Reunion Royalty Take 21

(The Dungeon Area)

BOOM! BOOM! Followed by some quick silence as Sheila went through the corridor at a steady pace. Her hands were glowing brightly in power with everyone else following behind since she was taking the lead.

Sheila's eyes scan the corridor before she spots one of the guards in the armor she had come to really hate in the last twenty minutes.

Sheila growls and sends a powerful blast that destroys the wall the armored guard ducks behind and sends him flying down the ground.

Sheila moves quickly and pulls off the helmet before she punches him hard in the face, knocking him out!

Sheila doesn't waste a word or motion as she gets back up and resumes her march forward.

It goes on like this for a while until finally it looks like they are going to exit the dungeon completely.

Ron leans over to whisper to Kim, "I am sure glad that she is on our side Kim." He just gets a nod back from Kim.

Kim could tell that Sheila was more than a bit on edge for even herself and taking into account her Shego life. That was certainly saying something.

Kim had to wonder she was ever that bad with the safety of her own children. She knew she had pushed the line a few times herself when it came to their lives. She loved all her children very much and knew in her heart that if it ever came to it. She would sacrifice her own life for any one of them to be safe.

Suddenly Sheila begins to slow as she approaches the exit with a confused growing on her face.

Everyone else slows down as before Ron says, "What is it Sheila?"

Sheila says, "I don't know. There is just a girl standing there at the exit and she's dressed like a princess."

Everyone walks up and that's when Wade says, "Hey, isn't she that girl who is supposed to be the fiancée to…"

Conner steps forward, cutting off Wade as he says a little angrily, "What is it that you want?"

Alicia steps forward with a sad, pained expression on her face as she says, "Please… won't you reconsider? I promise that I would do anything to make you happy. You can even run the country without any interference from me or my father."

Conner shakes his head as he says, "Sorry, but no. I will not be forced into a loveless marriage for the mere sake of politics. That may have been the way things were done in the past but that is not the way I roll."

Alicia walks up slowly to Conner and touches his cheek lightly as she looks a little up into his eyes with him being taller than she was. She sadly says, "Can't you see that this is a surefire way to end a war that has been going on for generations in this country? This has held back Rodigan from becoming something truly great."

Meanwhile, as Alicia touched Conner's face to tenderly, Mary was silently fuming with her hand still hurting from when she'd slapped Vania earlier. She bites her lower lip, as she knew that interrupting now might disrupt the politics going on but some part of her was saying, "Don't let that floozy princess take away our guy! OOOOH! If she doesn't stop touching him, we should lose it and put a stop to it!"

Mary takes a step towards the two of them, with Conner somehow noticing her movement as he raises up a hand in her direction which stops her from moving any further in surprise.

Conner says evenly to Alicia, "Look Alicia, I understand what you're saying. I'll admit there is a part of me that says you're making sense and that marrying you would be the best thing for the country…"

At that moment, Mary feels crushed even though she does her best to hide it but it is noticed. She thinks, "Noooo! I'm going to lose him forever because of his nobleness!" She turns away to leave so she can go cry when suddenly Conner says, "I can not do it for that reason alone for the same reasons I have stated before. To me marriage is something that should be reserved for love, not the politics. I would rather marry Mary, than you."

Mary spins on her foot so quickly that it leaves a small burn mark on the titled floor. She could NOT believe Conner had just said that! She had loved him for a long time but she was never sure that she was even on his radar and then to hear him say that in front of so many people!

Alicia drops her hand and turns to the side as she says, "You've forgotten me haven't you?"

Conner's eyebrows raise up as he says, "Er… what?"

Alicia sighs and looks at him as she says, "Do you remember the days when Queen Bonnie had you playing with children?"

Conner nods as he remembers but there had been so many back and many he never saw after the first few days due to his mother thinking that child wasn't right to play with her son for whatever reason.

Alicia says, "I was one of the children you met back then. I was just a little girl, dressed in common clothes and there were so many back with many of them under intense pressure to become your childhood friends."

