The world seemed to stop as Ron watched his best friend since Pre-K get enveloped in white light; the henchmen around him seemed to have forgotten about him as they all stared at the spot Kim had been in. Shego stood where she had been, frozen in her fighting stance as she stared down at the bundle of clothes before her, the only sign that the great Kim Possible had just moments before been standing in front of her.
"YES! YES! IT WORKED! HA HA HA HA! It worked! I, Dr. Drakken have finally defeated my teen nemesis Kim Possible!" Crowing from his perch on the raised dais, Drakken raised the ray gun in triumph, doing a little victory dance as he did so.
"Kimmie?" The dark-haired thief gently nudged the bundle of clothes, unable to comprehend what had just happened. Dr. D made Princess disappear but left her clothes behind? What the hell was that gun? Maybe I should have paid a bit more attention.
"Now Shego, retrieve Miss Possible..."
"NOOOOO!" Before he could finish his instructions he was cut off by a scream. Ron had snapped out of the horrified stupor he had fallen into at the sight of Kim vanishing when Drakken started talking about taking away her clothes. The henchmen around him jumped seemingly have forgotten about him in the intervening seconds that had passed.
Turning back to catch him, they stopped however at the sight of the very angry glowing blue teen that was hovering a foot off the ground. Backing up slowly, the henchmen decided that it would be better for them if they found somewhere else to be at that moment.
Turning at the shout, Drakken realized that escaping instead of gloating was the smart decision at the moment. Just as he was about to run from the room Ron exploded into action, shooting from hovering in the air to slamming his shoulder into the nearest mans chest sending the hapless man smashing into several of his comrades ending in a groaning heap on the floor. Ron became a whirlwind of motion, slicing his way through those that stood before him and his target.
"Right! Shego! Retrieve Miss Possible and meet me at location 1-6-4 Charlie Foxtrot!" With that, Drakken turned and fled from the room, trusting that the few henchmen behind him would buy him the few seconds he needed to get away.
Glancing up at the order to retrieve Princess, the pale green thief watched as Drakken hightailed it out of the lair, as usual leaving her to fend for herself. Glancing at the whirling blue cloud that was cutting its way through the henchmen on a path towards the Doc, she was glad that he was ignoring her for the moment.
"What the hell does he mean? Does he want me to grab the clothes? That seems really odd, though we are talking about Dr. D." Shrugging, she figured she had better get out of there before Sidekick figured out that Drakken was long gone and came back looking for her. Bending down she grabbed the clothes only to jump back in shock when she felt something squishy inside of them. She was just about to leave the clothes and whatever that thing inside them there when she heard something she never thought she would hear in one of Drakken's lairs. Blinking, she reached up and rubbed her finger in her ear, positive that she had heard wrong. But no, there it was again, the same as before.
Kneeling back down, she reached out a tentative hand to grasp at the shirt. Taking a deep breath, she steadied herself before counting to three silently and picking the shirt up. Letting out a gasp at what she saw, the shirt slid from her hand to crumple on the floor next to her. "He didn't mean retrieve her clothes, he meant retrieve her!"
There, lying in the cargo pants that she had recently been wearing was a baby Kim Possible. The baby looked up at her with big green eyes. Gurgling happily again, the sound the dark-haired thief had first heard, as she reached up with her chubby little hands, grasping onto some of Shego's hair that was hanging above her. Reaching down, the dark-haired vixen gently lifted Kim up, stunned that she was doing so. Kim just continued to look at her as she was lifted, never releasing her grip on the hair.
Suddenly realizing that this was not the best place to be at the moment, Shego quickly took in her surroundings. There was a bunch of henchmen laying in various degrees of hurt all around the room and the sidekick was nowhere to be seen. Switching Kim into a better carrying hold the mint-hued thief snatched up the pants and shirt before shooting to her feet and fleeing from the room.
"Right, this is by far and away the strangest thing I have ever done." Shego muttered to herself as she fled along the corridors, heading towards her personal garage. Passing through the corridors, she kept glancing down at the happy baby in her arms, who was currently pulling gently on her hair. "Heh, never would have figured you for a hair puller Princess." The baby's only response was to glance up at her briefly before going back to her hair.
Looking up she was relieved to see that she had made it to her destination without any problems. Though her relief was short lived as she was confronted with a new problem she never thought she would ever have. "Where the hell am I going to put Princess?" The vehicles in her garage consisted of a motorcycle, a jet and a snowmobile.
None of which were suitable for transporting a baby. "Damn it Drakken! This is all your fault; never thought about how I would have to get her out of here did you? Come on Shego, think! I can't take her in a vehicle, so that leaves on foot. Well, at least it's in the mountains so I'll have a little bit of cover as I leave. Crap, I don't have anything to keep her warm." She paused a few seconds to ponder this new problem before she remembered. "Doy, I'm so stupid. I have her shirt right here."
