Kim Possible: Cupid Struck Stupid
(A/N: Second up today. Getting close to the end now.)
Telling Team Go
It was a regular day in Go Tower, really it was. The Wego twins were playing video games with Mego. Hego was fondly watching, it being his day off of work. Soon enough he slipped out of the room, letting his three brothers alone to their game. He needed to start making something for dinner. It was his turn to cook. He and Mego usually switched off each night. The Wego twins would sometimes attempt to make something, if they were in the mood. Needless to say, usually the four brothers ended up ordering out on those nights. Not that his cooking was much better, Hego knew. Mego had a little more finesse than him. In fact, Mego might actually have quite the talent, if he ever bothered to develop it.
It wouldn't take much for the second oldest to become a great chef if he ever wanted to. As it was, Mego's most creative dish was Fettuccine Alfredo on a good day. Crab legs or lobster tail if he was in a particularly celebratory mood, though he didn't do much to dress it up, usually just cooking it so it was edible and throwing out a slab of butter on a dish, not even melted. Mego really couldn't care less. The only reason he bothered cooking at all was because he needed to eat. Mego had left most of the cooking to Shego. He'd often gotten her to take his cooking nights when she was with them, seeing as back then the three eldest siblings had taken turns. Of course Shego had put a stop to Mego's little charade soon enough. She hadn't been about to encourage the second oldest sibling's laziness. Hego frowned. They missed her.
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He went to the fridge and opened it up, pulling out some ingredients. Just then the monitor in the kitchen, revealing the front door via camera, began to crackle. He looked up guardedly at it, frowning. Was it an intruder? He started, his eyes widening on identifying who was outside. Shego! Shego opened the door and entered the building. Hego gasped, threw down the ingredients, and then rushed to meet her.
"Shego!" he exclaimed, racing around a corner and running to her, grabbing her in a bear hug.
Shego gasped for breath. "Hego!" she almost screamed.
He let her go, saying, "Oops, sorry." Shego scowled, debating whether to fry him or not. She soon decided against it. She couldn't be bothered. She had… more substantial news to give. "Sis, what are you doing here? Where's Drakken? Did he hurt you? Did you finally leave him? Have you decided to return to good?" Hego immediately barraged.
"Can it, Hego!" Shego shot, annoyed. Hego stopped, though he was still grinning.
"Are you staying for supper? Not that it'll be much of one. I'm cooking tonight," Hego said to her.
"Fine, whatever, didn't plan on it but whatever," she replied, rolling her eyes. "Where are the twins and Mego?"
"Playing video games," Hego answered.
"Ugh, typical laziness," she said, looking disgustedly around at the dirty clothing spread across the room they were currently in. "This is what happens when two bachelor's and two preteen boys live together in the same house. A pigsty!"
"So what brings you back home, Shego?" Hego wondered, walking with his little sister into the kitchen. He instantly became guarded when Shego suddenly looked flustered and unsure of herself. Shego never looked unsure of herself.
"Um, news," she vaguely replied.
"What kind?" he wondered.
"I'll tell you later!" she shot, obviously not intending to go into it now.
"Sorry, sheesh, forget I asked," he defensively replied, putting his hands up in a pacifying gesture.
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Shego surveyed the ingredients on the counter and incredulously asked, "Mac and cheese, really? Is that all you boys eat?" Ugh, they were so helpless without her.
"Last night it was Steak, a spinach salad, and fries," Hego offered. "Two nights ago it was Sockeye salmon, coleslaw, and an onion dip with breadsticks."
"Eating out?" Shego asked, raising an eyebrow. She was honestly a little surprised to hear that.
"Mego getting some motivation, actually," Hego answered.
Shego started. Oh yeah, she'd forgotten about Mego's gift with food. At least it could be a gift, if he bothered with it. As it was, Mego's usual courses were simply hotdogs or burgers, once in a while switching to casseroles, chilies, or goulashes. He didn't normally do the gourmet scene or the balanced meal thing. Balanced meals had been what she'd done. Not so much gourmet unless she felt like it, but balanced at least. Her chicken soups were adored by all four of her brothers, as was her chocolate zucchini cake and her turkey.
She rolled her eyes, saying, "Whatever. I'm going to find the others." With that she walked off. Hego smiled softly. Almost like old times, though this wouldn't last long. He wondered. What could she possibly have to say that was so important suddenly?
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"I'm winning, I'm winning!" Wego Two cheered.
"No way, see, I'm catching up," Wego One stated.
"Oh please, prepare to get served," Mego said to them both, grinning. All at once the TV went blank as the cord was pulled.
"Hey!" all three protested.
"Playtime's over, boys," an all too familiar voice said. They gasped and sharply turned. There stood Shego, dangling the cord between her fingers!
"Shego!" they exclaimed, leaping to their feet in shock.
Mego scowled and lit his Team Go glow, ready to fight in case she wasn't here meaning peace. The twins were less cautious. "Shego!" they exclaimed together. Instantly they raced over to her and leapt into her arms.
