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What About Shego?
Chapter 1
The lair was a joke, Altrix thought to himself, a joke and a complete waste of resources. Whoever this, "Drakken" was, they were an utter failure as a villain in his opinion.
Infiltrating the lair was like falling off a log.
One air vent, not just any but the main one had no surveillance or traps on it. Just a large fan that sucked fresh air into the lair. It of course, cycled in two-minute intervals and was off for ten seconds. Plenty of time for him to slip past it and into the lair. That and the vent was large enough for two people to easily fit into.
Once in the lair he was surprised to find security being very light. Cameras were placed in positions easily avoided and the guards were fixed in their positions. None were patrolling the lair looking for intruders.
The lair was carved out of a manmade earth mound that had been piled up to fill a large ravine. He couldn't remember where the material had come from, spoils from a mine he thought.
Drakken had carved a large tunnel into the ravine that was shaped like a tear, the entrance that was the size of a double door, was made at the tear's pointed end. After passing the guard's quarters at the entrance, the tunnel quickly opened up to a football width wide and four stories tall.
You couldn't tell the size as two giant multi-tiered shelves were on either side of the tunnel.
They contained various devices, parts, crates and nick-knacks; it looked like Drakken was collecting garbage. So large were the shelves they only left a center path four persons wide.
"Such a waste of space." Altrix, thought as he climbed to the top of the shelves. There were four shelves total, each being about one story tall.
He used support beams to climb to the top shelf, which was covered in just as much junk as the rest. There was also a buzz of incandescent lights that hung from the ceiling to illuminate the lair.
Altrix made his way from the entrance and away from the main grouping of guards to a large circular central chamber the tunnel connected with.
He saw that the roof of the chamber went up one hundred feet higher then the tunnel he was in. The roof itself was iris hinged and the entire thing opened, the most likely place Drakken moved the heavy equipment, vehicles and the Ion Cannon he had stolen that Altrix was here for through.
Looking down the walls he saw a huge door that opened outward in two sections straight across from where he stood. The most likely location for the Ion Cannon, as the central chamber only had two other entrances to his right and left. Both were the size of a small car, far too small to fit an Ion Cannon into.
At the base of the chamber was the typical collection of evil villainy devices and tools.
Large table for fiddling with stolen technology…check.
Large screen monitor was added super computer hookup…check.
Large trap door on floor that leads to shark infested moat or acid pool…check.
Large assortment of devices with no apparent purpose, real or imagined…check.
Raven-haired lady sitting reading a magazine in a recliner…Altrix raised an eyebrow at seeing this.
The magazine was, "Villain's Monthly" a collection of advertisements, advice, gossip, and self-help articles for Villains. Written by hacks, for hacks, Altrix recalled.
The woman angled the magazine down enough to turn a page, but enough for Altrix to get a look at her face.
At this distance with his sharp eyes he could tell she had green skin, green eyes, was wearing black lipstick and a green and black jumpsuit.
He had been briefed about her or someone who fit the description to a T, she..She…Shecog, he thought it was.
Super villainess, had glowing hands, great fighter, blah, blah, blah, he hadn't really heard anything about her until this mission so wasn't all that worried.
Looking around the chamber he got a great idea how to end this mission in a hurry, but had to check back with HQ for clearance.
He backed away from the edge of the shelf overlooking the central chamber till he was about twenty feet from it.
From his back pocket he produced a small communicator and pressed a button that brought up the video image of a young black male in front of a computer drinking a soda.
"Wade," Altrix asked innocently, "do they really need the Ion Cannon back? It would be a lot easier if I just destroyed the thing then get it out."
Wade, spit out his straw, "Of course they want it back, the thing costs one-hundred and eighty million dollars!"
"They could always build a new one." Altrix responded.
"Yes, but this one took ten years to build, they'd kind of not like to spend that time again." Wade was starting to get annoyed. "By the way, you're kind of dark on the video feed, is the communicator OK?"
