Chapter 6

Personal Hell

My head, its hurts so much, I still feel everything spinning even though I can't see a thing. I feel so numb once more. Where am I? Why is it so dark again? I feel my heart racing, am I dead, again? Oh, God, I hope not, I can't die again. I have so much to do. I can't let everyone down. I don't want to be here… I don't want to lose…. I don't want to be in this emptiness not knowing how my love is… something is different this time, I can almost hear someone. Even stranger this time is… I can smell something… It's making me cringe in disgust. What is that scent? It smells so foul and repulsive. Who is that talking? Can you hear me? Kim screamed silently hoping for someone to hear her, but the inaudible chatter only became louder and louder. She flailed her arms blindly in the darkness, completely unsure if she was even moving, until the chattering person went quite. It felt like an eternity in darkness and Kim shut her eyes, her tears rolling down her cheek once more, and she prayed for some miracle to pull her free. Someone or something must have been listening, because Kim felt a hot wave of air hit her entire body. She opened her eyes and noticed the darkness slowly fading away. Kim noticed that some unknown force was pulling her towards a bright red light in the distance and before she knew it, the light was so intense that she shielded her face, until a steady ringing echoed in her ears. Kim opened her eyes, her body was stretched out across the ground, but it didn't feel cold.

"Where am I?" Kim wondered as her eyes began to focus. She kept her eyes shut tight as a blast of hot air hit her body once more, but this time, it was followed by the screams of people in the distance. Kim clenched the ground, realizing that it was hot and wet. She brought the wet soil to her face and opened her eyes. Kim cried silently, crawling backwards, as she realized that the soil was drenched with blood and fragments of bones. Kim looked around panicked and realized that there was a large horned creature in the distance. The creature walked on blackened hooves, holding a large bloody cleaver in its hand, and it plucked a naked human from a large cage. The beast held the cleaver high in the air as it held down the pleading human. Its cleaver slammed down, smashing through the bone and tearing apart the soft tissue of the faceless human. The beast cackled demonically as it loped off the remaining limbs of its victim and commenced to drink their blood. Kim looked around and noticed the mutilated bodies of dozens, no, hundreds, no, thousands of humans everywhere. The scent of stale and fresh blood mingled in the air as Kim got to her feet. Her clothing soaked in blood and her hands caked with dirt and gore.

"What is this place?" she cried. "Why am I here? This can't be hell?" Kim began to walk away backwards, her eyes not losing sight of the menacingly tall beast as it hacked away at another human. Kim felt her back press against something wet and warm. She reluctantly turned around slowly and her jaw dropped. A pair of bloody hands reached out to her, grabbing her and pulling her close.

"I hurt so much Kim… I hurt so much…"

Kim stared into the eyes of her friend as he protruded halfway through a large bloody pillar. His lower torso completely gone and his entrails dangled in the stagnant air. "Wade?" Kim cried. "It can't be…" Kim trembled as she pushed herself away, only to feel another pair of hands grabbing her from behind. Kim turned around, face to face with someone else she knew, and she immediately swung her fist with all her might and striking the individual across the face.

"It's your fault I'm here…" the person growled angrily. "I am, however, surprised to see you in the bowels of hell." Nikki grimaced.

"I can't be in hell…" Kim replied, backing away from Nikki.

"Oh, but you are, and this eternity down here doesn't seem so bad now that I have you to play with for all of eternity…" Nikki licked her lips, wiping the blood from them, and she retrieved her favorite knife, holstered on her outer thigh.

"She's mine Nikki…" snarled another voice. A dark figure pulled itself out from the moist ground and approached the two.

"I saw her first!" Nikki screamed angrily at a bloody Lorne. She lunged at him, thrusting her blade deep into his chest and pulling it down. Lorne staggered back as his entrails began to hang from his body. Nikki thrust the knife into his face and grabbed hold of his hot steaming intestines and wrapped them tightly around his neck and wrists as he attempted to pull the knife out from his face. Nikki snarled loudly as she picked him off the ground with both hands and threw him into a deep hole nearby filled with fire. His body disappeared into the flames and he howled in agony as the flames blistered and scorched his flesh away.

"Now… where were we?" Nikki grinned as she licked the blood from her fingers. But Kim was nowhere to be found, she had snuck away when Nikki turned her back. "Come out and fight me you little bitch!" Nikki screamed as she searched every dark corner. Kim quietly shadowed Nikki, following a few steps behind her, until she saw her chance. She ran quickly behind Nikki kicking her behind the legs, causing her knees to buckle, and dropping her to her knees. Kim wrapped her forearm around Nikki's neck and squeezed hard.

"I don't know if I can kill you a third time, but I've had just about enough of you…" Kim applied even more pressure on Nikki's neck. Nikki grabbed hold of Kim's forearm and dug her fingers deep into her soft skin, trying to break free of her hold. Kim dragged Nikki towards a nearby fire pit and turned her around, making her face it, and slowly easing her closer to it. "Go ahead… do it…" Nikki laughed. Just as Kim was about to drop Nikki into the pit the ground began to shake. And both girls paused as a loud howl echoed behind them. Kim turned around and stared at the massive legs of the butcher beast as it slowly advanced on them. "He's gonna gnaw on your bones…" Nikki laughed. Kim sneered angrily as the beast drew inches away; she turned around, still holding Nikki by the throat and threw her at the beast. "Wait! No! You fucking bitch!" Nikki yelled as she staggered in front of the large creature.

