Sidetracked
A KiGo fanfic
Here's chapter 13! One more chapter and maybe an epilogue to go!
Thanks to KiY my beta reader: from the bottom of the place where my heart should be, thank you.
And thanks to everyone reading this!
Disclaimer: I do not own Kim Possible or any of its characters, they belong to Disney. All the attempts of giving a first or last name to uncertainly named characters (such as Ms. Dr. Possible or Shego) are just my own speculation. This is a Kim Possible/Shego story (KiGo) that means it contains femslash, so if this is not of your liking STOP READING NOW. All the events depicted here are the result of my restless imagination. Any resemblance to reality it's a mere coincidence. I'm not looking for any profit. Rated M
Yuuko Ichihara (Xxx-holic) belongs to CLAMP.
However, I do own Gabrielle and John Gallagher. If you'd like to use them in your own story, let me know first. I guess I own Little Eduardo, Drakken's son, too.
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Chapter 13: Stranger
"I'm home."
Shego tried to speak, but her mouth suddenly went dry. She searched for Kim's hands and held on tightly. Next to her, William fell to his knees and Warren shook his head in disbelief.
Mego almost fainted, but he was the first to find the will to speak. "Gabrielle…? Is that you…?"
The black haired teen let out a chuckle. "I guess… I haven't been feeling like myself lately though…"
"But…how?"
Gabrielle rubbed her eyes tiredly and shook her head. Then she looked at her siblings again, her eyes cold as stones. "That's a long story, and I really don't have time, so follow me to Nerdlinger's room." She rose to her feet and went by them without even looking at them, keeping her right hand constantly inside her pocket.
"WAIT!"
Gabrielle turned around with a puzzled look on her face; her brother William was staring at her with teary eyes. "So that's it? You come back from death just to give us a cold shoulder? Do you have any idea of how much we have missed you? We thought you were gone forever!"
"You were the ones who decided I was dead," answered the black haired teen, folding her arms across her chest, carefully placing her right arm against her chest so the sleeve would not roll up. The redheaded ex-teen heroine noticed the glove on Gabrielle's right hand
Shego was flabbergasted. "The room was coated in blood and all we found of you and Hego were a couple of limbs, what did you expect us to believe? What did you expect us to do?"
Gabrielle laughed, but it wasn't an amused laugh. "What did I expect you to do? Simple; I expected my all-super-powered brothers to storm the facility where I was being kept, I expected to see the woman who did this to me in the ground asking for mercy, I expected my big sis to be there for me like she always did!" She paused to catch her breath; all the rage, sadness and loneliness she felt during the past six months were catching up to her. "Then again, this is just me being overly dramatic."
Everyone just stared, not knowing what to say. The black haired girl laughed again and wiped a lonely tear away.
Kim caught a glint of metal on Gabrielle's movements. "What happened to your arm?"
Wordlessly, the teen pulled her right sleeve up, uncovering her metallic arm. "I've been…upgraded. They even gave me the heart to go with the arm."
"And what about Hego? Is he alive…or dead?" asked Mego.
"Might as well be dead; he's brain dead, wouldn't even recognize me. They hooked up his brain with something; I think they don't want him to talk…"
"Could you please end this family quarrel in here? I need to show you something!" said Wade, peeking out of his room.
They all entered Wade's room; it was filled with tons of electronic devices, most of them were Wade's own inventions. He had the News Channel on one screen, a paused video on the other and was, as usual, typing furiously hundreds of weird characters that appeared on the main screen.
The tweebs were there already, waiting. "Hey sis!"
Next to the tweebs, there was a weird looking blue guy, playing with his baby boy.
"Drakken?! Weren't you locked up in the loony bin?" said Shego, unconsciously placing herself between Kim and Drakken.
Drakken seemed offended. "I was released soon after I got in; I'm not actually insane, you know?"
"He's valuable…and he's one of the reasons I'm still here, isn't that right, Eddie?" said Gabrielle, walking to Drakken and picking little Eduardo from his father's arms.
Shego looked at her sister once, then at Drakken and flared up her hands. "You…little…bast--!"
Gabrielle glared at her. "Stop."
And Shego did; literally, she couldn't move. "Can't…"
"Shego? What's wrong, why are you shaking?" asked a concerned Kim, holding the black haired woman.
"Don't hurt Drakken, he's innocent; he was used, just like me. Now shut up and listen, because Wade has some information for all of us," said Gabrielle, still glaring at her sister. Then she closed her eyes, rubbing her forehead against the little baby's head before returning him to his father's arms. "I knew I shouldn't have come here."
Shego fell to her knees, gasping for air. Kim helped her up again and stared at Gabrielle with hurt in her eyes.
Wade cleared his throat. "Well, there's something for everyone. Wegos, you go first; I managed to clean the video you brought me a couple of months ago from the Go tower's security cam. Look."