"It's OK," Altrix, didn't seem all concerned, "I'm in phase right now so light has a hard time being picked up."
"Oh yeah," Wade ginned a bit, "that special ability you have. So what's the news on Drakken's latest lair?"
"My honest opinion or what you want to hear?" Altrix responded.
Wade, made no response to this, but waited to hear what Altrix's opinion was.
"A joke," Altrix begun, "I've seen lairs that detected a particle of a particle of dust hitting the windows. I think you could herd elephants through here and no one would notice.
Guards are shameful and that Shecog is sitting on her butt reading a magazine."
"Shecog?" Wade interrupted, "You mean Shego?"
"Whatever," Altrix continued, "why you spent so long talking about her is beyond me."
Wade responded, "She's wanted in eleven countries you know."
"Only eleven?" Altrix, looked far from impressed, "I've dealt with villains wanted in 33 countries if not by the entire world. I'm not…"
He stopped midsetence and looked straight ahead with a look of curiosity on his face, "Perhaps she may turn out to be more interesting though."
"What is it?" Wade, noticed Altrix's look.
"Shego, is standing twenty feet away from me right now." And she was, right at the edge of the shelf.
"Oh my gosh!" An alarmed Wade said, "What is she doing, has she gone into her regular sarcastic remarks?"
"No, she's just looks confused," a smile spread across, "have to talk later Wade"
Altrix pressed a button on the communicator ending the video link and cutting off Wade. He placed the communicator back in his pocket, and then turned his attentions towards Shego.
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Shego, knew someone was in the lair that shouldn't be, she could sense it.
She kept looking back and forth in front of her, hands ready to strike once they spotted movement, but she could find none.
She had felt eyes on her while reading her magazine. She feigned reading the magazine and instead was looking for the source of the gaze.
Even then, she couldn't find it and as quickly as the feeling had started, it left. It had been sensed long enough for her to realize the gaze came from the top of the shelves Drakken was storing stuff on.
Shego, had thrown the magazine down and quietly climbed to the top shelf after the feeling had left her. Once reaching the top, she jumped onto the top shelf to take them unaware, but she saw nothing.
The feeling of being watched was stronger though; whoever it was they were close.
She kept looking for a glance of a person behind a crate, box or behind any other junk Drakken had stored.
Still she could see nothing but sensed the eyes on her. The feeling came from directly in front of her, but all she saw was an empty path for twenty feet before it ran into a clutter of crates.
She began to doubt her own senses when the feeling moved, it moved to her right.
Whoever it was, they were trying to flank her; she quickly dived behind boxes to meet this attacker. Behind them she expected to see an attacker moving, yet nothing was there and the feeling of eyes on her were gone as well.
For a moment, she thought she heard something then again the feeling of being watched, but now it came from directly above her.
They had jumped on top of the crate she was behind, she turned to face them from below and readied an attack, but again nothing on top of the crate only the feeling someone was looking at her from atop the crate.
She jumped on top of the crate and sensed the eyes moving away from her to avoid her jump.
She landed, "An invisible intruder?" she thought to herself. Shego, had encountered such an enemy before, but it had never been like this. Even though they couldn't be seen, she usually could pick up breathing, a heartbeat, air disturbance or even the weight of the invisible person disturbing the floor.
This time though, she couldn't sense anything with her other senses, just the eyes which were now circling the crate wildly that she stood on.
Maybe she was just overstressed, stealing the ion cannon had taken a lot out of her, and maybe a nap would clear her head of this feeling.
She jumped down from the crate and began walking to the edge of the shelf. She was ten feet away when she felt the eyes on her back, very close to her back.
She performed a roundhouse kick, expecting to connect with something behind her. Instead, her leg passed though air, there was nothing behind her, after recovering from the kick she stood up facing the direction she had just kicked.
The feeling of eyes on her suddenly became intense, so intense she began to feel a little sick from it. Her mind was screaming at her now, "Their right in front of you!" it was yelling at her.
The feeling was overbearing and close, so very close, she lashed out with her right hand, again nothing but air was being moved.