"Hey, no touchy feely. Get lost, tweebs," she shot, shoving them down off of her. They grinned up at her still, hardly fazed by her roughness.
"We've missed you sis!" Wego One exclaimed.
"Are you staying for supper?" Wego Two asked.
"What are you doing here, Shego?" Mego disdainfully questioned, approaching his sister and folding his arms, looking down at her condescendingly.
She frowned, folding her arms as well and glaring daggers at her brother. The twins could practically see the knives flying between the eyes of the two. Shego and Mego had never been on great terms. In fact, once in a while their rivalry got really ugly. "Scared, Freakgo?" she asked him.
"Only of your face," Mego retorted.
"That doesn't even make sense!" Shego yelled, lighting her plasma furiously. "Ugh, and you people wonder why I took off! Idiots!"
"Okay, I hear an argument brewing. I guess now's as good a time as ever to call dinner," Hego suddenly said, entering the room quickly on hearing the pending fight about to break out. Shego and Mego harrumphed.
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There was silence as they all sat eating. Not a comfortable silence either; a really awkward one. Hego glanced around at all the others. The twins looked pleadingly at him, feeling highly uncomfortable. Hego cleared his throat and said, "So, Shego, what's the big news you came to tell us? Is evil afoot?"
"Just her," Mego muttered under his breath.
"Stuff it, pretty boy!" Shego shot.
"Nag, nag, nag," Mego said. He cried out in terror as Shego blasted her plasma at him, just barely managing to shrink in time to avoid the energy flames to the face.
"What's the news!?" the twins insisted quickly, pausing the battle that was about to break out.
"Oh, right, the news, ooh," Shego said, blushing and suddenly feeling very awkward. Her brothers were all looking expectantly at her. She swallowed, feeling very uncertain. Weird. She never felt uncertain. "Hypothetically, if I were to get married, who would hand me off?"
Mego stiffened, eyes widening. The Wego twins were completely oblivious, taking it as just a harmless inquiry. Hego looked fairly naïve about it, but there was curiosity and suspicion in his tone as he answered, "Well, naturally that would fall to me, seeing as our father is… unavailable."
"Right, right, uh huh. Question two. Who would be the ring bearer?" she asked, sounding disinterested, playing her part perfectly.
"We would we would, oh please let us!" the twins exclaimed together.
"Great. What about you, Mego?" she asked challengingly.
"I'd be the one sulking in the front row and wishing he could be anywhere else but at his baby sister's wedding ceremony, probably disapproving of her choice as well," Mego answered.
"Figures," Shego wryly stated, frowning at him.
"Why do you ask?" Hego asked, raising a glass to his lips and starting to sip.
"I'm… engaged," she answered. Hego spewed out the juice he'd been drinking. The Wegos gasped, mouths dropping and eyes going as wide as saucers. Mego could only gape in horror and disbelief.
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"You're what?!" Mego shouted, shooting up from his seat.
Leaping from his own, Hego demanded, "To whom?"
The Wegos, looking excited and delighted, exclaimed, "Cool!"
"Our sister's getting married!" Wego One said.
"Shego and, uh, whoever, sitting in a tree…" Wego Two began.
"To whom?!" Hego demanded again, cutting off the twins.
"Oh gods, tell me it's not…" Mego began.
"Dr. D? Yeah, it is," Shego stated boldly, eyes narrowing. "Got a problem with it?"
"Sh-Shego, the man's old enough to be your father!" Hego exclaimed.
"So what?" she demanded defensively.
"Sis, the guy's, well, him," Mego said.
"Maybe I like 'him,'" Shego replied, whatever Mego meant by 'him.'
"When's the wedding?" the Wegos asked.
"If we leave tonight, tomorrow evening," Shego answered, shrugging. "It's nothing big, it's nothing overly fancy. Gets too sappy that way."
"Rockin'!" Wego One exclaimed.
"Let's go right after supper!" Wego two said.
"Wait, wait, wait, aren't we even going to talk about this?" Hego asked in a strained and stressed tone.
"Uh, yeah, don't think so. I've made up my mind. I'm marrying Dr. Drakken, whether you approve or not," Shego declared firmly.
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Mego finally caught up with the magnitude of this situation and closed his mouth, eyes narrowing dangerously. "If you didn't care about our opinions, why did you even come?!" he demanded.
"To invite you, doy," Shego replied, though she really hadn't wanted to. Ugh, she couldn't stand her brothers, but Mama Lipsky had insisted.
"You couldn't have sent out invitations?" Mego wondered.
Shego blinked blankly, twitched, then leaned back in her chair, arms folded. With eyes narrowed she replied, "No comment. Look, are you coming or not." The four were quiet. She frowned. "Fine! I don't need your support anyway! I love Dr. D and he loves me! That's all that matters! You guys are just a formality!" She rose and began storming out.
Hego felt a sudden moment of panic. He didn't want to lose his sister again! "Shego, wait!" he cried. "We'll come!" Shego stopped, shocked, and spun quickly, eyes wide. "W-we'll come…" Hego repeated as he looked down. They'd go, but they certainly wouldn't approve.
"Perfect," Mego grumbled.