Summertime Blues

Heather O'Malley

Kim Possible is owned by the Disney Corporation and they have no connection to this what so ever. These characters are used without their permission and include a plea not to be sued as I have no money.

Detritus and Castigation

Kim and Shego moved through the metal halls of the flying fortress, ready to destroy anything that resembled resistance. There was none, which was very frustrating, with open doors and cowering henchmen all begging to live. They managed to find the control room, after several helpful henchmen pointer the way, gibbering in terror at the sight of the two pissed off women. They reached the partially open door and burst inside but froze at what they saw in there. There stood their daughter, hands on her hips, looking around as if she had conquered everything in sight, Henchmen sitting on the floor and the sounds of someone whimpering coming from behind a display. Kim sped over and grabbed her daughter in a hug, checking to make sure that the girl was unharmed.

Shego, meanwhile, strode purposefully forward, plasma writhing brightly around her fists. She scanned the crowd and noticed a few familiar faces, henchmen she had worked with before her marriage to Kim. She frowned even more when she realized who they must still be working for and then called out, "Doc you might as well come out. I know you are here."

Dr. Drakken cautiously pulled himself up from behind the monitor, his face a mix of nervousness and fear, his eyes wide staring straight at her as if she were a rattlesnake. "Uh… hello Shego. How have you been?"

The blast of plasma that destroyed the monitor made him squeal like a little girl and duck back down. Meanwhile Kim held Grace and asked, "Are you okay Muffin?"

"Yes Momma. I scared a little but I beat bad guys!" It was clear that Grace was very excited by that fact and was unaware that what she had done was a bad thing.

Kim sighed, a bit unsure how to respond without really upsetting her daughter. Seeing that there really wasn't a choice, Kim replied, "Yes baby you did, but you need to remember that this could have been a very bad man and he could have hurt you. Your Mommy and I would never have forgiven ourselves if that had happened and we would have been sad."

Grace's eyes welled with tears as she heard that her Momma and Mommy were upset with her over what she had done and that what she had done was something bad. She sniffled, trying to fight back the tears and said softly, "I just tryin to be like you and Mommy."

"Don't be in such a hurry to grow up sweetie. Neither of us started doing hero stuff until we were older than you are now. You have time to get stronger and to learn how to be a great hero, but right now you shouldn't wander away from us. We were really sacred Muffin." said Kim, kneeling next to her daughter, brushing some of Grace's darker red hair out of her face and then brushing the tears aside with her thumb. She hugged the girl and kissed her on the forehead.

"I'm sorry Shego. Please don't kill me." pleaded Dr. Drakken, nearly ready to try groveling if that was needed to survive this mishap.

"Give me one good reason why I shouldn't?" The green skinned woman growled, her eyes bright with anger and the plasma roiled with the intensity of her emotion.

"Uh… I surrendered the moment I knew it was your daughter?" replied Drakken nervously, wringing his tiny hands, a bead of sweat trickling down his face, praying that he was giving the right answer.

Shego glared at him, wanting to smite him, to burn him to the water line, which given their altitude was quite a distance. However, the Big Blue Idiot did have a point and she let her plasma die out. He wasn't off the hook just yet though, just not slated for a fiery death. "Fine. You live. Now tell me why you have this… thing and why you have been following us?"

Drakken blanched even more at that and stammered out, "I…I have been following you?"

Shego nodded sharply, turning some to glare at some of the henchmen who cringed. "Yes. You frightened Gracie, several times."

"I… uh… I… found a travel itinerary online and decided that it would be a good and varied test pattern as it was all over the world."

"Where did you find it?" Shego's eyes narrowed, knowing that she had been fiddling with the trip's plan online and she stepped closer to the trembling blue skinned man which had an effect.

"I don't remember. I'm sorry Shego. Please don't kill me." whined Drakken, cowering even more.

"You scared my daughter with your damn weather machine." growled Shego, now towering over the nearly fetal and trembling mad scientist.

"Ahhhh… Kim Possible, save me!" yelped Drakken, again in fear of his life.

Kim stood, holding Grace in her arms and turned to look at Dr. Drakken, regarding him coolly with her green eyes. "Save you? Why should I save you?"

"But Momma… he my prisoner." whined Grace.

Kim sighed and nodded, having to concede the point. "Eme, Gracie is right. He is her prisoner. We can only beat up our own prisoners."

"Fine." Shego spat, resisting the urge to kick Drakken. "Call Betty and have him hauled off."

Drakken turned over and looked so joyful at that prospect, at the prospect of jail time. Tears of joy poured out his eyes and he groveled out, "Oh thank you Shego. Thank you for letting me live. Thank you thank you thank you."

Shego spun back, hauled Drakken upright, and even a little into the air, shaking him slightly. "Listen here you idiot. The only reason you are still alive is that there will be some joy involved in watching you try to defend yourself to the whole world on the whole your being captured by a four year old girl. That is why you get to live."

Drakken looked like he was going to say something and then closed his mouth, his brows furrowed in thought. Suddenly he didn't look so excited about being left alive. He thrust his lower lip out and it began to quiver.

KPKPKPKPKP

Betty Director stood on the landing area of the floating craft and asked the red headed world saver yet again, "So what you are saying is that your daughter Grace captured Drakken?"

Kim nodded, grinning in amusement at Betty's apparent difficulty with this prospect. "Yep. She snuck away from us after seeing him, snuck onto his hoverpod, and tracked him down to this flying fortress. Well, her and her molerat George."

Betty rubbed the bridge of her nose in disbelief. This couldn't be happening. "George and Gracie? You have got to be kidding me."

