If there was one thing Ivy Gingham knew, it was that her younger sister was never cut out to be a warrior, now or ever. Amber just wasn't the type. However, it would appear her older brother Joshua either didn't know or didn't care.
Ivy, now known as Shego, had been gifted, as had her 5 siblings. When a multi-colored something—Josh called it a comet, but both Amber and Ivy knew that whatever it was, it wasn't a space rock—hit their tree-house, something had happened. There, the colors separated into the different Gingham children.
Josh, the oldest, got the blue power, which seemed to have melded with him and gave him super strength. Tom, the 2nd oldest, got the purple power, which decided to give him the power to shrink. Ivy, the oldest girl, and 3rd in order, got the green power, which melded with her often times violent tendencies and allowed her to make her hands glow with a plasma that was extremely destructive and more then likely deadly if used properly on a human being.
Amber came next, and got the pink power, which appeared to be the most useful—it didn't do just one thing. With the power, she could become any animal she wished, talk with the animal world, and was connected to Mother Nature far more then anybody else, past, present and future. Plus, she was now capable of what could simply be called magic.
The twins, Patrick and Robert, were last and they got the red power—they could now duplicate themselves a million times over if they so wished. Josh had decided to use their newfound powers to fight evil, and gave them ridiculous new names—he was Hego, Tom was Mego, the twins were Wego, collectively, and Amber was Anigo. Together, they were Team Go.
But Amber's power got her on the front line of every attack Team Go made. And Ivy knew that Amber's place wasn't even in battle to begin with. Her new powers only supported that fact.
Ivy knew that the powers their family had been gifted with had been molded based on who they were. Josh was always a body-builder, a muscle guy. Tom had always been awkward with his tall lanky frame, and the twins were always creating mischief by pretending to be one another and confusing the heck out of everybody—it was nearly impossible to tell them apart.
Ivy would be the first to admit that she had violent tendencies and tended to take her anger at anything out on humanity. She was fierce and fought mightily against anybody and everybody—for reasons she didn't even know half the time. The only person she never fought against was Amber. Even given her nature, Ivy could not bring herself to hurt Amber.
Amber, who was kind, sweet, and gentle. Amber, who was both terrified and confused about Ivy's tendencies—how could anybody harbor such ways towards others? Amber, who was what humanity should be, and never could be.
Amber, who Ivy could always see in her mind's eye, feeding the neighborhood strays, trying to get an elderly dog adopted from the pound and save him from euthanasia. Who spent her time looking for unicorns and Pegasus, and staring at the moon, perfecting her wolf howl.
Ivy remembered when Amber first saw Disney's Bambi. She had cried harder then the title character when his mother was shot—as she did every time she watched the movie. Ivy remembered Amber crying when the mother fox was shot at the beginning of Fox and the Hound.
And Amber was so recluse. Her gentle ways earned her ridiculers instead friends in the neighborhood and at school. Her brothers had little use for her, because of their own faults. Amber had only ever opened fully to Ivy. Ivy who was always willing to help her hunt for deer to save and played along with Amber's fantasy games of magic and talking stuffed toys.
That's not to say her parents didn't love her. They loved their children very much, but after they were gifted, they allowed the siblings to deal with things more and more on their own. After all, how do you help your daughter when said daughter could tear down the house within minutes flat?
Now watching from a hidden corner as Josh had Amber attack their bird-themed foe, Aviarious, Ivy realized that it was time for her to split. She knew that later, it would be attributed to her natural inclinations to the Dark side of things, but Ivy would know better—she was leaving because if nothing else could be said about her, then it could be noted that Ivy Gingham loved her sister very much, and couldn't bare watching as she was forced to fight battles she had never wanted to enter to begin with.
The fight was over soon enough, and the man—originally called Jack—was taken to prison, again, and they all met back up in their "base", Go Tower. Almost immediately after the last of them had taken their seats—color-coordinated—Josh started in on the faults of the attack. Ivy listened, vaguely, till Josh started in on Amber's contribution to the faults.
The hurt look on Amber's features sealed the deal. Ivy—Shego—was leaving, and taking Amber with her. Just as tears begin to fall down Amber's face, Ivy leapt at her older brother, hands glowing.
"That's it!! I can't stand this anymore!"
"Shego! What's the matter with you?!" demanded Josh.
"That's the matter with me!" Ivy yelled, pointed to where Amber watched the fight through upset, hurt and slightly terrified tears. "Are you even aware of how much hurt you're causing your own SISTER when you yell at her for things she can't control to begin with?"
Josh looked into the golden eyes of his youngest sister and saw the truth to his other sister's words. Amber was terrified of the fight, but it was hidden behind the layer of hurt his earlier words had caused. Amber did the best she could, and asked little in return save love and acceptance. After every battle, she found none—just his harsh criticism, which the girl took to heart.
