Chapter 19
Once within the room/cell, Andrea took a quick look around, and nodded her approval. "Hey, nice room, Stephanie," Andrea opined.
Shego smiled, pleased. "Thanks, I try," she replied humbly, with a clever little grin.
Andrea was about to say something, when she was distracted by something warm and furry rubbing against her leg. She looked down to see Shego´s cute little kitten rubbing herself against her leg, looking up at her, wanting Andrea to give her a pet. "Aw, she´s so cute!" Andrea gushed, kneeling down to gently scratch Kim the kitten behind her ear, which caused the friendly little kitten to purr in satisfaction.
"I think she likes you, Andrea," Shego observed, watching as Kim kitten pressed herself against Andrea's knee, eyes closed in bliss as she was stroked and petted..
"We got an hour, Andrea," Shego reminded her, and Andrea regretfully patted Kim kitten one last time and moved over beside Shego. "I've got PS2 and GameCube…want to play a game or something?" Shego asked hopefully, nodding toward her game consoles.
"Yeah, that sounds like fun. Let's!" Andrea agreed, and the two sat down to play. The girls had fun for a half an hour playing 'Mario Cart Double Dash', but eventually they tired of it.
"Steph, you got any paper and pencils around here anywhere?" Andrea asked, one eyebrow arching up hopefully.
"Think so," Shego replied, smiling as she stood up and moved about her room, eventually dredging up a pair of sketchbooks and two pencils. "Will this work?"
"Perfect. Thanks," Andrea responded, taking one sketchbook and a pencil from her companion. As Shego settled down into a comfortable chair, Andrea began sketching furiously, all the while studiously hiding her creation from Shego.
After a while, Andrea seemd to finish her drawing, and looked up to see Shego had found a set of colored pencils and had set them out. Andrea smiled, and began applying colored pencils to her finished sketch. "So…interested?" Andrea said mysteriously, indicating the sketchbook with a jerk of her chin.
"Well, yeah!" Shego replied, leaning forward. "Let me see…"
Andrea grinned, then turned her sketch book around to show Shego her sketch.
"Whoa!" Shego gasped, her big dark eyes going wide. It seemed that Andrea really was talented! She had sketched an outfit on a someone of Shego's build and hairstyle. The outfit Andrea had created consisted of a pair of simple black jeans with green flames running around the jeans hem and up the calves…making it almost appear that the jeans were actually on fire. The top of the outfit was in a forest green color, the collar to the chest of the shirt sporting tasteful black flames. Over the top was a jacket made of denim in the darkest deepest indigo, a dark, dark blue that was nearly black. Bright green flames adorned the cuffs of the jacket as well as the bottom, licking up hungrily along the indigo of the jacket. "Andrea!" Shego exclaimed as she regained her composure back. "Tell you what…when I become a professional singer, I'm hiring you to do all of my clothes! You are good!"
Andrea, grinned, then blushed and looked down in pleased embarrassment. "Gee, they're not all that good…are they?" she asked, rather tentatively. "I mean, it was just a thought. I thought it would look a cool as an outfit for you…since I know how you love green and black."
"Andrea, that outfit you just whipped up was fantastic! And, you did it in only what? Five minutes? That's huge!" Shego said. Then she paused, clearly thinking about something. "Um, if you don't mind, that is…I have a question."
Andrea nodded, but looked puzzled. "Go ahead," she prompted.
"If you're so good at drawing---and you are, trust me!---then why did you ever start in the TV business? Heck, you could of earned millions with sketches like these at Club Banana. Those guys would of snapped you up in a heartbeat!"
"Well," Andrea began then looked down, away from Shego's gaze. "Not that it matters or anything…but, I really did try to get a job as a designer, way back after I dropped out of college. I intended to get my degree in design…but, I had to get all my prerequisites down first. And, there was the problem. Um, let's just say I had a problem with that...I used to draw, you see, when I got bored at school. Oh, yes…especially during math class, or religion class, oh, and those important things like, well, exams. You can probably imagine what horrors my report cards were."
Shego winced, realizing they must have been horrible indeed.
