4th Place in TwilaStarla’s 2nd Annual KP AMV contest! 😀 ============ So I ask myself: Disney good-endings aside, what kind of person would it take to save the world from dangerous criminals, jump out of airplanes and undergo extensive martial arts training, risk debilitating injury and face certain death, and keep coming back to it, day after day after day? The return ping wasn’t pretty. “Sober” by P!nk “Stand in the Rain” by Superchick Kim Possible (C) Disney ============ Some get their buzz with heroin. Others, methamphetamine. For this AU Kim Possible, it’s adrenaline. She still has a soul – the world saving is there – but the altruism is just a happy byproduct in her quest to keep her heart racing. Occasional mission partner Ron Stoppable, able to survey her spiral from a vantage impossible for a close friend, tries to warn her just how powerfully – alluringly – the abyss can stare back, but… she refuses to listen. And so, like any addiction, it begins to corrode her from the inside out. For what it’s worth, her civilian life forms periods of sobriety between her adrenaline hits, but… it isn’t worth much. Fighting crime by night means she’s wasted during the day; her grades are tanking, her family life is in tatters, and it’s getting harder and harder for her to tell the difference between herself and the darkness she’s fighting. She hops from boyfriend to boyfriend, desperately trying to recreate the rush, but finds that she can’t, discovering there’s no use …