Now we are at the highest peak of the challenge that is "Oh, No! Yono!" In Coin of Light and Darkness' story, Shego and Drakken both went right away and dug him up, but he ended up being abducted by DNAmy like we saw them together at the end of "Graduation" - and luckily, Shego got her revenge. ;) This finale does its best to not be TOO much like those events.

Chapter Two

Journey

His voice was an unsteady rasp of passion.

"Oh, my love..."

Days had passed, and his back was getting better, but he was still in bed rest and hadn't therefore been active in the dojo during which the monkeys were supervised under her watchful eye. She made damned sure to remain here as long as it took. She'd called Dr. D who understood perfectly, surprise, surprise, and let her remain there, but he intended to drop by in the morning. She almost groaned; he'd better have good reasons for coming. She was more than ready to tell him what she should have told him a long time ago.

That would have to wait. She was engaged now, to this man she lay gently over, rocking herself against him as tenderly as she could so she didn't snap his recovering back. He moaned continually with love and bliss, his strong chest heaving up and down with each breath taken, and his eyes were closed. She buried her face into the place where his neck and shoulder met, gently biting him and emitting low growls, all the while gyrating into the fire connecting her pleasure to his. She loved him...she loved him...so yes, she would be his wife one day, if times were hard because of their careers.

"Monty, mmm," she rumbled against him, her muscles clenching in her body as well as around him, shuddering when she leaped off the edge of rapture and accepted the flowing fire that was Monty's seed into her caverns. When it was over, she rolled off of him and laid beside him, pushing her thick hair over one shoulder before reaching to brush the falling locks from his eyes. He exhaled and turned to look dreamily at her, a lazy smile on his face.

"I never thought I would ask a woman to have me for life."

"And who'd have thought I would become a dreamy schoolgirl again?"

He chuckled. "Life's ways are always uncertain and never planted in stone - but few times we have to make it our own," he answered, shifting a little and wincing at a little jab in his nerves. Shego clicked her tongue and readjusted her position.

"You shouldn't move too much," she told him.

"After what we were just doing?" he countered back, his throat rumbling.

She slapped his shoulder playfully. "Hey, this was our way of celebrating." Correction: still celebrating their engagement for however long it would be until the time came for their union, however they would play it out.

Monty sniffed and furrowed his brows. "Hmm, yes it was - but it begs what my monkey minions are up to at this very time," he reminded her, and they both burst into giggling fits. If the monkeys were outside right now after last time when that picture was taken of her giving him a blowjob under the covers, she hoped Nala wouldn't make that mistake again and be punished for sure. He'd been offended and enraged, but she thought it was funny. No worries about leakage on the Internet, either.

Suddenly, the doorbell rang, making them both groan. "I'll get it," she told him, kissing his cheek and sliding out of the bed to pull on the red satin robe trimmed with black lace. The decadent fabric whispered around her bared flesh and ended above her knees. The doorbell rang two or three more times before she growled, "All right, hold your damned horses!" And when she answered it finally, she bit back a gasp of dismay. "Dr. D!"

"Well, hello, Shego," he answered with a boyish grin and batting brows. "I hope I didn't interrupt - oh." His eyes bulged when they landed on her half-clothed form, and a faint purple blush crept to his cheeks that he stepped back by one and lowered his gaze from her furious one. "Sorry."

"You couldn't have called first?" she snapped, stepping aside and letting him come in. "I was busy."

He looked around the place with a distasteful raise of one eyebrow, then returned it back to her. "Really, I can tell," he said finally. "I have been so busy at the lair that I've decided I have not had a break in a long while. I thought perhaps I'd finally stop by and spend it with you and Monkey Fist."

"Here he is known as Monty Fiske, and right now I am just Selena Gough, the woman who -" She decided now was a good time rather than later to raise her hand and flash him the ring now on that finger. "- is going to be his bride," she finished with a broad grin matching the Cheshire cat. Drakken's eyes bulged like softballs.

And was it schizophrenia or something when his reaction happened so fast?

"Why, Shego!" He erupted with excitement in a flash, stunning her and running over to her, sweeping her up in an embrace and spinning her around, laughing wildly. "My favorite little assistant and the daughter I never had - I never thought I'd see the day!"

