WWLAOS: We'll have to see about that, won't we? And it's not unassailable, but it's there to make Kim mad.


"They can't have destroyed Genny, Kim." Shego offered. "She's to smart for that. They probably just think they got her."

"I don't know about that. They had some seriously powerful..." Gwen started, then trailed off, noticing Shego's glare. Kim was not heart broken, but instead mad, and Shego was trying to calm her down.

"Liandra. Where was this pad exactly?" Kim asked. Liandra rose from the bed, and crossed to the wall, and drew a line with her finger, around where it should have been.

"But it's on the other side of the wall. You'd have to burn through it to play with it's wiring." Ilene spoke up, assuming that's what Kim was going to do.

"I don't have to burn through anything." Kim snorted. "Step back." She ordered Liandra, and then focused on the wall, palm pressed against it. She centered not only her mind, but her entire being. Then she began. The air seemed to thicken about her and after a moment she smiled an icy smile. "Got you, you little bitch." She muttered half to herself. A moment later, the door slid open. Shego stared.

"How in hell did you do that?" She asked.

"I don't need to see what I'm moving for telekinesis. I just need to know where it is." Kim replied, and advanced. Gwen and Shego followed close, while Ilene and the others held back just a bit. As the three came into the main room, they caught four of the five other women looking the other way. Kim's right arm flashed up, and Giaharoje went flying, crashing into the woman that had arrived with her. Shego's arms came up, and blasted another woman away, and she crumpled to the floor in a heap as she hit. Gwen crossed to the other two, before they could pick up the weapons on the floor and clothes-lined them without slowing. Sandra and two other women entered, each bearing a weapon that remarkably resembled a grenade launcher. All three wore gas masks. Before anyone could react, rounds began to fire, catching Shego and Gwen in the stomach. The rounds began to billow smoke, enveloping the pair and then Ilene and the others. Kim shifted tactics, and time decelerated. She realized as round broke from Sandra's weapon, that the other woman was unaffected. As Kim collapsed into a heap, time reaccelerated.


Kim woke, to find herself still in the room she'd broken into earlier, though she was no longer on the floor. Fear flooded her, when she realized two things. First, she was once more chained to the wall, and second that she was now completely naked. The latter fact was not lessened in the slightest, as she looked around, and saw that so to was everyone else in the room. Shego's powers flickered fit fully, since it seemed she could only call them with a certain amount of blood in her veins, and as pale as her arms were, there wasn't enough.

"Now this night we call upon the moon goddess Athara. Through your power, and your might, we seek the blessing of the goddesses of humanity. Give us power, give us strength, and let us claim woman's rightful place as rulers of this earth!" Sandra intoned. The other women, those that had been revived, and the two she had entered with repeated the chant in other languages, including Latin, and one that did not seem to be anything Kim had heard before. Though there was no outside egress to the room, Kim could clearly see moonlight appear on the floor. The room was a massive semi-circle, with a raised dias in the middle, encircled with four descending and widening rings. Each of the rings held a symbol representing a phase of the moon. A memory that was not Kim's own penetrated Kim's mind.

Five hundred years before and high on a mountain top, five women stood, around an altar that was a perfect match for the one before her, and they to were calling on the goddess Athara. But not for destruction, instead for life. Each of them wished to carry a child to term healthy. Moonlight came down and a woman appeared in the middle of the circle. With a few words in Latin, she blessed them all, and then receeded into the sky. Though she wasn't entirely sure how she knew it, Kim gained knowledge.

Athara was a two aspected moon goddess. One was the mother, who granted blessings and represented life. Always benevolent, she tolerated men as a neccesary force. The other aspect was the destroyer, who brought power and death. She was vicious, and petty, and hated men with a passion. Both aspects answered only the call of women, and neither would show in the prescence of men. It was the latter aspect Sandra and the others were calling.

"Now this night, we beg to appear the Goddess Athara. In return for your aid, and our power, we offer these sacrifices." Sandra's arm encompassed Kim, Shego, and the others.

"No, you can't." Kim snapped, struggling with her bonds.

"But they can." Came a new, resonant voice, that seemed to echo around the room. In the center of the moon light, stood a woman, no less than seven feet tall, long flowing hair shifting colors through all those found naturally among women. "Tainted sacrifices, but they will suffice. These two though, I have a different plan in mind." As she spoke, she was moving across the floor, though her legs were not so much as twitching. The two she spoke of were Kim and Shego, and her hand brushed the cheek of each as she moved.

"A different plan mistress? What need you of us?" Sandra asked. The entity smiled.

"Quite simple. Kill the others, then we will drain the powers and abilities from those two. You will each recieve a share of them, and then you will be invincible." The goddess began to move back to the center of the dias, as the five women surrounding it each lifted a knife that had appeared before them, then turning towards the other five women, who began to jerk about in a vain effort to free themselves.