First of all I want to thank all of you who have read this story, and for those who reviewed I'm very thankful since those give me happiness and energy to continue this story.
Now, I want to continue this intro by explaining a couple of things that I forgot in the last chapter.
Number one is that this fic, being a crossover and something of a spin-off story of Doctor Who it has a lot of strange things in it, just like technology and aliens which will be explained along the story.
Second is that the length of the fic is still unknown, but how it will be done has been decided; like the original series of Doc Who was made in serials, that is a whole story that was cut into several chapter, that was abandoned with the new series but each season has a loose story arch; now, with At the Border of Time we follow the serial style being this the first of five serials in the first season, and who knows how many seasons this story will have.
Third; the name of this serial is a clean homage of the first ever chapter of Doctor Who 'An Unearthly Child', with Shego taking the role of the Nemesis in this case.
Fourth; I'm sorry if you think that some characters are OOC, especially Shego, but with her that was supposed to be, I'll try to keep them IC most of the time.
And now, let's go with the second chapter.
Disclaimer: Nope, I'm not the owner of neither Kim Possible or Doctor Who.
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"But, why did you save me?"
"What did you said?"
"I said, why did you save me? You have been fighting me and trying to kill me for so long and now you come here and start telling me all of this?"
"Kimmie, believe it or not, but you are an important part of history, you could say I've been watching over you, and this definitely came out from left field, I'm just doing something for this planet, you are too important in the future to just let you die and leave it at that, we'll have time for ten questions later" Shego told her before the TARDIS began to hum that strange sound and the vibration started anew and like that it stopped.
Standing up Shego went to the door followed closely by both companions now and went outside to find themselves in another building and directly in front of weapons aimed at them.
"Freeze! Raise your hands" the man said while the three people, well, four counting Rufus did what the man said.
"Not again" Shego simply said knowing what was going to happen next.
At The Border of Time
An Unearthly Nemesis
Chapter 2: The Adamant Savior
"I'm going to assume this happens a lot to you"
"You have no idea princess" Shego said not really in the mood of tearing apart all the agents in front of the TARDIS and searching for her contact in search of answers, and it wasn't really needed when the youngest member of GJ stepped up in front of the Time Lord.
"Shego, you are under arrest for over 50 cases of thief and assault" Will Du said very into his role of agent of justice making Shego roll her eyes.
"Secret agent man(1), by now you should now that there's not even one warrant against me so move aside 'cause I have things to do" Shego said taking a step and the sound of weapons and tasers charging up in response.
"Wait! Don't shoot!" Kim said placing herself between the weapons and the Time Lord "Shego helped me a little bit, she is not here to fight"
"A little bit? I saved your life princess" Well, maybe she would have survived but Shego liked to see it as saving Kim's life, again, for all the talk of Shego trying to kill her she have seriously put an effort of keeping her alive I all the time they have known each other.
"Even if that is correct Miss Possible Shego is a dangerous criminal and has to be arrested"
"I won't be so sure if you can do it secret agent man, want to try it?" Shego said with a teasing smirk ready to flare up if they didn't move aside and let her walk in the direction she wanted.
"There won't be any need for that this day, down your weapons" the cold and collected voice of Doctor Director came from one of the corridors while the agents, still a little wary had to do like she ordered.
"But Doctor"
"But nothing Will, Shego is right, all of her warrants and crimes simply disappeared from the network when the Lorwardian came and even if you arrest her she'll get out immediately with no warrants against her, isn't that a little too convenient?" Director said looking directly at the half alien while this was inspecting her nails.
"I plead the fifth" Shego said with a huge grin in her face and everybody saw a smile on the chief of Global justice in response.
"I suppose you finally got tired of the role of a villain"
"I'm not tired okay? It just wasn't fun anymore, besides with the whole invasion foiled I can go back to my old ways"
"Whatever, now, all of you go back to your post you all have jobs to do" Director said while the agents saluted and went into different directions, turning around Doctor Director started to walk with Shego following her and after a blink Team possible went with her.
"Do you two know each other?" Kim knew it was a stupid question but she had to ask it anyway, both seemed almost friendly and after the revelation of Shego's past, or future depending how one wanted to look at it one needed to be prepared for the unexpected with her.
"You could say that pumpkin" Shego said with her usual smirk in place, after how she behaved in the TARDIS Kim was now more relaxed seeing her nemesis (or was it ex-nemesis?) act more natural.
