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Chapter 14

"Kim!" Ron yelled at his bionically enhanced girlfriend. "Are you OK? Kim!" Finally her groan told Ron that she was at least still alive. His ears were ringing from the blast of Oblvion's gun, and he shook his head a little in an attempt to correct his hearing. It only helped a little.

After what seemed like an eternity, but it was really only a few seconds, Kim slowly unwrapped herself from Ron. After he was free from his girlfriend's protective embrace, Ron sat up and saw a red substance trickling from both the outside and inside of Kim's left ear. He couldn't help but watch in amazement as her skin slowly sealed itself together, leaving a small red scar where the bullet had nicked her ear. The blood seeping from the inside had also stopped, hopefully after any damage was healed.

"mmm…. Ron? Did you say something?" Kim said after she finally pulled herself from her brief unconsciousness and pushed herself up to a sitting position beside him.

Before he could respond, both Kim and Ron then heard Shego's unmistakable voice, "And that's for throwing me into a tree!" and then a loud clang!.

Both teens looked over to where Shego was now hopping on one foot muttering what seemed to be obscenities. She then raised a glowing green hand, ready to fry the only part of Oblivion that was not covered by metal, her head.

Kim quickly yelled out. "Shego, stop! I thought I could trust you not to kill her!"

"Just because I wore your stupid clothes during that rescue mission of Stoppable's Naked Mole Rat? Puh-lease Princess! It's killed before, and it was about to put a bullet between your eyes! What more do you need to end this thing's life? Now is the perfect time to take her out! Your EMP grenade worked perfectly so she's deactivated and it's the perfect time to…"

"Stop calling her an 'it' Shego!" Kim said as her and Ron started to walk towards Shego and the prone form of Oblivion, who hadn't moved since Shego had blasted her away from Kim and Ron. "That's a human being inside there, and she's just being controlled by a… a… machine!"

"What… And you want to make her like… like you Kimmie?" Shego said with a curled lip. "A human controlling machines? This… thing, does not deserve to live. I'm ending it… now."

Just as the green villainess powered up both of her hands for the deathblow, Shego was flung back from Oblivion with a force she couldn't see. After landing on her back about 20 feet from where she had previously stood, Shego rocked back onto her shoulders, put her hands on the ground, and kicked her legs out at the same time she pushed up, throwing herself into a fighting stance. Kim hadn't moved, but she was now in a forward stance with both arms stretched out in front of her, and on her forearms were some kind of emitter or weapon. Shego thought they looked a bit familiar, but she wasn't quite sure.

"Another upgrade?" The green villainess said as one of her eyebrows ticked up.

"You could say that." Kim quipped back with her own wicked little smile. Then the emitters folded in onto themselves, and turned back into the bracelets that were on her forearms.

Hearing a muffled sound to her left, Kim looked over and saw Ron pointing at Oblivion. "You say something Ron?"

"I said she's moving Kim." After hearing and understanding what Ron had said, Kim quickly moved herself into a position between Shego and Oblivion, with Ron right behind her.

"Ron… watch Shego and make sure she doesn't do anything stupid." Immediately Shego had a look on her face that said 'Who, me?' Kim then knelt down to Oblivion's side, as she figured if she was going to attack again, she would have already. Plus, the red LED covering her one eye was still off, signifying that the machine part of Oblivion wasn't functioning. "Viv… Vivian?"

Sure enough, Vivian porter turned her head towards the voice she heard. "Kim… she said weakly. "Kim… please… I can feel Oblivion trying to reboot. Kill me before she does, and… and it will all be over."

"I… I can't Vivian. Are… are you sure there isn't any other way?" Kim started to feel tears flowing down her cheeks. Vivian just closed her eyes and slowly shook her head side to side.

"Please… hurry Kim… I… I can feel her starting to…" Then suddenly Vivian's voice changed and the LED shone brightly. "I have you now…"

A steel hand was suddenly at Kim's throat, and she could feel Oblivion squeezing harder, cutting off her airway. Kim couldn't breath, let alone call out, so all she could do was literally start beating on Oblivion's chest plate, hoping it would make her let go, which she didn't.

The sound of Kim beating on Oblivion caused Ron to turn around, and he was initially shocked to see what was going on. "Kim! What are you…" Then he saw that Oblivion's hand was wrapped around Kim's throat, and he could see her features going pale from lack of oxygen. She had already put a few dents in Oblivion's chest plate, but Kim's strikes were becoming weak as the metal hand continued to squeeze.

