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Kim Possible: Wonder Girl
By LJ58
10
Kim slowly broke the kiss, staring at Shego with wonder in her bright green eyes.
"Wow," she murmured.
Shego only smiled back, looking far more relaxed.
"This Ares doesn't have a chance," she finally murmured, holding Kim close. "No way is anyone going to get between us again. No way. Just….be honest. You, and that Monique?"
"Just friends," Kim smiled. "I was telling the truth when Diana lassoed us. In case you missed it, you kind of have to do that when her lasso is on you."
"Yep, going to have to get rid of that thing," Shego grumbled.
"It's magic. Enchanted by very real gods. Can't be done."
Shego gave her a sour expression. Then leaned over, and kissed her lightly again.
"Doesn't matter. Only you do," she said.
"Shego," Kim sighed, "If something did happen….."
"Kim," the green-skinned woman rasped.
"I'm not saying it will. I feel good about our chances. We have Diana, Wade, the tweebs, and even Ron at our back. I think we are doing pretty well there. I'm just saying, if anything ever does happen, I don't want you to go crazy. Not over me. Can I ask you that?"
Shego just stared.
"No promises," she finally replied.
"Shego…."
"But, for you, I'll try. That's all I'm saying," she added firmly, and leaned over to rub her nose over Kim's. "I can't believe that I can be so….."
Something hit the ground not far from the house, and the very ground seemed to shake. A moment later, the house itself shook. Hard.
"Of course," Shego growled, leaping to her feet as she looked toward the door. "I swear, the world hates me," she complained, then turned to race upstairs, even as Kim raced for the door in spite of wearing only a gown.
"Whoa," she sputtered, and stared at the very big eye, of a very big hog-like beast that was hammering against the force shield with enough force to actually rattle ground, and house as one.
The thing was the size of a large draft horse, and it was not alone.
Atop it, a seven foot skeletal warrior in antiquated armor was making shrieking sounds that increased even as it set its eerily glowing hollow eye sockets on her. Behind it, five other hogs and riders like it snorted, and tore at the ground.
Slamming the door, Kim put her back to it, eyes wide, and spotted Diana coming down in her own uniform, with her sword and lasso back at her side. A shield had come from somewhere, carried on her left arm, and she looked very grim as she eyed the redhead.
"So did not see that one coming," Kim exclaimed.
"Prepare for battle, sister," Diana told her. "It would seem Ares is once again hiding behind his lackeys. Unless we find, and stop him, he'll unleash them on your city, and destroy everyone, and everything around us."
"Not going to happen," she said, and now raced for the stairs as Diana strode for the door.
"Kimberly," the Amazon shouted over her shoulder. "Bring your sword."
Kim didn't hesitate, or argue, but she still felt uneasy about that weapon.
Still, considering what she had just seen, not quite sure what else might be out there, she didn't argue.
Shego was just zipping up her catsuit when she burst into the bedroom, and ran for her closet where her Amazon garments, and gear waited.
"You are not going to believe….."
"I looked out the window," Shego said. "Ready for some barbeque?"
Kim pulled out her uniform, and nodded. "I guess I'd better be," she said, and quickly dressed.
Shego gave her a faint smile.
"What," the redhead asked when she strapped the Amazonian sword to her side at the last.
"I have to say, I can finally admit I like your look," she smiled as Shego's eyes assessed her with open admiration.
Kim raised one small fist.
"Ready to go kick butt?"
Shego's hands both rose, both surrounded with green energies that coursed through her every cell.
"Definitely," she grinned. "Let's go remind this freak that payback can be a bitch," she smirked characteristically.
"Or even two," Kim asked suggestively.
"Ooooo, Kimmie implied a bad word. There may be hope for you yet, Princess," she said, and turned to lead the way down even as Kim's parents stumbled out of their room, looking half asleep, and confused.
"Get to the basement, mom. Dad. The bad guys are here."
"What basement," James frowned.
Anne rolled her eyes, and grabbed her husband's arm.
"This way, honey. Let's just hope the boys are ready," she said uneasily.
By the time she opened the linen closet, the three women were gone, and James was frowning as he watched her pull on a lever to the left of the top shelf.
"Our boys aren't as sneaky as they like to think. I saw them put this in over a year ago when they first started dragging in spare parts from all those broken robots," she told him as the shelves laden with linen slid back on a hidden tack, and revealed a surprisingly large cargo lift.
"Jim and Tim built this," James asked, a hint of masculine pride in his tone. "How did you find about this? I mean, the boys were obviously being clever. Even I never noticed anything."
