DISCLAIMER: The entire Kim Possible gang belongs to Disney. This story is written for the pleasure of the reader.

AND SO...

Chapter 18: Life storys

The silence in the room was like no other, and the only sound that could be heard was the crackling of the flames glowing around Drakkens hands. After a few moments of gaping at Drakken, Ron finally spoke up.

"What... THE HECK!"

Shego couldn't hold herself any longer. Her knees began to tremble, and she fell on the ground. The flames on Drakkens fist died quickly as he helped her up anxiously. The raven-haired woman got to her feet, and looked at the man helping her up.

Dr. Drakken... Her father... Her father, that abandoned her and her brothers... He father, that didn't even care about her...

Shego was suddenly filled with a rage she had never known she had.

"YOU!" She screamed at him, her own flame exploding from her hands in fury, and he backed off, frightfully. "YOU! YOU, THE PERSON WHO ABANDONED MY BROTHERS AND I AS SOON AS WE GOT THESE STUPID POWERS!"

"Please, Shego let me explain! I-" But he was cut off.

"WHY SHOULD I LET YOU EXPLAIN?" Shego yelled furiously. "YOU WERE NEVER THERE FOR ME! SO GIVE ME ONE GOOD REASON, WHY I SHOULDN'T-"

"That's where you're wrong, Shego." But this voice wasn't Drakkens.

Shego whipped around to see Kim standing up confidently.

"You..." She spat. "You... Stay out of this!"

"No!" Kim defied her. "I will not stay out of this. You have to see that-"

"ARGH!" She screamed, running towards Kim, but she stopped short when Stoppable jumped in front of his girlfriend protectivly, holding the Magical sword.

"You've already seen what this can do." Ron said coldly. "I advise you don't try to hurt her."

Shego snarled at him, but did nothing.

"You were saying, Kim?" Ron asked behind his ear.

"Such the gentlemen." Kim smiled, despite the sitchuation, but then got back to buisness. "Anyway, Shego, what I was trying to say, was that you're wrong. Drakken has always been there for you. He came and got you when we were about to beat you back at that, 'Aviairius' guys place, didn't he? He was there when you had the moodulator on, didn't he?" Kim shuddered at this thought. "At least, he put up with it, didn't he?" Kim stared directly into Shegos eyes. "So I think that Drakken has the right to explain."

Shego snarled once more, and then looked at Drakken. "Make it quick." She snapped.

"Thank you, Shego." Drakken took a step forward, and started his story.

"First of all, I loved your mother, very much." Shego restrained from rushing him as he said these words, and he continued. "She and you kids were the best thing that ever happened to me. When Karen died in that car crash, you and your brothers were the only thing that kept me going. Remember the day when you got your superpowers? The day you were in that tree-house, playing with your brothers? The day when that comet hit? Well, at the exact same time it hit, I was climbing up the treehouse ladder up to where you were. The treehouse came crashing down, and this..." His hands erupted in black flame again. "Was the result."

Ron finally spoke. "Wait a minut, I don't get it... Your powers are just like Shegos, but the fire is black. And the comet was a rainbow coloured one, if my memory serves me correctly."

Drakken looked annoyed at the interruption. "So?" He asked.

Ron shook his head. "There's no black in a rainbow!"

Everyone groaned at this pointless comment.

"Funny how that is, isn't it, Stoppable?" Shego growled, the flames in her hands growing brighter.

Ron backed up, chuckling weakly. "Um, yeah... I think I'll leave it at that."

"Anyway..." Drakken continued again. "Once the comet hit, the treehouse fell on top of me, and I was severly injured. I lay there for three days under the debris."

"How did you get out?" Kim asked.

"I got out by using these powers." Drakken gestured with his hands. "When I got up, you and your brothers were gone, and I thought... I thought you were dead." He finshed this sentance with a crack in his voice, but kept going on. "I searched the remains of the treehouse, and couldnt find your bodies, so I knew then that you were still alive. I searched for three years trying to find you, and I had almost givin up hope when I spotted you in that training gym in Go City. And that's How I met back up with you." He finished.

