Kim Possible: Freaked Out
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Kim Possible: Freaked Out
Chapter One
By Deaku
Special Agent Will Du ran down the corridor following Commander Jackson and his men, red light and the blaring of the alarm system filled the air.
"You sure you want to go through with this Kid?" Commander Jackson called back over his shoulder at Will. "You still have a chance to turn back around and run away."
"As an agent it's my duty to take care of any trouble that arises." Will responded back to the large man. "And I don't run."
"Your funeral Kid." Commander Jackson laughed.
Will remembered back to how he got to be in his current situation. It began when Dr. Director had been going through classified Global Justice files when she found records of a GJ installation that she had no prior knowledge of, some sort of special holding facility that was located outside of Go City. Dr. Director started making calls but amazingly she could find out nothing about the facility, only that it was classified and that if she wanted to know anything about it she would have to go there herself. However Director was unable to go herself as she was working on important case, which was the reason she had been going through classified files in the first place, so she had sent one of GJ's top agents, Will Du, instead. Will had made it to the facility and was let in with little trouble; but when he met Commander Jackson he got a much colder reception than he expected. Jackson would not give Will the information he had come for; the Commander told him everything was on a 'need to know' basis and Will didn't need to know. But just as Commander Jackson was ordering Will to leave the facility the alarm went off, the Commander made a quick check on his computer then took off down a corridor with Will following close behind him. As they ran the pair were joined by several other GJ agents and the group continued deeper into the facility.
Commander Jackson suddenly raised his hand and came to a stop, everyone stopping and gathering into a formation behind him. Will looked around and saw that they had stopped by a large set of doors labeled with the numbers 013 and the letters BT-FO right beneath them. Will also noticed how tense everyone around him looked.
"Weapons!" Commander Jackson commanded.
The agents responded by holding their weapons up in a ready position; most had energy pistols but a few had heavier energy rifles, there were a couple weapons that Will didn't even recognize.
"How about you Kid?" Commander Jackson looked towards Will.
"My Stop-Watch." Will replied as he raised up the wrist his weapon of choice was strapped to.
"A Stop-Watch?! You really must have a death-wish!" Commander Jackson roared with laughter, but spoke again before Will could retort. "Be ready people, the situation could get very bad very quick if we're not careful."
Commander Jackson turned and slid a key-card through a slot in the wall, the doors responded by sliding open with a loud hiss revealing a large circular room beyond. As they entered into the room the first thing Will noticed was a group of people in lab-coats working furiously at a large console. What next caught Will's attention was a loud noise, like something impacting against metal, accompanied by a vibration in the floor that kept repeating in rapid succession. It seemed to be originating from the center of the room where Will noticed that there was some kind of large hatch in the center of the floor; at the center of the hatch was some sort of viewing portal that was glowing a faint blue.
"Report!" Commander Jackson roared to the people at the console. "What's the situation and what's the BT's status?!"
"Sir! It's really bad!" An older man told the Commander. "Somehow the stasis lock went offline! I think it may have been during that power surge we had in the system an hour ago! But somehow no one noticed anything was wrong with the stasis lock!"
"What is the BT's status?!" Commander Jackson demanded.
"It's awake sir! And we can't get the stasis lock back on! It's caused too much damage already!" The older man reported, fear filling his voice. "If we don't do something it's going to break free!"
At that moment, as if on cue, there was one more impacting sound that was even louder that the previous ones, shaking the entire room and almost knocking a few people off their feet. Along the center of the hatch four short column-like structures rose up as the hatch lock disengaged; the hatch in the floor then split and the two halves slid open, a mixture of steam and smoke rose up from the opening and filled the room. The red light from the alarm lights and the blue light streaming up from the opening in the floor were mixing in the smoke and steam creating an eerie purple glow.
Suddenly there was movement from the opening in the floor and a mass of dark tentacles came rushing out of the smoke and steam right at the gathered group. A few people were not quick enough to dodge and were stuck by the attack of the tentacles and sent flying across the room, those that were still standing and possessed weapons began firing at their attackers. However none seem to be able to land a hit; partially because their vision was being obscured by the smoke and steam in the air, but the tentacles proved to be very agile being able to dodge and weave through the weapons fire. The tentacles continued their attack, grabbing weapons from people's hands and then knocking the agents to the ground or across the room.