Ron first tried to pull Oblivion's fingers from his girlfriend's throat, but she was too strong. "Shego! Help me! She's killing Kim!"

In less than a second Shego was at Ron's side, and both continued to try and pull the metal fingers from Kim's throat. "This isn't working Stoppable!" Shego yelled. "I'm going to have to shoot her in the head to get her to let go!"

"Kim told you not to kill her." Ron said with a tone to his voice that made Shego do a double take.

"But I have to do something!" By now Kim's lips were turning blue, her eyelids were starting to flutter, and her arms were now just hanging at her sides.

"Can… can you just knock her out or something?" Ron yelled back, tears falling from his brown eyes. He was watching Kim being killed right in front of him! Taking a deep breath, Ron closed his eyes and quietly said, "Do what you have to Shego… just save her."

A green-gloved fist slammed into Oblivion's face with seemingly no effect, and Shego tried another hit, this time on the headpiece, cracking the LED lens covering her left eye. Still, the metal hand was clamped around Kim's throat with deadly force.

"I've got an idea…" Shego said, "But I've only done it once before!"

"Whatever it is Shego, you better do it now!" Ron yelled back. "Kim's completely lost consciousness!"

Shego placed a single finger on the middle of Oblivion's forehead and sent a quick blast of her plasma energy through her finger. For an instant Oblivion's entire head was enshrouded with the green and black energy. Her head then fell back with her eyes closed and a few sparks flew from the headpiece. Finally the metal hand around Kim's throat relaxed and she started to collapse.

Ron caught his girlfriend as she slumped over, and gently lay her on the ground. Then he immediately checked for a pulse on her neck, as he couldn't check Kim's wrists since they didn't actually have a pulse. He then placed an ear over her mouth and nose, listening for sounds of breathing. Ron then tilted Kim's head back and placed his lips over hers and started rescue breathing.

"Stoppable… Don't you think that's inappropriate… Oh, sorry." Shego's cheeks flared a light red when she realized that Ron wasn't just kissing his girlfriend.

"C'mon Kim… c'mon…" Ron said after blowing in three breaths, and he was rewarded with a harsh coughing from Kim as she started to suck air into her lungs. Immediately he dropped down and gave her a hug, and Kim's arms weakly wrapped around his shoulders, while still coughing a little.

"It… it's OK Ron," Kim rasped, "(cough). I'm… fine." She slowly sat up while Ron released her.

"No Kim… it's not OK. Oblivion almost… she almost killed you." Tears were falling from his puppy dog brown eyes, making Kim fall in love with him all over again.

"But you saved me Ron." Kim said with an almost demure smile, and planted her lips on his. This time Shego knew for certain that this wasn't CPR. It took a good 30 seconds for the two to finish their vertical rescue breathing.

"Well now that I can see you're OK Princess, what are we gonna do about her?" Shego asked, looking down at Oblivion.

"What did you do to her?" Kim asked with one last cough while Ron helped her to stand.

"I think I just knocked her out by scrambling her brain waves a little bit. I had only done that once before while Drakken and I were infiltrating another one of the many laboratories he wanted to break into. I forget which one." Shego gave a shrug of her shoulders. "All of Drakken's old schemes just kind of all became a blur after the first 2 or 20."

"How long will she be out?" Kim asked while she knelt once again to Oblivion's side.

"You sure you want to do that again Kim?" Ron asked, and immediately shut up when Kim shot him a look that told him to not say anything else.

"I'm not really sure." Shego replied. The last time I did that, the person was out for about 20 minutes. With someone whose mind has been infiltrated by an evil computer? I'm not sure."

"We should probably get her to the hospital and…" Kim started to say.

"I think GJ might be better equipped to handle her, don't you Kim?" Ron suggested.

The red head looked at him for a second and said, "You're right Ron, we should get her back to GJ. But we need something to immobilize her in case she comes to again and tries to do some damage. Namely, to us." Kim then started to look around the area. "You said you had tied her up with metal straps before Ron?"

"Yeah, with metal from the motorcycle. Man, that was a nice bike too…" Ron then had a hint of sadness to his face.

"It was just a motorcycle Ron." Kim said while rolling her eyes. "Now if I can just find something to…"

"Will this work?" Shego said as she walked up to the two teens, carrying what appeared to be a long length of thick cabling that was looped over her shoulder. "I found it over behind the torched carousel."

