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The Kim Possible fanfic All Things Probable by Slyrr (aka Greg Fisk) introduces Team Probable, a group of mercenary opposite numbers to Team Possible.

The story begins with a shadowy teenage figure defeating Team Go by outwitting Hego (admittedly not terribly difficult), and continues with Team Possible responding to what appears to be a routine tip about an impending theft. On that mission, Kim, Ron, and Rufus encounter Grimm Probable, his sidekick Rhonda Fatigable, and Rhonda's pet weasel Rueful. After some initial banter that reinforces the weird mirror-image duality, the two teams face off. During the confrontation, Wade's attempt at providing remote assistance is thwarted by Jade, Team Probable's hacker.

After holding Team Possible to a draw, Team Probable gets away, revealing that they weren't actually trying to steal anything — they were just hired to run interference while their client made his own move. Kim is left unsure of herself, with Grimm's gibes still ringing in her ears, but determined to win when they meet again.

The stories in the series are (in sequence) Fanfiction.net :

• All Things Probable — Part I: Team Possible encounters their mercenary opposite numbers.
• The Return of Zorpox — Part II: Grimm's revenge for the events of the previous story.
• Back to Kwitcherbeliakin — A side story focused on Team Probable.
• A Friend in Darkness — Part III: An epic-length story where the two teams join forces against a common enemy.
• A Little K/R Fluff — A short scene of Kim and Ron sharing a cute moment.
• Graduation — Part IV: What Team Probable was doing during the Lowardian invasion. cover posted on DeviantArt.

The author's fanfic homepage(Erased)DeviantArt features author-illustrated versions of most of these stories (except for the epilogue of "A Friend in Darkness" and "A Little K/R Fluff").

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This series provides examples of:

• Abusive Parents: Thankfully not physically, but you really have to wonder how Jade manages to cope with all the pressure her dad puts on her.
• Ambiguously Evil: "A Friend in Darkness" offers an alternative view of Team Probable's activities: they work with villains in order to keep an eye on them and stop them from doing anything really bad. Grimm's parents and Dr. Director see it this way, with Global Justice giving them "a certain amount of leeway" in return for intel. It's unclear whether this is the truth, just one of Grimm's headgames, or somewhere in between.
• Arbitrary Skepticism: In "A Friend in Darkness," Wade initially finds it difficult to accept that the golems are a magical phenomenon rather than disguised high-tech, even though Team Possible has experience with mystically-powered opponents (particularly Monkey Fist, who is known to be involved in the current sitch).
  • Several British policemen also laugh at the absurdity of Monkey Fist's return and as they're laughing one decides to throw in an unfinished crack about Kim being American. Kim promptly shuts them up by mentioning Nanny Maim.
  • Will Du and Doctor Director also doubt the reports about the golems, though in Will's case it seems to be him being a Jerkass as he goes out of his way to belittle the story. Doctor Director drops the remarks about the absurdity of the story once Kim reminds her about Gemini's missiles for fingers, but focuses on the fact that they lack verifiable information at the time and promises to help as soon as Kim has something actionable.

• Breaking Speech: Grimm, Grimm, Grimm... why do you always feel the need to break the spirit of your foes with your viciously barbed tongue?
• The Cavalry: Two waves show up in "The Return of Zorpox" for the big battle. First, some of the Yamanouchi ninjas resist the Mega Synaptic Transducer thanks to their mental disciplines, and come to recover the Lotus Blade from Zorpox. When they fail, most of Kim's usual enemies (turned good by the Transducer) show up to help her.
  • Wade gets turned evil, leaving Kim cut off from external support until Jade (now turned good) takes over the job. Also, Bonnie (now good-natured and helpful) guards Kim's parents and brothers (now evil, but tied up to keep them out of trouble) while she takes care of business.
• The Chosen One: Ron for the Mystical Monkey Power and Rhonda for the Mystical Bear Power
• Colony Drop: Attempted by Dementor at the start of "The Return of Zorpox", but foiled before any satellites fall.