He seized her by the arm then and began to drag her down the hallways until they reached the staircase. "Dr. D!" she exclaimed. "Where are we going?!"

"You are taking me to your monkey man, that's what! We are going to celebrate this happy occasion!"

She angrily reminded him that Monty was confined to bed rest because of his back, to which he snapped back into his doctor mode combined with an awkward teenage boy caught in an embarrassing moment. "Ah, oh...yes...ahem...thanks for the reminder," he stammered. "I guess I should just look for the champagne around the house and bring it up to the bedroom?" He cracked his stupid grin that made her roll her eyes.

"You should let me help you with that. Monty will be very grouchy if I leave you with him alone and did the job myself."

"Not to mention, I have to give you both my blessings," Drakken reminded her, and now she felt like laughing with him.

~o~

He could get up and walk now, but because Drakken assisted, right after a celebration with the champagne Shego stole from a tropical island some time ago was in order. Monty Fiske confessed he was the happiest man alive now that he saw great things getting their way, yet rationally, it wasn't easy. Being buried beneath rubble and thinking he would die if he'd been left there had opened his eyes. When the monkeys brought him back, he had not been able to contact her, which told him she and Drakken were in prison still - but of course, the monkeys took his fixed boat and swam out to sea, and reached the island lair to find her jet and spring her free, bring her back to him.

Life was too short - but it was also too short to just waste every day hiding and searching for something new thanks to the growing list of young people he loathed.

He needed to stop Team Possible, and this was the last straw. Too many times had it been spoken, but he swore it. Not only for himself, but for Selena. The mysterious weapon he fought for, came so close for, had to have something else connected to it, and he knew he had the texts around somewhere, as a backup to what the three keys should have unlocked for him had the cheer squad and the Yamanouchi ninja not intervened...

But tonight was him celebrating with her and Drakken, who had put his plans aside somehow and decided to focus on them.

"Shego, we need to start preparing for the location instead of the lair," he was saying as he sat down in the chair before them both. Monty was reclining in his own before the fireplace, his fiancée beside him, and she was kneeling comfortably as her employer droned on. "Shego, since you are the only evil family I have, this is all about you." She bared her teeth, growling at him, making Monty chuckle, and caused Drakken to shrink in his seat. "Ah, yea, I meant to say both of you," he added nervously.

"Yeesh, Dr. D, you think it's all about me? This is me and my man here," she said with a devious grin, leaning up to kiss him on the cheek.

He nestled into her warmth, half listening to Drakken. He never thought he would ever marry a woman he actually felt complete with, so planning a wedding was never on his mind. He decided to just leave it all to these two before them. However, he was surprised to learn where Selena wanted to have their special day. "P-Paris, my dear?" he exclaimed, sitting up straighter. The city of love - where he was sure they would attract the attention of the cheer squad? How could they -?

She gave him a form of the puppy dog pout which made him almost groan. "Come on, we can't do it in hiding. I love the risk of having a ceremony on top of the Eiffel Tower, overlooking the city, at night and with candlelight and roses, simple and so pretty...c'mon, Hairy Hands, please?" She batted her lashes at him that he knew he could not back out of this just for her.

"Fine, we'll have a simple, elegant Parisian wedding," Monty mumbled. "But what about...guests?" There always needed to be witnesses, and they could name a list of fellow villains to make the trip - except one whose name gave them both the willies. She was off the list, unless she planned to crash and ruin the day.

"So, let's count it all off." Drakken held up all five fingers of one hand, biting his lower lip. "Of course, Killigan, and let's not forget my cousin Ed -"

Motor Ed? The very name made Shego throw her head back and make a disgusted noise. That mechanical imbecile seemed to still look at her despite the knowledge she was in Monkey Fist's bed - but it was more than just that, between the two of them. "Please, continue, Dr. D," she said as she stood up and picked up the tea service that came in, held by the monkey named Yuku. She set it between the two men and did the honors.

"Senor Senior, Sr. and his boy - eh, what was his name?"

"Junior."

"Ah, yes, the buffoon who equals Stoppable," Monty mused with disgust, drawing a shared chortle from them both and joined in. Who couldn't disagree on that? "Do carry on, Drakken."

