Kim Possible
Frequency of Evil
Chapter 3
"Hey Kim?" Ron asked back over his shoulder to where Kim was riding on his motor scooter. After tinkering with the motor for what seemed like almost forever he managed to finally get the darn thing to travel close to 45 miles an hour at top speed. Not exactly a speed demon but at the same time it was respectful enough.
"What?" Kim answered back.
"After we get the Pan-Dimensional Vortex Inducer back from Drakken, what say instead of returning it to the government, we let your brothers blast it into space or bury somewhere?"
"Ron! We can't do that. It belongs to the government."
"Oh come on Kim, as much as the government keeps losing this thing they might as well just put it in the villain's library and let them check it out at will."
"No Ron. We stop Drakken and return it to Global Justice. It is the only right thing to do."
"Oh okay. By the way, we're here." Ron said pulling the motor scooter to a stop.
"How can you tell?" Kim asked as she got off the back of the scooter. Looking up she saw that the structure was on a slight hill and for the lack of better words practically screamed villain's lair. There were turrets on the four corners of the building and it was a drab gray. "You would think they would try to hide it a little better?"
"Yeah at least put a coat of cheerful paint on it." Ron agreed.
"The roof?" Kim asked reaching into her backpack for her grappling gun.
"How about just for laughs we try the front door for a change?" Ron countered.
"It'll probably be trapped." Kim countered his counter.
"Why? He has got to know by now that you always use the roof."
Kim had no answer for that so she remained silent as Ron walked over and turned the knob on the front door. She expected a trap door to open under Ron or a piano to fall from the sky or at the very least Shego to appear and attack but… Nothing happened. Ron made a sweeping gesture for Kim to enter and with a frown she did so.
Shego watched as Drakken placed the scalpel on the table and flipped a switch. The scanner light above the table shone down and a few moments later the laser pointed at a blank wall of the lair switched on with a hum. A swirling blue portal appeared at the center of the wall and was about the size of a normal doorway.
Shego peering into the strange swirling blue mist filled opening nervously glanced at her watch. "Where are you Kimmie? You are never this late. Dr. D. has actually gotten his device to work before you showed up for a change."
"Stop whatever it is you are doing Drakken!" Kim Possible's voice suddenly called out from the hallway to their left.
"How did you get in here Kim Possible? I had the roof wired with electricity! You should have fried trying to come in that way!" Drakken in annoyance yelled.
"Um, we came in the front door dude. It was unlocked." Ron told him.
Shego looked over at Drakken with a shake of her head. "You electrified the roof but you left the front door UNLOCKED!"
"Who knew she would be clever enough to check the front door? She always uses the roof." Drakken replied defensively.
"Actually it was Ron who suggested we try the front door for a change." Kim felt the need to correct him.
"My security was outwitted by the buffoon?" Drakken asked in shock.
"And that kind of says it all, doesn't it?" Shego said.
"And we're going to shut you down completely." Kim said.
"Um, exactly what are we shutting down and what is that swirly blue thing over there?" Ron asked as he walked over to peer into it. Not even realizing how close he was coming to Shego who had been doing the exact same thing when they came in.
"Ron! Don't get too close to that thing. We don't even know what it is." Kim shouted at him.
"It is your doom Possible! A gateway to where ultimate evil awaits to do my bidding." Drakken said and then gave one of his cheesy evil laughs.
Shego rubbed her forehead again. Her headache was getting worse.
"Headache?" Ron asked sympathetically.
Shego nodded her head. "I always get them when he starts acting this way."
Ron nodded his head. "Probably tension induced. You need to learn to relax and chill."
"I try but you know how it is. Run here, steal that and then listen to him gloat and laugh all the time…"
"Shego! Enemies. Now is not the time to socialize." Drakken shouted at her.
"Just waiting for your army of evil to show up Dr. D." Shego replied snidely.
Ron had wandered even closer to the portal and was staring deeply into it. "I don't see anything…" He suddenly stopped and stumbled backwards as someone appeared in the portal and shuffled out. Or something.
The creature was roughly human shaped but was bent low to the ground shambling around like a monkey. His skin was an unhealthy looking gray color and he was wearing what looked like tattered bandages over his face and a lunatic's straightjacket with the sleeves undone and dragging on the ground.
"Your army is one escaped mental patient?" Shego derisively snorted at Drakken.
