KIM POSSIBLE: TSOD – THE SHADOW OF INFINITY, CHAPTER TEN
Will Du, Director of the United Nations' Division of Global Justice and Law Enforcement, or simply Global Justice for short, stood in the middle of a street in downtown Middleton, directing pedestrian traffic. Civilians were scrambling in all directions in the wake of the Lowardian attack on the city. Giant robot tripod machines known as Lowardina Sentries were stomping and blasting everywhere, demolishing and destroying everything in their wake. It was everything that Will Du and all of the Global Justice personnel he brought in could do to keep the panic down to a dull roar.
"You!" Will Du ordered, pointing to a nearby Global Justice sergeant. "Take a squad and head down to 32nd and Vine. Make sure the streets around the hospital are clear. We're going to need to commandeer storefronts for emergency medical shelters. Have Assistant Director Assistant order in supplies as needed. She'll be able to make the assessments."
"Yes, sir!" the sergeant replied, snapping a proper salute before turning and shouting to several nearby soldiers.
Will Du turned and sighed softly before taking in the scene again to see if there was any changes in the situation he needed to take into account.
"Reporting to duty as ordered, sir," came a soothing, feminine voice from behind Will Du.
Will Du smiled softly and turned to face his wife, Yori. Yori was not wearing a mask but was wearing a white ninja nightsuit with the hood pulled back.
"My God, thank you, love," Will Du said sincerely. "You have no idea how much I need some sanity right now."
"I am always here to assist to the best of my capabilities, my husband," Yori replied with every bit as much sincerity, bowing respectfully. "We both are. Is that not right, Hana-chan?"
Will Du blinked and looked around. "Huh? Hana?"
Eight year old Hana Possible, wearing her school uniform, tumbled out from behind a nearby Global Justice truck to stand before Will Du and Yori. She sighed resignedly.
"Aw, Mom!" Hana whined. "How'd you even know I was there?"
"Me ninja, you not," Yori laughed, ruffling Hana's raven-black-with-blonde-highlights hair. "You may be the Han, Hana-chan. But you are nowhere near ready to call yourself a Yamanoichi ninja. You have to remember that your future self has 18 years of training under Monkey Fist and myself. I knew you were in the trunk of the car even as your grandmother was driving us here."
Will Du's eyes went wide. "And you didn't tell Mrs. Stoppable?"
Yori nodded to her husband. "Believe me, Will-kun. Hana will most likely be grounded when she gets home. In the meantime, we can use all of the help we can get."
Will Du shook his head. "Yes, we do. But Hana? She's only eight, for crying out loud. Endangerment of a minor, violations of child labor laws, utter lack of formal combat and crisis management training..."
"Pleeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaasssssssse ?" Hana asked. "Stepdaddy?"
Will Du turned to say something to Hana and found himself caught completely unawares.
Eight-year-old Hana Possible was executing a perfect Kim Possible Puppy Dog Pout.
"GYAH!" Will Du gasped, stumbling backwards as if sucker-punched in the chest. "What in the...! What is that? Where did you learn to do that?"
Yori was laughing, in spite of herself.
Will Du shot his wife a glare before turning back to Hana. "Okay, fine. You can help. But you do not leave your mother's side. Do you hear me?"
Hana smiled brightly before recovering her center and then snapping a salute to her stepfather. The salute was better executed by Hana than by half of the currently enlisted soldiers in Global Justice.
Will Du sighed and rubbed the bridge of his nose. "Hell has a special place for people like me," he grunted softly before turning around and barking more orders to nearby soldiers.
Yori smiled and turned to her daughter. "So, Hana-chan?" she asked. "Up for some sentry hunting?"
Hana smirked and shifted slightly, putting emphasis on the fact that she was wearing her school backpack. "Always."
With that, Yori smirked back. The two of them took off into the fray, leaping from car to light post to windowsill to car again as they went down the street. Yori lead the way while Hana followed just slightly behind.
Warmonga charged forward, screaming in incoherent rage. Her large muscles flexed visibly as she hauled back to land a punch on the first person fool enough to get in her way.
Kim Possible, standing next to her wife, Shego, chose to be that fool. She tapped the toes of her battlesuit boots, one after the other, on the ground. Each time, the souls of the boots light up in a neon blue color. Once both boots were lit up, Kim charged forward herself.
Kim was not alone in her offense. As soon as Kim charged forward, Shego backflipped backwards. As she did so, her green plasma glow surrounded her gloved hands. The glow shrank and brightened, coalescing onto the clawed tips of her fingers. As soon as Shego landed on her feet, she spun around and thrust her hands as if pitching a pair of baseballs. Instead of baseballs, however, she pitched several miniature plasma darts from each hand.
