Strange World
C3: Odd Friends
[Disclaimer: KP and all that good stuff belongs to Disney. I own whatever I write/create. Don't steal and don't sue.]
Christmas was nearing. It was December 15th, and the Middleton mall was crowded with shoppers.
Shego and Kim sat at their favorite place in the mall, bags at their feet. Kim was the one had most of the bags—secret shopping for friends and family. It was finally a good, peaceful day. Shego was dealing well with her new life, and Kim was unbelievably happy with it.
"EVERYBODY GET DOWN!" Of course that couldn't last.
Everyone screamed and fell to the floor. Men wearing black and toting very large guns were the only ones standing. Before anything could happen, Shego jumped up and at one of the men. But injury slowed Shego's reflexes. The man responded quickly with a sharp blow to the stomach with the butt of his gun. Shego fell back to the ground, gritting her teeth in pain.
"Where is Tao Psymon?" the leader shouted to the entirety of the mall. He was met with silence.
"Where is she?!" the man shouted again.
"I'm eating, you idiot." came a shout from the second floor.
"We found her!" Something was grabbed, and then thrown over the railing to the ground floor. The thing twisted and landed on feet—it was the girl again. She was standing there without expression, eating nachos from a large "Bueno Nacho" box.
"Hello, Tao." the leader strode over to the girl. The girl looked up slowly, blinking once. She looked back to her food.
"Do I know you?" she questioned.
"Probably not, but I know you."
Kim flipped forwards and between the man and the girl. She kicked the man in the jaw and pushed the girl back, hoping she would get the idea to run.
"Not one more step!" another man shouted. Kim looked up and froze. Shego was staring down the business end of a rifle, the man's foot pinning her down.
"Get lost, hero girl!" the man put the gun closer to Shego's head. Kim raised her hands in defeat. The girl raised an eyebrow and sighed.
"Hold these, would you?" she handed the nachos to Kim. She vanished suddenly, trash flying up as if a wind had passed by. The man who was aiming point blank at Shego was flying into a wall. The girl stood where he had been, her foot outstretched as if she had kicked him.
There was silence, and then anarchy. Kim dropped to the floor, dodging laser fire as the men shot at the girl. The girl responded by jumping onto a support pillar and climbing up the slick marble surface in a spiral—they couldn't hit her. Once at the fourth at highest floor, she jumped off and disappeared into the riot.
Shouts of pain and warning came from the fourth floor, and then fell silent. A yellow blur flew onto the third floor. More yelling, more silence. Laser fire at the railings to stop her from moving any further. However, she was found hanging on the edge of the third floor's ceiling before jumping to the second floor. The second floor was silent.
Again, the railings and ceiling were shot at. Kim looked towards Shego, hoping she was still all right. The girl was crouched by Shego, pulling her yellow trenchcoat over the black-haired woman. The girl smirked and put a finger to her lips for silence. Kim nodded.
Leaves in the large tree that grew in the middle of the mall rustled. The girl had vanished. The men started shooting at the tree, missing everything but the leaves. They gathered round it, firing nonstop.
A silver length lashed out with the speed of a cobra and grabbed one of the men's guns. It happened twice more, and then the silver thing hit the men hard in the neck. They collapsed, unconscious. Soon, only the leader was left. His chin was red from Kim's kick, and he was mad.
"Come out and fight, you little coward!" he yelled.
"Said the man who has to have fifty men to back him up ." the girl was sitting on the topmost branch of the tree, looking rather smug, "Can I go back to my lunch now?" The man started firing his gun. The girl jumped up and fell back to the tree, swinging on the limbs like a monkey. But her hands were completely free. The man fired at the place she would end up swinging to, but the girl responded by flying out of the tree and landing on him.
"Go away, please." the girl said. The man yelled and swiped at her with a knife he had in a pocket. The girl jumped off him and landed on the ground, lifting her hands and waved her fingers towards herself. The man took the challenge, swinging and slashing furiously. He missed each time, the girl countering each move and hitting the man hard. The man spun her around and stabbed at her back.
Kim gasped in fear. But the knife didn't hit. The girl turned back around slowly, jerking her hips to the side hard. The knife was pulled from the man's hand.
A silver tail wagged slowly, the knife glinting brightly in its grasp. The girl stood with her hands on her waist, smirking.