"I can't stand this!! Amber doesn't belong in battle regardless of what she can do or who it's against. I'm leaving!" Ivy shouted, a growl coating her words. Amber let loose a wail.
Almost immediately the green clad woman was at her sister's side. Gently rocking the upset girl, Ivy told her sister that she wasn't leaving without Amber—especially with this bunch of idiot boys being the only other option. Ivy knew that Amber would hate leaving her family—which was extremely important to her, even if they never treated her right—but she couldn't bare to see Amber put into situations she had no business being in anyway.
Josh, Ivy noted gleefully, looked horrified and stunned at what was right in front of his nose the entire time and he chose to ignore. Did his sister really mean so little to him?
The deal was done. That night, Ivy packed everything she owned, helped Amber pack all her stuff, said goodbye to her parents and watched as Amber said goodbye to her brothers—she offered the twins a farewell, because they never really hurt Amber, but all Tom and Josh got were cold looks of hatred. Both boys flinched when they met her green eyes, and looked away as they hugged Amber.
Amber transformed into a large winged horse, and Ivy leapt onto her back gracefully, their suitcases attached firmly to the pack behind the woman. The Gingham parents and twins waved goodbye—the mother tearfully, the males mournfully—and with Ivy's promise to write, because Amber wouldn't allow anything less, the two sisters took off into the night.
Drew Lipsky—aka Dr. Drakken—stared at his sidekick of several years in shock. While he admittedly didn't ask questions when he agreed to take Shego on as sidekick with Amber just tagging along for the ride, the fact that the sisters had family was news to him—and now his was regretting his decision to never question Shego about her past.
Kim Possible stared at her nemesis in shock. Had Shego just refused to help her brothers?
"But they're your brothers! I know they're annoying as all get out, but they're family! How can you not help?"
"I left Team Go long before you came on the scene, Kimmie, because Amber was a member and Amber had no place in the warfare good and evil wage everyday. I'm sure you've been told I left because I enjoyed the dark side of life. That may be a small part of it, but the real reason I left was because Amber and I are closer then even you and Ronnie, and I hated seeing the hurt look on her face after every battle because Hego over there never offered her a congratulations, just harsh biting criticism."
The big blue guy flinched at the spiteful tone to his estranged sister's words and the harsh truth that rang through them. He had not treated Amber well.
"And you went bad?" questioned Kim. "With Amber in tow?"
"Well, Amber didn't go bad. Unlike SOME people, I would not allow her to become something she's not. I am now Drakken's sidekick, and Amber comes along with me, so I can watch out for her."
Kim seemed to contemplate this. Her run-ins with Drakken, and therefore, by default, Shego, also had a young girl only a couple years younger then her nemesis shadowed in the background. The girl was an unknown—not even Wade could get any dirt on her. She never battled it out, just watched with wide, terrified eyes—Kim found herself thinking of those eyes once as the eyes of a toddler. And they were always shining with tears…
Shego never let the girl fight. If she even noticed the girl, she always told her to find Drakken and let her handle things. Now she had a name to go with the shadow dweller—Amber, the final member of the broken Team Go. And, apparently, the reason it was broken anyway.
"As fun as all this is, can we focus here? On getting my powers back?" came the familiar drawl of Tom Gingham—Mego. Shego's snarl was his only answer.
"Shego, I know you have reason, obviously, to not want to help these two, but do you have a grudge against the twins? Aviarious has them hostage and they are now powerless too. He wants Hego's strength—which I now have—and I can only assume he wants yours and Amber's powers too." Kim looked at her arch-foe pleadingly.
Amber answered before her sister could.
"We have to save them!! Please Ivy? They were the only ones outside of you to be nice to me." Even Mego flinched at his youngest sister's wording.
The gentle smile and caring embrace Shego gave her sister was totally something no one in the room save Amber had ever seen—and they all found it disconcerting. Shego had never given any indication that she was capable of anything but sarcasm and anger. And violence. But here she was, acting like a true blue mother to the one who obviously needed it the most—even if she was at least Kim's age.
"Who's Ivy?" asked Ron as Shego cooed at her sister, promising that they would rescue the twins for sure.
"Shego." answered the other two Team Go members simultaneously.
"Wait, what?" Ron looked confused as heck.
"Technically, we were given normal names, but with our new powers came, as dictated by bighead over there, new names." explained Mego. Ron blinked.
"Oh. So what's your real name?"
"I'm Tom, and he's Josh. Shego is Ivy. Amber is Amber. Her team name was Anigo." Mego offered.
Shego—Ivy—stood up. "Alright. Kim, I will accompany you on this little trip to the Nest, because I cannot in good conscious let the twins fall victim to Aviarious. Besides which, Amber wouldn't let me even if I had wanted to."
