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Kim Possible: The Cradle Falls
By LJ58
1
The people cringed when the aliens filled their streets and ravaged their city. Reptilian invaders and alien machines tore through once ordinary streets and unleashed their might on anyone that dared resist. Nearby, on a small island, the once iconic home of Team Go was a pile of smoldering rubble.
Not that it stood out just then. Much of the city was in the same condition since the invaders had appeared, attacking without warning, and crushing any resistance before it could get organized, or even truly appear.
Team Go had rushed out at the very start, but just now, no one was sure if those brave heroes were even still alive. They had been swarmed the moment they appeared, and the aliens seemed to already know just how to counter even their incredible powers.
One moment, the brave heroes had been fighting in the very streets, and the next the aliens just moved over them and left nothing but rubble and bodies behind. Considering that the by now infamous hooded visage of Professor Dementor had been broadcast all over the planet declaring his conquest, and the futility of fighting back. In the wake of Go City's fall, he had even broadcast the execution of one of the Wego's that stunned everyone who saw the battered hero actually decapitated on live television.
One of those watching stared with grim intent as Dr. Betty Director in one of Global Justice's hidden headquarters turned to Ron Stoppable.
The grim ninja master stared at the screen where one Wego had just been executed, and the other vanished as the head of GJ regarded him. He had just fought his way through half of the Tri-City area and stood somberly studying the reports coming in all around them as Dementor now demanded Stoppable's immediate surrender, along with the rest of the world.
"My God," Will gasped in horror as the laughing dwarf's transmission ended with his threats against Ron. "What do we do?"
Ron shot a cold stare his way as Betty actually shuttered at his tone.
"We fight back," the monkey master growled as his usually placid brown gaze glittered brightly. "And this time I make sure that madman dies," he spat.
Betty glanced around, the reports of chaos and destruction still coming in around them as she tried to consider a ploy to at least start facing the madness threatening to overwhelm them.
"What's the plan," she asked, not liking the feeling of helplessness she had just then as her agents were forced underground since just then they were unable to mount any kind of offense. Not with the aliens ready, and overpowering anyone that stood against them with sheer numbers and literal firepower.
How Ronald had fought his way through that was currently beyond her, but it gave her a new respect for the ninja's skills.
"Go City," he pointed at one monitor. "They were quick to drag the Wego's out. So where are Hego and Mego?"
"No reports," an agent on the main communications told them as if waiting for that query.
"I have to get there. If we can find them, bring them back, we can start an organized offensive. Hego has the strength," Ron nodded, "But let's face it, he's not much of a planner. We need a plan, and then we can take Dementor out, and end his influence."
"That's saying we can get to him," Will pointed out. "He's sure to be hiding behind a lot of his….new friends."
"Dementor has never been a backfield commander," Ron reminded him. "He'll be out in front, preening, and showing off. Only this time we use that against him. We find him, and we take him out, and I wager his new friends won't be that hard to manage once we can get organized again. Only for the plan that I'm considering, I need Hego."
"I think we can get you there, but anything else is up to you, Ronald," Betty admitted. "Right now, we don't dare risk any of our remaining people or resources when they've already shut down most of the world's military."
"Shut them down," Ron reminded her, "But not destroyed. We distract them long enough, and I'm bettering we can launch a counterattack from all sides if we give the world time to regroup. Which means, Hego and I hit Dementor head-on, and blind them to the rest of the world's efforts."
"I think I see. Focus everyone on you, and they won't pay attention to anyone else," Will realized.
"Exactly. As I said, these guys aren't hard to beat, but with Dementor giving them orders, and tipping them off to our usual playbook is cutting us off. Without him, they likely won't be able to counter us half so easily," Ron said with a grim nod.
"You hope," Betty remarked after he concluded his general plans.
"I hope," Ron said. "Whatever else happens, I'm going straight for Dementor. This time, he goes down for good," he said grimly.
"You're counting on GJ to be there, too," Will asked quietly. "Aren't you?"
"It would make our ploy all the more convincing," Ron nodded. "Meanwhile, you get the word out to everyone else what we're doing, and tell them to gear up for a counterattack," Ron told Dr. Director. "You might send the word out through the underground, too. Remind that if we fall, they fall with us. I doubt any of them really want to live in a world run by that helmeted madman," Ron added.
"I know a few that still don't think much of him," Dr. Director admitted. "Only how soon do I reach out? We don't want to tip our hand too soon if they are smart enough to monitor what's left of our comm frequencies."
"As I said," Ron told her. "We find Hego, Mego, and then organize an assault once we have Dementor pinpointed. "That's why you get the word out to everyone," he told her.
"Right," she nodded. "I'll get you a stealth ship so you can get to Go City at once."
"I'll accompany you," Will told him, "Just as soon as I stop by the armory."
"It's times like this that I really miss KP and Wade," Ron said quietly as they left the command center.
