Chapter 7

They stepped down into the lab and saw that Kim Possible and her sidekick were awake and struggling in their restraints.

Ah.. Kim Possible. I see that you are awake," said Drakken beginning his normal villain rant, "Soon I will be launching this death ray into orbit around the Earth, under control by this remote. And you'll have no choice but to sit back and watch as the leaders of the world bow down to me, or have their countries obliterated. I will rule the world!"

Drakken pressed a button and two large chrome doors slid open to reveal a large rocket.

"Where'd you get that from, Drakken?" asked Kim angrily.

"What, you think your daddy's the only rocket scientist? For your information, I built it," said Drakken.

He motioned to two henchmen to load the death ray into the rocket. They bumped it into the door.

"Careful you two! That's death ray's expensive!", said Drakken.

"Like as if you paid for it", said Ron. Ron struggled harder to escape from his restraint. The wiggling caused his pants to fall off again, revealing his boxer shorts. "Ooops", he said.

Drakken looked at Ron with disgust and said, "Are you some kind of exhibitionist or something? I've never heard of a normal person losing his pants every day. Or twice a day for that matter."

"Excuse me, but what would you know about normal, blue boy!", said Ron defiantly.

Drakken turned away from Ron, irritated. He walked up to Shego and said, "I'll run the command center here, but I'll need you to fly the rocket into orbit and position the death ray in space. I know you've only flown jets before, but don't worry. I'll hire Monkey Fist to go with you. He's had space flight experience. He'll control the rocket, and you'll position the death ray according to my instructions. It'll be a two day mission."

"You don't expect me to stay in a little rocket cockpit for two days with Monkey Fist!", said Shego, "The man thinks he's a monkey for God's sake!"

"Well I suppose I could hire Killigan, instead", said Drakken, "I think he's had some experience with rockets."

"Ugh.. Killigan is even worse", said Shego, "Did I ever tell you about the time he hired me for a theft back before I started working for you. The man is a chauvinist pig! He does not know how to treat a lady with respect, and he even once tried to pat me on the butt, after I finished the theft for him. I punched him in the face of course."

"Well, you don't expect me to hire your boyfriend Junior to fly the rocket. No offense but he has the intelligence of a bacterium," said Drakken.

"Don't even call him my boyfriend. I was just his hired teacher for awhile; and only because he's a billionaire. All I wanted was money. I could never go for an egotistical idiot trophy-boy like him," said Shego, "Yuck… don't make me puke."

"Well, who will you work with?", asked Drakken.

"You", said Shego, "You fly the rocket, and hire someone else to run the computer and monitor our position back here.

"Why only me?", asked Drakken, "You know I get airsick during space flight."

"Well... I like to work with you. We work well together as a team. Other villains don't know how to work with a powerful woman. They treat me like they think I'm weak. They act like they're stronger or smarter than me, but you treat me with respect. You've never insulted me, or tried to hit on me. We make a good villain team, with you as the brains and me as the brawn," said Shego.

"So that's why you decided to work for me?", said Drakken

"Yeah, I guess. I could've decided to work for any other villain out there, but I chose you, because you're the only one who I think has any real potential to take over the world. I mean Monkey Fist will only do a scheme if it has to do with monkeys, and Killigan, all he does is make exploding golf balls. Big deal, anyone can make an explosive. They're idiots. But you, on the other hand, can build robots, lasers, rockets, hover crafts, and all sorts of things that I would have no clue how to build. You're a genius, well most of the time anyway. I only have my fighting ability. I could never take over the world on my own. So I found the villain with the most capability, and applied to work for you. I know Dr. Dementor, also can invent things and he has a big budget. But he is such an asshole. He kills his own henchmen if they make a mistake. And that's his fatal flaw. No one with any intelligence would want to work for a guy like that. Plus, your schemes are much more creative than his. I really think you're smarter than Dementor. So that leaves you, as the one most capable of taking over the world, and also conveniently the one who actually has manners enough to treat me well. I go where the talent and genius and potential is. And you're the only one who has the talent to build powerful equipment, the genius to plot a successful scheme, and the potential to take over the world. I want nothing to do with those other losers", said Shego.

