A.N Something I didn't mention in the first chapter is that is just for fun, so expect a lot of fluff, cheesy lines and not much in the way strife.
The Hovercar ride to Middleton, while only actually taking a few hours, felt to Shego like it could just have easily been an entire month with having to deal with her boss' continuous and agonisingly painful complaints about Dr. Possible and the budget that the man was showing off. The green woman did her best to ignore her boss, but it seemed the man was insistent in making sure that Shego knew how he felt. So when the Hovercar finally set down on top of a large building, it was all the green woman could do to get out of the Hovercar and into the fresh air, away from her annoying boss.
In her haste, she didn't notice the young redheaded girl that was standing just outside the Hovercar and would have run straight into the girl if it weren't for the redhead's quick reflexes. In a matter of seconds, the redhead jumped to the right, flipping over onto her hands before pushing off and flipping back onto her feet. She grinned back at the stunned faces coming from the Hovercar as she walked back over to the woman that had barrelled out of the vehicle. The Green woman was facing away from the redheaded teen and was cursing up a storm over the pain she had just had to endure.
"Hello Miss Shego," The teen said in a bright and cheery tone, garnering the attention of the green woman.
"Hey," Shego spoke in a dismissive before turning to her approaching boss.
"Are you going to apologise, Shego?" The Scientist asked as he approached.
The green woman sneered at the blue man, "Apologise for what?" She asked, assuming he wanted an apology for bursting out on him while he was still complaining.
The blue man rolled his eyes, "If you didn't realise, you almost bowled over our young friend here," He said motioning to the redhead before them, "If it weren't for her rather amazing moves you would have run straight into her."
Shego turned a questioning gaze to the teen who nodded with a slight blush, confirming what the scientist had said, "Oh," the green woman said a little bashfully, "Well, I am sorry about that."
The redheaded teen grinned at the words, "Nothing to worry about," She held her hand out to the oddly coloured people with a smile as she shook both of their hands. "It is a pleasure to meet you, Dr. Lipsky and Shego, my name is Kim Possible, if you'll please follow me my father is waiting deeper in the space centre.
"I'll find my own way in if you don't mind," Shego said with a deep breath and a glare towards her boss, "Someone couldn't keep his mouth shut, and I need some time to calm down."
"It's not my fault," The blue scientist complained, "It's just that-"
Shego shut her boss up rather quickly by igniting her hands with plasma and holding them up ready to attack the blue man, "I told you if you weren't quiet on the ride here that I'd kill you." The woman growled, "I have held myself back for now, but one more peep and I swear you'll get it."
The blue man scurried off, waving for the redhead without looking back at the angry woman behind him, the teen grinned at the display before taking off after the blue scientist. "I'll come back to show you through in a few minutes," She called over her shoulder, not realising the woman's eyes had slipped down her young perfectly toned body.
Shego slapped herself out of her lusting gaze before turning away from the door that her boss had disappeared through, "She's a kid," The green woman chastised herself as she walked towards the edge of the building she was standing on. Peering over the side, the woman was baffled at our how surprisingly small the centre was and how little security the building had since it apparently housed a top-secret experiment.
"Any thief worth their salt could get in and take whatever they wanted from this place," Shego mused aloud as she scanned the front of the building.
"That's why I'm here," The cheery voice startled Shego, causing the green woman to jump a little, much to her dismay.
"A kid is here for security?" The woman asked as she hid her embarrassment and tried to downplay the fact that the girl had caused her to jump.
"I'm not a kid, I'm almost sixteen," The teen announced proudly, Shego smirked at that, Like I thought, a kid, the green woman thought to herself. "And I got the jump on you, I saw that little involuntary spasm when I spoke," The redhead said, giggling a little as the pale green woman's cheeks darkened slightly.
"You just surprised me, that's all, you'll never be able to do it again," Shego defended herself.
A mischievous glint appeared in the redhead's eyes, "You're probably right," The teen said with a big smile on her face, a plan taking shape in her mind, "But anyway, we should get going." Kim led the Shego into the Space Centre, the woman was baffled by how bare the place was, every wall was a clean, plain off-white, plastic chairs lined the hallways for seemingly unknown reasons as no-one was sitting in them and the walls held very little in the way of decoration.
The Hallway led to a large room with a single desk, the security guard sitting behind the desk doubled as a receptionist, his uniform was old, weathers, and hadn't seen the likes of an iron in years. In a single corner of the large waiting room was a single potted plant, on the brink of death.
"This is a far cry from the government-run building I usually work in… Where are all the lavish adornments?" Shego asked as she followed the redhead into a small elevator.
"The Head of the Space Centre decided years ago that money is better spent on research rather than decorations, so he refuses to spend any money sprucing the place up, it makes the place feel boring. I don't know how my father can deal with walking through this horrid entryway."
"I kind of like it," Shego said, "The fact that the money is spent where it is put to better use, I mean. The man that runs the research facility where I usually work could learn a thing or two from the man that runs this place. The amount of money he spends on decorations and adornments is unnatural."