Instead of even bothering to attack Will was focusing on dodging the attacks directed at him; ducking, jumping and simply doing the best he could to avoid being hit. So far his strategy had worked, he hadn't taken a single hit. But Will noticed the number of conscious agents was quickly decreasing while the tentacles suffered no damage at all, and the more agents that went down the more tentacles could focus on him. Will saw Commander Jackson get knocked into a wall and it distracted him just enough that he failed to notice the tentacle that was quickly sweeping up behind his feet. The tentacle caught Will just above his ankles and knocked him off his feet with such force that he flipped twice in the air before landing hard on the ground on his back and getting the breath knocked out of him.
Will managed to force himself back to his feet and prepared for another attack, but the attack never came. Will saw the tentacles retracting back towards the center of the room; through the steam and smoke he could see something rise up, some central mass where the tentacles had originated from and were now retracting back into. Will had the sudden realization that whatever the thing was it was looking in his direction, staring him right in the face like it was judging him for something. Will saw a brief flash of golden glowing eyes and the form suddenly shot straight up into the air, smashing through the grate covering the ventilation duct in the ceiling and vanishing from sight.
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A month later in Middleton…
Kim Possible walked through the front doors of the high school; she was returning from a brief investigation of a local store, where a very strange, in her opinion, theft had occurred. Following along right behind her was Ron Stoppable eating various items he was pulling out of a Bueno Nacho bag; Rufus was sitting on Ron's shoulder enjoying a lollipop that had been picked up at the store they had been investigating at. The people walking through the hallway didn't give the trio much attention other than a few brief 'hellos' as they went about their usual lunchtime business. Kim returned the 'hellos' rather absentmindedly, her thoughts were still focused on the strange theft.
"Something wrong Kim?" Ron asked s he noticed that Kim seemed to be somewhat distracted.
"It's just that theft was too weird." Kim replied. "Who cleans out a candy store?"
"A villain with a serious sweet tooth?" Ron offered.
"Sweet tooth! Yum!" Rufus called out as he held up his lollipop.
Kim just shook her head. "Somehow Ron I don't think that's the case."
"Just imagine KP, a candy-based villain." Ron carried on like he hadn't even heard Kim. "When you beat him you could say 'It's the sweet taste of victory'."
Kim just rolled her eyes and was about to respond to Ron's theory when, out of the corner of her eye, she spotted someone come running around the corner. Kim quickly dodged out of the way before she was run over, but Ron wasn't so quick to notice the danger. There was a squeak of shoe rubber as the person tried to stop, but it was too late. There was a collision as the person ran into Ron and both went down to the floor, Rufus went flying into the air, holding on to his lollipop as if his life depended on it, but Kim quickly caught him before he hit the floor.
"What hit me?" Ron weakly questioned as Kim helped him up from the floor, Rufus jumping back to Ron's shoulder as she did so.
"Owww…" The young man that had run into Ron moaned as he sat up.
Kim looked down at the young man that had collided with her best friend; he was wearing black shoes and pants with a long-sleeved dark green shirt, his hair was a very dark red that hung down over the right side of his face and covered that eye. Though he still seemed a bit dazed the young man opened his uncovered eye, which Kim saw was a very light blue, and unsuccessfully tried to brush his hair away from his face. Kim held out her hand and the young man took hold of it, Kim quickly pulled him up to his feet.
"Are you okay?" Kim inquired.
"Any damage dude?" Ron asked.
The young man shook his head like he was clearing it, then a shocked look came over his face. "Oh I'm sorry, very sorry, that was so my fault." The young man began to talk very quick; only pausing briefly blow the hair out of his face, which quickly fell back into place. "I should have been watching where I as going, I shouldn't have been running. Totally my fault, I'm so very sorry."
Ron smiled reassuringly and held up a hand to signal the young man to stop. "Amp down dude, no worries I'm fine. I know it was an accident." Ron grinned and held out a hand. "You new here? Cause I know I haven't seen you before."
"Yeah I'm new, just started here today." The young man laughed nervously and shook Ron's hand. "Name's Jet."
"Good to meet ya Jet. I'm Ron and this is my little buddy Rufus." Rufus waved and then Ron pointed towards Kim. "And this here is my best friend…"
"Kim Possible." Kim finished her own introduction and shook Jet's hand. "And it's nice to meet you Jet."
