Well, here it is, chapter 7. Hope you guys enjoy reading it as much as I enjoy writing it. Cant wait for the reviews... speaking of which, thank you for the ones you've left me, but I'd love to hear more. So, just in case anyone hasn't figured it out yet. I own nothing but the plot, Mara, and Yasha. I am making no money off of this and am merely writing for the pure joy of it and to hear what people think. So, Disney, PLEASE DON'T SUE. I can't afford it.
Ron stalked slowly through the warehouse. He and Yori had split up upon entering because they had no way of telling where in the place Shego and Kim would be. So far, all he'd come across was abandoned equipment and boxes of unidentifiable items and components. He pulled the Kimmunicator from his hip and hit the quick call button, the Tweebs' faces immediately appearing on the screen.
"What is it Ron?" Jim said as Tim worked at another computer screen.
"I've got a bad feeling about this guys…" Ron said, then looked down to the pocket his suit had, Rufus's head poking out and the small mole-rat nodding his agreement. "We both do."
"Don't know what to tell ya Ron. The only thing our scans show is the tracker signal coming from somewhere in the building, the security specs look lax, but this is Kim and Shego we're talking about, and Wade's computer skills. We can give him a run for his money, but he still basically blows our doors off." Jim shook his head, as he looked over at Tim's screen.
"It's an uphill battle just finding his systems, let alone cracking them. I've busted past two of his barriers in my life. Both times, because he was distracted at a crucial point by a call from Kim. And that's when he was training us." Tim said.
"Now that he's working against us… Well, we're good Ron-Man, but we're not that good." Jim shook his head again and looked back to Ron.
"Understood guys, no one is Wade level." Ron looked around, then down at Rufus. "Hear anything buddy?"
"Na ah." Rufus shook his head, "Spooky…" then shivered.
"Yea. I know, " Ron turned back, "All right guys, we'll check in later." He killed the connection and replaced the Kimmunicator on his hip, drawing the Lotus Blade.
"Worried?" Kim's voice came from near by.
"Just a little unsure KP…wait… Kim… How long have you been trailing me?" Ron turned to look at his friend and now enemy.
"Oh, just a few minutes now. Wanted to make sure you were in the right spot before I came out to play. Hey Rufus, how ya doing buddy?" Kim waved at the mole-rat, his head sticking out of the pouch on Ron's belt.
"Kim" Rufus squeaked and waved.
"KP, what is going on? Brainwashing? Moodulator? Attitudinator? Come on KP? Give me something…" Ron was grasping at straw now, he knew that.
"Sorry Ron, I really am, but the fact is, Shego and I love each other. We know she'll never be allowed out of jail if she turns herself in, so we decided to be together this way. Two very skilled thieves, living it up and having our way with the world. We aren't going to take over the world, so you really don't have much to worry about." Kim smiled at him.
"You know we're going to have to come after you then?" Ron shook his head as he fell into a steady stance, Lotus Blade held centered in front of his body.
"I know Ron, I don't hold it against you. I just hope you realize we're still friends… All right?" Kim smiled as she took the bracelet she was wearing off, and transformed it back into Kusanagi, taking her stance easily, the blade held parallel to the ground over her head, free hand out in front of her.
"Since Pre-K KP… doesn't mean I'll let you get away with this though." he shot forward, bringing the Lotus Blade into a quick arc. Kim avoided the blow instead of blocking and brought Kusanagi into a spinning blow. Ron blocked and leapt back. "Anything else while we settle this?"
"Well, you could deliver a message to my parents." She came in stabbing Kusanagi at Ron with quick short movements, forcing him to backpedal as he blocked.
"Whoa! Kim if this is how you treat friends, I don't wanna see what you do to enemies now." Ron ducked and tried to disarm her with a uppercut blow. "What do you want me to tell the rents?"
Kim used the boost of the suit to send her over Ron's head and land behind him, swinging the blade back to catch him unguarded only to find him gone. She turned as he came out of a roll and turned back to her.
"You've gotten a lot better. Tell Mom I'm sorry, but I had to follow my heart. Tell Dad…well, tell Dad he didn't want me chasing boys…and I love them both." She readied the blade again, and charged him, swinging in wide. Ron blocked only to have his blade meet air as Kusanagi changed shape with an audible pop. As he registered that, Kim's now metal incased fist connected with his chin, sending him backwards. She followed up with a spin kick, changing the blade again into a staff, which she brought into his gut.
