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Shego and DNAmy's Night Out, Shego's Nightmare
Mr. Dr. Possible had spent months reviewing his theories on the cypertronic technology that he had blasted into space months ago. He was ready to resume work on it and that meant retrieving it from the orbit it had been placed in. Team Possible had assembled to ensure that when the rocket landed no villains would steal it. It was a decent security move, Ron thought, if only they weren't going to place it back in the exact same room with the exact same two lasers in the exact same containment unit. All now repaired of course. Sometime he had to wonder just how much common sense people had. But given his sitch with Shego he guessed he didn't have any right to complain.
After that incident at Drakken's lair she hadn't shown up for a few days. He wondered if maybe it was because her burns had taken that long to heal or if there was some other reason. Maybe she'd had some villain type job to do. Whatever it was she had eventually started showing up again. He had been relieved. But now she hadn't shown up for three days and he was worried. Something inside him told him something was wrong. Seriously wrong.
He looked at Kim. She had been seriously psyched out by the event. There had been one more mission to one of Drakken's lairs since then. Kim had been frightened. That was a very unusual state for her when it came to missions. With boyfriends, before she met Mark, she had been insecure. On the missions, never. Thought Shego had fought at the same level as she usually did Kim hadn't been quite up to her old self. Ron had been forced to press the self-destruct button, ending the fight.
Briefly he turned his thoughts to the self-destruct buttons villains nearly always included in their lairs. He knew why it was there. So when Global Justice came knocking they wouldn't capture any of the villain's technology. It made sense. If Global Justice could examine that technology in detail they could improvise countermeasures against it or even use it themselves. Destroying it made sense. But, given the lairs almost always got destroyed, he wondered, why he didn't just go straight for that self-destruct button. It would make things a whole lot easier. He sighed.
He noticed Mark looking at him. The guy, he knew, wasn't quite as oblivious as Kim. He had been looking at Ron more and more lately. He had bought the reasonable explanation that if losing something made someone mad, returning it might calm them down. However Ron had had no way of explaining how Shego could be so powerful for a brief period of time and yet fight as she normally did most of the time. He had merely kept quiet as the two discussed it. Thankfully none of them had asked him if he had any ideas. Mark though had been looking at him a lot since then. He didn't think it had anything to do with Shego though. He thought Mark was just trying to figure out why Ron acted the way he did on missions. Sometimes fighting, sometimes not. Why he sometimes hit the self-destruct right away and sometimes didn't.
He looked up and noticed a silver glint in the sky. The rocket was coming in for a landing. Five minutes later it was safely on the landing pad. Five minutes after that it was safely back in its containment unit. Ron looked at the innocent looking device. "How long before someone tries to steal it again?" He asked.
"Why would anyone try to steal it again. Shego already tried and thanks to you failed. She doesn't usually go after the same target twice." Kim said.
Ron blinked. He really had no answer for that. She really was oblivious.
"Depends on who knows about it." Mark suggested. "Could be days, could be weeks, or even months."
"I give it an hour or less." Ron stared at the device. "Less than an hour after we leave that is." The technology was astounding. Any villain who knew about it would want it.
"Ron that's para..." Kim's voiced faded. She thought for a bit. "We leave and then come back through the underground entrance and wait a while." She decided.
It took twenty minutes. A series of explosions started coming towards them. Kim was instantly on her feet, heading towards the noise.
Ron followed. "Guess the first villain of the day is Killigan." He said.
"How do you know it's Killigan?" Mark asked.
"What would Killigan want with cybertronic technology?" Kim wondered out loud.
"Those are exploding golf balls. Can tell by the sound they made. As for what he wants it for, to make golf balls with of course."
"Cybertronic golf balls?" Mark sounded skeptical.
"I wouldn't want to face any." Ron said.
It was indeed Killigan.
"Ah it's the wee lassie." Killigan's voice reached them from across the room. "Hand over the cybertonic technology or I'll use my golf balls." He threatened. He dropped one to the ground.
It took Kim all of five seconds to take him down. Both Mark and Ron stood back to watch. "Wonder who the next villain will be?" Ron wondered.
Mark looked at him. "More villains?"
"If I was a villain I would be after it. Would hit hard and fast to make sure no one else got it." Ron answered.