"That's perfect Shego." Kim said, and her eyes immediately showed that she had an idea. "We can literally wrap Oblivion up, and you can weld the ends together with your plasma."

In about 20 minutes, Kim and Shego had Oblivion wrapped up in the cabling. Her feet and wrists were tied together separately, with her hands behind her back, and then with the remaining length of cable, they had wrapped Oblivion's entire body so there was no way she could gain any leverage to free herself. It then took all three of them to load Oblivion into the back seat of the Camaro, after Kim had retracted the roof.

Oblivion ended up with her head propped on one side of the car, and her legs sticking out over the opposite side of the vehicle. With Kim driving and Ron in the other passenger seat, Shego literally sat on top of the disabled cyborg for the trip back to GJ in case Oblivion decided to wake up.

…x x x x…

On the way back, Kim had given GJ a call to be ready for them, so when they arrived, there was a contingent of at least 2 dozen heavily armed GJ agents waiting for their arrival.

"Whoa…" Ron said with his mouth open. "I didn't know GJ was so well armed."

"After what Oblivion did to them before, I can see why they're being so concerned." Kim said as she slowly braked her car in front of what appeared to be the man in charge.

"Miss Possible," The agent said with a quick salute, "My name is Commander Officer." All three sitting in the car raised an eyebrow in unison at the mention of his rank and name. "Yes, I know it can be a little confusing. My last name is actually Officer. So to keep things simple, you can just call me Commander."

"Yes Sir." Kim said, and she and Ron opened their doors to get out. Shego just leaped off of Oblivion and deftly landed on the ground, causing a few of the agents to step back in surprise.

The commander then gave a quick motion with one hand, and a number of GJ agents surrounded the convertible. The agents then proceeded to lift Oblivion out of the sports car and placed her on a large flat bed trailer and strapped her down with strapping that was about 8 inches wide and at least ¾ of an inch thick. They weren't taking any chances.

"Where are they taking her?" Kim asked Commander Officer as the agents towed Oblivion away behind a jeep.

"To our most secure lab under ground. We can seal the lab off behind a single massive blast door that is constructed of the world's strongest metals, and a few other things that I am not at liberty to mention. It was General Simms from the military that donated a… special alloy."

"We know General Simms." Kim said with a smile, and Commander Officer gave her a stern look that said she should keep quiet about such things. Kim responded by moving her fingers across her lips in a zipping motion, and then changed the subject. "Can we go with her?"

Commander Officer didn't say anything at first, then he slowly said, "I suppose… you… could." He stole a glance over at Shego who was leaning against Kim's car.

"Umm… Shego?" Kim said while turning around. "I would really like to thank you for all your help and everything, but…"

"Yeah, yeah… I know. They don't want someone with my… background, inside their precious High Security building." The green villainess then crossed her arms over her chest. "Only thing is, I don't have a ride, and I don't suppose someone could give me one?" Kim gave an imploring look at the Commander, and almost let loose with a Puppy Dog Pout, but it wasn't necessary.

"Agent Neilson…" Commander Officer said while motioning the young GJ Agent over to him. "Give this young lady here a ride to wherever she wants." He then saw a huge grin appear on Shego's face. "But Agent, if you're not back in more than 4 hours, you will be considered as AWOL. Is that understood?"

Agent Neilson replied in the affirmative and Shego's smile disappeared. "Awww… You're no fun. Then again, it is 4 hours. C'mon GJ Joe." Agent Neilson dutifully led Shego to a nearby pickup painted in GJ drab, all the while wondering how in the world this green woman knew his first name.

…x x x x…

After both Kim and Ron were given access cards, it was Will Du that led the two of them to the maximum-security lab. When they arrived at the room that Oblivion was taken to, they saw that most of Vivian's body was exposed since the most of the exoskeleton was removed. The only thing that remained attached to her was the head-piece and part of the shoulders, as those parts were what contained the main CPU of Oliver and the physical connection between the organic and non-organic parts.

"I thought she might have come to by now." Kim said. "And if she's still unconscious and without her weapons, why is she strapped down?"

"Miss Possible," Will said in answer to her questions, "We have taken the liberty of keeping her unconscious with medications, and the reason she is strapped down, is just a precautionary measure. The best doctors that we have employed with GJ is now trying to ascertain how to separate the Oliver systems from Vivian Porter."

"Well, it appears that you don't have the best Dr. in the world now, do you?" Ron said, causing both Kim and Will to turn towards him with a questioning look, but Kim's slight confusion immediately turned into a smile as she knew what Ron was talking about.