"My father said that that happens quite often, that when the wrong people are left in charge, they waste money and forget what's important, especially when they see just how much money goes through science centres. The number of scientific leaders that embezzle from the science centres they run is growing daily; it's a problem that is beginning to run rampant in the science sector. But no one seems to care because they still produce results," Kim explained.
"How do you know all of that?" Shego asked the green woman didn't even know that herself and she worked in a science centre.
"It's my job to know," The redhead said as an explanation.
"What do you mean by that?" Shego asked, her face twisting in confusion.
"It's nothing," Kim said, as the elevator doors opened onto another bare corridor, "This way please."
The sounds of tools buzzing and whirring grew and faded as the two walked down the corridor, on occasion the sounds of machines were replaced by music or frustrated bickering as scientists tried to figure out the answer to a question. Kim opened a door that sat about halfway down the hallway, which led into another hall that had one door sitting at the very end. This one door was different from every other door in the facility, however.
The door was solid metal, twelve inches thick and with many different security measures in place. First, a single guard was standing by the door who you needed to show two different ID cards too; then there was a retinal scanner, voice-activated identification, a fingerprint scanner that required three correct fingerprints. And lastly a swipe card with a seven-digit passcode comprised of letters, numbers and symbols.
"That is quite a lot of security," Shego observed.
"What is behind this door needs to be protected at all costs, so of course there is a lot of security," Kim deadpanned.
"What you're not enough security?" Shego asked teasingly.
Kim smiled at the question, "You want to find out?" The teen asked as she finished punching in her passcode so they could finally get through the door.
"No thanks, I don't want to burn a kid," The green woman teased again, "But should I really be here so soon? I haven't signed any kind of nondisclosure agreement or anything like that."
"That's what this is for," A middle-aged man standing by a desk said as he turned around, his brunette hair greying around the edges. The man walked towards the two girls, holding up a thick stack of papers and a pen.
"Hi dad, how's Drakken finding things?" The redhead asked as she gave her father a quick one-armed hug.
Shego snorted in laughter, "You're actually going to call him that?"
"Of course I am, have you heard the story? It's quite surprising," Kim said in a bemused tone.
"Yeah, and completely made up, the guy just likes being the centre of attention," Shego explained.
Kim shrugged her shoulders unfazed as she moved further into the Laboratory, leaving Shego with Dr. Possible and the stack of paper that was no doubt a non-disclosure agreement. Dr. Possible put the paper back down on the desk, motioning for the green woman to approach the counter with him.
Shego looked at the jumble of words and frowned at all the complex legal requirements, some of which she didn't even understand, other's seeming downright paranoid. The green woman scoffed as she looked at the next thing on the list before turning to the scientist beside her.
"A security detail? At all times? You should know that whoever you send with me will not be able to keep me under their thumb if I want some privacy," Shego explained.
"I know," Dr. Possible answered, "We have an extensive file on you and your past, which is exactly why for the foreseeable future, my daughter will be your security detail, and you'll be living at my house."
Shego was taken aback by that statement; her hand had stopped scribbling signatures and initials as she stared at the scientist utterly bewildered. "So I, a complete stranger, am going to live with the lead scientist of a top secret project and am going to be watched by his kid daughter. How is that high security?" Shego asked.
Dr. Possible laughed at that, "Try to run off without my Kim and then you'll see how that is high security."
Shego sighed and shook her head; These people are lucky I'm not planning anything, the green woman thought to herself as she quickly finished signing the non-disclosure agreement.
"I'll be getting a copy of this too right?" Shego asked as Dr. Possible collected the stack of papers.
"Of course, I'll have a copy printed out with all the classified information redacted so you can show it to a lawyer if you'd like," Dr. Possible offered kindly.
"I actually just wanted to have a copy so I could go through it more thoroughly, make sure I know exactly what I've just signed myself into."
"Of course," Dr. Possible replied as he headed towards the locked door leading to the rest of the facility, "If you would head on through to the Lab, I just need to drop this off to my boss then I'll be right back."
Shego took the man up on his offer and headed through the only other door in the room; her eyes widened as the door opened revealing a massive room on the other side. "We really must have come down quite far," Shego marvelled as she stared at the height of the room that had to have been at least seven stories.
"We did indeed," Drakken said from nearby desk housing a large computer screen, his eyes scanning over the words and diagrams much faster than Shego had ever seen the man move. The smile on the blue scientist's face stretched from ear to ear as he turned to regard his assistant. "You are not going to believe this," He said as he waved the green woman over.
"What?" Shego asked as she wandered towards the man's voice, her eyes staring at the massive contraption that was suspended from the ceiling by dozens of chains. The white light in the centre of it was hard to look at and was beginning to burn her eyes, but still, she couldn't look away.
"We are working on an extra-terrestrial object!" Dr. Lipsky said excitedly, jumping up and down with glee at the prospect.
"You are kidding," Shego said, her excitement shining through her cool façade just the slightest bit before turning to face her boss and the computer screen.