It took them an hour and twenty minutes to convince Dr. James Possible to get Global Justice to upgrade the security around the project. In that time both Dementor and two bebe robots made an attempt at the technology. Ron shuddered at what the bebe robots could have done with cybertronic technology.
A few hours later the trio were together again in the school cafeteria. Ron had bribed Monique once again with food to keep her questions at bay. In a way, he thought, she's a lot like Shego. Food calms the beast.
He was eating his own food, though a lot less enthusiastically than usual. He was worried over Shego. For some reason his stomach was in knots as he considered her absence the last few days.
Beep! Beep! Beep!
Kim flipped the Kimmunicator open and turned it on. "What's the sitch Wade?" She asked.
"Got information for you Kim. Seems DNAmy has kidnapped Shego."
Kim blinked. "But she's already mutated."
"Guess she's going to mutate her some more. That might end up to be a pretty bad situation Kim. Imagine what DNAmy might do if she uses someone with Shego's powers in her experiments." The image on the screen shuddered.
Ron shuddered too. He liked Shego the way she was. He felt strange. Worry, fear, rage, all mixed inside of him. The world seemed unreal somehow.
"Wade! You are not telling me I got to go and rescue SHEGO!" Kim demanded.
"It's too dangerous to let DNAmy use her in her experiments. Besides, she might be your enemy but she is human. Imagine what DNAmy might do to her." Wade countered.
"But..." Kim didn't like the idea of rescuing the green skinned villain. She felt something wiggle in her nose and she shuddered.
"Kim." Ron broke into the conversation. "You can either face the mutated animals DNAmy has now or wait for her to mutate Shego and face that creation. A creation with superpowers. Imagine a ten foot tall Shego that's twice as strong and twice as fast as she is now." He tried to keep his voice reasonable. Just what were they waiting for, he wondered.
"But..." Kim sighed. "But she's my archfoe, my nemesis." She knew she was going to have to go and rescue her. It was the right thing to do. '"Ride?" She finally asked.
"Be there in a few minutes Kim." Wade hoped they got there before Shego was mutated. He was having nightmares of ten foot tall women who were green and had super strength.
The lair this time turned out to be a very large cave set in the side of a mountain. A fitting place for a woman who made mutant animals that were often the size of elephants. Anything smaller just wouldn't do. There were no vents so they walked in the front door.
"Kim Possible." Spoke the woman who was working on an unknown machine as the trio entered.
Ron looked around. He spotted Shego, lying on a table. While she seemed to be unconscious, she still looked like her own self. No strange growths or anything that he could spot. He was relieved. The machine beside her that was connected to a needle in her arm had him worried though. He moved towards her. He heard soft moans coming from her. He shuddered. Those moans chilled his blood. They were so soft, barely audible, yet they spoke of unimaginable suffering. He couldn't help but reach out and stroke her hair. The moaning stopped.
Shego was deep in her nightmare. She saw the flesh of the girl before her, just a kid, begin to peel. She could smell it burning. Hear her terrified, pain filled, screams. She could see her plasma reach out and flow over the girl. Then she felt a touch. Soft and gentle. The nightmare vanished.
"What are you up to DNAmy?" Kim demanded.
"You're not here to look at my Cuddle Bunny collection?" The woman asked. She seemed disappointed. After all Kim was a fellow Cuddle Bunny lover.
"No. What are you doing to Shego?"
"Oh nothing much. Just thought I would see if I could make her a little bit better. You know add the ability to use sonar like a bat. Some wings. Make her a little bigger. But what I really wanted to do is see if I could find out how she uses plasma so all my lovelies can use it too." The woman ranted on about her plans.
"You can't do that." Kim stated.
"Why not? She wouldn't bother you any more then. I thought you would like my plan." The woman seemed disappointed again.
"What's the needle in her arm for?" Ron asked. He wanted to pull it out but what if DNAmy had done something and pulling the needle out hurt Shego.
"Oh that's just a sedative. It's hard to keep her asleep so I need to keep upping the dosage." The woman explained.
Ron reached down and pulled the needle out.
"No! Don't!" DNAmy screamed. Then she sighed. "Oh well. She should have enough in her system to keep her out for ten minutes. I can put it back in when I'm finished with you." She looked at Mark."Hey, you're cute. How would you like some bat wings and some gorilla arms?" She was serious.
