The Desert Island Game

By Nyassa Kaiba

Shego felt something dragging at her. Come with me Shego. It said. Come to me and I shall give you power. Shego. Shego I can help you gain power. Draw on the darkness.

Shego heard somebody crying nearby. "Shego come back to us!"

But she was so tired. It would be easier just to stay there forever.

That's right Shego, stay with me and together we shall be strong.

"Shego come on! Get up! Shego you have to fight it!"

Why should she? All her old life had brought her was pain and humiliation, whether it was a school yard bully or Kim Possible handing her butt to her in combat.

"Shego please don't die!"

Die? What was the voice talking about? She just needed to rest. To end it, to end everything.

"Shego I love you!"

Okay that was going a bit too far.

Then it came back to Shego, the battle, the monster… Kim… And that meant that the other voice was a lie. It was more than evil. It was death.

Shego wasn't ready to die just yet.

The other voice, the dark one, screamed in pain. Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

"That's it Shego! Come back! Come back to us!"

"I… I am back…" Shego found the strength to mutter. And then Shego was in dreamland.


Shego was dreaming, dreaming memory. She had just come home from a nasty schoolyard fight with Amy, who would later become DNAmy. But little Shego didn't know that. All little Shego knew at the time was that her parents had been insulted. And when that happened there would be Hell to pay.

"Shego." Her aunt said with a sigh. "Did you get into a fight AGAIN?"

"It was her fault! Hers!" Five year old Shego sobbed.

"Who's?"

"Amy's! She insulted my parents!" Shego threw her arms around her aunt.

"I see…" She seemed to be thinking. "Shego, why don't you come with me to work tomorrow?"

"Am I in trouble?" Shego asked worriedly.

"No, but at work they have a special day where you can bring your children. I don't have any children of my own, so why don't you join me?"

"I'D LOVE TO!" Shego cried, wiping the tears away.

"You know, I don't blame you for the fight. Just be sure to hold your punches next time okay? There's a time to talk, and there's a time to fight. You just need to learn the right time, that, and the fact that words can hurt just as much as fights can."

"They can? Coool!" Shego smirked. "So next time I can ask her if she's crazy?"

"That would be a good start." Shego's aunt said with a chuckle.

"Okay! I'll insult her back next time!" Shego grinned wickedly. She gave her aunt a kiss on the cheek.

The next morning Shego was stuck in her aunt's office while her Aunt was at a meeting. "Bo-ring." Shego sighed as she played checkers with an imaginary friend.

The friend suggested that she take a walk.

"I can't! I was told to stay put! Well…" Shego paused. "Okay! I'll take a walk."

She managed to make it out onto the workroom floor of the chemical plant where her aunt worked as a researcher.

Suddenly, a siren sounded. "Oh no! Did she find me missing?" Shego asked her friend.

The friend replied that they had not.

Shego didn't see it coming, the vat filled with energy plasma OR the electric wire that had split and was spraying current every which way.

"LOOK OUT!" Shego's aunt shoved her niece out of the way just as the vat tipped over, crushing her aunt, knocking Shego over, and spilling the contents of the vat everywhere. Shego fell down in the dousing of chemical. It got in her ears! It got in her eyes! She even accidentally swallowed some! And of course, it had soaked her skin. Then the livewire hit the superconductive plasma and that was the last Shego saw for a long time.

When she woke up, Shego was in the hospital. "Aunt Maya!" She cried to the nurse. "Where's aunt Maya! I'm going to be in so much…" She was about to say trouble, but the nurse sadly shook her head. "She's not… she's not…."

The nurse tucked her back in. "Rest for now sweetie."

Shego pretended to sleep, listening to the conversation. "She's conscious. But she'll never be the same."

"And the aunt?"

"I didn't have the heart to tell her that the aunt is dead." Said the nurse. "There's an uncle of hers with a glass shop in Middleton. We'll have her things sent there for now, okay?"

"Sounds like a plan. But the girl's DNA structure?"

"Totally shot to Hell. I'm surprised she's not dead by now. It was the electricity, it bonded the chemical to her DNA. She's a mutant now alright." Shego had no idea what a mutant was, nor what DNA was. She did understand that her aunt was dead because of her, and that she should have died, but was somehow alive.

Then she had yet another schoolyard fight with Amy. This time, Shego got so angry that green fire shot from her fingers. Suffice to say that Amy ran, and never bothered Shego again, (at least for another few years.) But the consequences of her new gift was that when Shego moved to Middleton nobody wanted anything to do with her.

Until one day she had been teased for her abilities, once again. Shego, now six, was sitting on a rock, crying.