"Kim Possible… Wow!" Jet said in a bit of an awed voiced and smiled. "I read about you, you've done some amazing things. You're really incredible, it's a real honor to meet you." Jet again tried unsuccessfully to blow his hair away from his face then went back to smiling.
"It's no big, really." Kim told Jet nonchalantly. Though she was feeling a bit embarrassed to him praising her, she didn't get that too often from her fellow students.
"Great, the new freak has found his own kind. Right where he belongs." A very annoyed voice came from behind Jet. The group looked in the direction to see Bonnie Rockwaller, looking a bit disheveled and rather wet.
"Bonnie…" Kim began, but Bonnie just held up her hand letting Kim know she didn't want to hear it and walked away.
"Man, you've only made it through half your first day and you already irked Bonnie." Ron said as he patted Jet on the shoulder. "I'm pretty sure that's a record."
"What did you do?" Kim asked with a raised eyebrow and a slight smirk.
"Well, I was in the cafeteria when I… tripped. And I kinda, sorta… spilled my soda on her." Jet admitted in a quiet voice.
"No wonder she was so mad." Kim held back the urge to laugh. "Getting a mess on her is something you never ever do."
"Yeah, I found that out the hard way too." Ron added.
"Possible! Stoppable! Cassin!" An authoritative voice called out, causing the three to freeze.
"Cassin?" Kim and Ron questioned at the same time.
"Yes, Jet U. Cassin, the new boy." Mr. Barkin answered as he loomed over the three while looking directly at Jet. "Whom I want to see in my office right after school."
"Detention seems a bit harsh for just spilling a soda." Kim voiced her opinion.
"Yeah, it was just an accident Mr. B." Ron added. "And it's not like he spilled it on you."
"Well, he was standing right behind Bonnie when I spilled the soda." Jet said rather sheepishly.
"It is not detention." Mr. Barkin began to explain. "I've decided to take it upon myself to work with this boy to try and cure of what seems to be an acute case of sheer clumsiness. The boy's a walking disaster area!" Brakin held up his hand with fingers extended, then began calling off events and lowering his fingers. "Besides the soda incident; this morning he tripped and lost hold of a text book, which hit me in the back of the head. Then in a rush to get to a class he opened a door too fast and took out three other students. In science he dropped a beaker that had such a noxious mix of chemicals that it began to eat through the soles of everyone's shoes. There are a few others, but I think I've made my point." Mr. Barkin pointed towards Jet. "My office as soon as school is over. Understand?"
"Yes sir." Jet answered as he looked towards the floor.
"No worries Jet." Ron patted him on the back as Mr. Barkin walked away. "Nothing to be ashamed of, these things happen to everybody. I've done some of those very same things myself."
Rufus held out his lollipop, offering it to Jet to make him feel better. But Jet just shook his head. "That's okay little guy." He reached into his pocket and pulled out three similar candies and smiled, Rufus smiled back. "I've got my own."
"Well you guys let's get to the cafeteria before lunch is over." Kim said as she put her hands on Ron's and Jet's shoulders. "And I'll buy you a new soda to replace the one that so nobly sacrificed itself to Bonnie." Kim told Jet as she began to lead him and Ron down the hall. "Besides, I'm sure Monique will want to meet the new guy."
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"Wait up KP!" Ron called out as he ran after Kim as they hurried down the sidewalk. "Why didn't we call in a ride this time?"
"Because it seemed a bit of a waste to call a ride when we're just going a few blocks away." Kim answered as she continued to run.
Seeing a group of police cars in a half-circle formation in the parking lot of a local grocery store Kim knew she had reached her destination. Some of the police were questioning a group that looked like store employees; others were working to keep other people from approaching the store, a large group of people had gathered despite the lateness of the hour. Kim and Ron weaved their way through the crowd and made their way over to where a few officers were gathered at the front of the store.
"Kim Possible." One of the officers gave a quick salute. "Thank you for coming so quickly."
"It's no big officer." Kim said with a smile. "So what's the sitch?"
"Well at first we thought it was a typical robbery," The officer began to explain. "But the employees were really freaked out about there being something in the store. We went to check the situation out ourselves and well, I'm not sure how to describe it. There's something weird going on in there and I really don't have any clue what that thing is, let alone how to put a stop to this. And well, since dealing with strange things is more your area of expertise we gave you a call."
