Stepping up

A\N; Hello my friends, this will be my first attemp at writing a "Kim Possible" fan fiction and I'm going to be juming into an AU of STD and beyond. Ron Stoppable has been pushed aside again and again and is finall getting tired of being in Kim's shadow. Now that the world is in danger it's up to him to step up or step out.

Chapter 1; Getting replaced.

"He can't come up here..." were the somewhat cold words that left the usually chipper mouth of the blonde known as Ron Stoppable. Even now while he was finally having his chance to talk to his best friend, the first time in what felt like weeks, Eric had to find a way to take her away again.

"Ron..." Kim said in her warning tone, she had been growing more and more annoyed at the attitude her best friend had been taking with her new perfect boyfriend. She loved saying that, her perfect boyfriend.

Quickly realizing that putting her in a bad mood probably wan't a good idea at the moment Ron came up with a quick cover. "No I mean he really can't come up here," he said as he held up his slingshot, "this tree house has a weight limit and while I'm holding this slingshot, y'know, we're already pushing it." Hearing that and seeing that he already had a bit of a nacho belly Rufus desided it was probably for the best that he put his last nacho down.

Kim sighed as she placed her hand on his shoulder again, "We'll talk later, I promise."

Ron watched as Kim road off with Eric, bowing his head when she didn't even give him a parting glance. Collapsing back onto his couch he let out a sigh as he covered his eyes with his arm, he had never regreted anything more than the day he desided to show the new guy around. In the time spane of just a few weeks mr tall, dark and handsome had taken her from him, and with her his whole world.

The only time the two had been spending with one another laterly had been on missions, which had been on an almost stand still lately, and if things kept going the way they were even that wasn't a guarantee. 'What am I going to do?' he thought to himself as he got up and left the tree house, Rufus quickly jumpping into his pocket. Ron walked into his home and went to his frige for a drink, only to find a note on it.

'Hi honey,' it said in a handwriting that just had to be his mother's, his father's was completely illegible, 'Your father and I have to go on a short trip for the next month or so. We both have several diffrent conferences that we have to attend and were planning on spending a week on a gettaway after. Please make sure to do your chores and eat something else besides bueno nacho, and we have asked the Possibles to check up on you from time to time. Love always, Mom.'

Ron let out a soft sigh and he rested his head on the cold refrigerator in an attempt to calm his starting headache, it wasn't helping. Once again his 'parents' had run off to god knows where and the only heads up he got was a note after the fact. Ron loved his parents, he really did, he just wished they thought enough of him to include him in these kinds of things. Being gone for a whole month was kinda important. Leting out another sigh Ron headed up to his room for the night, he had school in the morning and it was going to be a long day of Bonnie jabbing at him. He still had a week, maybe he could find a date.

Ron looked himself over in the mirror and resisted the urge to smash it. He had at one time thought he looked quite dapper in his father's powder blue suit but now even he could see he looked like a freaking dork. The one thing that made this whole thing worse was the reason he was wearing it in the first place.

Ron had unfortunatly stuck out in finding a date. Every girl that he had asked was either already going with someone else, laughed in his face and in more than one case both at once. He knew Bonnie had something to do with this but in the end it didn't really matter, the only reason he even asked in the first place was that he wanted to go and see Kim.

Which led to now.

Having desided to just go for broke, Ron was either going to fly or crash and burn. Ron had long ago figured out that he held strong emotions for the red headed heroine, any straight man in his right and in his position as her sidekick would. Add that to the years of friendship that the two shared and the many times they saved each other it was little wonder. His plan for the night was to go up to her, lay it all on the line, and pray she would choose him.

But that was the problem, she wouldn't choose him, she had never chosen him. In many of the times where Kim had to side with either Ron or some hottie, more often than not she followed the hottie. As with his parents Ron really didn't fault Kim for setting him aside, teenage hormones are a bitch and a half and the only reason he really didn't have to deal with it as much as many other boys was that he had to control himself far, far, more often than they ever would.

Ron knew very well he wasn't hot in any sense of the word, and while he still had several hundred million in severl banks he really didn't have much on hand because of how much he had invested back into Team Possible. He was smart but lacked the drive to really make it known and was so far down the food chain he might as well not be on it in the first place. With a sigh and a growl from his stomach Ron desided to do what he always did in times of lonelyness and depression, drown his feelings in food.

Walking into Bueno Nacho Ron knew that most if not all the magic it once held for him had died out. This was his and Kim's hangout for years, a refuge for the two when life got to be to much but now, without her, it was just another building that smelled like grease.

'At least it's quiet right now,' Ron thought as he walked up to the counter. As he did so Ron took notice of Ned's behavior, he was always a bit wound but right now he looked absolutely jumpy, like he was expecting something to jump out and attack him at any moment.

"Welcome to Bueno Nacho! May I take your order?" Nad said in an overly excited tone before leaning in and whispering while holding up a tray, "Ron something weird is going on!"

