Where is Kim Possible?
Chapter 14: The Sitch
AN: During a mission the heroine disappears and no one, not even the villains seem to know what happened to her. Where has she gone?
(FFS's Headquarters)
Shego opens her eyes at and growls, "That was too much! Who hit me!?" She raises her hands, which instantly ignite before two devices come from the ceiling and cover her hands in instant-hardening foam. She stares at her hands incredulously as a computerized male voice says, "No plasma fires in here please. I would rather stay in one piece." It takes her a moment to recognize the voice, "Is that you Wade?"
A nearby computer screen pops on and Wade appears, "I am not the one from your reality but rather a computerized version of him in this one. Oh, and if you're wondering about your hands, they won't last long once you stop trying to ignite the plasma and fall into dust after a minute."
Shego accepts this as she had seen lots of weird stuff under working for Dr. D, "Where are they?" She demands as she can feel the stuff already weakening as she can wiggle her fingers.
"If by 'they' you mean, the ones that brought you here… then they are in the next room talking about the issue that is keeping Kim Possible from returning home." Computer Wade answers her.
Shego raises her eyebrows and looks directly at the eyes of Computer Wade, "Tell me computer, is it really true? Are they going to get married?"
Computer Wade hesitates for a moment before letting out what sounded to be a very human-like sigh. "I suppose there is no point in denying it. They are engaged and I imagine your next question will be how it happened so here is what the whole world saw before you showed up." He pops up a video of Ron proposing in front of the whole world to Kim.
Shego's eyes widen as she watches how Ron proposes to Kim, changing to an all-knowing smirk before she finally whispers softly, "Way to go Princess." She shakes her head and hops up to her feet. "Where are they?" She demands.
Computer Wade rolls his digital eyes at Shego's demands, "They are in the next room Shego. I'll alert them that you are awake now."
Shego grins, "No, don't tell them. I want to surprise them."
"Very well, but if you try to hurt them I will stop you. I am fully capable of defending this place from even you." The computer Wade tells Shego.
Shego turns without saying a word and with stealth that would put a ninja to shame, she walks into the next room with Kim and Ron having their backs turned to her and Phoenix nowhere in sight. She walks up quickly with both hands out and grabs them both by the shoulders, pushing them together. She lets out a loud laugh as she steps back so they can spin on the spot to face her, "Your families are going to just freak when they find out you two are getting married and to think I am the first from our world to find out!"
Kim and Ron just stare at her as they, wondering why they weren't hurting for the trick that they had played on Shego to get her in the headquarters. "You're not going to hurt me… are you?" Ron asks as he breaks the silence that followed with Shego just gazing at them as if studying them.
"She better not try if she knows what's good for her." Phoenix says as she steps out from the doorway of another room, slightly glowing with a fiery glow about her that suggested danger equal to that of anything Shego could emit.
"Just who are you to tell me what I should do?" Shego turns back to Kim and Ron, "Besides, I already promised their parents I would bring them home and if there is one thing I do. I keep my promises don't I, Princess?"
Kim nods at Shego, "But there is a tiny hiccup in going home right away Shego."
"Yeah, I heard something about that from the computer guy and if you're talking about how to get back home safely because of that portal instability issue. The device I brought with me should open a stable portal long enough to make sure that we all can get home safely." Shego says and smirks as she felt that she was the one who had the answers for a change.
"Um, Ron… do you mind if I have a little privacy while I catch Shego up to speed?" Kim softly asks Ron with a little batting of her eyes at him.
Ron didn't know why she didn't want him around but figured that it was going to be girl talk about the engagement or that Kim was worried Shego would try to hurt him. Either way, he couldn't deny her anything she wanted. "Sure Kim' He says to her as he begins walking out of the room.
"Wade, room silence mode will you please" Kim says before turning to Shego.
Shego didn't know what was going on but she had a bad feeling that it was going to make it difficult for her and she didn't like difficult.
"Shego…" Her voice changes as the body then morphs into a totally different form right before her, "I hate to break it to you but we are sharing a body. Otherwise I can assure you that Kim would jump at going home right away. She misses everyone so much."
Shego had seen a lot of strange things in her time as a mad scientists' sidekick including mind swapping but body sharing? That was a new one on her and as such she handled it pretty well. "What the…? Who are you?" Her hands igniting in flames as she quickly grows angry.
"Calm down Shego, I can assure you that the both of us want nothing more in the world than to be separated. This whole thing was an accident."
"Fine! But first tell me what you're doing to fix things!" Shego's hands go out reluctantly.
A heavy sigh. "Well, originally one of the ideas was to teleport Kim directly out of my body and reconstitute her back in her home dimension but that idea turned out to be unfeasible after seeing what happened when Ron showed up. As I'm sure you can imagine, anything going through there would have been destroyed or there wouldn't have been enough matter left to create an eyelash."
Shego had to agree on that one after seeing what the pathway was like first hand and it had given her new respect for just what Ron and his devotion to Kim. "Yeah, you're right about that."
"However, if what you have with you really does improve a person's chance of getting through. Then maybe that original could still work but I would rather try to reconstitute her here in my dimension first using the two of you as a solid base."
Shego had no idea what that meant but it sounded painful and dangerous, "What does that mean? You better explain that in a different way buster!" Her hands flaring up in green flames once more.
"What I mean is that we would try to teleport her out of my body and use the dimensional signals inherent in both Ron and yourself as a way for her own dimensional signal to solidify into her normal body. That is also the idea behind why I wanted to teleport her to her home dimension where the matter would be at its greatest but you already know how dangerous that is."
"Why the both of us? Isn't he enough?" Shego asks as the flames on her hands calm down.
