Pride and Prejudice
Disclaimer: I'll keep this simple I own NOTHING this goes for this chapter and all that follow. Any original characters that I might create are free to use all I ask is that you let me know in a review so that I can read your story. Also this is a KiGo fic. For those of you who dislike or are offended by this pairing this fic isn't for you, for the rest of you I hope you enjoy.
P.S. This is my first time writing fan fiction in years so reviews are appreciated they will help me be motivated to write more and they can also help me improve my writing.
P.P.S. For all the Ron fans don't worry just because this is a KiGo fic doesn't mean that Ron will be left out. Trust me Ron will be playing a major role in this story and for the first few chapters an even bigger role than Shego.
Chapter 1: Last Summer
The world would never be the same. Kim Possible shook her head as she walked past another construction crane while on her way over to her boyfriend Ron Stoppable's house. It hadn't even been a week since they had graduated from high school but the world seemed like it had turned on its head. The change wasn't because she had graduated from high school and she was leaving one part of her life behind in order to start another. That was a huge change for her but hardly one that would shake the earth to its very core.
The change that had shaken the planet to its very core was the Lorwardian invasion that had happened right in the middle of Kim's graduation ceremony. While a few holdouts and conspiracy theorists were convinced that it was all a hoax the massive amounts of damage cause worldwide during the short but brutal invasion had provided humanity with undeniable proof that they were not alone.
It was this proof that had irreversibly changed the world. Well perhaps not irreversibly. For most people the attack hadn't changed their lives at all, but Kim was unable to ignore the changes as even small changes that few noticed were seen in a whole other light in her eyes when she look at them as a whole. It was like the entire world was screaming at her that her life and the lives of everyone around her were about uprooted in ways she couldn't even begin to comprehend.
"Hey KP!" Ron shouted interrupting Kim's train of thought. Kim looked up to see Ron waving at her from his front door. "Come on in I've got this great new game that you have just got to see!" Ron waved Kim over then held the door for her as she entered his house and gave him a kiss on the cheek. Seems Ron was one of the many people who seemed totally unaffected by the invasion. Kim just smiled as Ron led her to his room. She wasn't surprised that the invasion hadn't changed him Ron would always be the same little could affect what he called his Ronness not even almost single handedly saving the world. Kim frowned at that, saving the world was supposed to be what she did… with Ron's help of course and Rufus's. But this time it had been Ron and Dr. Drakken of all people who saved the world while she had been all but helpless against the aliens. Another bit of evidence that the world had been turned upside down. While people were willing to accept the existence of aliens the existence of mystical monkey powers was something else entirely. Because of this Dr. Drakken had been given most of the credit for saving the world… Kim's arch nemesis was a hero.
"Hellooooo KP?" Ron interrupted again waving his hand in front of Kim's face.
"I'm sorry what Ron? Kim asked trying hard but failing at not sounding disinterested.
"You seem really out of it are you okay?" Ron asked concern in his voice.
"Yep zombie." Rufus added stating his opinion on Kim's demeanor.
"I'm fine," Kim answered "I've just been doing a lot of thinking."
"Uh oh not good…" Rufus muttered.
"Rufus is right KP," Ron added panic seeping into his voice. "You have your bad news look on your face. I knew graduation was going to be a bad thing! It's happening the I've been thinkings then it's the I need times and finally it's the goodbyes. I won't let it happen KP I won't."
"Ron calm down," Kim admonished with a fond chuckle. "Besides even if we do end up going to different colleges we'll keep in touch this isn't going to break us up."
"That's what you said about Norway KP!" Ron accused. "You were wrong then what if you're wrong now too?"
"Norway?" Kim asked clearly confused. "What about Norway and how was I wrong about it?"
"I don't know," Ron answered. "But, everyone was really buff!"
Kim just blinked her eyes in confusion then shook her head. "Ron I really think you need to lay off the late night nacos."
"KP do not insult the naco," Ron snapped. "Besides the Bueno Nacho is still being rebuilt."