"I noticed they were spending a lot of time upstairs," Anne smiled. "Only since they usually hate going to their room after we made them clear out that lab, and put it in the garage."
James stepped into the lift with her, and shook his head.
"The boys don't have a lab in the garage."
"Not any more," Anne agreed. And knowingly. "Get ready. There's no telling what those two have down here."
The door slid open even as Jim shouted," "Definitely ethereal. Program the targeting mechanism now, and watch out for Kim!"
"Already done. Auto-fire capability in….."
"Auto-fire," Anne sputtered as she stepped out into the surprisingly spacious chamber despite the obvious clutter. "What are you boys doing?"
Both twins turned to stare at them, then Jim pointed.
"Helping," he shouted, and his sibling slammed a fist on a button that launched the new weapon up to ground level, and then turned to study a series of monitors crafted from borrowed monitor screens that showed much of the outside from every vantage point.
"Is that…..real," Anne exclaimed, seeing her daughter launching herself at a skeletal rider atop a huge boar with tusks like an elephant.
Shego ripped her opponent in half, literally, tossing it off its mount before sending the big beast charging into another bizarre creature. Nearby, Diana simply plunged her sword, a real sword, into the skull of the big beast as her simultaneously thrown shield sliced the head from off the skeletal rider.
It didn't slow the impossible warrior down as it launched itself at Diana still pulling her sword free.
"Very," Tim told her, and indicated a monitor that made no sense to her. "Wade was close. The ethereal energies powering those things are definitely extra-dimensional. It's such a huge wave we can't shut it down, or block it, but….."
"We can vaporize the puppets," Jim smiled, and took the controls that now fired the readied phase cannon that vaporized another beast and rider even as it charged Shego's back.
The green-skinned woman turned to gape even as a yellow stream of energy exploded from the side of the Possible house, and disintegrated the new threat she had been just about to turn to face.
"Gotta say, Pumpkin, I'm glad those boys are on our side," Shego shouted as she raced to back up Kim, still trying to plunge her sword into the base of the skull of the now riderless boar that had by then trampled its former rider into bone slivers.
Unfortunately, she wasn't able to do much else about the big thing since it was apparently mindless without its rider.
"Look," Diana shouted, and pointed out a horde of skeletal warriors literally rising from the ground, and ambling toward them at a very graceful lope. "I do believe Ares knows we are here."
"Doy, comes to mind," Shego spat, and landed behind Kim, and putting her hands up to steady Kim on the bucking, writhing creature's back, Kim was able to bury her steel blade in the beast's nape, making it stagger, and slide to a final, twitching end.
"One barbeque to go left, and then…."
The warriors surged forward, even as the plasma cannon cut a wide swath through them.
Shego leapt one way, Kim the other, and waded into the separated flanks with Diana who had already engaged the enemy.
"Best way to end this," Shego growled, finding out her plasma negated whatever force kept the walking skeletons walking, "Is to find the big guy, and kick his butt. Where do we find him, Princess," she demanded.
Both Diana and Kim looked her way, making her want to swear a moment.
"Either of you," she said, and slammed a plasma-encased fist through a moldering skull before its owner could bury an old war-axe in hers.
"He'll be at the center of power for this metropolis. He likes an audience, and he's obsessed with such trappings."
"City hall," Kim nodded. "So, much as I hate to bail, we have to leave things in the tweebs' hands, and….."
"Don't worry, KP," Ron shouted as he appeared just then, clad in black, and cutting an arch through the enemy as his folks, Hana in tow, raced for the Possible house. "I'll help hold them back here. You go do what you have to do," he assured her, and using the inestimable Lotus Blade, he decapitated over thirty of the legions of skeletal warriors as a glowing boomerang was flung from one hand, while the other deftly snatched the blade from a nearby warrior to use in his other while leaping, and jumping around so gracefully none of the warriors could stop him.
"I can help," Hanna shouted back.
"You get mom and dad inside, and watch their back," Ron shouted. "Go!"
Kim didn't know if he meant her, or his sister, but she took it to mean both.
"Diana!"
"Show me the way," Diana declared, and sword and shield in hand, simply leapt up into the sky, and then looked back, waiting.
"I'll meet you there," Shego assured her when Kim rose into the sky, too, then paused to look back down at her.
"I could carry you…."
"I'll borrow your car," Shego told her. "Go!"
Kim turned, and flew after Diana, still both stunned, and secretly gleeful at being able to actually fly under her own power.
"You must lead the way. Ares will likely be subverting the local authorities even as we speak," Diana told her as they flew together now, the rising sun only then turning the dark skies gray and pink. And an unnerving red.
"This way," she pointed with her still unsheathed sword.
