"Guys maybe you should stay back." Alex said, as her family pushed her towards her room.

"Are you kidding Alex?" Harper asked. "How many times do you get to meet a superhero?"

Alex grabbed at any excuse. "But what if she asks about Max's mustache?"

"Oh, we'll just tell her it's fake and he's a freak."

"Hey!"

"Don't worry Alex." Justin said, reaching for the door. "I'm sure mom and dad will be at their best."

"You're enjoying this aren't you?" Alex hissed.

"Oh yes." He grinned.

"Listen, Mom, Dad, I'll get you autographs, and I'll even bring her home to dinner if we're friends…"

"If!" Justin exclaimed happily. "She's a superhero! You'll probably end up arch enemies in a month!"

"But would you please not embarrass me just this one time? " Alex asked eagerly. "It's bad enough that you guys are here at all. I bet nobody else has their parents seeing them off."

Justin looked in the open doorway to Alex's dorm. He was greeted with a spray of blue toothpaste. "Ah! Wha! Hah! Hoh!" Alex couldn't keep the wild smile from her face as Justin wiped the blue paste off his eyes. "I… am going to go change my shirt." He said, storming off.

Alex peered into her dorm.

A tall brunette with a ponytail was aghast, trying to wipe the toothpaste from her shirt. "Uncle John! I have toothpaste!"

The hose retracted itself back into her uncle's hand. "Is that Inspector gadget the superhero?" Alex's mom asked.

Penny saw Alex and her parents at the door, and her face transformed into a look of pure panic. Inspector Gadget was oblivious. "What about your favorite dolly Mr. Cuddles?" He asked, a gloved hand popping out of his hat and holding up a koala doll and squeezing it.

"I'm so cuddly, I love you!"

"I haven't needed Mr. Cuddles since I was little." Penny squeaked, terrified.

"Oh, this is too painful." Alex said, stepping into the room. "Hey you're Inspector Gadget right?"

Gadget dropped the koala and retracted the hand back into his head. "Why no young lady. We just bear a resemblance. I'm just a normal dad dropping my normal daughter off at University." He winked at Penny.

Alex grinned. "Oh don't worry dude, your secret's safe with me. Hey, mom, dad, come meet Inspector Gadget."

Alex sat next to Penny as her mom and dad moved in and began to gush on about Inspector Gadget while he adamantly refused that he was who he obviously was. "Embarrassing parents eh? Don't worry, you're among friends."

"Thank you." Penny hugged Alex tightly.

"Aaaaah… please don't you're getting toothpaste all over me."

"Sorry." Penny said. "I'm Penny."

"Alex Russo."

"And I'm Harper." Harper leaned in close. "Is your dad really Inspector Gadget?"

"No, really, I'm not." Gadget told Alex's parents. "Look. Go-go-gadget, disguise." A thick pair of glasses with a fake nose and mustache popped out of his hat and onto his face. "See? Do I look like Gadget?"

"He's my Uncle." Penny said. "Please don't tell anyone?"

"Don't worry, we're real good at keeping secrets, aren't we Harper?"

"We sure are." Harper grinned. "I mean, I've been keeping Alex's secret for five years now."

Alex shot Harper a look. "Here, let's make a deal. I won't tell anybody your secret if you don't ask about mine."

"Alright." Penny smiled. "Come on, I'll show you around."

The apartment had a main area with a kitchen and a table. Away from the main room, it had two bedrooms and a bathroom leading away. Penny lead Alex and Harper into a room with a whole wall covered with computers. "This is our room." Penny said. "Sorry about the mess, I've already started to unpack."

"Wow." Harper said. "I think this is Zeke's happy place."

"Don't worry about the mess." Alex said. "I'll probably make my own mess around here sometime. Mine will probably have less RAM though."

"Kim and Ingrid were already here. They've taken the other room." Penny said. "They left to help their friends unpack." Penny sat on the bed. "So, what are you here for Alex?"

"Oh, I'm taking an art and business classes." Alex said. "What about you?"

"I'm here for the top-rate criminology program." Penny beamed. "I'm sure I'll get a Masters degree, but my uncle doesn't want me fighting crime with him without at least a Bachelors."

"So your uncle's a member of Team Supreme right? Have you ever met the Avengers?"

"I've met Black Widow." Penny said. "But Team Supreme tends to avoid S.H.I.E.L.D."

"Penny I've got to go." Inspector Gadget walked through the room. "Team Supreme emergency. Will you be alright?"

"I'll be fine Uncle." Penny and her Uncle gave each other a wide hug. "Go save the world."

