It was three in the morning and Shego's legs were throbbing so badly that she was about to light up her Team Glow and chop them off. At around six in the evening, Drakken had given her something for pain and it worked like a charm, now that they had worn off, however..Closing her eyes, in pain she bit back a scream of desperation. It wasn't just her legs that were bothering her, though; the gunshot wound in her arm was aching madly.
A knock on her door made her jump and wince simultaneously. Her eyes watered and she blinked furiously as her boss opened the door to her room. He grinned at her, holding a glass of water in one hand while his other was closed around something. That something turned out to be a small oval shaped pill. Shego glanced down at the pill suspiciously and frowned up at him; this obviously wasn't the red tablets he'd given her earlier for pain. Seeing her expression, Drakken offered an explanation.
"This pill is going to have you up and running by the time you wake up tomorrow, no pain." He said simply, handing it to her along with the glass of water. Shego looked unconvinced.
"How?" She asked, turning the pill over in her hand.
"As you know, the soreness you are experiencing comes from the small tears your muscles received during the testing; a normal thing for any athlete or whatever. Since you used your muscles at such an unrefined level, the soreness you are experiencing is rather extreme, which is why it hurts so much. But-you're really lucky you have me for a boss you know-I've developed this little pill that will dramatically increase your body's ability to heal itself. All you need is a couple of hours of sleep and you'll be fine."
"And you know this because?"
"I just tested on myself a little while ago. I had the ring on and blah, blah, blah, I was sore and I made this. Hopefully, it'll work the same way on you as it did me." He said, his confidence becoming a sheepish grin. Shego sighed in exasperation and popped the pill into her mouth. She downed the glass of water and laid back down.
"How long does this stuff take to kick in?" Shego asked, feeling no changes in her pain levels. Drakken considered for a moment.
"Only about 10 minutes for me. Maybe your Glow will help speed things along." He said with a shrug. "Well, goodnight." He said and patted her on the head. Shego scowled at him and knocked his hand away. Drakken grinned down at her and exited her room before she could throw anything at him.
It was almost ten in the morning when Shego woke up and the only thing that was seriously wrong with her was the dull throb in her arm. Unraveling the gauze strip on her arm, she examined her wound. The skin on and around the wound was a healthy pink, quite a contrast to her almost deathly pale skin. Nice. She thought, flexing the arm.
Getting out of bed, she grabbed the ring Drakken had left on her nightstand. Instead of going downstairs, Shego headed to the shower, as her normal morning routine called for one. She finished and stepped out, glancing at the ring on the sink. It could fall so easily into the drain, but Shego didn't care at the moment. She did care about dressing though, and quickly went to do so. She returned briefly to her bathroom, wearing her usual jumpsuit, to brush her teeth and gel her hair.
Shego paused briefly before she snatched the ring up, almost dreading the side effects of putting it on. But she reasoned that if she didn't train with it, how could she use it? Giving a sigh, she clenched it in her fist and made her way down to the training room Drakken had built. To be more precise designed; he hired some really expensive pro-villain guy to come and have his people build it. It wasn't as though Shego didn't like it, she just didn't like him always taking the credit for stuff he didn't necessarily do. She let out a deep breath of air, she loathed and loved the training room. Drakken could upload almost any situation inside of it and the whole room would change; not just virtually though, physically as well. Anything Drakken could dream up would happen. The scientist had even created Bebes in the exact replicas of any person that had challenged them, mainly Kim Possible and her dufus. Instead of the other Bebes that had somehow rebelled against him, these could not think or come to conclusions. They could only do the things Drakken told them to do up in his tower. Drakken could even control the intensity and speed of the Kim and dufus look-a-likes.
By the time Shego was actually in the room, Drakken was spinning around in this swivel chair he had in the main control tower. Shaking her head, she waved up at him. Drakken acknowledged her with a wave of his own hand and a small table came up out of the ground. On it was some sort of ear piece attached to a microphone. She looked up and raised an eyebrow at him. If Drakken hadn't of had many a camera installed around the large circular building, he wouldn't have seen it. He motioned for her to pick them up and she did so.
"Put it on!" Came Drakken's slightly muffled voice from the ear piece. Shego frowned up at him and inserted the electronic into her ear. "Alright, you're going to feel some minor discomfort for a moment right...now." He said and instantly Shego let out a sudden yelp.
"Ouch! Drakken what the f-!" She snarled up at him, her eyes blazing in fury. 'Minor discomfort' had been an understatement; her eyes were watering. Drakken gave a weak chuckle of apology.
"Sorry, Shego. That minor discomfort will give scans of your brain patterns so I can see exactly what this ring disables and enables..." He said, pausing for a moment, apparently looking down at a screen. "It will also, of course, take muscular usage scans and I'll be able to tell you when to stop."
Shego nodded up at him and waited...and waited....and waited. Letting out an annoyed sigh she looked up to see him fiddling around with keyboards and buttons.
"Drakken! What are you doing?! I'd like to start you know!" She hissed into her microphone.