"Are you giving up now?" she asked, her sharp, sharp fangs also gleaming, "Or do I have to hit you?" He rushed, his fist raised in rage. The girl hopped up at least three feet and kicked the man soundly in the face. He was unconscious.
The girl smirked again and turned away. Her tail flicked and the knife was embedded in the floor near the man. Kim stared up at the girl. The girl simply sat down, plucked her nachos out of Kim's hands, and started eating again.
"Who—what are you?" Kim started to scoot away from the be-tailed girl.
"I'm hungry, that's what." the girl replied.
"I mean, who are you?" Kim asked again, "What's your name? Why do you have a tail?"
"My name is Tao Psymon." the girl seemed a bit irritated that Kim was bothering her while she was eating, "You'd know that if you had heard those morons. And I have a tail because my mother decided it would be useful."
Blink. "What?"
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"Hey, Mom! I'm back! We have visitors!"
Kim blinked in confused. Shego looked around with a raised eyebrow.
"This place looks like one of Drakken's lairs." the black-haired woman muttered quietly.
"My mother isn't an evil scientist." Tao turned around and smiled at Shego, "She's just a really good biogeneticist." Kim's jaw dropped.
"I'm out of here!" Kim started towards the door, "I am not dealing with another DN-Amy!" Shego blinked at her girlfriend, tilting her head to the side slightly.
"Is that the crazy woman obsessed with Cuddle Buddies?" Tao questioned, "Must be. She's the only biogeneticist on your site."
Kim slapped her forehead and sighed—she had forgotten that her website had villain files. It seemed Tao Psymon knew quite a bit about what had been going on with Middleton's population.
"So, who's your mom?" Shego asked.
"My mother's name is Ion Psymon." Tao replied, "Come on, she's probably working too hard to hear me." A howl echoed through the large house. Kim and Shego both jumped back.
A large gray dog bounded around a corner near the doorway, jumping onto Tao and licking her face with vigor.
"Lobo, get off!" Tao shoved at the large dog, "Come on, you big goof! Get off!" It slowly got off and stood at Tao's side.
"That's a big dog." Kim sighed, "What type is he?"
"Gray wolf."
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Shego screamed at the top of her lungs, running and hiding behind Kim, "WOLF!"
"Shego, chill." Kim couldn't help but snicker, "I don't think he's mean. Is he?"
"He's only mean when I say to be mean." Tao scratched the wolf behind his ears, "Lobo. Go." She pointed at Shego. Shego shrieked again and backed up as much as she could—which was about one step.
The wolf slowly padded by Kim and hopped onto Shego. Shego covered her face, cringing. Lobo just licked Shego.
"Good Lobo!" Tao smiled, "Now go get Mom." The wolf barked and ran off down the hall. Shego laid on the floor, stiff as a board, her eyes wide.
"Did you know that would happen?" Kim pulled Shego to her feet, glaring at Tao.
"No." Tao shrugged, "I thought it would make her feel better."
Nothing else was said before there was a clicking of nails on wood floor and footsteps. Lobo was walking back, a tall woman following close behind. She was wearing baggy brown shorts and a red tank top. Her hair was rumpled, short, and brown. Pince-nez were perched on her nose in front of black eyes—the same as Tao's eyes.
"Hello." she lifted her glasses from her nose and rubbed her eyes, "You must be Kim Possible and Shego."
"How'd you know that?" Kim asked.
"Well, everybody knows that you are Kim Possible." the woman said, holding one elbow and pointed at Kim with her free hand, twisting it palm up, "And Tao told me about you, Shego. So why did Tao bring you here?"
"Uh, someone was shooting at her with big laser things, that's why." Shego replied, "And we asked about her tail."
Tao's mother looked at her daughter questioningly. Tao looked right back.
"Mom, who do you think they were?" Tao asked. Her mother just shook her head in reply—no thoughts.
"Wade?" Kim pulled out her 'Kimmunicator', "Can you check newsgroups to see if any kind of people are talking about spliced humans? Please and thank you!"
"I'm on it!" Wade gave a thumbs-up before starting to search. Kim looked up and put the essential tool into her pocket. Her eyes bugged out. Shego was kneeling down, scratching the wolf's stomach and laughing.
"Uh, Shego?" Kim questioned, "What…uh…why… Oh, never mind."
—to be continued—