Disclaimer: I do NOT own Kim Possible. These characters belong to Disney.
Disclaimer #2: I'm NOT a writer, I'm an artist. I'm extremely inexperienced in writing fanfics, so I'm so sorry for any inconsistencies in the characters or plot!
Author: iycewing
Story developers: iycewing, PonyCrown
Rating: PG-13
Notice: This will eventually lead to KiGo in later arcs! This is the 1st arc of 6! If you don't like LGBTQ+ pairings, please don't hate. In this story, Season 4 of the show doesn't happen.
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Chapter 36
Kim and Shego darted around a corner and sprinted down an interminable hallway that led to yet another long hallway. They felt like they'd been going in circles for the last three minutes.
How big is this place?!
An irate growl interrupted their temporary spurt of fatigue, and they sucked air through their teeth before running harder. The two girls didn't need to look to know Cheshire was a whisker's length behind them, and they could practically feel his hot breath blowing on their backsides.
"I don't like having to run from my enemies," Shego growled.
"Think of it as running towards Lucifer," Kim said. Hopefully, she added in her head.
Rounding another corner, Kim's heart dropped to her stomach as the girls were met with a wall.
"Godammit!" Shego breathed viscously.
"At least we don't have to run anymore?" Kim offered.
"I prefer running over getting my powers and consciousness taken away!"
They reluctantly skidded to a halt and whipped around to face the prowling big cat. He had slowed his running pace to a steady stalk, and his glowing, lithe form slithered closer to the hero and villainess. His fluffy belly fur brushed the floor as he crouched low, his shoulders hunched and ready to pounce.
"Golly gee, this is the perfect timing for a dead-end," Shego spat sarcastically as she instinctively lit up her hands.
From the fire still stubbornly swirling around Cheshire's sleek body, her plasma was evidently ineffective and actually giving him an advantage. She was just too stressed to recall small, yet important, details about what was happening right now.
Not wasting another moment, she swept her arm as if she was throwing a Frisbee and unleashed a wave of plasma before Cheshire could attack. The girls' vision was washed with a blazing green, and Kim had to squint through the harsh light. The fire hadn't even died down yet as Cheshire soared through the still-raging flames, teeth and claws bared.
Shego swiftly ducked, just barely avoiding his outstretched claws, but Kim was blinded by the intense light for a brief second.
And a second of distraction was all Cheshire needed.
Like a blur of crackling lightning, his flickering jade form latched onto a stunned Kim as she fell backwards. The overgrown mutant cat's tackle felt like the force of a whole football team, and the impact temporarily knocked the wind out of the petite teen.
Her back hit the ground. Hard. She wouldn't be surprised if she bruised a few ribs or even fractured something.
Kim quickly blinked out of her daze from the flash of large snapping jaws, and she struggled to avoid the deadly fangs underneath Cheshire's firm grip. His claws dug into her shoulders, ripping through the black fabric and piercing her fair skin. She clenched her teeth in pain and found it hard to breathe with a 300-pound mass of muscle pinning her down.
"Back the fuck up, hairball!" Shego roared as she easily peeled the fiery creature off Kim.
The redhead gasped from the release of weight, and she doubled over with a cough, hastily putting out the green flames crawling around the rims of her clothes. Her now-exposed shoulders were burned red and bleeding, and a long tear was slashed across her chest by one of Cheshire's fangs just barely missing her skin.
She didn't bother to assess let alone acknowledge her injuries, though, as she scrambled to her feet to see Shego tussling with Cheshire. Adrenaline was pumping through her veins, allowing her racing mind to ignore and suppress the waves of pain and exhaustion.
Shego was still trying to defend herself and attack with her plasma-charged moves, despite the mutant cat being immune to her powers. Her moves also looked restrained, as she lacked her usual wide range of motion and fluidity, and Kim guessed it was because Shego was more focused on avoiding Cheshire's tainted fangs. She was sustaining more injuries than she could dish out, and Kim could see the panic settling in the villainess's emerald eyes.
