Jez: Good catch. That was the first version of the chapter, and wasn't supposed to be posted. I also forgot the Disclaimer. I corrected it. The introduction for Veronica is in this chapter. I just couldn't fit it into the other one, but I promise to not make such silly mistakes again. As for the origins of the series, it's on UPN, Tuesday's at nine. I don't know if MTV is still replaying them Tuesday at Seven or not. I don't think so though.

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Shego smiled, as she slipped over the roof of the building, and crossed to the skylight to the executive suite. The man inside, one Jake Kane, brown haired head of one of the largest computer companies on earth, rose, and headed into his personal bathroom. Shego smiled, claws sinking into the window pane, listening to the soft noise as a green flaming hand scored out the rest of the pane. She set the piece off to the side, and reached in, unlocking the larger section. She slipped inside, and dropped to the floor, utterly silent. The drop was perfectly planned and executed, so that as she landed the camera was panned away, and she melted it with a blast, before it could swing back. She shifted footing, and lunged to land behind the door, as Kane re-entered. A sweep kick knocked his feet out from under him, and she followed around, shifting her weight from one foot to the other and back, so she ended up with a knee on his back, holding him down. A glowing hand in front of his face convinced him not to scream.

"Good boy. I'm here for the disc, hold still, and you won't die." He nodded ever so slightly. Shego drove her free hand into the ground, snapping the chain, and then she grabbed the disc from the ground, as she followed her lunge forwards, causing his head to bounce on the floor, and knock him unconscious. An instant later, she lunged up, and out the sky light.

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"What do you mean Wade" Kim asked, her technical wizard, who was staring back at her through the computer in her locker, shaking her head.

"Just what I said Kim." Wade replied, typing again. "There's absolutely nothing going."

"That can't be." Kim replied. "There's always something. What about Drakken and Shego"

"They've appearently gone under the radar." Wade answered, smiling. "So have Killigan, Monkey Fist, DNAmy, the seniors are on their annual month long vacation in Rio, so there is absolutely Zero crime occuring of any scale that you need to worry about." Wade grinned.

"KP, why don't we take a vacation" Ron suggested.

"Ron's right Kim, there's so little going on, just take a vacation, and enjoy the lull." Wade laughed, and the connection closed.

"Why would I want to take a vacation" Kim asked. "I like doing this" She growled, and stalked away. Ron sighed. At the same moment, Bonnie, a friend of both, though only recently had the chestnut haired girl changed her tune, appeared around the other corner, and stopped beside him, watching Kim walk away.

"What's the matter with her" Bonnie asked.

"I have no idea." Ron shook his head, and glanced at Bonnie. He knew she and Kim were friends, but that didn't change years of animousity between her and the two of them. He took a breath, and chuckled. "It's probably one of those girl things I'll never under stand. Tell Connie I said hello." Ron turned, and wandered the other way. Bonnie blinked, wondering if she was going to have one of those days. She found out later, the answer was yes.

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The blond young woman, identified by most as Veronica Mars, though by some with decidedly less polite terminology, approached the high school building, with more than a touch of apprehension. The warm wind ruffled her jacket as she approached the doors to the school building, and she watched either side carefully.

"Hello,my guardian angel." The voice belonged to a dark haired young man, coming from the right hand side of the door. Veronica smiled, and waited as he crossed from his motorcycle. The dark overcoat, and light blue shirt were an eye catching contrast, along with the dark blue jeans.

"Good morning." She replied, as he came up, and opened the door for her. There wasn't much there between them, but he called her that, since she'd brought him to the hospital when they met. There was a story there.

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'I'd been staking out a motel, that my prey was known to frequent. Dad was letting me handle the lesser of the two men we were after, while he went for the big fish so to speak. It had been a fairly uninteresting night, and I was just about to leave, when I heard the roar of an engine, well tuned, but roaring nonetheless. In the rain that had begun to fall a little while before, I wondered who would be stupid enough to be going that fast. I thought it might be my quarry, so I hunkdered down into my car, and waited. The motorcycle came around the corner, going way faster than it should have been. I figured the rider was either supremely confident, or supremely stupid. I still can't decide which. Anyway, I heard the tire skid on the pavement, and saw the bike go down. The thudding noise that followed, was the rider flying off, and rolling away. He slammed into the side of my car and then the bike exploded. I climbed out the passenger's door of my car, unable to see where his head was, and not wanting to hurt him. He was only barely conscious, and I was appearently the last thing he saw the through the visor.

In the hospital later when he awoke, I was the first thing he saw.'

"Well, well, well, it's my guardian angel." 'That was the first thing he said, and he's been saying it ever since.'

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Veronica smiles to herself as she passes him, heading into the chambers of the school building. Wallace, a young man of african heritage, another friend she'd saved, though this one from a flagpole, and the local biker gang, approached holding a folder. Since he'd taken a job as an office assistant in the high school, he had access to things she needed, and used him for favors on a regular basis. This time, he was researching an old friend of hers, a young man by the name of Duncan Kane, her ex-boyfriend. The medical records held nothing of interest, appearently what ever mysterious ailment he had was private information. Outwardly she sighed, mentally, she swore. Wallace was speaking though.

"Hey V, did you hear what happened to Jake Kane last night" Wallace asked. Normally, she would have wanted little to do with information about the father of her murdered best friend, and ex-boyfriend, but she was in a peculiar humor, and she decided to bite.

"No, what happened" She asked.

"He was found out cold last night, sometime after midnight. That weird security guy he's got working for him..." Two voices cut him off.

"Clarence Wiedman." Both Adam and Veronica replied. She grinned, he had partial amnesia, but he could recall facts like that, without any trouble.

"Yeah, that's the dude." Wallace continued without pausing. "Anyway, found him on the floor of his office, the remnants of a handcuff on one wrist. Seems the other end was attached to some disc case, holding a new program, though what was on it, I don't know, the news didn't say." He shrugged.

"Did security get anything" Adam asked suddenly.

"No, but Kane said it was a woman. Whoever the chick was, she was damn good, she melted the camera somehow, before it even saw her. She dropped Kane with some fancy karate, or Kung Fu, or something like that." He chuckled. "Imagine, the mighty CEO, dropped by a little girl, that's got to make him feel good."

'I'll just bet.' Veronica smiled, and took a left, into her class room.