KIM POSSIBLE: LOST IN THE DARKNESS
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN KIM POSSIBLE. IT BELONGS TO DISNEY. I OWN ONLY MY OC. ANY RESEMBLANCE TO REAL PERSON OR PEOPLE ARE MERE COINCIDENCE. NO FINANCIAL PROFIT IS MADE FROM THIS. THIS IS FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY.
Before we move on to the story, please allow this annoying person to say a few words. This work is my original idea, and this will move in the direction I've set before. Which means, many things will be different, as a collab fuses both of our works. For example, Shadow here remains a mystery, but the Shadow in REWRITE has been revealed to be Felix. Do not pass judgement so early. The Shadow here is not Felix, so, you all are free to guess who she is.
So, yeah, despite what I said about last chapter being posted and all that, I can't let the idea go before I put it down into words, and since I'm done with this chapter, I decided to post it now. But I am serious about no updates for four days next week. Term 2 finals.
CHAPTER 10 Ticking Gears
Shego jumped down from the cockpit and landed gracefully on her feet. Flexing her muscles, she waited for her one-eyed partner to join her. The jets which had accompanied them were now landed all around her jet. They made sure the meaning was clear. Nobody was going to go anywhere unless they permitted it.
Shego let out a low growl when she noticed no pilots were coming out from the cockpits. She had wanted to look what they looked like, so she could pummel them later on for daring to scrape paint off her jet. Yeah, you heard right, one of them had the nerve to fly so near, its wing scratched along Shego's jet.
"What' wrong?" Betty asked in a low tone when she joined her green-skinned friend.
"They're drones." Shego hissed back. "We were played. Damn it, we should've outrun them just now, damn the costs!"
The law enforcer laid a hand on Shego's shoulder. "Calm down, we are in enemy territory now, and we are greatly outnumbered. Besides, have you noticed? We couldn't see anything outside the window after we agreed to be escorted."
Shego nodded. "Whoever this Obsidian Pact is, they are not some ordinary punks."
"Punks you say?" Came Gemini's arrogant voice.
Both women turned to see the man walking towards them. Gemini's hair had streaks of grey in them now, but other than that he was still pretty much the Gemini from ten years ago. His eyepatch still covered one eye, and he still had that rocket firing appendage. Sego resisted the urge to flare up and fry him there and then.
The man extended two collars to them with a smirk. "Master Shadow will only see you after you wear this."
"Hey, it wasn't our choice to come here. So there's no way I'm wearing that. No!" Shego said with some heat. Much to her surprise, Betty put on the collar without any sort of argument. The ex-villainess cursed, but took the collar and put it on too. "Happy now?"
Still wearing the smirk on his face, Gemini led the two deeper into the base. Three dozen henchmen surrounded them, and Shego eyed them with fire in her eyes. They made her feel like a villain again. It felt like she was being brought to her cell every time Kim thwarted Drakken's plans. She was a law enforcer now. She had long given up that part of her life when her princess disappeared.
Heck, without the world knowing, she was part of Team Possible before she was recruited into Global Justice. She felt that she owed Kim that, for letting her fall. It was on that day she realized that there were things that even comet powers were unable to achieve. And she learnt it the hard way.
"So, Elizabeth, is your directorate still intact?" Gemini asked, already knowing the answer. This part of the plan was for his revenge. He wanted to see his sister unseated, and Shadow had devised the perfect plan for it. Subtle, but fool-proof.
Betty eyed her brother with distaste. "Of course it is, why would you think otherwise?"
Gemini laughed. He stopped, and turned to face his sister, his muscular frame dwarfing hers. "Do you think I'm a fool, sister? Master Shadow set things in motion. The United Nations are contemplating whether Global Justice should be disbanded now or not, albeit the deadline they gave you."
"Impossible!" Betty growled.
He spread his arms dramatically. "There's no need for me to lie to you, dear sister. You've seen how Master Shadow can easily make you run around, chasing your own tail. Heck, even you didn't know how Possible died, but he does. We villains might not be on the same path, carving a path of bloodshed to avenge that meddlesome redhead, but we help. We help because he would help us to get our revenge in return."
"I knew it. Drakken would never be able to come up with something like that." Shego mumbled.
"Indeed. All of our revenge has been weaved into a massive net of havoc and destruction. As Master Shadow would say, this is just the beginning. More will perish, and Global Justice will go down with them."
"You asshole!" Betty screamed, hands balled into fists and was ready to strike her brother.
The guards raised their stun guns, and one look at the electricity crackling on the tip had the leader put down her fists. But Gemini was not done with her. He flicked out a control, and with a few push of buttons, had his sister writhing and thrashing on the floor in pain. High voltage rushed through her muscles, overloading them with signals. He laughed, and turned off the device.
