"All rise." The voice boomed throughout the courthouse as the people did so. The judge came out in the black gown and thick rimmed glasses as he takes his seat at the bench.

"You may be seated." The audience was told and the hearing was underway. It really didn't take long. Shego and Kim sat towards the front row and Kim found herself gripping her birth mother's hand tightly when she had seen Anne Possible enter. The older red head didn't look their way as she took her seat. Kim felt like she was ready to lose it throughout the whole thing. James and the twins were sitting on the other side of Shego, each sneaking glances at her here and there, and then the woman she had thought to be her mother for so many years was sitting in front of her never once looking back to see any of them. Then it became even harder when she was called up to the stand and couldn't cling onto Shego anymore. She sat in the chair she was lead to after taking the oath that the bailiff told her.

"Ms. Possible let me get straight to the point. Is that woman sitting there your mother?" the prosecutor asked her and Kim could almost face palm. This guy obviously never did his homework.

"No." she answered honestly and there were a few gasps while some had heard from the grapevine that she wasn't. The prosecutor's face fell at her answer but tried to quickly re-compose himself. Kim was avoiding looking at any of the possibles as she said this and was barely able to calm down when her gaze met emerald eyes that seemed to encourage her.

"No? erm, so this is not the woman you've lived with your whole life?" How was she supposed to answer that? She didn't exactly live with them her whole life, but she guessed it was close enough.

"Yes it is." Kim confirmed with a bit of a nod.

"But she's not your mother?" the judge leaned forward to ask curiously and the red-headed teen shook her head in response.

"No, I thought she was, until a few months ago when I found out that I was adopted." There were shocked faces from everyone in the courtroom and cameras were flashing like crazy as reporters scribbled furiously in their notepads.

"I see" The prosecutor cleared his throat looking a bit relieved that he still had his case. "But has this woman hit you?" Kim shrinked back a little. She made the mistake of looking at Anne who's eyes looked anywhere but at her and then the rest of the Possibles who were watching with stony faces. I can't do this! I can't tell them what they need to throw her back into jail. She looks so worn and tired... I can't say it.. but I can't lie either.

"Um, She... I-I.." Everyone in the room looked like they were holding their breath as she tried to get out her response. "I'm sorry. I-I can't testify." Her eyes were focused in her lap as there were murmurs across the court room.

"I'm sorry?" The prosecutor blinked.

"And why can't you testify?" The Judge asked her and she looked up at him and shrank back a little.

"b-because I-I can't sir." She stuttered under his gaze.

"You do know that without your statement, she would have to be let off right?" He asked her and she nodded. The old man in a black robe sighed. "Very well then. Because there is no testimony or witnesses, Dr. Anastasia Possible is free to go and this case is closed." With a few taps of the gavel he left the room and people started getting up and filing out. Kim stood from behind the bench and all but ran down to where Shego was standing waiting for her.

"What happened up there?" She asked softly and Kim shook her head.

"I- I just couldn't do it Shego, I don't mean to hurt you or anything, but I thought she was my mom for virtually my whole life. I can't do that to her."

"Bu-" Shego was cut off when there was a tap on her shoulder and the two turned around to see James and the twins. Kim's hand immediately sought out Shego's and gripped it like she had been earlier for support. James saw this but didn't say anything as he had been informed of everything by GJ.

"Uh, hey, we just wanted to apologize for not being there for you these past few months." James started awkwardly. "I never meant to abandon you, especially at a time like that, but I just couldn't bring myself to face you. I can't believe all those years I never noticed anything, I was such a failure as a father. Jim and Tim had wanted to see you but I kept putting it off so please don't blame them, this is all on me. As soon as I came to my senses, I went to the hospital and was told that you had already been released and since no one knew where Shego lives we couldn't exactly contact you, and we just found out that you were staying with Monique now literally today, so do you think you could forgive me?" Kim was speechless and her jaw almost dropped. He didn't hate her? He had spent the whole time trying to apologize to her? He was asking for her forgiveness when all this time she felt it was supposed to be the other way around?

"Da- Um." Kim stuttered not knowing what she was supposed to call him now. She had decided after moving in with Monique that for now she didn't have any parents, but now it was a bit awk-weird especially since it was just too odd to call him James. "Look, It wasn't your fault. None of it. I was the one who got... her arrested in the first place. I thought you might have hated me for breaking up the family." She admitted and James eyes widened a bit.

