I've re-written a few things in chapter one of this story, and added a little something at the end to make this flow much better later on. As they say, "It's all in the setup", and now I think I've got this setup better than I had before, which was why I had been thinking about deleting it all together.

Disclaimer: I STILL don't own the characters involved in this story, nor do I own any of the rights of movies that this story may resemble.

Warning: There will be character deaths in this story. I've rated this a "T" for minor swearing and possible intense situations. You have been warned, so please read responsibly.

If I were to place this chronologically with the show, I would place this sometime after Graduation, and before college. Oh and btw, Drakken and Shego are back to their old villain ways. (What can I say? Ya can't keep a good villain down)

Chapter 1

Redux

Kim woke with a start, and her eyes were wide with what could only be described as… terror. She sat in bed for a good 15 minutes trying to slow her heartbeat and breathing, when her Mom entered her room through the opening in her floor.

"The same dream again Kimmie?" She asked while walking from the loft entry to the side of her daughter's bed.

"Yeah…" Was all the young girl could say at the moment. After a few seconds Kim finally spoke again. "Do… you ever think we will find out what happened to Ron, Mom?"

"I'm really not the person to ask Kimmie…" Anne said as she sat down on one corner of her daughter's bed. "But I have a feeling in time…"

"That's all everyone ever tells me Mom. Time. Time to heal, time to rest, time to… forget." Her eyes went down as she spoke the last word.

"Now Dear… being a Neuro-Surgeon, I know that time definitely does not heal all wounds when concerning something as complicated as the human brain. Yes, maybe most of the physical things will heal… but it's what's inside the mind that can haunt a person for a very long time… even for the rest of someone's life."

"You know your not helping me very much here." Kim said with a look that her mother couldn't quite read.

Anne placed a hand on her daughter's forearm and said "All I'm trying to say is that some time in the future we may just find out if Ron was in that lair when it collapsed, and whether he survived or not. But it's been Seven months and there hasn't been any news, so in all likelihood, Ronald is not with us anymore. In fact, that's why the Stoppables grudgingly agreed with GJ to have Ron legally declared as dead."

"But why does my heart still tell me that he may still be alive, mom?" Kim said, her eyes welling with tears as she looked at her mother for answers that she knew her mother couldn't answer.

…x x x x…

It was just a few weeks later that Kim received a call from Dr. Elizabeth Director from Global Justice asking her to do something that every fiber in Kim's being said "Don't do it."

She wanted Kim to accompany her and Will Du in the transportation of Shego to the Colorado State Women's Correctional Facility, or CSWCF, in Cañon City, Colorado.

Kim's silent response was broken, after about a minute had passed by the sound of Dr. Elizabeth Director's voice over the phone. "Kim? Kimberly? Are you still there?"

"Y… Yes… I'm still here Betty." She finally answered in a quiet and trembling voice.

"We really could use your assistance Kim." Betty Director said in a voice that almost sounded like she was begging, yet not. "Your experience with our prisoner would be an invaluable asset, and I believe it might also help you to… find closure."

"Closure?" Kim said, almost sounding like she might be taking the offer seriously, but then she suddenly did a complete 180 degree turn. "CLOSURE? Dr. Director… all due respect here, but I don't think that me helping to transport one of the murderer's of the only person I ever really loved would count as closure for HIS DEATH!" The plastic on the phone was strained almost to its breaking point as Kim's fist applied crushing pressure to it's casing.

Betty knew she needed to bring out the Big Guns, and spoke in a gentle, yet purposeful voice. "Kimberly… Don't you want to see Justice for the death of Ron? Don't you want to see at least one of his murderers incarcerated for life in a prison that is specifically designed for those like her?"

"But Shego wasn't found guilty of Murder in the First Degree! That so-called Jury of her peers only found her guilty of Second Degree Murder just because no body was ever found! Second Degree, Betty! I'd…" Kim sniffed back tears that were now falling freely down her cheeks. Her last five words were almost a whisper. "I'd rather see her dead."

"Now you know you don't mean that Kimberly." Betty replied, her emotions almost taking a toll on her as well. Ron Stoppable had become a good friend of hers as well in the past few years that the three of them had worked together. "I've never heard you speak like this about anyone before, so why start now? You know he wouldn't want you to be that way."

"Damn You Betty…" Kim replied, taking Dr. Director by surprise. She had never once in her life heard Kim swear. For the next minute, Betty listened as she heard Kim sniffing back more tears, then she heard the phone being set down, and winced a little as she heard Kim blowing her nose.