• Combat Pragmatist: In one of the side missions that come up during the two teams' alliance, Grimm takes down Gill by dumping a bucket of salt on him. When Kim objects to the harshness of the tactic, he points out that it was painful but did no permanent damage, and sarcastically asks what makes it so much worse than the time Kim kicked Shego into an electrical tower.
  • In general, Team Probable uses defense-oriented combat styles — they aren't so much interested in "winning" fights as in getting the mission accomplished and getting away afterwards.
• Comic-Book Time: While "A Friend In Darkness" took over four years to write, the events of the story occurred within a month.
• Conflict Killer: The beginning chapters of "A Friend In Darkness" has Team Possible dealing with Team Probable and their new tricks. However, when Monkey Fist and Maze appear and banish Ron and Rhonda, Kim and Grimm are forced to put aside their differences to save them and stop Monkey Fist and Maze.
• Cool Car: Kim and her car, which had the tech copied by Team Probable and used to make Grimm’s motorbike.
• Creepy Crows: Maze's power over shadows allowed him to command crows, which he used to mark statues with the symbols to turn them into golems.
• Cut-and-Paste Note: Team Probable is fond of this trope. Unfortunately, Grimm doesn't like it when Rhonda uses letters from 'Teen Scene'.
  Rhonda: But the perfume samples are so nice!
• Deceptive Disciple: Maze is utterly self-assured that he is a true follower of the Great Bear Spirit, even after the Great Bear rejects him in favor of Rhonda and tells him in no uncertain terms that he's following the wrong path.
• Diplomatic Impunity: Thanks to his mother, Team Probable is covered by this. Naturally, they take full advantage of it.
• Disproportionate Retribution: As Senor Senior Sr. once said, world class villains are defined by the disproportionality of their retribution. By this metric, Grimm is easily one of the greatest villains in the world.
• Distaff Counterpart/Spear Counterpart: The members of Team Probable are the opposite genders from their Team Possible counterparts. (Exception: Team Pets Rueful and Rufus are both "he".)
  • The pattern carries over to many of the secondary characters in Team Probable's hometown of Riddleton.
• Distracted by the Sexy: Exploited, where Rhonda uses a selfie picture of herself in Grimm's battle suit doing a pinup pose to justify why she had it as the first step of what may become a Heel–Face Turn. Grimm is too distracted by the picture to think further into what she was doing that night after a few basic questions like why it took so long.
• Do Not Adjust Your Set: Monkey Fist made a global ultimatum over the airwaves during the world wide golem attack.
• Doorstopper: "A Friend in Darkness" is 38 chapters and over 400,000 words (about quadruple the word count of the preceding stories combined).
• Driven to Suicide: Maze's biting remarks drive Grimm to do this. Though, he settles for being turned to stone instead of jumping off Basalton's many cliffs.
• Elsewhere Fic: "Graduation" (the fic) presents a wider perspective on the Lowardian invasion depicted in "Graduation" (the episode).
• Enemy Mine: After Ron and Rhonda are banished to the Spirit World in "A Friend in Darkness", the remainder of the two teams join forces to rescue them and to defeat Maze and Monkey Fist. Worth noting that it does not happen immediately after the two villains banish the sidekicks - it takes a couple chapters to happen. Grimm tries to talk Kim into doing it immediately, and she calls him out on thinking she would trust him after all he had done.
• Expy: The Moo Goo Guy is this of the expanding gel that was used to trap Mr. Incredible. Wade even mentions it by name.
• "Eureka!" Moment: During the final battle with Monkey Fist, Kim has one when Rhonda makes a remark about Grimm and Ron being there to lend a "hand", giving her the idea to have Rhonda aim her Spirit Strike at Monkey Fist's hand with the Emet symbols.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: As big of a Manipulative Bastard Grimm is, he never counted on Kim swallowing her pride and admitting to Ron that microchipping him without his consent was wrong. Cue his surprise next story when he sees Kim and Ron are just as cuddly as ever.
• Fan Prequel: Another fanfic writer wrote a story about Team Probable's first job as mercenary villains' helpers (rescuing the client from his own security lasers, with obvious parallels to Kim Possible's first heroic mission). The original character villain from the story later appeared in "A Friend in Darkness".