The blue-skinned man's face contorted as he pondered who else was possible, but then his eyes bulged. "I doubt you both will like this, and neither will I..." He trailed off there, both Monty and Selena knowing WHO he was referring to. Her teeth bared in a snarl.

"Not on my watch. If she comes near us, it's a trip off the tower thousands of feet down!" Selena declared, extending her claws and ready to blast forth at the imaginary DNAmy. Adrena Lynn as well as Camille Leon were also off the charts.

So the list was small but suffice: Duff Killigan, the Seniors, and of course, Motor Ed only because he was family in a small sense. And the monkey ninjas were vital, obviously. The crowd would not be enormous, but it would be just their love and all that mattered. Monty hummed as he accepted a kiss from her and his cup of tea. The planning was nothing extensive, but enough to make his new bride-to-be as well as himself happy, but a date was not certain. Only when the time was right, they agreed...

"Ah, look at the time! I must be going!" Drakken announced. "And Shego, when your time off is done, I look forward to acquiring that nanotronium that we've been talking about."

She rolled her eyes. "Yeah, I look forward to that," she said sarcastically, "for including that as vital to your next doomsday device." Drakken heard the sarcasm as Monty did, but said nothing and only cracked his nefarious grin at her.

He stood up then and dusted himself off. "Perfect! Then you won't mind dropping me off at the lair? Oh, don't worry, you can fly back here in no time," he said quickly at the dangerous look on her face.

Monty turned his attention away from the duo in front of him and stared at the currently unlit fireplace. He knew she would come back to him, but in the meantime, since he could function for now, he could return to his study and look through the texts regarding the scroll he knew he had that spoke of the elusive, unnamed weapon and any additional details that would lead him to his destiny.

"Be back as fast as I can," Selena promised him, leaning down and kissing him before she showed Drakken out the door, being fully dressed since after he arrived at Fiske Castle, and the door closed with a soft bang, but Monty Fiske paid no mind. Grimacing at the stiffness of his back, he called for Nala, Svan and the other monkey ninjas to help him to his study. There was much work to be done.

Hours later, he found what he was looking for, breathing the name of the mystical force he was looking for, the rush of anticipation coursing through him like one great water source streaming in every direction of the earth - or should he say, the equally powerful counterpart of the weapon?

"Yono the Dark Destroyer."

~o~

No sooner did she drop Drakken off did she get the invite - and it had been a call to one of the warehouses in Go City, her old home - as well as the word out suddenly that there was a storage for her next line of favorite shampoo and bathroom products, being herbal remedy and nourishment. Turned out her brothers had been screwed over, too, and Electronique had gotten them all with the Attitudinator...

...and how was she supposed to describe the changes in herself?

Good might be the best word since anything scientific would NOT do it justice. When Sparky got away with it, she was left vulnerable to her brothers who had all gone extremely hostile with her. Her brothers - Henry, Mathew, and Willie and Wally - had all gone evil on her, and they were now hunting her. That meant she had to hide...run and hide...and that meant hiding from her Monty since they knew about her relationship with him.

This took her back to the time she hid him from Amy in the Arizona Zoo they all used to go to, only this time was different because it was her on the run. She had fled the scene, and it took so much effort to pull them off her tail. She had no idea what to do, and couldn't go back to Drakken because when she looked back on the past, she cringed. Everything she'd done had been so...wrong. And yet, she loved him like the father she'd lost. If only she could talk to him and get him to change as she had, but without the Attitudinator, it would take a great deal of effort, and even if she couldn't change him, he would just laugh in her face.

What about Monty Fiske, the man she was supposed to get married to?

Shego knew she had to protect him, by going to him and telling him she was going to hide just as she had gotten him to do so that one time. To see the crestfallen heartbreak in his face and his eyes, as well as his voice when he begged her to not go...to see the great Monkey Fist crumble as he feared losing her made her weep with him. Before she left, she allowed him to take her up to their bed and made love before she had to leave too soon after. Her plan was to make way for Middleton, the home of Kim Possible - their shared arch foe - and she would give herself a new name so her brothers would not find her.

