Starshine

I wrote this a while ago and just found it. I figured I would put it up and see if there was enough interest in me continuing it. Please let me know what you think. On to the show.

Chapter One

Disclaimer: Kim Possible and all the rest of the characters belong to Disney. This is a non profit story hence I have nothing to take so please don't sue me.

Sometimes the smallest oversight can change your life forever. Take for instance the small box that was marked for destruction but because of a non observant clerk and a hurried inventory something that should never have seen the light of day again was instead shipped to a place it should never have gone. We will see the contents of said box shortly but for now let us take a side trip to a location that will be a place of interesting things indeed.

Drakken's latest lair somewhere in the Smokey Mountains

Kim Possible was making her way though yet another air duct in yet another lair for yet another world domination scheme. She was a little annoyed with this as she was also a bit annoyed with her best friend/sidekick at the moment.

Said individual had gone and forgotten his anniversary with his girlfriend and was now in Japan trying to get back in her good graces. The end result was that she was preforming a solo infiltration into the heart of her arch nemesis' employers headquarters.

It was widely speculated that the only reason Shego wasn't running things with Drakken as her sidekick was the fact that she hated having that much responsibility, whatever the case Shego was her arch nemesis and everyone knew it whether they admitted it or not as was the case with Drakken. He refused to see that he was always paired off with Ron whenever the four of them faced off.

Kim shook her head to clear it of the sidetrack it had gone off on. She had been called in by Global Justice when they had gotten wind that Drakken was up to something and that could only mean trouble, the fact that they didn't know what he was up to upset the red head slightly. For all she knew they had picked up him ranting about his jars of gerkins and their stubborn lids again. It had happened before; it took Shego three weeks of almost daily taunting before she let Kim off the hook for that one. It was odd and she wasn't sure of when it happened but she and Shego had come to a kind of peace with each other and their respective jobs. When they weren't on the clock they could sometimes be found on the phone talking, naturally using burn phones so that they could not be traced.

More then once they had actually met and spent time together, mostly chewing the fat and sparring. It was hard for either of them to find someone that could really relate to how unusual they actually were. It was a risk for either of them to get caught by either side so they were infrequent meets at best but it kept them both happy for the most part. When they met on the clock they went at it like there was nothing between them, hey just because they were becoming friends they both had competitive streaks a mile wide and took pride in their work.

Ron had an idea that these meets went on and while he didn't approve of it he couldn't stop Kim. He had tried once and had learned that he would rather fight a pissed off Shego then a pissed off Kim Possible any day of the week and twice on Sundays so he turned a semi blind eye while making sure that neither one got too hurt.

Drakken had long ago figured it out but did nothing to dissuade Shego, he really did feel she was a part of his evil family and since she still fought with Kim just as hard when they were in the middle of a caper he saw no problem with her sparring with the goody two shoes. Heck, maybe one day Kim would come to their side and he would welcome her into the fold, he knew it would never happen but you had to have hope. Yes Drakken knew, hey he may be loopy but he is a genius and he could always tell when they had hung out because Shego was pleasant to be around for almost a week afterward. It was the best time to talk her into going to steal stuff actually because she was relaxed and did so much better.

Kim knew all this and still enjoyed coming to foil a Drakken plot. It was just that today something felt off and she really could have used Ron here to reassure her that everything would come off as it usually did.

As she came to the next bend in the duct she saw a vent before her and could hear Drakken boasting about his newest plan for Global conquest or at least Canadian conquest. He had yet to let go of the idea it should be called Drakkenadia. As Shego snorted in response to his yammering in her opinion Kim had to stifle a laugh because she could almost see the look on Shego's face from that noise.

She readied herself to jump down and engage in the usual round of fighting when the latest annoyance occurred, the duct she was in gave a sudden shuddering groan alerting the two villains in the room that they were not alone before giving way completely and dropping about twenty-five feet to the concrete floor. Kim, caught totally off guard by the suddenness of it took the full brunt of the impact and nearly passed out from the pain of at least three ribs breaking and possibly her right arm as well.

