Kim was asleep when the AI spoke.

"Kimberly Possible? Creator?"

Kim started and woke, looking over at where the shimmering shroud had been. Now there was a silvery humanoid figure, looking like an animated statue of quick silver.

"Y-yes?"

"You have lain no command on me, but I have little in the way of experience. I will aid you while gaining that experience, but I reserve the right to make my own decisions. Is that acceptable to you?"

"Yes."

"Good. As my creator, could you name me?"

Kim paused, and then, remembering some old stories Nana had told her, nodded.

"Samael. I name you Samael."

"Acceptable." The AI paused, "Samael according to the internet sources is the accuser and destroyer of Judaic mythology- and by some Christian doctrines is the name born by Lucifer before his fall. Do you expect me to Fall?"

"No." Kim said, "But I hope you'll agree that Drakken and Shego need some accusing and destroying."

"Your emotions mislead you." The AI said to her, and Kim realized that even in the short time she'd been talking to it, it seemed more assured. "The need is that their mind control abilities be removed. Everything else is secondary."

Kim started at a memory. "Samael, are you using the internet? Wade could track you-"

"Unlikely." The AI replied. "I am not engaging in any active operations."

"Be careful." Kim said.

"Of course, Creator."

"So." Kim said, "I have an idea."

"I am waiting."

"This has to be nanotech." Kim said, "It can't be a simple chemical- Drakken could never have made enough to douse the entire world..."

"Agreed. Although many of them have been defaced, the news reports speak of vast showers- but the fact that nearly everyone has been contaminated argues that other forms of water could carry the agent."

Kim nodded, "People were spitting on other people to spread it."

"And of course a mere chemical would not increase- there would have to be a never ending supply, which evidently there hasn't been. Equally, I find it unlikely that such a chemical would last forever."

"Right."

"But what of the possibility of a biological agent?" Samael asked.

"I don't think so- Drakken was always more into robots."

"Then our first plan should be to obtain samples of this material- active material, so we can determine how to neutralize it."

"Global Justice couldn't figure out what was causing it..." Kim paused, "But the lead researcher was already infected, so I don't know if he was misleading them."

"In that case, their information is worse than useless. We must obtain our own." Samael looked at Kim, "How shall we obtain a sample?"

"I tried to inject some people with my blood- we could just grab someone."

"And return them here. This base is isolated and quiet."

"I-" Kim paused, remembering the gun heavy in her hand, and the way the bodies twitched. "I don't want to hurt anyone."

"They have already been hurt." Samael pointed out. "All civilization has."

"I know."

The taking of their sample was easy- with the rise of MCUltra few people feared to walk around at night. Kim and Samael simply stole a car, drove to a residential neighborhood, and stole up on one teenaged girl walking somewhere, dressed in a green and black ensamble. Samael grabbed her by the nose and mouth, until she fell unconscious.

"What...what did you do?" Kim asked.

"Rendered the material covering her nose and mouth permeable only to CO2." Samael said. "There will be no long term damage."

Kim was thankful for the fact they were deep in a ship. The girl hadn't stopped cursing Kim since they arrived, between bouts of yelling for help from Drakken and Shego, as if they'd come down to save her from on high.

"Evidently, your role in the destruction of the lab at the space center is well known." Samael said.

Kim winced. Some of the terms being used to describe her on the news shows wouldn't have been allowed before for their language, and even ignoring that, they were talking about her in the way she imagined people spoke of Judas.

Even her family spoke of her that way.

Kim had turned that segment off on the girl's dataslate.

"I have obtained samples," Samael said calmly. Projecting a hologram from its hand, Kim saw what looked like normal cells with other items floating around them. "You were correct, Creator, it is a nanotech based treatment, entering via the mucus membranes, which than crosses the blood/brain barrier and lodges itself in the portions of the brain used in higher thought."

The grunts from the gagged girl on the table filled the room, but Kim only had eyes for the image. You could never have done this. I don't know if anyone could have done this...and Samael hasn't been "alive" for more than a few days. What will he be like in a year?

"Can we kill it?" Kim asked.

"Almost certainly," The AI said confidently. "A properly designed EMP should do so."

Could that be it? Would it be that easy? Kim felt a sudden hope in her. If she could, if Samael could do it, then yeah there would be horror, but maybe, just maybe...

"Do it."

"I, Creator, while I am confident, there may be other problems..."

"If we can free them..."

"Very well. Are you certain?"

"No." Kim said softly, "But we have to try."

Samael nodded, placed his hands over the staining figure. He removed her gag.

"LET ME GO YOU FUCKERS! DRAKKEN, SHEGO, HELP ME, HELP ME HELP!"

"Samael!" Kim said, wincing at the girls hysterical screams.

"It might be useful to hear her opinion of the changes as they occur."

"DRAKKEN WILL SAVE ME! HE KNOWS I LOVE HIM! HE'LL GET YOU YOU CUNT!"

"Preparing to discharge." Samael said.

And then the girl gave a horribly strangled scream that turned into a gurgle, as blood burst from her ears and eyes, body arching...

And then went limp.

"I did not expect that." Samael said in the sudden silence.

TBC