"I think it's obvious Kimberly encountered these creatures. They do seem fixated on the Great Blue for some reason."
Ron eyed Will as they headed down the halls, and nodded.
"I was thinking the same thing. Which means Dementor likely thinks he can use them to lure her back. The only question is, how does she get the message, and will she get back in time?"
"That is a very good question," Will nodded.
~KP~
"Start the engines," Kim told the captain as Warstone nodded to his crewman, and the switches were thrown, and the ship began to vibrate slightly, and hum.
"We have full power to all systems," James told his daughter as he glanced back at where she stood beside the captain's chair, looking around grimly.
Walter was still in medical, still suffering from the curious sensation of feeling his twin die across half a galaxy, and that left Justine and the Tweebs in engineering just then.
"Check all our auxiliaries," Kim ordered, "And retest the main drives."
"Fuel flow is good," Wade told her, looking up from his station. "Trans-Spatial drive is functioning nominally, and ready to go. We can get back to Earth in…."
"We're not going to Earth," Kim told them.
"What," Wade exclaimed as her father stared back at her as Shego just eyed her lover, and felt her mood.
"Feeling things," she asked the redhead quietly, still stunned over the death of her brother, too.
"Planning things," Kim said grimly. "I've been reacting all this time. Flowing across perspectives as if paddling across a pool," she told her somberly. "It's time to jump in, and find out just what I've been skirting."
"Kimmie," Shego asked with concern.
"I need to finish the lessons that Warmonga has been giving me. I've ducked some of them, but I think it's time to embrace them if we're really going to make a difference out here."
"We?"
"You're part of me, Shego. I think we've long since established that one. I have one more chore to tend here, and then I'll meet you in our ship. Have Warmonga waiting for me, too."
"Okay," Shego nodded. "Is this going to be another crazy….?"
Kim smiled.
"Probably. Hopefully, it gets better this time," she smiled. She then turned her attention to Admiral War-Hammer, saying, "Admiral, bring all our warbots back on board. Seal all hatches, and prepare to launch. I just have one more chore to attend, and we are setting a course for Lorwardia," she said.
"I see. You are ready to face the emperor?"
"I'm getting ready to go to war, Admiral," she said, and vanished even as Shego turned away, and James Possible shared a grim look with Wade.
"I'll make sure everything is ready," Wade nodded at the man.
Admiral War-Hammer nodded to the waiting captain and nodded again as the man reached for the intercom switch and sent the ship-wide message.
"All hands to stations. We launch in ten carlikks. Load all warbots, and seal all hatches. Prepare to launch on the Great Blue's command."
~KP~
Two men gasped in shock and confusion as they suddenly appeared on a small, desolate island in the middle of a polluted ocean with nothing to be seen for miles around.
One was a tall blonde in regal attire. The other was a squat, dark-skinned man in more modest clothing that composed of mostly a simple jumpsuit uniform. Both were the respective leaders of their people.
"I believe you are looking for me," a somber voice declared, and both men spun around even before they could react to their longtime enemy before them.
"Great Blue," Senior Prime Minister Duk-Au said, and actually bowed.
"You're not serious," the blonde lord of the Losian Empire sputtered.
"Had you seen the wonders she's already shown us, Losian, you would have no doubt."
"Time is short, gentlemen," Kim said in a tone only a few would have recognized. "For you, and for your planet. I have said I will give you a sign. Duk-Au accepted my word, and fulfilled our bargain. I ask you now, Losian, will you cooperate, and aid us, or will you die with your planet?"
"D-D-Die," the blonde asked in a quavering tone.
Kim just glared.
"What do you want," the man whined.
"Troops," she spat. "And a peace between the both of you. You are one world. One people. One species. You are, or should be one with your own, and the galaxy around you. You will accept that truth, or you will be wiped from the galaxy. Choose," she demanded.
"Ah, well, ah, what sign are you giving the K'lians," the man asked fretfully.
Kim drew a deep breath.
"Not long ago, you destroyed their colony moon," she reminded him.
"It was a platform for weapons….!"
"It was one of the last agricultural refuges that might have fed all your people. You are both idiots if you don't see you need to cooperate. As to my sign," she said, and threw up both hands toward the grayish-black disk just visible in the sky.
The redhead seemed to glow brightly for a moment, a shimmering white-gold aura that fluttered brilliantly, and then she dropped her arms, and smiled coolly.
"Behold my sign, Losians," she called them both.
Both men looked up, and realized that faint disk was now a faint green and brown, signifying a restoration of life to the small satellite.
Both men looked to her, then back up, then back to Kim.
"Anything you desire, Great Blue," Duk-Au swore in awe. "It is yours. My life, and my people, are yours to command."
"It….It is a trick," Sartos whined.
"Is this a trick," Kim demanded, and just gestured.