• Fanservice: Rhonda taking a photo of herself in a sexy pose while wearing Grimm's battle suit? Check. Though, with purpose as it lets her explain why she had Grimm's battle suit during her first time as Poxorza.
• Feel No Pain: Monkey Fist, the magicked civilians and Shego. They are made of stone, after all. This also expands into being immune to most damage, but not to being immobilized.
• Framing the Guilty Party: The "Framing Yourself" version: Kim discovers a scrapbook full of letters and photos that seem to clearly tie Team Probable to known villains. When Wade examines it, he discovers that it's a trap — the documents are easily discredited forgeries, and an investigation would have discovered files in Wade's system (planted there by Jade) implicating him as the forger.
• Friend to All Living Things: Rhonda, as part of her power. Naturally this startled her when it first started to happen.
• Friendly Enemy: Ron and Rhonda are surprisingly civil with each other when they meet again in "A Friend in Darkness". Wade and Jade also manage to bury the hatchet (and not in the other's back) relatively quickly as well.
• Gambit Pileup: The ultimate result of the Mega Synaptic Transducer. Everyone was so busy trying to take over the world, they ended up trying to counter each others' plots instead and much less damage than expected was actually done.
  Wade: Do you know how hard it is to take over a world when everyone else is trying to do it at the same time?
• Godzilla Threshold: Ron being trained in MMP is essentially this - Kim was content to let Ron develop them at his own pace until Grimm forcing Rhonda to use MBP to its fullest potential called for them to have an answer.
• Honor Among Thieves: Team Probable is a group of mercenaries who hire themselves out to villains, typically to steal something or to run interference while their client steals something. They are also a close-knit group of friends who genuinely care about each other. The author's notes indicate that this was a deliberate aversion of the common stereotype of villains as Dirty Cowards afflicted with Chronic Backstabbing Disorder.
• Human Mail: After the golem situation is resolved, Jade forcibly sends Wade back to Middleton by crate. To add insult to injury, she labeled the crate "Wide Load".
• I Ate WHAT?!: When it's revealed that the Eco-La soft drink is actually Gill's mutating ooze, Monique is naturally grossed out. Upon finding out how Gill produces it, she freaks.
• Improvised Golems: At first, Maze made golems the old-fashioned way, but once he got Monkey Fist's assistance, they started making golems out of petrified victims. Then they transformed nearly all the statues in the world into golems.
• I'm Having Soul Pains: After being trapped in the Spirit World, Rhonda keeps feeling painful pins-and-needles sensations. Ron briefly feels the same thing after thinking that she deserves to suffer, realizes that it's caused by malicious thoughts, and helps her take a laid-back attitude that frees her of the pain.
• Insecure Love Interest: After Kim's Vision Quest dredged up memories of how poorly she'd sometimes treated Ron, she decides that he deserves better and breaks up with him. Ron has a similar feeling during it when he wonders about Kim's line 'I think I love you' from Clean Slate is brought into question.
  • Fortunately, Grimm manages to use his sneaky tactics to get them in a position that gets them back together.
  • Rhonda and Grimm as well, which leads to a strangely heartwarming moment when Rhonda insists that Ron get something nice for Kim when they get out of there.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Grimm, who occasionally lets his good side slip when he doesn’t think anyone will notice.
• Kidnapped Scientist: Maze and Monkey Fist kidnap Dr. Drakken in order to supply the technical expertise needed for their plan. They turn Shego into a golem to intimidate Drakken and keep an eye on him. Drakken eventually repays them by sneaking out a message revealing the location of their secret base.
• Kill Sat: Monkey Fist and Maze transformed the world's communication satellites into these thanks to the Ultra-Atmospheric Jammer, allowing them to broadcast their powers across the globe.
• A Lesson Learned Too Well: After Ron returns from the Spirit World, Kim is still plagued by her guilty memories of how she treated him and temporarily breaks up with him.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: Rhonda, particularly when she taps into the Mystical Bear Power to take down Maze and save Grimm.