With those words they were silent until reaching the door with a golden plate on it saying Doctor Director; stepping inside the two teenagers and the very older woman took a sit while the leader of GJ went behind the desk and took a sit in her very comfortable chair.
"Want to tell me why you suddenly appeared in Global Justice's headquarters in the company of Kim Possible and the Ron Factor?" Doctor Director said opening the discussion in her usual calm demeanor and right to the point "you were gone all this time and all the records pertaining your venture into crime disappeared from all around the world, even more suspicious not even the prisons you were into remembers you, want to explain that bizarre coincidence?" Director continued looking at Shego while this was grinning.
"Wow, did that happen? I wonder why? Isn't that just great? I'm a free woman now; I can go anywhere I want, that's really convenient"
"And you forgot to say any time, but I asked how and why now, you could have done it at any time but you decided the time of the Lorwardian invasion, want to clear that point?"
"Because Betty, at that moment there was a sense of chaos, here it is an alien race invading Earth, it didn't took much effort for me to get into the database of all the crime fighting organizations and delete all my data in the confusion, it was the perfect moment for me since, well, Kimmie's story was getting to the end(2)" Shego said like if it was something that happened everyday n their lives.
"Wait, you knew Shego could travel through time? Why nobody told me?" Kim was now a little angry, she have been fighting Shego for years and now she finds out she is friends with the director of GJ and who knew what else, how many tings she missed in her career?
"You could say I've known Shego for a very long time, not as long as her life but I do, and yes, I knew about her tools for traveling around but we came to the decision to not let it known"
"But why?"
"Because it was needed for your protection" Shego said making Kim turn around to look at her, both emerald orbs fixed in the other; for his part Ron was staying silent hearing all the information, this few weeks he have finally taped into his own monkey power after extensive training and understood that was better to simply listen before doing a comment "Pumpkin, do you even know how important you are to Earth?"
"Well, I'm usually saving it from some crazy guy, is no big"
"To hell with that, it IS big Kimmie, I've been around for a long time and one thing I have been capable of understanding is that heroes die, they die protecting and saving others, that's what a hero do" Shego said once again using that demeanor and voice, like if she had all the knowledge and was giving it to her pupil, it was disturbing in some sense and in the other made Kim relax, accept it "That was what it was going to happen to you princess"
"Do you mean I'm gonna die? What's the point of it? What do you know Shego?"
"I know a lot, and yeah, you will die so will the buffoon, Bettie, heck, even Earth will die some day, nothing is eternal, but you were going to die before your time, this is not the first time something like this happened"
"Are you saying that you have been protecting me all this time? That's crazy, how many times you have been trying to kill me?"
"None, but I'm not going to spill all right now, we have more important things to say here, we'll leave the rest of this conversation for other time"
"How much have you told Miss Possible about yourself Shego?" Doctor Director said clearly returning the topic to the original purpose.
"Enough, about the TARDIS, when I was born and about my dad"
"Then I guess you want me to explain further things?"
"No, I'll take care of that for another time, what I need is some information about what happened at least half an hour ago"
"And here I thought you came here to visit"
"Hell no, I have more important things to do than come visit you cyclops, now, will you helps us or not?"
"Since you ask it like that I suppose I have no other choice, do I?" Director said typing something in her office computer while Shego rolled her eyes, it was clear both of them were something like friends but the question running around Kim's head was different.
Was Shego really her enemy? The villainess side she has seen was truth or was it just a role she played? Kim knew that she will have to wait until the whole sitch was over to get some answer from the Time Lord but she knew how she felt; she felt cheated.
All this time she was sure of what was going on in her world, she knew who where her friends and her enemies, yeah, Shego have always been a grey point in her usually white-black world, Shego would say something like 'your mind is too Disney-like' or something similar, but she always saw Shego as her nemesis, no, her arch-nemesis, she was the one she always fought to the limits; one was always trying to up the other and then she comes here and drops a metaphorical bomb on her head and crumbles all her mental images; who was Shego really? Will she get to know the real woman behind that face?
"Well, all I know is that my men arrived to the scene finding a terrified Dementor talking about death machines and cursing whoever wanted to take the world from him"
"What's new about it? Anything else?"
"They recovered several pieces of metal, the results came a couple of minutes ago showing that the substance is a strange alloy of titanium, steel and aluminum, I guess you already know what the alloy is, and even more familiar is that this was part of the right arm"
"And the right arm is the one who this robots use more and it has a small symbol inside the arm, I knew it, whoever tried to kill princess here is using things that doesn't belong to him" Shego said clearly angry at what they discovered.