Her brain processed that in a matter of seconds, and Kim fought back the urge to leap right back into the fight and help the older woman.
Now's not the time to be impulsive! Think, Kim! Think, think, think!
A fraction of a lightbulb moment was all her mind needed to jump in to help Shego. And once it flickered, she charged back into the tussle. Springing off the ground as if it were a springboard, she sent a powerful flying kick onto the glowing mass of midnight fur circling the villainess's body.
One of the only perks of Cheshire being over ten times bigger than before was that it was now over ten times easier to hit him. The extra weight and muscle mass made it more difficult for the mutant cat to move, so though he was still fast, he had trouble dodging attacks.
Kim's foot thankfully struck her target and not Shego, and Cheshire skidded backward. The creature stumbled on his four paws, and Kim took the opportunity to follow up on her attack with another kick.
Her foot came in contact with his soft, sensitive belly fur, causing him to hiss in pain, but she jumped back when the green flames latched onto her shoelaces. Before the fire could burn through, she hastily put it out, burning her hands in the process.
Shego had backed up so that she was next to Kim. Her iconic catsuit lay in tatters, exposing parts of pale green skin underneath. Strands of tousled, raven hair clung to her sweaty face, and a long gash dripped with fresh crimson from her forehead.
The two girls stood a few feet apart from a recovering mutant catshark, but neither complained about the few seconds of rest they were given.
"I'm gonna fucking slaughter this fleapelt, I swear to god," Shego snarled.
"We can't defeat him with your plasma or my moves," Kim readied herself to attack as Cheshire climbed to his paws, seemingly unharmed, lashing his shark tail angrily. "It's obviously not working!"
"Then what do you suggest, smartass?!"
"We need to work together!"
"I would laugh at how cliché that sounded if we weren't about to fucking die!"
There was no time to explain Kim's plan.
God, I hope this works.
The flaming mutant cat whipped his head around and gave a menacing snarl, but this time Kim was prepared.
"Shego! Plasma!" Kim ordered.
Shego looked confused for a second because they both knew her powers weren't hurting Cheshire, but rather giving him an advantage. She complied anyway and sent a horizontal splay of plasma at the mutant big cat.
The flames howled around Cheshire, completely engulfing his protected body with jade fire, and Kim took the moment of his obliviousness to tuck and roll out of the way. Her back slammed onto a stack of metal crates off to the side as she scrambled upright, fumbling for something tightly strapped to her belt.
A streak of flickering black fur leaped through the lowering flames towards Shego, who was poised to retaliate. Not bothering to calculate her aim, Kim fired her grappling hook at Cheshire midair. The thick cord wrapped around his back leg, allowing the metal hook to latch onto his paw, and she yanked back hard.
She pulled back so strongly, her elbow thrust into the metal crate to her side, creating a large dent. Cheshire slammed into the ground, his back leg rendered useless as it was being tugged backwards. His chin, and ultimately the fangs protruding out the sides of his muzzle, smacked the solid ground. The two long, front teeth that had the power to suppress superpowers and induce sleep snapped off as if they were toothpicks. The pair of gleaming fangs clanged off to the side, leaving a thin trail of blood and serum behind.
He let out a massive roar in outrage and pain, and two steady streams of blood poured from the two new gaps in between his rows of serrated teeth. The stubborn flames from Shego's plasma around his lithe body finally died down, revealing the sleek midnight fur it was circling.
As the mutant cat struggled to find his footing on three legs, Kim still pulling the other one back, he was suddenly pushed back down to the ground by Shego's foot. Another swift kick to his side made his forelegs crumple, making him collapse in a heap of tangled, ebony fur. The enraged villainess raised her foot again, looking ready to stomp down on Cheshire's thick, furry neck.
"Shego, wait! Don't kill him!" Kim shrieked.
Shego scoffed. "Woah Princess, keep your socks on, I wasn't going to. I was gonna do this."