Ron took notice of this and the burly looking man in the background heading this way, a sour glare in his eyes. While he didn't recognise the man himself he did the look, Larz was dangerous. Desiding it wouldn't be a good idea to mess with him just yet, ron fained his previous depression. "*Sigh* You got that right... let's see..."

After placing his order, and a well timed hunger pain act from rufus, Ned tried to warn Ron again but was cut off by Larz's screaming, "You miserable slug! Did you ask our favorite customer," he gestured to Ron, "If he'd like some Diablo Sauce!?" Ron really didn't like the way he was talking to his friend but still held his tounge, some managers are just assholes.

After the usual if aggressive thank you Ron sat down and let Rufus tear into the food while he kept a 'Sad looking' eye on Larz. Ron had noticed Ned writing something on the tray and knew Rufus would figure it out, and he was right.

Shortly after starting his feast Rufus noticed the writing and moved everything off the tray, seeing the word evil and having a small freak out. Ron saw the word and thought up a plan, pulling Rufus into his pocket as he did so.

As Ron got up he locked eyes with Ned and gave a short nod, earning a nod in return from Ned. Walking towards the door Ron noticed Larz watching him, that same look in his eyes as earlier. Wracking his brain as he left Ron just couldn't put a place to his face but he knew that he knew Larz from some where, and the glare he was giving him proved it.

Getting to the phone Ron quickly dialed up Wade. "Hello?" the young genius asked, more than a little suprised that someone actually knew and called his land line.

"Wade it's Ron," the blonde said as calmly as he could, "I need you to patch me into Bueno Nacho headquarters." Thinking it wasn't a good idea to show all his cards even to Wade, Ron decided to tell a half truth. "I've got some coments and concerns."

Wade was every bit the genius everyone liked to call him, if ot more so, so he knew right away that Ron was hiding something. "Okay..." he said, decideding to see how this would play out for now, "Want me to patch you threw to the 1800 number?"

"No way!" Ron said as he did his best to hold up the act, "I wanna go straight to the top, gonna have words with the head honcho."

"I don't know Ron," Wade said as he partook in one of his favorite pass time, messing with Ron, "getting threw to a CEO is not easy. This guy's private line is probably super tops secret- GOT IT, you're in!" Wade leaned back in his chair with a smug smile on his face.

Ron smiled as he heard the ringing on the other line, thinking to himself how he really needs to thank Wade properly. After a few rings the other line finally picked up. "Hola Bueno Nacho!" said voice that sent a chill down Rons's spine, "El presidente speaking."

"Dr. Draken?" Ron asked as he quickley realised the danger he was in, more so as Larz took the phone and hung it up.

"Dr. Draken is a very busy man Mr. Stoppable," Larz said as he stood over Ron in an attempt to frighten him. "There is no need to bother him!"

'Oh yeah,' Ron thought, 'he's one of Draken's grunts. Number 692 I believe.' Before he had a chance to knock him out Ron noticed Ned freaking out and repeatedly falling over before finally making it out the front door, an army of toy robots following close after. 'Oh hell.'

Ron was a little annoyed that the most recent bane of his existance was behind him loosing his favorite hangout, but more so that they actually looked like they could be trouble. "Diablo's! Attack!" came the gruff voice of Larz behind him.

Almost immediately they began to crawl all over him. He knocked them off of himself as best as he could before finally jumping onto the phone booth and over to his moped. Doing his best to start up the damn thing and drive off. After finally getting it started and reaching his top speed of 10 MPH he was rewarded with a grand realization, "This thing is junk, am I the only one to realize this?!"

Rufus did all he could to knock the little buggers off of Ron but in the end it was a losing battle, at this rate they would be taken over before they could get away. Ron realized this as he turned to the tree line. "Buddy," Ron said as he turned to Rufus, "I think it's time!" Rufus run up to Ron's shoulder and began chattering in his ear. "I know we swore to never do it unless we're in danger but I think this counts! Besides we need to stop what ever Draken is up to."

Thinking it over Rufus nodded and ran back into Ron's pocket. Ron pulled to the side and, standing on his handle bars, jumpped onto one of the trees near by. All the toyes that didn't run head first into the moped tried to follow him, only for Ron to glare at them before he faded away.

While the robots looked over the area for the blonde, Ron was making his way across town on his way to Middleton high. 'Gotta get to Kim!' Ron thought as he jumped from tree to tree and eventually building to building. 'I'm going to need her help if we're going to stop the blue wonder.'

Ron finally landed on the roof of the school and looked threw the sky light, watching as Kim and Eric slow danced in the middle of the room. Ron's heart shattered as he watched them and the look of absolute bliss on her face. Sitting back his thoughts turned back to a few days ago.

SHe would alwas choose a hottie over him... but it was also something else.

Ron ignored his darker thoughts as he started to really think about this. Kim had always said she was the 'basic, avarage girl' but she wasn't, and he could tell that she worked hard to buy that dress.

'She just wants one night as a teenager...' Ron thought to himself as he stood back up, 'She needs it, and tonight she can finally have it.' Ron jumped from the roof on his way home. 'It's time Ron Stoppable stepped out of the shadows!'