"Who is this guy you are talking about? You said in the TARDIS that you knew the one who created the robots, couldn't it be that he is doing it again?"
"I don't think so princess, Skarada is dead and I saw him die 20 years ago so he is out of the question Kimmie"
"Shego is right, the original creator of these robots died when he tried to take over the world, sadly the cargo plane where he was exploded with him on board and it is confirmed his death; so whoever is using his design probably found about the incident"
"And I can assure you that I know where to find him, all the data he had was never in a computer, there was only notes about the modification of his machines so he took all of his discoveries and put it in one place, and that's where I followed him the first time"
"So, since he only worked in one place then it means that it was also his working place when mounting his designs"
"Clever Kimmie, and if only exist one place in the world, then that means that it must have clues about who is doing all this"
"So, what are we waiting for? Let's go there" Kim said now really into the mood of doing some investigation, this was different since instead of trying to conquer the world or destroy a certain place this was a direct hit against her.
But before Kim could jump out of her chair and walk into the dematerializing ship a four chime tone came from her pocket; fishing it out from her cargo pants she was face to face, or as close that was with their web-caretaker and gadget creator.
"Wade, what's the sitch?"
"I should be asking you that Kim, one moment you are in France then in Washington and then in GJ's headquarters"
"Don't worry Wade, I'm fine, I just got into a few things but I got some help"
"Are you sure Kim? I'm still wondering how you did those jumps" Wade asked once more before a dark gloved hand took the Kimmunicator from her and the little yelp of surprise was heard, it was obvious how nervous the green hued Time Lord made the young boy.
"Hey Nerdlinger" Shego said with her smirk in place looking at the screen.
"Shego, what are you doing there? Did you do anything to Kim?"
"Of course not, if it wasn't for me Kimmie would be a pile of ashes at this moment, look, I'm not here to fight Princess now and I need your help to search for something, besides, I'm pretty sure you already saw into the security tape of Dementor's lair" Shego said while Wade shrugged.
"Hey, I needed to see your answer Shego, I saw what you did and after the whole invasion thing I'm going to trust you this time" Wade said ready to start the search, he had his own reservations about the thief, but he was not genius for nothing, he could see in a lot of recordings that Shego never went completely out in her fights with Kim; even if Hego was the one who got the super-strength Shego was capable of hitting through reinforced steel, but never while fighting Kim she showed that strength, neither her flames did much damage in people except concussive; looking at test done while she was still in Team Go revealed she could melt almost every material in range target practice.
"Alright, I want you to see if there is a building at 80 miles Northwest of Middleton and see if there is any move around it"
"Got it, I'll call you guys back in a few minutes"
"Middleton?" Kim asked looking at her, obviously not anymore, enemy.
"Yes, believe it or not but Middleton has never been that picture of calm and normality people would like to believe, it has been full of danger, mad scientists and other crazy things, just ask your Nana"
"Okay, wait, you know my Nana?"
"Yes"
"No, I mean, from the past, did you know my Nana in the past?"
"Story for another time Princess, we have more pressing matters for now" Shego said standing up "I'll see ya around, have things to do, and try to keep Willy out of trouble will ya?" with that said she stood up quickly going into the corridor, both teenagers turned around from her to the leader of GJ.
"She has always been like that, is probably still shocking to see her acting like that, but that's because she is getting back into her usual role, for now you have to go before she loses her patience, just ask her and probably she'll give you answers" Betty said while they went into their way, once they were out Director took out her eye patch looking at a mirror at the left wall tracing the golden patters around her eye "hope you know what you are doing sister, it will be a dangerous game" she said smiling knowing well everyone's life will turn around 180 now that Shego was back.(3)
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Kim stood looking at her surrounding still not quite believing the place they were in, it was so fantastic and she was still trying to cope with the situation at hand.
"I told you" she heard the vice from the woman in front of the console "is quite difficult to digest, at least the first time you hear it, not everyone takes quite well the change and the whole idea of the TARDIS"
"That's not what I'm surprised about"
"Oh, really?"
"Yes, well, maybe, I'm still wondering how this thing can actually exist being so tiny in the outside and so amazingly big inside"
"Is because the interior exist in another dimension, a TARDIS is not a simple toy, it has so many thing inside it gives you a monumental headache just to hear from some"(4)
"Must be a problem when you don't remember where you put something" Ron said finally opening his mouth to talk, like usual his comments were not the most intelligent ones but they had the effect desired, comic relief.