"Nope, we even watched the footage of the capture from the in craft monitors. Drakken thought he had captured me and when he saw it was Grace he absolutely lost it. It was quite funny actually. I think Shego is posting it to YouTube for Grace right now." Kim was acting all cheerful, mostly because she was so proud of her baby girl. Granted they would be talking about this again and there would be no ice cream or nacos for the little girl for a while in punishment, but her daughter had succeeded. It certainly seemed like anything was possible for a Possible.

"So, did he ever say why he was doing all of this stuff with the weather in the first place?" asked Betty.

"Nope. Apparently, his test areas were based off our itinerary that he found online. So that is the best we were able to get from him so far. After that, he sort of went fetal and began sucking his thumb, muttering occasionally for his mommy. Shego said that at that point there was nothing we could really do to get him to talk as he would be stuck like that for a while." Kim shrugged, quite content with the way things had turned out.

"Can I talk to your daughter?" asked Betty, though it was clear that it pained her to do so.

Kim smirked and nodded towards where Shego was standing, holding their daughter and glowering at henchmen. "Feel free. You probably won't get more from her than we got."

Betty shook her head, walked over to where Shego was, and noticed that Grace was watching her curiously as she neared. The head of Global Justice put on her best smile as she got closer and said, "Hello Shego. This must be Grace. Hello Grace."

Grace cocked her head, looking at the woman questioningly and asked, "Are you a pirate?"

"No, I am a police officer." Betty ignored the fact that Shego was trying not to respond to the question.

"Did you lose you eye in gunfight?"

"No. It wasn't a gunfight."

"Have you ever shot people?"

"This isn't really going anywhere. Can you answer some of my questions Grace?" asked Betty, trying to remain calm in the face of a determined questioning child.

"You answer mine?" asked Grace right back, apparently unconcerned about who Betty was. Shego struggled to keep from snickering, as this was clearly wonderful entertainment.

"Yes, I have shot people." replied Betty, sighing in resignation.

"Why?"

"They were bad people."

"Why?"

"It depends on the person. So can you answer some of my questions now?"

Grace nodded.

Betty sighed, saying a little prayer of thanks and asked, "So your Mom told me you saw Dr. Drakken and followed him."

Grace nodded.

"How did you get onto the hoverpod?"

"George."

"How did he do that?"

"Ask George." Grace held out the naked molerat who smiled at the one eyed woman.

Betty rolled her eye and then asked, "George how did you get the two of you onto the hoverpod?"

George cleared his throat and began to explain crawling around, unlocking the door and everything. Problem was that Betty was not familiar enough with the way that Molerats talked to understand much of anything that George was saying. The woman sighed in resignation and said, "Thank you Grace. That should take care of things."

Shego snickered as Betty walked back to Kim, letting her humor out now that the almost interrogation was over. Grace looked confused and asked her Mommy, "What funny?"

Betty stood by Kim who was snickering as well, having been positive that this would be the result of any attempt to question her daughter. Betty grumbled, "Fine. We'll go with what you said."

Kim grinned broadly, "Thought you might."

KPKPKPKPKP

Grace was asleep in the back of the hoverpod as the family was flying back to where they were staying on Mykonos. Kim and Shego were really beginning to see the humor of what had happened over all as the fear that they had felt when Grace had disappeared was fading. The memory of Drakken's face and reactions was certainly helping in that respect. There really was nothing the Big Blue Dork was better at then proving to be the butt of jokes.

Abby was in the back near Grace, quiet, feeling bad for something like that happening to someone under her care. Grace had disappeared on her watch and it was all her fault. She rolled the mistakes over and over in her head, making herself feel worse as more time passed. Kim glanced in the back and noticed this, nudging Shego to get her wife to notice what was occurring as well. They shared a look and the green skinned woman used a toss of her head to direct Kim to move into the back to talk to the woman. Kim nodded and got up, moving into the back to sit next to Abby. They nanny didn't respond to her sitting there so Kim asked, "Abby, are you okay?"

"I failed you two." The nanny murmured, almost to the verge of tears.

"How? Is it your fault that Grace decided to take off like that? How could any of us have expected that?" asked Kim, trying to get the woman to realize that that was not her responsibility.

"I should have been watching her better."

"Abby, you will do better later, now that we know that Gracie has this in her. However, who could have expected her to spot Drakken and run off like that while we were eating? She is a good kid for the most part and this has been the worse thing she has ever done. How could you have stopped that?" replied Kim reasonably.

Abby was quiet for a moment as she was thinking about what Kim had said and then she replied, "I don't know, but I should have."

Kim rolled her eyes in growing frustration. "If you want to beat yourself over this, fine. It's not like I can stop you. But I am not holding you responsible for something that my kid did in a fit of stupidity. She is a Possible and we are notoriously bad kids, in terms of following some rules. If you want a few laughs, ask my Mom and she will gladly fill you in with one embarrassing story after another."

Abby nodded and Kim moved back to the front, realizing that it was not working. Shego glanced over at Kim, as the redhead sat down and Kim shrugged. Shego shrugged as well and said, "She'll get over it."

"I hope so. She's a great nanny and I would hate to lose her over something like this. Especially if she felt like she had to quit because of it." replied Kim softly.

"Yeah, but if she can't get over it, her loss." replied Shego, as she scanned the dials.

"I know, but I still feel bad. It's not like anyone can possibly keep up with Gracie all the time, because kids are like that. Gracie took off and none of us noticed it until it was too late. All of us are equally to blame in this case and not just Abby." stated Kim.

Shego looked out over the dark Mediterranean quietly, thinking. She then said quietly, "Yeah. We are all at fault in this. I guess we know to keep better tabs on her from now on, now that this is the second time Grace has run off. That scared the life out of me and I don't want to go through that again. If we can get Gracie to understand that then I will certainly feel better about everything."

Kim leaned over and kissed her wife on the cheek. "Me too Eme… me too."