written contract he wanted written up for the Possibles to sign in blood because of it. Along with the punishment meted out to Kim of 100 hours of community service and stepping down as co-leader of the Cheer Squad. If she did not like not being captain in her first year on the team, she could and should quit the team anyway. Besides, she would miss too many training sessions with missions.

Plus, the warrant to have a medical scan to search for any implants, as he never gave permission for them. And any found were to be taken out immediately and sent to forensics to see who built/made them so a new warrant could be made out for them. Or good compensation made for going against his body autonomy and illegally doing a medical procedure on him without consent.

His next set of calls went to the shops for the deliveries he needed to be made later in the day when their help arrived. And then onto the never-ending housework. All the while, noting that even though Kim’s parents had been with him last night, and at least Kim’s brothers knew what happened, no calls came from his friend yet. Though the righteous fury of Bonny came through on his voice mail on both phones for his missing the game the evening before.
Recordings he duly made copies of and sent the copies to his lawyer in an e-mail stating he officially was putting in his resignation if his health was of no concern to the co-captains of the team. And to take the recording as proof of the need to get a further warrant for the Department of Education’s back copies of the school’s security tapes for the year. Before and up to now on all actions against him by her and her crowd. To do as he wanted with the information he gained from the recordings, but he wanted warrants for full drug testing on the Cheer Squad and Sports Teams they backed. Including alcohol and steroids. With the findings treated within the scope of the Full Law in each case. As well as seeing to it that they got actual rehab and not celebrity rehab. No matter the money the family had or has. Or what did it do for the sports season at school that year.

Right after, he received the call back from his contact in the Justice Department and Ron laid out everything that Drakken and his partner both did in world terrorism and what he remembered had been in the so-called evil-overlord’s lair. Including the automatic self-destruct and what happened when that went off. Plus, why, just why, was there not a full debrief done after the two of them had effectively taken out a world terrorist?
He was scheduled to be debriefed by DHS (Department of Homeland Security) and Interpol people tomorrow. And he was to let his partner know they expected her to be prepared for the same.

He called over to the Possible’s house and left a message on their landline and the parent’s cell phones to that matter. And documented that fact to cover himself.

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After lunch and putting away the deliveries, he answered the knock on his front door, to find the Detective and another person. Who was announced to be the Child Advocate. He put up a finger and went in to call his lawyer to meet him at the station for his actual deposition. And headed out with them.

A few, very long, hours later, the deposition was done, and the Possible adults with Kim brought in to go over the punishment the attorneys were willing to go with.
100 hours of actual community service. Which would be called PR duty, to not go against the good the two of them had done.
Therapy for her by a court ordered therapist 3x-weekly till passed by the therapist, no going out of area till finished. And then no going out of state and definitely out of the country without written permission of her parents each time and an advocate on the other end since she is under-age.
Finally, family therapy to get to the heart of the matter where the parents are lax on her personal safety and her sense of entitlement.

Given everything against their daughter they were in agreement that they would follow the punishment. And both sign the agreement and the new contract his lawyer put before them about his continued backing up of their daughter, if they still insisted, she could go out as a heroine.
A contract that now stipulated they paid him hazard pay for each mission and the amount depending on the type of mission. Paying for an actual trainer instead of relying on on-the-job training since Kim could not train anyone, not already as gifted as she was. (Which was one of the things he had against her being Cheer Captain). And paying to up-keep his own gear, including electronic and computer, up to the same standards as Kim got, and not the watered-down versions that did not work as well. Including the replacement of any/all of the clothes he damaged working with her.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
If you don’t want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.”
Bruce Lee

Chapter 2:

Confrontations:
Bonnie:
Monday, September 30th, 2002: Middleton High school
:

Glares came his way from many of the students as he walked to class from his destroyed locker. Which he had already taken pictures of and sent on. Glad he had kept Rufus at home that day. He had looked up to the ceiling and seen the security cameras so knew the culprits would be found. Either that, or the administration would be found to be complicit and guilty of negligence for not having the cameras working in the first place.