Kim was running forward at a speed of nearly 260 kmh, faster than any racing car. Kim took pride in the fact that, while she was in her battle suit, the only person faster than her on foot was Mego when he was shrank to his action figure size. Kim used the momentum to graze past Warmonga's pounding fist. Instead of hitting Kim, Warmonga struck the ground, creating a crater around her the size of a house's basement. Instead of getting pummeled by Warmonga's fist, Kim "slid home," knocking the Lowardian warrior woman's feet out from under her. Kim rode her momentum and the shockwave of the created crater while Warmonga flipped up into the air. In mid-flip, Warmonga was struck by Shego's plasma darts. Warmonga was flung through the air by the force of Shego's attack.
Warmonga didn't hit the ground, however. Instead, she found herself grabbed by the ankles and spun around.
"You want to drop down onto a gentle hometown and devastate it, villain?" Hego bellowed as he spun in place, swinging Warmonga around like a rag doll. "Not on my watch!" Then, he added in a disturbingly more aggressive tone. "NOW, DIE, YOU FUCKING CUNT!"
At that, Hego began to slam Warmonga violently into the asphalt in front of him, over and over and over again, his face contorting into an ugly rage.
"HEGO!" Kim screamed at the large hero.
"WHAT!" Hego screamed back.
"I WANT MY TURN TOO!" Kim screamed.
Before Hego could react, Kim zipped past him from behind him, grabbing Warmonga along the way. As Kim ran along, she screamed incoherently and forced Warmonga's face into the asphalt. Kim didn't slow down one bit, which meant that Warmonga's face was effectively digging a ditch in the street as Kim ran along. Kim then suddenly stopped, spun rapidly in place, and tossed Warmonga straight up into the air.
Shego, meanwhile, had stopped to gawk at what her brother and her wife had just done. "Um... Kimmie...?"
"What?" Kim snapped angrily at Shego. "Can't you see I'm fucking busy?"
Shego rose both brows to that one. Before she could respond, Kim leapt up into the air and caught the now falling Warmonga. Kim then flipped rapidly in the air and slammed Warmonga into the ground like a whip. The resulting blood splatter easily coated half of Kim's body.
"Excessive much?" Shego muttered, taking two steps back from Kim. She was thoroughly confused.
"Excessive?" Kim asked, turning around to face Shego. "EXCESSIVE? You think that was fucking EXCESSIVE? I'll show you fucking excessive, you plant-skinned fucking circus show FREAK!"
Shego's eyes went wide as Kim charged forward at superspeed to attack Shego. Except that Kim never reached Shego. Just as she would have reached her wife, Kim found herself being telekinetically lifted off of the ground. Shego glanced up and saw her daughter from the future, Roslyn "Roz" Possible, floating in midair, her hand outstretched as if to guide her telekinetic powers.
"PUT ME THE FUCK DOWN, YOU CUNTLESS REJECT OF A TEST TUBE EXPERIMENT!" Kim screamed, thrashing about.
"What in the hell?" Shego gasped, looking incredulously at her wife.
It's Warmonga, Momma, Roz explained telepathically to her currently sane mother. She has a new superpower... the ability to incite incoherent rage in her enemies. Usually, it makes them make bad decisions in a fight, giving Warmonga the upper hand.
"Except she didn't expect my brother's superstrength or my wife's strength in her battle suit," Shego reasoned.
"It is not a mistake I intend to make twice, Verdent One," came a voice from behind Roz. Shego and Roz looked over to see Warmonga rising to her feet. Right before their eyes, Warmonga's pulverized flesh and shattered bones stitched themselves back into place, leaving her ready to fight again.
Warmonga popped her neck and grinned at Shego. "Ready for Round Two, then?"
"NOT IF I GET TO YOU FIRST, YOU FUCKING CUNT!" Kim screamed.
"Roz!" Shego yelled. "Get Hego, Oni, and Kimmie out of here. I'll deal with Warmonga."
But..., Roz started to argue.
"Now, young lady!" Shego snapped. "I don't remember making this a democracy."
Roz nodded. Hearing his primal scream from behind her, Roz spun and telekinetically grabbed Hego just as he was lunging at Warmonga.
"PUT ME DOWN, YOU MOTHERLESS HERETIC OF THE NATURAL ORDER!" Hego screamed as he felt himself being lifted up into the air.
I'll be back, Momma, Roz declared as she flew off with Kim and Hego.
Shego merely nodded as she turned to face Warmonga.
Warmonga grinned. "So, here we are again. You are swooping in again, against all odds, to save the Flame-Haired One. Shall you be as successful as you were the last time? I think not."