Everyone gathered around the screen Wade had pointed at. At first the images were fuzzy, then grainy but a little more visible; two male figures stood in Go Tower's main gate, their faces covered by shadows.
"The spyware almost destroyed it, that's why it took me so long to get a decent level of image and audio, and even after six freaking months of work the audio is better that the image. Now, listen carefully," said Wade, hitting the 'play button.
"Are you sure you got the cameras covered?" asked the first male, stepping into the light and poking the screen.
Shego closed her fist tightly, growling. "Gemini…"
"Yes; I'll have to buy some new ones after this," said the other one, pushing Gemini from view, therefore revealing his identity. "Don't poke the glass! I just cleaned it!"
"No…" whispered Mego.
"Pause! Rewind that, it can't be true!" cried Warren.
Wade did as asked and enlarged the picture; even though the images were still grainy, the tuft of bluish hair on the other man's forehead was unmistakable.
Ron, who had decided to just stand on the back until needed, gasped in shock. "Hego?! Why would he…?"
"Shhh, there's more," said Wade, pointing to the screen. Both Gemini and Hego entered Go Tower and went separate ways. Then, the camera perspective shifted, showing a wide hallway; two people strolled calmly on it.
"…and that's why she went to work with that Drakken guy," explained the digitalized Gabrielle, holding her white stuffed cat close to her.
"I see…wow…I'm speechless…" answered a digitalized Ron, walking beside her.
"¡Gabrielle!" shouted Hego, running from the opposite direction towards his sister and Ron. "¡Gabrielle, I'm glad I found you; there's an intruder in Go Tower!"
"Hey, calm down Hego," said Ron. "What are you talking about?"
Hego looked at him puzzled. "You look familiar, what's you name?"
"I'm Ron Stoppable! Is my name that hard to remember?!"
"Oh, right," Hego turned to his sister, picking her up. "We must go, he's coming this way!"
"Who's coming this way, bro? Why are you so scared?" asked Gabrielle, wrapping her arms around her brother's neck.
"The intruder! He wants to kill us!"
Gemini snuck up behind Ron and struck him on the back of his neck. He fell, unconscious. Rufus got out of his pocket and began shaking him, but was kicked out of the way. The one-eyed man unsheathed the sword he had disguised as a cane and attacked Hego. The larger, black haired man dodged the blow and ran inside Gabrielle's bedroom, taking his sister with him. Gemini ran behind them.
"NO, PLEASE! DON'T KILL MY BROTHER!"
Shego cringed upon hearing her sister's pleads.
"Wade, please, stop it!" pleaded Kim, but she wasn't looking at Shego; Gabrielle was kneeling, sobbing and covering her ears.
"I knew it…I just didn't want to believe it…" wept the black haired teen. Her brother William knelt beside her, holding her close.
Drakken got up, staring at Gabrielle as if his heart was breaking. She looked at him and gave him a sad smile. "I know you couldn't tell me, they would have killed Eddie, I don't blame you," she looked at her siblings, "I don't blame anyone but that stupid airhead that calls himself our older brother and that bitch who's behind all this!"
Mego also knelt beside her. "Gab, I promise you we will find them," he said, holding his sister's left hand. "We will make them pay."
"Nobody messes with Team Go, not even the so called leader," said Warren, his eyes glimmering with unshed tears.
"Kim, I have something for you too; I managed to hack GJ's system," said Wade and opened a file on his personal screen, motioning Kim and Ron to come closer; it was about Monique.
"….subject nearly died on explosion, the medical cleaning crew managed to get her heart beating again. Massive damage to the liver, bowels and hip bone. Damaged organs replaced with prosthetics…" read the redhead out loud. "She's alive!"
"So why would they tell us she was dead?" asked Ron.
"Because they did to her the same they did to Hego…I saw her," answered Gabrielle. Suddenly, something on the news channel caught her attention.
"In other news; In Go city, the Café Averno's owner, Ms. Yuuko Ichihara has been placed under arrest by Global Justice's special forces. Ms. Ichihara is being charged of possession of illegal substances, people trade and tax evasion. They always get them for tax evasion, don't they, Sam?" said the News channel's lady.
Gabrielle went paler than usual. "Shit…I have to go!"
"Wait, why?" asked William, still holding his sister.
"You don't understand! I have to save her! I owe her my life!"
Shego knelt down in front of her sister. "Calm down; why are you saying that? Who do you have to save?"
"I HAVE TO SAVE YUUKO!" the black haired teen cried, shattering every single piece of glass in the room.
"…I'm getting the backups," said Wade, slipping away to another room.
"Ok, point taken! I'll ask you why later, but I'm coming with you," said the green-skinned woman.
"No," whispered her sister.
"No?"
"No, I work solo. You have to get everyone to a safe place; I escaped so she's got Yuuko and she's coming for you!"
"Do you realize you're making no sense at all?" said Kim.