Finally the phone was once again picked up. "OK… I'll do it Betty. But I only have one condition."

"Name it." Was Dr. Director's quick answer.

"I want five minutes with Shego, alone, before she enters the prison."

"I… don't think that I have the authority to…" Betty started to say.

"That's all I ask, or you aren't getting any help from me." Kim could hear Betty Director breathing on the other end as she mulled Kim's request over in her mind.

Finally Betty took a breath and answered. "Fine. I don't know how I'm going to pull that off, but I'll make it happen. I promise you."

"I have just one more question Betty." Kim said, and before Dr. Director could respond, she continued. "Why?"

"Shego actually requested that you come along."

…x x x x…

It was the next morning that the transfer of the Global Justice Prisoner was to take place, and Kim was supposed to be at G J's High Security Wing at precisely 8 PM. She didn't arrive until 7:59.

"I was beginning to think you had changed your mind." Dr. Director said as Kim walked up to her, wearing dark sunglasses and her old mission clothes of black half-shirt and green cargo pants. "Why the retro look?" Betty inquired with an eyebrow cocked up.

"He feels closer to me when I dress like this." Kim replied absently, purposefully avoiding eye contact.

"I understand." Betty said, but was immediately rocked back as Kim lowered her sunglasses and put her face right into Betty's, glaring at her with eyes that were bloodshot from crying.

"Do you?" Dr. Director couldn't help but look into Kim's red and puffy eyes. She had obviously been crying for a long time, yet there was something else in those green orbs that Betty saw. Something akin to… determination, and the sadness of the loss of someone she had dearly loved. Betty had seen this look only once before, and that was when she had looked in a mirror when she still had both of her eyes.

Betty stood rooted to her spot for a few seconds after Kim walked by, her face now showing emotions from an event long past. It took her a moment to finally regain her wits and follow Kim back inside the building.

When Betty finally caught up to Kim, she found the red head standing at one end of a short hallway, her fists clenched at her sides. On the other end was Shego, who had her wrists shackled behind her back, and chains on her ankles preventing her from taking too long of a stride. Two armed GJ Agents also flanked her on each side, and Will Du was standing a couple paces behind the three of them.

Shego was the first to break the silence. "So what are you supposed to be Princess? The Kiminator?" One of her patented smirks crossed Shego's black lips.

Kim's only reaction was a twitch of her right cheek, and Dr. Director immediately took control of the situation. "Agent's Carlson, Donahue… Bring the prisoner this way please."

Betty then turned and walked the opposite way down the hall towards the Motor Pool where their transportation was waiting. Kim stood stock still as Shego and her captors walked past, with Shego only giving Kim a half smirk in passing.

She didn't turn around until Will Du's voice spoke. "Are you coming with us, Amateur?" Kim whirled on Du, taking him totally by surprise as one of Kim's gloved hands snapped up with a finger pointing right under his chin.

"I have one other condition." She said with a dangerously lowered voice. "You call me 'Amateur' just one more time Will? One more time… and you will find out what my 'Amateur 16 styles of King Fu' can do to you."

Will swallowed audibly, turned around and said, "This way… Kimberly."

…x x x x…

Kim followed Will the rest of the way to the Motor Pool, and there she saw what their transportation was going to be. It was a large 4-wheel Drive 4-door SUV, outfitted for off-road capability. The second bench seat behind the front bucket seats was partitioned off with heavy-duty wire mesh and bulletproof Plexi-glass.

She walked up just as Shego was ushered into the back seat, along with Will, who would be sitting with her as a precaution. Kim figured she would be sitting 'shot-gun' in the front, with Betty driving.

Just as Kim sat down in the passenger seat, she just had to ask another question. "Why are we transporting her in this?"

Dr. Director turned and looked at Kim. "It's the only vehicle we have that has had it's interior treated with a compound that resists Shego's Plasma Energy. The only other thing that has been treated with this compound, are the shackle's that are holding our friend here. We just discovered the material a few months ago, so now we're in the process of applying it to various other pieces of equipment."

The look on Shego's face confirmed to Kim that she already knew about this compound. Kim wasn't aware of it, but Shego had already singed part of her own hair when trying to blast out of the shackles not more than an hour ago.