Conner nods as he says, "I do recall that many of them were unhappy and there was a lot of fighting…"

Alicia says, "Well, a small group of them must have thought that I was too cute or some serious competition because they ganged up on me."

Conner gets a tickling sensation at the back of his mind as this starts to sound a little familiar to him.

Alicia steps back and pulls up the edge of her dress to reveal a small scar on her leg and says, "I was pushed down and beaten, with one of them cutting me deep on my leg from a crudely fashioned weapon."

Conner could remember it a little but it was still hazy for him.

Alicia could see in his eyes that he still didn't remember so she continues to say, "You saved me." Her eyes sparkled as she remembers the magical moment of meeting, "I was crying for someone to save me and that's when you just… leaped from the sky it seemed, kicking the first boy down who had stabbed my leg with his weapon still in my leg."

Alicia clasps her hands together in front of her as if she was praying and says, "You were like a guardian angel, swooping in and defending me. You were like a warrior possessed and in no time flat you had them all crying and running away." She looks directly into Conner's eyes even as he looked at her in surprise and says, "It was on that day you won my heart Conner… ever since then, I've tried my best to learn everything that would make you proud to have me as your Queen."

Conner's mouth just flaps open and shut in surprise as he remembers the fight, rescuing a young girl and then helping her get the medical attention. He also remembered that he never saw her or the ones he'd fought off ever again as well after that.

Alicia reaches out and touches his cheek with her fingers, "So… please believe me when I tell you that this marriage… it wouldn't be as loveless as you think."

Ron frowns for a moment as that story sounded a bit too familiar and then it hits him! He leans over to whisper to Kim, "Hey Kim, doesn't that sound a little bit how we met in Pre-K?"

Kim looks at Ron and whispers back, "I was just thinking the same thing. Although the roles are switched and no one was cut."

Ron nods and whispers, "I wonder where he got the nobleness though to act like that living with Bonnie."

Kim looks at her husband in shock and then says, "Ron! He got it from his father!"

Ron blinks in surprise and then smiles as he chuckles lamely, "Oh! Heh… heh… I guess you've got a point there."

Kim smiles at him and kisses him on the lips lovingly which is returned by Ron.

Suddenly they hear Vania say, "You two don't strike me as a old couple, the way you two act. I'd think you two were more like newlyweds."

Kim and Ron pull back a little, just enough to break the kiss with Kim blushing before chuckles and says, "She hasn't been around a long time and already she's got your number Kimmie."

Kim suddenly smiles and says, "So what Sheila? I would rather that we act like newlyweds forever than have our marriage ever go stale."

Sheila's hands flare up as she growls, "Is that some kind of crack about my marriage Kim?"

Vania smirks and says, "It sure sounded like that way to me."

Sheila walks up to Kim, staring at her for the longest time and then begins to laugh as she puts out the fire on her hands.

Vania blinks and slouches over a little as she says, "What the…?" She was clearly baffled as to what was going on and it was reflected on her face.

Wade chuckles and says, "Kim and Sheila have been the worse of enemies and the best of friends far too long to let a little thing like a comment get between them."

Vania just looks at him in confusion and whines, "Will someone just tell me what that is supposed to mean?"

Drew walks up as he says, "What he meant is that those two aren't going to fight. They never were. What you just saw was their form of friendly verbal sparing with each other."

Vania just frowns as she crosses her arms in front of herself and to both Kim and Ron at that moment; it eerily felt as if it was a ghost was standing before them.

Alicia turns back to Conner after seeing all of this and says, "Won't you please reconsider? I have never forgotten the way you saved me when I was just a child. I knew you were the one for me after that meeting and I truly believe I would make a good wife to you."

Conner is speechless at her words and knew that Alicia was not going to give up on persuading him so easily and nor was he going to just agree easily either so the two of them were at an impasse.

Mary carefully watches Conner as she hopes for another slip of the tongue by Conner that would allow her to express her own heart's desires. She had been so shocked before that the chance had passed her up.