Gadget kissed Penny on the forehead. Then he moved to the window. He turned and pointed at Alex's parents before he left. "And I am not Inspector Gadget." He said. He then jumped out of the window, with a cry of 'go-go- gadget helicopter'.

"No offence, but your uncle kind of sucks at keeping secret identities." Alex told Penny.

She sighed. "I know."


"I still can't get over how cool it is to see you again." Lor said.

"Ahem." Lor turned to see her roommate in the doorway. "It this our other roomie?"

"No." Lor said. "Let me introduce you – this is my B.F.F. Kim Possible."

"Hi." Kim stretched out her hand.

The other girl pulled back. "Nice to meet you Kim. I'm Weebette. How do you know Lor?"

Kim pulled her hand back. "We were friends before I had to move to Middleton." Kim explained. "When we were both kids. We formed a little club called 'the red-headed league'."

"Fascinating." Weebette said. She left without another word.

"Don't worry about her." Lor said. "She's like that with me and Susie too. She told me her dad's the head of the Science department here, so maybe she just grew up weird."

Kim thought that was a bit rude, but smiled anyway. "You're one to talk about growing up weird. The last time I saw you, you were barely two feet tall and buried under a pile of Scottish kids wearing sports uniforms."

"And the last time I saw you, that wierd little blonde kid –"

"Who ended up being my boyfriend, so do not finish that sentence." Kim said sternly.

Lor shrunk back. "Yeah, sorry." She apologized. "Sometimes my mouth just doesn't know when to stop you know? I didn't mean anything by it. I have my own weird little blonde…" She sighed. "Yeah, I should stop shouldn't I?"

"No." Kim nudged her. "Don't be. I had a friend just like that, back in Middleton."

"Oh yeah?" Lor grinned. "You know another fiery athletic redhead who always puts her foot in her mouth?"

"No, Monique is a fiery fashionista who occasionally accidentally leads the wrong guy on." Kim said. "Tell me about your own weird little blonde friend."

Lor held up a hand. "He is in no way my boyfriend if that's what you were about to imply." She said. "Tino's just part of a group of friends I have. At first I thought he was pretty lame. Then he sort of gathered our whole group of friends together, and the four of us have been inseparable since…"

Lor stopped, and Kim had the sense that she was missing something really important. "Lor? What's wrong."

"Nothing." Lor said. "Just… we both made friends away from each other. But a while back, one of my friends left."

Kim hugged Lor. "I'm so sorry. Do you want to talk about it? I know a lot of techniques to help people get through grieving for the –"

"Carver's not dead!" Lor said, shocked. "He just left. And Tino's mom is better at talking me through things than anybody on the planet." She smiled. "But thanks for the offer. It's good to have you back Kim."

The two girls shared a hug.

They heard the door open. "Hey, Kim's taking science right?" Weebette asked. "Well, one of the teaching assistants for her classes wants to talk to her."

A very familiar woman stepped into view, tentatively holding a white flag. "Hello princess."

"Shego!"


"I'm sorry miss, but I can't find a Candace Flynn on the record. There is, however, a Kevin Flynn."

Candace sighed. The Zebra hovering behind Mr. Moseby on a lawn chair took a long sip from his tea. "It's for your own good Kevin." He said.

Candace glared, and was about to correct Moseby when a voice in her head spoke up. What are you doing?

He thinks my name's Kevin. She said. It's that Zebra again!

So correct him. The voice said. Tell him that a talking magical Zebra put your name down as Kevin.

… That does sound rather silly, doesn't it?

Would you rather go through university as Candace Flynn, the crazy girl, or Kevin Flynn, the poor girl who has a guys name and should be pitied?

I'd rather be Candace.

To be Candace, is to start on the slippery slope to being considered insane.

"Yes." Candace said through gritted teeth. "My name is Kevin."

Moseby raised an eyebrow. "It says here that Kevin is a boy."

Tell him… "No!" Candace interrupted the voice in her head. "I specifically put down that I was a girl, because people keep confusing me for a boy because of my name! If there was a mistake, it's because somebody decided that I made a mistake and corrected it! Here!" She pulled out her driver's license. Which, thanks to the zebra, also had Kevin Flynn on it.

"Oh, I'm so sorry ms… Kevin." Moseby said. "Um… there seems to be no more dorms open for women, however there is a space available in a house we use for rooms outside of the dorms."

"Fine." Candace said icily.

"I'll just get you your shedule and forms."

Nicely done. The voice in her head said as Moseby left. You may make it through university without people thinking you're raving.

Candace wasn't paying attention. She was focused on the Volkswagon Beetle with racing stripes that had just driven up to the school. "Is it just me, or did that girl just make a perfect turn without even touching the wheel?"

Just look away.