"I understand officer, we'll get to the bottom of this." Kim smiled reassuringly. "Let's go Ron."
"Sure thing KP, I just hope it's not too scary." Ron said as he followed along. "I mean if the employees are that freaked it's got to be bad."
"I'm doubt it's worse than anything else we've gone up against." Kim told him as she walked into the store.
As Kim walked further into the store nothing seemed out of the ordinary; a few items littered the floor, Kim guessed they had been knocked over or dropped in a rush to get out of the store, but nothing seemed really out of place. Kim stopped and signaled Ron to do so as well, she listened for signs of movement or any sort of strange sounds. Though it was quiet Kim cold hear something at the other end of the store towards the produce section, sounds of rustling, rattling and crunching. Kim slowly crept forward until she was only two aisles away from the source of the noise; she could hear the noise better now, it somewhat reminded her of Ron and Rufus when they were in such a hurry to eat they didn't bother with table manners. Kim signaled Ron to move closer since he had waited several aisles behind, though he ducked down to the point he was nearly crawling Ron managed to quickly sneak over to where Kim was waiting.
"Tell me what you hear Ron." Kim told him as she pointed in the direction of the sounds.
Ron cupped a hand to his ear and leaned towards the sounds, he raised an eyebrow as he leaned back. "Sounds like someone, or something, is having some serious snackage."
"Yeah it sounds that way to me too." Kim looked in the direction of the noise. "I think it might be some sort of animal, which means we'll have to be extra careful since we don't know what it is exactly."
"We could have Rufus make a quick check, he's small enough that whatever it is won't even notice him." Ron suggested and quickly reached into his pocket and pulled out Rufus. "Ready for some scouting action buddy?"
Rufus gave a salute, Ron set him down on the floor and pointed in the direction the sounds were coming from. Rufus quietly made his way over till he was at the last aisle; he moved close to a shelf and crept the rest over the distance, carefully looking around the corner when he came to it.
Kim and Ron saw Rufus jump back, then take one more quick look before heading back to them. He was breathing quickly and started making waving motions in the air until Ron picked him up.
"Calm down Rufus, take deep breaths." Ron breathed along with the naked mole rat until Rufus calmed a bit. "Now what'd you see over there?"
"Snaky things!" Rufus squeaked out as he pointed back. "Freaky!"
"Snaky things?" Kim repeated. "Just what kind of snakes did they look like Rufus?"
Rufus shrugged and repeated. "Snaky things!"
Ron looked at Kim with a slightly confused and worried look on his face as he put Rufus back into the safety of his pocket.
"Lets get a look at these things so we'll know what we're dealing with." Kim said quietly as she started forward, Ron following nervously behind.
Kim peered around the corner and very quickly decided that Rufus's name of 'snaky things' fit the sight before her very well. She saw several things with long slim bodies and reptilian heads; but unlike any snakes Kim had ever seen these creatures had dark green armored plates covering their heads and backs with their underbellies being a very dark gray. Kim couldn't tell their exact size since their bodies were weaving over, under and around everything as the creatures ate all the food in sight; mostly produce but the nearby bread and meat sections were falling victim to the creatures as well.
"And I thought my manners could be bad." Ron joked.
"Not really the time for joking Ron." Kim warned. "We don't know what these things can do."
"No worries Kim, it was just a little something to help break the tension." Ron stood up and took a bold pose. "Ron Stoppable is completely ready to deal with these… snaky things…"
Ron took a step forward and his foot came down onto a tomato that had just rolled into his path, the tomato was flattened and its juice went everywhere. Ron immediately slipped; yelling as his feet went out from under him, going down hard onto the ground and flat on his back.
The creatures all turned towards the source of the noise, focusing on Ron as he sat up and laughed nervously. As the creatures continued to stare Kim quickly placed herself between Ron and the creatures and took a defensive stance. Three of the creatures closest to Kim and Ron rose up until they loomed several feet over their heads; the creatures were giving a low hissing sound and their eyes were glowing gold. The trio of creatures began to rear back and Kim readied herself for their attack.
