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Welcome to the fourth chapter! We already know Dr Drakken and Shego are in this crossover. But we get to introduce our final main villian in this entry! Hope you enjoy! Don't forget to review what you think so far!
Time Sitch
A Kim Possible/Doctor Who crossover
Chapter 4
Shego arrived at Drakken's lair in her green-coloured Porsche 911, after having to battle through the early morning rush hour of people travelling to work and kids going back to school. She had considered using her plasma powers to fry up a few of the other cars in front of her so she could go on her merry way, but she had decided to hold back. Shego didn't want to push her luck; even if the cops were too scared to apprehend her, any action she took in the open would give them an excuse to call 'Kimmie'. And Shego was only willing to fight her within working hours, not in her own [lack of] spare time.
Not that being stuck in traffic was free time really, but it would have been a real inconvenience to fight Kim Possible before even being properly ready for another day at the office.
Shego drove her car along a small side-road, leading to the face of a rocky cliff. As she got closer, a secret entrance opened that led to the inside of the cliff. When Shego had driven through the opening, the entrance closed off again, leaving no trace to the public of there ever being a hint of it being a villain's secret hideout.
Inside, near the entrance Shego had just driven through, was a fairly substantial-sized garage that could have kept more than one car inside. The height of the ceiling also allowed tall, big vehicles to be stored in the space provided, which made it convenient for Drakken to store any giant robots or other similar transportation devices that he had stolen on previous endeavours.
Shego parked her car in the middle of the garage, and then exited it before walking off to find Dr Drakken. A number of henchmen were already doing their morning shifts. Or were they forced against their will to carry on over from yesterday evening? She wasn't quite sure sometimes, but she knew that Drakken had stayed behind in his lair after they had returned from the scientific research centre. Shego didn't want to run errands for her boss throughout the night just because of his obsession with the black cube he had taken instead of the shrinking device.
Speaking of which, Shego was still confused over why Drakken had changed his mind with what he was stealing. She now had no idea what he wanted. Even with the stupid schemes he usually devised, at least she understood why they were flawed. But he didn't seem to have a plan now. If he did, why was he not telling anyone else?
Shego remembered yesterday evening, when Drakken was giving his full concentration to the black cube, and very little attention to others around him. She had asked him if she could finish early for the day if there wasn't anything else he needed her for…
"Fine, whatever", Drakken had responded.
"Thanks Dr D… Hey, don't tire yourself out, will ya?" Shego had said jokingly. But no response had been given back to her.
At the time, Shego had just shrugged her shoulders and gone home. But she wondered if Drakken was still in his office working. She decided that would be the first place to look for him.
As she walked along a long corridor - which was cut out of the rocks like a mini canyon - Shego saw ahead one of Drakken's goons walking out of the office at the other end. She went over to him and asked, "Is my crazy obsessive boss still in there at the moment?"
"Yes he is", the henchman replied. "Dr Drakken worked throughout the whole night, and shows no sign of stopping. Me and the other guys haven't had a break or any sleep, and I'm not sure we have that much energy left to keep us going."
"Not my problem", Shego said dismissively. "Now move along before I have to report to Dr D that you're not putting enough effort in", she added.
Without another word, the henchman shot off the opposite way to Shego, down the corridor. Being able to take command of them was one of the perks of being a 'sidekick' to Drakken. Although Shego suspected they were more afraid of her than of him; for one thing, she was the one with the super powers that could cause a lot of pain to others.
Shego went over to the two large doors leading into the laboratory-styled office of Dr Drakken. She opened one of them and poked her head through. It wasn't hard to look for Drakken; he was slap bang in the middle of the room, looking at the cuboid object through a large magnifying mechanism. She had no idea what he was wanting to find, considering the object was big enough to see, and it was right in front of his face.
"Hey, yo, Dr D", Shego said to try to gain his attention.
"Not right now, Shego, I'm still busy", Drakken responded. "I thought you had gone home for the evening?"
"It's 9am", she stated. "Time seemed to pass you by, didn't it?"
Drakken suddenly looked up from the piece of equipment he was looking through, and turned to Shego. "Really?" he bemoaned. "I've not got any closer to finding out what this stupid thing is", he said, slamming his fist against the table holding the magnifying contraption and the black cube.
"Well that was a waste of time, wasn't it", Shego said. "Then again, so are most of your plans for conquering the world."
Drakken gave a low growl, and walked over to Shego. "My patience is growing thin as it is, Shego. I don't need you making me step over the line."
"What line?" Shego asked, while getting a cup of coffee from the coffee machine that been prepared earlier by another henchman. "Would you hurt poor little ol' me?" she teased sarcastically.
"I would dock your pay for any amount of time I'd want, that's what I would do", Drakken said to her.