"Will you quit being so impatient?! Geez...I'm trying to make sure all of this equipment works so you don't kill yourself." Drakken replied, sounding distracted. "Put the ring on." He said, tapping at a screen. Shaking her head, Shego carried out his request. Like the day before, she felt no different then she had before the ring had been put on. Drakken nodded to himself, but didn't say a word to Shego.
Then, like any other training day, the room changed and became a city. Of course, the streets were empty and there was not a soul in sight, as the room did not duplicate human forms. Shego looked around for her opponent for the day and wasn't surprised to see a Bebe version of Kim Possible striding almost arrogantly in front of her. Today, however, there wasn't just the one Kim Possible, there were three. They each took a fighting stance and waited; Shego assumed that Drakken was finishing up with their programming.
"Is three really necessary, Dr. D?" Shego asked, breaking the absolute silence in the room. Drakken looked up, blinking.
"Yes, actually. I want to see the full scale of your abilities. I'm charging these up with Kim Possible's full strength and speed, so prepare yourself. Here they go!" Drakken said, hitting a button on his left.
Drakken's hand had barely come off the button when the three Kim Possible's attacked. The closest one jumped up and threw an axe kick to Shego's head. Her whirling red eyes had already kicked in and Shego blocked the kick with ease. Grabbing the first KP's leg, she swung her around and threw her into the second one, who had been coming at Shego, winding up for a punch. The two collided and skidded across the ground. The third faked a punch to Shego's head and flipped over her, landing behind the villainess. Shego turned quickly and blocked the kick the third Kim had been sending out to her back. The eyes made fighting them so much easier then it would have been without them.
The first two KPs had jumped up and were rushing at Shego, once more in attack mode. Shego was more then ready and charged at them. They closed in on each other quickly and the two Kims struck first. Before their attacks could land, Shego had blasted herself into the air with a Team Glow blast. The 'concrete' that had once been a fake street blasted up realistically and Shego smirked in amusement. At first, the Kims didn't know where Shego had gone and looked around frantically. Since they were too far apart for Shego to hit simultaneously, she clasped her hands together and slammed the first one on the head with full force. A loud metallic crunch followed the blow and the Bebe laid in a heap of crackling electronics on the ground.
For a moment, Shego was shocked: those Bebes were rather hard to destroy manually, as they were made out of titanium, and she had only seen results like this when ultra high frequencies were made. Shego stayed immobile for too long and the second Kim's leg came smashing into Shego's face. The villainess hopped backwards in surprise and pain. She didn't understand why sometimes she could see movements so precisely and able to counter them and sometimes she didn't see them at all. It was just like the gun shot wound Drakken had given her. Unfortunately, Shego didn't have time to stop and think, as she heard rushing footsteps behind her; the Kim3 was closing in.
Shego leapt into the air and flipped onto a building. The Kims glared up at her and launched themselves onto the building, scaling it quickly. So much for only having their strengths..Shego thought, frowning slightly. Not that it really mattered, as Shego wanted to test her Glow on these two. She fired up her right hand and the green fire was circling her hand violently, brighter then it had ever been. Every now and then, a small crackle of power danced around her hand and she heard Drakken whisper 'amazing' from out of her ear piece.
Smirking evilly, Shego jumped off her building, going into a dive. The first Kim, let go of the building, getting as far away from Shego as she could. The other one wasn't as smart and Shego came down on it hard. First, her left arm snaked out and punched Kim2 off the building. Her right hand, which was dangling behind her, was making a deep gorge on the building it was being scraped against. Kim2 hadn't recovered yet and was staring wide-eyed at Shego as her lethal right hand came down. Using only the tips of her fingers, Shego cut through the several inches of titanium the Bebe Kim was made of. Her hand had cut from left to right and, as it came back, shot out the opposite direction. Cutting the Bebe's head off. Shego chopped down diagonally and the Bebe was in more pieces.
As the pieces of the Bebe Kim hit the ground with a loud 'clatter!' Shego was already sprinting towards Kim1. Then, something strange happened: The Kim started glowing and Shego's eyes darted up to Drakken's tower.
"I'm giving this one a strength and speed boost so it'll be more of a challenge for you." Drakken said as the Kim stopped glowing and faced Shego calmly.
Shego glanced at the robot's legs and was hit very suddenly in the chin and was sent flying. Closing an eye in surprise, Shego flipped in the air, landing on her feet. Time to figure out these eyes..Shego thought, scowling. As the Kim came in for a second pass, Shego kept her eyes on the Kim's feet and was nearly hit again. She the natural peripheral vision to dodge the second blow to her face. She raised her eyes to Kim1's midriff. This time, she wasn't able to completely see the robot's movement before hand and was nearly kicked in the temple. Even without her eyes, it was obvious to Shego that her body had the speed to keep up with the robot, even if she was in a situation where she couldn't use these incredible red whirling eyes. Now she looked at the robot's neck; Kim1 threw two punches at her. The first she blocked a bit sloppily, but the second was perfect. Shego raised her eyes fully to the robots and, when she attacked, blocked, blocked, and countered the techniques as though she knew what it was going to do all along.