• Lie Detector: After Kim and Ron's temporary break-up, they are convinced to get back together when they are tricked into wearing magnetic bracelets that will shock them if they lie, forcing Kim in particular to explain why she broke up with Ron and thus give him a chance to persuade her otherwise.
• Literally Shattered Lives: Monkey Fist reveals that when Kim was turned to stone by the Yono and then fell off the top of its temple, he was expecting her to be smashed into smithereens, but was surprised that she was still intact, making him realize that when the Yono's power petrifies a creature, the stone is enchanted and stronger than any other rock in the world.
• Lost World: The town of Riddleton, kept off the maps by a Government Conspiracy to serve as a protected sanctuary for select high-level operatives and their families. Other than that, it's a typical American town much like Middleton.
• Manipulative Bastard: Grimm's preferred modus operandi is to get into his opponents' heads and psychologically undermine them or maneuver them into doing his bidding. This is evident from his first confrontation with Kim, where he fights her to a draw while delivering a scathing critique of her combat technique that seriously weakens her self-confidence.
  • However, he differs from the classic Manipulative Bastard in that is genuinely loyal and honest toward his friends, though he's not above a few lies if he thinks it will help them, such as "giving" Rhonda his courage so she'd use MBP against Maze.
• May Contain Evil: Gill shows up with a scheme to create an army of mutants like himself by selling a new brand of soda containing doses of his slime, using Camille Leon to advertise the cola by impersonating celebrities.
• Military Brat: Grimm's father is a US Department of Defense General, which is part of why he gets his leeway.
• Mirror Morality Machine: The Attitudinator from the series is used by Grimm to turn Ron into Zorpox again. Zorpox then kicks off an evil plan by building a "Mega Synaptic Transducer" that generates chaos by reversing people's good and evil natures worldwide.
• Missing Mission Control: Wade is occasionally neutralized by Jade, and vice versa.
• My Fist Forgives You/Hit Me, Dammit!: When he approaches Kim to form an alliance to rescue Rhonda and Ron, Grimm goes out of his way to provoke and insult her as leadup to getting into with her. His theory was letting her vent her hostility will get it out of her system. It doesn't work, and when told Jade tears into him about the whole thing and dismisses his idea that it would work as "a guy thing".
• Near-Villain Victory: Monkey Fist and Maze nearly succeed in conquering the planet with their army of golems, if not for the return of Ron and Rhonda.
• Noble Demon: Grimm has his moments, particularly when he covertly manipulates Kim and Ron into getting back together after their breakup. Despite his excuses, it's pretty clear that he's doing it for Rhonda, who had told him that she wouldn't have made it through her Spirit World ordeal without Ron's help.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: The two worst situations Grimm gets himself into resulted from acting on his better impulses. In "Back to Kwitcherbeliakin", he helps Maze carry out a ritual out of genuine interest and curiosity about Maze's culture; it turns out that Maze intended to sacrifice him. In "A Friend in Darkness", he gets petrified after taking a shot meant for Kim.
• "Not So Different" Remark: Grimm incessantly attacks Kim's claim to moral superiority, commenting approvingly on some of her more questionable actions, responding to her criticisms of his actions by reminding her of similar things she's done, and provoking her into attacking him for no reason other than to vent her anger.
  Kim lashed out with a right hook. Grimm’s head snapped to the side and he grunted in pain. He turned back to stare at her, rubbing his chin, a slow smile creeping across his lips. "Welcome to the dark side, Kim Possible." He turned to Rhonda. "What did I tell you?" he said to her. "We didn't even need the Attitudinator for her."
  • Grimm and Maze as well. Both of them possess a staggering lack of self awareness, prefer stealth to direct combat (though are no slouches either), and feel entitled to the Great Bear Spirit's attention.
• Official Couple: Much of the personal drama (see the Played for Drama entry) is derived from taking a closer look at some events in the series and considering the implications for the Kim/Ron relationship.
• Omnidisciplinary Scientist: Wade and Jade. Justified (somewhat) with them both being supergeniuses that have studied in various disciplines.