Suddenly Kim felt an impact against her stomach and stumbled back a couple steps. Kim's hand went to her stomach reflexively and she felt wetness at the point of impact; for a moment Kim thought she had been cut open, struck from a low angle as she was looking up at the three creatures that had reared up. But that thought passed as she raised her hand near her face and she smelled a sweet scent, Kim looked to the ground in front of her and noticed the smashed piece of fruit that had struck her. Kim dodged to the side as another piece of fruit came flying through the air at her, soon followed by several more. The creatures continued throwing whatever produce they could get a hold of, grabbing it with their jaws and flinging it towards their target. Kim continued to dodge as the air was quickly filled with flying fruits and vegetables.
"Food Fight!" Ron yelled and dove behind a pile of potato sacks; opening up a sack as he did so and attempting to return the attack with the potatoes within.
As Ron threw potatoes, missing his targets completely, Kim dodged whatever came her way; while she knew she really didn't have anything to worry about from being hit by fruits and vegetables she didn't much feel like ending up a mess by being covered in them. Kim was keeping her feet on the ground while dodging and not jumping at all because the three creatures that had reared up were still staring down at her, waving back and forth slightly as if they were waiting for her to try something.
"Time for double the potato action you snaky things!" Ron yelled as he stood up with a potato in each hand.
Just as Ron was going to throw both potatoes a watermelon came sailing through the air directly at him, Ron had just enough time to gasp before the watermelon hit him square in the face. The watermelon splattered apart loudly as it impacted, covering Ron with a red pulpy mess and sending him stumbling back before he finally fell to the floor.
"Ron!" Kim called out as her friend was hit.
As Kim was briefly distracted the three creatures that had been reared up above her suddenly dove forward. Kim saw the attack coming out of the corner of her eye and she jumped to avoid the three creatures and they caught nothing but air as their target dodged. However as Kim reached the height of her jump something came flying through the air at her; Kim spotted it but it was coming so fast that she couldn't twist her body out of the way in time. The large roast struck Kim in the chest with such force that it sent her flying back and she landed hard and went sliding across the floor, eventually ending up near Ron.
As she threw the roast aside Kim noticed that the creatures had stopped their attack, they actually seemed to be retreating. But Kim thought they were moving strangely for snake-like creatures; they weren't slithering around or away, they were going straight back, like they were being retracted by something.
Kim jumped up and tried to follow the creatures to see where they were going or to possibly catch one, but they all pulled back and vanished underneath one of the fruit stands. Carefully peering under the fruit stand Kim tried to see where the creatures had vanished to; it was dark underneath so she couldn't see much but she could tell the creatures were long gone. However Kim thought she could see a hole in the floor, though it was difficult to make out because it was in the shadows.
"Hey what happened? What'd I miss?" Ron came running over as he tried to clean watermelon off of his face. "Did the snaky things get away?"
"Yeah, they went under here and went down a hole it looks like." Kim said as she took a small flashlight from her pocket and shined it into the darkness under the fruit stand.
"Rufus can get a better look at that than we can." Ron pulled Rufus back out of his pocket. "Up for some more scouting action buddy?"
Rufus nodded and jumped down to the floor, grabbing the flashlight from Kim's hand as he went. Rufus swung the flashlight around a few times, illuminating the areas that had been in shadow and fully revealing the hole in the floor. Rufus moved to the edge of the hole and pointed the flashlight down within it; the mole rat let out a whistle and went back to Kim and Ron.
"Gone." Rufus reported as he passed the flashlight back to Kim.
"Can you see where that hole goes?" Ron asked as he picked Rufus up.
Rufus shook his head; making a downward motion with his paw, whistling as he did so, then made a curving motion.
"So it curves down out of sight… I wonder if…?" Kim thought aloud as she began to move back towards the front of the store. "Let's go guys, we'd better let everyone know those things left the store."
Ron, with Rufus on his shoulder, quickly followed Kim. They exited the front doors and everyone was looking at them with expressions of relief and wondering. The officer Kim had talked to before smiled and saluted as Kim approached.
"Well officer those things are out of the store; I'm pretty sure it's safe to go back in there." Kim smiled. "Though a large part of the produce is gone now."
"Thanks you for you help Miss Possible, I'm sure the store owner will be happy to hear the store's safe." The officer replied, then looked back towards the store. "Any ideas where those things could have gone? None of us saw anything coming out anywhere."
