I do not own any Disney characters named herein, and am only borrowing them to tell a nonprofit tale meant for entertainment purposes only.
Kim Possible: Empires
By LJ58
11
"Hego," Kim's voice came over the radio. "We're engaging now. Full speed to your target, and don't spare the horses, or the muscle. Take out whoever, or whatever you find, and fast!"
"We're on our way," Hego replied, watching one of the ten lupines in the ship with him and Wego One send the ship flying smoothly over the sands just inches from the ground, but adjusting their flight so they hit nothing.
"Prepare yourselves," the lupine in the opening hatch declared, checking his own weapon. "Scanners are detecting multiple targets. At least two large ships, and a major electronic signal in the center of activity. There will be a lot of resistance, I'm certain."
Hego eyed the nearest console, assessing the red dots on the screen, and made an instant decision.
"Pilot, flyover first, and let me drop in on them. The rest of you," he turned to Wego, and the lupine leader. "Swing around, flank them, and don't let anyone get away."
"They are definitely Pylsians. As well as a few other species I've encounter. All hostile," another lupine declared from his post on the scanner.
"Arm all weapons, and prepare. Primary target is the electronic device, whatever it's purpose. Secondary targets are the ships. Do not let them escape," the leader declared as the ship closed on the target. "Remember, brothers, we live to serve."
"We live to serve," every lupine on the ship echoed as one.
"We are approaching target now," the pilot called to Hego. "Jump zone in four. Three. Two….."
"Go," Hego shouted himself, and leapt from the open hatch to hurl himself at the ground below even as bright green lasers filled the air.
KP
"Hego's team is inbound, and two minutes from contact," Wego Two told them needlessly, Shego already mentally in contact with him just then.
"Right. Wings," Shego turned to Gyrzza, "This is as close to the most likely entrance as we can get you. Kim and I are heading out to try to lure him out now. If all those crazy agents haven't already drawn his eye, then we'll be doing that when we start the full sonic barrage. You guys be ready to move the moment he shows."
Gyrzza nodded at her, Wego and the team of lupines with them standing silent as they waited for their chance to act.
"Remember, no matter what else you hear, you get the cat, and get her out of here," Kim told them. "We will handle everything else. You get the Huqaan to safety," she told Wego.
"Count on it, Kim," the young hero told her. "With Lady Gyrzza, and the big guys here," he nodded at the heavily armed wolven giants with them, "I'm pretty sure we can handle just about anything."
"Indeed," Gyrzza murmured.
"Kimmie," Shego turned to her as she carried the oval device slung over one shoulder now, her remote tied into the hovering sonic emitters she was about to launch chirping as she activated the twenty-six powerful sound generators they had quickly cobbled together. "We're ready when you are."
"Launching now," she said, and the hovering orbs all sped off in different directions. All toward known, or mapped access points that would get them underground, and close to the main cavern where the still steady signal was originating.
"You just remember to stay back. Let the freak see you, but don't let him get close. This is my show. Remember that, if nothing else."
"I know," Shego was told. "I know. You just remember not to take unnecessary chances. Aside from half the galaxy looking to you, our daughter wants to know her mother."
"You're her…."
"Both of them," Kim cut her off.
Shego turned, and cocked her head.
All three of them sensed as much as 'heard' the angry roar that came from somewhere far underground.
"I think phase one of Operation Annoy just went into action," Kim murmured.
"All right. Let's get out in the open, and let him see us," Shego told them. "Gryzza, keep your shields up, and on high. All of them," she was told as the silver dragoness' team was outfitted with Wade's tech, but she had also been learning to use her own psionic shields for the first time. Something that had never occurred to her either.
"The minute you see him appear, the minute you have an opening, go," Kim told her.
"We know what to do. Be wary yourselves. He will be counting on your return. He may have his own clever plans in place," Gyrzza told her. "We will signal the moment we have secured the Matriarch."
"Good luck, Wings," Shego nodded, and headed for the nearby open sands just south of the nearest opening to the massive caverns beneath their feet.
Kim followed, but nodded, too, and then loped after Shego.
KP
"What are those witless creatures doing," the Fallen complained as he noted the abrupt, and apparently senseless barrage on the desert above his head.
