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Chapter 2
A Kim Possible Fanfiction
immo.
beginning note: I should stop assuming that everyone reads what I read. :P Sorry. Read chapter 2 first and explanations about Ranma will be at the endnotes. This is short, but that's what I'm aiming for, short and sweet. Hopefully within 5 chapters I'll close this deal and it won't be another 'a few new tricks' where it just went on forever!!! ...maybe that's just my opinion, though. lol.
Enjoy!
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Mr. Dr. Possible was home early. He had had a good day at work, brainstormed several new rocket designs and now he hoped that he could get home for some family time with either his boys or his oldest daughter. It was always good to be involved with what the boys were building, since they gave him his best ideas and he could prevent any big explosions in the house and he liked keeping tabs on his eldest to make sure that she wasn't dating boys yet. Kim was just too young!
"Boys? Kim?" Mr. Dr. Possible dropped his keys off on the little table near the front door.
"Here dad!" Kim, Jim and Tim's voice floated out of the living room. Smiling at the thought of seeing all of his children, he strolled into the living room and stopped dead in his tracks.
"Kimmie-cub," Mr. Possible said sternly. "You know what I told you about circus folk." Mr. Dr. Possible nodded at Kim's best friend who was sitting as far away from Kim as possible. "Ronald."
"Mr. P, this was not my idea." Ronald held on to Rufus nervously, keeping an eye on the woman who had her head resting in Kim's lap. Said woman stopped her purring and rose up onto her haunches to study the doctor warily.
"Um, good evening, sir." Hego cleared his throat and stood up but when he did, Shego hissed threateningly and the big man sat back down quickly. Seeing that the one Shego-cat had dubbed in her mind 'big idiot' sit down, and coming to the conclusion to the new arrival was no threat, the green-skinned woman laid her head back on Kim's lap and continued purring.
"They're not circus folk daddy." Kim said with a sigh. "They're Shego's brothers."
"Dad! Can we keep her?" The twins, Jim and Tim, pointed to Shego. At the attention, the green-skinned woman rolled over so she was facing Kim's stomach and didn't have to look at all these people in the room.
"Sick and wrong." Ron muttered.
"Tweebs." Kim growled warningly.
"Now, you know my policy on pets, boys." Mr. Possible finally noticed the other woman laying in Kim's lap. "You have to pick up after her and take care of all her needs. She's not just a toy, boys."
"We'll feed her--" Jim started.
"--and take her for walks!" finished Tim.
"And she'll be great for our experiments!" The twins said in chorus.
"You're welcome to take her." The Wegos grinned at the other twins and they shared a high-five.
"You don't really have to worry about house-training her, though." Hego mused. "She can go to the washroom by herself. She's house-broken."
"What?" Kim frowned. "How..?"
"Her... condition started from a young age so momma taught her how to use the toilet even when she thinks she's a cat. Well, I guess I should start explaining." Hego sighed and leaned back, his blue-clad form looking ridiculously huge in Mr. Dr. Possible's reading chair. "This is for your ears only, Kim Possible."
"And us!" Tim and Jim protested.
"And you two."
"And me." Mr. Dr. Possible gave his best 'fatherly dissaproval' frown. "What is going on here?"
"Let me explain, sir." Hego sighed.
"Yeah, explain to us why on Shego's medical history form she completed for Dr. Drakken that there was nothing on there about strange cat behaviour!" Ron demanded. "Because this... this is so..."
Shego stretched out like a cat and turned to look at them once, an eyebrow raised as if to say 'All of you are STILL here?'
"Sick and wrong?" Mego filled in the blank.
The blonde nodded furiously. "Yeah!"
"This all started a long time ago..."
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"So you're going to train my sister?" Teenaged Hego watched in horror as the man and his son consumed the food in front of them at an extraordinary speed. At a regular run-of-the-mill convenience store hold-up, Hego had bumped into this duo. He had watched the man and the boy defeat the the hooligans soundly without breaking a sweat and had promptly invited them back to Go Tower to talk. They had revealed to Hego that they were on a journey to learn and train in different martial arts styles. Hego had hit upon the brilliant idea that Shego would love to train with the two martial artists and in a few seconds, had engaged their services on his sister's behalf.