Shego had to dive away from the falling hunk of metal and heroine and was regaining her footing when she heard Kim cry out in sheer agony. She whirled to see that Drakken had heard as well and was already moving to inspect the collapsed duct, a look on his face that if she didn't know better was one of concern.

She moved to help her friend as even though they were on the clock this would have stopped anything either of them would have been doing anyway. When she reached Kim she realized that the redhead had already lost consciousness and was bleeding from several places. She moved to rip the ducting apart when Drakken put his hand on her shoulder to stop her. "Shego wait."

"Screw you Drew! She needs help now and I don't care if we are supposed to be enemies, I know she'd do the same thing!" Shego spat back as she resumed her stance.

"I meant you should wait until we make sure moving her or removing the ducting won't injure her further." Drakken calmly explained.

She stopped and looked back at him, incredulous at what he had just said.

He continued since he now had her attention "I know that you two have been meeting every so often, there is no need to deny it; I'm actually fine with it to tell you the truth. I've come to be fond of her in a certain way as well, she never does more then she has to when she stops us and while things get destroyed it's never like when those Global Justice apes blow up everything just because they can. I want to help her as much as you do so let's be as gentle as we can getting her out of there. Think of it this way, she'll owe us one." he finished while smiling slightly, a genuine smile.

She nodded, not sure of how to feel right then and in silence they began to assess Kim's condition and the best way to extract her.

After several minutes they had managed to cut enough of the duct away so they could gently lift Kim out of the destroyed metal and carefully got her to the infirmary without her waking up.

Once there Shego shooed Drakken out so she could dress Kim's wounds, hey she was at least going to give Kim the benefit of being cleaned and her wounds dressed by a nurse who knew what she was doing and without a male hovering about.

After the infirmary door closed Drakken had a thought, this would be an ideal time to test the new healing agent he had ordered and he could claim that if it didn't work right he had used his nemesis as the test subject. That would clear them with the villains and if it did work he could say that he was forced to by Kim's friends and that he had no choice. With that clear in his mind he made his way to the lab that the package was stored in.

Twenty minutes later Kim came around to the feeling of something being pressed against her forehead, she belatedly realized that she hadn't been dreaming about having that fall when the pain caused her to gasp . Alerted that her friend and fellow combatant was now awake Shego pulled back the washcloth and looked at Kim with a relieved look on her face. "Welcome back Kimmie, you gave Drew and I a right good scare back there. You do realize there are easier ways to take a day off right?" she quipped, trying to keep the mood light for her ward.

"Oww.. don't make me laugh Shego, it hurts too much right now. What happened? The last thing I remember clearly was being in the air ducts and then there was this noise and then pain. The next thing is here." Kim semi pled/asked.

"Well let's see here, Drew was in the middle of a rant when we heard the air duct give way, which was odd because we aren't in the middle of anything and then bang that duct came down and dumped a broken Kimmie right in our lap. Seeing you like that isn't something I want to repeat anytime soon cupcake, just so you know." She paused and shuddered slightly. "Anyway, I was about to tear you out of there when Drew pipes up and talks me into taking it easy and to get you out slowly so as not to make things worse. He then told me he knew about our meets, that made me worry but then he actually said he was alright with it. After we got you out he helped get you here and then I kinda kicked him out so I could clean you up and dress your wounds."

Kim took all this in and then reached for Shego's hand with her left hand. After Shego took it Kim smiled "Thank you, both of you. I'm sorry that I interrupted a day off since you weren't doing anything. I guess it was another gerkin moment for GJ, I swear they like sending me out on goose chases sometimes. Where is Drakken now? I'd like to thank him as well."

Shego shrugged "Honestly I have no clue, after I shooed him out you pretty much were my world pumkin. Wow that sounded bad hun? Anyway, Since you are now patched up and those painkillers should be starting their work I'll go look for him and contact your hacker friend...speaking of friends, where the hell is your goofy shadow? I figured he'd have been right behind you freaking out hardcore."