Instead of kicking downwards, as if she planned on breaking his neck, she swung her foot as if she were punting a football. Her foot grazed the back of the creature's neck, and a small chip went flying from the impact.
Cheshire spasmed once before his narrowed, dilated eyes softened, the pupils turning large and round. He lost his menacing smile and looked around sharply to see Kim's grappling hook digging into his back leg. Trying to pull away from the restraint, the hook only gouged a deeper cut into his leg as Kim was not letting go. He growled in pain and pressed himself closer to the blood-stained ground, clearly frightened by Shego's looming figure over him.
Now that Shego had kicked the mysterious chip off his neck, the mutant catshark that was trying to kill them mere moments ago now looked and behaved like a scared kitten. Cheshire flailed on the floor like a fish out of water, and his dark face was caked with clumps of crimson. Kim wasn't sure if it was hers, Shego's, or his own blood.
Shego pressed her foot into Cheshire's wide shoulders, pinning him to the ground easily. He whimpered and hissed in fear, trying to use his large shark tail to knock the villainess's leg away.
"It sucks to be a bottom, doesn't it, devil cat?" Shego smirked. She reached up to wipe away the line of blood dripping down her forehead.
"I thought you were gonna kill him for a second there," Kim admitted, exhaling in relief.
"If I didn't have any sense of moral values, I'd splay his kidneys right here and now," Shego shrugged and regarded Cheshire with narrowed eyes. "But he's just another victim of DNAmy. She's the one who deserves to have her kidneys splayed."
"He's probably just a scared house cat she kidnapped. Well, catnapped," Kim agreed with a small smile.
"Mhm. You gonna help me tie this hairball up or not?"
Kim retracted her grappling hook since Cheshire had stopped fighting, and she went over to help Shego. She twirled the handle of the orange hairdryer around her pointer finger and grinned at Shego triumphantly. The older woman sighed and rolled her eyes.
"I get it, I get it. Your dumb grappling hook came in handy and saved the day. We defeated this fleapelt because we worked together. There's no 'I' in 'team' or whatever bullshit people tell kids. Whoopdy-fucking-doo," Shego twirled her fingers with mock enthusiasm.
"I didn't say anything," Kim blinked innocently.
"Oh, stop gloating."
They found some rope in the nearby crates, probably used to handle DNAmy's mutant hybrids, and tied up the big cat's legs loosely. Kim made sure to wrap them tight enough so that he couldn't escape but loose enough so that it wouldn't hurt his injured back leg further.
Kim finished tying a knot around Cheshire's back legs and reached up to feel her shoulders with tentative fingers, wincing when her nails brushed the fresh gouges. She bit her lip to push away the stinging pain, seeing that Shego wasn't complaining, despite having twice the amount of cuts and bruises.
Shego raised an eyebrow at the many deep gashes on Kim's shoulders and arms. "You okay?"
Kim gave a weak smile. "I mean, I have a pulse so I guess I'm okay."
"Splendid. Let's stay okay long enough to get out of this hellhole," Shego replied dryly.
"Sounds like a solid plan to me."
The former evil sidekick roughly pushed a now-bound Cheshire to the side so that he could curl up and rest against the wall. Minus the fact the mutant catshark was over 300 pounds, and was, well, half-shark, he looked about as frightened as a regular cat. Seeing that Cheshire was secure and had no plans of attempting to escape, Kim located the tiny chip Shego had knocked off his neck.
Kim picked it up and brushed away the strands of tangled, red hair hanging loosely over her smudged face. "What is this thing?"
"Beats me," Shego shrugged, glancing over her shoulder to see Cheshire staring at them blankly. His eyes, now wide and round, looked extremely tired.
"He calmed down as soon as you kicked it off. Maybe it's some mind control device?" Kim guessed, turning the inch-wide square chip around in her fingers.
Shego grimaced. "Ugh, I hate mind control."
"Same. But how would you control an animal's mind?"