"But- But what about my brothers?" Shego cried. "What about your sons? Didn't you care about them?"

Drakken hung his head. "When I found you, I made a vow that I would never tell you that I was your father or anything in relation to our family, so I couldn't ask you where your brothers were. I kept searching for them, though, and when we had the little adventure with that Aviairius fellow, I was overjoyed to find that they were okay."

"But why didn't you talk to them?" She asked, desperate for answers.

"When I saw that they were taking up superhero work, I thought that Hego, Mego, and he twins would hate me, since you and I have our own little... Reputation?" He let out a weak smile.

Shego tried to take all this in. Drakken was her long lost father... And when she had thought that he had run away from her, he was actually there for her the whole time.

She just had one last question.

She closed her eyes. "One more thing, then." She muttered weakly.

"Yes?"

"The- Those Moodulators..." She said slowly. "Are you telling me- That I went on a date... with my dad?"

Drakken blushed bright purple, and slowly nodded.

All was silent.

Then Shegos desgusted yell echoed throughout the cavern.

"EWWW!"

Everyone let her spit and wipe her tounge in desgust before Drakken asked his last question.

"Shego?" He whispered, taking a step towards her. "Can- Can you ever forgive me?"

She took one look at her father, and gave her answer.

"DADDY!" She cried, and she rushed up in her fathers arms. The tears that she had been fighting ever since Drakken had told her his secret finally won the battle, and they poured down her face, creating two rivers of water on her face. Drakken cried as well, happy that he finally had his baby girl back in his arms. They stayed in each others arms for what seemed like forever, and when Kim finally spoke up, the broke apart, reluctantly.

"Look, I really hate to interrupt, but there are people out there Drakken, people that are just like you, right now. Whatever your plan is, I'm asking you to stop it now, because innocent lives will be taken if you go through with this. Please."

Drakken looked at her, and then back to his daughter. He finally nodded.

"Yes. I'm shutting it down, now." And with that, he strode over to the computor.

He started to tap some keys to the computor, but suddenly, there was a loud beeping sound, and the word 'DENIED' flash brightly on the screen.

Shego walked up to her father, and saw a concerned look on his face. "What is it?" She asked worriedly.

"The Nuclear War-Head..." Drakken responded slowly, his eyes scanning the screen. "It's locked..."

"What does that mean?" Kim asked him.

"It means that the missle must be fired..." Drakken read the screen in front of him.

"Well, can't we just, you know, destroy the thing?" Ron suggested. "I mean, I do have a very impressive sword here that might do the job..." He raised the Lotus Blade with pride.

"If we destroyed the computor, the missle will launch toward the only location that it knows, with its position system." Drakken answered.

"And that location is?"

"Exactly where we're standing right now."

"Oh!" Ron through his hands in the air, frustrated. "Well, I guess we can cross that off of our extreamly short list of ideas!"

"There is one good thing, though." Drakken said slowly, as he once agin scanned the screen. It says that I can fire the missile at any location on the planet."

"Well, at least that's one good thing so far!" Ron cried sarcastically. "So now we get to choose the location of the spot where we make piosioness mushroom cloud! Joy!"

Drakken ignored Rons words, and started to panic. "I can choose where to shoot it, but where am I going to shoot it? If I shoot it in the ocean, it'll create the biggest Tsunami in history! And if I shoot towards any land, citys will be obliterated!"

"Do you have to say it with so much expression?" Kim asked him, now beginning to panic herself.

"Hey, I know!" Ron exclaimed. "We can shoot it at the Arctic! No one lives there-"

"True, but the explosion of the bomb willl melt the Ice Caps, causing a Global Flood." Drakken pointed it out.

"Aw, man! This blows!"

Drakken didn't have any idea what to do. In frustration, he slammed his fist on the computor control board.

"Location confirmed. Launching Nuclear missle in T-minus thirty seconds.

Drakken slowly lifted his hand off the red launch button.

"Uh, oh..." He croaked.