"I see why Ares tried to stop your Shego now," Diana commented as they neared the city center, bursts of green back and below, betraying the other woman's progress as she followed in Kim's small vehicle. "Her star power seems to negate Ares' most potent energies."
"I noticed that, too. Hopefully, she can negate him, too. It'll make ending this a lot easier."
"Never think Ares will be easy to defeat, sister," Diana told her somberly as they began to descend, Kim's face unnerved by the throng of locals gathered around the steps of the municipal building. Especially since all of them were kneeling, and surrounded by more of those walking dead warriors.
"They never are, but he will go down," she promised, and landed beside Diana in the space between the crowd, and the steps, atop which stood a tall, muscular figure in antiquated armor, complete with a flowing, red cape.
"Wow, and I thought Dementor was showy," she commented.
"You dare mock me, woman," the man growled with a voice like muted thunder. "And, Diana. What an unpleasant surprise. I thought you would still be home arguing with your mother about now."
"I am ever ready to depose you, tyrant," she growled, raising her blade.
"You always were overly confident. This is not Themyscira, Amazon bitch," he snarled now, taking a single step. "And you do not have your vain sisters about you. Kill her," he growled, and pointed. "And bring me the redhead. With their champion dangling in my chains, these mortals will fold all the easier."
From behind him, two massive minotaurs charged with huge hammers they raised to attack Diana, as if heedless of her.
Diana danced away, dodging one blow, deflecting another, even as Kim leapt up, both hands joined, and slammed her fists into the back of one of the big man-bulls.
The minotaur bellowed with pain, turned on her, and snorted.
"Okay, kind of hoped that would work a little better," she muttered, stepping back as the mythological beast stomped toward her, shaking a massive head as if showing off the horns that could easily rend her if given a chance.
"Yo, cow-freak. Chew on this," a known voice shouted even as tires squealed, cutting a path through the shrieking crowd that fled the braking vehicle that seemed to be driving itself.
A green and black blur exploded from the door of the car sliding to a stop even before it fully stopped, and gouts of green energy pulsed before slamming into the minotaur's face. The beast roared, bowing backwards as if to evade the searing energies, and landed hard on his broad back, his own massive hands striking vainly at the burning sphere that engulfed him, all but denuding him as it seared hair, and flesh as one.
Then it went limp as Kim scooped up his fallen hammer, and used it to knock the beast unconscious.
She grinned at Shego, but didn't stop as she turned, and threw the heavy hammer right into the back of the skull of the second minotaur that still had Diana fighting in circles, neither of them gaining a clear advantage.
"Annoying females," a male voice roared, and Shego looked up at the tall, armored figure that pointed their way.
"Wow, someone is seriously overcompensating," she mocked, sniggering at the façade she took in with a single, dismissive glance.
"You had your chance to serve, bitch," he called her.
"So, this guy has mommy issues," Shego asked lackadaisically of Diana, who stood nodding to Kim as the final minotaur went down under their combined blows.
"More like father issues. He seems to think he should supplant Zeus as king of the gods."
"Right," Shego smirked, "Because that whole ruler of the world bit always works out just fine."
"You dare mock me," Ares demanded, and turned on them. "You dare…."
"I dare a lot, buzzard-beak," he was told as Shego targeted his helm's garish façade. "Frankly, you're just a tiny bug on my road. And I'm going to squish you," she spat, and started up the steps with Kim and Diana bracketing her.
The god of war's howl of fury was more than audible.
It also picked them up, and slammed them halfway across the city square to land in the nearby park, Kim slamming hard into a thin tree she shattered even as Diana bounced off a nearby statue, shattering the forelegs of the horse the stately rider was atop.
Shego sat up on the grass where she had landed, and eyed the other two.
"Ouch," she grimaced as Diana sat up, smashing the severed foreleg of the marble statue that had landed atop her.
"We shall see how you fare with my winged predators," Ares crowed as he lifted both arms, and the sky shimmered overhead as five, huge birds appeared as if from nowhere.
Kim rose to her feet, looking up, and Shego only complained, "Why do these freaks always have birds?"
"I've got this one," Kim shouted as she took to the air. "Diana, you and Shego grab Ares!"
"Fool," Ares laughed even as Kim flew up into the sky to face the huge war birds. "None can tame…."
"Haven't you heard, poser," Shego growled, hands lighting with energies of the cosmos. "Anything is possible….."
"Indeed," Diana said, and flung herself at Ares, eager to return his blow at least twofold.
"I shall parade your skulls before my banners, and….."
Two things happened simultaneously that genuinely stunned the confident god of war.