Mark backed away. "I'm fine the way I am thank you." He looked at Kim.
"He's fine the way he is." Kim agreed. "We'll be taking Shego now and leaving."
Mark turned to look at Ron. He was stroking Shego's hair and the look on his face was terrifying. Mark gulped.
"I don't think so dearie." DNAmy told Kim. She pointed and around twenty bats flew down from the ceiling.
Kim looked at them. They didn't seem too dangerous, but given DNAmy had cooked them up they could be capable of anything. She jumped out of the way and they turned to follow her.
"They're spider bats. I crossed the ability of spiders to spin webs with bats. They're really very nice don't you think?" DNAmy sounded very pleased with herself.
Kim kept jumping. There were webs being shot at her. They don't spin webs, she realized, they shoot webs. She tried to take a swing at one that came low but it swooped up among the others. They were out of her reach. She had nothing to reach them with. She kept jumping out of the way, forced to move with no time to think.
Ron ran his hands through Shego's hair. If she were wake up she would fry me for that, he thought. It didn't matter. For whatever reason she would be okay. Maybe DNAmy had found it difficult to mutate her given her already mutated state or something. He found it difficult to breathe. He ran his fingers through her hair again.
Mark was confused. DNAmy was proving to be more resourceful than usual this time around and the sitch was going the wrong way. This was the time that Ron usually stepped in and did something. Yet he was just kneeling there stroking Shego's hair. While he could see the attraction in that it definitely wasn't the time and place.
Ron heard someone call his name and turned to look. Mark was buried under a pile of webbing, looking his way. Kim was still jumping around but one of the webs had hit her and her left arm was stuck to her side. He looked at the machine that had been administering the sedative to Shego. He flooded his system with various hormones as Sensei had taught him. Time slowed, his strength increased. He picked up the machine and flung it at the bats. It hit one, sending it stunned to the ground.
"Don't hurt the cute little things." He heard DNAmy scream.
The bats were still focused on Kim who was jumping around as best she could. Dodging nineteen web casting bats at the same time was a feat only she was capable of. And that only for a short time. He smiled, webs or not they were still bats. He pulled out the Kimmunicator and began to fiddle with it. In a few seconds he had it configured to emit a very high pitched sound. He turned it on. The bats went crazy. They lost focus of Kim and swarmed around, seemingly blind. They hit the walls and fell stunned to the floor.
"What did you do to my cuties?" DNAmy demanded. She approached him with fury on her face. Then she saw his face and backed away.
"High pitched sounds?" Kim guessed. Both her arms were webbed to her torso, but she was still standing.
Ron nodded.
"My squid monkey army will handle you." DNAmy pointed again. This time at Ron.
Twenty monkeys appeared from some hiding spot that Ron had missed. They looked at him and approached. He sighed. He turned turned the frequency the Kimmunicator was playing at down to 90kHz. The monkeys got agitated. He turned the volume up. The high tech gadget was capable of a really high volume. The monkeys' eyes went wide and they started rubbing at their ears, running around in circles. They were in pain.
Ron moved. He ran among them and started to strike them with the edge of his hand. They offered no resistance and went down in seconds. He looked up. Kim was looking at him. "Same as with the bats." He explained. "Monkeys can hear up to 90Khz frequencies compared to 20kHz for us humans. I just played a really loud sound at 90kHz. They were in too much pain from it to fight back."
"Oh." Kim said.
He turned the Kimmunicator off. He didn't want to hurt the creatures more than he needed to. DNAmy was the one he wanted to hurt.
DNAmy began to back away. She edged towards the door.
Ron looked at her. "Run and I will break both your legs."
"Ron!" Kim was shocked her best friend since pre-K would utter such a threat.
Ron shrugged. "Imagine she mutated you KP. How would you like it? A broken leg is nothing compared what she would have done to us." He found some rope from the kit KP carried and tied the mentally deranged villainess up. Very tightly.
He walked back over to Shego. "Just going to check to see she's okay." He explained. She looked to be okay. She was breathing normally at least. His back to Kim and Mark he stroked her hair one last time. He wouldn't be doing that when she woke up he thought. He sighed.
"Ron, try to free us." Kim ordered.