"Yup," The man didn't pause as he practically INHALED a whole chicken.
"This the martial artist you were talking about Hego?" A young girl with a scowl on her face, medium-length hair and a green complexion walked into the kitchen. "He doesn't look like much."
"Hm." Genma finally paused in his eating, studying the girl. "This is the sister you were talking about?"
"Yes, this is Shego." Hego puffed out his chest in pride. Despite the fact that his sister had a smart mouth and was prone to use violence to solve most of her problems, he was very proud of her. She had already mastered several martial arts form at her young age AND was co-leader of Team Go even though she always refused to acknowledge the title!
'She's so humble.' He motioned her forward.
"This is Mr. Saotome--"
"Genma." The bespeckled man offered. The girl glowered at them. "And my son, Ranma."
"Hmph." Shego crossed her arms. "And what can you teach me, old man?"
Ranma almost choked on his food with laughter while Genma didn't look amused at all, putting a hand up to his thinning hairline.
"My son and I have come to this city to learn the legendary art of Cat-Fu and thought maybe you'd like to joi--"
"Pass." Shego turned around and would've walked out of the kitchen if Hego hadn't grabbed her by the collar.
"Let. Go." Those emerald green eyes flashed dangerously.
"Shego, come on. I used up ALL of my allowance this month buying food for them as payment for your training. And didn't you want to be number one?" Hego asked, trying to appeal to his younger sister's pride. "Are you giving up now?"
"I'm not giving up." Shego said sullenly as she shrugged off Hego's hand. "Cat-Fu sounds stupid."
"It's a most dangerous art, only attempted by the best." Genma caught on to what Hego was trying to do. "I guess your brother was wrong about you. The training might be a bit dangerous and it's alright if you're scared because you can't handle the training--"
"Wait. Hold it." Those dangerous green eyes narrowed. Young Shego had no defense against reverse psychology at her age. "What did you say?"
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"And that's how our sister ended up like this." Mego interrupted and gave an overly dramatic sigh.
"What happened at the training?"
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"What happened to Shego?" Mego demanded. Shego and the boy named Ranma were covered in scratches from head to toe and were unconscious. The two had been dragged to the front of the Go Tower by the odd man in the white gi and deposited on the steps in a heap. "And why is your head smoking?"
There were tears of anguish in Genma's eyes as he looked at the purple man. "Your sister. SHE BURNED OFF THE LAST OF MY HAAAAIR!"
"Oh, tough." Mego ran his fingers through his own luscious locks, thankful he wasn't balding and middle-aged.
"She-"
"-go?" The Wegos, Will and Liam poked their sister, wondering why she wasn't waking up and worrying about all the scratches on her.
"What happened?!" There was a loud bellow. Teenage Hego was at the doorway, looking down at the two children in horror. "They're hurt!"
"We were tricked!" Genma blurted out, taking a thin tattered book out of his gi. "Tricked by this foul manual!"
"Let me see that." Mego grabbed the book from the sorrowful man and flipped through it to the page that said 'Cat-fu'.
"Huh. It's badly translated from Chinese. But this looks pretty straight-forward! 'Take a fish sausage. Tie it to the trainee. Then THROW HIM TO A PACK OF HUNGRY CATS'?!" Mego gasped. "That's rigorous training!"
"Turn the page." The man sighed distractedly, still patting his head and vainly hoping there was still at least ONE piece of hair left.
"Hm... 'Just another technique that would be used by an idiot. Anyone who would teach Cat-Fu like that should have their head examined'." Mego looked up from the manual to stare at Genma who was at that moment trying to use a white hankerchief to hide his bald pate.
"I fell for it completely!"
"Well, they'll heal, right?" Hego asked hopefully, gently trying to pick up his sister. The movement, however, woke Shego up.
"SSSssss!" Shego hissed, swiping at Hego. If it weren't for the teenaged hero's quick reaction, Shego would have got him. Instead, she managed to shred the reinforced steel doors of Go Tower behind Hego to steel shavings, before racing into the Go Tower on all fours. Team Go stood there. Stunned. Shego had NOT been able to do that before! The sudden silence seemed to wake Ranma up as he pulled himself groggily to a sitting position.