"Nooo!" Nikki screamed in horror as the beast reached down, grabbing her in his large hand, and brought her up to his face. The beasts' enormous tongue licked Nikki in one motion, licking her from head to toe, before walking away with her. Kim watched from behind bloody pillar and let out a sigh of relief as she turned around. She took a few steps and gasped as the ground beneath her crumbled away. Her hands reaching up and attempted to grab the ledge, but missed. Kim bounced off the jagged rocks, striking her head, and blacked out.

It felt like hours had passed and Kim could smell the scent of burning flesh. Her body trembled at the thought of the hell in which she was trapped in and slowly opened her eyes. Kim noticed the figure of a person walking around her and talking incoherently. As Kim focused her eyes, she realized that she was no longer in that other world, was it all a dream she wondered? Was it some horrible nightmare? Kim sprang up and knocked the figure down. Kim's eyes scanned the room, she was in some kind of laboratory, and there were bodies on steel examination tables. And oddly enough, there was a large incinerator in the distance. Kim could clearly see a body inside, its skin blistering and burning away, was that what she smelled in her nightmare?

"Where am I?" Kim demanded.

"Fuck…" The figure cursed as he slowly stood up, reaching into his lab coat. "…damn tranquilizer wore off faster than I had expected." He mumbled. Kim grabbed hold of the table in which she rested on and used all of her strength to lift it and use it as a weapon, hitting the man with it. His body flew across the room and he crashed into a table, knocking over the corpse of a man wearing a similar lab coat on top of him. Kim grabbed his dropped weapon, a small handgun, and aimed it at him. "Where the hell am I? And who are you?" She barked. The man looked up at her as he slowly got up.

"I work for the new boss, Miss Go…" He grumbled. "I spotted you in your car and followed you. My predecessor… this guy…" he said, pointing at the corpse. "…failed to incinerate you quickly and so he was terminated. And me, well, I tranquilized you at the first chance I got… but it seems that my experimental concoction didn't keep you out long enough for me to dispose of you." He smiled evilly.

"So it was all a drug induced nightmare?" Kim said quietly to herself.

"Ah, so that's one of the side effects?" the man laughed. Kim walked over to the man and grabbed him by the collar, pointing the gun at his belly.

"I'm so tired of you people…" Kim grimaced.

"What are you gonna do about it? Kill me?" the man laughed.

Kim pistol whipped the nameless man across the temple and dragged him across the room, dropping him in front of the large incinerator. "Where am I exactly?" she asked.

"In the belly of the beast" He grinned mockingly. Kim angrily struck the man once more across the face with the gun, breaking his nose, and causing his nose to bleed profusely.

"I'm at the Omni Corp. Building?" she asked.

The man laughed at her and responded, "No, it's Shego World Enterprises now…" Kim lifted the man back on his feet and grabbed him by his coat, "No one likes a smart ass…" Kim pushed the man into the large incinerator and closed the door on it. The nameless man could be heard screaming in pain as the fire burned his flesh away. His pleas fell on deaf ears as Kim looked around the room, looking for some clue as to what floor she was on, and even more, if there were any signs of her Shego. A dead silence fell over Kim as she looked around the dozens of examining tables. Almost everyone was occupied with a white sheet, hiding some poor unfortunate soul that had been killed, either by Shego's orders, or by the former boss, Omni. Kim noticed a desk a few feet away, it had a computer on it, and luckily, it was still logged on. Kim quickly sat down and began sifting through the various files and folders stored away on it. Sure enough, after a few minutes of hunting she found what she was looking for. Her hand moved across the desk, moving the computer mouse, and clicking over a folder marked "Persons to be Incinerated". It seemed that they weren't too worried about anyone reading this material, seeing as how it wasn't encrypted or hidden. That's when Kim began to realize something more troublesome. Where were the guards? Why was there only one person down here? Something didn't sit right. Kim clicked the folder and began to read the list of people in various holding cells. Each person on the list was scheduled for termination. And the person that approved all of them was none other than Shego.

Kim was in shock, each person on the list was someone that had helped her ruin Drakkens attempts at world domination. It seemed that Shego was erasing all of those responsible for her continuous failures and embarrassments. Kim knew that she couldn't rescue all of those people by herself, but if she toppled Shego from power, she could cripple their operations and free them afterwards. Just as Kim skimmed further down the list she found her Shego. She was being detained a few floors above her in a high security cell.

"I hope I'm not too late…" Kim thought to herself as she was about to close the folder, when she froze. On that long list of people were the names of her mother, father and brothers. It seemed that Shego was intent on erasing the Possible name. Kim tucked the gun in her pants and covered it with her shirt. She paused for another moment and took a deep breath, looking at her hands, which had begun to shake uncontrollably. What's happening to me, she wondered, as she stood up and made her way to a large door and pushed it open, not looking back as it closed behind her.