The Huqaan, still silent, said nothing as she moved to hide the hard, fist-sized stone she had finally managed to gain with the aid of her prehensile tale just two days ago. She had then carefully started tapping out the tempo of an old Huqaan mating ballad. If any of her people were paying attention, it was her hope they would detect her signal on the vibrational tones she was able to create using just the right force and rhythm with the stone on the bars of her cage.
The Fallen did not appear to notice, even after two full days of carefully tapping out her signal.
She knew what he meant.
Even her ears could detect the rumbling reverberations of whatever weapons the Terran monkeys were using to attack whatever they were attacking. It was only when the Pylsian techs switched on a monitor that let them see the humans that she understood his bafflement.
The humans were attacking….nothing.
They were engaging an imaginary enemy, but attacking with such force and intensity that the very air was filled with sand and thunder as their weapons created a virtual battlefield before them. Their only casualties, sand and rock. Their only consequence…..
The Matriarch's round, yellow-green eyes flared as she suddenly heard the amplified sounds from the Hunters' equipment. The new perspective made her almost howl.
She let a curt laugh escape as she eyed the scowling tyrant, and made him look her way.
"This madness amuses you?"
"Don't you understand, 'o wise one," she smirked. "They're calling you out. They are daring you to face them. They are warriors pounding their chests. Showing their might. Soon, their champion will come out, and they will call you coward, or….."
"Yo, Abbie," a maddeningly familiar voice echoed in the Fallen's ears as one of the monitors detected the green-skinned female's shout as she appeared not too far from one of the groups of humans firing madly at the sand. "You out there, or did you already run off with your tail between your legs?" The Matriarch smirked.
"The M'Kandii dragoness has come for you. Even we know you cannot fight prophecy, or the will of the gods," the feline chortled. "Best you run, 'Abbie,'" she sneered at him.
The Fallen glowered, and gave a curt rumbling curse that would not have translated well into any known language.
The intent, however, was obvious.
"Does she think her projectile weapons can harm me," he hissed.
"No, I think she just wanted you to face her, and stop hiding like….."
The Fallen roared now, smashing a massive fist into the side of her cage, and sending it tumbling. She lost her precious rock as she instinctively held to the bars, bracing herself as the cage sailed over and over to come to rest upside down before it stopped near the far side of the cavern.
The Matriarch righted herself, ignoring the new bruises, and laughed in his face.
"The monkey-dragon laughs, too. Will you face her, or skulk about in your shadows like…."
The Fallen swelled up to nearly twenty-four feet, his full height. Then he simply vanished. She knew he was going. He was letting his emotion overwhelm him. Ignoring what was right before him. The Matriarch didn't settle as she eyed the warped bars of her cage as the Pylsian techs continued to work on their task on the far side of the cavern. Unlike the dragon, she had heard the signal in the pulsing blasts that were set off with a carefully orchestrated signal that matched her own.
When the Pylsians unwittingly played the sounds in clearer audio, she was able to interpret them herself.
"We're coming," the booming sounds declared in the same Huqaan rhythm she had been using herself. "Be ready."
Two simple statements. Repeated endlessly by the cacophony of crude weapons that masked their intent.
The Matriarch could not help but smile as the witless males around her continued to work their mischief without realizing what was coming for them. Even she had not realized these primates were so clever. She would have to apologize to them. If she survived.
If they survived.
KP
Hego ignored the lasers, mentally amping his strength as he had been learning and practicing since he had been given a new agenda by his unlikely sister. He hit the ground hard enough to gouge out a shallow crater a few feet deep just a few feet from the oversized device that looked like an inverted pyramid with a lot of blinking lights.
He didn't know what the machine did, but as he eyed the tilting equipment rattled by his landing, he ignored the bipedal lizards he had faced before, and flung himself at the machine with two glowing fists even as explosions went off around him as the rest of his team set to work.
He hit the base of the machine twice before a panel sparked, and the metal started to dent.
"That's some tough steel," he commented, pausing to wipe off the four or five reptiles trying to swarm him, and then hit it again. This time the base collapsed, and the inverted pyramid fell over, and started to smolder ominously.
Having some experience himself in such situations, he lifted the entire assembly, and simply flung it at the group of reptiles that were rushing out of the nearest ship where they had looked to be loading up, more than doing anything else just then.