The one-eyed woman pushed herself from the ground in pain, her muscles protesting against the exertion. Shego sank to her knees to help her friend up. Betty's oynx eye bore into her brother's, carrying much hatred in them.
"Like Dementor's new toy?" He asked with mockery in his voice.
"You will pay for this, Sheldon." Betty said coldly. Shego couldn't agree more.
Bomber jets came into view on the vidscreens. As they adjusted their altitude to the city below them, the cloaking devices were switched off, and each bomber jets were seen to be painted with the blood red scorpion. A city was no quite accurate, as it was just a complex built on a mountain. But it was still a worthy target.
The hidden ninja school which specialized in Tai Shing Pek Kwar. Sanctuary of the Monkey Master and the Han. Shadow knew neither of them were there, but this attack wasn't to end their lives anyway. It was to anger them, to stimulate them back into the open. Better yet, have them come right at her.
The jets circled the ninja school, spiraling lower and lower. She adjusted the surveillance drones, and zoomed in to the school. Ninjas moved into open space, and weapons drawn. No one knew just how futile their weapons were. Though they were believers in Mystical Monkey Power, but they were mere mortals too, carrying primitive weapons against modern technology.
They thought their school was well hidden. But in truth, people knew where it was if one knew where to look. And Shadow was one of them.
"Ronald Stoppable, you will pay the price for Kimberly's death today." Shadow said in a low whisper. Her cybernetic fingers danced over the keyboard, inputting a series of commands into the drones. Her lips curled up into a cruel smile, red robotic eyes never leaving the screen as the jets swarmed the school as one, and opened their hatches.
Grenade like items dropped into and around the school complex. Everyone ran for cover, expecting them to explode when they hit the ground, but they didn't. Shadow could see the confusion in their eyes, and her sadistic mind raced at the sight.
Yes, come forward, pick them up, they will not explode…
As if the ninjas heard her words, they moved cautiously into the open, weapons still raised. Eyes were trained on the sky, at the bomber jets which still spiraled the air. Shadow typed in more commands, and the jets headed away, back to base. She would need them in her next step of operation, and she was not going to lose any of them now.
A few more keys, and the jets vanished into thin air as their cloaking devise went on line. Ninjas pointed to the sky in disbelieve, but many had crouched down to pick the mysterious items up. Others remained on guard, fearing that the jets would come back.
The mysterious items were shaped like any regular grenade. They were unlike what she had used in earlier attacks, massive tanks of bombs and bio-warfare weapons. This was another simple, yet disastrous invention of hers. Yes, the ideas came from her. Dementor and Drakken were only there to help put them into mass production.
Shadow smiled, and pressed "Enter". The safety pins on the grenades clicked.
...now they will...
Bright light exploded in her view of vision, the grenade exploding with such force the entire mountain shook. Bloodcurdling screams filled her ears with the sweetest music. Broken limbs, exposed and burning flesh were everywhere. She searched for the dark-skinned Japanese, Yori, but there was no sign of her. Shadow did see someone else though.
Amidst the carnage, she saw the limp body of Master Sensei, and she stood up triumphantly. Laughter erupted from her, and the hood fell off her face, revealing her to the rest of her inner circle. The villains she had recruited single-handedly nine years ago.
Collective gasps echoed from them, but Shadow ignored them. She was too busy savouring the nectar of her first step in revenge. Yes, this was the first step. That attack on Croatia was simply to draw the attention of Global Justice, nothing more. And also to push the public to distrust the agency, forcing it to be disbanded.
"Yes, the first step has been taken. Ronald Stoppable, what will you do?" Shadow said to the screen. Ninjas still rose from the rubble, struggling to stand and help their comrades.
The mountain shook once more. The grenades dropped on one side of the mountain had greatly destabilised the entire mountain. The slopes began to shift, and the greater weight on the mountain pushed things even faster. The complex slid down the mountain, like a child on the slide. Shadow could hear the surprised shrieks from the surveillance drones, and it caused another laughter to break out.
"What are you doing?" Asked a voice she knew well.
Shadow stopped her laughter, and turned to face the person who dared to interrupt her moment of triumphant. Sure enough, standing there was Shego. The green skinned woman was supporting Betty, who was still feeling weak after getting 'the shock of her life'. One look at Gemini's smirk and the collars around their necks told her everything she needed to know.
She waved at Gemini to take his seat, and she pulled the hood back down her face once more. "You dare to question me?" Shadow queried, sitting down in her chair, which looked more like a throne. "You, who left Kimberly to die?"
Shego's plasma flared. "I did not let Kimmie fall!" She screamed, losing all temper.
Gemini took out the remote, ready to give the woman her first taste of the shock, but Shadow stopped him. "Step down, Sheldon. I will deal with this green bitch myself." She said coldly, every word dripping venom.
