Empire

Chapter 9

Broken Heart

(Alternate Ending)

Authors Note: A few minor corrections/revisions have been made as of 10/9/2010. Nothing major, I just realized that I had spelled Senor Senior Sr. improperly.

The stairwell was quiet and no one stood in Kim's way. It all seemed too easy, but she knew that nothing was ever that easy. Kim set foot on the final floor and stared at the steel doors in front of her. They looked cold and uninviting, but Kim took one final deep breath and pushed them open. Her eye's widened at what awaited her inside. There were countless bodies of guards, each bloody, or limbless, unconscious or dead. The smell of gun powder filled the air, as did the thick scent of blood. What had transpired here Kim thought to her self. She walked cautiously into the room, its beautiful decorative marble pillars were caked with blood and the bodies of guards were slumped next to them. The further Kim walked, the more chaos she encountered. There were bodies that were still smoldering from energy blasts, their torsos burnt to a crisp, or their faces charred and blackened. Kim stopped for a second and turned over one of the dead, searching the interior of his jacket, and found what she was looking for. She carefully pulled out an unfired handgun and ejected the clip, checking that it was still full. Kim closed her eyes and hesitantly tucked the gun underneath her pants, concealing it with her shirt, and continued walking further into the room.

"Kim…" A weak voice called out. Kim looked around and threaded quietly until she found Shego.

"Shego!" Kim cried. Her long time nemesis and new found friend was covered in dry blood. "Are you okay?" she asked.

Shego raised her hand and gently touched Kim's cheek. Her eyes looked deeply into hers as she did once before and smiled. "I didn't think that you'd make it up here." Shego slowly shut her eyes and began to move her lips as if still speaking.

"Shego…" Kim shook her friend tried to keep her from shutting her eyes completely. "Don't die on me… you can't." She pleaded.

"Kimmy…" Shego muttered "…he has powers like mine… stronger than mine…"

"Stay with me…" Kim begged, still shaking Shego gently, "I can't lose you… I-I love you." Kim cried.

"I'm so tired…" Shego whispered as a tear ran down her face. "I love you too…"

Kim held Shego tightly as her long time foe and friend died in her arms. Kim felt empty inside, as if her soul had followed Shego. But her sorrow was brief, as she could hear footsteps nearby.

"She fought valiantly, but I'm afraid that the human body can only take so much punishment before expiring." A voice coldly echoed. "I do admire the fight she had, but it was her time."
Kim could feel her heart pounding, her blood boiled with rage and she gently let Shego go. "Where are you? You coward…" Kim looked around the large room and could see a black shadow moving about behind the blood stained pillars.

"I have a proposition for you…" the voice replied. "…I want you to join me. I need someone strong, intelligent and intrepid as you."

"I'll never join a monster like you. You're truly diluted if you think what you do is for the better of man." Kim sneered.

"Shego told me that you would say that, but I expected nothing less. After all, you're the hero. And as the hero we're destined to collide. I've already predicted two outcomes, but there's only one that I know for sure will happen…"

"And you're going to tell me?" Kim asked.

"No… I'm going to let it play out and find out if I'm wrong." Omni stepped out from behind the bloody pillars and faced Kim. He was an ordinary looking guy, he wore black dress pants, but had either removed or lost his shirt fighting Shego. His chest and stomach was covered in old scars and a few new ones. His eyes stared back at Kim's as he stepped over his dead guards. "I want to give you the opportunity to reconsider… please join me, we can make this world a better place."

"Never"

"So be it. I have an overseer watching us. My empire will not fall…" Omni stopped next to a pillar and wrapped his arms around it, pulling hard on it, breaking it off. He swung the large marble pillar, with ease, like a bat, and narrowly hit Kim as she flipped backwards. Kim landed next to the body of another dead guard and noticed him still clenching a small grenade like device and there was one more next to him. She pried it from his hand, and grabbed the other, as Omni took another swing at her and tossed it at his face. The device beeped for a second and exploded with a bright flash and thunderous sound. The large pillar cracked and broke into pieces and Omni staggered back, clenching his face. Kim leapt towards Omni and swept him off his feet, but Omni rolled out of the way as she missed him with a powerful stomp. He jumped back on his feet and took a mighty swing at Kim with his fists. The massive blow catapulted Kim across the floor and she came to a stop at a pillar. Omni reached down and pulled a knife from the hand of a dead guard and approached Kim as she slowly stood back up.

"I'm sorry it has to end this way." He said as he flipped the knife, point down, and raised it high up.

"I am too…" Kim whispered. She reached under her shirt and fired the gun that she had concealed. The empty shell casings flew past Omni's face until the cartridge was finally empty. Every bullet had been fired directly into his heart. Omni looked her deep in the eyes and grinned.

"You're just like me in the end…" Omni plunged the knife into the pillar, next to Kim's head, and he took one step back. "But this isn't how it ends, not yet at least." Omni clenched his fist, and a bright red energy flowed all around it. The energy looked just like Shego's. He launched a blast of red energy at Kim, and she moved out of the way, as it struck the pillar, burning a clean hole into it. "You're just like me and I'm just like them" Omni laughed.