"Actually I have a pretty good idea where they could have gone." Kim walked over to a nearby manhole cover and pulled it up and slid it to the side. "I'll let you know if we find anything." Kim knelt down then looked back. "Coming Ron?"
"The sewer? Aw maaaan… Do we have to?" Ron made a disgusted face, which was mimicked by Rufus.
"Oh come on Ron, it's not like we haven't ever been down here before." Kim told him and then jumped down.
Kim stepped to the side, to give Ron plenty of room to drop down, and pulled out her flashlight to look around. Ron dropped down a moment later, landing loudly but remaining on his feet. Kim got her bearings and walked in the direction where she figured she'd find what she was looking for; it didn't take long before she was shining her flashlight at a hole high up on the wall.
"If my guess is correct that leads back up to the store." Kim began looking around the tunnel. "But no sign of our snaky friends anywhere."
"The less we see of them the better I say. They play dirty." Ron commented. "Using something like a watermelon is totally against the rules of food fight combat."
Kim just shook her head as she pulled out the Kimmunicator, Wade's face appearing on the screen as soon as she pressed the button. "Wade do you think you could make a quick scan for weirdness around us?"
"Sure thing Kim." Wade smiled as he loosened up his hands to get ready for the job. 'What sort of weirdness am I scanning for?"
"They were some type of animals, I'm not sure exactly what…" Kim answered.
"Snaky things!" Both Ron and Rufus piped in.
"Yeah, that's probably the best way to describe them for the moment." Kim sighed, wishing she had a better description for what they had just seen.
"Well whatever they are I'll scan for them." Wade answered and set to work his fingers moving over his keyboards at amazing speeds. He paused a moment and raised a hand to his chin in thought, then his fingers were back to work. A moment later Wade stopped. "Sorry Kim, I'm not picking up any weirdness anywhere near you guys."
"Nothing at all?" Kim asked in a slightly worried tone.
"Not a thing Kim, and I even expanded the initial search area to just in case." Wade explained. "All I'm picking up is what would usually be expected around there; people, pets and the usual animals above, you guys, bugs and rats down there. Sorry Kim."
"That's okay Wade, I know you did your best. I guess they were a lot faster than I thought and got out of the area." Kim sighed a bit. "We'd better head back up and let the officers know whatever those things were they're gone now."
"Sounds like a plan." Ron said as he looked around. "Me and Rufus really don't want to run into one of those giant sewer rats we've heard about.
"Those are just an urban myth Ron." Kim told him in a rather exasperated tone.
"Actually…" Wade gave a nervous laugh. "Some of the rats that showed up on my scan are pretty big…"
"Wade…" Kim began as she started walking for the way out, as Ron ran. "Next time could you please keep info like that to yourself until we're clear?"
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Kim stood at her locker going over files Wade had printed out for her. Kim had asked Wade to find some information on rare snakes and reptiles to see if she could find something like what she had seen the previous night, but she was having absolutely no luck finding anything so far. As she continued to search Kim suddenly smelled a sweet fruit-like scent, it reminded her of watermelon.
"Hi Kim!" Ron, with Rufus on his shoulder, said with a large smile as he walked up to Kim. "Any luck finding out what those snaky things were?"
"Nothing yet…" Kim sighed. "Seems like you haven't had any luck getting rid of the fruit smell either."
"It just won't leave!" Ron rubbed his head. "No matter how many time I wash my hair I can't get rid of it!" Ron then spotted a familiar face coming down the hall. "Hey Jet!"
"Morning." Jet grinned as he tried to brush the hair from his face. "How goes everything?"
"Oh everything's about the same as usual for us." Kim answered as she put the files away. "So… how'd things go with Mr. Barkin yesterday?"
"Things went about as well as expected I guess." Jet gave a rather nervous laugh as he looked around before leaning in close and talking in a quiet voice. "But if you talk to Mr. Barkin today you probably shouldn't ask him about why he's wearing a hat."
"What happened?" Ron asked with a grin, unable to contain his curiosity.
"Well I really don't want to say for fear of bringing down Barkin's wraith." Jet said as he blew at his hair. "But let's just say that Mr. Brakin and Rufus have something in common now."
Rufus rubbed the top of his head and Jet nodded; both Ron and Rufus started laughing, Kim was struggling to hold down a laugh while Jet just had a nervous smile. The screen of Kim's locker computer suddenly flashed to life, catching the four's attention as Wade's face came into view.
