Chapter 5: Bonding

Outside the laboratory, Rose began to laugh, 'Maybe staying with the villains wouldn't be so bad.' She thought to herself. It was funny to hear them fight and what would the outcome be if they tried to rule this Pokemon World.

"Does this happen often?" Rose asked, following Shego up a spiral staircase and through a corridor to another door.

"Sometimes," Shego nodded. "You'll be use to it if you're here longer than a month."

The young women walked through the door with a staircase that led down to a door into another corridor right outside a brown door leading into the main hall.

Rose looked around, she had found this place very familiar somehow. "Hey Shego, if this is Drakken's lair, what's the location?"

"I think somewhere near this Periwinkle Mountain on Periwinkle Island. Why do you ask?"

"You're kidding, right?" Rose asked, disbelievingly. "This mansion belonged to my family. Did Drakken buy it off my father?"

"Well, Doc said something about this place owned by the Machavelli family," Shego replied, thinking back earlier before moving from the recent lair. "Are you related?"

"Yeah, I'm the second child of Giovanni Machavelli." Rose nodded. "Including my three brothers, two sisters, a sister in-law, one cousin, two nieces, and three nephews." (1)

"There's that many in your family?" Shego asked, awed of that many family members, when she only had four goody-goody brothers. "Wow, wish I had that many people to care about me."

Rose blinked, confused and also feeling concerned. "You don't have a family, Shego?"

"Oh, I still do," Shego sighed, annoyed of her past. "I have four older brothers: Hego, Wego 1 & 2, and Mego. They have different supernatural powers from what I have, but they only fight evil. The last I saw them was in Chicago fighting off this villain, Drakken and I did try to help until that Miss-Teen-Hero Kim Possible and her idiot side-kick Ron Stoppable got in the way."

"I see," Rose nodded, completely understanding, though she had an idea that Kim and Ron must be the good guys that save the world from bad people like Drakken and Shego.

"Have you been here before?" Shego asked. "You might probably know where the bedrooms are, you'll be staying there for the time being."

"Yeah, four years ago," Rose said, remembering her vacation that long ago. "I came her with my cousin, Emma, and she brought her boyfriend, Ash. I didn't want to be singled-out, so I invited my boyfriend Brock, at the time."

Shego nodded, mostly understanding. "So that boy with the Pikachu is Ash, your cousin's boyfriend. Okay, and that guy you were standing with earlier was your boyfriend, Brock?"

"Ah no!" Rose replied quickly, her face turning red from embarrassment. "That's my friend Tracey. I know he likes me more than what my boyfriend use to."

The young women began to walk up the staircase, at the top was one door to the left and two doors to the right.

"What happened to this Brock-guy?" Shego asked, curiously in wonder.

"Cheated on me with another girl." Rose replied, split expression of upset and anger. "Happened two years ago, caught him with one of my other friends in his dorm room. He wasn't the only one in trouble, I can tell you that."

Shego was hooked onto every word, normally something like this on television would seem boring, but hearing from someone in person was interesting. "Yeah, then what happened? I'm still listening."

"Okay, the girl he was with, she was Tracey's girlfriend." Rose giggled slightly, it was hectic to see two couples fighting and the whole dorm building watching. Luckily the adult-chaperones were there to break up the commotion before a fistfight broke lose. "They broke up and I left my boyfriend. It wasn't long until Tracey and I found out that our ex-friends were already engaged and getting married in two months. Eventually, time flew by and well... Tracey and I went out on a few dates, didn't work out so now we're just good friends." (2)

"That's good." Shego smiled, she opened the door on the left that was a balcony overlooking the large dinning room. "At least you don't have to worry about anyone outside your family."

§To Be Continued§

(1) I know, huge family. They will be introduced in a later chapter.
(2) Reference to Gymleadershipping which is Brock and Misty romance.