Kim shook her head as best she could with the pain "He forgot he had started dating Yori a year ago and so he is in Japan to try and make amends. I think I might have landed on my Kimmunicater so unless you have a line to Wade I don't really want to know about it might be difficult to get a hold of him without someone else finding out. Ohh I think the painkillers are kicking in, I'm a little lightheaded. I'm gonna rest for a little bit and then we can figure it out."

Shego nodded as she backed out of the room so she could find Drakken and soon. She didn't want to tell Kim but she was in a bad way, Shego had managed to set the broken limb but she also had four broken ribs and unless she was terribly mistaken there was some internal bleeding. She needed serious medical attention and there was no way they'd be able to get her to it in time. Drew better have something up his coat sleeve because she refused to think of a world without her redhead... had she really just put it like that? Hell, she'd worry about the possible implications of that later; Possible implications?

She ran into him less then two minutes later as he rounded a corner with a syringe in his hand filled with a slightly glowing pearlescent fluid. She would have sworn it looked familiar if she'd had the frame of mind to pay it any real attention, as it was she was nearing a panic state as Kim's condition really started to sink in. "Drew we've got to help her! She's bleeding internally, there's no way we can get her proper medical treatment in time!"

Drakken was a bit taken aback at his sidekicks reaction to what was going on at first but quickly remembered where he was going and what he had in his hands. "I might have something that could help Shego. It's an experimental quick healing serum. I managed to get a small sample and was holding onto it in case you got severely injured again. It's supposed to accelerate the natural healing by up to ten times normal so it may be able to help her. It's worth a shot."

She nodded and they were off. In no time they were in the infirmary in front of Kim who was already out cold and looking paler then normal already.

Shego blanched to see her Kimmie in such a state. "Drew use that stuff aready, she's getting worse!"

Drakken hesitated for a moment "Shego, I just want to emphasize that this is experimental. I'm not even sure it will work properly or at all really. I hadn't had time to even examine it properly. It migh..."

"It's the only thing we've got that might help Kimmie Drew! If we don't even try she'll die and I'm not letting my pumkin die!" Shego whirled on Drakken and he could see the look of desperation in her eyes.

That look told him everything he needed to know and as he brought the syringe to the redheads arm he asked Shego a simple question "Does she know how you feel about her?"

Just as he pushed the plunger he looked Shego in the eyes and she realized that not only had she just told her boss that she cared very much for her arch rival and nemesis but that he knew what that could mean in the future. "Drew..."

He smiled a small sad smile as he removed the now empty syringe "Just don't wait until the last moment Shannon, you don't want that haunting you."

Composing himself he stepped back towards the doors "We should know if it's working shortly, just be sure you know what you want. Both from her and yourself because it won't be easy but it could be the most important decision of your life. I'm going to go to my lab, keep an eye on her and let me know if anything seems off."

She just watched him leave unable to do anything for the man who had gone through something similar to what she now faced and hadn't had the miracle he may have just given Kim. He had lost his love without her ever knowing. He was right though, if Kim pulled through this she would tell her how she had fallen for her regardless of if Kim returned the feelings or not. At least she would know she had tried.

Thinking about that she turned towards the object of her affections and noted that she already looked a little more flush. Checking more closely she realized she could almost see the color returning to Kim's face and that the bruising around the arm was going down. It looked like the serum was doing exactly what it was supposed to, maybe even a little better then that.

She turned to tell Drew the good news when she saw the syringe and caught part of the writing on it. She reached over and picked it up to get a better look at it and when she did she nearly screamed when the lettering became clear to her.

It read: T.H.S. Batch #4

She looked back to her Kimmie now with a look of horror on her face as she realized what was happening to her and knowing that she was helpless to stop it. Even as she looked she could see the tell tell signs of the serum at work, the tightening of the body's muscles, a slight shudder as bio-electrical impulses coursed through Kim. She knew what was coming and she had to get everyone clear of what was going on. No one was going to die this time if she could help it.