"Were you able to find those creatures in the files Kim?" Wade asked as he took a sip from a glass in his hand.
"No, sorry Wade." Kim shook her head. " I couldn't find anything that looked like them at all. Did you manage to find something?"
"Nothing at all here either. Though there is someone on the line who wants to talk with you." Wade told her. "Some friends over in Go City. Shall I put them through?"
"Well looks like you got a mission, I'd better get going and let you guys get to work. "Jet suddenly piped in. "Classes and all that school stuff for me. Good luck on the mission guys." Jet waved as he walked away.
"Later Jet!" Ron called out as Rufus and Kim waved.
"So what's the sitch Wade?" Kim asked as she turned back to her locker. "Team Go in trouble?"
"They wouldn't tell me the full story," Wade shrugged. "Hego just said that they needed your help and he wanted to talk with you about it. I'll put him on."
Wade pushed a button and his face vanished, replaced by the sight of Hego.
"Ah Kim Possible, it's good to see you again." Hego smiled, but Kim thought it looked a little forced. "And your friend and his little pet too," Hego added as he spotted Ron and Rufus. "It's great to see all of you."
"It's good to see you too Hego." Kim replied pleasantly as she wondered the reason for this rather unexpected call. "So what's the sitch?"
"Well, we need your help." Hego told her. "We need to get in touch with Shego, it's important that we talk with her."
"Shego?" Kim replied in a confused tone. "Why do you need my help?"
"Yeah, she's you sister. If it's so important you shouldn't you be able to get a hold of her?" Ron added. "You know where she lives now and everything."
"Well, it's like this… It's just…" Hego seemed a bit flustered as to how to explain.
"Just move Hego." Mego suddenly pushed Hego out of the way. "It's like this; we've tried calling her but she just won't answer and we're a bit worried what might happen if we try to see her face to face. And well, you see her a lot more than us these days and seem to have a better relationship with her right now than we do. So we figure you might be able to convince her to meet with us; we need to talk to her about something important and it's probably would be better to do so in person." Mego shook his head and sighed. "So will you help us?"
"If it's that important then sure I'll help." Kim nodded, this sitch had her quite interested now.
"Thank you Kim Possible." Hego leaned back into view. "I can't tell you how much this means to us."
"But Shego's over at Drakken's lair." Ron reminded everyone. "How are we gonna get there?"
"The twins are warming up the Go Jet right now." Hego told them. "We'll be right over to pick you up."
"Then we'll be ready." Kim said before Hego and Mego vanished from view.
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Shego made her way through the hallways of Drakken's lair, henchmen getting out of her way as fast as they could. Shego felt it was a wise choice on their part; she was both bored and irritated, a bad combination for anyone who crossed her path. She was bored because Drakken hadn't sent her on a mission in nearly a week but kept asking her to remain on stand-by; she was irritated because a certain group of people she had no desire to talk to had been trying to call her for the past two days.
Shego was heading for Drakken's lab hoping that he'd finally come up with something so that she could go out and steal whatever it was he needed for his latest plot and put and end to the boredom. If not Shego could at least work out her irritation by yelling at him or even sending a few plasma blasts the blue doctor's way.
The door to Drakken's lab slid open with a slight hiss to give Shego admittance; her green eyes quickly swept over the lab, spotting Drakken hunched over a table in the corner chuckling to himself. While she wondered just what it was he was chuckling about Shego thought that it might be a good sign, it could mean that Drakken had finally come up with something.
"Ah Shego, what perfect timing!" Drakken smiled widely when he saw Shego. "I've just finished outlining my latest plan."
"About time." Shego responded irritably as she took a seat.
"It's my most brilliant plan yet!" Drakken grinned maniacally and carried on like he hadn't noticed Shego's irritation. "And you get to hear about it first!"
"Imagine my joy." Shego replied with her usual sarcasm.
Before anything else could be said by Shego or Drakken the cover of a ventilation duct was knocked off and fell to the floor soon followed by a very familiar form, a red-headed teenage girl wearing a black shirt and gray pants.
"Kim Possible?!" Drakken cried out in surprise. "What are you doing here? We haven't even started with my latest plan yet!"
"Deciding to get preemptive Princess?" Shego smiled as she leapt up from her chair and assumed a battle stance, happy that her boredom had finally come to an end.