"Nacos" Rufus sighed sounding utterly miserable. Kim shook her head again, she couldn't say she honestly missed the place but it had been their place for so long and it was obvious that Ron mourned ever day he went without his beloved nacos.
"So?" Kim interrupted to get Ron's mind off his loss. "What is this new game you were so excited to show me?"
"Oh!" Ron exclaimed holding up the box for a game disk which had cute cartoon animals on the front. "It's called Sneaky Cobbler, she's a cat burglar… literally!"
"Right…" Kim responded dubiously. "So she steals cats?"
"Of course not KP," Ron scoffed. "She's a cat who is a thief. The Gorilla drives the getaway car and the chameleon does all the computer and gadgetey stuff… you know like Wade does."
"The game has already given me a few ideas of things that you might find useful Kim." Wade's voice came from the computer sitting on Ron's desk.
"Hey Wade what's the sitch?" Kim asked the now teenage super-genius.
"Nothing much," Wade answered. "I'm just helping Ron find all the hidden loot in his game. If he can find it all it unlocks things like bonus levels and concept art."
"So you steal things," Kim wondered aloud. "I guess it's like that Car Theft Extreme game then. I never really liked that game it promotes crime and violence."
"Nothing like it KP," Ron replied. "Sneaky is all about stealth not combat. Besides she only steals from dangerous criminals so she's actually a hero who saves the world from crazy villains. Of course that doesn't stop her from taunting and teasing La Chocolata."
"Who?" Kim asked.
"Chocolata Labrador, or La Chocolata," Wade answered. "She's a chocolate lab who is a cop. She's Kinda Sneaky's arch rival and chases her all over the world trying to arrest her. Several fans actually believe she has another reason for chasing her but that the developers are afraid of parents complaining so they keep that bit of the story limited to subtext only."
"You have to admit," Ron interrupted. "That some of the things they say to each other are quite spicy and you can't forget when Sneaky sneaks into that party wearing a tux as a disguise and dances with La Chocolata to distract her. What's funny is La Chocolata only dances with her because her partner keeps stepping on her feet. He's a naked mole rat!"
"It's probably just daydreaming fan boys with a furry fetish," Kim scoffed.
"Actually," Wade replied. "An online poll shows that 85 percent of Snecho fans are female."
"Snecho?" Kim asked incredulously. "That just sounds too weird. Is this what you plan on doing all summer Ron? Playing video games?"
"Not all summer KP," Ron answered. "I'm going to be getting in a lot of hours at Smarty Mart this summer so I have some spending money for collage."
"That's great to hear Ron!" Kim exclaimed then hugged her boyfriend. "So you got some acceptance letters? I knew you would!"
"Just one," Ron answered a little sadly.
"From which school Ron?" Kim asked. This might help her decide where she was going to school herself. If one of the schools she was considering was near the one that Ron was going too that would add a few red checkers to the pro stack for that school.
"Tokyo University," Ron answered.
"WHAT?" Kim and Wade exclaimed.
"I don't know much about it," Ron admitted. "Is it a good school?"
"It's a very good school," Kim answered still shocked. "But how… Even Wade couldn't get in there because he doesn't speak Japanese. Are you sure it was Tokyo University as in Tokyo Japan?"
"I have the letter right here," Ron replied pulling a packet of folded paper out of a drawer in his desk.
"Ron," Kim asked taking the packet. "Can you read this?"
"Yes Kim," Ron sighed. "I know it's quite formal all that talk about my honor the school being honored. But I can read I'm not an idiot."
"Ron," Kim stammered.
"Yes?" Ron asked.
"I can't read this…" Kim admitted.
"You can't?" Ron asked incredulously.
"Ron," Kim stammered again. "It's written in Japanese… I don't read Japanese."
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Lights flashed and Sirens wailed and Shego cursed. "Damnit stealing is never this hard why can't I get this stupid vase!" With a groan Shego threw down the game station controller as the word BUSTED flashed on the screen in bright red letters. "You think you're all that La Chocolata, but you're…" Shego slaped her hand over her mouth, "I did not just say…" Shego stood up and left the break room and marched down the hall to the main lab. "Drakken!" Shego bellowed as she opened the door. "All right it's been a month I give up what's the plan? Go on do your lil rant thing so that I can space out think it will fail and then lie down and wait for Kimmie."