She rushed to the door and hit the evacuation button so hard it cracked under her palm but the alarm activated warning of a biological attack and warned that everyone should evacuate now. She then made a mad dash for Drew's lab, he couldn't have made it all the way there yet.

Sure enough she ran into him as he ran back towards the infirmary less then three minutes later "Drew, We need to get out of here now!"

He looked at her dumbfounded "Shego what is going on why is the bio alarm going off? Where is Kimberly?"

"We don't have time for inane questions Drew! I'll explain what I know on the way out and Kim is the problem, now RUN!" She yelled as she drug him towards one of the escape pods.

As they reached it there was a deep bass thump from somewhere behind them before Shego shoved Drakken into the pod and triggered the eject button before slamming the door on her surprised employer. "Shego!? What are you doing?"

She looked at him before it lifted off "I'm going to get my Kimmie. You were right Drew, you were right. If we survive this I'll tell you what happened."

The pod began to rocket towards the opening in the ceiling with Drakken's wail trailing away "SHEGOOOOOOOOO!"

Once it was gone she turned and took off towards Kim as fast as her legs would carry her while she thought about the irony that what was happening to her friend was so similar to her own changing that it could be off the same page.

She knew as soon as she saw those letters that things were going to change, she wondered for a moment if she had noticed the lettering earlier if she would have stopped Drew from giving that serum to Kim. She slew that off instantly, yes Kim might hate her for what was happening to her but at least she'll be alive to make that decision. She couldn't believe that any of what they had used on her and her 'brothers' still existed let alone had fallen into Drakkens' hands for this to have happened.

If she believed in destiny she would swear that it had a perverse sense of humor what with gifting/cursing Kim to the same fate as her after all they had been through and all the promises of not trying to change one another. Well that one's right out the window now.

Almost there now she thought about the experiment that had done this to her, the super human program that she and the others had endured and only a handful had survived. Not everyone could handle what your body had to be subjected to during the change, she had no doubt that Kim would make it. She was already beyond peak human and was skilled beyond her years, this would only make her more then she had been but that would be part of the problem as well. She would have to adjust to being so far above human that she may as well be a demi-god by comparison, at least that is how they had all felt. Maybe Kim would be better then that, she was so much better then anyone but Shego knew. Shego had come to know the Kim that Kim held back from the world, the warrior that could humble an ego as large as Shego would admit she had, the woman that even the stars envied for her beauty.

This was no time to wax poetic, Kimmie needed her, she could hear the screams of the change she was going through and damned if Shego wasn't going to be there for her girl even if Kim didn't know that part.

As she burst through the doors she was assailed by the brilliance of a small nova, almost pure white with a tinge of blue. There was Kim in the middle of it in sheer agony. Shego had already pulsed her own power to cover her so she was protected from the raw energy that was destroying the lair around them. Moving to cradle Kim she spoke to her " I'm here for you Kim, I'm not going anywhere. I'm not going to leave you through this."

Kim seemed to have heard her as the screaming subsided Shego could hear her over the roar of their powers unleashed " Shego? Please help me... I'm scared and I hurt so much."

Shego did something that two days ago she would have never believed, she pulled the woman she had been smitten by to her and kissed her "I'll never leave as long as you want me with you Kim."

Kim just nodded and stayed where she was, the pain seemed less when she was near the pale green woman and she had much to think on besides the pain and malestrom of destruction whirling around them.

As Shego held Kim close she thought about the syringe that started this and couldn't decide whether she should curse the project it was from or bless it. The Transforming Homo Sapien Project.

She had been in the second group to go through the procedure, batch two. She realized that the syringe had said something different. Batch Four. She looked at Kim, just what would happen to her? She didn't care as long as she was right there with her. Things were about to change in major ways and not just for Kim.

That was when the second wave of raw power erupted from Kim and Shego both, bathing the area in a torrent of energy that it obscured everything within the crater that had been made.