Chapter Ten: Kim-Reality Check
As Shego and Kim walked to Kim's house, something kept bothering the teen superspy. "Shego, what happens to you if you get captured by Global Justice?" The girl asked as she looked up at the raven-haired woman. "You think they are just going to lock me up again just so I can escape?" Shego responded. When Kim nodded, Shego sadly shook her head. "Naïve Kimmie," Shego said with a long sigh. "Director's probably going to just save money and have me shot next time I meet her." Kim shivered. "Betty wouldn't do that!" Shego raised an eyebrow. "Have you ever thought about the real world?" Kim gave her a puzzled look. "The world isn't clean cut into good and bad. Majority rules everything." Kim nodded and said, "Since the good doctor wants you dead, she's high up enough to get away with murder and get off by saying your death was justified for the peace of the masses." Shego nodded. Suddenly Kim felt a little more uneasy about the leader of GJ. "She could easily do the same for you, Kimmie, if you were ever seen as a threat." Shego said calmly as a cold chill ran down Kim's spine.
When Kim and Shego showed up at the house about thirty minutes later, Mrs. Possible welcomed them in with a smile, but the mother could see through the mask of happiness her daughter wore."Kim, what's the matter?" The woman asked. "Well, it turns out Bonnie is the reason I'm now half tiger." Anne gave her daughter a shocked look, so Kim elaborated. "The entire teasing and mean girl act was just her trying to get my attention." Ann nodded as Kim relayed what happened earlier that day. Ann covered her mouth in shock when Kim got to the part where she blacked out. "Next thing I know, Shego's looking me over with a neat pile of ash next to her." James Possible grumbled a hello to Shego and glared at the woman while the Tweebs seemed enamored with her. "How hot can you get your plasma?" Jim asked. Tim followed his brother. "Why are your powers green, why not yellow or aqua or orange or pink?" Shego smirked. "It's hot enough to melt tungsten," She told the boys as she got within inches of their faces. "…and as for color, I don't know why I'm green." Jim gave a worried glace at Kim once he heard how strong Shego's plasma could be. Then, a devilish grin grew on the boy's face. "If you're that powerful, why was Kim never turned to ash?" Kim whirled on the Tweeb. "Jim, watch it. I'm not responsible if she burns you."
Shego smiled and motioned for the boys to sit down. "Well, at first, it was because she was simply too nimble with those…cheerleader skills of hers." Shego said with a frown. "As we fought and teased each other, I began to see your sister as more than just an overachieving brat." From somewhere near them, Kim said, "Hey!" Shego shrugged with a grin. "Truth hurts, Pumpkin." Shego said as she waved Kim's comment off and continued. "Soon, I saw her as a worthy opponent, one only I had the right to kill. Then, I realized a dilemma. If I went through and followed that line to its conclusion, I would lose the only person that made fighting enjoyable." Shego sighed. "In a few of Kimmie's missions, we fought together. I pretended it was for my own pride, but in truth, I began to have a desire to protect your sister. I wouldn't admit to myself that the desire to protect Kim went deeper because she liked boys, and I didn't want the heartbreak of rejection. When the Buffoon made a move for her, I was sure I'd lost her to that idiot. Then, she showed up at my house, and the rest is history."
As Shego wrapped up her story, Mrs. Possible called, "Dinner!" Everyone was in the process of moving the dining room table when Kim became antsy and her ears twitched in response to multiple sounds. "Shit!" Kim growled as armed men in riot gear burst through the windows and pointed their weapons at Shego and Kim. "We have Shego, ma'am…and Kim Possible as well." An agent said through an earpiece. Finally, the form of Betty Director walked in with a gargantuan syringe of a strange blue liquid in her hand and frowned at Kim. "You've worked with us for years. Why would you betray us?" Kim eyed the needle warily. "I fell in love with a beautiful woman who is not as bad as you claim her to be." Kim said with a glare. Betty pulled off a false sadness perfectly."I was afraid DNAmy's experimentation would corrupt your mind, so I'm giving you this." She pointed to the needle. "It's an antidote to purge you back to your human state." Along with a mind controlling agent… Kim thought as she was paralyzed by fear as the "friend" came near her intent on destroying who she was.
When Kim finally shook herself out of the fear, the girl went mad. The superspy showed the GJ agents who they were dealing with and soon had the agents on the retreat between Kim's ferocity and Shego's powers. Only Betty Director stood, unfazed as Kim and Shego unleashed Hell on the agents of GJ. Betty sighed, brought a 1939 German luger to bear, and pointed it at Shego. "Take the antidote, or she dies." Kim sighed. "There's always the third option..." Kim said as she held up her hands and pretended to cooperate. When the needle was inches from Kim's skin, she sprung the trap and flipped the needle into the air with a delicate motion. Then, Kim caught the syringe. "…you could take your own medicine!" Kim then jammed the needle into the doctor's neck and pushed the plunger until the syringe was empty. "Go back to GJ and pursue true justice." Kim whispered in the woman's ear before Betty walked away in a trance.
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