Chapter One: Mysteries

Kim sighed as she walked into the hallways of Middleton High. The teenage hero had been feeling odd ever since the mission in Go City to stop Aviarius. Something about that sitch didn't sit well with Kim. It piqued her interest in superpowers, but also, Hego's powers in particular unlocked something in the back of her mind. I adapted to the powers incredibly easily. Kim thought as she opened her locker door and got the books for her classes. ….aside from the accident with my locker. Kim spared an unconscious glance at the door. Wade had quickly replaced her locker door with a titanium and steel alloy. When Kim asked Wade why, he simply said, "We need to be prepared in case something like that happens again." Kim shook her head and looked at the picture of Shego. Something had compelled Kim to keep the mugshot and trash the rest of the door. Kim's eyes lingered on the photo for a moment longer. Unknown to Kim, Ron walked up behind her as she stared at the picture.

"See something you like?" Ron asked with a quirked eyebrow and a slight grin. Kim jumped and slammed the door to her locker shut. The entire row of lockers shivered in response to Kim's hasty action. Kim was too surprised by her friend to notice. "Ron, no! That's totally awk-weird. For one, she's a wanted criminal. Second, she's tried to kill me multiple times! Third, she hates my guts." Ron noticed something odd about Kim's reasoning against Shego. "KP, the fact that she's a girl doesn't bother you?" Kim sighed and unconsciously gripped the handle of the door and squeezed it slightly as she answered Ron. "What can I say? She's attractive, Ron." Kim told her friend with a sight shrug before she headed to class. Kim didn't see it, but there was a dent in the handle of the locker as she walked away.

Wade sat at his computer and suddenly got an alert. Unknown to Kim or Ron, Wade fitted Kim's new locker door with a pressure plate and sensors. The reading when Kim slammed the door proved to be surprising. The PSI of the slam matched that of a male bodybuilder at his peak: roughly half a ton of force! The force Kim put on the locker handle was slightly more than that. Wade scratched his head and briefly wondered if his calibration of the sensors was off. The boy-genius sighed and shook his head. "I triple checked them; they're not wrong." Wade got up from his chair and began to pace in thought about his room. "It couldn't be residual Glow. Her hands didn't take on a blue tent." Wade had an interesting thought suddenly. "Could she have absorbed some of Hego's strength?" Wade mumbled as he turned back to his computer and accessed Kim's latest biometrics which came up…odd. Her cells did indeed absorb something from Hego, but it was an unknown form of radiation Kim's body readily absorbed, not the Glow itself! From this data, Wade backtracked the radiation by adjusting its wavelength frequency and accounting for how the radiation would change as it came into contact with the different materials. Stripped of these "impurities" in the wavelength, Wade's computer found a match in data retrieved from the meteor that affected The Go Children. Wade expected as much. What he didn't expect, however, was when the computer dug out a similar reading from LHS-2520, a red dwarf 27.1 lightyears away. A startling thought slammed into Wade's mind when he saw the radiation originated from a star and was carried in the meteor, Is Kim an alien?!

In class, Kim thought she was starting to go crazy. The ticking on the wall clock beat against her eardrums and Barkin's yelling made the girl try to cover her ears. To Kim, the sound was like a jet engine going to full thrust inches from her ears. Ron noticed his friend's distress and looked at Barkin. "Dude, back it down. You're a teacher, not a drill sergeant." Ron growled angrily as he looked to his pocket and signaled Rufus to take Kim out of the class while Barkin was distracted. "Kim is having some issues right now, and I would appreciate it if you actually gave a shit about your students and treated us like the humans we are!"

Barkin was taken aback by Stoppable's anger. "You're in insubordination, soldier!" Ron glared at Barkin sighed and shook his head. "I don't know what's wrong with her, but I honestly don't think it's my business. The point is: she's my friend, and I cannot stand by while she's in pain because of your asinine control issues." Barkin glared at Ron, but the boy didn't cower. Ron's hand balled into a tight fist by his side as he held Barkin's gaze. "I stare down a monkey-obsessed psychopath nearly as often as Kim faces Shego." Ron said calmly with a cold edge to his voice. "A medically retired 'nam vet doesn't scare me." Ron was about to continue his rant, but a rarely heard sound stopped him and sent Ron running in that direction: Kim screamed. "KP!"