"Kimmie, we can worry about that later. I don't know if you forgot, but your goofy friends can't keep all of DNAmy's minions up there forever," Shego reminded.
"Right, sorry, stick to the plan," Kim nodded and slipped the chip in her cargo pants pocket.
I'll ask if Wade can find out what the chip does later.
Before they could run off to search other rooms, Kim suddenly frowned and looked at the dead end. A single door with a large, red sign that said 'Caution: Radiation in Testing' seemed to be beckoning to her like a magnet. She remembered seeing the same sign the first time she'd broken into DNAmy's lab.
Shego's old cell room.
"Pumpkin, let's go!" Shego called.
"Wait, we should search this room first real quick," Kim insisted.
Shego glanced at the room Kim was referring to and immediately tensed. "DNAmy kept the dumb litter box in a different room than mine. We're just wasting time."
"We should check all the rooms just to make sure, though."
The villainess still didn't move.
"It'll be fine, Shego," Kim reassured.
Kim's gaze was intense, and it projected the same fiery determination she always had when fighting Shego on missions before. It was that spark of passion that kept her going.
"I don't wanna go back in there," Shego whispered almost pleadingly.
"Then I'll go by myself. I'll be quick," Kim promised, her eyes shining with sympathy. She could understand why Shego was so resistant to wanting to go back in a room that was essentially her torture chamber.
The villainess nodded and hung back with Cheshire, who was still slumped over to the side. After rescuing Lucifer, and hopefully reverting him to his natural tiger self, they'd come back and do the same for Cheshire. She waited silently while Kim opened the door and peered into the workspace.
The large mahogany desk hadn't moved, and there weren't any more messy notes or random papers scattered across it. Instead, there was a single clipboard and pen in the center as if someone was preparing to conduct an experiment and take notes.
The teen hero stepped deeper into the room to gaze through the wide, horizontal glass panel. Familiar striped tan fur immediately caught her eye and she turned to look at Shego, still waiting a few feet away.
"Lucifer's here!" Kim informed excitedly.
Finally, some good luck!
"If this is some cruel ass prank for you to get me in that cell, I swear to god-" Shego threatened in a low voice.
"Shego, I would never do that to anyone, especially you," Kim frowned.
Shego sighed and had the decency to look a little sheepish. "I know, sorry, I forgot that Goodie-goodies don't pull pranks."
"How do you always find a way to insult me in every single sitch we're in?" Kim asked.
"I'd say raw talent, but honestly you're just too easy to tease, Pumpkin," Shego managed a low sneer, a slight teasing gleam in her hesitant eyes.
She jogged over to meet Kim, almost having to force her legs to move towards the cell. Despite the vigorous fighting she did not even three minutes ago, her muscles felt stiff and cold. It wasn't from fear though. She wasn't scared of anything. Especially a dumb room.
Shego kept repeating that to herself.
Poking her head into the clean workspace, she almost immediately brightened when she saw a heap of black strips and a curled, maroon scorpion tail through the glass panel. Lucifer's face was hidden since he was squeezing himself into a corner, his forehead pressed on the wall. Bloodstains littered the concrete floor, but Shego didn't care about any of that.
She briskly whisked by Kim and heaved the heavy metal door open. It was surprisingly and thankfully unlocked. Her initial hesitance and apprehension had dissipated now that they had found what they had risked their lives for. The two girls burst into the brightly lit cell, the chilled air gripping their open wounds.
"Litter box!" Shego called, dashing over to the giant mass of fur.
Lucifer's round ears perked up at the voice that definitely wasn't his capturer's. He whipped his massive head around, and his dull eyes flashed with glee at the sight of the pale villainess. In one enormous bound, he butted his head affectionately against Shego's chest, almost knocking her backward. His long scorpion tail curled in delight as deep rumbles emitted from the back of his throat.