"Shego please," Drakken whined. "Inside voices inside the lab." As he spoke a tendril of vines snaked out across the table and picked up a test tube and dragged it over to Drakken's hand. Shego watched the man work. He had been born with the name Drew Theodore P. Lipsky and then had changed it to the self bestowed Dr. Drakken. Now he had combined the names and was going by the moniker Dr. Drew Drakken.
"What are you doing?" Shego asked trying with marginal success to keep her voice level.
"I'm trying to create a hybrid of corn and common dandelions." Drakken answered.
"Why?" Shego asked.
"Simple," Drakken answered. "Dandelions are weeds they pop up overnight. If I can splice that trait into food crops I can grow enough food to feed everyone on the planet in days instead of months. It will completely eliminate world hunger."
"And then everyone will be eating food grown from your seeds," Shego added.
"Well yes I suppose so," Drakken agreed.
"So what's the catch?" Shego asked?
"Catch?" Drakken asked.
"You know," Shego replied. "The catch… the plan. Are you going to hold the world's food supply hostage or maybe mind control serum in the food… you know how I feel about mind control Dr. D." Shego scowled at the memory of the mind control chip disaster.
"No nothing like that," Drakken answered. "This is legitimate science."
"Right…" Shego replied scowling. "No wait… you're serious?"
"Yes," Drakken admitted. "I finally have what I want."
"Wait!" Shego interrupted pinching the bridge of her nose. "Are you telling me that all this time, all your plans for taking over the world, they were all nothing more than your own sad little quest for legitimacy?"
"Shego," Drakken whined. "Remember words hurt."
"But," Shego stammered a look of horror on her face. "Kimmie doesn't stop legitimate scientists."
"No she doesn't," Drakken beamed. "Isn't it great?"
"No!" Shego almost screamed. "No it isn't! What am I supposed to do now?"
"You can help me with my research," Drakken suggested.
"Be a little lab monkey?" Shego mocked. "Get a couple undergrads to help you with that I don't do science. I fight Kim Possible. It's what I do. And you, you take over the world. Actually you try to and fail that's what you do."
"Exactly," Drakken replied. "I fail, I'm not any good at being evil. It's time I tried something else. For some reason I seem to be good with plants."
"But," Shego said exasperated. "Evil is what you do… it's who you are. If you give up on it you aren't you anymore."
"Of course I am," Drakken scoffed. "I'm just a different me."
"But there's nothing for me to do," Shego groaned in exasperation.
"I thought you liked doing nothing?" Drakken stated.
"I do," Shego answered. "But not all the time. You just don't understand."
"If you miss Kim Possible just go visit her," Drakken suggested.
"I do not miss Kimmie!" Shego shouted. "That's it I'm leaving."
"When will you be back?" Drakken asked.
"I won't!" Shego shouted. "I QUIT!" Drakken just shook his head and went back to his work. Shego had quit before and come back so this was nothing new just more of the same… only this time something felt different. The whole world felt different.
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Kim sighed as she picked up another acceptance letter and tossed it aside. Her stack of possible choices was slowly getting smaller even if it seemed like it wasn't. Kim shook her head, the only school she had been accepted too that was even remotely close to Japan was a school in Hawaii that she had already relegated to the reject pile before she knew that Ron had been accepted to Tokyo U. It wasn't a bad school at all, Kim pondered, it just wasn't exactly what she was looking for. But, maybe it deserved another look. Kim was already digging through the reject pile looking for the letter when she realized that the only reason she was looking for it was because she wanted to go to a school somewhat close to Ron.
"I can't do this…" Kim groaned and lowered her head to her desk. After a few moments or maybe a few hours, Kim wasn't really sure which, she reached out again for another sheet of paper. This time however it wasn't an acceptance letter. It was a wanted poster, the one of Shego that she had had stuck to the inside of her locker throughout high school.
