Silence. Complete and total silence. That was all that existed out deep in the forest clearing, animals having fled long ago… and then… the pounding of feet. Leaves crunching, branches breaking, and suddenly… panting. Heavy breathing.
The red headed young woman emerged into the clearing, looking around quickly, her head whipping back and forth as she tried to take in every direction at once. Up, she looked up, clear to the tops of the trees. And then… a flash. A bright green flash. She dove to the right, narrowly avoiding the dangerous sphere that impacted the ground where she had been moments before. Scorched earth remained where it had hit.
The lithe red head began moving quickly, diving to the tree where the flash had come from. Grabbing her grappling hook from her utility belt, she fired, aiming for the highest branch she could see. Tugging once to make sure it had found decent purchase, she retracted the grappling hook, and went flying up. Within seconds, she had reached her destination. With an ease brought on by repeating the movement hundreds of times in the past, she unhooked the grappling hook within less than a second and had it back hooked to her utility belt.
"It's not like you to run and hide. Scared!?" the redhead yelled, a teasing and somewhat arrogant tone to her soft voice.
"Scared?! Hah. Right. Like I'd be scared of you, little Miss Perfect!" came the reply, the voice having a much more snide tone to it than the red head's.
Using the sound of the voice's reply to guide her, the red head easily followed the noise and found who she had been looking for. Before her crouched the most wanted woman in the world, one of the greatest thieves to have ever existed.
Long, lean legs and booted feet were balanced perfectly on the branch she crouched on, her clawed, gloved fingertips – one glove black, the other bright green - barely resting on it as well. Black hair flowed clear passed her waist, and her emerald green eyes locked on the darker and more muted green ones of the woman who had been pursuing her.
"Looks like you finally caught up, Princess. So, maybe now you can tell me just why the hell you're chasing me," the raven haired woman said.
"Right, like you don't know, Shego?" the younger woman said, managing to put a hand on her hip despite being balanced on the tree branch. "Highly experimental nanotechnology disappears, and you're going to play innocent and pretend you and Drakken had nothing to do with it?"
Emerald eyes rolled as a low growl escaped black painted lips. Something was murmured under her breath before she spoke up. "You seriously think we'd risk getting rid of our pardon in order to go back to a life of villainy, after we've been above the law for an entire year!? What the hell is wrong with you? Can't let go of the past, Kimmie?"
Kim narrowed her eyes, watching the older woman carefully for a few seconds, before speaking. "There were traces of plasma found at the scene. Are you trying to tell me there's another plasma powered thief going around stealing experimental tech?"
"Maybe if you thought about it for more than a few seconds, Miss Priss, you'd realize that you don't need plasma superpowers to harness plasma. It could have been a weapon of some sort."
The red head looked down for a few seconds, a faint blush appearing on her cheeks. Her hand reached up and scratched the back of her neck. "Er… well… I guess… maybe I was being a bit impulsive… and uh… judgmental… due to our past encounters? I uh… I'm sorry, Shego." Green eyes looked up to meet emerald eyes again as the red head stated her apology.
Shego's eyes widened slightly at the admission. The teen hero with the most confidence Shego had ever seen in her entire life had just apologized to her, a former supervillain. A small smile tugged at her black lips for a minute, but she quickly got it under control and turned it into her signature smug smirk. The green and black clad woman stepped forward, her catsuit clinging to her like a second skin as she moved. She may have given up a life of villainy, but her catsuit would always be in style… not to mention it was still the only piece of clothing she'd ever found that could hold up to her comet induced powers when deployed at full strength. She moved forward slowly, purposefully, her long gait and movements resembling a large wild cat as she closed in on the red headed hero.
"You know how you could make it up to me, Princess?" Shego all but purred as she got closer.
"H-how?" stumbled out of the hero's mouth, as she involuntarily took a step back due to the adrenaline that spiked in her veins, an automatic reaction brought on by years of fighting the former villain.
Shego continued to walk forward with a lazy ease in her pace, until she was face to face with Kim, as Kim had ran out of space to step backwards when her back had hit the tree the branch was connected to. Another smirk curled the black woman's lips as she slowly, purposefully, moved her head forward towards Kim's.
