A/N: while writing I wasn't sure if it was a good idea giving Shego her first mission as a WEE agent so soon, but I figured out a chapter about stuff like visiting the base and moving in would be boring as heck. So yeah, here's her first mission. She clibs ranks quickly, but hey, it's Shego we're talking about, so that's hardly a surprise XD


Well, Shego mused as she glanced around, that place was finally starting to look more like a room. A little messy, maybe, but she would put everything in place later: now she just needed to eat and rest a little. It wasn't the first time she moved, of course – while working with Drakken they pretty much needed a new lair every week or two – but in those cases she already had most of what she needed in each lair. Now she had to bring most of her stuff with her, though she kept some stuff in a suitcase in case she needed to be moved in another base… and man, hadn't it been tiring, she mused.

"Does the accommodation meet your standards, agent Beta?"

Shego blinked as Gemini's voice reached her ears. She turned to the point from which his voice had come, but no one was there. "What the…?"

"There's an interphone on the wall," Gemini's voice sounded slightly amused now "you can't see because it's hidden by some shelves, I think. Every room has one should I need to communicate with any agent in any moment," he said "I could as well need all of you in the middle of the night in case there is some emergency."

"Ah," Shego raised an eyebrow "I hope there isn't a hidden camera or something," she said, mentally thinking of some rather painful ways to kill him should there really be a camera in her room.

"My, of course not," Gemini's voice sounded mockingly wounded now "who you take me for?"

"A bad guy, maybe?" she suggested dryly, her eyes scanning the room to see if there could be a camera anywhere.

"There is a difference between being a villain and a low pervert, agent Beta," Gemini said, his voice a little colder "rest assure that there is no such thing as a camera in your room. Or do you think I'm lying?" he asked, a threatening note in his voice.

Great, she was managing to get on his nerves already… then again, she had to be sure he wasn't really spying on her or something. "No, of course not," she said quickly – though taking the mental note of checking to be sure before she went to bed – before replying to his original question "anyway, nice room. Do all agents have rooms like this?" she asked. Huge as that base was, she wouldn't be surprised.

Gemini snorted. "Of course not, this is not some hotel: such accommodations have to be earned. It depends on the rank: only the highest rank agents – meaning you, Gamma and Delta – have their own room. All the others have to share. Of course, should you prove yourself to be… unfit to be my agent Beta, things would change."

"Yeah, I guessed that," she said. Even though she didn't precisely love being called with a Greek letter rather than with her name, she had no intention to end up with a lower rank… especially if it would be losing those benefits. Last thing she wanted was having to share anything with anyone, let alone a room with a bunch of male agents. "It's not going to happen."

Gemini seemed amused. "You certainly don't lack of confidence, do you?"

"Should I?" Shego grinned before frowning in thought a little "anyway, is it me or there is a letter missing? Shouldn't it be Alpha the first letter of the Greek alphabet?"

"So you did learn the Greek alphabet as I told you to," Gemini sounded rather pleased.

"Sure I did, but I did know what the first letter is before already, so unless you call yourself Alpha or something there is a letter missing."

"I still haven't found anyone fit for that rank," he just said before changing subject "in any case, aren't you wondering why I contacted you?"

"Not just to ask me if I like the room, I guess."

"Obviously not. It was to let you know I want you to report in the control room tomorrow morning at seven to receive your first assignment," he said. He normally waited some time before sending out new agents for missions, but with her skills and experience he supposed it would only be a waste of time. And if she couldn't live up his expectations… well, at least he wouldn't have to pay her at all since it was her first day: he would simply dispose of her as he did with all agents.

Shego couldn't help but grin at the thought she would finally get some action again. "Perfect!"

He couldn't hold back a chuckle. "You seem impatient to get to work," he commented, clearly pleased – he couldn't remember any of his agents being that eager "I like that."