Betty started the vehicle up, startling Kim as the Turbo-Charged Diesel engine rumbled to life. Her eyes then looked around the interior of the vehicle while Dr. Director let the motor warm up before putting it into gear. The dash and roof-mounted console looked like something out of a science fiction movie, as there were numerous miniature displays showing various readings, from both the vehicle itself, and the environment outside.

Kim whistled in awe. "I bet Wade would like to see this."

"Oh he already has Kim." Betty replied. "He helped design it."

Just as Dr. Director put the vehicle into to gear, Kim saw something approaching from the sky to her right. "Look out!" A small missile exploded against the wall of a building right next to the SUV, rocking it on its suspension.

"I believe that's our cue to get out of here!" Will said loudly, and Betty mashed the accelerator down, causing the tires to squeal as they rocketed out of the Motor Pool and onto the Highway towards Cañon City.

Kim looked back at Shego, who had a huge smile on her face. "Looks like someone finally decided to try and break me out of this Hell-hole. After all… I've rescued his butt more times than I can count, so he does owe me."

"I'm really starting to regret that Pardon we gave you and your Boss 3 months ago, Shego." Betty Director said through clenched teeth, as bullets and laser fire pinged and bounced off the bulletproof glass and armored exterior of the vehicle. "But I guess saving the world from aliens just wasn't enough, was it? You and Dr. Drakken just had to try one… last… caper."

…x x x x…

Approximately 1 hour previous to their departure…

Deep in a cave located somewhere underneath the Rocky Mountains, a blue-skinned scientist by the name of Dr. Drakken tweaked a couple of controls on a very large console. In front of him was a screen that was actually smaller than he wished, but it was all he could get with his limited finances.

On the screen he could see his captor once again using his strange power to try and break out of his prison. And this time the energy expenditure was much larger than the two previous attempts, so he had to quickly adjust for the increased power he was bleeding off from the attack.

Drakken had a large grin on his face, as he almost couldn't believe how well this was working out. His entire plan was simple, elegant… and quite literally his best idea to date.

After the last failed attempt at taking over the world, he had… quite by accident… discovered a way to absorb almost any kind of energy and store it in a large bank of capacitors and batteries. Currently he was using Kim Possible's buffonish (what IS this boy's name?) sidekick to store incredible amounts of energy.

He didn't completely understand where all this power was coming from, but he was quite pleased with the result. This boy was producing enough energy to run New York City for 6 months! But his data was showing that this blond teen was getting tired, as even though the last expenditure was the largest yet, his total output was declining.

"Don't stop now, Buffoon." He said into a microphone. "I have a new bank of batteries installed that need to be charged up."

While breathing hard from his latest attempt to break out, Ron raised a hand and gave the blue scientist a one-finger salute, making Drakken just laugh that much louder.

Dr. Drakken checked a couple of meters that displayed how much total energy he had stored up, and lifted a phone off of it's cradle. "Looks like it is time to employ the witless lackeys."

Using the small screen on the phone, he dialed five different numbers, and the ID's of each person came up on the screen as they came on line: Dementor, Killigan, Motor Ed, Jack Hench, and Gemini.

"Gentlemen…" Drakken started, "I have a proposition for all of you. I know all of you, like me, have… how shall I say… certain needs for energy to get things done. Well… I now have 500 thousand Volts of energy stored in numerous units, which are comprised of batteries and capacitors that I am willing to give to each of you. But of course, I am asking for all of you to give me something in return."

"Now why is it that th' something yer askin' fer in return is makin' me nervous?" Killigan asked with his thick accent.

"Oh I think this will be quite beneficial to us all, actually. You see… There's a vehicle that is travelling between Middleton and Cañon City, Colorado today, and I would like all of your help in keeping that vehicle and it's occupants from arriving at their destination."

"And just who might these people be that are travelling?" Gemini asked.

"None other than Kim Possible, and Shego." Drakken said without preamble.

"So you want us to rescue the green babe and take out Red, I'm guessin'?" Motor Ed asked.

"Ye…" Drakken stopped himself in the middles of saying 'Yes', as he just had another brain storm. "You know what? With Kim Possible out of the picture permanently, I really won't need Shego around to protect me anymore. So… I've just now decided… that Shego is expendable. I want Kim Possible dead, and if Shego is hurt or killed in the process… then so be it."

To be continued…

I posted this as a "New" chapter so that everyone will be notified of the addition/changes. Otherwise if I just performed a "Chapter Replacement", not everyone would know that it was posted.

The two chapters previous to this will eventually be deleted…