• Opt Out: When Grimm finds out about Kim and Ron breaking up, his first thought is to exploit the situation and put an end to Team Possible once and for all. When he gleefully describes his plans to Rhonda, she tells him that after the way Ron helped her in the Spirit World, she can't be a party to anything that would hurt him — if Grimm wants to go ahead, he'll have to do it without her. Instead, Grimm arranges to get Kim and Ron back together.
• Outside-Context Problem: Much of Kim's difficulty in fighting Team Probable stems from Grimm always having something new that Kim has no way of predicting. The reverse is not true due to the renown Kim has earned over the years.
• Pass the Popcorn: Ron and Grimm momentarily share a bag of popcorn while watching Kim and Rhonda fight.
• Played for Drama: A number of incidents that were Played for Laughs on the show are referenced and addressed seriously:
  • In "The Return of Zorpox," Grimm extracts Ron's tracking chip and shows it to him, presenting it as proof that Kim and Wade are false friends who have been secretly spying on him for years. At the end of the story, Ron confronts Kim about it, and she admits to being in the wrong and asks for forgiveness.
  • In "A Friend in Darkness," Ron (trapped in the Spirit World with nothing to do but think and talk) remembers times when he'd been thoughtless and immature in how he treated Kim. On her Vision Quest to rescue him, Kim is confronted with memories of occasions when she'd been thoughtless and condescending toward Ron. This results in Ron making an effort to do better... which leaves Kim feeling even more guilty and convinced that she's not good enough for him.
• Pronouncing My Name for You: Maze's name is pronounced "mah-zay". One Running Gag is that characters who were verbally told his name still need to be corrected on this point.
• Psycho Supporter: During his temporary alliance with Kim, Grimm helps her in his own fashion, using methods such as blackmailing a sensationalist reporter into backing off his anti-Kim-Possible spin and making Bonnie insecure about her future on the cheer squad so she'll quit acting so obnoxious. A variation on the usual trope in that it's not really motivated by loyalty, just cynical pragmatism and desire to prove his point that they're not so different.
• The Psycho Rangers: Team Probable, to Team Possible.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Just like canonical examples.
• The Red Mage: Maze, who has channeled part of the Great Bear Spirit's power into himself and also mastered the creation of golems (based on a Jewish mystical tradition) in addition to his own shadow medicine.
• Relationship Sabotage:
  • Some of Grimm's head games are designed to drive a wedge between Kim and Ron by planting the idea that Kim is just taking advantage of Ron and doesn't have any real respect for him.
  • Inverted at the end of "A Friend in Darkness", where Grimm manipulates Kim and Ron into getting back together.
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: When Monkey Fist and Maze learn that the statue at Yamonouchi that was set to become a golem had been neutralized, Monkey Fist believed it was because either Kim or Grimm were there and had passed on the golems weakness to the ninjas. Monkey Fist was partially right. Kim was at Yamonouchi, but wasn't aware of the global golem scheme, with the real reason being that one of the ninjas at the school was a contact of Grimm's ally Twitch.

• Sissy Fight: Ron and Rhonda's first fight in "All Things Probable" consisted mostly of them trading slaps. Their fight in "A Friend In Darkness" is completely different.
• Slap-Slap-Kiss: During a heated argument, Wade ends up doing this Jade when their faces get to close. It ends up throwing them off their game for a bit due to being unable to one up each other.
• Spirit World: Ron and Rhonda spend much of "A Friend in Darkness" isolated in the Spirit World after being banished by Maze. They are occasionally able to see what their friends are doing and make tenuous contact (usually just a vague impression of their invisible presence).
• Status Quo Is God: The stories are written to fit seamlessly into the canonical continuity between episodes of the Postscript Season.
  • "All Things Probable" is set any time after Mad Dogs and Aliens as both Drakken and Shego are now free to continue their schemes after the events of So The Drama.
  • "The Return of Zorpox" occurs shortly before Clothes Minded, as both teams are still in their normal mission wear.
  • "Back to Kwitcherbeliakin" occurs shortly after Stop Team Go, as Electronique pulled a similar stunt to the above fic close enough that no one knows who did it first, and Team Probable's normal supply of mission clothes was cut off just as Kim's was.