"Oof… Kim… You're good…" He shook his head thankful the battle suit had taken most of the impacts and clearing his head from the steel laced punch. He converted his own blade into a staff as well. "Quarter staffs? First to be knocked from the catwalk loses?"
Kim spun her staff for a few minutes and examined the catwalk, "Sounds good to me… but I warn you Ron. I won't hold back."
"I wouldn't expect you to Kim." Ron curled his arm around the staff and held it off to the side his other hand forward in a standard stance.
Kim took a more aggressive stance, both hands on the staff in preparation to strike, the staff forward so that she could meet any attack with one of her own. Her eyes locked with Ron's and she advanced, surprised his stance allowed him to move fast enough to block her first overhead blow, she rebounded off the block, reversing the staff's direction into an uppercut strike. Ron batted it aside with the base of his own and came in at an angle.
Kim's eyes caught the movement out of the corner of her eye and ducked under it, realizing too late that the catwalk kept her from swinging from this position. She compensated by jabbing the staff forward like a spear. Ron turned his body to the side, swinging the his own staff down now that she couldn't block.
"Nice try Ron." Kim used the suit again, leaping backward as the staff in Ron's hands connected with the catwalk. She came back to her feet again and returned the staff into a ready grip. "But not quite good enough."
"Yori's been training me a bit, and a little dream training from Master Sensei." Ron spun his staff over his head.
"Ninja Ron…I'm impressed." She launched forward, jabbing the staff like a spear to throw Ron off balance. "Too bad I've been fighting ninjas since I was in braces."
Ron blocked sporadically, a few blows managing to make there way through, but he didn't falter as he came in with his own attack. The blows he rained down hard and fast but only connecting superficially as she blocked and dodged, body twisting and curling around the blows. Her staff lanced out one more time, shoved between Ron's legs and knocking his feet out from under him.
As Ron went down he turned it into a roll, using it to gain some distance. "Damn Kim, if you're this good, why never use weapons before?"
"Easy Ron, good guys don't usually need a means of hurting someone, now I don't have those restrictions." She came in hard again and forced Ron to back peddle farther. "For example, I still refuse to kill, but that doesn't mean I can't intentionally break some bones and bust some heads…" She brought the staff flying in at Ron's head.
"Holy…" Ron ducked faster than he should have losing his footing and falling to the floor. Kim smiled as she brought the base of her staff to his throat, holding it there. "Brutal KP… truly brutal."
"How are the Tweebs doing as tech support?" She removed the staff from Ron's throat and walked back a bit.
Ron rolled back and then came leaping to his feet in classic ninja fashion. "They're not as good as Wade, then again, who is. How did you convince him to come with you?"
"Ron, Wade is a hacker, half the stuff he did, whether he gained from it or not, wasn't exactly legal… " Kim smiled, "Neither are half the materials the Tweebs used in there rockets and experiments for that matter. He wasn't helping save the world, he was helping me do what I did. That's all he's doing now, though admittedly, to a bit lesser extent." She spun her staff a bit.
"Lesser? Why?" Ron readied his staff as well.
"Where's the fun if the buildings already unlocked?" Kim grinned like a devil. "Round two?"
"GO!" Ron yelled and attacked first this time, sending hammer like blows down on his friend, her staff moving as if it knew where the blows where coming from before he did.
"Not bad Ron…" Kim knocked his staff back again, leaving him open for the first blow against his ribs. "But I'm better." She came in with her own series of blows, Ron's broken stance only able to block two of the six rapid fire blows.
"That hurt…" Ron shook it off, the suit absorbing most of the impact, but Kim's own boosted strength more than enough to make him feel the strikes. "While I'm thinking of it, what's the plan anyway? Why the Crown Jewels? I mean, one set, sure, but all the ones you took?"
"Well, originally it was just a minor thing, we just wanted to prove we were the best… we still plan to give most of them back. We're keeping the Three Sacred Treasures though. Mostly cause now that we've proven it can be done, we don't trust anyone else with them. Though I don't think Kusanagi would go back now that it has found its owner."
"Probably true… wait… did you just refer to Kusanagi as if it were alive?" Ron came in again trying to by pass Kim's guard and only managing a single glancing blow to her shoulder.
Kim took the blow to the shoulder, turning with it and jabbing her own staff at his ankle to throw him off balance again. "That's right, don't know about the Lotus Blade, but Kusanagi thinks… and that's not all it does either."
