Paper Hearts

Phase Two: Meeting the Villain

[6:30pm- The Amazon]

"These vines are very tricky!" the red headed teen hero complained. It wasn't in her nature to complain about things but when you're in the rain forest at night while it was raining you can't really help it. Kim struggled in vain. The vines caught her earlier when she was about to land from her free fall. She did not anticipate the outcome to be like this. She was definitely stuck in there if she can't devise a good plan to free herself. Her situation on being stuck doesn't end by her tangled in vines but there were also other factors. Her rucksack were a few meters from her, it actually got ripped by the strap causing it to separate from her. And then there was also her Kimmunicator, it slid off her cargo pants when she was struggling with the vines a little earlier and lastly, her right arm was pretty much caught with a bunch of vines that it was rendered useless.

"Why in the world does this happen to me! And curfew is in two hours!" Kim muttered angrily. Curfew at her current dormitory was pretty strict, well, even though she knew that she could sneak in, she would still be given a memo from the Director and her landlady. Kim sigh, frustrated; her landlady could be a terror when it comes to these things. She had taken note of that fact while she met her earlier that day. Our teen hero rolled her eyes, it was useless to think of the consequence of being late for curfew than what awaits her if she doesn't get lose in these vines. Kim then tried to feel for things that could be useful in her pocket. Alas! She found one, her laser lipstick.

"Way to go Wade!" she cheered for Wade's invention. Kim slowly yet surely cut off the vines that were keeping her right arm in place, and then she cut the vines holding her feet. And, when the fall was about to come, Kim flipped in the air, landing safely on the muddy ground.

"Well so much for the new sneakers" Kim frowned. Her sneakers were brand new and now they were ruined. Yep, it was a great day to wonder inside a rain-forest when it was definitely raining. Kim went over to her pack and over to her Kimmunicator. She opened her little device and Wade showed up.

"Uh, hey Kim, Woah. Why are you drenched?"

"Well, there is one fact that the forest decided to rain on my entrance. I need the map"

"Here, be careful Kim, It's getting darker and it's harder to see with the trees and all"

"No big. I do need to catch that thief before Doctor Acari decides to get frantic about the convention"

"Okay, just call if you need anything" Wade ended transmission.

Kim sighed as she picked up the last of her things scattered around her knapsack. She counted everything that she remembered that was on her bag. Finally satisfied that everything was in place, including her English paper, she started trekking towards her target.

[7pm- the Amazon]

Kim couldn't help the feeling that she was being watched; it has been about thirty minutes that she had been following her map and still she had no clue on where she was heading. The leaves rustled behind her with no hesitation she moved her head to the direction of the noise. Still nothing.

"I don't get it, I'm pretty sure I'm in the right spot" Kim muttered as she noticed she was almost in a small clearing. The trees didn't grow on this part, where Kim was steadily standing. In fact it has only a bunch of grass and roots growing on it and the next tree she would be encountering are three to five yards away from her. Agent Possible scratched her head, very confused at the situation. She pulled out her Kimmunicator and planed to dial Wade when she heard a soft chime of laughter.

"Show yourself!" Kim called out. Still the laughter continued echoing in the forest.

"Well, well, well, look who decided to drop in" Kim noticed the tone in that voice, feminine, very sexy and yet mysterious. Kim noted that it was somehow familiar to her like she heard it before. She just couldn't pin-point who it belongs to.

Kim turned around but was greeted by a fist, coated in a black glove. Though it was fast Kim managed to barely dodge the assault. Kim's eyes scanned the area for her enemy, she was pretty sure that she would see the woman after it had attacked but she spoke too soon. Kim's eyes scanned the area only to find nothing, not even shadows.

"You're pretty good" the mystery woman commented on Kim's reflexes. "Feisty, I like that" she purred.

"I'm not in the mood for games!"

"tsk tsk. Growing impatient aren't we, Pumpkin?"

A shot of green fire made its way to Kim, again Agent Possible managed to dodge. This mystery woman decided to play and strikes Kim with a series of punches and kicks. Kim pretty much returned every strike with a very good block.

Kim bent as she saw the kick coming; dodging it gracefully. Then she returned the pleasure with a fist of her own. It hits.

The woman suddenly got off balance. Barely having enough time to set a footing, Kim charged towards her with a round-house kick. The woman fell to the ground with a soft thump. Kim continued assault while the other party continued on playing defense.

"Pretty good, but I hate to break it to you, I'm not up for a long fight" this woman called out after she flipped away from Kim's assault. Kim stood up, breathing heavily. Her clothes sticking to her skin, drenched from the rain. Her face was also a mess as well as her hair. Mud covered half of her body, probably of the falls she had taken while defending herself.