"Oh no, I'm not here for anything like that. So don't worry." Kim waved away their assumptions, though she kept her body ready in case she had to defend herself against Shego. "I'm just here to see Shego."
"You came to see me?" Shego said with interest in her voice as she arched an eyebrow; her body relaxed as she dropped out of her battle stance.
"Shego?" Drakken repeated the name, quite bewildered. Then a look of shock came over his face as he gasped. "Are those rumors I heard about you two actually true?"
"I thought I told you to drop that Doctor D." Shego warned as she narrowed her eyes.
"No I'm not here for anything like that." Kim stated firmly. "Someone's been trying to get in contact with Shego but haven't been able to. So they asked me to come and talk to Shego, to ask if she would come and see them. They said it was important."
"Who?" Drakken asked, thoroughly confused.
"I don't believe this." Shego groaned, ignoring Drakken. "They actually called you in on this, I wouldn't have expected that from them." Shego sighed and crossed her arms. "So where are they? The fact they felt the need to call you actually has me curious about what they want."
"Who are they?!" Drakken asked insistently.
"They're outside, waiting on the beach near their jet." Kim answered Shego, also ignoring Drakken. "I'm not sure what they want to talk to you about either; they wouldn't tell me anything other than it was important that they speak with you."
"Then let's get this over with." Shego told Kim and began walking towards the door for the lab, signaling for Kim to follow. "The quicker I get down there and hear what they want to say, the faster they can leave."
"Shego…!" Drakken began to yell, but was quickly cut off when Shego clamped a hand over his mouth.
"Hold that thought Doctor D." Shego told Drakken as she released him. "I'll be back when this is over and done with and then I'll listen to your new plan."
Shego walked out of the room with Kim close behind, leaving Drakken alone to wonder what was really going on. Shego led Kim down a few hallways, getting some very strange looks by henchmen along the way, eventually arriving at an elevator. A button press and a short wait later the elevator doors opened and the pair went inside.
"So Kimmie…" Shego began as she pressed the down button. "Why didn't you just come in the main entrance? If you were just delivering a message you didn't need to come in through the vents." A wry smile appeared on Shego's face. "Or were you hoping for a private meeting with me?"
"Well, it was just kinda force of habit I guess." Kim gave a bit of a nervous laugh. "I'm just so used to coming in through the vents, the underwater passage or climbing up the outer walls that I just didn't think to come in through the main entrance for this."
Shego just laughed as the elevator doors opened and the pair exited and went down a long passageway, eventually walking out into the daylight. Kim pointed in a direction and her and Shego walked down the beach, the Go Jet coming into view as they made their way around the curve of the island. Hego could be seen talking to Ron, by the way both were moving they must have been having a very animated conversation. The Wegos were sitting nearby listening to the conversation; while Mego was hanging back from the rest under the shade of a tree.
Hego spotted Shego and Kim and started waving; he started running towards the pair followed by Ron and the Wegos, with Mego following along at a somewhat slower pace. Shego groaned and quickly turned around and faced the other direction.
"I knew this was a bad idea, I never should've let my curiosity get the better of me." Shego half-growled. "I'm just gonna go back inside and pretend this never happened."
"Come on Shego." Kim stepped in front of the pale-skinned woman, blocking her path. "You've already come this far, you might as well listen to what they have to say."
"Shego it's great to see you again." Hego smiled as he came to a stop. "I think…"
"Just say whatever it is you came to say Hego." Shego said flatly. "The quicker you tell me the faster you can get out of my hair."
"We didn't come for a social visit Shego." Mego told her. "This is something we thought you needed to know."
"Yeah, it's really important." The Wegos added
"So just tell me what it is all ready." Shego demanded without looking back, her voice full of annoyance.
Hego's smile had fallen into a frown and an uneasy look came over his face. The Wegos looked pained and unsure how to proceed. Mego was gesturing with his hands, urging Hego to tell Shego what they had come to tell her.
"Shego," Hego's voice was uncharacteristically serious. "Freak-Out is back."
Kim saw an expression come over Shego's face that she had never seen on her before; an expression of such utter shock that Shego didn't even seem to be aware of who was around her anymore. And something happened that Kim didn't think was possible, what little color there was in Shego's already pale skin had completely drained away.
To be continued…