At the back of the cave they found a folding table and two folding chairs, and a metal door that opened with a keypad.
Kim pulled out the hair comb hacker, and activated it. After a few seconds of lights flashing, it beeped, and the door swung open.
Taking the lead, Shego snuck down the corridor followed by her temporary allies. They met nobody. Peeking around a corner Shego held up a hand. "There's a guard at the end of the hall," she whispered.
Kim grinned. "Finally, a chance to test my speed in combat."
"HEY!" exclaimed Shego in a whisper, "What do you call our last fight?"
"Um... practice?" Kim looked a bit apologetic.
Shego rolled her eyes, and gestured toward the turn in the hall.
Kim turned on her glow, and ran past the black and green clad villainess.
The guard swung his weapon around toward her, but too late. Kim crossed the distance and punched him hard in the gut. She caught him before he hit the ground, and set him against the wall. She gestured behind her, and Ron and Shego joined her a moment later.
The room beyond the door was dark. Shego lit a finger as Ron closed the door behind himself. They snuck across the room but within the range of her glow the room was empty. Suddenly the lights turned on with a loud click, and they found themselves in the middle of a large round room set up like a stadium. There were WWEE agents in the stands, and at the end was a raised dais where Gemini himself sat.
"Well, well," he said in a smug tone, "Unexpected... and uninvited, visitors. Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable... and, why, Shego, consorting with the enemy! How could you?"
"I'm here for a different reason than them, but carpooling seemed a good idea since we have the same target," she responded, sarcastically.
"Oh, and what reason might that be?" he asked, leaning forward.
She pointed at him. "I'm not about to take the fall for a crime I DIDN'T commit! You sent someone dressed in MY costume to steal that dimensional thing," she said, "It was a poor job of copying, too. "
Gemini shrugged. "If you say so. It was done to throw attention away from me. But since it didn't work, I'll have to fire the agent who suggested it."
A man in the stands got up and ran for an exit, but at the push of a button on Gemini's console a mechanical claw reached down and grabbed him. It pulled him up through a trap door in the high ceiling while he was screaming and thrashing.
Shego, Kim, Ron, and Rufus watched the operation. The heroes had horrified expressions, while the villainess just cocked an elegant black eyebrow.
"Does that satisfy you, Shego?" Gemini asked.
"Hardly," she answered, "I'm gonna have to teach you not to do it again. And whoever did the copying." She lit her hands.
Gemini held up his mechanical hand. "Wait a minute, we're not done with the "witty banter" portion of the proceedings."
To Kim's surprise, Shego doused her plasma and folded her arms. "Uh, Shego?"
The alabaster woman shrugged. "Gotta stick with convention, Princess."
Kim rolled her eyes as Gemini addressed her. "Why are you here, Miss Possible?"
"To get the PDVI, of course, and stop you from doing whatever you're doing with it," she replied.
"Good lead-in line," he replied. "I've found a way to stabilize the PDVI so it won't create a black hole the size of Nevada. It will be used to move my troops around where they are needed so I can take over the world!"
"Not bad..." mused Shego, "If I wasn't angry, and determined to get some payback, I'd go along with it."
"Hey, Sheldon," Ron put in, "Where's Pepe?"
"Oh, he's under the weather right now. Caught a bad cold, so is resting in my rooms," said Gemini.
"Caught a cold? How could you tell the difference?" muttered Kim.
"That concludes this portion of the confrontation," announced the one-eyed man, "Now we get down to the fighting." He grinned and tapped a button on the console.
A door opened under his dais on the floor of the arena, and out stepped some familiar figures.
"Bebes!" gasped Kim.
"They're what?" asked Shego, looking at her.
"Bebe robots. Drakken created them before he hired you," she replied. She looked at the head of WWEE. "How did you get them?"
"Remember the island hive you destroyed?" he asked, "After you left we came to investigate. We found enough parts to make three complete ones. They've been reprogrammed to obey only me. Oh, and Shego, it was one of them that impersonated you."
He looked down at his female robots. "Get them all!" he commanded.
"Yes, Gemini," they replied in unison. Then they vibrated briefly, and seemed to disappear.
"Wha--" started Shego.