Kim just hung back with a small smile as Shego reunited with the mutant creature that had destroyed her old apartment. She watched the cranky, huffy villainess tenderly stroke the scorpion tiger hybrid as if she were a child holding a kitten. She listened to the soft purrs vibrating around the cell, and frankly, Kim couldn't tell if the happy noises were coming from Lucifer or Shego.
Shego suddenly remembered that Kim was still there, and she stopped petting Lucifer, much to his dismay. He backed up and sniffed her wounds, inflicted by Cheshire, licking the dried blood off with slow rasps of his tongue. The wet licks somehow found their way to the long slash on her forehead, and she grimaced from the saliva dripping down her face.
"Eww, get off me you dumb affectionate monster," Shego grunted and pushed his furry head away, trying her best to look irked.
She succeeded, but Kim could see her initial fear of her old cell was washed completely away by Lucifer's waves of affection.
"He really likes you," Kim commented, still smiling. She was shuffling her feet awkwardly to the side, not wanting to interrupt the villainess and 600-pound creature.
Shego snorted and bopped his wet nose with a finger as if he were a disobedient pet. "He's just a big, whiny baby who's sucking up to me because we're rescuing him. Come over here, Kimmie."
Kim obeyed, and though she knew Shego would never allow Lucifer to hurt her, she still eyed him warily. Hey, he could easily crush them both like a bug if he wanted to. The big cat sat quietly because he understood that Kim was here to help and wasn't DNAmy.
Shego took Kim's hand and held it out in front of her, just a foot away from the creature's muzzle. The redhead flushed a little from Shego's proximity.
"Just let him come to you," Shego said and let Kim hold her hand up by herself.
Lucifer's whiskers twitched at the new scent, and he leaned forward to touch the teen's outstretched hand with his head. Kim gawked as he rubbed his head on her palm, and she smiled at the gentle giant. Now that they were so close together, she finally got a good look at him. His striped, tan fur was matted with large clumps of it missing around his thick neck, and the teen could see that he was a lot skinnier than last time.
"Thank you for helping us last time," Kim whispered, softly petting him. "Now let us help you."
He tilted his head quizzically, obviously not understanding her, but if this young woman trusted Shego, he would trust her.
Shego had already moved to his side while Kim was keeping him distracted. She set a finger ablaze and easily sliced through the thick shock collar strapped around his neck. Bare, blistered pink skin was revealed once she ripped the torture collar off, and she wasted no time in smashing it on the ground. The tiny black shards scattered across the floor, and she gave a satisfied smirk at no one in particular.
"Okay, Fish Sticks, no more shocks for you ever again," Shego announced and stepped back so that Lucifer could paw his freed neck happily.
The mutant big cat swept his scorpion tail as he circled the cell, prancing around like an excited puppy. Kim and Shego had to duck to avoid the deadly stinger. It was like Lucifer didn't know his own size and how powerful his movements could be.
"Hey! You dumb litter box, don't knock those down unless you want all of us to barbecue!" Shego barked, pointing at the yellow bins stacked off to the side. Lucifer understood her stern tone and calmed down, wrapping his tail neatly around his front paws as he sat down. He kneaded the ground impatiently, clearly antsy to leave the cramped cell he had been locked in.
"What are those?" Kim asked, gesturing to the yellow containers.
"Radioactive trash or some shit. DNAmy was experimenting with them on me and discovered some new, sick form of radiation or something," Shego explained.
"Oh… yeah, definitely not good."
"Doy, it fucked up my powers and gave me a massive headache," Shego waved her hand dismissively. "Just don't touch or open them and I'll be fine. Let's get out of here."
"Actually, Shego, that's what I was planning to do," DNAmy's voice rang throughout the room from a hidden speaker.
The two girls immediately whirled around to see DNAmy smiling lazily at them behind the safety of the glass panel. The large, metal door suddenly slammed shut, and they were-
Trapped.
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Author's notes: Y'ALL SHEGO MADE A BOTTOM JOKE AND I'M LIVING FOR IT LMAO