"Alright, time to get you ready to go." Turning her attention to the baby in her arms, Shego began the process of wrapping Kim up in her own shirt so she would stay warm on the trip. Once she was ready to go, the dark-haired thief glanced back at the door to make sure the sidekick had not found her before moving towards the exit. Opening it up, she checked to make sure no one was out there before slipping out into the night, heading towards site 164 Charlie Foxtrot.
XOXOXOX
Stepping out of the car she had commandeered, the dark haired vixen glanced at the building before her. 164 Charlie Foxtrot was not much to look at, being a small squat building that had only a few windows and was rather dilapidated if she was being honest. Opening the back door she bent down to get Kim out of the car seat she had to buy so she could safely transport Kim.
"Hey Princess, did you enjoy the ride?" She asked as she started to unbuckle the straps, letting Kim, who seemed to be entranced by her hair grab a handful of it.
"Shego! There you are, four hours I've been waiting for you to show up. I always thought that stereotype about women taking forever to get somewhere was a myth."
"First of all, don't you dare talk to me about taking so long, I wasn't the one who left me behind without a vehicle capable of transporting a baby! So I had to hike down the freaking mountain with a baby at night! Then find my way to a store that sold car seats which was harder than I thought it would be; steal an old beater that didn't have some kind of tracking. Then finally I had to figure out how the stupid thing attached to the car and drive all the way out here!" She turned around to glare at the man behind her, letting him see just how displeased she was with the way things went.
"Yes, well I probably should have planned out the escape part a little better but it all worked out in the end, didn't it? Now we must hurry before Miss Possible's computer friend finds this place. I had to tell you the name of it which means that boy whose name escapes me at the moment will have told him which means it's only a matter of time before he tracks us here. Now we must be well away from here by the time that happens so we'll be heading to the lair in California and from there we'll go to the island lair."
"Fine, but there had better be a vehicle that I can take Princess in here, this one's probably already been reported stolen so Turbo Nerd will be tracking it."
"I believe there is something suitable for you to take here. I will be continuing on in my hovercraft. See you in California." With that, the blue skinned man began walking back to his hovercraft. Climbing in he ran through the start up quickly before powering up and lifting into the sky, heading towards the next lair.
Shaking her head at her boss, Shego turned back to the car and once again began un-strapping the car seat. Lifting Kim from where she had placed her on the seat she cradled her, letting her play with her hair as she walked into the lair towards the vehicle bay and hopefully a car that was not tagged as stolen. It only took her a few minutes to find a car that suited her needs perfectly, one that was nondescript and did not scream super villain. Grinning, she set Kim down on the backseat of the car before installing the car seat in the new one, strapping Kim back in. Climbing in the driver's seat she checked to make sure everything was as it should be before she headed towards her next destination.
She could not believe her luck, as it turned out that Kim had apparently eaten a big meal before coming to stop them and her recently shrunken body could not hold it in very long. Disgusting story short, Shego was now cruising along with a new car seat; a fresh bag of diapers, several changes of clothes and a sleeping Kim Possible.
"Probably did that on purpose, trying to get back at me for all the times I beat her." She mumbled as she glanced in the rearview mirror to check on Kim who was still sleeping. "At least she hasn't done it again, bleah!" Turning her attention back to the road she saw that she was only a few miles out from the lair. "Almost there Princess, then we'll see what the rest of this crazy scheme is."
Kim's response was to shift about slightly, letting out a small sigh as she did so. Shego's eyes softened for a few seconds before she realized what she was doing, letting out a small growl she turned her attention back to the road. "Don't get suckered in Shego, she's still Kim Possible and I'm not going to be fooled into thinking she's cute or harmless." Thus having set herself straight she focused on getting them to their destination so they could get on with whatever this crazy scheme of Drakken's was.
Pulling into the lair's vehicle bay, the dark haired thief put the vehicle in park before climbing out. Opening the back door she gently unbuckled Kim so that she would not wake her. Adjusting her so that her head was resting on her shoulder she carefully maneuvered into the lair looking for Drakken. "SHEGO! There you are! We need…"
However, what exactly they needed was lost as Kim had awakened when the blue-tinted scientist had shouted and was now demonstrating that she had a rather impressive set of lungs as she began crying and screaming at the top of them. "Damn it Dr. D! Now look what you've done! She was sleeping just fine until you started shouting!" Shego angrily hissed at the stunned man standing before her. She began gently bouncing Kim while rubbing her back in an attempt to calm her down.
"Shhh, its ok Pumpkin don't cry. Did that mean old man scare you? You don't need to worry about him; he's just a harmless old fool."
"Shego, what have I said about hurting with our words?"
Shego simply ignored him as she worked on calming Kim down, which did not seem to be working very well as she continued to wail. Biting her lip for a few seconds she mulled over everything she knew about babies, which admittedly was not a lot. Then she was struck by inspiration, reaching up she grabbed a lock of her hair which she then brought up to wave at the sobbing child in her arms. "Here you go Princess, do you want to play with my hair?"
To her surprise, Kim reached out and grabbed the proffered hair before bringing it back to clutch to her chest. Her sobs quieting down to the occasional hiccup as she held the mint-hued thief's hair while Shego gently bounced her. "There, isn't that better? Now, what did you want to tell me Drakken? If you shout again or do anything that is going to make her scream right next to my ear I promise you that you will regret it."
