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The entire story will be in Shego's POV.
Note: This chapter deals with Shego's take on the whole 'tempest simian' saga and the 'so the drama' movie
What 'Princess' doesn't know is…
Chapter 4: I set her up…twice (and both were Stoppable's ideas)
As I sit in the back of the police truck, I can't help but give a wry smile as Stoppable gets Drakken to say his full name. I catch a glimpse of Kimmie looking proud as Drakken gets hauled into the truck with me. What 'princess' doesn't see is that as Drakken gets into the truck, he gives me a wink and a smile to signal 'mission accomplished'. I smile in return and only hope Stoppable doesn't screw up the rest of the plan. It's up to him to take Kimmie to the prom and make sure the both of them have a night to remember. Yes, what 'princess' doesn't know is, the whole thing was a ploy to set her up with Stoppable, and everyone was in on it except her.
It wasn't even the first time I had tried to set Stoppable up with his crush. The first time was the whole 'tempest simian' gig. I remember that day how Stoppable and I were shopping at Smarty Mart again and he was moping about how Kimmie was ignoring him in favour of Josh Mankey. That got me thinking about what I could do to make 'Kimmie' see what was really in front of her. I mean, she's ignorant but she can't be THAT blind can she?
Drakken, Monty and even Duff were only too glad to help with the plan. Apparently they too had taken a liking to Stoppable. His honesty and loyalty to Kimmie had earned him respect amongst the villain community that neither he nor Kimmie knew of. It was Monty's idea to use the 'time monkey'. According to him, due to some mystical monkey prophecy, only Stoppable had the ability to break the idol and this was the perfect opportunity to set Stoppable up as a hero and show Princess how valuable he was to her.
Drakken and the boys first led Princess down memory lane to get them to remember the beginning of their friendship. It was then my job to pull the 'future' gig that would bring them together. After all, romance needs a woman's touch. (I'd better not hear sniggering!)
This particular time, Stoppable and co. weren't in on it so they were genuinely surprised. The 'Rufus 3000' part was my idea as I thought it'd be a funny joke to play on them and it would further put some emphasis on Stoppable.
The only time Stoppable realized it was a setup was when 'Rufus 3000' brought them into the future. During the time travel bit, 'Rufus 3000' had briefly dragged Stoppable away so that I could brief him then returned him to Kimmie's side. After that, it was just a matter of setting up the final 'battle' so that Stoppable could be the hero. Drakken loved hamming it up in his 'macho' body and Stoppable was an even bigger ham in his hero role. Funnily enough, 'princess' never suspected a thing.
That setup worked in one aspect, it made Kimmie appreciate Stoppable more and deepened their friendship, just not enough to proceed into Romance.
Then came the Attitudinator incident that inadvertently revealed Kimmie's and mine true feelings for Stoppable and Drakken respectively (first one to start singing "Shego and Drakken sitting under a tree…" gets buried under said tree). Of course, I made Drakken pay dearly for that little accident, but when he pointed out the effects it had on Kimmie, I realized that maybe there was still a chance to bring the two do-gooders together.
This time around, we had all of Stoppable's friends and Possible's family to help. They were only too willing to assist – apparently they had all grown tired of the Possible/Stoppable 'will they or won't they' routine.
The plan was the brainchild of Drakken, myself, the Possible family and of course Stoppable himself. (I mean, come on, of course he was in on it; who else would think of taking over Bueno Nacho? That one had him written all over it and Kimmie still didn't see through it. Ha!)
Drakken was only too eager to show off to Dr James Possible and so went overboard with the synthodrones and the fake research setups. Mr Possible kindly donated his experimental research for the plan and Wade even contacted the head of Bueno Nacho and Mr Nakamura to fill them in and get their assistance. Bueno Nacho's El Jefe was only too willing to help out his most loyal customer and the creator of the Naco. Mr Nakamura was also eager to return the favour to 'Miss Possible and Mr Stoppable' for saving his life many times over (who knew being a toy designer was hazardous work?).
The twins and I worked on the 'little diablos' to make sure that not only would the robots not actually harm anyone, but that once all was said and done, the robots would go back to being harmless toys and stay as such.
The real kicker? We had even obtained legal permits locally as well as internationally for the whole little diablos stunt. (We passed it off as a publicity stunt for Bueno Nacho.) There would be virtually no chance of anyone getting arrested though the police would play their roles. (Senior Senior Senior also had his lawyers on speed dial just in case – yes he was in on it, how else could we have afforded to buy said permits?)
The whole idea was for Kim to first find her supposed perfect guy (Mrs Possible had a whole lot of input on the design of said guy, and boy did I learn some hilarious secrets about Kimmie during that process) and then for her to realize that the perfect guy for her wasn't the one in her fantasies but Ron Stoppable, her childhood friend and partner in 'crime fighting'.
And so the plan went into motion. Drakken 'taking' control of Bueno Nacho and using 'Eric' to distract 'Princess'. Ron being the only to see the signs of the 'little diablos' being more than just toys and eventually Kim realizing that Ron was right. Predictably, the duo would then come to confront me and Drakken.
Somewhere along the line, Wade had also taken the opportunity to get Kimmie to test out the new power suit. He had told me to try to go all out against it but after one blast of plasma, I quickly realized that was a bad idea. Yes, the suit did heal but it took a full 3 seconds to do so, during which time I could easily have launched another plasma blast that would have given 'Princess' 3rd degree burns. The suit also made Kimmie a bit too reckless and I told Wade as much whilst Kimmie was out cold.
Whilst Kimmie stayed out cold, Stoppable was actually awake and choreographing the ending to the fight with us. When Kimmie finally awoke, we put that choreography into action. I didn't like the fact that the plan had called for me to get electrocuted as collateral during the cell tower's destruction but I played along anyway for Stoppable's sake. (Luckily my powers render me fairly immune to electrical damage)
Finally after all the plans have played out and Stoppable had said his final 'boo yeah!', all of us can only hope that Stoppable and Possible have a successful prom. I hope to hear good news from Stoppable next time I do grocery shopping at Smarty Mart. (I'd hate to see all this work and electrocution go to waste)
I wonder what Kimmie's reaction will be 50 years from now when she and Stoppable are an old married couple and Stoppable fills her in on what really happened tonight. Should be a riot! Until then, this will just have to remain another of a long line of things that 'princess' doesn't know.
AN: I hope you enjoyed this. Next chapter: Shego talks about Warmonga.