"Great, let's go!" was her response.
"I concur." agreed Drakken. Shego stood in front of him.
"Not you Dr. D. I need you to stay here. If there is one thing I won't allow in any way, shape or form, it's Amber's participation in this. She is NOT a fighter, and I'll be hanged if I let her be. Besides which, I know Jack far better then you do, and I know you equally as well. I really don't need you getting in the way."
Everyone balked at this fierceness from the woman. While it was more normal then the mother act from just moments previous, it was far more intense then anyone had ever seen from the green-eyed villainess. Behind all this, Amber was clutching a plush unicorn tightly, looking upset and terrified over the whole thing.
Drakken looked ready to protest at first, but the glow to his sidekick's eyes made him rethink his plan and he reluctantly agreed. Amber looked upset and rushed over to give her sister a hug. One that Shego returned full force.
"Don't worry. I'll be okay, and we'll all get out safe and sound. After all, Jack can't do nothing if he doesn't have the power." A grin.
"You'll come back?" Amber sounded like a child who was about to be abandoned at an orphanage.
"I'll clip Jack's wings if I have to." agreed Shego firmly. Releasing the girl just as reluctantly as Drakken had agreed to stay behind, Shego gave her sister a gentle push towards her boss.
"Now be good for Dr D, kay?" she instructed. Amber nodded and Shego offered one last smile before heading out.
When Kim and the others caught up with the estranged Team Go member, they found her eyes promising pain and revenge, her hands glowing the ominous green they were all familiar with. They gulped.
"Come on. Jack was another who hurt Amber, and another who I need to pay back for it. This is the perfect opportunity. Let's just see him try to mess with MY sister ever again."
Shego had really wanted to keep her brothers' powers for herself. Really, she had. But the thought of Amber's face, the upset tears glistening in goldenrod eyes, made her hand the scepter over to Kim without any resistance. She may not always keep any of her promises normally, but she kept every promise she made to her sister.
The faces of the others when Shego handed over the ultimate power to Kim were priceless. They couldn't believe Shego would do that—certainly she wouldn't have if she didn't have Amber keeping her from going totally evil. Amber brought out the better person in Shego every time.
Kim gave her foe a last look before smashing the scepter on the floor, breaking the diamond it was topped with, and causing the powers to flow back to their rightful owners. Soon enough, Jack was being taken back to prison and Kim and Ron were bidding farewell to the rest of Team Go.
Kim turned to her foe.
"Well, I guess this ends the truce, huh?"
"Next time we meet, I'm kicking your butt." Shego agreed. Before she left, though, Wego grabbed her, and told her to pass along their greetings and give Amber a present they had planned to send her for her birthday. Kim noticed that both the older males flinched—it would appear they had forgotten Amber's birthday—if they were even aware of it at all.
"We made it ourselves." said one.
"We thought she might like it." the other agreed.
Shego nodded. "I'll pass it along. I'm sure she'll be thrilled with it. Tell Mom and Dad Amber and I say 'hi'." Then she left.
Amber was instantly around Shego's waist when the woman returned.
"Are the Twins alright? Are you alright? Did Kim and Ron get away?" she asked in a rush.
"Cool it!" Shego laughed at her sister's antics. "Yes, the twins are good. Jack's plot fell through, and not even Team Possible got hurt. I'm fine. And I got something for ya."
Amber's eyes were wide. "Really?"
"The Twins say hi, and told me to tell you that they made this themselves. It's their birthday present to you."
Amber tore through the wrapping to see a small gadget. She stared at it in confusion.
"What's it do?" she asked.
The thing beeped and seemingly switched on by itself, showing the twins on-screen.
"Happy birthday Amber!" they chorused.
"We made you a communicator—so you could talk to us when you felt like it. Shego too."
"If I could, I'd hug you." Amber assured her younger brothers.
"We would return it." the twins grinned.
The next day, Drakken was back to being bad, and Shego along with him. Kim foiled their plans and everything was back to normal. However, things wouldn't stay that way.
Amber would, despite Shego's best attempts, get involved with several of their plots. Shego wouldn't like it a bit, but Amber's wouldn't mind.
Much.
There. My first Kim Possible. I have no idea why I'm posting this. I rarely watch the show as is...although I do like it—Shego and Ron rule!! And Rufus is rather cute too, for a Naked Mole Rat. If you review, please be nice. First of all, this is my first ever Kim, and second, I really didn't mean to bring in an OC—okay I did, but only because I was wondering what Shego's be like if she had sister she was rather overprotective of, especially since her older brothers didn't seem to give a darn…
Oh, and P.S.
I DO NOT OWN KIM POSSIBLE OR ANY PART OF SUCH, thank you.
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