Kim found Ron hunched over the doorway to his room. It was weird seeing him without Rufus on his shoulder. "Room 013 Kim." He said glumly. "Why did it have to be room 013?"

Kim was going to tell him about Shego, but she knew how much worse this was to Ron. "It can't be that bad can it?"

"This is the loser Dorm Kim." Ron moaned. "I have been tossed to the losers."

"Now you're making things up."

Ron just nodded towards the inside of Dorm 013. Kim peeked inside.

There was a guy with a sort of pumpkin shaped head duct taping a sheet of metal to the wall. Another roommate was visible from the open door in his dorm, and was playing video games. The second door opened, and a dark haired guy who was wearing a blue robe with spacemen on it over an evening gown. "Hey, what are you doing Tino?" He asked.

Tino didn't look around from his work. "I'm bomb-proofing the apartment."

"Do we expect to be bombed?" The robes guy asked, opening up the fridge and spraying whipped cream on his bowl of KD.

"No, but it never hurts to be prepared. Have you ever been in a situation, Robe, where one little thing could have saved you and you wished you'd done it?"

'Robe' considered this. "I'll join you."

"Yeah!" The guy playing video games cheered. "Nobody's blowing up our dorm! Woohoo!"

Kim quickly retreated. "They… don't seem that bad… I mean, remember when your dad told you that you should've died years ago?"

Ron shook his head. "It's not just that KP. You're on the third floor right?"

"Riiiiight."

"That clinches it. This is the loser floor. A whole floor of losers."

"Oh come on Ron, it's not like…"

She didn't even finish her sentence before a guy in a tuxedo ran from his room, chased by a flock of pidgeons. "I'm sorry I didn't mean to!"

"O'Farrell!" A high nasally voice came from inside the room. "Get back here and clean up your pidgeons!"

"I'm sorry Gus, honest! I'm usually good at magic!"

Kim 's shoulders sagged. She knew there was no point in talking to Ron about this. "So… I talked to Shego."

"Say what!" Ron jumped up. "We haven't heard from her all summer! Is she here? Did you beat her up without me?"

"She's here." Kim said. "She's a teaching assistant in Biology. Drakken's the teacher."

Ron stared, open mouthed.

"And like you said, we havent' heard from them all summer. I checked with Wayde, and it looks like they're going straight. It seems that they've been short on money, so they let Fleemco find them jobs. But I've also warned her there wouldn't tolerate any evil schemes, and she still seems to hate me…"

There was a speck of drool coming out of Ron's mouth.

"Ron? Earth to Ron?" She sighed. "Ron, do you want to go find out if there's a Bueno Nacho near the campus?"

Ron let out a belguered "Bubuguuuuuh…"

Kim sighed, but she also smirked at how cute he looked when he was worried.

She didn't notice, as she pushed him out of the hall, another person walked out into it. He adjusted his glasses and quickly scanned the hallway. Then he returned back to his room.


Alex and Penny were on either side of Harper. "It's okay if you're too scared. We can go with you."

"No." Harper shook her head as adamantly as she could with home-made grape earings. "I have to do this alone."

"You're so brave." Penny said.

Harper stood resolutely in front of door number 212. She turned the lock and walked in.

"Hi!" She said, smiling. "I'm Harper."

The dorm was dark and drab. There were three people sitting at the table.

"I'm Vanessa." A brunette girl in a dark coat said, without looking up from her coffee.

"Lizzy." Said an even darker girl, who was swinging a pocket watch in front of an ant farm as though she could hypnotize them.

"I'm Spinelli." Said a rough looking girl, who Harper only realized was a girl because her voice didn't match the tough intimidating clothes she was wearing.

Boy. She thought. If I weren't friends with Alex, I'd think these three were the scariest people on the planet.


A/N: So, some of you may be wondering what the plot to this story could be. The answer is; Everything. Every little subtle nod I give builds towards the climax of the story. And I haven't even mentioned every single person attending this Freshman year, or the Avengers, or the remaining members of Team Supreme.

For those of you wondering, yes superheroes will be present in this story. But they will take a background to the character's crushing emotional drama (dramas? Dramae?).

And yes, this does take place in the same universe as my other story. How you ask? How can Shego, a little girl in the past, be a woman of her age in the present? Obviously, the answer is simple;

Spoilers. You're going to have to keep reading both stories and find out.

As for the Avengers, I realize it's premature to add them as the movie hasn't even come out yet. However, I will note on what is considered canon; the comic books are not canon. Any suplementary materials to any Disney movie or T.V. show is not canon. Only Disney movies and t.v. shows. Which means I am capable, within those guidlines, of creating a new origin story for Iron Man.

Read on good readers. Read on and review. Oh, what fun we shall have together.