She could have gotten an available position here with her child psychology degree, but a substitute teacher was the best she could get that didn't involve exposure and permanence. She had to remind herself this couldn't be for the rest of her life, and yet she found herself missing Monty and the monkey ninjas...she began to cry inside before she forced herself to remain strong.

What she never expected to happen was to actually make friends out of Kim and her sidekick, Ron - whose name she actually remembered in her good state. But difficulty came in terms of Steve Barkin, the man who had his eyes on her, and she almost showed him her engagement ring, but then realized it could give away her Monty safely across the ocean.

Shego always knew that Kim and Ron - whose class she substituted for - would catch on, and it happened the day she was discovered by her brothers.

How they found her was hardly important; what mattered was that they found her in Middleton. Thankfully, she was saved by Kimmy and Ronald, and the naked mole rat. Who else did she have to go to other than the ones who saved her, and who else to believe her story besides the teenagers who she hated when she was evil? She found that the more time she spent with them, the more they got to know each other - and the more fun they had - there was a tiny part of her that didn't want to go back to being evil.

If there was a way she could contact Monty and get him here with her, get to know Kim and Ron as she had, but if she did, then chances were that Team Go would go after him. Monty was strong enough to get away from them if that ever happened - hopefully.

Besides her new friendship with Kim, Mr. Barkin did not seem to take his interests elsewhere, so she supposed she could just play along for now. The double-date resulted interestingly with her and Steve - or "Stevie", as she playfully called him - and Kim and Ron, but then the news had to come on and report the crimes of the once-heroic Team Go...and she crushed altogether. She might have left them a long time ago, but they were still her family. Just as Drakken was her family. She would never admit it, but she found herself caught between the line of good and bad in that direction.

Things went back to normal when she, Kim and Ron confronted her brothers and then turned the attention back to Electronique, the antagonist of them all. Amusingly enough and not so, it had been fun to see the sidekick and boyfriend of her temporary friend be struck by the Attitudinator - just briefly becoming the wicked Zorpox again, like that one time. The look on poor Hego's face!

Now that Electronique was going back to where she belonged, Drakken arrived in time to take her back to her life. Though she and Kim were back to good girl versus bad girl, she found herself looking at the pictures they took together in the photo booth and actually let out the bottled, humiliating rage that came back to the front of her conscious. She set the pictures aflame in time for Drakken to approach her and ask for her "help" - and she just as soon as vomited inside when she found out he just needed her help with opening the pickle jar. While she'd been gone, he couldn't even make his favorite sandwich and couldn't even get any of the henchmen to do the deed for him. She hissed at him when she finally tore the thing apart - if not destroying it - before giving it to his giddy self.

Couple more activities gone awry - the seaport in which Drakken ended up possessed by some pirate's spirit, then Smarty Mart in which she blew off dating its CEO because of his rebellious son calling her his "possible new mom"; that last one was only for her own distracting amusement, so she could snatch what he owned behind his back for herself and her across-the-ocean fiancé - and now she deserved another break that Dr. D saw coming miles away by now.

"Well, now that you are taken care of," Shego said snidely, "I have other business to take care of."

He knew good and well who she was talking about. "Well, I wish you good luck on that, Shego," Drakken told her as he went about to put himself at ease, telling her still no world conquest plans. "And do me a favor? Bring him back here with us. He shouldn't be alone in that castle of his any longer. I might use some life in this place after spending much of it alone without you..."

She smiled at him. Yeah, Monty should be away from his castle for awhile, but it was also the place where he was surrounded by everything he needed for his own reasons. It made her wonder how he kept himself busy, what he did best, because he never did tell her what he was going to do next while they would be apart...and oh, when she got to Castle Fiske, her heart splintered into pieces when she saw that the place was empty.

"Monty?" she cried out, trying not to panic. "Monkeys?"

No Monty.

No monkey ninjas.

No warm fires.

No nothing in here.

Her heart grew as cold as the air. What had happened? Something went terribly wrong, and she knew it. Taking a few deep breaths, Shego forced herself to remain calm. She would get to the bottom of this. DNAmy couldn't have been involved again, could she? Or could Monty be in jail at Kimmy's hands? If he was, then she would spring him out like his monkeys did for her. Yet even that did not shake off the feeling of terror in her heart and her blood. Perhaps his study could tell her what she needed to know.