Faltering slightly under the fierce glare he was receiving, the blue scientist cleared his throat before speaking in a voice just above a whisper. "Yes, what I was going to say was that I've only been using the smallest bit of energy here, really just the emergency lighting so as to keep hidden from Kim Possible's computer hacker. I have adapted the hovercraft so it's capable of transporting a baby and that I'm ready to go right now. The less time we spend here the better, so if you're ready let us be off."
Glaring for a few more seconds, Shego nodded once before turning and striding towards the vehicle bay. "Well come on, I need to grab the diaper bag and clothes and then we can go."
"Excellent, in a few short hours we will begin with phase two of my plan."
Rolling her eyes, the thief simply continued on her way, child in arms still happily playing with her hair. Grabbing the things she needed from the car she then stored them in the hovercraft before securing Kim into the car seat once more. She found it a little strange to be strapping a child into a car seat in a hovercraft; she did not really think it would be much help in a crash. "Alright, I've been up for a lot longer than I normally like so I'm going to take a nap. Princess shouldn't need anything, I'm hoping she'll just fall back asleep in a bit so don't do anything stupid that will keep her up. Wake me when we get to the lair." With that, she closed her eyes, leaning back in her chair and welcoming the slumber that was swiftly approaching.
Everything seemed to go right for once for Shego, as the first time she woke up was when Drakken announced that they were at the lair. Blinking wearily, sitting up in her chair she glanced around seeing that they were already in the vehicle bay. Glancing to her side she saw that Kim was asleep, a tiny bit of drool escaping from her mouth as she slept. Stretching as she stood up from her seat, she began the process of unstrapping Kim from her car seat.
"Well, I hope you've got this place better prepared to deal with a baby than you did the last lair Dr. D."
"Of course I have Shego, don't be ridiculous. I have a crib and one of those baby things that go above the crib. All kinds of baby things!"
"Ok, do you have a baby monitor?"
"A what?"
"Baby clothes?"
"Um, some?"
"Toys?"
"Um."
"Food?"
"Yes! Well, about that. Maybe you should put the baby down before we talk about that."
Shego did not like the way her boss was not meeting her eyes or even looking in her direction when he said that. "Fine, where is the nursery?"
"Nursery?"
"GAH! Where is her room? Where is her crib?"
"Now now, Shego. Don't shout, we wouldn't want to wake her up again, now would we?"
A growl convinced him that it was not wise to repeat her words back to her and he had better just show her where the crib is. "Right this way, it's just right through here." Following after her boss, Shego shook her head. I should have known that Drakken wouldn't have gotten everything ready. When has he ever gotten the planning of everything right? Who doesn't get clothes or a baby monitor! How are we supposed to know if something is wrong if we can't hear her crying in the night?
She was pulled out of her musing when they stopped before a very familiar door. "Uh, Drakken? Why are we outside of my room? I thought you were taking me to Pumpkin's room?" A frown cut across her face as the door swooshed open and she could see that there was now a crib next to her bed. "Oh, absolutely not! You really are insane if you think I'm going to sleep in the same room as a baby."
"Now Shego, be reasonable. We don't have one of those baby monitor things and this way you can be right there if she starts crying or something. Plus we don't have the extra room here for a nursery so this makes the most sense."
"What about the henchman barracks? Why can't she stay there?"
"Do you really want her all the way on the other side of the lair? Especially without a monitor we'd never know if something was wrong. This is the best solution Shego."
"Fine, fine she can stay in my room for now."
Drakken had sense enough to not gloat at the moment, so he simply contented himself with a quick grin as Shego laid Kim down in the crib, adjusting the blanket so she was fully covered and warm. "Alright, now what did you mean when you said you have food sort of?"
"Yes, well about that. You see, I have enough food to last us three years, I figured that after that time enough of the heat will have worn off that we can head off somewhere so we can resupply."
"Ok, so we're laying low so the Turbo Nerd can't track our movements."
"Well, according to my research on babies, babies that are raised on formula are not as healthy or capable as those that are raised on breast milk."
"What the hell are you rambling about? Where did you even hear that?"
"It was in a medical journal, that's where!"
"Oh yeah? Which one?"
"The one with all the medical stuff in it, regardless the point is that if we want to raise Kim Possible to be the best that she can be than she is going to have to be breastfed."
"Well, I hate to break it to ya Doc but I'm not exactly lactating so I guess that plan is out." Her eyes narrowed as she noticed that Drakken was holding up a bottle of pills. "What are those?"
"Well, Shego these are hormone treatments, more specifically metaclopramide. These will allow you to produce milk and you can then feed Miss Possible, it's very simple really."
PHWOOSH!
BOOM!
A the distinct sound of Shego igniting her plasma right before blasting him with a fire ball sent the blue doctor flying out of the room to slump against the far wall. The last thought to cross his mind was Ha! You woke up the baby he then gave into the merciful blackness that shielded him from the now wailing baby.