"You never know," Shego replied, shrugging her shoulders. "Third time's a charm?"
"Let us see, then," Warmonga declared.
With that, the two women charged at each other, screaming.
A gigantic sentry tripod collapsed onto the ground and exploded violently. Moments later, Yori and Hana landed in cat-like crouches just outside of the radius of the explosion.
"That was in interesting use of a jump rope, Hana-chan," Yori commended her daughter.
Hana smiled knowingly at her mother. "Not quite like your garotte cord, but it does the trick in the right hands."
"Indeed," Yori agreed. "I am very proud of you, Hana-chan. I want you to know that."
"Thanks, Mom," Hana said. "You know, if feels really good to call you that now. I mean, I had my guesses. You were always so loving and protective for someone who was just my brother's girlfriend. Knowing where I really came from..."
"...is quite liberating, I know," Yori agreed. "Speaking of liberating, did you really have to wear your school uniform on this adventure?"
Hana glanced down. Her school jacket was torn in several different places, as was her skirt. The skirt was especially bad, given that she was now exposing a bit too much bare leg for someone of her age.
"It always seemed to work just fine in the Japanese cartoons," Hana argued. "Besides, this gets the boys' attentions." She made that last statement with a wink at her mother.
"Hana-chan!" Yori gasped in false shock. "You are eight years old, young lady."
"No time like the present, right?" Hana laughed.
Suddenly, the women's banter was cut short by a laser blast shooting over their heads and blasting a crater into the street nearby. The two women turned to see another Lowardian sentry lumbering towards them.
"Ready for the next one, Hana-chan?" Yori asked, drawing her ninja-to from its sheath once more.
Hana pulled her math textbook, which was hanging from her hand by a belt strap, and began to twirl it like a morningstar. "Born ready, Mom."
With that, the two of them leapt forward at the errant tripod.
The poor giant robot never knew what hit it.
Will Du was barking orders left and right, trying desperately to coordinate resources and personnel in what was essentially pure chaos. Suddenly, his communicator began beeping. He answered it and sighed when he saw who as at the other end of the call.
"Dr. Wade Load," Will Du snapped at the young African-American man's image in his communicator. "Now is not the best of times. Middleton is..."
"Under attack from the Lowardians, I know," Wade replied, cutting the Chinese-American man off. "It's on every major news network in the world. Which makes this the best time for me to call you. Now that I'm locked onto your signal... INCOMING!"
Suddenly, a flash of light beamed down beside Will Du from up in the sky. When Will Du turned, he couldn't help but smile. The light dissipated to reveal six individuals. Monique Goldberg, wearing her red and gold Valkyrie battle suit, glanced around, her bow already strung and nocked with an arrow. To either side of her were her two "husbands," William and Edward Goldberg, aka the Wego twins. Rising above Monique in his hovering battle-enabled wheelchair, wearing a blue with white trim battle suit, was Felix Renton. Standing on a small mounted platform right behind Felix, wearing gold with orange trim battle suit, was his wife, Zita Renton. Finally, at Monique's feet was the naked mole rat, Rufus, surrounded by the soft blue glow of the Mystical Monkey Power.
"BOOYAH!" Rufus yelled, flexing in his battle pose.
"Team Possible," Will Du nodded respectfully. "Dr. Load is correct, now is indeed the best time. I need civilians directed to safety and Lowardian sentry units diverted away from the civilians."
"We're on it!" William and Edward responded in unison. With that, they copied themselves several dozen times and took off in all different directions.
"I'm going to try to get a scan of one of the sentry units to see if Zita and I can deduce a weak spot," Felix added.
"It should be muy fácil," Zita added. "If you focus on the flying and I focus on the scanning."
"Fair enough," Felix laughed as he and his wife flew off.
"One question, though," Will Du said, turning to Monique. "Um, if you're all here... who is looking after your children?"
"Someone very experienced with dealing with kids," Monique smiled. She then turned to Rufus. "You ready to take out some Lowardian trash, little buddy?"
"Yuh-huh!" Rufus nodded, before demonstrating a roundhouse kick. "Hee-yah!"
"Let's do this!" Monique said, running off down the street. Rufus quickly followed behind her, easily keeping pace despite his small size.
Will Du allowed himself the luxury of one more smile before turning to bark more orders to some nearby Global Justice soldiers.
Both Kim and Hego were set down gently onto the sidewalk. Kim stayed kneeling and panting heavily as Hego sat up, rubbing the back of his head. Roz and the female Japanese ninja known as Oni floated down beside the two heroes, looking around. Civilians were scrambling chaotically around them. Several police officers nearby were trying with futility to direct the civilians towards a safer location.