"Oh, damn it!" she cursed when she saw the scattered mess again. Monty really never had it in him to clean his own disorderliness up when she was gone. "Now, how do I know what you were up to, huh?" Agitated, she found herself kneeling down, pushing through old pages and books but being careful to not ruin them, in case he ever came home and saw that she'd accidentally ruined something. He would not be happy with her.

How was she even supposed to know where to look for him if she didn't know what he'd found for his path to becoming the Monkey King?

She squeezed her eyes as she collapsed in despair. She felt lost, helpless, surrounded by only memories when she had no idea if he was dead or not. His monkeys were nowhere to be found, so she had no help other than Drakken back at the lair, and he was a man of science, not magic.

Shego ceased to be for the moment, and Selena Gough rearose from the recesses of her heart and subconscious, finding herself looking at the glove which covered the ring she still wore. She took the tip of her forefinger between her teeth and pulled it off to show the opposite gems forming a powerful force, and mournfully sang in the air which echoed her thoughts.

"Monty, where are you this moment? Only in my dreams - you're missing, but you're always a heartbeat from me. I'm lost now without you; I don't know where you are...I keep watching, I keep hoping - but time keeps us apart."

She wasn't sure where she heard these words, but who sung them originally? She didn't care about anything, other than letting loose her fears.

"Is there a way I can find you? Is there a sign I should know? Is there a road I could follow to bring you back home?"

It was then and there that her stomach clenched and knotted, spreading the waves of nausea throughout her body, rising through her esophagus, but she did not have it in her to throw up. Even though it did cause her to choke on the song.

~o~

Winter was fast approaching, and it had taken Amy Hall so long to track down what had happened to her Monty-kins. She'd been in Japan with her cuddly friends and gorillas when she happened across the monkey ninjas still there, having being on the loose and unable to retrieve their master who had vanished from being. She did not know how to process what they meant - she learned what they said because of her gorilla guards - before it dawned on her that Monty was in the mountains and...

She paled. "Oh, no, Monty wonty, you aren't..." Her voice failed her.

But wait, if he was dead, then it would be wise to just leave him there, but that wasn't what the monkeys meant, wasn't it? She knew there was one thing to do, because after several weeks, where was that green whore Shego whose heart he claimed he belonged to? She couldn't be all that smart enough to piece that her lover who was supposed to be Amy's was here. If she had, she would have done it months ago.

This was her revenge against Shego for knocking her out and taking Monty in Africa: she was getting her cuddling monkey back if that was the last thing.

Amy had help in finding the place which was deep in the canyon of Mount Yamanouchi - where the ninja school itself was located - and there were warnings that this was a scary resting place of some dark god called the Yono, but it took a lot more than some spooky myth to scare little ol' her. The monkey ninjas excitedly pointed out the place because they'd been here before with their master. Leaving it for them as well as the gorillas to do the digging, Amy could hardly control her thundering heart as she couldn't wait to whisk her true love away from this wretched, gloomy place.

Overhead, the sky darkened with more clouds that came to obscure even though there was no moon tonight. She bit her bottom lip nervously. They needed to hurry before anyone came -

"Hold! That is the Yono's burial ground. You cannot take what is evil from its resting place."

The digging stopped, and all attention was focused on the trio of people in black garments - ninjas, she guessed - that assembled before her and the group of apes and monkeys. They had been here all this time and chose to show just now. Amy narrowed her eyes. If they wanted to try and stop her from taking her beloved, if they wanted a fight, then they got one.

"I'll take what I want from here, because he's all mine," she breathed, then raised her voice. "Boys, get them!"

Please, no one shoot me, because it's been awhile since I saw the episode "Stop Team Go!", so I could not remember if the warehouse the Go Team was zapped into other personalities happened in Go City or in Middleton.

It's been extra difficult to do her search for Monty, because this is months before "Graduation" to cover, and in "To Kiss a Monkey Statue", she and Drakken dug him up before DNAmy raided the lair and had the monkey ninjas taken down so she got the petrified Monty back, and of course, Shego sought revenge. ;D Let's see how this goes now with the different kind of help she gets...