"You have no idea stoppable, sometimes it takes a full day just to find a hairbrush"
"How long were you looking out for me?" Came the question from the redhead making Shego growl in annoyance.
"Do you have to go and ask something like that right now?" Shego said taking her eyes from the screen to place them into the other green pair in the room.
"Yes, how long have you been acting? There is so much things that I cannot really think clearly, I don't know what to think anymore, you are from the future, you get along with Doctor Director, you said you have been protecting me, give me something to work with" Shego had to sigh knowing well that right now Kim was questioning several things in their story, looking at Stoppable he simply shrugged; it seemed that he wasn't quite the buffoon now, he got up a little notch in he respect for him.
"Deal princess, now seat down or I'm going to force you" she said while the redhead complied with the words "okay, time for a story again it seems; believe it or not Kimmie but you are famous, like incredibly famous, you are remembered even hundreds of years from now, you are still known 10000 years in the future even though you were mostly a legend by then"
"Really?" Kim could be everything, but she was extremely innocent in some cases, and she was too modest, she never really thought she was that important to begin with, sure, she helps here and there but that was no big, everybody could do that, she was only trying to do something good for others.
"I'm not sure if that part of you is cute or annoying Kimmie, but oh well; yes, even when I was a kid I heard from you, and no, before you ask it I never wanted to be like you or idolized you, never had the time anyway since I was forced to go to the time Lord's academy in their planet, not that they could really stop me from going with my mother when I wanted" she said with a shrug, it seemed that Shego was always like that even as a young girl, always a trouble "once I had access to this" she said waving her hand around "I wanted to see if it was true so there I went into the 20th century to check up into the legend, and I'm not sure if to say I was delighted or completely ashamed" seeing the confused faces she decided to continue the story "I saw you when you were still a little girl and in pre-k, since I never saw the age you were at your peak in heroism I made that little mistake and arrived on your first day" Shego said clearly a little embarrassed about her mistake.
Hearing those words, that day exactly stirred something in Kim's mind, it was a feeling of losing something; it was the feeling of having a word in the tip of her tongue but couldn't really bring it to the front of hr mind to remember it clearly.
"Wait, I remember that day"
"Do you Stoppable?"
"Of course I do, it was the day I met KP and decided to be friends" Ron's words made her see the scene clearly now, how she was afraid of being alone, of not having a friend there, and she could feel it, she was sad, but there was something else, something more and she could see it now.
"I remember it too, there were three kids that day, they were… they were bulling me"
"Yeah, they were doing that, I remember I said something and they started to push me… and then… and then"
"And then a girl appeared and slapped them in the back of their head and started to scold them" Kim finished the memory while both were looking at Shego who was smiling like the cat that eat the canary "was that you?"(5)
"Would it be that surprising? But yeah, I guess I can take the honor of doing that, although at that time I never knew who those kids where until they decided to tamper with the time line"
"That's why you weren't with them when they stole the Tempus Simia"
"ACK! Monkeys! Don't mention that thing again KP!" Ron said making both women roll their eyes at his buffoon acts.
"Yeah, but I'll tell you what happened some other day, we have lost enough time"
"I thought you could travel through time with this"
"Oh Kimmie, you are learning, I'm proud of you" Shego said activating the machine making it disappear from the corridor of GJ.
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After a few minutes of the same direction in the talk Kim got the message from Wade that in fact the small factory seemed to be not as abandoned as years ago, the satellite picture showed the factory's main door open.
"Maybe someone was looking shelter and got it"
"Sorry Ron, but for what information I got it seems the factory was closed up and several alarms were placed by the government, whoever did this cut down the alarms"
"Then Shego is right, someone is using that robot design, thanks Wade, you rock"
"Is what I'm here for, take care, I assume you won't ask for a ride now"
"Right on that one, Shego has her own ride" Kim said finishing the call noticing that the Time Lord was missing from the console room as they called it now, but Shego came back after walking down a set of stairs.
"So, I guess now we have a place to check out… what?" Shego asked noticing the looks both of her companions gave her.
"Nothing is just that you are not using your catsuit" Ron said looking at the new look of the muss hued woman and he had to be sincere, maybe it wasn't as skin tight as her usual catsuit but it was still stylish and in her color combination.
Shego had left the catsuit and the gloves for something different this time; she was now wearing an sleeve-less tank top, a pair of ¾ pants with a black belt around it with a holder at the left side and canvas sneakers, the result was so different from the usual style that it was quite amazing how much Shego could change with a change of clothes.
