Chapter 2
Shego laughed hysterically, "You? You don't think you can actually beat Kim Possible in a fight? Oh God, that's the funniest thing I've heard in weeks!"
Drakken grimaced sternly, while Shego continued to roll in her chair laughing.
"Oh, I can picture it in my mind now… You doing martial arts against Kim Possible!", Shego laughed, "Wait.. I have to see this. I have to see you fight Kim Possible, it'll be the funniest thing in the world! Maybe I can have one of the henchmen videotape it and we can win some money on that funniest home-videos show!"
"Shego, I'm serious. You'll teach me then, right? Everything you know about martial arts?", asked Drakken desperately. He had faith in his plan, and his determination to finally beat Kim Possible and take over the world. Listening to Shego's sassy comments, was something he had learned to put up with in exchange for having her amazing skills on his side. That, and he had to pay her four times as much as his other henchmen.
"Well I'm a master of every martial art. It'd take forever to teach you everything. But I can teach you the basics, as well as a few surprise moves to throw Kim off her feet", said Shego. She had stopped laughing and resumed a serious pose.
"Great! Shego you're the best!" said Drakken, "So when can we start? Now?"
"I suppose", said Shego, "This could be fun. Let's go to the fighting room."
They walked together upstairs to the fighting room. A few henchmen were punching some punching bags that had a poorly-done drawing Kim Possible's face on the top of the bag. Drakken and Shego stood on a blue dojo-style mat facing a mirror. She showed him a basic stance, how to properly make a fist, and some simple kicks. She was surprised that he seemed to be getting it right. So she decided to take the lesson further, and hold up a padded target.
"I want you to imagine this target is Kim Possible's back. Punch it swiftly, and then shift back a step and do a side kick", said Shego.
Drakken punched the target with all his might (which wasn't much), and pulled back his hand in pain. After holding his sore hand for a moment, he jumped back and tried to kick the pad. His kick struck too low and hit Shego squarely in the knee. Her hand quickly lit up as a fighting reflex and burnt a hole in the training pad.
"Ok… that sucked", said Shego.
"I'm not a quitter. I will defeat Kim Possible," said Drakken as they continued the lesson.
After about two months of daily lessons, Drakken had greatly improved in fighting. He was still no match for Kim Possible on his own, but he felt confident enough to surprise her from behind, while Kim would be fighting Shego.
"Shego, it's time to carry out Stage 1 of our plan. Eliminating the rat", said Drakken.
Shego and Drakken hopped in their chrome open-air hovercraft and sped off towards Middleton. It was January and the cold night air whipped through their hair causing Shego to shiver.
"Brrrr… it's freezing", said Shego, "Let me borrow your lab coat."
"Then what will I have to keep warm?", said Drakken.
Shego lit up her laser glove menacingly, and Drakken quickly removed his dark-blue lab coat and handed it to her. His shirt underneath was short sleeved, and he had his black gloves on as always. It was very cold outside, and the icy air seemed to bite at his exposed arms. As the cold air made him shiver, he grumbled about installing a heater in the hover craft as soon as possible. Shego glanced over at him shivering and felt a pang of guilt. She looked at the warm lab coat she was wearing and sighed. She took it off and handed it back to Drakken. He looked at her gratefully and put the coat back on.
"Sorry…", she said, "I should've thought to bring a coat. You know that lab coat of yours is pretty warm. Maybe because of the length."
"I have a ton of them back at the lair. You can have one, if you like", said Drakken.
"No way… I shop at Club Banana, not Smartymart or wherever you got that thing from", said Shego.
"For your information, my mother gave this to me. She sewed it herself, by hand!", said Drakken, "See she embroidered my name into the tag even."
Shego looked at the tag, which read, "For my little Drewbie". She laughed.
"My mother made all my clothes. Even my underwear," said Drakken. He lifted up the back of his labcoat, and showed her tag from his boxers, which was sticking out above the edge of his pants. It read, "Drewbie".
Shego looked away and said, "I did not need to see that."
She then looked at the ground. "We're here, 'Drewbie'", she said mockingly.
Drakken tapped at the controls and set down the hovercraft near Ron Stoppable's house. He pulled the virus vial out of the cup holder and handed it to Shego. She took it with a grin and silently leaped away from the hovercraft onto the roof of the house. She leaned over the edge of the roof, opened the vial, and threw it into an air vent in the stucco wall. Within less than 30 seconds she was back in the hovercraft.
"Mission accomplished", she said, and Drakken showed a big toothy grin.
