Chapter 1. Tanks for nothing.

Kim deftly dodged to one side and threw a counter blow towards Shego. The villainess merely batted Kim's fist out of the way. Kim used the change in momentum to try to heel kick Shego in the head. The older woman ducked easily and began to throw balls of plasma at her younger opponent. Kim back flipped away from the exploding green balls of fire. Meanwhile Dr. Drakken and Ron where caught in their usual slap fight while Rufus had snuck into the lair's control console. Deftly pulling wires the intelligent rodent had soon short-circuited many controls but it still wasn't enough. The hairless rodent then spotted a pressure sensor beneath a button that was best described as large and red. He managed to get the claw on his forepaw into the space below the button and tap what it would activate if it were hit.

"Self destruct in one minute," an androgynus, electronic voice stated.

"Gah," Dr. Drakken exclaimed. "We're supposed to have ten minutes, Shego we've got to get out of here."

The blue skinned scientist beat a hasty path to the lair's hoverpod hanger not bothering to check if his well-paid sidekick was behind him.

"Kiiiiiimmm!" Ron called as he looked over to where the teen hero was still battling her foe. She was holding Shego's arms just below the reach of the plasma. Both were struggling to gain the upper hand. It looked as if Shego would claw Kim's eye's out, but it seemed Kim would head butt the green girl if she gained the upper hand.

"Kiiiiimmm!" Ron tried again. The teen hero still wouldn't respond.

"Self destruct in five."

Rufus scampered onto Ron's shoulder.

"Four"

Shego tried to knee Kim in the stomach.

"Three."

Ron and Rufus began to glow with a blue aura.

"Two."

The mystical monkey power within Ron activated to its full potential. He knew what he had to do. He rushed at the two combatants. Just before he reached them he flipped back and kicked out his legs. He kicked both of them into the empty concrete pool behind them. At the same time he began flipping back towards the exit.

"One"

The explosives set in the various support beams and struts detonated and almost immediately debris began falling. Several girders fell on top of the pool Ron had kicked the two women into. Thankfully they landed in such away that they supported the other debris that fell on top of them. Ron continued to flip, dodge and weave through the falling rubble. Rufus however was leaping from piece to piece as they fell. Finally sidekick and pet were both clear and the blue aura surrounding them dissipated. Finally drawing in a breath Ron called again.

"Kiiiiimmmmm!"

Below the debris Shego moaned. She was wondering why it was dark all of the sudden and why she was lying down on something very warm and a little squishy. She heard a groan that hadn't emanated from her own lips. It had apparently come from the warm thing beneath her. Carefully she ignited her plasma on just the tip of her right index finger. Before her bathed in the sickly green glow was the face of Kim Possible.

"Wake up Princess," Shego said. "I think you better contact your trained geek on that glorified cell phone of yours."

"Uhhh," Kim exhaled as she came to.

"Come on pumpkin," Shego encouraged.

The teen hero slowly came to her senses; she blinked her eyes a few times and then rubbed them. Finally she realised that Shego was lying on top of her.

"Get off of me!" Kim screamed.

"Whoa chill out Kimmie," Shego said as she leant back out of the way of the teens swinging fist. "I think this is definitely a situation in which we should call a truce or some crap like that."

"What do you mean?" Kim said getting up into a sitting position.

"Look around you," Shego said. "I think we may be trapped in the piranha tank under what's left of the lair."

Kim looked around but couldn't really see anything. Shego flared her plasma so her whole hand was encased in the glow. It shed a little more light on their predicament. Kim groaned again.

"Come on Kimmie," Shego said. "Call nerdlinger and make with the rescue teams already."

"Okay, Okay, jeez," Kim said as she tried to contact Wade with her wrist kimmunicator. Beep and a buzz and then nothing but static came from the communication device.

"Well that's just great!" Shego was obviously disappointed. "I thought I read that those things were suppose to be indestructible."

"That was the old one," Kim explained. "There wasn't enough room for the armour in this tiny thing. Where did you read that anyway?"

"I may be a villain Princess but I can still buy the science magazines that you and nerdlinger give interviews to."

Kim shrugged her shoulders and then reached into one of the pouches that held her standard mission gear. She pulled out a small flashlight. She flicked it on and then stood it on a clear patch of ground so that its beam would shine upwards and splash across the rubble they were trapped under. Shego let her plasma die down. While the flashlight wasn't as bright it was a lot easier on the eye than the green glow.

"Thanks," Shego grunted. "If I had to keep that up, well."

"No big," Kim said cutting her off. "I don't want to lose our most powerful tool either. The batteries in that should last for a good twenty hours."

"I'm surprised," Shego said. "Kim Possible using off the shelf equipment."

"Well I keep asking Wade to adapt one of his special power cells for them but he can't seem to put it into a cylinder shape with out them exploding."

"Fair enough I suppose," Shego responded.

"So piranha tank huh?" Kim asked. "I see the tank, but not the piranhas."

"Henchco's upped the price on exotic animals and smarty mart was waiting on a shipment they said would arrive next Tuesday," Shego explained. "Dr. D decided to wait, because think about this now princess, he had a choice of getting his piranhas now or paying me for my services this month."

"So he isn't as dumb as he looks," Kim said nodded.

"I could debate that princess."

Kim just ignored the comment and studied the ceiling carefully. She mumbled something to herself, rattled off some numbers and shook her head.

"Not getting out that way without it coming down on us," Kim said as she turned her attention back to Shego. "Any chance of digging out through the side or bottom of this death trap?"

"Sorry Princess," Shego replied. "While I could possibly melt my way through, this just so happens to be in the centre of the lair. Thus once through we'd still have hundreds of meters of rock to tunnel through."

"Damn," Kim said, as she knew Shego would be severely taxed after the first ten metres.

Shego stared blankly at Kim for a moment. While it wasn't a particularly nasty curse word such was Kim's image that it was a shock to hear the teen hero utter even the tiniest vulgarity. Shego was finally about to utter some sarcastic witticism when both women heard a rustling above their heads. Shego's plasma power flared up on reflex and Kim grabbed the flashlight to search for the source of the noise. As the light played across the ceiling it eventually caught something pink in its beam. Close to the edge of the pool was the head of a naked mole rat peeking out between a steel girder and a rock. The creature looked relieved and gave an excited chatter.

"Rufus!" Kim exclaimed.