Ron stepped over the blow, brining his foot down to lock her staff in place as he placed his own at her throat this time. "Oh? Do tell?"
"Ok, but you asked for it." Kim said, then smiled wickedly as she engulfed Kusanagi in blazing blue flames. The flames engulfing his foot caused Ron to jump back again. Kim's smile grew wider as she saw her opening. She launched a fireball at him striking Ron in the chest. The force of the blow sent Ron flying and over the catwalk.
"Holy!" The Lotus Blade in Ron's hand quickly changed and hooked onto the catwalk, the chain wrapping around his wrist. "That's not fair Kim!"
Kim smirked as she looked down at him hanging there. "Ron… I'm a villain now…" She unhooked the Lotus Blade, letting him fall the rest of the way to the floor.
"You just threw Ron over a catwalk?" Wade's voice in her ear.
"Yep." Kim smiled, "He'll be fine, might knock him out, but the suit will absorb the greater part of the impact and it wasn't that far to the bottom. He knows we're still friends, even if we are on opposite sides now, and he'll tell Mom and Dad I said goodbye. Any idea how Shego is doing?"
"Well, she found one of your Daughters." Wade laughed in her ear a bit.
"Oh…sounds like fun." Kim shook her head. "When she gets done, tell her to meet me at the jet." Kim started to walk back along the catwalk.
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"You planning to follow me much longer Madre?" Mara smiled as she stopped in a spacious part of the warehouse.
"Not really, I guess this is far enough." Shego disengaged her suits cloaking field and stepped out of the shadows. "Like the new duds?"
"Fancy… nice flames, Nerdlinger build you a crutch?" The smirk on Mara's face told the story behind that comment.
"Ouch… that hurt. Though actually, the suit doesn't augment my abilities as much as you'd think. Heck, the only reason he was able to build it is because of you and your sister." Shego drew the trench knives, holding them back fisted. "The metal in these knives is what the nano-bots are made of."
"You mean if we hadn't fought you, you wouldn't have the new look?" Mara shook her head. "Well Gemini aught to be pissed by that."
"Gemini?" Shego tilted her head, "So it's not just Monkey Boy and Fat Chick, it's the whole crew? Did they bust Drakken out?"
"Yea, he's annoying you know…how did you ever stand him?" Mara started to flex her claws and stand ready.
"I got to see Kim." Shego fell into her stance as well. "Sure you wanna do this? I mean, you can't like working for those idiots."
"We don't… unfortunately, we have no choice." Mara attacked, swiping at Shego with electrified claws.
"Whoa! Shock claws, I'm impressed Pup." Shego dodged her attacks quickly, body turning and ducking to stay away from the electrical current. "And what do you mean no choice?" Her foot launches out and connects with Mara's stomach, sending the hybrid backwards. "Wait a minute, DNAmy and Drakken, genetic mind control?"
"Technically, it's… how did they put it?" Mara rushed in again, claws once again sparking with electrical current only to be blocked by Shego's plasma encased knives, "Gene encoded compliance control. Free will, but we have to follow orders. Kinda sucks."
"I'll say, always hated mind control…" Shego drove her plasma bathed knuckles into Mara's gut, knocking the wind out of her, then spun into a kick, sending her tumbling forward as Shego moved behind her.
"Good shot Mother." Mara rolled through the kick and came up, arching the electricity off her gloves to send out waves of power. "But try and dodge my lightning!"
Shego leapt back out of range and launched a plasma ball at her, the plasma and electricity meeting in a brilliant flash of green light. Both women turned there heads to avoid the flash.
"DAMN GIRL!" Shego cursed as she blinked the spots from her eyes, "Remind me to do that less."
"Same here, you're not bad, old woman." Mara started to stalk toward her again.
"I'm not that old… I figure… four years past your current physical age, though truthfully, you can't be more than a couple months. Your skill is remarkable, your style flawed only because it was taught in a tube, not by a master. Though, most of it's just natural claw techniques…" Shego grinned and put her knives away, hooking her fingers into claws as her battle-suit let the nano claws extend into razor edged talons.
"Well, looks like we'll see just who the animal is." Mara smiled wide.
They launched at each other, claws flashing and cutting the air. Steel talons met nano blades and sparks flew as plasma met electricity. It wasn't long before Mara realized her disadvantage quickly though. Shego's suit was nano technology and quickly healed and covered any attacks that got through her brutal defenses. Mara on the other hand wore only the basic gi of a monkey ninja and was starting to bleed in several spots, her clothes cut away from pale flesh and starting to hang in shreds.