"Boy...?" Genma went after his son hopefully, but upon seeing his father, he hissed and followed after Shego into the Go Tower.
"What's wrong--"
"--with them?!"
"Because of that first session, the two developed an intense fear of cats. Right now they are overcome with fear." Genma sighed. "Martial artists fear nothing! So I had to help my son and your sister overcome their fear."
"How?" Hego demanded to know.
Young Mego frowned. "Wait, 'first session'?"
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"So Mr. Saotome tied dried sardines to them and threw them to a pack of hungry cats. Then when that didn't work--"
"He tried tying salted sardines--" The Wegos interrupted Hego. "--to them and throwing them to the cats."
"And when THAT didn't work, he tied fishcakes to them. And then, you guessed it, threw them to the cats." Mego tsked.
"Mr. Saotome thought that by CONFRONTING their fears, they would overcome it." Hego offered helpfully. "But it only served to worsen their condition. So now, when Shego's fear of cats reaches it's peak--"
"--she becomes like that." Mego pointed to Shego. The villainess was at the moment, purring and waving her curled up hands at Kim playfully. Like a cat.
"Oh, look at that." Mr. Dr. Possible smiled softly at the scene. "That's adorable!"
Hego nodded fondly. "Isn't it?"
"But how do we snap her out of it?" Kim batted Shego's hands away from her. Shego replied by nipping her hand playfully. "Ow!"
"The only one who can snap her out of this is momma." Hego said mournfully. "And she's on a cruise right now in the Caribbean and can't be reached. Though you HAVE managed to calm her down quite a bit. Only person that's been able to get results like that is momma."
"Momma?" Rufus looked up at his owner.
Ron shrugged. "Hey, he LOOKS like a momma's boy."
"What do we do?" Kim looked down at the playful Shego-cat helplessly. "What about that Genma's son? Did he find a cure?"
"Nope. He's worse off than Shego." Mego shrugged. "Last I heard, his father had engaged him to three different women and he's a cross-dresser now or something."
"Well, we don't want to trouble you so we'll take her off your hands for now." Hego said as Team Go rose as one and approached Shego cautiously. The green-eyed villainess was having none of that, though. Rising up all all four, she arched her back and hissed at them, raising a hand and flexing her fingers in warning.
"Here, kittykittykitty..." Hego cooed.
"Come on Shego," Mego tried to whisper soothingly. "We'll wash your hair and comb it and tie purple ribbons in it! You'd like that! The favourite colour of your favourite brother!"
"As--"
"--if!" The Wegos countered. "She likes red better!"
"Come on Shego, we only want to help you." Hego held out his hand. "You remember, right? Go Tower?"
Kim was starting to think calling Team Go had been a bad idea.
"Alright, time out!" Kim wrapped her arms around Shego to stop her from pouncing on her brothers and possibly killing them. What were they thinking?! Ribbons?!
"How about I keep Shego here for a while, just until you guys find your mother. Okay?" Shego had started rubbing her head against Kim's affectionately when the redhead had wrapped her arms around the villainess.
"Purrrr..." Shego purred happily.
"Hm. That's actually not a bad idea. You seem to have a calming effect on her." Hego rubbed his chin in thought. "Then we'll leave her to you, Kim."
"Hey. It's no big." Kim actually smiled as Shego purred loudly, as if understanding exactly what the conversation was about and trying to tell Kim that helping her get away from her brothers was SO big.
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end note: So let me tell y'all a little bit about the Ranma universe. The main character of Ranma is a boy named Ranma. When he was young, his father Genma Saotome took him away on a martial arts training trip that lasted several years. On one of their trips to China, Ranma fell in to the 'Spring of the Drowned Girl'. When splashed with cold water, he changes to a girl and hot water changes him back. He has a very real fear of cats and mentally changes into a cat when his fear reaches a peak and also becomes a master of Cat-Fu. But this story is set before that event happened. I just incorporated Shego into the story of how Ranma gained his fear of cats.