She lit up her left hand and slashed again right in front of her, nothing but air, but her intuition and mind kept screaming at her it was right there in front of her.
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Altrix was right in front of Shego.
In fact, his nose was one inch away from Shego's nose and he was intensely starring into her green eyes and his mind was saying something as well.
"OOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHH! SHE COULD BE SO MUCH FUN!" It was yelling at him. It was his mischievous side saying it, a side that had gotten him into much trouble in the past.
"I have a job to do, playing isn't part of that job." He responded back to that part of his mind.
"Come on!" It went on, "You know she's the only one who's been able to detect you with no training. Don't tell me that doesn't excite you, she's already prepared to play the game and you don't even need to introduce her to it."
Shego, blinked and a grin once again spread across Altrix's face, but it quickly disappeared.
"I don't play the game with anyone anymore," he responded, "that part of my life is over."
"But it was the most fun you've ever had in your life." His mischievous part responded.
Shego, jumped to Altrix's right and in doing so got out of the unknown stare match she was in. She just stood looking around confused at how quickly the feeling had left again.
Altrix, just watched her from the corner of his eye, "She must think there's a ghost in here." He thought, and then suddenly turned to face Shego again when her eyes turned his direction. She took a step back at the sudden return of the feeling and began to lash out with her hands again, still striking nothing.
The grin on Altrix's face was too much, he lost the battle with his internal voice and started to reach his right hand out to strike one of Shego's lashes.
A laughter started inside his head, as what he was about to do was going to completely freak out Shego.
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"SHEGO!"
A familiar voice rang out in the lair stopping Shego's hands just a half-inch away from Altrix's. Drakken was calling; Shego dropped both hands, shrugged her shoulders and ran to the edge of the top shelf.
"What is it?" Shego shot down from her high perch.
Drakken, looked up in surprise at the green woman, "What are you doing up there? Get down here immediately, I need to rant about my latest and most brilliant evil plan yet to someone."
Shego, rolled her eyes, she had been expecting this since she had gotten back with the Ion Cannon. She quickly made her way down to Drakken, who was pulling a large table with various models on it in front of Shego's chair. Something that looked a cross between a baking soda box ran through with a pencil was suspended above it.
Shego, sat down in her usual recliner chair and remembered something, she took off her right glove and looked at her hand.
"Yup!" She had a look of disgust on her face, "My nails need a fresh application of polish." The green that was on them was faded and chipped; she began to pull various manicure products out of a cabinet next to her chair.
At the same time, Drakken was pulling various models, flags and other visual aids from under the table he had dragged over.
Both of them, had everything done and arranged at the same moment, so when Drakken started, Shego had already finished two nails with nail polish remover.
"So, with the Ion Cannon you've stolen Shego," Drakken, pointed to a very good likeness of an Ion cannon on the table.
The table was a generic arrangement of models to look like a rectangle that was to scale a thousand miles, but only twenty feet long. The Ion Cannon, was located in a tear shaped lair labeled, "Evil Lair"
Moving from the lair to the opposite side of the model you would pass Scale Rivers, hills, mountains and farmland and finally arrive at a scale modem of a generic city.
"I'll be able to send a large Ion beam to my reflection satellite," Drakken, pointed at the baking soda box with a stick, "Which shall reflect the beam to any location on the Earth."
Shego finished cleaning her third nail of old polish and began work on the fourth.
"Let's just say," Drakken, continued, "a large city." He pointed at the scale generic city on the model, "Thus, knocking all electrical systems in the city out, forcing all inhabitants back into the dark ages. That is, unless of course they give into my demands."
Drakken, beamed at his now foolproof plan, "Tonight, I shall launch my reflection satellite into orbit," He pointed at the baking soda box, "beginning operation, Black Out."
"So," Shego interrupted him after finishing her last nail and picked up a file, "when are you launching the others?"
"Others?" Drakken was puzzled.