Andrea continued on, smiling wanly. "So, without a degree, I really couldn't get into design school like I might of liked to." Andrea shrugged, trying to hide her disappointment, but Shego could see it nonetheless.
Shego gave Andrea a gentle punch in the shoulder, an encouraging gesture from her. "Well, girl, you just leave that to Kim to take care of," Shego told her, smiling. "Why don't we give the radio a listen for a while?" she suggested tactfully.
Andrea nodded.
Shego turned on the radio she had upon her desk. A perky lady's voice blared throughout the room. "…in other news, famed teen heroine, Kim Possible, has been reported to of joined with the group from Global Justice to open a spectacular new rehabilitation center."
Shego and Andrea became quiet and leaned toward the radio to listen.
"For nearly four months now, our sources tell us, Global Justice has been building a secret center somewhere out in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, on some remote island. The goal of this facility is a laudable one…to make both you and I feel all that much safer in our lives.
"The Global Justice group call this new site their premier 'Rehabilitation Center'. Now you might ask---as your faithful reporter has---precisely what, or perhaps whom, do these good folks rehabilitate? Well, let me tell you, what else…criminals, of course! Now, three days ago, a collection of the worlds six arch-villains were brought to that very facility to be rehabilitated..." the reporter informed her audience…which included these two.
"Well, that certainly explains why we're all here, then," Andrea said. Shego nodded her agreement.
The radio woman continued on. "Through our reliable sources, we've finally gotten the names of all these inaugural rehabilitants. And they are:
"Drew Lipsky, also know as Doctor Drakken, a mysterious scientist with the ill-fated goal of world conquest."
"I really hope Doctor D's mother wasn't listening to this," Shego told Andrea with a grin. "She thinks that he and I run a radio station."
Andrea laughed uproariously at that, making Shego grin in embarrassment.
"Alongside the good Doctor is his sometime associate, Stephanie Gonzales. That's right…the infamous Shego. A woman wanted in eleven countries around the globe for a plethora of crimes: stealing, kidnapping, extortion, assault, and destruction of property. Lots of destruction of property. To quote our own Kim Possible, 'Shego's good at being bad'."
"Thank you. Thank you," Shego clowned, bowing to some invisible audience…oh, and Andrea, of course. "Please, no autographs! Just throw money, if you must."
Andrea laughed at her antics.
"The next member of the Rogues' Gallery, as the Global Justice people have dubbed them, would be Lord Monty Fiske, the dangerous martial arts master known as Monkey Fist. He is wanted for the theft of antiquities as well as numerous other charges. This former aristocrat is chiefly know for his obsessive need to steal every monkey artifact he can lay his paws---er, hand---on," the reporter intoned.
"You mean…somebody else actually wants those icky monkey artifacts besides him?" Andrea asked incredulously.
"Hmm, I don´t think so," Shego said, shaking her head before joining Andrea in another laugh.
"Also, currently a resident at GJRC would be one Amanda Budary, a.k.a. DNAmy. This amateur geneticist-turned-criminal's single driving force is her outlandish love for the children's plush toys known world-wide as Cuddlebuddies. That obsession---combined with her natural talents with gene manipulation---have resulted in the creation of horrific, living versions of these cute plush toys," the report said on.
"You got that right, sport," Shego told the lady on the radio. "Hmph, I bet she´d marry a Cuddlebuddy, if she could somehow manage it!"
"Rounding out the gallery of villains attending the Rehabilitation Center, is the mad golfer, Duff Killigan. Our sources world-wide couldn't provide us with very much on this underworld figure, well, other than the fact that he has been banned from almost every golf course around the globe," the reported told them factually.
"But…why golf?" Andrea asked Shego. "Why not baseball maybe? Or even rugby? Or soccer?"
"Dunno," Shego said with a shrug of her shoudlers. "He's from Scotland, maybe that explains it. They like golf there, right?"
Andrea shrugged helplessly.
"And, finally, last…but hardly least, the last inhabitant currently residing at the Center is Andrea Lynn. This former entertainer and TV personality was on the rise…until our own Kim Possible figured out that she was a fake, a sham."