"It's been a while since last time I got to do what I like best, and I got bored," she lightened up her hand almost absentmindedly, staring at the plasma for a few seconds "it will be fun getting back to work."

"Seems like we're going to get along, agent Beta," Gemini muttered with a snicker "as long as you don't fail, of course. Tomorrow morning at seven o'clock – I don't like having to wait," he reminded her before interrupting the communication.


While they surely were not the most competent people she had ever worked with, Shego had to admit that the WEE agents – well, at least the ones who were assisting her on that mission – were far more competent than Drakken's henchmen had ever been. Not that it took much to be better than those idiots Drakken hired because they worked cheap, but it was still something.

If anything they could climb up a building without getting tired immediately, the mused as she finally reached the roof of the building. She ignored the cameras – Gemini had already told her that agent Delta had hacked his way in the security system to they would keep playing the same registered images over and over instead of recording them – and took out the thermal goggles. She brought the goggles to her eyes and glanced down at the floor… that was actually the ceiling of the room below.

"Only three guards," she said with a shrug "I thought worse."

"Don't underestimate them, agent Beta," Gemini's voice came from her earpiece "if they give the alarm, a lot more will come and the whole mission would be compromised. You have to get rid of them before they can even realize what's going on."

"Don't worry, boss, I know what I'm doing," she said with a slight shrug "this is nothing compared to the security measures in the Hench Co. industries."

A chuckle came from her earpiece. "Yes, Hench did tell about your own idea of… purchasing his products," he said "in any case, I expect nothing but the best from you."

"As I said, no problem," Shego replied before tuning to the others "I saw an air vent on the side of the building – I'll get in through that. Is there any kind of defensive mechanism I should know about inside?"

"Lasers and movement sensors. Delta is deactivating the sensors as we speak, but the lasers can only be deactivated once you're inside. You'll have to deal with those by yourself – a smoke screen will be enough to make them visible. You do have a smoke bomb, don't you?"

"Sure," Shego said, walking to the edge of the roof and turning to the other agents "I'll deal with the guards and deactivate the defences. Follow me when I tell you the way is clear," she said, and everyone nodded – none of them felt like trying anything on their own: last thing they wanted was screwing up and thus giving Gemini a reason to dispose of them.

"You're not supposed to give them any order unless it's coming from me," Gemini pointed out a little sulkily as she began climbing down the wall of the building until she reached air vent. She burned a hole through the grating and crawled inside.

"Sorry, boss," she said, though rolling her eyes – he wasn't there to see her after all "it just seemed the most sensible thing to do since we have to be quick."

Gemini snorted. "And in fact it was exactly what I was about to say – but I don't want them to think you are the one who's giving orders."

"Hey, I'm the only one with the earpiece. For all the knew, you were the one to give that order," she said reasonably, opening another grating and glancing at the room beneath her "so, the movement sensors…?"

"According to agent Delta, they've been deactivated," Gemini said, and Shego immediately leapt on the floor.

"I'm in."

"Good. There should be a door in front of you."

"Yes, here it is."

"Perfect. Type in…" there were some background noises, like someone else's voice speaking in the background "4-9-2-5-0-3. No need of the retinal scan, Delta managed to bypass that. The lasers are right past that door – use the smoke bomb to make the laser beams visible."

Shego did as instructed, and she smirked as she saw the intricate spider web of laser beams across the room – it was an old school trick, but it still worked. She glanced at the panel to deactivate the laser on the opposite wall. "I see them."

"Perfect. I trust you know what to do from now on, don't you?"

"I'll be on the other side in a moment," she muttered, and before he could say anything else she had already leapt forward. She landed on her palms and stayed still for a split of second before she flipped on her feet again, careful to not touch any of the thin red beams. She ducked under another laser beam, rolled forward through a few more beams before getting on her feet again. She jumped and grabbed an iron girder on the ceiling, then she swung back and forth to gain momentum before she finally leapt again.