"The other satellites, if you want to hit the whole world you'll need more then one," Shego, was slowly unraveling Drakken's plan, "much more. Ever heard of line of sight doc?"
"But," Drakken made motions from the soda box to all points of the map, "I can hit anything from this location."
"But," Shego, was paying more attention to filing then Drakken's look, "the Earth is round not flat. Anything beyond the horizon or out of line of sight you can't hit."
The revelation, hit Drakken like a ton of bricks, "No! No! NO! That can't be right, that's not what the satellite brochure…I mean calculations told me."
"Well check again Doc," Shego, had finished two nails, "because that's how it works."
Drakken, was suddenly caught in an invisible rock and a hard place, he had been planning this for some time, now suddenly he was short quite a few satellites.
While Drakken ranted and raved about what he would have to do to change gears and Shego continued to manicure herself neither one noticed something happening right beside them.
Sitting on the cabinet that held all of Shego's manicure equipment was a single bottle of dark green finger nail polish Shego had taken out. It was to be the one to replace her worn out polish; it suddenly vanished from existence without a sound.
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Altrix, stared at the bottle of polish and shook his head, "This is just not the right color for her."
He took a look inside of Shego's cabinet, or better yet, his head passed through the side of the cabinet. Inside, he took a look at the selection Shego had, it was a sampler she more then likely got free in the mail.
He spent a few moments looking then finally spotted a color that he liked and replaced it with the green one he had taken.'
Then, he gently set the new color on top of the cabinet at the exact location he had removed the original.
In Shego and Drakken's world, a new bottle popped into existence without a sound but with a different color.
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"I'll have to cancel my dental appointment now to make it." Drakken was still off in his own world.
Shego on the other hand, had finished priming her nails and absently picked up the bottle and shook it to mix the polish if it had settled.
She unscrewed it and took out the lid brush and set the bottle down in a close location on the cabinet she could reach. Then started to paint her index finger fist, she had done this enough times it was almost automatic so she just concerned herself with getting the polish on her nails and no other part of her hand.
She quickly moved from one nail to the next, Drakken raving in the background didn't distract her; this was one activity with which she was always focused and applied more polish from the bottle when needed without missing a beat
When she finally did finish her right hand she returned the brush to its bottle, then put her hand in front of her palm out to inspect her work.
It wasn't until this moment that Shego noticed something was terribly wrong, it made her freeze with a dumbstruck look on her face.
"Uh? Shego?" Drakken, had stopped raving noticing Shego's frozen look.
Shego was trying to say something but the only sound that came out of her mouth was, "Bah! Bah! Bah!" She flipped her hand around to show Drakken what had her so perplexed.
"Since when did you start wearing blue nail polish?" Drakken inquired of her.
"I didn't!" She jumped out of her chair and ran to the computer console in the chamber. Using her left hand she pressed a single button that started an alarm sounding throughout the lair.
"Shego!" Drakken moved next to her and was starting to think his assistant had lost it, "What's with the intruder alert alarm?"
"Someone is in here," Shego, was visibly ticked, "someone who shouldn't be in the lair."
"Its blue finger nail polish Shego," Drakken, was protesting this action; "you probably grabbed it by accident."
Shego, grabbed Drakken with her left hand, "I don't grab the wrong finger nail polish, especially a gaudy coral blue color!"
She released him, and then grabbed a microphone off the console, "Time to earn your pay boys!" Shego's voice rang throughout the lair, "There's an intruder in the lair, possibly invisible, report any odd occurrences or unknown disturbances immediately!"
"Invisible!" Drakken was very alarmed at that statement and dove into a locker in the room, throwing gadgets every which way while digging for something.
Finally, he emerged from the locker, wearing headgear that made it look like a bee's head had been shoved onto his shoulders.
"Fear not Shego," Drakken voice came from inside the bee's head, "with my invisibility finder such an intruder will be located!"
Drakken started to head for the entrance of the lair and ran smack right into the wall of the chamber.