"Breaking up the family? Kimmie-cub, that wasn't your fault at all. It's what your moth-" Quick glance at Shego, "My wife did to you that may have set us all back for a while, but nothing's really broken up. The boys and I are here for you whenever you need us no matter what." Kim mentally cringed when he called her "Kimmie-cub."

"Yeah, we might not share the same blood" Jim started

"But you're still our sister." Tim finished. The slim hero smiled warmly at the boys and the man she used to call father.

"Aw you guys." She said before the four of them shared a group hug and Shego stood there a bit awkwardly. "Thank you so much. You have no idea what that means to me."

The drive afterwards was for the most part silent. Kim could tell Shego was mad, and she had a fair inkling as to why but she didn't like it one bit. The tension in the air seemed thick enough to cut it with a knife.

"You're mad." She stated, not as a question, but more like an accusation. Shego said nothing for a while before she nodded.

"Okay, maybe I am." She admitted.

"Mind telling me why?" The former thief was asked before she sighed.

"It doesn't matter."

"How so? Shego I know you're mad, and I know you're mad at me." Kim informed her.

"Pumpkin, I'm not mad at you." Shego stated.

"Try pulling the other one." Came her retort.

"Look, I guess a part of me understands why you couldn't do it, but that's a very small part. That woman had been hitting you for years, she was abusing you! I just don't see how you could be fine watching her walk free."

"Shego, I've told you before, She's what I had considered my mother for the majority of my life. I can't ever forget that no matter what she does, and I'm hearing what all you guys are saying, but I still kind of feel like she didn't do anything wrong."

"Didn't do anything wrong!? Kim, she hurt you and you see nothing wrong with that!?" Shego's voice was raised.

"Well maybe I deserved it! Ever think of that?" The red head raised her voice to match the former villainess'.

"Nobody deserves that, how can you even think that? Princess, you're the poster child of a good kid, you've got the grades, the manners, you save the world on a daily basis and you never stray from your morals. How could you deserve that?"

"The only reason I did good in school was so that I could live to see the next day! A single A- meant that there was a chance I wouldn't be able to make it out of bed the next morning, and I got into the world saving biz to get away from her! I started those missions with the hope that I would be killed by one, if it weren't for her, I'd probably be a lazy rebellious teenager."

"Oh, so you think I couldn't have done a good job at raising you!?" Shego shouted like Kim had been except her voice cracked at the end.

"Shego that's not what I meant-"

"Are you sure about that? You're still calling her mom and yet you can't even be around me?" The hurt was so painfully evident in the older woman's voice that Kim faltered.

She- Look I-" Kim started after a while but Shego cut her off.

"We're here." She informed the teen and Kim looked outside the window to see she was right. She had been living with Monique like she said she would and in the past four months, she had seen Shego twice. The first time so that Shego could give her the gloves to help contain her powers and the other time was to discuss the hearing. The red-headed hero hadn't allowed any other visits claiming that she still needed more time.

Kim looked at Shego who was staring straight ahead with tears swimming in her eyes. The teen wanted desperately to find something to say but nothing came to mind so after a moment she got out of the car and stalked up to the house. She opened the front door and stepped inside before turning and watching the green and black car drive away.

Beep Beep Ba Beep

Kim groaned and rolled over to reach for her kimmunicator, partially wishing she could just turn it off and go back to sleep. As she grabbed her device she took a quick glance at the clock and noticed that it was only 2AM.

"Wade, whatever it is, can't it wait until morning?" She asked her voice thick with sleep as she squinted into the light that the device emitted.

"Sorry Kim, DNAmy's up to something serious."

"Any idea what?"

"Not really, A woman called in because her husband sneaked in after Amy and never came back out. She said there was a bright flash and then nothing."

"Alright, I'm on it. Ride?"

"Will be there in 2 minutes tops."

"Please and thank you." She hung up the Kimmunicator and jumped out of bed to put on her mission outfit.

Her ride came right when Wade had said it would in the form of a helicopter that hovered outside her window with a rope ladder extended and waiting for her. Sometimes she wondered if it was the best idea for Wade to let people know exactly where she lived down to her bedroom window. She had plenty of enemies to worry about as is, she didn't need them knowing where she slept.

The ride to DNAmy's hide out wasn't long, and Kim figured they were just outside the city limits of Go city when the pilot informed her that that was her stop. She thanked him and jumped before he could start praising her for the time she found his daughter after she had went missing in New York City. Turned out she had just wondered off and got caught up in the crowds. The slim hero landed with grace as she always did and undid her parachute right before she was hit from behind and rendered unconscious.