Kim's heart raced in her chest, both from adrenaline and an excitement she didn't truly understand, and would never admit to if she ever began to understand it. Is she really going to kiss me? She can't be serious, Kim thought, her eyes widening as Shego leaned forward.
Right as Shego's black lips were about to meet the hero's, she diverted, tilting her head a bit until her lips were right next to the red head's ear.
"Go on a date with me," rumbled lowly from the former villain's throat, her voice quiet despite the almost expectant and demanding tone.
Kim just stood there for a few moments, completely shocked into inaction, before finally regaining her bearings and grabbing Shego by her shoulders, pushing her back and holding her at arm's length. Dark green eyes searched emerald, looking for any trace of humor or deception, and found none.
"Y-you..? What? You… want to… go on a date… with me? W-why!?"
"Come on, Princess, you can't honestly say you never felt it, when we were fighting. The spark. I know you did. Especially when you ended up in a position… like..." Shego moved, grabbing Kim's hands in hers quickly and pushed her back further against the tree, easily pinning the red head's hands above her head against the bark. Shego pushed her body flush with the hero's, "… this."
The younger woman let out an almost silent whimper from the contact, her senses suddenly overloaded from both the physical feeling, and dozens of memories that began to invade her mind all at once. Each of her fights where she ended up in this exact position, or in the reverse when she had pinned Shego, ran through her mind. The sensation overload once again froze her in place.
The ever observant former thief smirked as she heard the whimper escape the red head. Shifting her hips slightly against the red head's, the raven haired woman grinned as it elicited another low whimper. Pressing the hero's hands a bit firmer into the bark to ensure she couldn't escape, Shego leaned forward and again whispered into Kim's ear.
"I know I felt it… every time… win or lose, pinned or pinning. When our bodies pressed against each other's like this… it was… mmm…" the pale green woman let out a teasing, quiet moan at the end of the sentence, directly into the hero's ear.
Taking the hero's hands firmer into her grip, she pulled them back away from the tree slightly, before slamming them almost harshly back into the bark. The red head winced a bit at the feeling, but still didn't make an attempt to move or speak.
"And the fighting, Princess... ohhh… the fighting. Matching each other blow for blow, going at it for hours sometimes. Neither one of us backing down or giving up as we gave it our all. The thrill of finally meeting someone who could keep up. You can't deny you felt that either… Respect." Shego pulled away slightly, keeping her fingers intertwined with the hero's and keeping her pinned, but allowing her eyes to meet the red head's now.
Slightly glazed green eyes met emerald again as Kim tried to get herself to focus. Her heart was pounding in her chest and it felt more like a swarm of hummingbirds than butterflies in her stomach at the moment. Even worse was the realization of just how aroused she was feeling, a highly uncomfortable pull starting in the pit of her stomach and moving down between her thighs, further distracting her thoughts. So, Kim did the only thing she could think of at the moment, she gave up.
"Okay, Shego. I'll go on a date with you," the hero said, trying to put as much strength in her voice as possible, trying not to show just how weak she was feeling at the moment… but it was useless, as her voice still came out barely above a whisper, and the tone was tinged with an unbelievable yearning whine.
"Mm... that's a good little hero," Shego purred. She quickly leaned forward, her black painted lips catching the red head's for a few moments before pulling away, a grin forming on her lips. "I'll pick you up at 8 tomorrow. Be ready." With that, the former thief released Kim's hands and stepped back, leaping off the branch in a graceful pounce, disappearing from view as she fell towards the ground.
Kim let out a low groan as a shutter ran through her body, immediately after losing contact with Shego's. The hero closed her eyes as she took in deliberately slow and deep breaths, trying to calm her overactive nerves as her body continued to fire adrenaline into her system. She became increasingly aware of the uncomfortable itch between her thighs, as well as a slightly wet feeling. She let out a low growl and leaned her head back, allowing it to hit the tree behind her slightly forcefully, the pain finally piercing through her lust and adrenaline filled haze.
The hero opened her eyes again and looked up at the bits of sky she could see between the leaf canopy above her, and she growled again. "What… did I just do?"