"Well, that was... embarrassing," Hego admitted, looking rather abashed.
"That caught me completely off-guard," Kim agreed, standing up and silently chastising herself. "Sheila hates it when I apologize to her, too."
She understands, Mom, Roz replied, walking up to Kim and gently folding her into a hug. Kim, in spite of herself, melted into the hug and drew emotional strength from the woman who was technically her daughter. I explained to her about Warmonga's new power.
"Where did she get that power, anyway?" Kim asked, breaking the hug to look into Roz's dichromatic green eyes. "She didn't have it when your mother and I fought her last time."
"The Lowardians have a mad geneticist on their side," Oni explained, her face darkening with an expression of distaste. "A human mad geneticist, in fact. His name is Dr. Flynn Feasible. That's how they were able to grow Roz-chan in the first place. And that's how the Elite Guard got their superpowers."
"A human helping the Lowardians eradicate the human race?" Hego asked incredulously. "Incomprehensible!"
"Feasible was never the most stable of characters," Oni admitted.
"And Feasible has Monkey Fist, granting each of the Elite Guard a healing factor and the power of resurrection," Kim sighed. "Which means we can't stop Warmonga by killing her."
I'm going to go back, Roz explained, rising into the air. I can block Warmonga's powers with my own telepathic powers, so she doesn't affect me. And Momma forced me to leave her behind.
As Roz "spoke," Kim glanced around at her surroundings. She noticed that the old building that Roz had set them down before had a wrinkled, yellow sign in the doorway. Cocking a brow as the proverbial gears turned in her head. Suddenly, she turned to Hego.
"How much can you carry, Hego?" Kim asked. "Not just lift, but carry as you're going along."
"Um," Hego thought for a moment. "I... I can probably carry something like small car or something quite easily. I could carry something like a jet fighter if I put my mind to it. I can lift something like space shuttle, but I won't be able to go very far with it. Why?"
I can help him, Mom, Roz added, floating back down to stand by Kim. My telekinesis is every bit as powerful as Uncle Hego's strength. And I like your idea. A lot.
"What idea is that?" Hego asked, looking at the women with a confused look in his eyes.
"I know what the idea is," Oni replied. "A fringe benefit of the psychic link I have with Roz-chan. And I like the idea, too."
Oni then turned to a nearby police officer. "Excuse me, sir? Is it true that the building here is condemned?"
The police officer turned around and glanced at the building that Oni was pointing at. "Yeah, has been for years. Why?"
Oni grinned and turned to the building. "Cause I need to cut it from its foundation."
With that, Oni breathed in deeply and closed her eyes to concentrate. A pale blue aura suddenly burst around her, lifting her slightly off of the ground and creating a mystical wind around her. When she opened her eyes again, Oni's eyes were glowing a bright blue color. And a glowing, golden naginata had suddenly appeared in her right hand.
Kim let out a low whistle. "Okay! So Oni has the Mystical Monkey Power and access to the Lotus Blade. I learn something new every day."
God, she's sexy when she pulls out the big guns, Roz stated appreciatively.
Oni lunged forward and began cutting into the base of the building with the golden naginata. As she ran along, the blade of the naginata sliced through the brick, steel, and stone like it were butter.
Once Oni disappeared around the corner, Hego cracked his knuckles. "Well, I better start getting ready for my part." He then popped his neck and stepped towards the building.
Oni will probably boost my telekinesis with her MMP so we can pull this off, Roz explained. As she turned back to Kim, though, she caught the sad smile on her mother's face.
Roz knew exactly what was going through her mother's mind.
Mom, don't, Roz chastised gently, putting a hand on Kim's shoulder. Listen to me. You might not have Mystical Monkey Powers or a magical blade. You might not have psionic powers like mine. You might not have a healing factor, plasma, superstrength, the ability to shrink or multiply, or anything like that. But you're Kim Possible. You're the girl for whom anything is possible.
Kim blinked and looked at Roz.
You're the brains of this outfit, Roz continued. You're the glue that holds us together. You're the one who inspires us to work together as a team. You're the one who gives us a purpose and a reason. And you know how to best direct us in what you're doing. You create the battle plans and the rest of us gladly follow through on them. Hell, we should give you a blue chainmail uniform and an indestructible shield and they'd be a perfect fit for you.
Kim couldn't help but chuckle on that one.
I mean, look, Roz added, pointing to Oni, who was just emerging from the other side of the building. You came up with this crazy idea right here and we're making it work. Because you took in the situation, assessed it, came up with the best solution, and figured out how to make it work.