Shego shook her head and looked at her blue finger nail painted hand, the polish had dried by now, so she just replaced her glove, no time to remove the awful color now she thought.
She made her way to the doctor, all Drakken's henchmen were located at the entrance. She figured if she didn't prod them along they'd never get the entire lair swept in an efficient manner.
Grabbing the doctor the two ran towards the entrance to help with the search.
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Altrix couldn't believe his luck as he watched Shego and Drakken run away from him and towards the entrance. All he had done was switched the color of nail polish to play around with Shego and it got him the main chamber all to himself.
He made his way to the computer console, buttons moved on the console, pushed by unseen hands as Altrix accessed the computer.
The system was easy to hack; he was in to the lairs layout plans in no time and quickly located the Ion Cannon. It was located behind the doors he had suspected all along, he accessed the door control and the large double doors swung open with very little noise.
Behind them, was the Ion Cannon he had been looking for, he again accessed the lair's controls and found information that gave him a smile.
A remote on the console was picked up then vanished from the world, "This should come in handy" Altrix thought to himself.
He made his way towards the Ion Cannon, the thing was the size of a small house, a large ball shaped turret allowed the cannon to rotate three hundred and sixty degrees on its tank track base. A single seat on the track stuck out from the tracks with a control panel in front of the seat, the steering controls.
Luckily, the tracks were electric powered, which would cause very little noise, although the weight of the machine would still rumble the lair a bit, but Altrix was too far now.
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The sweep of the front of the lair was going slowly and had Shego impatient, nothing had been found as of yet to determine if someone had entered the lair.
She knew someone was here, the polish switch was a dead giveaway, but why would they reveal themselves in such a way?
Drakken, had been useless, within five minutes of searching he had knocked himself out by hitting his head on a support beam. The doctor now laid on his back on the floor, Shego hadn't bothered waking him up, he would have gotten in the way anyway.
She thought about something, then had a look of worry on her face and motioned for one of the henchmen to come to her.
"Where are all your men at?" She inquired of the one who had come over.
"Well," he slowly responded, "I think everyone's up front here searching since that's where Drakken ordered us to be.
Shego's eyes went wide with a look of terror; she looked down the corridor to the main chamber, and then bolted down the corridor.
The henchmen, realizing she was leaving suddenly stopped so intently searching the place. They had learned a while ago when Shego wasn't looking they could be more lax and with Drakken passed out on the floor, it was party time.
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"Shoot! Shoot! SHOOT!" Shego was screaming at herself as she ran and full speed down the corridor.
It had all been a setup, she should have realized it, I mean she just stole the thing what else would an intruder be after.
She was still too far away to make out anything in the main chamber, so kept pushing her legs to run faster then they'd ever run before.
She noticed movement up ahead, movement of the Ion Cannon that was now rolling into the chamber, this pushed her to keep up the pace.
How they would get the cannon out of the lair was beyond her as the computer locked the iris it had been brought down through and only Drakken knew how to open it.
With them being able to get everyone in the lair to one end of the lair away from the Ion Cannon, Shego didn't put it past this intruder.
She finally bolted from the corridor into the main chamber a few seconds after the cannon stopped moving. She somersaulted onto a large table near where the cannon had been placed lit up her hands and began to scan the room for the intruder.
"This cannon didn't move itself!" Shego's voice echoed in the large room, "Show yourself and I'll make it quick and painless. Well, I'll make it quick anyway."
Shego, had a look of determination on her face after speaking those words, she would find this person no matter what.
The intense feeling of being watched returned to Shego, from behind her, "You know, this trick is getting boring. I'll turn around and what do I see but…"
Shego stood there staring straight ahead after turning around to face the feeling she had behind her. She stood there just staring at a most peculiar sight, two eyes; two icy blue eyes were floating about a half-foot above Shego's eyes in mid-air just looking at her.
She only saw the eyes, the face and eyelids attached to them were gone, they weren't floating eyeballs, as they were two-dimensional, she only saw the eyes themselves.