Conner sighs after a few moments, "No matter what Alicia, I will never see force as the right way to get good change to happen and that includes marriage."

Alicia nods softly and says, "That is my father's way, not mine. I won't stop you if you and your friends want to leave. I just hoped that I could change your mind by talking to you, that's all."

There was something about the way she said that, that caused Conner to sigh and feel bad enough for him to say, "Listen… I doubt I will change my mind but I promise that I will think about it but I can't do it while trapped down here. I am still a King and my first duty is to my country, which means that I have to go and see if I can get…"

"Your country back from my father. I understand and I won't get in your way Conner." Alicia says as she finishes what he was about to say. After a soft sigh and some looking down for a moment she says, "I know it means that you're going against my father and the rest of the Knights but if it helps you, then I will do what I can."

Vania looks at Alicia and says, "Just like that? You're going to turn on your own father? And for what? A guy who isn't going to even give you so much as the time of day?"

Alicia turns her head to look at Vania and says, "Yes, and if you can't understand why… then I feel sorry for you."

Vania begins to walk towards Alicia as she loudly says, "Just what is that supposed to mean you little…" She is stopped as her arm is grabbed, which stops her forward motion. She struggles for a few moments against the holding it but she could tell that whoever was holding her was not going to let go and plus with the sad, pained expression on Alicia's face made it all to clear to her that it wasn't worth it so she stops struggling and says, "I'm ok. I won't do anything." The hand on her arm holds onto her for a few more moments as if considering her words before she finally feels it let go.

Vania turns to look at the one who had held onto her and is surprised to see that it was none other than Mindy for the grip had felt very strong, like a man's strength and so she had expected to see one of the guys, even the blonde guy whose name she couldn't remember at the moment to be the one who had held onto her.

Mindy just smiles a little as she says, "I'm glad you came to your senses."

Vania glances over at Alicia and says, "Why? I think I could have taken her."

Mindy nods as she says, "Probably but Sheila would probably have been less gentle with you than I was, if you know what I mean?"

Vania's eyes dart to Sheila who just sports a wicked grin at her and after having seen all that she did recently, that smile unnerved her more than any display of her powers ever did. She softly says, "Then I guess I owe you a thank you."

Mindy says, "Don't worry about it, I was happy to help."

Vania turns away as she says, "Ok then…" This causes Mindy to look at her in surprise and a little anger before Vania says, "Thank you" and walks off, leaving Mindy to just stand there with her head shaking a little as she wonders about her.

Sheila says, "Not to break up, well… actually I do… but don't you all think we should get out of here before more guards show up?"

Alicia says, "Don't worry, I have redirected all the guards nearby to courtyard for practice drills. So for the next twenty minutes, all of you can escape without any problems." She looks at Conner with a kind, sadness in her eyes as she then says, "I never wanted to see you hurt Conner."

Vania mutters softly, "I did…"

Mary flashes an angry look at Vania as she had heard that before she looks at Alicia and thinks that she will have to watch this girl very carefully as she was a rival for Conner's heart.

Conner nods and says to everyone, "Come on everyone, let's go. I don't want to be thrown back into prison anytime soon."

Sheila growls, "Oh don't worry about that. I am not going back there any time soon. Not until I settle a score."

So without another word, everyone leaves with Alicia just watching and waving at Conner like a princess should until he is out of sight.

AN: Well everyone, sorry I haven't updated any of my stories in a while but I was extremely occupied for a while. I hope that you will enjoy this chapter. So what did you think of Sheila? Is a bit of the violent and angry Shego leaking out? What did you think of Alicia? Do you feel sorry for her? What did you think of that past revelation? Who do you think will end up with Conner? Alicia or Mary? Who deserves to? What did you think of Vania and her attitude? Do you think everyone will escape?

As usual all reviews, votes, questions, thoughts, ideas, suggestions, favorite examples of the color 'red' and more are always nice to read.