It seems as though I can only see what they're going to do if my eyes are looking up higher then my opponents neck. Shego thought, now fighting normally, her eyes always on Kim1's face. Shego blocked a powerful side kick and dug her feet into the ground, surprised to see that she was skidding. Lowering her arms from the block, Shego went on the attack, sending a warning punch to Kim1's gut. The robot blocked and was nailed in the head with a second punch. It reeled backwards, but it was feinting. Shego expected Kim1 to jump backwards. Instead, trading balance for an attack, it leaned back on it's more firmly planted leg and sent a wild kick out. Shego was barely able to dodge the hit and the foot flipped her hair up. Kim1 took a stance, as did Shego and the two stared each other down for a moment.
The Kim was the first to attack. She rushed in with a swift punch to Shego's gun. Shego, her eyes locked on the robot's face, blocked and pushed it backwards. The Kim jumped up into the air and sent a kick to Shego's head. Shego grabbed the offending leg and threw the robot. It flipped in the air and crouched down, skidding backwards. Shego blasted Glow shots at the robot. Each missed, as the Kim kept sliding backwards, but that's what Shego was hoping for. The Kim launched itself into the air and came back down right behind Shego. The villainess attempted to elbow it in the side with her left arm, but the Kim blocked. Twisting, her right arm now behind her back, Shego launched a beam like Glow blast at the Kim. It dodged down and Shego smirked in triumph: she brought her left leg up instantly and hammered the Kim in the side head with a hard kick.
The Kim was flying through the air and it slammed into the panel of glass protecting Drakken inside his tower. Though four inches thick, the glass cracked with the force of the collision. Drakken's mouth nearly hit the floor as he watched the Bebe Kim try to pull herself from the glass. Shego, still smirking, raised both arms to chest level, palms facing upwards. She lit up her Team Glow and they glowed brilliantly and crackled with power as they had before. Slowly, she turned her palms outwards and rapidly began pumping her arms back and forth, launching about 15 fiery Glow blast at her nearly defeated opponent.
When the smoke cleared, Drakken was pressed up against the wall of the tower and staring at the melted glass dripping down from where the robotic Kim had been. Only the very sides of the thick glass had remained intact. Almost all of the controls in the tower had been melted and there was no sign of the Bebe. Shego had lowered her hands and was feeling strangely lightheaded. Drakken tugged off his microphone and ear piece and threw them to the ground; Shego did the same. Shego sprinted forward and a moment later jumped into the air, landing on the tip of the slowly hardening glass. Her feet made contact with the glass for less then a second before she flipped up and landed neatly in front of Drakken.
"Enjoy the show?" She asked, sounding slightly breathless. Drakken slowly nodded and looked her over, noting only two slight bruises on her face.
"Yes...very nice. Ring, please." He said, holding a shaking hand out to her. Shego looked down at his hand as though it were a death wish. Shego approached the situation as she would if she was taking off a bandaid. Shutting an eye, she yanked it off with full force and everything went black.
A couple of moments later, she found herself staring at Drakken's chest. The nerves that had been temporarily deadened exploded with pain and it hurt too much even to scream. Luckily for her, Drakken had been close enough that she had merely fallen forward and connected with him. Drakken slowly lowered Shego to the floor as she drifted in and out of consciousness. Reaching into one of his pockets, he pulled out a slightly larger version of the pill he'd given her earlier. Since Shego could hardly move on her own, he tilted her towards him and pushed her head back. Carefully, he opened her mouth and pushed the pill into it.
"Swallow." He ordered and Shego, now conscious enough to know what was going on, attempted to glare at him, though she achieved nothing more then a pained grimace. Shego had to concentrate for a moment before she could get her raging body under enough control to swallow the pill. Nothing happened instantly, as Shego had wished, and she was nearly thrown into more torment then she was a few minutes ago. Drakken, seeing that the increased dosage hadn't done too much took matters into his own hands. Sitting her up and ignoring her gasp of pain, he whacked her on the back of the neck with a quick chop, knocking her out cold.
Sighing with relief, Drakken picked her up, subconsciously noting that it was the second time in a week. Looking down at her KOed form, Drakken smiled.
"That was much better then yesterday! You were out there for a full hour and a half." He said, his expression one of childish pride. For the second time in a week, he noted again, he laid her down in her bed and tucked her head.
"Sleep well..." He said quietly, shutting the door as easily as he could, trying desperately not to wake her.
A/N: Well, that's about what it's going to be like for Kim if she goes up against Ring-afied Shego. Don't worry though, it'll take a long, long time for Kim to recover and someone else is plotting things of their own. My OC will be introduced next chapter and you'll have to wait for 9 to see more of Kimmie and Ronald (or the baffoon, as our dear Dr. D has dubbed him). Now, I'm off to sleep.