Ron sighed again and turned away. The only device in her pack that could cut the web was her laser lipstick. He cut away most of the webbing but what remained still immobilized her. It was too dangerous to use the laser to cut closer. Her suit might protect her, but then again why risk it. He turned to DNAmy. "How do we get rid of the webbing?"
"It will dissolve on its own given enough time." The cowed woman answered.
"How much?" He demanded.
The woman thought a second. "Just ten or fifteen minutes for her. But for the cute guy on the floor it will be an hour."
Ron nodded. Mark had been hit by a lot more webbing than Kim had.
Shego moaned and began to move.
Ron grinned at DNAmy. "I wonder what Shego will do to you for trying to mutate her."
The geneticist went pale.
"It's not as though I can fight her, and you conveniently tied Kim and Mark up. So they can't help you."
The geneticist squirmed against the ropes.
Ron grinned at her. She suddenly decided she was as afraid of him as she was of Shego. She squirmed more.
"Ron. Stop that." Kim ordered. She wondered what had gotten into him. She was worried Shego would wake up before she was free.
"I'm going to check on Shego. Who knows what that stuff DNAmy gave her was." Ron moved back to the cot where Shego was. He listened to her as she woke up.
"Ron. Get away from her." Kim ordered. Afraid for her best friend. That was Shego he was kneeling beside. And he seemed to be acting weird.
Ron ignored her. Soon he saw Shego's eyes start to flutter. He was surprised when her arms rose and pulled him down into a hug, a hug that had her arms completely around him, pulling him down very tightly against her. "Buffoon." He heard her whisper in his ear. Then her eyes opened.
Shego opened her eyes and they peered up into the eyes of the Buffoon. Who, she realized, she had just grabbed and pulled into her arms. Her skin went green with embarrassment. Behind him she could see the eyes of the Princess which were opened very wide. She quickly released him. "Sorry. Was dreaming." She simply stated.
Ron was stunned. He stumbled back when Shego released him. He wondered if she was going to fry him for the mistake.
Shego stood up, still a little woozy from the drugs in her system. She knew it would clear in a minute. She saw Princess along with her boy toy were both sort of tied up for the moment. She stumbled to DNAmy whose face went white. Shego lit one finger. "You and I will have a little girl to girl chat later." She said. DNAmy fainted. Shego then stumbled out the door.
Two minutes later Kim struggled free of the webbing as it finally dissolved. "What was that about?" She demanded of Ron.
Ron shrugged. "She said she was dreaming."
"You let her hug you." Kim stated. Amazed.
"Not quite KP. I didn't have a say in the matter. But, so long as she didn't fry me for it I certainly have no complaints." He grinned at her.
"You liked it." Kim stated.
"Duh! What guy wouldn't have KP? If they said no they're either gay or they're lying."
Kim blinked in surprise. "But she's Shego."
"So?" Ron answered.
"But she's evil."
"She's still hot." Ron stated. He hoped Shego wasn't within hearing range.
"But..." Kim didn't know what else to say.
"Anyway, we need to wait for Mark to get free." He looked at the unconscious DNAmy. "And we need to call Wade to get someone to pick her up." Then to tweak Kim he added. "Imagine trying to mutate Shego. You can't improve on perfection."
Kim stated at him. Mouth open.
"Just kidding KP." Ron felt giddy, weird. Those arms had felt so good. Not that he would ever tell Shego that.
Ron ended up calling Wade. Kim was in shock. He was pretty sure no one had seen him stroking Shego's hair, so it was just the hug he had to explain away. Shego herself had explained that as a result of her dreaming. Since he had no other explanation for it that is what he too assumed. Kim and Mark seemed to accept it, thought Kim seemed unable to accept that he liked it. What Ron had trouble understanding was the word she'd whispered in his ear.
Ron kicked the dummy around a little. To really progress he needed a sparring partner but one made do with what one had. He kicked it, tackled it, and chopped it. All the time careful not to use any of the strength boosts that Sensei had taught him. The dummies seemed to break too easily then. After her ordeal he doubted Shego would show up. As usual, when he thought that, he was proven wrong.
The door of the craft opened and she walked out, looking the same as she always did. She made the usual trip in the house and returned with food and coffee. When she was finished they sparred. Not a word was spoken. Eventually the two of them led back on the grass.
