The Heroine's Harrowing
Love is an unstoppable force. You can't stop or avoid it no matter how hard you try. You sometimes end up falling in love with the person who you least expected in the weirdest ways.
Middleton High School was a spitting image of what you would expect high school to be. Happy couples were scattered about, holding hands and laughing. Late students were running to their designated classes. Other students ran from the jocks chasing and beating them to try and impress the popular girls. The halls of the school were crowded. The walls a bright beige, lined with aluminum lockers and an occasional water fountain.
Kim Possible could be seen at her locker, gathering her psychology book for next period. She heard a beep from the computer she kept in her locker and looked at the screen. The image of a 10 year old boy genius, Wade Load, appeared on the screen.
"What's the sitch?" Kim asked in a cheery tone. She was hoping for a mission to get her out of her psychology teachers 'dull as dirt' lecture about how the perception of an individual could lead them to become a psychopath and blah blah blah.
"I just got news that Shego broke Dr. Drakken out of prison yet again. You would think they would put up more safety measures by now." Wade often got annoyed with how lazy the police at the prison could be. Kim was constantly saving people from danger and never did she ask for a single penny in return. It was supposed to be the police who saved people and keep them safe. Their laziness made Kim's job so much harder. You would think since Kim captured and defeated the criminals, the police would at least try to keep the criminals in prison. Apparently keeping prisoners locked up was too complicated for them to handle, considering at least one prisoner escaped every week.
"Any criminal activity from them since Shego busted out Drakken?"
"I'll scan for any break ins or stolen objects in the past two weeks." Wade began to type quickly, his fingers blurred from the speed. It only took him seconds to get his results. "Apparently last Friday at 2:14 am, there was a break in at the Museum of Modern Science. I'll stream you the security footage now." And with that, Wade's face disappeared from the screen, only to be replaced by the security footage.
The time on the security camera read 2:13am. Kim watched intently for the beginning of the break in. Moments after the time changed, a bright flash of green could be seen through the glass window on the far right. It was Shego no doubt. She used a flaming plasma finger to carve out a silhouette, then swiftly ducked through the human shaped hole and made her way towards a strange looking contraption. She tucked it under her arm and made her way out of the building through the window.
"Rewind and freeze Wade." Kim ordered.
The footage was reversed to the moment Shego approached the object. Wade zoomed in on the contraption.
"Wade, try to find out what this thing is and what its purpose is."
Wade once again began to type at an unbelievable speed. His eyes quickly scanned through the many results that popped up. Finally his eyes fell upon the object he was searching for.
"The Movement Modifier uses scientific technology to speed up the process of nature. It had been proven to grow plants in mere hours and in some cases even minutes. The scientist who created the project, Harner Reid, attempted to see how far he could push it. He used the machine to cause an earthquake by increasing the speed at which the tectonic plates moved. The results shook an entire city to rubble. After proving how dangerous the machine could be, it was placed in the Museum of Modern Science for safe keeping." Wade finished.
"So I'm guessing it either has something to do with killer plants, catastrophic earthquakes or something in between," Kim said. "Can you track them down so I can bust them before anything too major happens?"
"Sure, but it might take a while, since we have no idea where… got em!" Wade stated with a proud smile on his face. "I have a ride waiting out side for you and I'll send the coordinates to your communicator. Do you want me to inform Ron?"
"Nah he's got a major chemistry test that he has to pass if he wants to graduate. I can handle this one myself. Thanks Wade." Kim smiled at the boy genius.
No problem, beep me if you need anything. Good luck!" Wade said with a smile and with that the computer screen went black again.
Kim looked up to the picture on her locker door. There was a picture of Shego that she had hung up there after her first mission with the villainess. She had to admit, she admired the slightly older woman. She had serious moves and knew many forms of martial arts. She was a well matched opponent for Kim.
Kim made her way out into the high school parking lot where a helicopter was landed in the empty portion of the parking lot. She made her way over to it and hopped in. Soon after the copter took off.
"Kim Possible, it is a pleasure to see you again." The pilot Mr. Bailey said.
"Same to you Mr. Bailey. Thank you so much for the lift, it means the world to me." Kim said, showing the pilot the coordinates from her communicator.
"After what you did for me, I'm only too happy to help." Mr. Bailey said with a smile, punching in the coordinated to the panel.
"It was no big."Kim waved a hand dismissively.
About two hours passed before they approached the coordinates. They were now passing over the Rocky Mountains.
"Alright Kim. We are approaching the drop zone. Good luck!" Mr. Bailey said.