There was no way she could reach the control panel like that, but why should she do it the complicated way? She grinned and quickly shot some plasma at the panel, which immediately fused, causing the laser beams to vanish just a moment before she safely landed on her feet again. "Lasers deactivated," she said with a just tad of smugness.

"What? In barely…" there was a moment of pause, and she guessed he was checking how long it had taken "eight seconds?" Gemini finally uttered, sounding rather incredulous "you deactivated the lasers in eight seconds?"

"You're right, I could have done better," Shego said with fake modesty "last time it was six seconds."

Gemini stayed silent for a few moments, still rather baffled, then she heard him laughing, clearly pleased. "Excellent work, agent Beta. Where are the guards?"

Shego reached for the thermal goggles and put them on before glancing at the steel door in front of her. "In the next room," she said, lowering her voice a little "all three in the same room, giving their back to the door – just how dumb can they be?" she wondered, then she realized they were probably looking at the monitors, trusting the cameras to spot any intruder or danger before they could get close enough to threaten them directly.

"Glob… no, no, Pepe, daddy won't say that, don't' worry. I mean, GJ agents are dumb by default. All the better for us," Gemini said with a dark chuckle "I'll contact agent Gamma and tell him to bring the reinforcements to--"

"Wait, no need to do that – I can take them down by myself."

"Agent Beta, you don't get to discuss my orders," Gemini barked from her earpiece, causing her to grimace – couldn't that guy speak normally?

"I'm not discussing anything," she said through gritted teeth – actually, when it came to missions like that, Drakken would leave her carte blanche: as long as she did what she had to do, he would let her do it her way. It was what made such missions fun, and she didn't really like it how he was giving her orders… even though she knew it was just normal he would since he happened to be her boss and he most definitely was not Drakken.

"Oh, you're not?" Gemini's voice sounded dangerously like a growl now "because it sounded like you were!"

Shego took a deep breath – last thing she needed was having an argument with her boss in her first workday while she was barely a few steps away from three GJ agents. "I was just saying that I could take them down in a moment and then have just Gamma getting over here to download the info we need from the computer. If the others stay on the roof, we'll be quicker to get away," she said reasonably, and it was true… not that it was the true reason why she wanted to take them down herself: the truth was that she was having fun.

Gemini paused for a few moments, and Shego knew he was debating with himself if he should insist to do everything his way or do as she suggested – he had to realize her idea made more sense, especially since he knew perfectly she would be capable to handle the GJ agents by herself... but of course, she had to take his pride and stubbornness in account. When he finally spoke again, Shego had to hold back a groan. "We'll do as I say, agent Beta," he said stubbornly, suddenly sounding much like a child insisting to play one game instead of another "wait there for the reinforcements and don't move. I'll tell agent Gamma to get there with some other agents."

"Yes, sir," Shego said mechanically.

Idiot.

She sighed and leant against the wall with a frown on her face. She knew there was no reason why she should be that annoyed, but she couldn't help it. She had spent too many years doing pretty much as she pleased and loving it to be comfortable with taking actual orders by someone who really expected complete obedience from her. Then again, what else was there for her? Until she at least managed to clean up her reputation a little, that seemed to be the only job she could--

She was snapped from her thoughts by a crashing sound, immediately followed by the wailing of a siren.

"Oh, crap," Shego muttered, immediately taking back whatever she could have said – well, thought – about the other WEE agents' competence. The door behind her immediately buzzed open, and she turned to see the three GJ agents bolting outside, holding some guns that they immediately pointed at her.

"Freeze!"

As if.

One of the agents yelped as a blast of plasma hit him square in his chest, sending him crashing against the wall. She didn't waste a second before leaping on the second one, delivering a powerful kick to his midsection that caused him to fall backwards like a rag doll. The third agent pointed his gun at her head, but Shego reached up to grab it and ignited her hand, melting it. The agent had barely enough time to realize his weapon had been liquefied before a blast of plasma hit him as well and knocked him out cold.