"Enough." Mara leapt back, holding a shallow scratch across her shoulder. "Your suit gives you an edge."
"Well, doy!" Shego hit the flat of her palm against her forehead, "Self healing nano-technology and medical nano-bots against slicing claws, hmm, yep, definite advantage."
"You didn't intend to play fair did ya?" Mara shook her head, "Of course not, doy, you're a villain, I'm a villain, we should both be cheating."
"Actually, I just wanted to ware you out enough for a friendly chat." Shego grinned. "Did it work?"
"Not by a long shot." She launched her lightning strike again, trying to catch Shego off guard. The lightning arched and struck, rebounding back off the boxes and equipment in the warehouse as Shego leapt and moved to avoid the bright current.
"Not gonna catch me with that little girl." Shego launched a few low level plasma balls to draw the current without recreating the blinding explosion from earlier. "I've been dodging Drakken's handiwork for years."
"Just buying time to lick my wounds Madre, not exactly human remember? My body heals faster than yours." She split her hands, letting the current die for a moment. "And I'm ready for round two."
"Oh… my little girl definitely knows how to play dirty and bide her time. I'm so proud." Shego threw a higher level plasma ball right at Mara, "But so do I!"
Mara flew backward as the blast struck her dead in the chest, knocking her into a box. Shego leapt down toward her while she was dazed and used a grapple wire from her gauntlet to quickly tie her up, making sure the electrical charged gauntlets were tangled tightly in the wire.
"There now, we should be able to talk a bit, before you break free of that, and I wouldn't use your electrical charge, if you do it'll send the current coursing right through you." Shego sat down a few feet away and looked at her, taking nail file from her pouch and starting to file her nails through the suit.
Mara struggled with the cable, trying to get her claws into the wire but unsuccessful at every angle. "Ok, so what did you have in mind for this mother daughter chat?"
"Just a few questions and answers, wondering why you tried to kill Kimmie last time we fought, wondering what your plans are, thinking about ways to bust you free of those idiots with the genetic tampering." Shego rattled off, an almost bored voice despite her intense interest.
"Well…" She grunted and continued to work the cable, "The reason I tried to kill Mom, is because I was ordered to, my instructions were to do whatever was necessary to gain Kusanagi, and when she hurt Yasha, even superficially, my rage took over in my animal form.."
"Which you can't shift into now, because it would just make the cable tighter…" Shego smirked.
"Right… you had your tech-head research us?" Mara asked almost a bit insulted.
"Not really, he did it on his own from the footage of the battle, and the blood left on the weapons." She smiled "We'd have had him do it anyway, and that wire is strong enough to hold even your shifted form, and in the way it's tied now, shifting would only wound you."
"What were the other questions?" She smiled as she felt one strand start to loosen, only to wince as it pulled another tighter.
"Your plans?" Shego tilted her head, a curious look crossing her face, "Yours and the collective goofs, I know they're different, you guys are Kimmie and my kids, you've gotta be smarter than them."
"Oh…much…" she managed to loosen one hand, "They want the treasures… they think that if they can claim them they can take them from Kim." She winced again as a second pull retied her hand. "Grrr…Yasha and I just want to get the hell away from them and figure out what we wanna do… unfortunately, it's against our genetic programming…"
"Hmm, that sucks, and since you have free will, you don't have to tell them this unless they specifically ask. At least that's in your favor." Shego smiled. "You're almost out, aren't you?"
"Working on it…" She grunted as she got her hand free again and started working on the cable with her claws "As for breaking us free of the controls… it's genetically encoded, you'd need a genetics genius, and have to find a way to rewrite our entire genetic code without breaking us down into component genes."
"Geneticist, geneticist… well, I'll think about it…for now…take a nap." Shego put her hand to Mara head and flared her plasma, knocking her out for a bit.
"Not bad… Kim's waiting for you back at the jet. She pretty much did the same to Ron. Any idea how we can free them?" Wade's voice in her ear.
"None. You're the genius though, this should be right up your alley." Shego deadpanned as she started to leave, her cloak sliding back into place.
"Not really, I'm computers and tech, not genetics… I can do the scans, but that's about it. Can start searching for geneticist though if you want." Wade offered.
"Thanks Shorty, that'd be helpful. See you when we get back… oh? What about Yasha and Yori? Did they meet or manage to avoid each other?" Shego asked.