"Why are you crying?" Came a soft voice. Standing there by the giant rock was a girl in shorts and a t-shirt, with emerald green eyes and long, luxurious red hair.

"You mean… you aren't scared of me?" Asked Shego.

"Why should I be?" The girl asked, climbing up the rock to sit next to Shego.

"Because I'm a mutant."

"What's that?" The girl asked.

Shego, in explanation, called up a ball of green fire that flickered in her palm. "It means that I can do things normal humans can't."

"Wo-ow!" Cried the girl. "It's pretty! Its as green as the grass! And it glows so bright!" Then she held out a hand. "I'm Kim, Kim Possible."

"Funny name." Shego said with a smile. "I'm Shego."

"Nice to meet you Shego." Chibi Kim said with a smile.

"Nice to meet you too Kim." Shego said, also with a smile, because that warm grin was catching.

"So everybody's afraid of you because of it. Don't you have ANY friends?" She asked.

"None."

"Well you've got two now! Hey Ron!" She called up.

"KP! Coming!" A blonde haired kid scrambled up the rock to meet them. "Oh no." He saw Shego. "I've heard of you! You're that mutant girl! You're not going to give me your mutatious powers!"

"Her name is Shego, Ron!" Kim told him. "And that's not fair. Mutatious isn't even a word!"

"Okay, fine, if Kim likes you then I guess you're okay." Ron said with a sigh.

The next few months were paradise, until word reached Shego's mother of the accident. She decided that it would be better if Shego stayed with the circus, perfecting her newfound abilities. And that was the last Shego saw of either Kim Possible or Ron Stoppable for a loooooooooong time.


Shego woke about midday, looking up at the top of the tent. "Huh?"

"You're awake!" Cried Kim as she leaned in to rest her head on Shego's shoulder. "I'm glad you're okay."

"What happened?"

"That tiger nearly killed you is what. Were you afraid of it or something?"

"I'm not sure. It… it felt like it was sapping my strength. The creature, it spoke to me… in my head… and it called itself my Mana."

"You mean like the Magic the Gathering card?" Kim asked.

"That's what it sounded like. But Mana, in witchcraft, means life force."

"So it was a creature made out of your life force?" Kim asked. "Weird."

"I know. And for some reason my body just wouldn't do what I told it to do." Shego shuddered. "How did you and Ron stop it?"

"We didn't. Something slipped out of your pocket and whatever it was it scared the Tiger monster away." Kim handed it to her. Shego held it up. Oh yeah, her aunt'sTigerPentacle.

"This was an artifact that my Aunt had. One of my other uncles was an archeologist. He gave it to her for her birthday."

"You have a lot of aunts and uncles don't you?" Kim asked.

"My extended family is HUGE." Shego replied. "I have six aunts and three uncles and that's not counting my cousins and the people that they married. Most of them are in the circus like my mom and dad. But some of them decided that they wanted to do more with their lives than circus tricks."

"I see." Kim stated. "So what does this thing do?" She handed it back to Shego.

"Well, it's said that the Dragon Pentacle has something to do with spirits. But other than that I'm not sure. Maybe it's the key to destroying these Mana monsters."

"I'd hate to see what mine looks like." Kim said with a sigh. She reached out to stroke Shego's hair gently. "I'm just glad you're okay."

"About a day and a half ago you would have just let me die." Shego chuckled. "What time is it?"

"About noon." Kim replied. "It's my turn to cook, be ready for a culinary disaster." She stood, limping out on her crutch.

"We need a way to get off this island and a way to beat that monster." Shego stood, following her.

"You think I don't know that?" Kim sighed.

Shego watched Kim work and sure enough, the fish nearly burned, along with the rations. "Uh, Ron? What sort of creature is THIS?" Kim held up a shellfish about double fist sized with a shimmering shell.

"Oh, that's an abalone. Don't worry, they're edible. That's also where jewelers get mother of pearl from. The pacific islanders eat them all the time." Ron told her as he rescued the roast fish. "If you don't like shellfish I can throw it out but…"

Kim sighed and threw it back into the water. "I am NOT in a mood for giant shellfish."

"Suit yourself."

"You just threw out mother of pearl!"Ron squeeked. "You could have sold the shell or something."

"Ron sell it to WHO?" Kim asked. "Do you see a club banana anywhere on this god forsaken rock."

"They don't buy shells." Pointed out Shego.

"That's not the point." Kim growled. The camping pot filled with soup began to boil over. "Oh no! Its ruined!" Kim snatched the pot off the fire blew on it to try and cool it off. "Great. Now what are we going to eat?"

"You tried." Shego said with a smile. "The one thing that you can't do?" She chuckled. "Cook? I'm sorry Kimmie, but that's funny."