"They have super speed!" explained Kim, and turned on her own version.
The three humans found themselves confronted with a robot girl each.
When a Bebe appeared in front of Ron, it took a swing at him. It startled him so badly he yelped and took a step back, tripping over his own feet. The metal fist missed by a couple of feet. The Ron Factor had kicked in.
Shego wasn't so lucky. Fast as she was, the Bebe was faster. It punched her hard and tripped her at the same time. She went down heavily.
Kim's enhanced senses could see the robots move, but they were still much faster than her. She was fast enough to duck the fist aimed at her head, and planting her hands on the floor kicked it in the midriff. The robot went sailing back, a noticeable dent left in the torso.
"Need some room," Kim thought to herself, and got up and ran into an open area away from Ron and Shego.
It righted itself, and said, "Unit Three to Units Two and One. Subject Possible appears to have enhanced speed, but not at the level it was last encounter. Also has enhanced strength. Theorize a different method is in use."
"Acknowledged," the other two said.
Her Bebe powered up and sped after her.
Ron rolled out of the way as his Bebe's foot came down where he had been. Rufus was thrown from his pocket, and skidded across the floor. The naked mole rat got his bearings, and headed for the door where the Bebes had emerged.
Shego got up, shaking her head. "Hey, are you the robot that was disguised as me to steal that dimension thing?"
"Affirmative," answered the Bebe, taking a stance.
"All I wanted to hear," said the villainess, and flared her plasma.
The Bebe vibrated as a warm up to super speed, but never got the chance. An intense beam of green plasma engulfed the robot, corroding its metal casing, and when the plasma reached the circuitry, it was over. With an electronic SQEEEEEE!
it fell over, half melted and inactive.
Shego doused her plasma, and walked calmly to the wall, where she leaned against it to watch Kim and Ron in their fights.
Ron had gotten to his feet, and was desperately trying to activate his Mystical Monkey Power. He took an apelike stance, and made noises of what he thought a monkey sounded like. He jumped around, making half-remembered Tai Sheng Pek Quar moves.
The Bebe paused and studied him. "Subject Stoppable appears to have damaged programming. Unable to assess threat level. Unit One advise."
"Threat level irrelevant. Orders are to kill," Unit One answered. It extended an arm trying to catch Kim, who avoided the hand, grabbed the arm, and swung the Bebe into the wall.
"Acknowledged," Said Unit Two, and took a stance.
Ron stood still. 'C'mon, c'mon,' he mentally urged his Power, but it remained stubbornly inert. 'Maybe I can bluff the blue girl here.'
He ran at his opponent, who didn't move. He didn't notice that the floor where he had landed had a thin coating of sweat. That was all the Ron Factor needed. He slipped in it, the sudden loss of friction sliding him ever closer to the Bebe.
"WHAAAA--!!" he shouted as he lost balance. His other foot swung up, connecting solidly with the Bebe's chin, The head was instantly separated from the body, and flew into the crowd of WWEE people around them, who moved quickly out of the way. Ron fell on his back, under the robot.
The Bebe's body stood for a few seconds, then collapsed on top of him.
"AAAAHHH!! It's got me! KIM! Sidekick in trouble!" he yelled, thrashing around.
Shego laughed at him as she moved away from the wall. "Hold on, I'll get you out," she said, chuckling.
"You're both going out," said Gemini, hitting another button.
Just as Shego was getting the Bebe off of Ron, a roughly circular hole appeared behind her. Instantly the Bebe's remains were snatched from her hands and disappeared into the rift.
"HEY!" shouted Shego.
The vortex's suction suddenly increased, and Shego was caught off-balance. She waved her arms around to find something to hold onto, but there was nothing nearby. Except Ron.
Ron caught her wrist and pulled her toward himself. "I've got you!"
She looked at him, flat on his back holding her wrist while trying to scoot away from the vortex. "You've got me? Who's got you?"
The suction continued to pull at them, and the friction of Ron's mission sneakers began losing the battle. They were being dragged toward the maw of the vortex.
Suddenly she got an idea. She lit her free hand, and slammed her steel-shredding claws into the floor. That gave them an anchor and a bit of a reprieve. But she knew she couldn't hold it long.