And here we Go with the third part.
Hope you'll enjoy it.
Thank you for all the reviews and PMs, I really cannot begin to express how much I appreciated it.
Stop Team Kigo!, had seen at the present moment almost eight hundred views, and has six reviews. This means that I got to actually talk with less than one per cent of the people I tried to reach and touch with my writing.
I would really like to exchange words with all of you who stumbled on this little piece of mine.
Anyway, maybe I do have a little treat for you all. See you at the end of the story.
Buona Lettura.
Stop Team KiGo!
Part Three
The boy frowned, and scratched his neck.
"Well... I know you won't like this, but we have to restore Shego as she was. Now."
Betty said nothing, but her posture hardened the littlest bit.
"It won't be easy to retrieve the device from Electronique's hands. And I'm not sure If this really has to be done. I'd really prefer this to be handled by our own men."
"The choice is yours, Dr. Director. I can bear the fault, or you can wait for KP to do that all by herself. She will do it, given enough time. And no one but me is going to be this near to Shego: what if your men get hurt?"
A thought passed into Betty's mind, lighting a little ray of hope.
"Wait. You didn't count Mr. Barkin. What if he and Shego end up together?"
Mr. Stoppable shrugged.
"I don't think that will change anything, but a little more respect earned by Mr. Barkin. I can live without it."
"No, Mr. Stoppable. If Mr. Barkin falls in love with Shego, and the other way around, I'm positive that that... attraction you were talking about before will fade, maybe enough to keep them apart. You didn't think about that, do you?"
"Maybe. And what if you're wrong, Dr. Director? What if that's not enough? In a few months both me and KP will leave Mr. Barkin behind, and every authority he can exercise on us will disappear... think about it: if being on the opposite sides of the law didn't keep those two apart, do you think that Mr. Barkin will be capable to do it?"
Betty stood silent for a moment. Than sighed, and looked sadly at her desk, lingering on the photographs.
"I'd really prefer to not do this, Mr. Stoppable. Even if what you are saying it's true – and I have to admit that your fears are my fears - I'd really prefer to not have to deal with Shego again. At least, not her evil self. Maybe, we can wait a couple of days, study this thing, do more reports and came up with a better solution..."
The boy shook his head; then took the pictures in his hand and looked at them.
"Who knows what will happen while we wait for this better solution. That, by the way, it doesn't exists. You know this."
Betty didn't say anything. Then with one last sigh, she let her resistance fall away. The boy had proved himself right on this. Again, there was that flash of Kimberly in her red and black catsuit. Betty closed her eyes and joined her fingers again, closing her hands, too.
"What do you want, Mr. Stoppable? If you came here, and said that to me, I guess you also have a plan, don't you?"
The boy smiled; but it was a sad smile.
"I'm doing this for KP, Dr. Director. I'm doing this because Shego is evil and from her nothing good will ever come. I'm doing this to prevent a disaster to happen some time in the future, before the girl who can do anything realizes that with Shego she could do everything."
He paused.
"This night, we will have a date together: KP, me, Shego and Mr. Barkin. I don't know what will happen, but in a way or another Shego and Kim have to know about what happened to Team Go, and how to stop it. If I can say it, I'd really appreciate you to take care of that part. After that, me and KP will deal with Electronique... and I will take care of Shego." He let the smile fade away. "I'm not proud of what I will do, Dr. Director. I'm afraid I will make my worst mistake since my last English test. But I will do it. Also... I came here to have a pardon for being guilty of unleashing Shego again."
Betty lingered for a couple of seconds; then, she nodded.
"Thank you, Dr. Director. Now I'm..." he sighed. "... I'm a little more confident in all this thing. Then, I want a pardon for zapping Electronique with the Attitudinator. I don't want the smallest chance of something like this happening again."
Again, Betty nodded.
"At last, I want to be pardoned for not providing GJ with the Attitudinator. I will take care of it, and I will be sure it will look like an accident. I'm... " again, the sad smile returned. "I'm pretty good at things like that. Ron Factor and all that."
Betty nodded for third time, and inside herself, was a little astonished at the boy' scruples. Maybe he was right wheh he said that he was acting as a moral compass for Kimberly; even if that thought meant that she wasn't. Oh, well. Better Mr. Stoppable than Shego.
The boy sighed again.
"If all goes smoothly, tomorrow will be a day without Miss Go. And Kim will be happy for the rest of our lives." The smile broadened, becoming dreamy for a couple of seconds. Then the boy's face became serious again. "I will let the pictures in your custody. Do what you want about them. But if I were in you, I would burn them. I mean, if I could give an advice to you, Miss Dr. Director."
The boy got up, and shook hands with Betty. Then, he laughed and scratched his chin.
"Well, Dr. Director... booyah! I'm sorry if I looked like a little over-serious before... but I was trying to make a point, you know! All this thing is wrong and sick!"
Betty nodded, smiling reassuringly. Inside her, she decided to keep one more eye on Ronald Dean Stoppable, from now on. And that Ron Factor study wasn't a waste of money at all.
The boy turned and reached for the door. Just before he exited, Betty asked one last question.
"What will happen when Kimberly will start looking for those answers you were talking about before?"
He was silent for a second or two. Then, without turning back, he answered.
"She will need no answers, with me around, Betty. That's why I'm here."
And than the door was closed, the boy gone.
Elisabeth Director stood silent in the empty room, thinking for a couple of minutes about what the boy had said and praying that everything would have gone smoothly. She also would need to talk with a TV operator.
But before, there was one last thing to do.
She reached for a drawer under her desk, and, providing the right fingerprint, she opened it, and took out a little small book. Opening it, Betty searched for the letter "S"; there, next to the number one, was an empty space. She took a pen.
Then, Betty sighed, and wrote back Shego's name where she had erased it.
And here we are; this is the end.
I hope you liked my take on this "behind the curtain" of Stop Team Go!, I always had the thought that the ending of that episode was poorly directed and written: I mean, how in the world could really Ron zap back Shego to her old self and let it pass as an "accident"?
And Kim's comment "I guess some people never really change.", hey, hal-lo, girl, she was mind-altered, you dumped your boyfriend in order to stay with her all the time and you just shrug your shoulders off and walk away like nothing happened?
But what the serious hell?
So, I imagined there was an...orchestration behind all this.
And who better of Ron Stoppable for the role?
What do you think about it?
I'd really like to know your opinions.
Then, here we are to that little treat I was talking about in the beginning.
I started my first Note-Serious-Face Project, dumped the old one (The Best of Both Worlds, maybe I'll take it back later), and it's going pretty well. In a way, it was started as a... spin off of Stop Team KiGo!; even because Miss Go is not much used by writers around here, and the potential of a characther like Shegocaged into a mind capable of only good thoughts is missed.
I decided to fill this hole, and I will be doing it with this project, which I plan to finish the first draft before the end of the year (It will be around 70.000 words, planned, but I'm not sure), and the finished product may look a lot like a brief novel.
I'll add another chapter in this story letting you take a peep (a small peep!) to this project, and I not exclude adding more and more "previews" of the story as it is builded.
So, thank you again and I leave you the first peep at Go for the Teacher.
