Shego stood in the middle of a deserted street. The only people with her were the ones that were in the room. Kim Possible stood in her re-vamped mission clothes. Ron Stoppable stood in a skin tight, black suit covered in the occassional capsule and his mission pants. Yori was a blue hair dye job away from a cosplayer's wildest fantasy, with her black synthetic body suit nearly painted on and a pile of nearly imaginary weapons at her feet. No one else was within sight-no one in the windows of a house, or on the street or anything really.
Shego again tried to claim leadership. "Let's catch our breaths. We should have an hour to get this Azerath Alien, but we were so busy arguing that I didn't check the clock."
"Who put you in charge?", Kim challenged. "You listen to me. I'll call Wade, we'll figure this out and then you and Drakken are going down."
With that, she pulled out her Kimmunicator. And for the first time ever, she got nothing but static.
"It won't work, Princess.", Shego told her. "We're invisible. That includes every electromagnetic wavelength. Radios, cell phones-even Ron's tracking chip won't work. Oh, that reminds me."
"I have a tracking chip?", Ron asked.
Kim glared at him then returned her gaze to Shego. Shego had lit up her hands with her trademarked plasma and proceeded to press them to her head. The woman gritted her teeth and concentrated on her green fire. After a few moments, she stopped and caught her breath.
Shego explained. "You all have explosives in your head. If you go 'out of bounds' in the game, or tell anyone about it if you survive, it'll pop."
"How is that possibe?", Yori asked, attempting to keep the appearance of broken English. "If we a dead and ghost s, we may be invisibe. But then how coud we have bombs in heads?"
"You're not dead.", Shego told her. "As far as anyone's figured out, this is the most maddening game ever devised. That black ball is Gantz. It 'selects' some people when they die and draws a copy of them out of thin air. In that room, it gives a moment to take a)the suits b)the weapons and c)the warning about the alien. If the alien is killed, any of the game's survivors will be redrawn, healed up, in the room. Then you can go home."
"Start listening to me!", Kim yelled. The teen was gnashing her teeth and balling her fists, ready to explode.
Ron saw how much frustration Kim held. He pulled her close and started petting her hair until she was calm enough to think again.
Yori used the time to talk to Shego. "What if not kill alien?", she asked.
"Then everyone's points go to zero.", Shego said. "You get points for each kill. Someone else told me that you win if you get to a hundred points. What that means, who knows? Most everybody thought it meant you got your life back and didn't have to play the game-maybe you forgot it, or it was all just a bad dream or whatever. A couple thought you just got bigger weapons. One even hoped you could bring back someone who died playing."
"Where are they now?", Yori asked.
Shego bit her lip and turned to Ron and Kim. "All dead.", she finally whispered.