Shego sat in silence watching over the red head, she was looking better, the morphine was doing its job, letting her get some much needed rest and the extra warmth in the small space was returning some of the colour back in to her face.
Shego took the opportunity while Kim was asleep to get herself together. She needed to let go of the anger and hurt she felt after her heated chat with Kim. Keeping her emotions in check was a first step in controlling her powers and right now she needed all the control she had. Shego knew they had been down in their cave for about 12 hours, they wouldn't last more than 3 days without food and water. She needed to find a way out. Maybe people would be out there looking for the infamous hero Kim Possible, it was unlikely that people would let her be missing for to long.
Her train of thought was broken by Kim slowly stirring, she was going to be confused when she woke up - morphine did funny things to average people. Shego moved closer to the red head so she could be seen in the dim green light. Kim turned her head round to look at Shego, her eyes opened wide- she looked scared.
"Woah Kimmie - its me." Shego said quietly trying to calm the red head, her bedside manner had always left something to be desired and her words did nothing to improve the situation.
"What are you doing here?" Kim slurred, her mind felt like think soup, she couldn't piece together anything. "Where am I?" Kim started trying to sit up.
"You are going to be ok Princess but I need you to stay still so you don't hurt your leg any more." Shego put her hand out to try and stop the hero from sitting up. In doing so it struck her how much Kim had grown up over the years, they had been fighting each other for 7 years in that time Kim and gone from a dorky child to a young woman.
Kim looked at Shego, trying hard to remember what was happening, she could only remember fragments; the fight, darkness, an argument - it was all so unclear but one thing she remembered. " you said you would kill me!" Kim shouted, trying again to move away from the green woman.
"I... I didn't mean it" Shego said as softly and as soothingly as possible to try and stop the red head moving more than she already was. She felt a pang of guilt for saying the words in the first place, they had come from anger and upset. Kim looked deep in to Shegos eyes, as if looking for the truth to her words, she calmed down and went back to sleep. Shego breathed a sign of relief, hopefully the side effects of the morphine would wear off soon.
Another few hours past, Shego spent the time trying to work out the best means of escape, looking at every inch of the walls around them. She had a way out, but it was messy and dangerous. As she was running her hands over the farthest wall of the small cave she heard Kim moving. The red head was wake and hopefully more with it than last time.
"Urgh... I feel strange" Kim moaned from the floor. Her head was swimming and her mouth was dry but on the plus side she hurt less. She could hear Shego moving around in the darkness- the light from before she went to sleep once again gone.
"Hey there kimmie, feeling better?" Shego asked, trying to keep her voice upbeat.
"It hurts less" Kim said "any change you could give some light in here again?"
"No can do princess, I need to save all my plasma energy to get us out of here."
"You have worked out a way out?" Kim sounded surprised, she had just assumed that they would wait here until someone came to get them out.
"It's not a perfect solution, but it's about the only one we have." Shego admitted, there was no point in hiding the fact this was far from ideal.
"And what do you mean 'save your plasma'?" Kim was confused, she couldn't remember a time Shego had refused to use her powers. she could hear the villain moving about the dark space and get closer to her.
"Well kimmie its very simple." Shego was mildly annoyed by the red heads questions, she was working out a way to get them out of here and all the hero wanted to know was some pretty simple logic explaining. "My plasma is energy, and as you should have learnt in school, energy has to come from somewhere. As it happens I get my energy from the sun- why do you think I always go sunbathing?"
No sooner had Shego finished talking than Kim burst out laughing. "You get your power from the Sun? Ah ahaha that's hilarious Shego! You are just like supergirl." Kim could barely get her words out around her laughter. It's true she had never understood how Shego recharged her plasma, but it never occurred to her it was something as simple as UV rays- it did explain a lot though.
Shego was becoming more annoyed with the hero by the second, if they got out of here she was going to kick her butt so bad. An idea flashed across her mind and it made her smirk. She took aim at the point in the walls she knew was the weakest, held out her arm, took a deep breath and let go of a large plasma bolt. The small space momentarily flashed bright green, startling Kim enough to make her scream. Shego laughed.
"What the hell Shego!" Kim yelled.
"Sorry princess, but if we want to get out of here, this is the only way." Shego continued to smirk, please with her own plan. She moved away from the red head and towards the place she had fired, the wall was hot to the touch.
"What is your plan Shego?" Kim asked hesitantly, she felt the villain move over to the spot she had blasted.
"I reckon we are under about 10ft of rubble, mainly steel, ice and concrete. People are going to be out looking for you, but I suspect that we are to far underground to be picked up on any scans." Shego paused to look over at the red head, she had repositioned herself to be sitting up.
"And..." Kim pushed for Shego to continue "how does that knowledge help us get out?" She was sceptical that any plan was going to work.
"As you have seen Princess, I can melt steel and concrete. I recon I can make a tunnel to the surface, we get seen by your rescuer party and home in time for you to go and spoil someone else's day." Shego hoped she she sounded effortless and confident, she wasn't convinced she had enough power in her to get the, to the surface, but she sure as hell wasnt going to die in this hole with the insufferable Kim Possible.
"This plan is terrible." Kim said flatly
"You got a better one princess?" Shego snapped back
"No" Kim said after a long pause.