"So far, they've avoided each other, but they seem to be heading on a collision course at the moment." Wade sighed.
"Keep an eye on them, Kim and I'll wait at the jet till this is resolved. Just in case things get outta hand." Shego chuckled.
"Probably a good idea."
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Yori walked around the corner of a box carefully, her ears trying to pick up the slightest sound from the area. She'd heard what sounded like battle and explosions earlier, but they were on the other side of the ware house. She hoped Ron was alright. He was suppose to patrol that area. She was about to move around another box when she felt it. Someone was nearby. And they weren't friendly.
Yori drew her fans, quietly opening the steel blades, she closed her eyes, trying to pick up the footfalls of her anonymous opponent. Nothing. No sound, barely a hint of her breathing. Just the sensation of an enemy nearby.
Ninja chi. Sensei-sama, may your spirit be with me.
Yori centered her mind and soul, breathing in and expelling her fears as she prepared herself, attempting to sense her opponents presence through her chi.
There!
Yori leapt over the boxes and came down on the other side, fans flashing as she caught sight of her opponent. Ancestral steel met modern alloy, sparks bursting off both as Yori's fans sliced down along Yasha's swing knives.
"You are fast…" Yori leapt back to gain some distance, "But your training seems stunted."
"Yea, well you're not bad yourself Sweet Thang." Yasha circled away from the boxes to allow for a better mobility.
"I am Yori, trained by Yamanouchi," Yori bowed, fans still at the ready and eyes on Yasha.
"Yasha, trained by Monkey Fist in the way of ninja, taught Mantis and Claw styles by the memories of Kim Possible and Shego. Self trained in the art of blades." Yasha nodded her head slightly.
"Trained by there memories?" Yori's eyes continued to take in her opponent's stance, searching for any sign of flaw or weakness.
"Cloned and taught in tube, minor training outside to allow for a complete understanding of the Ninjutsu. " Yasha watched Yori's eyes, knowing the kunoichi was examining her stance for weakness.
"Ah…that would explain the reason you did not sense me till I was attacking." Yori smiled, seeing the opening she was waiting for she leapt forward and used her fans to bat the shivs aside, turning in mid strike to launch a kick at Yasha's chest.
The hybrid clone fell back, turning the blow into momentum for a back flip and coming up in a crouched stance, shivs held out to her sides and eyes back on Yori. She clicked the controls in the hilt and smiled as the purple energy surrounded the blade. "Not bad…but can you do it again?"
The launched at each other, Yori spinning and dancing, using the fans block and deflect rather than attack, launching powerful kicks at choice openings. Yasha was all offense, curved blades flashing and trying to cut through Yori's defenses.
Yasha's blades managed a moment's opening, causing the ninja to leap backwards, avoiding the strike, she closed one fan and stabbed it into a box, hanging there as she looked down at Yasha.
"If you are a composite of Kim and Shego, surely you could easily defeat Monkey Fist… why work for him?" Yori asked as she leapt forward again, fan opening to attack.
"Not my choice. My sister and I are genetically bound to obey him." Yasha blocked the blow of the fans only to receive a kick to the back of her knee. "Damnit you're fast."
Yori smiled, "Thank you for the complement Yasha-san." Yori launched another volley of kicks and superficial strikes with the fans. "But flattery will not make me hold back."
"Wouldn't…" Yasha grunted as she took another blow to the stomach, "Ask you to." She punched forward with the swing knives, hissing in frustration as Yori moved at the last second to avoid the blow, then brought her knee up to block a kick that the kunoichi aimed at her stomach.
"Now, what do you mean genetically bound?" Yori asked, spinning around Yasha to kick her in the back of the head, missing as she rolled forward.
"I mean, we were cloned and programmed to obey his orders. We don't have any choice in the matter. My sister and I are stuck obeying him, DNAmy, and the rest of that menagerie of villainy, until they die, we do, or someone breaks the genetic code."
"Ah, I see Fiske-san and his acquaintances are up to their dishonorable tricks. Do you wish to be free?" Yori asked, facing Yasha again.
"Wouldn't you?" Yasha came in again, knives flashing faster in her frustration and rage. Still the ninja avoided the blows. "Why can't I hit you?"
"You strike with rage and anger, your chi is not centered, and therefore, you attacks are obvious to one trained by Master Sensei." Yori back flipped and kicked Yasha under the chin.
"Grrr…" Yasha stepped back and looked at her. "Centered huh?" She closed her eyes and breathed slowly through her nose, letting her mind clear, then her eyes opened with a crystal clear determination. "Lets try this again…" She bowed slowly.