"She's coming for your parents too, Kim!" shouted Gabrielle, running to the shattered window. "Go to a safe place, NOW!"
"WAIT!" said William, taking a set of keys out of his pocket. "Catch. Go to the garage, the door is open. Take the yellow one." He paused. "…I love you, Gab…it doesn't matter who you are or what you look like…you'll always be my sister."
Gabrielle took the keys and gave her brother a half-smile. "I love you too…I love all of you…so please, if you love me back…don't follow me." Then she jumped out of the window and disappeared.
"Willy, what the hell?!" asked an angry Shego, looking at her younger brother. The sound of a powerful motorcycle could be heard in the distance.
"Don't worry, sis, we'll catch up with her; do you think we've been sitting on our hands these past six months?" said William. "Hey, Warry, Tim; go get the gadgets, Jim and I will show them the vehicles."
"Hey Wade!" called Kim.
The ebony-skinned boy was connecting a new set of screens to his computer. "Yes?"
"Could you bring me Gabrielle's clothes? The ones she came here with? I have a hunch."
"Ok, I'll be back in a minute! Go with William, you have to see what they did."
William guided Shego, Kim, Ron and a shaken Mego through a trap door hidden under Wade's bed. They ended up in the Load's garage.
"So, what do you think?" said Jim, showing proudly a couple of motorcycles and a small van. "Just so you know, these are not regular cycles; these are built for real speed."
"Come here, Shego," said William, motioning his sister to the green and black motorcycle. "This one is yours; see those cells in the handles?"
Shego nodded, though in fact she could only see a couple of black, shiny rectangles on each handle. "A solar cell? What am I supposed to do; leave the cycle in the sun?"
"No, you can recharge the cycle and do this," explained the reddish haired boy and punched a big green button in the cycle's panel; a couple of cannons came out from each side. "You can shoot your plasma through them."
"And I thought you were just blowing stuff for fun…" said the black haired woman.
"Kim, yours does not have a plasma powered engine, but is as fast as Shego's and you can shoot a shocking net, you know, like the ones the police have? I know you don't like to hurt the bad guys…much," said Jim, pointing his sister to the red and black cycle.
"We're here!" shouted Tim, carrying a suitcase. Warren walked behind him, carrying another one and Wade carried a dirty, worn out gray jumpsuit.
"Here, this is the clothing Gabrielle was wearing when she got here," he said, giving the jumpsuit to Kim. She felt sick as she stared to the clothing. "It's a GJ uniform."
"Then Dr. Director has some explaining to do," stated Shego.
"Before you go, take this," said Warren, opening his suitcase; he handed Kim a modified version of her old hairdryer/hook gun. "This one is longer and it won't break under any circumstance."
Tim got two jumpsuits out of his suitcase. "This is for you protection; they are made out of Kevlar, but we managed to make it lighter, just don't try to take a cannon blast," he said, handing them to both Shego and Kim. "What's with the surprised look on your faces?"
"My little brothers allied with my supposed arch enemy's brothers to built mission gear for both of us, what you think?" said Kim.
"We just…we wanted to help you, sis, we worry about you…every time you go out on a mission." said Tim. His twin nodded in agreement.
Kim drew her brothers into a fierce hug. "I love you too guys…"
"Ok…we got it…now stop!" said Jim, breathing heavily as if he was drowning.
"Too much…sisterly love…!" said Tim, imitating his twin. Kim released them both, chuckling.
Finally, Warren handed Shego, Kim and Ron what looked like handles, with a couple of buttons.
"What is it?" asked the green-skinned woman.
Warren smiled and pushed one of the buttons; a red beam of light shot out of the handle.
Ron pushed the same button on his handle and a blue beam of light shot out of it. "A light sword?"
"Yes, we managed to build these by studying my dear sister Shego's powers; it has two modes, stun and cut, first and second button respectively. We also made a lipstick version," explained William, taking a little thing that looked like lipstick out of his pocket. It blew when he tried to make it work. "We're still working on it."
"I don't know why but I believe someone is getting sued," stated Kim, looking at her purple sword.
"Yeah, I agree; can we go now?" asked Shego, holstering her sword; she hadn't switched it on, but she knew it was green.
"Yes, give this to Gabrielle when you see her," said Warren, giving her the red sword. "Ron, we need you to come with us in the van. Sorry but my brother…gave your bike to Gabby."
"I have a good reason! Eehm…I'll tell you in a moment," said William, sneaking off to the van.
"Aw man! I wanted to go with Kim," said Ron, pouting. "Leave something for me, would you?"
"Don't worry, now go!" said Kim.
"Ready, Princess?" asked Shego, getting on her motorcycle.
"Always, baby," answered Kim. "Let's go."
And then, both women were on their way to GJ's headquarters, hoping to get some answers out of Dr. Director.
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End of chapter 13
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