"Be still my beating heart", Shego replied. She didn't care much for his threats, as she knew Drakken needed her to keep things around here ticking over smoothly. He knew this fact as well. All he could do was give a 'humph' and turn back to his work.
Shego went over to sit on a nearby sofa, which was set near Drakken's main desk. The desk held the coffee machine, his computer, and other random bits and bobs.
"You must have some ideas what this thing could be? Your imagination is weird enough to create stupid plans, so why not give some guesses!" Shego said. "And you've not explained to me yet why you took this object in the first place."
Drakken moved away from the magnifying apparatus and picked up the cuboid object. He still continued to look at it closely, while he walked around the room.
"I've not been able to find a single clue of what this contraption is supposed to be. Absolutely nothing", he stated.
"No 'Made in China' label on the bottom of it?" Shego said.
"No. I don't even know where or how it was made", Drakken exclaimed. "And I've tried opening it every way I could do, but it won't stir."
"Are you sure you've tried every way, Dr D?" Shego asked.
Drakken stuttered for a few moments, before replying, "Well, no, I haven't tried it out on the laser beam device yet. But that would be preposterous! The cube would surely be destroyed if I used such powerful equipment on that object."
"What have you got to lose?" Shego interjected. "Nothing else has worked anyway. The worst that's going to happen is that the cube is destroyed, and you can stop getting obsessed over it and get back to your normal world domination plans." She then reflected for a second before saying, "I mean, your plans are not really normal, but at least it would be back to the usual."
Drakken took a breath to calm himself, and then went over to one of the sides of the room. Against the wall was a massive piece of cloth material covering a large device. Drakken took hold of a corner of it, and then pulled it down to reveal a colossal laser cutter. Even though the back of his mind was still questioning why he was so persistent with finding out what this small object was, he was willing to risk destroying it to vainly try to discover its purpose.
He placed the cube inside a firm, steel cabinet, which was itself surrounded by heavy-duty glass panes. He sealed the cabinet hatch and closed the glass entryway, before moving over to the control panel. He then set up the switches to prepare powering up the laser cutter. As soon as all this was done, he hovered his finger over a big red button, and hesitated for a moment, looking like he was having second doubts. But all that disappeared quickly, and he pressed the button before he could change his mind.
Instantly, a powerful beam of red light plunged through a small hole in the steel cabinet, aimed at the cube object inside. It continued its non-stop firing for about half a minute, until Drakken decided to turn the machine off.
He quickly ran over to unlock the glass door, and then went to open the steel cabinet hatch. Just as he took out the object, he realised that he should have worn some protective wearing. Because it was still very hot. Which caused him to juggle it around comically before letting it fall onto a nearby table.
After a moment of cooling his hands in cold water from a nearby tap, he took a proper look at the cube object. Somehow, it had survived Drakken's most powerful laser beam contraption, without even a scratch. Drakken looked a little more than just disappointed, to say the least.
"B… b… BUT HOW?!" he cried out. "That's impossible!"
"Well obviously not", Shego commented.
"How could one minuscule object be able to withstand the force of my laser beam device?" Drakken cried out in despair.
"Clearly made of some good stuff", Shego said.
"And you're not helping, Shego", Drakken shouted.
"Whoa, don't take your temper out on other people for your own problems, Dr D", Shego said in a motherly tone, just to annoy Drakken even more.
He turned towards his assistant, and started to walk towards her slowly. "I don't care how long this takes. I will find out what this object is all about. I will use all of my own resources if I have to, as long as I get to discover what the potential of this thing is."
"Is it really worth that much? To waste that much time on it?" Shego questioned him.
"Absolutely. I felt the raw power emulating from the cube when I first laid my eyes on it", Drakken said.
"So, you had nice, cuddly feelings? No solid proof of anything about it? Sounds a bit wishy washy to me", Shego said.
"If you hadn't been busy fighting Kim Possible, you would have felt the energy coming from the cube, and then you wouldn't be speaking so ignorantly about it", Drakken stated.
"I have to agree with the big man on this one; that is a very powerful object indeed", a new, unknown voice said behind the villains.
They spun around in surprise, to see a female figure standing in the shadows at the doorway of Drakken's office. "And potentially dangerous in the wrong hands", said the woman as she stepped out of the shadow, to reveal a dark, ominous smile on her face.
The visitor carried a black umbrella, which was currently placed pointing downwards on the ground. Her clothing was very 19th century-esque, including a plum-coloured jacket that puffed up at the shoulders; a high waisted skirt that went down to ankle length; and a blouse with a cameo brooch just under her throat. She also wore black ankle boots, which had a sharp toe on each of them, and tapered heels. She had pronounced cheek bones, had light-blue eyes, and her hair was black, like her boots and umbrella. Even though it was done in an up-do, her hair was still somewhat wild and free, and on the verge of going completely out of control. If she had been currently wearing a hat, she could have looked like a villainous version of Mary Poppins.