"Where's that disk!" Agent Possible shouted, a little bit angered.

"Oh, the disk, the one that the gross-bug-loving professor had?" the culprit smirked.

"Yea. You're the one who gave the directions right. Ms. S."

"Ah, that you are right about, but, I'm afraid I wasn't the one who stole that prototype" she said dryly.

"What are you talking about? You drove me out here for nothing?" Kim frantically screamed.

The one called Ms. S chuckled. "Well, Princess, life isn't full of answers, you've got to think, but hey. You managed to find me, so here, I'll give you your prize" she replied, Ms. S, slightly pulled on the hidden zipper from her cat-suit, slowly it started coming down from her neck to just above her breast. Kim gulped. Tempting.

"W-What are you doing?" Kim, agitated, said.

Ms. S smirked. "Is Miss Priss afraid of a little skin?" she then pulled out a miniature disk from her hidden pocket, or maybe it was her bra, we could never know. She then quickly zipped the suit back up. Kim's eyes widened as she saw the object, it was definitely the one she was looking for.

"Here" Ms S. Called out as she threw the disk to Kim's direction. Kim managed to catch it before it went off to a farther direction. The disk read 'Centi-bot'. It was definitely it.

"Hey! You lied!" Kim shouted, a bit pissed off at the situation at hand. Well it wasn't really that, part of her wanted to know more about this thief in front of her. Kim silently hoped that the conversation go in her liking.

"Well, doy, I'm a thief. What do you expect?" replied Ms. S "See yah, Princess" then the thief ran off deeper into the forest, Kim followed. She ran after her, always looking at that curvy back then it hit her that the back she was chasing after started fading away into the dark. But Kim, being her natural self followed until she went to a curve of a gigantic tree.

"Wait! Can't you even show your" Kim called out as soon as she turned the corner of a gigantic tree. "...face"

The one she followed then vanished into thin air, nothing can decipher where she might ran off to. Kim sighed, so much for learning the face. Our teen hero closed her eyes, vaguely remembering that mask, that hair, that movement like it was something to live for. That dance they did under the rain with only the moon, the trees and the ground as their witness. Well, so much for that. Kim frowned as she looked at the watch in her Kimmunicator. 9pm. Great, I'm so dead.

"Wade"

"Five minutes on top of you" replied the genius.

"Please and thank you"

[New day- Lunch]

She didn't notice how her teacher entered. She didn't notice how that teacher went across the cafeteria. She didn't notice that soft scrapping of chair but she did notice the presence when it was right by her ear.

"May I sit here?" asked she.

Kim blinked rapidly, startled by the voice and breath that made its way to her ears.

"M-Miss Go?" nervously, Kim replied. And due to her nervousness Kim had accidentally tip of her books causing them to fall on the floor with a good thump.

"My, My, Pumpkin? A little bit clumsy today aren't we?" chuckled her teacher.

"What are you doing here? I thought teachers had lounges for lunch" Kim replied, picking up her books from the ground.

"Well, Princess, teachers do go at lunch at the same time every day and there are teachers you don't want to be with" she chuckled. She bent down to Kim's eye level and started picking up the papers from the teen hero's books. "So, may I sit here with you?"

"Uh, yeah.S-Sure" Kim blushed.

"So, how are you finding the school lately, Pumpkin?"

"Spanking!" Kim blurted out.

"Excuse me?" chuckled, Miss Go.

"Sorry. Just an involuntary action, Miss Go. I mean, it is great, well at least so far"

"Huh, good" Miss Go replied. She took her fork and picked her salad, she ate quietly.

"Um, Miss Go"

"Shego."

"Excuse me?"

"You may call me Shego, if it's just the two of us" Shego nipped at her lettuce. Kim wondered why her teacher would be this kind, hence letting Kim caller her with a nickname. Kim shook off the though, she may have been like this with the other students, so it may be a natural occurrence. Right?

"Yo! GF!" this familiar voice of this black American, Monique called out.

"Hey, Mo" greeted Kim. She stood up from her seat but before she could do so, she bent down and apologized to her teacher. Shego or Miss Go, nodded in reply. Kim went off with Monique to grab some lunch, well by the looks of it.

"So, spill. Why weren't you in before curfew?" Monique asked.

"Uhm, I...duty called." Kim replied.

"Well, where were you?"

"Brazil?" hoping that Monique could understand, she stated it with a questioning voice.

"Girl, how did you get to Brazil in two hours?"

"It's a pretty long story..."

"I've got all day, GF"


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