Drakken looked at Shego, "No one has ever said such a nice compliment to me before. Actually, no one has said any compliment to me before. Shego I'm touched. Really. Finally someone in this world appreciates my genius." He smiled at her.

Ron made a gagging face in the background.

Of course Shego didn't want to tell Drakken the main reason why she liked working for him. The truth was, she was in love with him. Deeply in love. It didn't happen right away when she first met him. Upon first meeting Drakken, Shego found him kind of cute but the blue skin seemed a bit weird at first. She got used to it quickly and her feelings for him blossomed. She found herself staring at him at times and desperately tried to hide her feelings for Drakken by picking on him. She was a beautiful trendy type of girl, and he was well, a freak. She didn't want people to know she loved a guy like that. And if Drakken found out and rejected her, how much of a loser would people consider her to be then? So she kept her feelings hidden, and had spent the past three years, secretly crying herself to sleep at night, alone, and lovesick. Holding her pillow, imagining it was Drakken, she felt so pathetic and sad. Sometimes she purposely hurt his feelings, and insulted him, as a type of revenge, for all the hurt her feelings for him were causing her.

Shego glanced at Drakken and said, "Well you haven't taken over the world yet. So don't let it go to your head. So anyways, I don't have to share the rocket with Monkey Fist right?"

"No. I built it. I can fly it. But I'd need someone with good computer skills to handle the command center. He searched through the villain's directory. Ah.. Frugal Lucre. He's got computer skills, and he works for minimum wage to boot! Perfect," said Drakken.

Shego smiled.

"Shego, I was wondering… normally you make fun of me all the time. Why did you always call my ideas stupid before, if you didn't actually think they were stupid?", asked Drakken.

"I'm evil, duh, it's kind of in my personality to pick on people. I always have been like this, even in Team Go. Plus a few of your ideas really were kind of stupid," said Shego, "Like the time you wasted 99 million dollars on a laser gun to heat up the earth's temperature and increase the mosquito population, but just ended up blowing up the whole lair instead. Or the time you built your lair inside the world's biggest piece of cheese and it melted all over us."

Drakken's ego came crashing back down to earth. He shouted, "Those were good plans, but Kim Possible just messed them up! This time, that's not going to happen!"

"It's late. I'm going to bed", said Shego, "Nighty-night little Kimmy. Hope you're comfortable in your shackles." Shego laughed and exited the lab.

A few minutes later Drakken left to go to sleep as well. When he was out of the room, Ron looked at Kim and whispered, "Use your laser ring to cut the shackles."

"I tried, but my hand won't bend that way", said Kim, "These shackles are too tight."

They continued to struggle in their shackles, throughout the night, to no avail. Without Rufus, escape seemed impossible.

That night, in another part of the lair, Shego drifted off to sleep. She was holding her pillow as usual, and her makeup was streaked from tears. She began to dream about Drakken.

In her dream she was sitting in a chair in the lab, watching Drakken while he was working on one of his destructo-bots. His back was facing her. She looked at his spiky ponytail, and his cute big ears that stuck out. She smiled and watched him as he activated a soldering iron and melted some solder onto a circuit board. He was so cute, and she loved him so much, she felt she couldn't hold in her feelings for him any longer.

"Shego, can you bring me my nano-drill", asked Drakken.

Shego got up from her chair and brought Drakken the nano-drill. As she approached him from behind, she playfully ran a finger through his ponytail, and placed the drill into his hand. When her hand touched his, she felt her heart skip a beat. She looked into his eyes, unable to hide her feelings any longer. Without another thought, Shego leaned in and kissed Drakken, softly wrapping her arms around him. He stood there, somewhat shocked, but didn't pull away. She continued the kiss, until her lips slowly parted from his, and she looked into his eyes again. Her heart felt like it would burst with joy and desire.

"Shego… I…", said Drakken, "I had no idea."

He leaned forward and kissed her. They held eachother tightly as she deepened the kiss. Shego was completely in heaven.

"Oh.. Drakken..", said Shego, "I've dreamed of this day for so long…"

When she opened her eyes, she saw that she was just holding her pillow alone in her room. It had only been a dream. She rolled over, disappointed, and fell back asleep.