"Well until you showed up, I was thinking of just that but her chances would not have been so great. You see, the more we have to use as a base. The far better chances we have for making sure she survives."
"What are the odds with me included?" Shego asks as she puts out the flames on her hands.
A little bit of silence before he says, "Well, there is something you should know. This procedure will more than likely be painful. The more data I can collect from the both of you the better but even with low pain… and I'm being generous here mind you, I'd say at least 60 percent. If the two of you can deal with a lot of pain, I am willing say that her odds increase up to 90."
Something occurs to Shego at that moment, "This is why you sent him out of the room isn't it? He doesn't know about any of this yet does he?"
He morphs into Kim's body, "No and I am going to tell him but… you know Ron. He would take all the pain until he was no more if you said 'No' just to bring me back to my family." Her eyes begin to fill with tears brimming on the edge as she looks at Shego. "I couldn't do that. I couldn't lose Ron. I would rather share this body with him and stay in this dimension than lose Ron forever."
Shego growls in frustration as she was not used to seeing her rival so vulnerable and sad, it was almost as bad as the puppy dog pout. "Well I promised your family and Dr. D that I'd bring you both back if I could. So…" She lets out a heavy sigh. "I guess I have no choice to help you guys."
Kim suddenly hugs Shego and whispers, "Thank you Shego" before stepping back and wiping at her eyes.
As Shego gives Kim a glare for touching her in the first place, there is a clanking noise that is quickly followed by a loud crash. As all heads in the room turn, a low groan is heard from Ron.
"Ron! Honey are you ok!?" Kim cries out as she dashes to his side.
"Call me that again…" says a dopey smiling Ron.
"Huh? Ron?" Kim asks him.
"No… after that." Ron looks right at her.
Kim realizes what Ron was after and kisses him on the lips, "Honey, are you all right?"
"I am A-ok, Kim" Ron says before returning the kiss and caresses her cheek.
Shego groans loudly, "Ugh, why am I not surprised. He falls down and it turns into a love-fest."
"Oh hey what were you talking about? Oh, that's right! I know everything! Why didn't you tell me Kim?"
"Ron, I was going to tell you. I just didn't know how to tell you." Kim says with a bit of sadness in her voice.
"We're going to be married Kim…" Lifting her chin gently with his fingers as he gazes into her eyes. "You can tell me anything, you know that right? Besides, after all that we've been through, a little body sharing feels more like a rerun if you ya know what I mean?"
Kim leans forward and kisses Ron softly on the lips very lovingly, "You're right Ron. I guess I was afraid you would freak out because your fiancée was sharing bodies with another guy which totally wasn't anyone's fault."
Ron gazes into Kim's eyes and knew that she was telling the truth but she was still holding something back but he didn't know what. "Are you afraid Kim?" He gently asks.
"Kimmie isn't afraid." Shego snorts.
"No Shego, Ron is right. I am afraid. I am afraid of losing Ron because I love him so much." Kim tilts her head forward with her long hair covering most of her face, as she remains kneeling in front of Ron. She does a slow, deep breath before looking up at Ron and then Shego. "The reason you two would be in pain if you try to help me get my body back is because the scanner will essentially analyze you down to your molecular signature."
"What are you two trying to say Kim?" Asks Phoenix as she walks up.
Kim morphs into him with a grim expression on his face, "What we're trying to say is that you two should know that you will be put into a state of molecular suspension where the two of you will essentially be taken apart molecularly and scanned. I am not going to lie. The more of your bodies we have to scan the more it will feel like we're ripping you apart and I'll try to keep it to your limbs but the more that is scanned the better off we are."
There is heavy silence that follows before he morphs back into Kim, "It is worth the risk to beam me back home instead. I don't want anything to happen to either of you." She reaches out to cup Ron's face, caressing it slowly and tenderly. "I couldn't stand it if anything happened Ron. I am just another girl."
Ron takes her hands into his, lowering them down from his face. He squeezes her hands in his tenderly as he shakes his head, "No Kim, you are more than that. You are the girl… woman who saves the world. You are my best friend since Pre-K and the woman I love with all my heart." Tears flow down Ron's cheeks, "You are the one who I have chosen as my soulmate, Kim and the one I want to marry. So whatever we have to do. I am willing to do it to get you back."
"Oh Ron…" Kim pulls her hands out of Ron's so she can throw her arms around his neck and practically tackle him in a big hug. She releases him and steps back to gaze into his eyes. "I love you so much Ron."
"I love you too Kimbo." Ron says with a smile at her.
"Let's get this over with." Shego says with some disgust and annoyance in her voice.
Kim morphs back into him, "I just want you both to know that I really admire the both of you and that no matter what happens, all of you are heroes in my book. Even you Shego."
"Take that back!" Shego growls as her hands flame up.
"No Shego, blast me if you will but what you're doing is heroic."
Phoenix steps up in her own style of flames, "Don't even think about it Shego" she growls at Shego.
Shego clenches her fists as she shares a dark smile with Phoenix, "Believe me, I would love nothing more than to fight you but even I know that hurting him would be pointless since the goal is to separate Kimmie from him. So for the time being, I'll do nothing."
Phoenix did not like the way Shego had said that and gives her a cold glare that warned Shego about trying to touch him, which only earned a bit of a dark smile as if to answer back, "Bring it on."
"Well then, I know that if Kim's anxiousness to return home is anything. Then I can only imagine what it must be like for everyone back home. So how about we get this thing started?"
AN: Well everyone, I hope you enjoyed this chapter. The story is drawing to a close soon so stay tuned to this station for further updates! Now what did you think of Shego's role in this chapter? Who do you think would win in a flame fight? Shego or Phoenix? Anyone think Shego will double-cross Kim? Is everyone ready for the end of the story?
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