"What?" Ron asked, bewildered. "What's 'Uh oh?' Is it bad?"

"Launching Nuclear missle."

"It's bad." He choked.

Kim looked at Drakken. "Are you telling me that you just launched a Nuclear bomb by accident?"

Drakken nodded slowly, and Kim groaned. "Where's it headed?"

He pointed toward the ground.

"What?" Kim cried, groaning again. "But we're in the middle of the largest state in the country! Millions will be killed!"

"Um, KP? Forgetting something?" Ron reminded her.

"What?" She asked, confused.

"US! WE'RE GONNA DIE TOO!" He shreiked, and hearing this news, Rufus scampered out of Kims pocket and onto Rons shoulder, hugging him tightly.

Drakken felt sicker than he had ever before. He had just accidentally launched a Nuclear bomb on top of them! Now they were all going to die... Kim, Ron, The mole rat, and his daughter, Shego... Not to mention the rest of the people living in Texas...

And it was all his fault.

Suddenly, he remembered.

"The Escape Pods!" He exclaimed.

"Huh?" Came four different voice at the same time.

"I programmed the Escape Pods with systems where you can choose the location of your landing point!"

Everyone was silent.

"Um... So?" Ron asked.

"I, uh..." Drakken blushed with embarassment. "I also, um, attached a Super-Powered magnut in each pod."

Silence.

"Why in the name of God, would you do that!" Ron asked again, bewildered.

"Well, it seemed like the right thing to do at the time." He smiled weakly.

Ron shook his head. "Man, sometimes, you are such a queer."

"So..." Shego spoke up for the first ime in five minuts. "All we have to do is program the pods to fly sraight towards the bomb, and when they impact, the bomb will explode, causing no harm!"

"Well, unless you fly through the radiation, but that's beside the point-" Ron started.

Four icy stares etched into his skin.

"Heh, I'm gonna shut up now." Ron backed off, blushing slightly.

"Well, if that's all we have to do, lets get on it-" Kim said, but was cut off by Drakken.

"That's not all, I'm afraid."

Kim had a sick feeling in her stomach. "What else is there?"

"Well, in order to activate the Magnut, the pod has to be active.

"You don't mean-" Kim bagan, but was at a loss for words.

Drakken nodded. "One of us is going to have sacrfice themselves, to activate the Magnut when it's in the air."

Kim felt worse than she ever had in her life, but nodded. "I'll go."

"NO!"

Kim turned around to see Ron, clutching the Lotus Blade tightly, and shaking his head. "I can't let you go."Kim groaned. "Ron, if I don't, then millions of lives will be lost! I can't let that happen!"

"I don't care." Ron shook his head firmly. "I can't... I just can't-"

"Can't what, Ron?"

"I can't- I can't lose you again." As he said this, the Lotus Blade fell to the ground with a clang.

Kim looked into his chocolate brown eyes, and saw love and caring inside them. Feelings overwhelmed her, and she threw her arms around his neck, embracing him in a long, loving kiss. All their emotions, their feelings, their panice, and their problems were swept away in that moment. If you were to see the two of them kissing, right there, at that time and place, with a Nuclear bomb flying over their heads, you would see two grown teenagers, madly in love with each other, and you could tell that their only thought was to be together, for the rest of their lives. Drew Lipsky and his daughter, Shego, watched as the two people they had fought for over three years expressing their feelings to each other in the only way they knew how.

When they finally pulled out of the kiss, each had tears in their eyes, and Kim found the courage to speak first.

"I have to go, Ron."

Ron shook his head one last time. "No."

She was about to protest, when he spoke again.

"I'm going. You don't deserve to die."

"Ron, I won't-" But she was interrupted by Drakkens voice.

"No."

Kim and Ron both looked at Drakken.

"Huh?" They both asked him.

"None of you go."

Kim threw her arms in the air. "The who will?"

Drakken, quite calmy and simply, replied...

"Me."

The next chapter is going to be that last one, not including the epilouge, so I'm going to put out the next chapter and the epilouge together. R&R.