Kim flushed and growled, kicking over the burned stewpot. "Ron, from now on you cook and I'll do the dishes. No more rotating shifts. You cook and I'll clean and that way we won't waste anymore food."

"It's not food I'm worried about but water." Shego told them. "Do you know how germy most rivers are? I have some iodine tablets that should purify it, but they taste awful!"

"Save rainwater somehow?" Ron suggested.

"Humans can go up to four days without water before they become dehydrated." Shego told the other two. "I'll drink river water if I have to, but I'd rather avoid it. You know what they say about traveling, don't drink the water. Besides, do you know what you can get from it?"

"I'd rather not, and we can't drink ocean water can we?" Kim asked.

"Not without getting the salt out. I could do that if I had access to Drakken's lab, but not here." Shego sighed.

"So what do we do?" Ron asked.

"Look for a spring. The problem is that we'd have to get to the mountain. That's the most likely spot. And that wolf monster can't be everywhere at once." Shego sighed. "I'll see if I can sneak in."

"No, I don't want you to get hurt!" Kim cried, wrapping her arms around Shego. "You should have seen yourself Shego. That thing was draining your energy. For a moment after we scared it off I thought you were going to die and I don't want that to happen, not after we'd just gotten together!" She gave Shego puppy eyes.

Shego blinked. Ron said, "Uht-oh, Kim's infamous puppy eyes method."

The villainess sighed. "Okay, how can I say no to a face like that. I'll get one of the iodine tablets out of my pack and see if we can find some water outside the barrier."

Kim sighed as Shego dug through the bags for both her's, Ron's and Shego's canteens and carried them off into the woods. By now all their canteens were empty, so there was no wasted water.

"As long as she doesn't spike the water with anything." Ron muttered.

"RON!" Kim scolded.

"What? She's a villainess after all! I'm sorry KP, but while you think of her as a girlfriend, I think of her as an enemy. And it's always gonna be that way." Ron told her.

Kim rocked back, girlfriend? Did she consider Shego a girlfriend? Yes, she realized, she did consider Shego a girlfriend. That made her a lesbian? Naw, bisexual, had to be, after all the guys she'd swooned for in the past. No way she could be a lesbian after that.

"What, did I say something wrong?" Ron asked.

"No, things just sinking in, that's all." Kim replied. She sighed.

Shego came back with three full canteens. "Okay watch." She pulled three tablets out of a pouch on her bag and dropped one in each of the canteens. "I'm warning you, they taste horrible. Give it about an hour and the stuff will be ready."

"So what was that thing?" Kim asked. "The monster I mean."

"I'll bet you odds to evens that Monkey fist would have figured it out by now, given how much mythology he knows." Shego sighed. "Unfortunately I know nothing beyond the usual Greco-roman gods and goddesses. I'd give anything for a mythology text book right about now to find out. And for that matter, why attack me?"

Kim sighed, climbing happily into Shego's lap. "I'm just glad you're okay."

"But how do we beat that thing?" Ron asked. "Does it make a monster out of everybody's lifeforce?"

The image of a giant naked mole rat with glowing red eyes flashed through Shego's mind. "I'll bet I know what yours would be, attack of the giant naked mole rat!" Shego stuck her tongue out at Ron.

"Hey, don't diss the molerat. Rufus has gotten me out of more scrapes than I can remember." Ron growled.

"Which isn't saying much given your short term memory." Shego smirked, wrapping her arms around Kim's waist.

"Hey!"

"Now now Shego, be nice."

"The acid Kim! The verbal acid is burning away my ears!" Ron cried dramatically.

"Shego, can you please be nicer to Ron?"

"I'll try, but most of the time I just have to open my mouth." Shego chuckled.

"Well then, how about if when you open your mouth I silence it with this." She pulled Shego into a long, passionate kiss. Shego, startled, had her mouth open for Kim to explore. Then she realized what had happened and Shego fought back for domination. The two of them fell off the log and Kim had Shego pinned, rubbing at her breasts gently. Shego moaned into her mouth… "Oh… oh…"

Kim pulled back for air about an inch or so. "Oh don't stop." Shego begged. "You've got me… don't stop…"

"Um… hello… okay new rule. No making out when the sidekick is watching okay Kim? Kim?" Ron asked, waving a hand in their vision.

Shego hissed and slashed at him. "You really know how to ruin the mood you know that?"

Ron jumped back. "I think it would only be polite that you not start a make out session in front of me. That IS rather embarrassing."

Shego sighed, smacking a hand over her forehead. "Okay! Fine." Shego dragged Kim off into the bushes. "I'll get a room!"

"Bye." Kim said meekly as she waved at him over her shoulder.