Shego's cosmic plasma slammed into his face twice in quick succession, nearly melting his own helmet around his head. Forced to pull it from his head, and fling it away, he heard the shrieks of his circling war birds even as he looked up to see them whirling, and banking, turning away from the redhead impossibly hovering in the sky like the Amazon's own champion.
She had not even been touched.
"Impossible," he roared, even as Diana's fleet charge reached him, and she slammed a succession of hard fists into his now unprotected face, and jaw.
"The only impossible is your reach. You will never have this world," Diana told him. "Not so long as a single Amazon stands!"
"Then I'll raze your entire lineage," he spat, barely evading her blows, and reeling when they did land. Shego added her own impressive skills to Diana's, and for a moment, they had the would be conqueror backpedaling, and looking beyond frustrated.
Then his minions surged to reach him, separating them, and once again they were facing off even as Kim slammed down into his back with both feet, having been forgotten until that moment.
This time, the god went sprawling, face-down, and came back up cursing as he moved to keep an eye on the glowering redhead.
"You aren't getting my city, or my world, freak," the redhead told him, hands raised into fists.
For the fist time his glittering eyes took in the silver bands on her slender wrists.
"You are no mere mortal sow," he growled. "How is it you wear the badge of an Amazon?"
"I earned it," she said, and charged him again, even as her distraction let Diana settle her lasso around the god of war's broad shoulders.
Even as it did, as just the faintest gleam of concern filled those dark eyes, more of the skeletal warriors swarmed Diana, wrenching the lasso from her hands, and leaving it laying just inches from her reach as she was forced to defend herself with Shego in the midst of a growing horde that seemed intent on bringing them down.
Ares laughed as he reached for the lasso, pulling it away from him.
"This time, there shall be no easy victory for you, Amazon," he cackled. "I'll use your own device against you, and…"
Even as he was pulling at the glittering noose still around him, Kim was moving.
In her mind, a heartfelt prayer to Athena, or whoever was listening, that she was worthy enough to do what Diana had once done. Command that magic in the lasso to bring Ares to a halt. Even as she snatched up the fallen length, pulling it tight once more, she sent that prayer out to any that might be listening.
If she had any favor, any boon left, now was the time to call it in.
"Make me worthy, and help me stop this madman," she prayed for the first time in her life as she pulled the cord tight once more.
"You have always been worthy," a familiar voice whispered in her mind even as Ares stiffened, and went absolutely still.
She almost choked on her own genuine gratitude just then as she glanced briefly toward where Diana and Shego were battling, and then moved toward Ares, now stiff, and immobile in the magic lasso's embrace as she met his glowering gaze.
"Stop your soldiers. Now."
"Y-You," he tried to swear.
"Do it, now," she shot back. "I command you, in Athena's name!"
He grit his teeth, his expression more rictus than not, but the skeletal warriors simply seemed to fall apart, and melt away even as he was forced to nod.
Diana stared in astonishment, then looked toward Kim, and smiled.
Shego just stared, not ready to relax, not quite sure this was over that easily.
"Now, you will listen carefully to me. Very carefully," Kim told him. "And you will obey me."
Ares just glared, impotently just then, but his very expression promised all manner of hellish vindication.
"When I release you, I order you to leave this world, and to leave us, the world, and the Amazon's alone. You will not trouble us again. Now, go," she spat, and pulled the lasso free even as Diana walked over to join her.
For a single, tense moment, Ares stood there visibly trembling with wrath, and then he just vanished like a soap bubble popping.
Kim let out a breath she had been holding, and almost sagged in relief.
"Well, that wasn't fun at all," Shego grumbled as she came over to stand next to the pair, and shook her head.
"You did well, Kim," the redhead was told. "Even I didn't believe we would defeat Ares so easily. Still, I doubt he'll stay gone forever."
"We can hope," Kim smiled blandly.
"Even the lasso has its limits, and recall, Ares is ever devious. Eventually, he will be back. We shall have to remain vigilant. That is ever the Amazon's charge, and duty."
Kim nodded.
"I'm just glad I had you with me. You, and Shego," she smiled at the green-skinned woman.
Shego just stared at her.
Around them, people in the nearby city square were all talking at once, loudly, and exclaiming wonder at what had happened, and almost happened. Someone caught sight of Kim, and the inevitable press began to move their way even as Diana rose into the sky, and beckoned Kim.
"Okay, that is going to get annoying," Shego said as the redhead grinned, and lifted off the ground with an unnatural ease.
"Be right back," Kim promised, and followed Diana into the sky.
"Joy," Shego muttered as she turned to see the press, and the crowd, now moving to surround her.
To Be Continued…