This time, only a faint fluttered surrounded just her right hand, but the small island blossomed around them, thick, lush grass growing around them even as trees began to grow and blossom, and the faint perfume of new buds filled the air.
"By the Ancients," Sartos rasped.
"I am the Great Blue. I came to test you, and you, Losian, are failing."
Sartos dropped to his knees, crying, "Don't kill me! I'll give you whatever you desire. Name your price. Treasures. Weapons. You want troops, take all my armies. They're yours!"
"Your people need a new leader," Kim told Duk-Au in disgust.
"Losians have ever followed traditions more than logic, Great Blue. I wager, when even his people hear your demands, they will follow all the same. There is no doubt you are truly that legendary being that was said to rise, and unite our galaxy."
"In peace, I hope. But sometimes, you must fight for that peace. I am going to arrange ships, Duk-Au. Send the word. I need soldiers, but I need people to help fly those ships, too, for I have a….feeling we may need to evacuate a planet soon."
"Not Losia," he gasped.
"No. My own home world," she said somberly. "Be ready," he told them both, and suddenly both men found themselves back in their mutual capitals, and standing in the middle of their own people.
Duk-Au looked out his tower window, and saw the massive Lorwardian ship now rising into the air, and looked up to see the green moon once more glowing with life over their world. He looked back to his generals, and finally spoke, his voice filled with awe as he declared, "She is the Great Blue. Prepare to summon our armies and all support staff."
"Who do we fight," General Zar-Ku asked, having seen more than enough to know the strange woman had powers even he couldn't explain.
And there was also her Hand, as the small, green one was called.
"Her enemies," the minister said somberly. "Apparently, someone has dared attack her own world."
"By all the Gods," someone rasped. "If she is the Great Blue, what fool would dare?"
"A soon to be dead fool," Duk-Au declared. "Gather the armies. We need craftsmen, pilots, and all available support ready, too."
"Is that all," the general asked.
"No," Duk-Au smiled. "Send volunteers back up to Dugarii to start farming our moon again. "Behold," he gestured at the moon, "The Great Blue has given us her blessing, and her sign."
"By the Ancients," the general gasped, and could not believe that blasted rock once more looked alive, and vital. "Her power…. I'll summon the armies at once," he saluted sharply, and raced from the chambers.
~KP~
Kim appeared in the quarters of her dad's ship, and slid down the wall as Shego raced to catch her.
"What did you do," the comet-powered teen asked her anxiously.
"Fixed….Dugarii. Their moon. Had to knock some very hard heads together, too. Tell the captain to launch, and get us to Lorwardia as fast as possible," she panted, taking an energy drink and bar from Shego who raced to their stores to get them for her.
Kim gulped the drink down, and all but swallowed the first bar whole.
"I'm really going to have to thank Wade for devising these," she smiled, and gulped a second bar before she began eating a third more sedately.
"We are launching, Great Blue," Warmonga came back to inform her. "Your battle-mate suggested you wished to continue your lessons, though."
"Yes. Remember when you showed me how to face my demons," she asked.
"Warmonga remembers," she nodded.
"I need to do it again. I need to finally, and fully integrate whatever I will be with what I am now," she said. "I have the sense I'm still….fragmented, and I need to be whole if I am going to face what's ahead," Kim told her.
"Warmonga understands. Shego," she turned to her. "For this, you must guard the door, and let none disturb us. Not for….nine sectarns."
"Which is….?"
"Thirty-four of your hours," Shego was told.
Kim nodded at her.
"Thirty-four hours. Really?"
"It is not difficult, what the small warrior attempts now," Warmonga told her. "But it is dangerous. It will take, as you say, a delicate touch."
"Okay. Okay. Don't worry," Shego turned to Kim touching her still faintly pale face. "I'll make sure no one barges in. You just remember not to lose it. I'd like to live to enjoy our lives together once this insanity is finally over," she smiled, and leaned close to kiss that same cheek.
"So would I, Shego," she told her, not burdening her with the vision she had had of a shattered Earth if she didn't save it in time. "So would I," she smiled, and gave her a nod. "I promise, as soon as we can, we are going to take a whole year, and just….relax," she offered.
"Oh, you so need to wrap this up yesterday," Shego teased.
"Just give us the time I need," Kim told her. "Trust me, I need it."
"This isn't one of those…."
Shego pantomimed an explosion.
"I don't know, yet," she lied. "Hopefully not," she said, and turned toward Warmonga. "So, are we ready," she asked, finishing a fourth energy bar, and looking far more normal now.
"You tell me, Great Blue," Warmonga replied somberly, watching the hatch close behind Shego.
"I'm ready. I have to be ready. Just….show me the way."
The big warrior woman nodded, and then gestured to the floor beyond the bed.
"We begin as before, by seeking your own core," she said as they both settled onto the deck to take a meditative pose.
To Be Continued….