The device hit the ground, flattening several of the aliens, and sending more sprawling. Then it bounced, bounced again, and hit the side of the nearby ship. Where it promptly exploded.
Then the lupines were there, shooting, or tearing into anyone around them as Wego swarmed the group with dozens of copies around the second ship, and four of the lupines with him set up a very ominous device that they turned toward the second ship as their companions held off any defenders that might prevent their work.
A moment later, the ship seemed to fall in half as the device fired, and a burst of white heat from the backlash seared even his skin for a moment.
"They're not going anywhere now," the lupine leader shouted, leading the rest of his men to flank the far side of the encampment. "Wipe them out! Every one of them!"
Hego didn't argue as he put his fists to devastating use as the Hunters seemed genuinely intent on bringing them down. When one Wego went down, a laser literally cutting him to pieces, he heard them all yelp, but the others kept going, which meant the original wasn't hurt. Or not fatally.
"Wego," he shouted, slamming a fist into the nearest Hunter, and his oversized 'hound' that tried to take him from behind. "Remember what Sis said. Don't hold back! They won't!"
"Don't we know it," the rattled teen hissed, still reeling from the assault on his hive-mind by the death of one of his doppelgangers.
Which was when they all faltered, hearing the thunderous, and absolutely furious roar of something that shook the ground far more than the self-destructing spaceships they had just destroyed. Turning, Hego had time to glance to the north just in time to see a tremendous burst of iridescent energy that lit up the entire sky.
"Was that….?"
"Don't know," Hego spat, catching a long, jagged spear meant for his side, and returning it to its owner. Point first. "But we can't let up. Remember, if we give these guys a chance, they'll only try again. Put them down. All of them," he shouted, and waded right back into the thick of the reptiles who were not trying to give up. They were earnestly trying to fight to win.
Hego didn't intend to give them the slightest chance.
KP
"Isn't it this way," Wego asked, pointed down the turn he was about to take in the maze under the desert. He had spotted the Fallen appearing not too far from their hiding place. He barely had time to duck, just in case, when Shego had slammed into the guy, and sent them both rolling away from the hidden group awaiting their turn to act.
They had rushed for the nearby cavern entrance, quickly found themselves in a maze of recently cored out tunnels, and had to relay on the GPS tech linking them with Wade just then.
"Your machine is wrong this time," Gyrzza growled, only six feet tall, but back in dragon-form as she suited her size for the tunnel. "I smell the Huqaan, and more Pylsians. They are this way," she pointed, and headed down another tunnel.
"The Lady is right," one of the lupines growled. "We smell their reek, too. They must have something to confuse your electronics. Best rely on our senses now."
"Great," Wego grimaced. "Because this wasn't hard enough," he muttered, feeling something from his twin, but now sure how to interpret it as they raced through the dark tunnels, relying on the lupines and Gyrzza, since they didn't dare use artificial lighting that might expose them to any sentries before they could get near their target.
"Just be ready. I am smelling a great many of those vile assassins," Gyrzza cautioned, though she moved through the darkness at nearly a dead run. "Too many to be merely sentries. They are doing something here, too, under cover of the rock that blinds your floating eyes."
"Satellites can't see everything," Wego muttered.
"Indeed," she shot back, then abruptly stopped.
"A pulse-bomb," she murmured to her lupine counterpart. "See," she pointed.
"It's ready, too. Just one push of a detonator switch, and it would crack this sphere in half. Or worse."
"What do we do."
"Hold. There," Gyrzza murmured, and tracked the Huqaan to the far side of the enormous cavern that only dimply lit around the work areas where the Pylsian techs moved.
Still hidden by both Wade's tech, and Gyrzza's psionic shield, none of the enemy knew they were there as yet. Just as they had managed to evade even the Fallen's eyes when he had abruptly appeared on the surface as he had.
"Boy, you will get to the Huqaan," Gyrzza growled to Wego, rising to her full height even as she started to move. "Get her out, and get her away from here. We will handle the assassins. I will deactivate the bomb. We move as one. Now, go!"
Wego didn't argue as he moved at once for the battered cage.
Amping his strength though his own body, he grabbed part of the obviously warped bars near one corner where the big cat was already trying in vain to pull a bar back, and grinned as he heard the steel creak slightly.