"Who's this? And how did she get in here unnoticed?" Drakken started asking. "I said I wanted no salespeople. Shego, teach her some manners and show her the exit", he demanded.
"I wouldn't call myself a salesperson strictly. But I do want to offer a proposition", the unknown visitor said.
"Yeah, well we don't want to join the Jehovah Witnesses or Mormons either. So my proposition is you leave, or I'll have to bargain with you using pain", Shego said.
"Tsk tsk. I wouldn't do that if I were you", the mysterious newcomer said.
Shego had ignored her, and was already charging towards her, intending to drive the visitor out of the lair. But if Shego had been less brash and had analysed the woman's body language, she would have taken more care in her approach with confronting her.
The woman remained calm and relaxed while facing Shego's charge. At the last moment, she spun round to avoid being clobbered, and stuck out her umbrella at knee height to trip over the green-cladded opponent.
Shego took a hard tumble onto the floor. She took a moment to pick herself up and catch her breath, before starting to swing punches at the unwanted guest.
The woman managed to block or dodge each of Shego's attacks, using a mixture of her left arm and her umbrella as defence. After a while, she punched straight into Shego's right cheek, before pulling her forwards. The visitor then moved behind Shego while she was off-guard, and gave a final wallop on the back of her head. This time it truly knocked Shego out for the count, and she landed with a heavy thud on the floor.
Drakken had been watching on from his desk. He was impressed that this person had managed to take down Shego without breaking a sweat. Not even Kim Possible had managed to defeat her so easily. He walked over to the new lady, showing no intent on battling her.
"Very impressive", Drakken said. "You managed to defeat a super-powered person single-handedly. My assistant rarely losses so comprehensively."
"Well, if she hadn't be so cocky and had taken a few more seconds, she would have had a chance", the woman stated. "I'm not exactly the universe's greatest fighter. What I do have is brains", she said tapping the side of her head, "if a little mad on the odd occasion."
"Yes, the mind can be a very powerful tool. I use my own genius to create inventions for my villainous schemes", Drakken declared.
At this point, Shego had woken up and was slowly picking herself up. As soon as she heard Drakken say that last sentence, she began to retort back; "Come on Dr D, stop bigging yourself. When has your 'genius' ever helped you succeed in your poorly-put-together plans?"
"Shego... not right now", Drakken muttered over to her. "I'm trying to look good in front of our visitor here."
"Oh don't worry about it, sweetie", said the mysterious woman to Drakken, in a highish-pitched voice. "I'm sure that massive brain of yours will help you in succeeding if you just keep dreaming big", she said as she lightly fist-bumped Drakken's upper arm.
Drakken was a little confused to begin with. He was always wary when people gave him 'compliments'. Shego was particularly good at that sort of thing; Drakken would only realise a few moments after each 'compliment' that it was actually a disguised insult. But this woman hadn't even met him for 5 minutes yet. So surely she wouldn't be giving him backhanded compliments without knowing more about him? Drakken decided to take what the woman said as some encouragement given to him…
"May I ask what your names are?" said the woman, as she twirled around the room slowly.
"My name is Doctor Drakken", the blue-skinned mad scientist declared proudly. "And this is my wonderful assistant, Shego", he added, as he wrapped his arm around Shego's neck in a 'forceful-friendly' manner, trying to look good in front of the visitor.
"Great. Now the formalities are over, let's quickly move on to why I'm here", the woman said swiftly. Drakken had been about to ask the lady for her name, but had been cut off from bringing up his question. No matter; he would wait until later on.
"Is this to do with the black cube that I had been studying?" Drakken inquired.
"So it happens, yes. Why, do you have it?" asked the lady in a joking manner, knowing full well she had seen and heard Drakken and Shego talk about it earlier.
"Yes, I do have it. And no, I'm not giving it over to you, if that's what you're thinking. It's in my possession now, and I'll do what I please with it", Drakken said.
"Oh come on, don't be a spoil sport", said the woman. "That really should be mine anyway…"
"Clearly not if it's now in my hands", Drakken proclaimed.
"Ok, technically, it's a piece of Time Lord technology", the mysterious woman stated. "But as that's my people, I'm sure I have some right to handling these devices…"
"Wait, you're a what?" Drakken asked.
"I've just said, a Time Lord. A race of people from the planet Gallifrey, who ran the whole 'space and time' thing", the woman explained dismissively, as if it wasn't a surprising fact.
"You're an alien?!" Drakken yelled.
"I guess so from your perspective. But to me, you're the alien", she said.