Kim smirked and nodded her head. "That's right. If we can't kill Warmonga, we can sure as hell knock her ass out."
Oni ran up to Kim and Roz and nodded to the two of them. "Are we ready to do this thing?"
Ready, willing, and able, my love, Roz replied. With your help, of course.
"I figured as much," Oni laughed. With that, Oni closed her eyes and began to focus. She reached a hand out towards Roz. The blue aura that surrounded Oni then began to surround Roz as well.
"And there is something I can do," Kim said suddenly. "Roslyn, sweetheart, can you let your mother know she's about to get a taxi?"
You got it, Mom! Roz said, turning to smile at Kim.
Kim was momentarily caught off guard by the pale blue glow in Roz's eyes. But she quickly recovered and smiled back at Roz. Kim then tapped her toes and took off at superspeed down the street.
Roz then turned to Hego, who was in front of the building, spitting into his hands and rubbing them together.
Okay, Uncle Hego, Roz said telepathically. If you can lift it up just enough to give me a handhold, Oni and I can get the rest.
"With Hego-san's permission," Oni said, focusing on keeping her aiding magic going, "I can even help him lend you his strength on top of what you already have, once the building is in the air."
Hego laughed at that. "Looks like everyone has a role, then. Okay, heroes, what's going to work?"
"Teamwork!" both Oni and Roz replied in unison, although Roz's response was telepathic rather than verbal. They both giggled at that.
"FOR JUSTICE!" Hego yelled as he dug his fingers into the severed crack in the foundation that Oni's Lotus Blade had created. With a titanic amount of effort, Hego began lifting the building up.
I've got it! Roz called out. Now, Oni!
With that, Oni reached out her other hand towards Hego. The mystical monkey aura extended to the big blue hero, surrounding him. Roz breathed in sharply and her eyes went wide. She quickly recovered, though. Suddenly, the building ripped up and floated up into the air.
"We're doing it!" Hego called out happily. "We're doing it!"
Let's get this bad boy over to Mom and Momma now, Roz smiled.
Shego slid effortlessly between Warmonga's legs and kicked up and backwards, planting a firm kick into the small of the green giantess' back. Shego then backflipped, springing over Warmonga's shoulders. As Shego somersaulted past Warmonga, she reached out and blasted a ball of brilliant green plasma into the Lowardian warrior woman's face. Warmonga stumbled backward in pain, brushing at her face as if to dust off the green plasma.
Shego landed in a cat-like crouch in front of the Lowardian, grinning evilly.
"I do not understand it," Warmonga bellowed, grabbing a nearby severed girder and swinging it at Shego. Shego deftly dodged the attacks. "My power should be inciting an incoherent rage within you. It should be enticing you into attacking me blindly and without forethought or tactic. Yet, you continue as if completely unaffected by my power. How can this be?"
Shego dove in under the steel girder and came up between Warmonga's arms. A quick snap punch to the left from Shego and a satisfying crunch later, Warmonga screamed out in pain and dropped the girder. Shego then grabbed Warmonga by the lapel of her uniform and pulled her face down so that the two women were looking at each other, eye to eye.
"You see, Warmonga, that's my secret," Shego growled darkly. "I'm always angry."
With that, Shego planted her hand, palm first, onto Warmonga's face and fired off an extremely powerful plasma blast. Warmonga flew backwards into a display window in a nearby storefront, knocking over several mannequins in the process.
"With the sort of life I've had to live since that multi-colored meteor landed on my parents' treehouse, killing my parents and giving my brothers and I our superpowers," Shego continued, stepping menacingly towards the Lowardian, "I have nothing but pent-up rage inside of me. I've simply learned how to keep it under control... something that has become much easier for me to do since I married my wife. So your little Jedi trick is only giving me feelings I already know how to deal with."
Warmonga stared wide-eyed at the advancing Shego before suddenly narrowing her eyes. Warmonga stood up quickly and stared Shego down.
"Very well, then, Verdant One," Warmonga growled. "So it shall be a glorious battle between two warriors on equal footing. In the end, I will still win. The town of Middleton will be destroyed. We Lowardians will have made our statement. The fall of humankind is at hand."
Shego paused to scowl at Warmonga before suddenly blinking and glancing elsewhere, as if distracted. She then grinned evilly at the Lowardian woman. She crouched down into a battle stance then beckoned Warmonga to approach her for the attack.
Warmonga scowled contemptuously before charging at Shego.
A red, white, and blue streak zoomed in from the side, charging for Shego at the same time Warmonga was charging her.
Just as both Warmonga and the streak reached Shego, a large building came crashing down onto the three of them.
[END CHAPTER TEN]