  • "A Friend in Darkness" takes place after all episodes except Graduation and references many of them heavily. The story's epilogue also leads into some of Ron's fears during the episode and has Maze stumbling across one of Warhok's symbols
  • "Graduation" takes place just before and during the events of the actual episode, even including a few scenes such as Team Probable making a Villain: Exit, Stage Left on Killigan's Island as Kim and Ron are sneaking on.
• Summer Campy: Camp Kwitcherbeliakin, which Rhonda enjoyed about as much as Ron enjoyed his summer at Camp Wannaweep.
  • The irony is that her camp wasn't out to get her like Ron's, it was her own dislike of nature that made her miserable.
• Superpowered Evil Side: Ron, in "The Return of Zorpox".
• Taken for Granite: In "A Friend In Darkness," Maze recovers Monkey Fist's stone body and side-steps the Yono's curse with a golem enchantment, effectively reviving him as an sentient animated statue. The villains then use the Yono's petrification power and the golem enchantment to create an ever-growing army.
• Team Pet: Rueful the weasel (Rufus' counterpart).
• Talking Is a Free Action: Subverted. When the Great Bear Spirit gives Rhonda an infodump, he has slowed time down so they had the room to talk things out. To Rhonda, she had a full conversation with the GBS. To Maze, only a few seconds passed.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Kim and Grimm may find it necessary to cooperate to rescue their partners and stop Maze and Monkey Fist, but the friction between them remains intense. Throughout the duration of their alliance, Kim keeps her eyes open for any chance to pin something on Grimm that will put him behind bars, and Grimm never lets up in his verbal sniping at what he considers Kim's naive and sanctimonious attitude.
• Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: Due to Ron's lack of darkness in his heart, he is impervious to Maze's dark mind control.
• Unwitting Pawn: Team Probable uses Adrena Lynn as a distraction to keep Team Possible busy while they pull off a few of their own capers.
• Villain Episode:
  • "Back to Kwitcherbeliakin" is a Team Probable story, with only brief cameos by Team Possible.
• Who Would Be Stupid Enough?: When Grimm comments that only a fool would fall for the Eco-La commercial, which is a front for Gill's mutagen, Monique snaps that she drunk some of it.
  • Done again with their own version of "Graduation"
• Villain Protagonist: Team Probable, especially in "Back to Kwitcherbeliakin", "A Friend in Darkness", and "Graduation".
• Villain with Good Publicity: Team Probable. They even have a lawyer on retainer to deal with anyone tarnishing their ‘good’ names.
• Villainous Breakdown: During the climatic battle with Monkey Fist in "A Friend In Darkness", the normally suave and sophisticated villain loses his temper and goes into a state that Kim sees as similar to the original Yono.
• Villains Never Lie: Grimm shows Kim a glass bulb that allegedly contains Ron's extracted good side and then destroys it, after which he lays out the Sadistic Choice of letting Ron remain Zorpox forever or stealing somebody else's good side in order to restore him. It never occurs to her to doubt Grimm's word until he reveals the real vessel containing Ron's good side, thereby keeping Kim occupied with restoring Ron to normal while Team Probable leaves the scene.
  • Then Grimm falls victim to it at Maze's hands during Basalton, taking the shadow shaman at his word that it is impossible to bring Rhonda back. And unlike the above example where Kim was able to keep fighting until the end, Grimm is Driven to Suicide.
• Vision Quest: Kim goes to Yamanouchi and communes with the Mystical Monkey to retrieve Ron (and Rhonda) from the Spirit World. Along the way, she is confronted with memories of times she'd treated Ron poorly, leading to a final confrontation with "Ron's worst enemy"... herself.
• Wake Up, Go to School & Save the World: The issues of juggling school, life, and missions are pretty much the same for Grimm and Rhonda as they are for Kim and Ron.
• Water Source Tampering: Invoked by Kim when she thought that Gill was putting his mutating muck into Middleton's water supply. Grimm nixed the idea as the water would dilute it too much and even if it worked, the mutation cases would be more wider spread than what they'd been hearing.
• Warrior Therapist: Grimm is adept at simultaneously fighting and head-gaming his opponents.

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