Shego groaned when she was awakened by the sound of her telephone ringing. She was tempted to just blast the cursed device but decided that it had been too expensive to just demolish. She dragged herself out of bed and walked over to her dresser on the other side of the room where her phone sat in it's cradle.

"What?" She answered it with her oh-so pleasant greeting.

"Kim might be in trouble. She went on a mission over an hour ago and I lost contact with her practically the moment she landed and she's still not back." She recognized the voice on the other end as the techno geek who was always helping out her daughter. Sure he seemed to be a great help every now and then but she couldn't help but feel that he only sends her off to her potential demise.

"Where do I go?" She asked not even batting an eye.

Kim sat on the cold hard ground tied to a giant rock and almost bored to tears. When she had woken up, she had found herself in what looked like a lab staring at something that looked like a dooms day device worthy of Dr. Drakken, but it was DNAmy who she spotted. The four eyed cuddle-buddy collector had apologized to the young hero upon her awakening saying that she hadn't wanted to be a 'meanie' as she put it, but she couldn't have the teen ruining her plans either. Then, like every other villain Kim had gone against, she went into her own rant on her plans not to take over the world, but make everyone "a part of her family." She didn't go into much detail on how she planned to do that per say, she merely suggested that her ray was going to make it all happen. Kim had been ready for that, the capture, the rant, evil plans, but then to her surprise, and dismay, the woman went into her childhood of being a Cuddler (Cuddle-Buddy fan).

Kim had no idea how long she had been there but she actually found herself wishing that the crazy doctor would just get on with it already and spare her this pain.

"... And that's when little Johnny took my Zenguin from me and threw it into the fire. Oh I was so mad, I vowed revenge against him too but I never got the chance since his family moved away a week later..." Dr. Amy Hall continued on in her story. Kim wanted to bang her head against the stone behind her repeatedly but found it wasn't needed when she spotted a flash of green from behind the squat woman. The redhead had to refrain from cheering as she watched a certain raven haired woman sneak past DNAmy and make her way behind the rock that the teen was bound to.

"Really Kimmie? These are just ropes, why didn't you use your powers?" The older woman whispered and the young hero felt like face-palming. She had completely forgotten she even had powers.

"Sorry, I guess I'm just not used to having them yet." She whispered back and soon she felt the ropes fall, no longer binding her.

"Nah uh uh, Don't you want a demonstration before you leave?" Kim and Shego barely had time to look up as the mad geneticist pressed a button on a small remote she had been holding causing the big ray gun to fire right at the two. They didn't have a chance of avoiding it as the beam that shot from the machine was too wide to dodge. It hit them with a surprising force, causing them to fly back and through a window that had been right behind them, shattering the glass on impact.

"Oh my, I didn't think it'd hit them that hard." DNAmy commented after seeing the two disappear. She was about to go look through the now broken window to see where they landed when suddenly her lab was swarming with GJ agents.

"Dr. Hall, you are hereby under arrest." Will Du flashed his GJ badge before cuffing the surprised woman.

"Sir, there is no sign of Ms. Possible or her mother." an agent informed him after another one had taken DNAmy outside. Agent Du scanned the area around him but didn't think anything to be out of sorts so he turned to head back.

"Check all surrounding area one more time and then we'll leave. Perhaps they've already departed." He said not really caring about the 'amateurs'.

"What the- Hey! Lemme outta here! Help, someone!" Kim struggled in the darkness that she found herself trapped in. Suddenly whatever held her captive was lifted and she blinked into the moonlight that was casting an eerie glow on her surroundings.

"Calm down kitten, it was just your shirt."

"Kitten?" She blinked looking around till she found a cat standing behind her, towering over her. The cat was black with white paws and emerald eyes. You could even see a greenish tint in it's fur. Kim felt herself about to freak out that there was a cat that was bigger than her, but then she remembered DNAmy's yammering and the ray they had been hit with. She looked down at herself and internally gasped. Instead of finding hands and feet she saw black paws and a white furry chest. She then looked behind her to find the rest of her was mainly orange except for the very tip of her tail which was white. This could only mean two things. The first was that DNAmy's ray was meant to turn everyone into cats. The second was that the black cat in front of her could only be Shego.

"Oh great." She muttered not exactly pleased with the sitch at hand.