"Lame," she muttered just a moment before Gemini's voice came again from the earpiece.

"Agent Beta!" he barked "what in the world--!"

"Hey, it's not my fault!" she snapped "one of those idiots messed up. I took down the guards, but I need Gamma to get the information from the computer."

She heard Gemini taking a deep breath, the he seemed to recollect. "Fine," he said, his voice once again almost calm "agent Gamma is getting there – he knows what to do. Keep away any GJ agents that could get there while he gets the information we need from that blasted computer. The others will take the jet and get you back when you're done – is that clear?"

"Crystal clear, boss," Shego said with a grin, lighting up her hands as she saw agent Gamma running towards her "quick, do what you have to do. I'll keep them away."

"Freeze!" the first group of GJ agents got inside the room the very same moment Gamma ran into the next one. Shego's grin widened.

"Come to get me," she said before she shot some plasma at the first idiot who had gotten in "who's next?" she asked, as she leapt forward and took down another agent before he could even try to shoot. Now that was what she liked in her job.

She wasn't sure of how much it had lasted – probably no more than a few minutes – when she heard Gemini speaking from the earpiece again. "Agent Gamma is done – join him immediately!"

Shego just nodded to herself – there was no point in risking his rage again: she had had her fun now – and shot some more plasma at the few agents that were still standing before turning and running to the control room, almost running into agent Gamma. "I have the data," Gamma muttered.

"Yeah, great. What now?" she asked, but before either Gamma or Gemini could reply there was a loud explosion that caused the whole building to shake, almost making her and Gamma fall one the ground.

"The jet!" Gamma exclaimed, and Shego realized that the explosion had caused part of the ceiling to collapse, and she could now see the WEE jet they had used to get there hovering barely above the roof. A rope ladder was thrown at them, and both Shego and Gamma immediately climbed on it, quickly getting inside the jet.

"Now get away from there – I want you to be back at the base twenty minutes ago!" Gemini's voice barked from the console, and agent Zeta immediately obeyed. Shego sighed in relief and took off her earpiece as they jet immediately departed, leaving the now half-destroyed fortified building behind.

"Who's the idiot who messed up?" Gemini roared from the screen, looking more furious that most of them had ever seen him, and all agents but Shego and Gamma – who knew they had executed every order they had gotten perfectly – cringed.

"I… I'm sorry, sir, I got into the air vent, but I fell into the wrong room, and…" agent Eta whimpered, "it… it was an accident!"

Gemini immediately seemed to calm down. "But of course, it was merely an accident – no need of getting so nervous. Why don't you relax and have a seat?"

Agent Eta immediately paled. "No!" he exclaimed, taking a step backwards, but he couldn't escape something resembling a mechanical arm that suddenly came out from one of the seats and just grabbed him, forcing him on the seat and keeping him pinned there.

"It's not polite refusing a seat when you're offered one, agent Eta," Gemini said coldly, and through the screen on the console of the jet they could all see him reaching to press a button "you failed me for the last time."

Shego wasn't really surprised as the ceiling of the jet opened and the seat the poor guy was blocked onto was rocketed upwards, but she felt an odd sensation in her stomach as Eta's scream faded and the ceiling closed again; neither she or the other agents noticed the small chip that was implanted behind his neck one moment before the seat took off, and none of them knew there was a parachute attached to the seat… those were details Gemini would rather keep from them.

"So," Gemini said as he reached to pet Pepe's head, glancing at the rest of them "mission status report?"

"Mission accomplished," Shego said with a shrug "I beat up some GJ guys, and Gamma's got the data," she said, and agent Gamma held up a small disk to prove her point.

Gemini's serious expression melted in a wide grin. "Wonderful," she said, his grin broadening even more "how many GJ agents didn't you exactly beat up, agent Beta?"

"I don't know. Maybe a dozen or so," she said "I don't know if any other got hurt in the explosion."