Just as he entered his class, the high poohbah of his year, Bonnie Rockwaller, bane of his existence since toddlerhood in the Synagogue nursery on upwards, met up with him, and pointed her forefinger to her throat. Slicing it over in a threatening manner as a means of showing it to all her loving followers in class.
He canted his weight to the side and looked condescendingly at her before he spoke out loud, “Your Great-Grandfather Micha would be so proud he survived his childhood under Mangala to get your father and get a Hitler Youth for a great-grandchild.”
She staggered back in shock and placed the threatening hand on a desk to steady her.
So, just how many Brown Shirted teammates and sportsmen did you throw to the wolves? Going to have a Crystle Nacht at me too with your Aryan buddies that survived the warrants and testing?”
Her face went from pale to red and she stood tall with her fists clenched at her sides.
Going to ship me off to the Ghetto along with the other wastes of spaces here at school? Hmm Bonnie?”
She attacked with her nails out, an inarticulate scream going out. Of which he grabbed her wrists and swept her legs out from under her, bringing her down. Her arms crossed and pinned. His body sitting in a way to block her legs from doing anything. With her bucking to get him off of her as she continued to scream at him for all she was worth.

While this was going on, he looked at Barkin, who looked pleased at the fight, such as it was, and made sure to catch his eye. Then blatantly ran his eyes up to the class camera and raised his eyebrow. Barkin nodded and picked up his own phone to make a call.
Bonnie, by this time, had wrung herself out and lay there panting. So, he turned his attention back to her; “You know Rockwaller, with your actions this morning, in front of a staff member and all these witnesses, anyone who does attack me from this school, will have you arrested as an accomplice like they did ‘ol Manson back in the sixties. Fancy a bunkmate named Bubette?”
She was heavily panting now for another reason, her eyes blown in fear. “You do know the ‘I don’t know’, ‘Wasn’t there’, and ‘Can’t remember’, defense only worked once, right? And he was a sitting President so not in your league. And he had his wife actually running the country while he was suffering from the beginnings of Alzheimer’s. Something you can’t claim, so even that won’t work for you. The others either got the death penalty or life in prison. Sooo, Bubette? Or does playing Prisoner and Guard work for you? Enquiring Minds want to know here Bon-Bon.”

That is enough Mr. Stoppable. She has learned her lesson. Please release her.” Mr. Barkin was next to them, the nurse and security officer with him. “Though if you pursue the matter, things could be construed to say you goaded her into attacking you. The fact that she made threatening gestures beforehand would play against her.” He looked meaningfully at her and then him, as Ron got off her and quickly got out of attacking range.
If you excuse me, I’ll be in the office making the call to my lawyer, yet again, to update him on this matter so he can get what he needs if he proceeds with anything.” Ron motioned his hand back towards the office, with Barkin’s nod as the nurse helped Bonnie up and they prepared to exit themselves.

Confrontations:
Football Team:
Monday, September 30th, 2002: Middleton High school: Later that day
:

Everybody was kung fu fighting
Those cats were fast as lightning
In fact, it was a little bit frightening
But they fought with expert timing

By Carl Douglas

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Ron’s danger sense went off as he was heading to lunch later, with the feeling coming from behind him. So, he went down, and his right leg went back in a sweep. With the swish of air over his head before the oomph of a body hitting the ground. He finished the sweep, his hand on the ground for balance, and noticed several members of the second-string football players around him. And now on the ground. The swish came from Larry Halesworth who was quickly getting up with his fists ready, so Ron did a kick to the jewels from his position on the floor and knocked him up and out. Causing the others to pause, before the one next to him yelled out “Pile on the Dweeb!” and the fight was on.
Ron fell back into the same mindset that got him out from under Drakken’s mob of minions. Before he knew it, the last man was down with him taking a long look around, before pulling out his phone and calling the cops to come in and deal with this mess. Telling the operator to have them bring medics for his attackers. They were going to need it.

He looked around at everyone standing there, seeing slack jawed looks and Kim looking confused. He just looked her in the eyes and dared her to say anything. Instead, she ducked her head and walked into the cafeteria.

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Cameras and witness phone cameras showed that the team were the first to attack, so he was let go, as he was acting in self-defense, with the team members arrested for the attack. And he told the police flat out to make sure to get the ringleader and Manson wanna-be in the attack, Bonnie Rockwaller.

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