"With pleasure Yasha-san." Yori bowed.
They came at each other, knives and fans batting at each other quickly, kicks blocked again and again. They fought as mirror images of each other. Yori would block a knife blow only to be kicked by Yasha's more powerful legs. Yasha would avoid a kick only to have her counter strike blocked by one of Yori's fans. Soon both women faced each other panting heavily.
"Quick break?" Yasha asked.
"Of course." Yori nodded slowly.
They bowed and started to walk slowly around each other, "Thank you for that tip, Yori. It is something I should have seen, but because of my…sensei…" She said the word grudgingly, "It is not a lesson I learned."
"Lord Monkey Fist is… not the teacher many would choose." Yori stated simply as both fighters caught their breath. "Ready?"
"Of course." Both combatants bowed as they went at each other anew.
This time the battle was just as intense, but with Yori once again finding the minute weaknesses in Yasha's form.
"You are good Yasha-san, but not on level with Kim-san or Shego-san, the fault however lies with…" Yori closed her fans around the blades, twisting them to disarm her, and launching several kicks at her head, "your sensei's training."
Yasha discarded her blades and rolled back to avoid the kicks, "You are right, in a fair fight, I don't seem to be able to beat you. However…" Yasha began to shift, fur rippling across her skin and fingers curling as claws appeared.
"Oh my…" Yori shook her head. "While impressive, it will still be my honor to defeat you today."
"Not likely Sweetie." She leapt at Yori, her speed doubled by the transformation as she tried to disembowel the kunoichi.
Yori danced around the slicing blows, her fans back open now and slicing at fur and flesh. The first blows were superficial in an attempt to back the beast off. "What are you?"
"Your worst nightmare Sexy… A ninja beast with poison claws." Yasha sliced Yori's shoulder with dripping claws.
"Ngh…" Yori stepped back. "Ouch… but you'll have to do better than that." Yori shook her head to clear the venom's effects.
"Not when that venom finishes pouring through your system…" She attacked again, slicing at Yori's abdomen.
"Yes, but if I defeat you first my injury will be meaningless." Yori's fan's sliced double lines across Yasha's stomach, cutting the top of her gi open.
The hybrid back peddled and Yori pressed her advantage. Spinning fans blocked any attack and kicking feet launched themselves at joints and wounds, attempting to weaken the beast before her. Yori's attacks aimed with years of practice to weaken and disable her opponent. "Your mistake this time, "She leapt into the air, landing a direct kick to Yasha's face. "Is attempting to compensate for training with speed and power. If you free yourself of your leash, feel free to seek me out. I will introduce you to my sensei."
"You'd do that?" Yasha fell back, leaning against a box as her body returned to normal.
"Yes, Yasha-san, it would be an honor to call you, imoutosan. For now however, I must leave you. " Yori threw a smoke bomb, vanishing as the smoke cleared.
"She'd call me a sister as well? Well, I hope Mara had some luck to." Yasha shook her head and walked off.
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Yori watched the hybrid leave from a nearby hiding space, pulling a vial from her pouch, drinking it to expel the poison in her system. "It was an honor Yasha-san, I hope you think of my offer when you find a way to freedom."
"Who was she?" Ron asked as he came up beside her quietly.
"The villains' attempt to counter Kim and Shego, she and her sister are not happy with their forced servitude either." Yori answered.
"Isn't that vial your ninja anti-venom?" He looked at her worried.
"Yes, luckily we are trained to resist poisons at Yamanouchi." Yori smiled, "Do not worry Ron-kun, I will be fine, as you knew when you sent me off on my own. And you? Did you find anything?"
"Kim kicked my butt, aint that right buddy?" He looked down and Rufus rubbed his head.
"Cheater!" He squeaked.
"Cheater?" Yori asked.
"She launched me over a catwalk with a fireball and then unhooked my anchor so I fell to the floor. I woke up and came to find you." Ron tilted his head to reveal the bump that knocked him out.
"Ah, so it is true, Kim has fallen to the side of evil?" Yori shook her head.
"Not so much evil, as in love with Shego and therefore doing what she must to stay with her. The good news is they plan to give the jewels back, with the exception of the Japanese's Three Sacred Treasures. By rights, they belong to her now anyway." Ron sighed. "Lets go home Yor. I want a nap."
"Hai, Ron-kun, lets." She took his hand and they left.