"Mr. Stoppable…" Will said almost condescendingly. "I just said that we…"

"Ron's correct Will." Kim said interrupting him. "My mother should be here as well. In fact, since she was the head of the neurology team that helped Vivian design the interface, who would be better to figure out how to remove it?"

Will just stared at Kim for a few seconds, and then grudgingly replied, "OK, fine." He then took his small communications device and told someone to contact Dr. Anne Possible and bring her to the lab. He then finished by saying, "Until then, no more work is to be performed on the prisoner." Which garnered a hooded glare from Kim.

"So Vivian is your prisoner now, Will?" Kim's voice was dangerously low.

"Miss Possible… That… thing," He pointed a finger at Vivian through the plexi-glass that separated them from the operating room, "Has killed many good people. She is our prisoner, and after she is unhooked from the Oliver Intelligence, she will be tried for her crimes, of which I seriously doubt she will be judged as innocent."

"You're just as bad as Shego!" Kim almost yelled right in Will's face. "It wasn't Vivian who killed those people, it was Oblivion! It was the amalgamation of the two of them that committed those barbaric acts, NOT Vivian Porter!"

"Miss Possible…" Will said in an infuriatingly gentle voice, "You must control your emotions. They will be your undoing."

By now Kim was angry beyond words, but she was finally able to eek out a few and directed them right at Will through clenched teeth. "You pompous, irrational, senseless, egotistical JERK!"

Before Kim realized what she was doing, one hand had grabbed Will by the front of his shirt, and lifted him a good 6 inches off the floor. Ron was too surprised to react at first, and Will actually looked like he was going to perform a certain bodily function right then and there.

Then another voice came into the equation. "Kimmie… Honey… Please put the nice GJ man down."

Kim dropped Will to his feet, and he audibly breathed out a sigh of relief. Kim then whirled around and spoke the new arrival's name. Well… the name that she had called this person by for the last 16 to 18 years of her life. "Mom!"

Immediately Kim rushed forward and pulled her mother into a hug, careful not to squeeze the life out of her with her bionics. It was when Kim released her mom that she noticed that her mother had only given her a one armed hug. In her opposite hand, Anne was holding onto a pair of crutches, which she then used to support herself once again.

"Oh Mom, I'm sorry! How's the ankle?" Kim's cheeks flushed a light red at realizing she had almost bowled over her own mother in an attempt to give her a hug.

"It's healing just fine Kim. Dr. M'Benga had to put a few pins in it, and said I should be off the crutches in 4 – 6 weeks. I'm so not looking forward to the physical therapy."

"But at least you're here Mom!" Kim said and gave her mother another quick hug, this time mindful of the crutches. "They wanted to start working on Vivian without you, but I talked Will here into giving you a call. Can you believe he wanted GJ doctors to attempt separating Vivian and the Oliver intelligence?"

"Actually… I can." Anne said with a sideways glance at Will, who was still straightening his shirt after Kim had grabbed him. "Oh and Mr. Du? I sincerely hope that you'll let my husband in here as well. I know he's just a Rocket Scientist, but he is quite knowledgeable in robotics as well."

"Dad's here too?" Kim said with a surprised look.

"If they will just let him past their Security." Anne said with another glance at Will.

"Huh?" Kim said with a confused look on her face. "Why would they want to know about his purity?"

Anne gave her daughter a confused look, and then stepped to her left side. She lowered her voice a little and said, "Kimmie, can you hear me?" When Kim didn't even respond to Anne's query, she then snapped her fingers right next to Kim's ear and there was no response at all.

Anne then stepped back in front of her daughter. "Kimmie Dear… I think you've lost the hearing in your left ear.

"What?" Was Kim's surprised response, and now both Anne and Ron could see that Kim had her head slightly turned to the left in an attempt to hear better with her right ear without even realizing it.

"After I take a look at Vivian and take care of her, we'll see about getting you to an EEN and T Doctor." The confused look on Kim's face caused Anne to reply "Eyes, Ears, Nose and Throat."

Just after Anne had spoken, James Possible entered the small room that Anne, Kim, Ron, and Will were in. "So this looks like where the party is." He then spied Vivian lying on the table in the other room through the plexi-glass. "And I see now why I'm here as well."

To be continued…

Well, it appears that there will be one more chapter for sure. I know there was probably more dialogue in this chapter than y'all expected, but I guess that's just the way it ended up.