"You okay?" He asked.
Shego nodded. "I'm fine." She stared up at the stars. "Let that be a lesson for you. Just because you think you're strong doesn't mean you're invincible. Hard to know for sure, but I'm guessing she mutated something to infiltrate the lair and drugged my coffee."
Ron looked over at her. She felt herself bush as she remembered the hug she gave him before she had fully woke up.
"I'm fine." She reassured him. She stared back up at the stars. "So, your nightmares. What are they about?" She asked.
Ron hesitated.
"No, I won't hunt anyone down or seriously hurt them." She reassured him.
Ron thought that over. She hadn't promised to not hunt someone down and minorly hurt them. He sighed. He told her about camp and the drownings. He wondered if she considered him weak that he'd allowed it to happen.
Shego seemed to know his thoughts. "DNAmy got me. Do you consider me weak?" She lit a fist to make a point.
"No. You're definitely not weak Shego." He looked at the lit fist, the way the plasma glowed around her hand.
The plasma faded. "You're wrong." She told him. "We're all weak."
He looked at her again, but knew enough to not interrupt, just to listen.
"Only the naive or the arrogant think they're strong. I used to be both. In school I skipped two grades. I thought I was so smart. I had super strength that made me the strongest person in the school. I thought I was so strong. I had plasma that could level a building. I thought I was so powerful. I could take a hit that would kill a normal person. I thought I was so tough. Turned out I wasn't either of those things." Her voice was so sad.
He dared to reach out and touch her hand.
She continued. "Just think. DNAmy got me with some creation that probably took her all of five minutes to cook up. Something I could have crushed if I had seen it. I didn't. Just like back in school. I could have crushed anyone of them. But ..." She shrugged.
"I was on the gymnastics team." She explained. "Thinking back it probably wasn't fair. I mean superpowers that let me take top place in every competition. No wonder they all hated me. They worked hours each day to achieve what they could. I spent hardly any time practicing. I skipped most practices going out to hunt villains. There was no way they could compete no matter how hard they worked."
She shrugged. "I didn't care. I didn't think about it. I was having fun. I had everything. A family I loved, perfect grades, superpowers, ... Everything."
She looked at him. "My little brothers, the Wegos. They were perfect. I would come home each evening and play with them. They of course were too young to fight crime but they could be really sneaky with those powers of theirs. They were so adorable. I loved them. I would do anything to keep them safe. That was my weakness. No one could touch me, but they could touch them. Hurt them. I couldn't let them be hurt."
"Love is a weakness." Shego said. "Those girls spent year after year hating me. Eventually they had to do something. That hate was just too strong." She sighed. "It was the last week of highschool. If they wanted to get even it had to be then. There were a ton of them that hated me. Some quite smart. So they made a plan. Eight of them. Four to threaten the twins. Those I would never see. Four to blackmail me. I could see their hate was strong enough to really make them hurt the Wegos. And I didn't know who they were so I couldn't protect them. The perfect set up."
Ron didn't even want to think about the sort of things that sort of hate would have conjured up in those girls' minds. He shuddered.
Shego felt the shudder. "Sure they hurt me. But it wasn't that big of a deal. I was used to burning alive. Against that pain they had nothing. On the last night of the school year they wanted me to hurt someone. I went to Hego for help. I told him everything. He didn't help. So I hurt that person. I burned them. My own flesh burning, no big deal. Someone else's, with my own two hands... I can still hear them screaming. Smell the flesh burning."
She could still feel his hand touching hers. It twitched. "Then one of them made a mistake. I got good hearing too. There was no other group. No one to hurt the Wegos. Just those four. I lost control. They lived but they were in the hospital for a long time. I made sure they knew never to hurt the Wegos."
She went to rise. To leave. The Buffoon was a good person. He wouldn't want someone like her around.
The hand tightened on hers. So she stayed.
End of Chapter.
Of course Ron is wrong, someone did see him stroking Shego's hair. Mark.
No, Mark is not interested in Shego. He is just noting that he understands Ron interest. He and Kim are a hundred percent solid.
Ron is admitting his interest, at least to himself.
Shego is admitting it to herself too.
Shego already knows about his nightmare and what caused them. Her asking is a request for trust before she tells him about her nightmares.