Then they did something that really shocked her; they winked at her once, and then vanished out of existence.
Shego, heard a beep in front of her, then the iris at the top of the chamber began to slowly open to the outside.
A sound of circuits being crushed was heard and a crushed remote popped into existence and fell to the table.
Shego, wasted no time and lashed out at the point where the remote had appeared, hands fully ablaze.
She expected to hit nothing again as before, but to her surprise and then horror felt a hand on her wrist pull her straight forward.
Another hand was felt on her belly and she was pulled over an unseen shoulder of someone and flipped onto her back on the table with a large, "Thud!"
Shego, sent bolts flying skyward, trying to hit this attacker, they connected with nothing and continued to the walls of the lair before stopping.
She quickly got up, "Quit the invisibility bit you coward and face me!" she screamed in frustration.
The sound of a marker on a whiteboard in the lair attracted Shego's attention, when she located a whiteboard on the wall with the word, "NO" written on it she almost lost it but sent green flames at the whiteboard that quickly melted the board and word.
Immediately after the flames stopped coming from her hands, she felt a grip on both shoulders and was sent across the room into a pile of empty boxes.
She stood up immediately with an animalistic howl coming from her lips, "This intruder is so pissing me off!" She screamed in her head.
Shego was getting ready to head back to the table when she felt an undeniable sensation and a very unique sound echoed throughout the chamber.
They!
Had!
Just!
SPANKED HER!
The undeniable sensation of a hand slapping her backside had been felt and she lost it.
"You are going to die slow and painful for that!" Nothing but bloodlust was in her eyes; her hands were emitting huge flames at this point.
Before Shego could act on her threat, a hand forcefully gabbed her leg, pulled her off-balance into a spin and sent her flying across the room again.
She landed hard into another pile of boxes, hard enough it left her dazed for a bit so she didn't immediately stand up. She did hear again a marker on a whiteboard, regaining her senses she traced the source.
On a freestanding whiteboard twenty feet away she saw two columns drawn on it, column one's title was:
Shego
Below it was a big zero.
Column two's title was:
Invisible guy that's kicking Shego's butt
Below it and just being finished:
3
She sent green beams flying after the board, which was suddenly shoved out of their path. She jumped the opposite direction the board had gone, green beams flying everywhere trying to connect with this fiend.
After three steps, she felt hands on her again and went soaring into the air, propelled by her own forward movement. While in midair Shego noticed four cables with robotic claws attached to them descending to met the Ion Cannon from the roof.
She landed on her back and skidded nearly the full length of the chamber's floor.
Rising quickly she noticed the cannon was almost halfway to the roof of the chamber. She headed to the shelves and rapidly climbed trying to desperately intercept the device she had worked so hard to steal for Drakken.
She finally reached the top shelf and launched herself into the abyss that separated the shelves from the cannon.
Halfway to the cannon, she realized she was going to make it, whoever was stealing the cannon was going to have to deal with her.
Her hands went to grab the edge of a control chair situated at a corner of the cannon, but to her horror something grabbed her.
She was pulled and tossed straight up into the air, Shego howled as she was being juggled into the air by the invisible intruder and couldn't twist herself around to slash at them.
They threw her up in the air about five times, at which point the cannon was almost clear of the circle opening at the top of the chamber.
At that point, when next they caught Shego they threw her down into the chamber with her facing up at the cannon.
As she fell, a scream that sounded more of a whimper escaped Shego's lips.
Looking at the seat with nothing but pure hatred, Shego noticed the two blue eyes appeared again, but this time they had the company of a right hand.
The hand pointed at Shego, and then made a circle shape with the thumb and index finger, then the thumb pointed back at the eyes. All five digits were then shown by the hand, then it again point and Shego and made an, 'L' shape with the thumb and index finger.
Shego knew exactly what it meant.
Her score for this match, '0' their score, '5' and she was a loser, once again one of the eyes winked at her.
Shego stopped screaming once the cannon disappeared, and then she splashed into a container of gel that cushioned her fall.