"She's right about that," Andrea observed then sighed. "Man, I could of been rolling in cash now if Kim hadn't of..." She stopped talking then, and Shego understood from the look on her face that she was being told off by her conscience. She laid a comforting hand on her shoulder.
"Don´t worry," Shego avised. "You're going to be richer than you ever would of as a TV personality…especially when you get those designs of yours going."
"You really think so?" Andrea asked, a small smile on her lips.
"You bet! Your designs are top-notch, Andrea!" Shego pronounced.
"…so far the rehabilitation project has been an stunning success, in fact, our own Kim is already telling our sources that she's seen some of the villains turning over a new leaf already…proving there can be good in those that were evil. This has been the news. Now, back to your station for some more music."
The radio started to play a song. "Oh, I love this song!" Shego exclaimed and turned up the volume before she began to sing:
When I think of what I've been through
I can see that you've always been there for me
To tell the truth, don't know what I'd do
Without you, none of my dreams would not come true
You are the one, that I have hoped for
Now my life, mean so much more
Now we can be, together forever
Forever just you and me
Be here for you, you here for me, you
It was you pushing me
I got a friend in you
I always knew that you'd be right here for me
And it was you who stuck with me
When the skies are blue
And it was you who stood by my side
It was you
Since the day you came in my life
I knew then that you'd be someone right by my side
Then through you're a friend to me
In my heart, wherever you will always be
You are the one that I have hoped for
Now my life mean so much more
Now we can be together forever
Just you and me there for each other
It was you pushing me
I got a friend in you
I always knew that you'd be right here for me
And it was you who stuck with me
When the skies are blue
And it was you who stood by my side
It was you
It was you pushing me
I got a friend in you
I always knew that you'd be right here for me
And it was you who stuck with me
When the skies are blue
And it was you who stood by my side
It was you
It was you who's always right by my side
And I just can't do it you helped me through it
We've been forever like best friends shoud be
You'll always be special part of me
It was you pushing me
I got a friend in you
I always knew that you'd be right here for me
And it was you who stuck with me
When the skies are blue
And it was you who stood by my side
It was you
It was you pushing me
I got a friend in you
I always knew that you'd be right here for me
And it was you who stuck with me
When the skies are blue
And it was you who stood by my side
It was you
It was you who showed me I got it baby
I always knew that you'd be right there
And it was you who stuck with me when skies are blue
And it was you I knew I could count you
It was you showed me I got a friend in me
I always knew that you'd be right here for me
And it was you who stuck with me when the skies are blue
And it was you who stood by my side
It was you
You were a friend to me
It was you
Andrea smiled, then started to applaud...and, apparently, so did someone else, who appeared at the door. Kim had returned to get Andrea. "Not too shabby there, Stephanie," she admitted with a grin. "So…just how long have you two been listening to the radio?"
"Long enough for us hear that we've become famous," Shego replied cleverly.
Kim smiled, shaking her red-haired head in amusement. "Well, it's time to separate you two. Andrea, it's time to say good bye to Stephanie now. You need to get back to your own room. Polly's waiting for you," Kim said, reminding Andrea of her responsibility to her pet.
"Yeah, you're right. Poor Polly," Andrea replied, then turned. "Bye, Stephanie," she added, and the two gave one another a quick hug. "You can keep that drawing, if you like," Andrea told her, then winked cleverly before leaving.
Shego smiled at her friend, as she watched Kim led Andrea back to her own cell.
Kim the kitten padded and curled up in Shego´s lap. "What´s the matter, sweetie?" Shego asked. "Are you jealous that I have someone other than you for a friend?"
Kim the kitten answer to that question was to roll over on her back, wanting her tummy to be petted. Shego shook her head, grinning. Her kitten was just impossible, sometimes. Cute, but impossible…
See? her voice said. You've found more friends that you never knew you had, dear. If I were to let loose your evil half now, this very moment, I think I would have a good bet that you'd fight her tooth and nail, Stephanie. It's not a matter of you being forced anymore. Admit it…you actually like being good now.
Shego looked down, surprised. And at that moment, she knew that her little voice, her conscience, had her dead to rights. She did. She did like being good. And…she seemed to be getting good at it.