"Oh come on, I've been wearing this combination before you were even born, well, not literally but you understand me"
"If that is what you used to wear then why the catsuit?"
"Because Hego, being the overbearing idiot he is thought that it would be cool to have uniforms when he made Team Go" Shego said checking out the pouch at the side of the belt, obviously she had something in it that would work.
"If you are from the future, why Hego said you are their sister?"
"Because it was easier to believe than the truth, he didn't like it but it was necessary by the time" Shego said shrugging her shoulders opening the doors of the TARDIS signaling the start of their mission.
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Shego shook slightly her head when looking at the old building in front of them; it had the look of a military hangar and was at least two stories tall, it was just as Shego remembered it just slightly older, the walls had rust and the color was fade, but it was no mistake, this was the same where she have fought Skarada for the last time, it had been quite the mission that time, the last one where she used the clothes she was wearing, and the gadget she had in her belt pouch.
"Wade, check out if there is any kind of alarm around this place" came the voice of her princes behind her clearly in her mission mode not that Shego was that worried about this, the place was old, so too the tools and the factory so it was possible that no one was there, but at least they had to check.
"Already did it Kim, the place is completely clean from them, whoever cracked it up wasn't exactly worried about other people appearing, seems he had haste for getting in" the techno wizard of the team said while Shego took a look at their surrounding; everything seemed clear but she couldn't afford to make a mistake now, she was slightly rusty from being in the company of Drakken, but all those escapes and fights with Kim made her reflexes better than any other of her race, she was far superior than the normal human or Time Lord.
With one nod the three, well four if Shego took in consideration the rodent in Stoppable's pocket, went to the main door of the factory finding Kim the door locked, wasn't that just fantastic?
"Great, we have to find another entrance" just as Kim was going to start that search Shego put her hand on her shoulder making her turn "oh yeah, I know you are a thief but we will be committing a crime picking the lock"
"Who said anything about picking?" Shego said with a smirk before taking out a strange device from her pouch; it was metallic and was resembling one of those laser pointers she have seen her father use when doing a presentation, but this one seemed more slick and slightly futuristic in the look; placing that device close to the lock she pressed one button and the little bulb at the end of the device flashed blue emitting a slight sound and the door unlocked "sonic screwdriver, you get to love this things(6)" she said placing the device once again in the pouch.
Just like Shego thought, it seemed that the factory had been abandoned for all those years, there was dust everywhere and it was completely dark since it didn't have any window or hole, it was eerie to say the least how their steps echoed in the factory.
"Hold on" Shego said while Kim and Ron stood where they were, she crouched to look at the floor frowning slightly "yeah, the Nerdlinger was right, look at this, the dust in this part has been removed, something was dragged across the floor"
"So that means that whoever came here also took parts for making the robots"
"At least the first ones until he could get them somewhere else" Shego answered back thinking in their problem for now; moving silently and hiding itself from the mortal eyes several figures crisscrossed around the factory within the shadows gathering in strategic places and with one soundless signal all of them pointed their arms at the group in the first level ready to open fire.
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A/N: And time for the notes, don't you guys love a cliffhanger? I assure you that this serial won't be too long, is getting closer to the climax now, and to the numbers now.
1.- This my dear readers is a wink to another fanfic I love which is 'Alone, Together' by failte200, and no, they don't have nothing to do, consider it an Easter egg of sorts and a homage to that fic.
2.- This line by Shego could be taken literal or something else since Graduation was the last episode of the carton, let's see later what that is supposed to mean okay?
3.- An answer to that scene will appear in the next serial of At The Border of Time 'The Legacy Collar' dealing with Shego's roots.
4.- This is truth, along al the episodes the writers came with a mountain of parts and functions of the TARDIS making it a serious headache to understand most of it.
5.- That's why I told you that the fic doesn't follow the canon of A Sitch in Time and probably I'll do a serial dealing with the movie to explain that, you get to see Shego against Shego in that serial, wait for it.
6.- the Sonic Screwdriver is a classic part of the series, it can open locks, hack into machines, even act like a normal screwdriver, I wonder where Shego got her own
Extra note: Shego's year of birth is part of the official story of Doctor Who; in the episode 'The End of the World' the Doctor takes Rose Tyler through different years before arriving five billion years in the future, those where 2105, which the Doctor says is slightly boring and 12005, exactly the year Shego was born, just a little bit of info.
See ya next boys and girls.