"There's more than one!" Ron yelped and began backpedaling from the portal opening as at least six more creatures identical to the last came through.
Even Shego ignited the green fire on her hands and backed away as the creatures shuffled into the lair and shuffle circled around her, Kim Possible and Ron.
"Kim! What are these things?" Ron yelled.
"Don't attack them unless they attack you first!" Kim yelled. "So far they just seem to be looking us over."
Finally one of the creatures, Ron couldn't be sure which one since they all basically looked the same, held up a small wooden box. Slowly he opened the box and held it up in the air.
Ron felt a slight tingle in his throat. Nothing painful but still noticeable and he spied a white fog like mist flow out of his mouth and into the box. Looking around he saw the same was happening to Shego, Kim and Dr. Drakken. More of the fog like substance was coming down the corridor him and Kim had used to enter the main lab area of Dr. Drakken's lair. In what seemed like forever but in fact only took a few moments the fog had flowed into the box and was gone.
The creature snapped the lid down on the box and moving back he sat it down on a table away from the humans and stood guard over it.
Ron turned to look at Kim and said. "What was all that about?" Or at least that was what he tried to do. Not a single sound came out of his mouth. Reaching up he massaged his throat for a moment and tried again, still no sounds at all came from him.
Looking over he saw Kim too was working her mouth as though talking but he heard nothing. Raising his hand he brought up in front of his face and snapped his fingers. A loud clear 'snap' noise was heard.
"Well thank god for that. I thought I had gone deaf for a moment." Ron thought to himself.
Hearing a scuffling noise he looked over and saw that Shego had grabbed Dr. Drakken up by the lapels of his lab coat and was shaking him all the while her mouth moved as if she was shouting at him. Ron who was somewhat good at lip reading could see what Shego was saying and wondered to himself where a attractive young lady like Shego had learned such foul language.
Hearing a soft rustling and scrapping noise in the dead quiet of the room Ron turned his attention back to the lunatics as he had come to think of them. They had backed off slightly from Kim and him when that one of them had used the box trick but they were now surrounding them again and slowly tightening the circle.
What was even more worrying however was some more beings were coming out of the portal. These new creatures had very little in common with the lunatics shuffling around.
For one thing, these new people stood ram rod straight and were wearing very formal looking clothing, shiny black shoes, black pants and a black jacket. A starkly white shirt could be seen under the jacket and they were even wearing black ties.
The only thing these new gentlemen had in common with the lunatics was they had gray skin like them.
Ron studied the first of the new beings as it came fully into the room through the portal.
It had a bald head, the fore mentioned gray skin, dark sunken eyes but the most disturbing things about him was; First, His feet weren't touching the floor! His perfect shiny black shoes were floating about four inches off the floor. Secondly, he was smiling and instead of normal teeth, Rom could detect the shiny gleam of metal.
As the first of these creatures cleared the portal, more floated in behind them till there were four of them facing him and Kim. Some were taller, some were shorter but they basically all looked the same. Gray skin, bald heads, metallic teeth and all dressed in fine if somewhat outdated style of black clothing.
Shego finished silently screaming at Drakken for his stupidity and let him drop to the ground. Looking around she watched as Stoppable moved back towards Kim and the new creatures came into the room. They moved with an unnerving grace. Each movement seemed to flow from one to the next without any normal jerky or hesitant pauses. The first gentlemen in floated directly towards Kim Possible. Ron stepped in between them to keep it away from Kim.
"This is a first." Shego thought to herself. "Usually it's the buffoon hiding behind Kim for protection. This time he is trying to protect her." Shego felt a chill run down her spine. She knew from many previous battles that Ron usually let Kim handle everything because she was a more competent fighter than he was. For him to step into danger in front of her meant he thought this creature was lethally dangerous and he was willing to die to protect her. Shego felt some emotion run through her and it took her a moment to realize it was jealousy. No one ever tried to protect her like Ron was trying to do for Kim. Even now she could sense Drakken trying to sneak away before the creatures noticed him, leaving her to face them alone.
The creature before Ron didn't pause in his strange flowing movements but just brought his hand across. It wasn't even very fast but as the hand hit Ron he went flying as if he had been hit by a bus. Crashing into a support post in the lair he laid still and dazed.
The strange looking gentleman didn't even acknowledge the boy's flight but continued with his hand movement and held it briefly in front of Kim who was in a fighting crouch. The creature paused for just a moment and then with a slight shake of its head continued past her as if she didn't even matter.