"What are you smirking at?" Kim asked the poster accusingly. Kim sighed, that right there was her biggest problem. For the past several years her life had revolved around saving the world from people like Shego and her boss Drakken. She enjoyed the challenge, she enjoyed the travel, it was the one thing she was truly good at.
Maybe that was an option… Dr. Director had been trying to get her to agree to attend the Global Justice top agent training academy. No, Kim decided as she looked at the poster. It just wasn't for her. For one thing Kim didn't really want to turn world saving into a job. And besides, lately Global Justice had been going in a direction that Kim just didn't like. After the Lorwardian invasion Global Justice had begun to increase its ties to UN peacekeeping troops. It had also on numerous occasions tried to get Kim's dad James to build it a squadron of fighters and even larger warships capable of spaceflight. James of course had refused adamantly saying that gunboat diplomacy in space was for TV programs not real life. Kim had never been prouder of her dad than when he turned them down cold no matter how much they offered him. Wade had also turned them down when they had tried to get him to join their intelligence and counter espionage section.
With world saving off the table as a career what did that leave her with? A familiar ring-tone broke the silence. Grateful for the interruption Kim answerd her Kimmunicator.
"What's the sitch Wade?" Kim asked.
"It's Shego." Wade answered.
"I don't care about Shego," Kim muttered. "Drakken went legit so she's not really in business anymore."
"Right," Wade answered. "So you're holding her wanted poster just for the fun of it?"
"Shut up Nerdlinger," Kim snapped. Wade looked at her shocked while Kim just scowled at him. "Oh Wade I'm sorry!" Kim stammered shaking her head. "I've been under a lot of stress lately."
"It's okay Kim," Wade replied. "As long as you don't start turning green I won't worry about it."
"Oh ha ha," Kim mumbled a little sheepishly.
"It's Ron isn't it?" Wade asked concern in his voice.
"Yes," Kim sighed. "It just doesn't make any sense! How does Ron get into Tokyo University? Did he even send them an application? If he did how did he fill it out? Since when can he read and write in Japanese? He doesn't have the grades to get into a school like that or the necessary classes. There's only one explanation it has to be that Yori girl!" Kim growled under her breath as she stopped to catch her breath.
"It could be Master Sensei," Wade suggested. "He has shown a lot of interest in Ron in the past due to his monkey powers."
"It's the same thing!" Kim sulked. "Japan is stealing my boyfriend away from me."
"The little green monster has gotten to you bad," Wade sighed.
"Shego isn't little Wade," Kim corrected. "She's taller than I am."
"I was talking about jealousy Kim," Wade corrected.
"I'm not jealous!" Kim almost screamed. "I'm angry and confused and I don't know what to do with my life."
"It will all work out Kim," Wade said trying to sound reassuring.
"So what was it you called me about?" Kim asked. "Something about Shego?"
"She's back," Wade answered.
"Back?" Kim asked.
"There have been a series of break-ins at jewelry stores," Wade explained. "Only green items have been stolen, you know items with jade or emeralds or other green gemstones. The security cameras at each store were destroyed but a very recognizable residue from Shego's plasma has been analyzed off of several melted cameras. Also a few images have survived and it seems like she's almost posing for the camera before she destroys it. It's like she's trying to send out a message that she's back in the game. Maybe she's looking for a new boss since Drakken has gone legit."
"That or the message is for someone specific," Kim speculated.
"You don't think?" Wade asked.
"Yes I do," Kim replied. "It's a message for me." Kim stared down at the wanted poster in her hand. For just a moment all of her collage problems and fears about Ron were completely forgotten as Shego seemed to smirk back up at her from the picture.
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Author's Notes.
Okay chapter 1 done. I hope to have chapter 2 up by next weekend but no promises. I hope I wasn't too heavy-handed with the subtext since I plan on the KiGo plot taking a bit longer to develop than in some other fics I've read. Please review, reviews will motivate me to update faster. I have like 90% of the fic planned out but I sometimes need a good push to help get it all out of my head :3