"Nope, apparently one of this space centre's objectives is interstellar travel, and in one of their tests they came across this thing floating around our moon, the most exciting thing about it is the object doesn't give off any energy readings, at least none that our technology can pick up. Even the light somehow distorts, so camera lenses see straight through it. And then there's what's inside that light-"
"Dr. Lipsky," Shego held up a hand to halt the man's exuberant explanation, "Maybe you should continue understanding the research that has already been conducted rather than explain it to me right now."
The scientist grumbled a little before he complied with the almost order from his assistant, "But I'll be writing up an essay for you to read once I'm done."
Shego laughed a little at the scientist, "I didn't expect anything less."
"How'd you do that?" Kim asked from nowhere causing the green woman to once again jump from being startled by the redhead.
Ignoring her embarrassment and the smirk that had gathered on the redhead's face, Shego simply asked, "How'd I do what?"
Kim rolled her eyes at the older woman before motioning dramatically to Dr. Lipsky, "How'd you get Drakken to stop talking? I had hidden on the other side of the room to get away from him continually explaining things that I had been here to witness."
"Well, it helps to do this," Shego said as she ignited her hands in plasma, feeling a strange urge to show off a little she shot a very low powered bolt at the door that led into the massive laboratory, leaving a small charred circle directly in the middle of it.
"Wow," Kim breathed, "I noticed that before and have been meaning to ask, how in the world is that even possible?"
Shego looked to the younger woman with a frown, "You haven't read the file your father has on me? I thought as the 'Head of Security' on this project you'd have done your homework."
Kim blushed as she looked to the ground bashfully, "I skimmed it," The redhead mumbled.
Shego laughed at the teenager's childish antics while wondering why she found it so endearing, moving on from her bewilderment Shego reached out a hand and ruffled the teen's red hair, "Don't worry, I get lazy sometimes too."
Kim batted the offending appendage away, her blush only growing the longer the woman treated her like a child, "Anyway, how do you do it?" She asked again.
Shego, wanting to mess around with teenager some more, put a confused look on her face, "How do I do what?"
The redhead huffed, "You know what."
"Oh, right, you want me to tell you how to shut Dr. Lipsky up," Shego spoke teasingly.
"No!" Kim whined, crossing her arms in the process, "How do you shoot that… Whatever it is."
"But you already have that information, don't you? You just need to read it," Kim started to squirm in annoyance under the older woman's teasing, causing Shego to finally relent, "An asteroid hit me and instead of dying I somehow turned green and gained the ability to shoot Plasma from my hands."
"Thanks," Kim grumbled still upset by the teasing she had endured and how childish she had acted in front of the older woman.
"Aw don't be like that Kim, I was just having fun," Shego spoke in a still teasing tone.
Kim grumbled incoherently as she stomped off, leaving Shego to laugh good-naturedly behind the retreating teen, the green woman's eyes once again raking over the girl's body before she could stop herself.
"Damn," Shego chastised herself, shaking her head at her inappropriate thoughts, But can anyone blame me, the green woman thought to herself, That girl is just… Damn.
Shego wondered back towards Dr. Lipsky with a goofy smile on her face, "What's going on Doctor?" She asked as the blue scientist was currently starring at the ball of light with a pair of tinted goggles over his eyes.
"Just wondering how we can get beyond the light. It's acting as an energy field but anything that touches it is immediately disintegrated, watch." Dr. Lipsky through a screwdriver at the ball of light once he'd finished talking and just as he said, the screwdriver turned to nothing. "There isn't any residue left which means the tool was just vaporised at the molecular level. Either that or…"
"Or what?" Shego asked as for once her boss didn't finish a thought that had come to mind.
"Nothing, just don't touch the ball, I have a theory that I need to explore," Dr. Lipsky said before scurrying off, leaving Shego alone and staring just below the ball of light to shield her eyes from the brightness of it.
"Nothing, he says… That has to mean that he's on to something," Shego surmised, but the woman had nothing that she could do so she left the Laboratory and entered the small room just before it. Dr. Possible was yet to return, but his daughter Kim was sitting at a desk with a computer on it. On the computer was a small picture of the Green woman followed by a long, in-depth review of the woman and all of her abilities.
"I see you decided to finish your homework," Shego teased as she approached the redheaded teen.
Kim smiled at the approaching woman, "Just trying to dig up some dirt so I could come back swinging, guess my plan has been foiled."
Shego laughed as she sat an adjacent computer to conduct some research into her employer's current partner and the Space Centre, "The best way to get dirt is to get close to someone, when they get comfortable with you, that's when you get the best stuff."
"And according to this you have no one like that," Kim said teasingly causing the green woman to smirk.
"Nice try, but teasing me about my relationships, or lack thereof, isn't going to embarrass me in the slightest."
"I know," Kim smiled, "I already know the best way to embarrass you anyway, I've already done it a couple of times after all."
Shego smiled back at the teen, neither confirming nor denying the conclusion the teen and come to since even she didn't know herself. That was the problem with not having friendships or relationships; there was no one to test you in that regard.