Gemini chuckled. "Oh, that," he exclaimed, now sounding everything like a kid talking about some Christmas present he just got "how heavily was the facility damaged?"

"Pretty heavily, I guess."

He seemed simply delighted by the news. "Amazing, just amazing," he said, apparently having already forgotten the accident that had nearly compromised the mission. But then again, the final outcome was all that mattered… and it was even better than he had dared to hope. "I want you in the control room as soon as you get back to the base, agent Beta – I want a detailed report of everything that happened," he said before tuning his only eye to Gamma, who was still holding up the disk with the data – more specifically, the launching codes of a few missiles a lot of people would have be very interested into, and Gemini didn't mind having yet another politician or two on his payroll "agent Gamma, consider yourself off duty for tomorrow. Give the data to agent Beta – she'll deliver it to me personally," he said before interrupting the communication, leaving the screen blank.


After talking to him on her way back to the base, Shego had expected Gemini to be enthusiastic of the success. Really, she had.

What she did not expect, however, was that he had a bottle of champagne with him to properly celebrate the blow they had delivered to Global Justice. And at least judging by the fact he had actually told her to join him on the elevated platform where his desk was to have a glass as well – yet another thing she didn't expect, since she had been told that platform was off limits for agents – he had clearly drank some by himself already. Alright, maybe the fact the bottle was only half-filled was another hint, but that was beside the point.

The point was that Gemini was clearly tipsy and had been rambling about how he couldn't wait to see his sister's face and how he had showed her who the older brother was for at least… well, probably it had been just a few minutes, but it felt like hours. For a moment she wondered if Gemini happened to have another twin, an identical a one with a polar opposite personality – what the heck, even his psychotic chihuahua seemed to be weirded out by his behaviour…!

"Ah, but I can't wait to see her face at the next family dinner!" he was going on, probably completely oblivious of her presence at that point "she'll be fuming!"

"Uh-hu," Shego nodded, faintly wondering just how many drinks already – fine, laughing in triumph over the victory was one thing, but he seemed almost giddy now, which on him was kind of creepy. It was the kind of giddiness that could fit Drakken, she thought, but definitely not Gemini. Then again he certainly wasn't the kind of guy you'd expect to fuss over a dog either, she thought somewhat amusedly.

"And you can bet I'll be rubbing it in the whole time!" Gemini was still rambling "I want to see her chocking on her rage, that's what I want! This has to be the first time I'm looking forward to meet her. She'll never hear the end of it! I'll-- what?" he abruptly stopped rambling as he noticed Shego was staring at him, looking rather amused.

Shego shook her head. "Nothing, boss," she said just a little tauntingly, but he didn't seem to realize it. She raised the glass of champagne she hadn't even touched. "so, uh… to the demise of Glob… of GJ, or something like that?" she suggested, hoping that after a toast he would just let her go to get some rest.

Gemini immediately grinned again. "To the demise of GJ!" he repeated, raising his own glass and taking a sip. No, Shego thought, not just a sip: he emptied the glass, and when he put it down he was snickering even harder than before.

"You know, boss, I'm so not going to drag you back in your room if you pass out here," Shego pointed out. She fully expected Gemini to glare at her and order her to show more respect to him, but he simply shrugged.

"It takes more than that to knock me out," he pointed out before reaching for his control panel and pressing a button. "Agent Gamma?"

"Yes, sir?" Gamma's voice came from the other side.

"You're the new agent Beta," Gemini said, causing Shego to freeze – wait, what? Her first mission had been a complete success! Why should be fire her? Just for a joke about him not being able to stand champagne? She tensed at the thought – if he was really firing her, she had to at least expect a trapdoor to be involved.

Agent Gamma seemed to share her perplexities. "Excuse me, sir?"

"You heard me, agent Beta," Gemini turned to look at Shego, and she saw he was smirking at her tense expression "I've found my agent Alpha."