She noticed Betty's gaze. The woman was looking around the room at the assembled villains. Before this, she could call Shadow's words bluff, but now that she was seeing things for herself, she knew the world was in trouble. Betty's gaze landed on the figure at the head of the long conference table, and shuddered.
Something malevolent was emanated by the figure. Whatever happened Shadow before Obsidian Pact was found crossed the line Shadow had in life, forcing him to take a drastic turn into villainy. Betty knew, whoever this person was, he had the ability to assembled all of the world's major super villains under one organisation. He had the ability to read the world's mind, and push the public in the direction he wanted. And he was a psychopath to top things off. Whatever sanity in the man had been lost.
Betty knew that much at least. What she didn't know was what drove Shadow over. What caused Shadow to snap. And most importantly, who Shadow was. But looking at the disfigured face sent chills down her spine, and a feeling she felt she couldn't ignore. A feeling that she knew this person, but at the same time, she didn't. The aura was too off for her to link to anyone she had known in life.
Shadow laughed. "My, my Sheridan. So defiant. Do you still think you had no hand in Kimberly's death?" A fist crashed down on the table, splintering it. The people around the table jumped up in shock. "YOU HAVE NO RIGTH TO SPEAK OF HER ANYMORE! NOT AFTER WHAT YOU, STOPPABLE AND GLOBAL JUSTICE DID!"
"What did we do that anger you so much?" Betty asked. She needed to know what was going on. This person obviously framed Will Du, and she had to clear his name.
"NOTHING!" Shadow fired back, her red eyes gleaming.
"Then what the fuck are you so worked up for!" Shego thundered back. "We have done nothing…"
"THAT'S THE POINT! WHEN KIMBERLY FELL, YOU ALL DID NOTHING! SHE COULD'VE LIVED BUT YOU TOOK HER LIFE AWAY FROM HER!" Shadow roared.
The villains looked calm. They had gotten used to Shadow's temper over the years and they were not stupid to start complaining now. On the other hand, Betty and Shego recoiled in shock.
"That was what snapped you, wasn't it?" Betty asked.
Shego turned to her and looked at her as if she were nuts. But what she saw in Betty's eye told her, the one-eyed woman knew what was going on now. They had to get out of here alive if Betty wanted to make things work.
"Bets?"
"We need to get out of here. I know who Shadow is." Betty whispered back.
Shadow stepped closer. "Going somewhere? You are my guest. And since the master of house didn't say you can leave, you can't."
"I'm no dog of yours, sonofabitch!" Shego said to Shadow, and tore the collar from her neck. The device melted in her green plasma, and with the same hand, she reached for Betty's melting it as well. "You chose the wrong bitch to mess, Shadow!"
A whimper in the corner caught Shego's attention. There was Drakken, cowering behind Dementor, who was trying to shake him off. Drakken's face was so pathetic it actually made the ex-thief sorry for wanting to kill him. But she thought of what happened to Kim, and her anger took over.
One roar, and Shego was in front of the crippled scientist, holding him by the neck. Dementor scampered out of the way, so did all the other villains on the same row. All of them knew the wrath of the plasma wielding woman, and none wanted to be caught in the crossfire.
"Pl…please…Sh…Shego, have…have mercy on me…" The cerulean scientist pleaded with his ex-henchwoman.
She tightened her squeeze around his throat. "Did you have mercy on Kimmie ten years ago?" She asked coldly, watching the man's face turned into red, the purple. "No. You dropped her from the cliff."
Shego threw the man as hard as she could into the screen at the end of the table. The man plunged headfirst into the circuitry, short-circuiting everything. The screen exploded, throwing the man onto the floor, where he rolled a few times before coming to a stop as a limp heap of battered flesh.
"Dr. Porter, page Dr. Aengus for Drew." Shadow told her right-hand woman.
"Yes, Master Shadow." Vivian replied, reaching for her pager. She came down for the meeting once she settled Kim into her room and have Felix look after her. Now, standing in the room, she didn't notice Betty staring at her. Even if she did, she chose to ignore it.
"Vivian?" Betty called out. Her mind was in turmoil. The woman she had loved, whom she thought to have died shortly after the Lowardian invasion.
But here she was, alive.
AN Bwahahahaha…. Yes, this is where I leave you all to hang. Yes, yes, don't hang me for shipping Betty and Vivian together. Nor do you hang me for bringing Yamanouchi down. Rest assure, no real lives were endangered, if that's what you all are worried about.
So, here we are, at the end of chapter ten, and I'm glad for all the support that you all have given me so far. Shego and Betty are in Obsidian Pact's base, Yamanouchi is levelled. Betty found out who Shadow truly is, or did she, and is reunited with her long lost lover. How are things going to escalate from here?
Do drop me a review to encourage this newbie writer.