It was just audible enough that one of the reptiles turned to stare his way.
Seeing only the feline tugging at the one bar he had not touched, and not seeing the one he had pulled down, he only gave what likely passed as a chortle before he turned away.
"I'm dropping my cloak to let the Matriarch see you. Get her out, and go," Gyrzza ordered Wego mentally even as he pulled down the second bar, which both the cat, and a few reptiles noted.
Even as one started to shout a warning, the feline's eyes rounding in confusion, the armed Pylsians started dying without apparent cause. The reptiles howled, and several ran for the bomb, only to suddenly burst into flame.
The cat-lady gave a startled hiss when he suddenly just seemed to appear before her, grabbing at the next bar that would let her out when he pulled it down.
"Don't worry," he rasped, tugging so hard his arms felt as if they might burst from within despite his amped musculature just then.
Super-strength was usually Hego's realm, and he wasn't used to this kind of exertion.
"The M'Kandii Lady sent you," the feline asked, and Wego only nodded as he pulled the last bar down, and told her, "And we're on a tight schedule. Come with me. I'm going to get you out of here."
"They have a pulse-bomb," she hissed, stepping out of the cage by wriggling easily thorugh the space he had opened. "We have to…."
"I have friends working on that now. Obviously," he said, as more Pylsians burst into flame, and more died as laser bolts fired from seemingly empty air.
A deadly burst of fire was returned to those origin points, but the reptiles never seemed to hit a thing, and now they were fast getting the message they were losing. Those that tried rushing the bomb burst into flame, or were knocked violently across the cavern hard enough to shatter bone, or worse.
"Now, let's go. You're no good to either of our people if you get hurt."
"Indeed," she murmured. "Where do we go," she asked, knowing it didn't matter how far you ran if someone set off that bomb.
"Trust me. We have friends waiting on you."
The queen ran after him, keeping her pace slowed as she followed the small male, and wondered how it was such a small body could contain such strength. She heard more explosions behind her, and kept cringing as she expected the bomb to detonate at any moment. The sounds of the fighting was left behind after a few turns, and then she smelled fresh air.
"This way," Wego told the cat, and let her through a narrow canyon along a higher cliff.
She was about question his tactics, hearing something ominously like the Fallen roaring as the very air shook with his rage, but then she froze. Unable to believe what she was seeing.
"Go," Wego hissed at her, pointing to the four patrol ships, and a score of her own people waiting just outside the hatch of one of them. "Go, now."
She turned, and stared at him.
"The Huqaan will not forget this day, primate," she told him somberly as she looked from the ship, to Wego. "Tell your Lady, we will not forget."
"Go," Wego said, and was already running back to the cave.
The males surrounded the female Matriarch, and had her inside the ship before he even reached the first bend in the trail. The ships wavered, cloaking themselves once more before they lifted off, and the faint whine of powerful engines told him they were leaving, and leaving fast.
"Done," Wego sent mentally to those that needed to hear the message. "Package is away."
He reached the cavern again just in time to see Gyzza ripping out a crystalline jewel that was pulsing in her hand before she closed that big, silver hand, crushing the bauble. A puff of yellowish vapor exploded around her hand, but nothing else happened.
"The bomb is neutralized. These vermin exterminated. We should go to the first team to ensure they do not need help."
"What about….?"
"Remember the plan. We handle the peripherals, and leave the Fallen to Lady Shego. We must trust her to do what must be done."
"Right. Her, and Kim."
"Indeed. Come," she said to him as much as to the lupines who were checking the few wounded among them. "We had best cloak ourselves completely again, and then slip away. We dare not let the Fallen know what we've done just yet. Best he remain distracted as long as possible."
"Goes without saying," he said, and started to walk past a wounded reptile who tried to lift a long, jagged knife to slash at his legs.
Wego jumped aside, then grabbed the knife he kicked away from the weakened Pylsian, and stared at him.
"Do you wish to take him….?"
"No," Wego said, turning away after sinking the blade into its owners throat. "No prisoners. Not this time."
Gyrzza eyed him, then nodded.
"You may make a competent warrior yet."
Wego said nothing to that as they all headed for the surface once more.
He only paused at the mouth of the cavern to leave a single device in place. A parting gift from the Possible Twins.
Just in case.
To Be Continued…