With that Kim flung herself from the helicopter with a parachute on her back. She was in a free fall for quiet sometime, enjoying the burst of adrenaline that came with falling. She pulled the chord when she knew it was absolutely necessary and began her slower descent to the ground.
Her feet made contact with the hard, rugged ground. She removed her parachute and pulled out her thermal energy scanning glasses. She placed them on her face and began to throughly search through the different parts of the mountain chain. About ten minutes into the search, there was a noticeably large red blob. She had found the lair. Kim whipped out her grappling hook and pointed it upwards towards the red blob. She fired and the grappling hook began to reel itself in, pulling Kim towards the top.
She pulled herself over the edge of the cliff where she was met with suspicious looking door. She cautiously made her way inside, keeping her eyes peeled for any sign of trouble. Kim continued to make her way deeper into the lair. She spotted some of Drakken's goons playing cards, making it easy for her to slip past them. She scanned the area and saw a large air vent. Figuring it would be less risky to just shimmy through the air vents, she pulled off the grate and made her way inside, making sure to put the grate back on. Kim felt that she would be able to navigate her way faster in here. She continued to explore the building through the air ducts until she heard a man's voice rambling about something. She made her way towards the noise to see Drakken below her, complaining to Shego about something.
"A little side kick enthusiasm wouldn't hurt you know." Drakken pouted.
"Woo hoo, extra hoo," Shego said in a sarcastic manner while twirling her finger around in the air, "happy?" She looked back down at the magazine she had been reading. Well it appeared to be a magazine, when in reality, it was a newspaper article about Kim Possible, covered by a magazine cover, as to not let Drakken know what she was reading.
Kim had to stifle a chuckle at Shego's attitude. She had to admit the woman was rather comical.
"As I was saying, my plan is fool-proof. I shall use the Movement Modifier that you stole to increase the speed at which the tectonic plates beneath the earths crust move. By doing so, it shall cause a small earthquake. Now Shego, I know you must be thinking 'Didn't Reid already try that?' That is in fact true, however, Mr. Reid is not as brilliant as I. For I have created a device that will split the tectonic plates into smaller increments. By doing so, I will speed up the smaller tectonic plates, making less catastrophic earthquakes. The earthquakes will still make buildings and houses collapse, but I will be able to control where the earthquakes take place. The world leaders will then have to surrender their power to me, giving me the power to rule the world!" Drakken finished in a fit of mechanical laughs.
Shego just rolled her eyes and went back to her reading, thinking it was a stupid plan.
"I believe you have something that doesn't belong to you Drakken." Kim said as she jumped from the air vent to land on the pads of her feet.
"Kim Possible!" Drakken screeched. No one knew why he was always so surprised. "Shego! Get her!" Drakken commanded as he grabbed the Movement Modifier and the device to break apart the tectonic plates. Kim tried to run after him, but Shego jumped in front of her, blocking her path.
"So we meet again Pumpkin." Shego stated, using one of her cute nicknames for Kim. She lunged at Kim and the fight began. Shego lit up her green plasma hands and swung at Kim. Kim dodged the attack with ease and tried to counter attack with a swift kick to Shego's abdomen, which Shego evaded by jumping upwards.
They began to try and get the upper hand on each other, moving around quite a bit in the process. Before they knew it, they ended up in a cave that branched off from the room they were previously fighting in. Drakken was at the end of the cave, managing to dodge the attacks Kim and Shego were trying to get on one another.
Kim finally managed to get a hit on Shego, she brought her right leg up, just in time to kick Shego in the stomach and send her flying back into the rocky wall of the cave. She was quickly back on her feet, barely phased by the last kick.
As the two women continued to fight, Drakken pointed the device that broke apart tectonic plates at the ground and fired. As the machine beeped to inform Drakken it had completed its task, Drakken pulled the lever on the Movement Modifier and pointed it to the ground as well.
Kim saw Drakken carrying out the act and proceeded to knock Shego unconscious. She whipped the grappling gun she carried out and aimed for the device, snatching it from Drakken's grasp. It fell to the floor and broke into hundreds of pieces, but the damage was already done. With his plan now foiled, Drakken managed to scramble out of the cave and into the previous room, hurrying to escape the lair in its entirety.
Kim felt the ground begin to shake under her feet and tried to make an escape as well. She was mere inches from the other room when she remembered Shego was still in the cave, knocked unconscious. Kim ran back and flung the villainess over her shoulder and began to run again, but it was too late, the earthquake was happening and it was taking down the ceiling with it. Everything went black.