"If I'm honest, I'm wondering why you call yourself a 'Time Lord'. That sounds a bit male-centred, don't you think?" Shego said.
"I don't know, you'd have to ask the top dogs at Time Lord HQ", the woman said, quickly breezing over the matter. "Personally, I prefer to be called a 'Time Lady' anyway. I quite like being a bit old-fashioned."
"Ok. If we're going to carry on, may I suggest a deal?" Shego said.
Both Drakken and the 'time lady' gave their full attention to Shego.
"How about we both work together and use this cube object, whatever it's meant to be used for? And in return this 'time lady' can explain to us what it's exactly meant to do."
"But Shego! I was going to use this for our own plans!" Drakken said in despair.
"Dr D, we don't even know what it is yet. If this woman is right about it being a piece of her race's technology, then it's a safe bet to ask her to explain it to us."
Drakken looked towards the time lady, who now had a subdued, somewhat mischievous grin on her face. "Do we have a deal?" she said.
Drakken gave a sigh, before replying in a huff, "Oh, fine then."
The time lady looked particularly pleased about the agreement they had just made. She quickly strutted over to the table which the black cube had last been left. She picked it up, and walked back to Drakken's desk. She promptly sat down in his office chair, and then prepared to give the explanation.
"You see this fairly average looking block in my hand?" the time lady asked rhetorically. "Inside it is the Eye of Harmony, the power source which fuels up the time machines that were made by my people."
Drakken's eyes became wider. His face certainly indicated he had grown some interest at the idea of powering up a potential time machine. "Carry on", he said.
"The Eye of Harmony is created by suspending time around a star that is in the act of becoming a black hole", the time lady said. "It's the sort of thing that would eat up the whole world if opened exposed. This cube is made of a rare resistant material from the galaxy Gallifrey was once a part of; and even then it's only able to hold the current Eye of Harmony inside because the suspended supernova needs more 'energy' to power a whole TARDIS. At the moment, it's too weak."
"Before you slap out more information, what is a 'TARDIS'?" Shego asked.
"The time machine us Time Lords created. 'Time And Relative Dimension In Space'. Anyway", the time lady continued, "the only way we can get the Eye of Harmony back to its original state is through the use of the Hand of Omega."
"Oh come on. This is starting to sound as complicated as Drakken's plans", Shego said.
"Patience, darling", the time lady said. "The Hand of Omega is one of two stellar manipulators that turned stars into supernovas. Which makes it useful for creating lots of Eye of Harmonies. However, as there's already an Eye of Harmony in my hand, I could adjust the mechanics of the Hand of Omega so that it would only need to re-power the thing inside the cube."
For the past few minutes, Drakken had been listening carefully and nodding his head in understanding. He now decided to ask a question; "So, do you currently have this 'Hand of Omega'?"
"Unfortunately, no", the time lady replied. "I lost it while traveling to Earth, just like I initially lost this little thing", she said waving the black cube around. "I do have a couple of clues as to where it could be. Which is where you could possibly help me, using your expert 'breaking-in' skills."
Drakken scratched his chain for a moment. "You said these devices helped power up your people's 'TARDISes'?"
"Indeed", the time lady answered.
"If we retrieved this 'Hand of Omega', and brought it back to you, would you care to build a time machine for us?"
"I was always intending to build a time machine anyway", the time lady replied, in a suspiciously over-dramatic way for Shego's liking. "I guess why not?"
"Excellent!" Drakken exclaimed, while also starting to squeal excitedly. "You wouldn't believe the ideas I'm having right now, Shego."
"Would they be anything to do with getting rid of Kimmie and taking over the world?" Shego asked without hesitation.
"…how did you guess?" Drakken asked cluelessly. The only response he got was Shego giving herself a facepalm, out of irritation.
"You have some 'adversaries' of your own then?" the time lady asked.
"Yes. They're the teenage team duo known as Kim Possible and…" Drakken paused, and tried to remember the other hero's name. "Hey, Shego, can you remember the sidekick's name?"
"Nope. I just call him the buffoon, or variations on the word 'wimp' ", Shego answered.
"Anyway, they always arrive to stop me each time I'm about to bring my schemes to fruition. It's not fair how they always win", Drakken moaned.
"We've all been there, pal", said the time lady in an over-the-top sympathetic manner. "Even I've had a few failures in my time." She then seemed to drift off in thought, as if remembering certain memories from her past.
Drakken then decided it would be a good time to ask for the time lady's name. "I forgot to ask you earlier", (he hadn't forgotten at all; he just didn't get the chance because she cut in to move the conversation along), "and pardon my rudeness for that. What may I have the honour of addressing you as?"
The newcomer sat up, with a mischievous - and almost evil - grin growing on her face. "Well I hate formal names. How about Missy…?"