Chapter 6

They walked to the door, which had already been left open by Kim Possible. Standing there was Shego's brother Hego. Shego took a defensive stance, lighting up her glowing laser hands.

"What do YOU want?", asked Shego, "Are you working with Possible?"

"Huh? Kim Possible? No, I haven't seen her since that time we fought Aviarius together. I just came here as a favor to an old friend," said Hego, "Remember your old best friend from grade school, Stanley Greenwilder?"

How could Shego forget? They were best friends as children, until they became 13. Over time he became a complete action-figure-obsessed geek, who was failing school, and she realized what an ugly idiot he was. Through high school he started always following her around, trying to ask her out. She could never go out with an idiot. Whenever he asked her out to school dances, she felt the need to be polite to her old friend, and always told him she had a boyfriend. It was always a lie. She never had the heart to tell him she thought he was a loser. Now, standing behind her brother Hego, was her old friend Stanley, looking even more like a loser now than he did in high school.

"Oh, Stanley. Uh… hi. Long time no see", said Shego nervously, "Gee, thank you Hego for bringing my old friend all this way for a visit."

"No problem. He dropped by mom's house, wondering whatever happened to you. And I knew you'd love to see him again."

Shego shuddered as Stanley stepped forward. He had let himself go even more, and had a large fat belly. He was wearing a Star Wars t-shirt, that looked like it had been autographed by the cast. It was probably his way of trying to impress Shego. His over-sized glasses, magnified his green eyes, and Shego noticed his shoes were on the wrong feet.

"Hi Shego", he said, "I've been wondering about whatever happened to you for years. I've missed you."

"You know, I bought this place thinking it would be a secret lair", said Drakken annoyed, "It seems just about anyone can find it."

"Really? If you wanted it to be secret, why didn't you call the phone company to keep your name and address out of the phone book?", asked Hego.

Before Drakken could reply to Hego, Stanley stepped forward and handed Shego a bouquet of red roses. Shego muttered, "Thanks…". She had to do something before Stanley asked her out.

"Shego, I was wondering if you'd like to go with me to…", said Stanley.

Shego cut him off and said, "Stanley, I'd like you to meet my husband, Dr. Drakken." She shifted an emerald ring off her right hand onto her wedding-ring finger, behind her back. Drakken looked at her surprised, as Shego wrapped an arm around him, and held him close to her.

Hego looked at his little sister Shego holding Drakken, and felt a bit sick to his stomach. If she married a villain, he knew she was lost from their superhero group "Team Go" forever. "Shego, why didn't you invite me or the rest of the family to the wedding?", he asked sadly, "We would have come."

"Uh, sure… and you would have arrested every villain there", said Shego, continuing her lie.

"Well", said Stanley looking at Shego and Drakken, "I guess he does seem like your type."

"What do you mean?", said Shego, "How do you know what my type is?"

Stanley said, "Aside from the fact that he's a rich doctor who owns his own private island here? I remember when we used to watch sci-fi and horror videos at my house when we were 12. You always did have crushes on the mad scientist characters. Remember you said your dream guy would be an ambitious genius scientist wearing a long lab coat and have long black hair tied back into a ponytail. I always remembered that statement. That was the year I dyed my hair black and tried to grow a ponytail for you. But my blonde roots kept showing and I looked like a dweeb. And I signed up for a remedial science class, but ended up failing. Sigh… I suppose I could never live up to your expectations. Anyways it looks like you finally found your dream guy. Well, congratulations." A tear formed in Stanley's eye.

Drakken looked at Shego inquisitively. Shego blushed embarrassed, and said, "Oh look at the time! It's almost midnight, and I'm sleepy. Looks like we'll have to cut our reunion short. Sorry Stanley. Sorry Hego."

"Bye sis. I'll let the whole family know about your marriage", said Hego as he headed out the door, followed by a heartbroken Stanley. Shego groaned, annoyed. As the door closed she let go of Drakken who was still looking at her, as if asking for an explanation, that he was too afraid to actually ask for.

Shego saw his look and said, "What? I was twelve then!"

"Come Shego, let me show you my plan for the death ray!", said Drakken, switching the topic before Shego could get angry.