The creature continued to where Ron was laying and once again the hand drifted out as if trying to sense something. The creature paused even less time over Ron than he did with Kim and with another shake of his head he moved on towards Shego and the quaking Drakken.
Drakken not being able to shout or boast felt his courage quickly draining from him and decided to make a run for it. After all Shego could delay whatever that monster was long enough for him to make his escape he was sure.
He had barely taken three steps when the lunatics who had been shuffling around on the outskirts rushed in and whipping their long straightjacket sleeves caught him around the arms and pulled him towards the gray skinned gentleman.
Drakken screamed out for his synthodrones to defend him but since they received their commands verbally and Drakken couldn't make a sound they continued to stand around like statues.
They were watching but without Drakken or Shego giving them any orders they just didn't comprehend this wasn't part of Drakken's plans and they should do something.
The creature once again raised his hand towards Drakken gracefully as the 'mad' scientist was dragged before him but with a quick shake of his head he rejected him. The lunatics immediately pulled savagely on their sleeves and threw Drakken over to where Kim was checking the dazed Stoppable. The creature then looked Shego directly in the eyes and continued towards her. Shego, never to back down from anyone, stood her grounds and stared back defiantly.
But she could feel the icy chills down her spine stronger than ever. The creature's eyes reminded her of that accursed book in its display cabinet.
"Like twin pits into Hell." Shego thought to herself.
Once again the hand drifted up and… The gentleman paused. Cocking his head to one side he seemed to be studying her. Finally instead of shaking his head no, he nodded yes once.
The lunatics who had been scampering and shuffling around them in a circle slapped the grounds and seemed to silently howl in celebration. Before Shego could even begin to figure out what was going on she found her arms ensnared by two of them with their sleeves and was being boldly dragged towards the flat table of the evil scanner.
Digging her feet in she fired up the plasma in her hands and attempted to throw fireballs at them. The angle at which she was being dragged made it very difficult for her to aim but she was certain that at least one of her fireballs had smashed directly into one of the lunatic's faces but he didn't let go but continued to drag her.
"Okay…Not good. Not good at all. These things laugh off one of my fireballs?" Shego thought to herself bordering on near panic.
The lunatic creatures hauled her to the table and raising their arms they caused her to rise up and then slammed her down hard on the table top, dazing her for a moment. Shego felt her arms painfully pulled over her head and to the sides and realized she was now helplessly tied down to the table. Trying to lash out with her feet she quickly realized those too had been immobilized.
The gentleman creature that had selected her walked over near her head and gazed down at her. Shego could see behind him the other gentlemen creatures were at his back. One of them stepped forward and Shego could see he was carrying a black bag. It kind of looked like a medical bag she once saw in an old medical movie. The creature sat the bag down beside her head and reaching in he pulled something out.
Shaking its head slightly as if it had grabbed the wrong item, it then sat it down next to Shego.
Shego turning her head could see the item was a square glass jar and there was something inside it. Studying it for a moment Shego realized with a shock that it was a human heart.
The second gentleman reached back into the bag and sat down another glass jar but this one was empty.
It then stepped back to join his other gentlemen.
The one that had selected Shego floated over to the bag and reached into it itself. When it pulled out its hand it was holding a nice shiny scalpel.
It didn't take a brain surgeon to figure out the mathematics being involved. One glass container with a heart, one glass container without a heart and a steel grin monster with a scalpel in its hand and one Shego strapped to a table.
Shego opened her mouth wide and screamed. And not a single sound was heard.
The gentleman standing over her gracefully raised his free hand to its lips in a universal hush movement. The creature then brought the scalpel bearing hand down and with a fluid motion sliced through Shego's upper part of her costume.
Pushing her chin firmly down on her chest, Shego could see that so far the creature hadn't broken her skin but had merely gotten the material out of the way so it could begin dissecting her in earnest.
Shego was a brave woman. She had been in many fights before. Most of them would have been certainly been called dangerous. A few could have even been called life threatening. But never had she faced certain unavoidable death.
Shego was scared and she wasn't afraid to admit it.
"I thought someday I would die a violent death but I always thought it would be much later in my life and in a fight. Not like some lab creature strapped to a table and hacked apart. I never even had a chance to fall in love! Hell I didn't even get a chance to seriously date anyone even! I don't want to die like this! Not now!" Shego mentally screamed to herself as she tried to struggle.