Kim crawled behind a pillar and peeked out. Omni fired another blast, hitting the top part of the pillar, and Kim rolled out from behind it. She threw the gun at Omni, but he caught it and melted it with his hand.

"Why can't this be easier?" Kim thought.

"Don't worry , after I kill you, I promise to send your family my condolences, after all, I'm not a heartless bastard." Omni laughed.

"That isn't gonna happen…" Kim yelled. She grabbed another weapon from the ground and ducked behind another pillar, quickly cocking the weapon and taking a deep breath. She ran at Omni and jumped behind him as he launched four bursts of energy at her, missing her once again. The second she landed she fired every bullet in the weapon into Omni's back. The holes in his back began to bleed a dark red blood, but gradually healed.

"Didn't anyone tell you… I can't be killed!" Omni turned and grabbed Kim by the throat, lifting her in the air. She immediately began punching and kicking Omni in the face and throat, until he finally released her. Kim ran away towards a large set of doors, kicking them open and jumping in, as a large blast of energy struck the wall, burning a hole into it. Kim looked around quickly and realized that she was in Omni's office. His room faced Trinity City and even touched the clouds. Kim turned around, only to be grabbed by Omni once more, only this time he flung her like a rag doll. Her slender, battered, body flew across the room and smashed into his desk. Omni walked over to her and lifted her up again. He pushed her hard onto the glass pane widow, causing it to crack.

"I think this is where it ends." Omni frowned.

"You're right…" Kim plunged both of her thumbs deep into Omni's eyes, blinding him, and causing him to release her. She crawled underneath him and stood up behind him. "Like you said, the human body can only take so much before expiring…"

"What?" Omni growled as he staggered around.

Kim reached into her pocked, retrieving the second explosive device that she picked up, and set the timer on it. She held it tightly and with all her might shoved it into Omni's mouth, breaking his teeth, as the device was forced in. Omni felt his heart stop for a second as Kim spun around delivering a vicious round house kick to his face. Omni's back went crashing through the window, breaking it behind him, and he reached for Kim, grabbing her slender ankle as he went through it. He laughed insanely as he pulled her out with him. Omni fell through the white clouds and disappeared, as Kim barely grabbed hold of the edge of the window on her way out. She looked down and everything froze as a loud explosion shook the side of the building, shattering many windows with the shockwave, sending a rain of glass and gore below. Kim dug her fingers deep into the ledge, pulling herself up, and climbed back in.

Minutes had passed and Kim sat there next to the open window. Her mind and heart were hushed as she looked at all the bloodshed and death. Nothing mattered any more. She had lost the one she loved and there was nothing she could do about it. Kim closed her eyes and cried quietly.

"I never pegged you for such a cry baby Kimmy" A voiced mocked. Kim raised her head and caught a glimpse of a familiar face, it was Shego, and she was standing over her.

"Shego?" Kim whimpered. "But… you died." Kim stood up in disbelief and the tears began to well up in her eyes again.

"You know that chick you killed, Nikki, she wasn't the only one cloned…" Shego smirked.

"I don't understand." Kim hugged Shego and refused to let her go. Suddenly, as Kim embraced Shego, she felt something strange. A painful piercing feeling ran through her chest and heart. Kim felt her body weakening and she took a step away from Shego. As she looked down, she noticed a sharp knife protruding from her chest. "Why?" Kim cried. "I thought you loved me…" Kim collapsed on the ground and she clutched the knife, vainly trying to pull it out, but it had been plunged deep.

Shego picked up the knocked over desk chair that belonged to Omni and sat down. She smiled as Kim cringed in pain, "The Shego that died back there, the clone, she was the one that loved you. I used the advanced cloning technology that Omni possessed and made her. She woke up with most of my memories, not knowing that she was a clone and even went to you for help. She woke up days after Drakken was killed in an old safe house of mine. I left strategic clues making sure that she would contact you. I knew that I could never in my wildest dreams beat, let alone kill Omni, but you and my clone could." Shego wheeled herself close to Kim and took her hand away from the knife. "And I knew that I could never beat you by myself, so I masterminded all this just to seize what I really wanted, this empire. You were just my pawn, everybody was, even Drakken. But I'm not a cold hearted bitch Kimmy, before you die, I'll let you die next to the one you love." Shego stood up, leaving the room, she then returned, carrying the body of her clone and gently set her down next beside Kim. "I'll leave you two alone." Shego looked down at Kim once more and exited the room. Kim sat there, with one blood stained hand still on her chest, her fingers pressing firmly, trying to stop the bleeding. Kim let her self fall over onto her side. Her eyes looked at Shego's body, the tears had dried on both of their faces, and Kim pulled herself close to Shego and took her hand in hers. Kim slowly closed her eyes as her body felt light, her will to live had finally been broken, but even worse... she died with a broken heart as everything went black and silent for Kim Possible.