As she walked in the bathroom, Kim doused her face in water and looked in the mirror. As she looked, Kim saw her flesh vanish. Then, the muscles followed, and finally Kim's skull vanished to show her brain as Kim continued to stare at the sight in horror. Kim backed away into a stall's wall, sat against the ladies' room stalls, held her knees to her chest as she shivered, and held her eyes shut as she tried to get the image of what she just saw in the mirror to leave her mind. A knock on the door brought Kim's head up as the girl wiped her eyes. "Kim," his voice was muffled because of the door, but Kim smiled at the sound of Ron's voice. "What's going on?" Kim shook her head and said, "I have no clue, Ron." Kim opened her mouth to say more, but the sound of grass crunching outside drew Kim's attention. The sound was light and fast, and the pacing between steps only matched one person.

"Shego…" Kim growled. The light sounds stopped as soon as Kim called. "How…what the fuck?!" Shego growled in an angry whisper. Kim shivered as the woman continued walking in the same quiet fashion for a moment before she slipped in through an open window. "You develop super-hearing at some point, Princess?" It was meant to be a joke, so it shocked Shego when Kim nodded. "I think Hego's power affected me at a deeper level than just handing over his superpowers." Kim said as she looked at Shego, who still looked shocked. "I just looked through a mirror straight at my own brain, I think I crushed the handle to my locker this morning, and I heard you coming! All things I've never done before." The green woman looked at Kim and saw the fright in Kim's eyes. She hated that look but would never tell the teen so. "Well, let's see what you've got." Kim looked at Shego in shock. "Not here, Pumpkin, we'll go to my place." Kim got up and glared at Shego. "I can't skip school."

The woman smiled and took a fighting stance. "Fine, you want to fight here? Fine by me!" Shego lunged at Kim. Kim dodged and looked around. I need more room. Kim thought. She grimaced and threw Shego into the door. As it broke apart under the strain, Ron stared at the door and the person on it in surprise. "Shego, What are you doing here?!" Kim marched out of the doorway and looked at Shego. "She was just leaving!" Kim glared at Shego. "Hey! Don't look at me! You wanted to test the extent of your powers!" Kim glared at her. "Not here!" The redhead growled. Her narrowed eyes seemed to activate the strange quirk to Kim's vision. Shego's catsuit fell away under Kim's gaze to reveal a very attractive form underneath. When Kim blushed, Shego smirked at the hero's flustered expression. "Are you undressing me, Kimmie?" Kim stammered. "N-no!" Kim walked up to the woman. "I think you did." Shego laughed lightly. "What's my cup size?" Kim was thrown off by the question. "They look about a C-cup." Kim mentally facepalmed when she realized what she just did. "Kimmie has x-ray vision. That's nice to know." Shego said with a smile. Kim just stood in stunned silence. The green woman chuckled and shook her head.

"Are you ready to go back to class, Kim?" Ron said as he tried to draw attention away from Shego, the source of his wood at the moment. Barkin seemed to appear behind Ron and growled, "Stoppable and Possible, you are both suspended for a week." "WHAT?!" Kim and Ron said together. "Stoppable you for your little stunt in my class, and Possible for your fighting on school grounds." Kim glared at Shego who seemed to be enjoying this. "Oh…Cupcake got in trouble." "Fuck you, Shego!" Kim growled once Barkin disappeared. Shego raised an eyebrow. "I didn't know you wanted to move that fast, Kimmie. If this will work, my name's Veronica." The green woman said as a playful grin never left her face. Kim's jaw dropped. "My place, 1800 tonight, we've got to get a handle on those powers of yours." Kim just stared as Veronica gave her a card with an address on it. "Be there." With thar, the green woman left.

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