Act I: Scene IX
Many hours later Kim felt cool water being slowly distributed over her face. Her eyelashes seemed to tickle her skin as the water poured into her eyes making her mascara flow into her eye. Her entire face was experiencing a tingling sensation. She moaned in discomfort and gradually rolled over on her side.
"Oh dear." A female voice spoke, "She's quite intoxicated."
"Can you move her?" Kim recognized the voice of Wade speaking only above a whisper.
Kim felt her body being hoisted onto someone's shoulder. Then she felt herself fall on top of them. "No, I'm afraid she's just a wee bit too heavy. She'll have to get herself up."
"What about her companion?" Wade questioned hastily.
"He's… still out cold I'm afraid. Should I lift him?"
Wade glowered. "I'm afraid he weighs twice as much as the girl…. Well… just try to get her to wake up as quickly as you can. Look, she's coming out of it. Her eyelashes are moving rapidly!"
Kim lifted her hand up and wiped her eyes with her wrist to eliminate the horrible stinging.
"Miss! Miss!" The female cried as she helped to elevate her head. Kim finally opened her eyes to half moons. From what she could see, the girl was no one that she knew. Which meant… she leapt to her feet only to come crashing down.
"Oh goodness. Don't get up too quickly now!" She warned.
"What is… what's going on?" Kim asked as she began to notice the room now. She was still in the dining hall. It was deadly silent though. The orchestra had stopped. Candles had died and Kim could see what looked like hundreds of guests strewn across the floor like dominos. Kim's eyes finally opened completely as she realized this.
"What is—" she demanded in a full voice now. She started to climb to her feet again.
"No! The drugs still haven't…" The girl stopped speaking as Kim fell onto the floor again.
"Drugs?" Kim asked wearily.
"Yes… everyone here…"
"Who are you?" Kim asked rubbing at her legs rapidly realizing they weren't quite responding yet.
"That's Shelynda my second cousin. She lives around here." Wade said trying to keep the introductions short. Kim finally noticed that she did resemble Wade in a funny way; she was very small and didn't any older than Wade. She had wild curly hair that spilled down her spine and almost reached her knees. The girl had restrained it with a bright colored yellow headband. Her body was generously plump but still beautiful in its own way. Her only separation from Wade were her eyes which were a lilac color and very deep.
"Your… eyes…" Kim noticed.
"It's a rare condition," Shelynda tried to explain quickly, "Kim please try to stand again." Shelynda said offering her a hand to help her to her feet. Kim grabbed her wrist and pulled herself up. Her legs felt rather like jelly but she managed to keep a sufficient balance.
"Er… you might feel like that for a while." Said Shelynda.
"What about him?" Kim asked referring to Stoppable who was still passed out on the floor like the others.
"He'll be out for a few more minutes. He'll probably come to very soon." Shelynda sighed and then said, "Yes, everyone should. But until then we have to get you and him out of here very quickly."
"Listen to Shelynda," Wade commanded, "she's doing what's absolutely the best for the situation at the moment. Find a way to move Ron without waking him up."
"I can carry him." Kim said as she hoisted him over her shoulder. Her knees felt like they were snapping as she did this.
"Keep your knees locked. Legs straight as pins." Shelynda instructed.
"Okay," Kim was overwhelmed with confusion, "will everything be alright?"
"I do not know. But please follow me and make haste." Shelynda said darting out of the dining hall. Kim followed the best she could with Ron weighing down her shoulder.
Shelynda quickly led Kim down some creepily empty corridors. The hotel was still brightly lit as if it was still full of life. "Where has everyone gone?"
"Hotel management has locked all the rooms so there can be a police inspection. No one can leave." Shelynda answered.
"Then how…?"
Shelynda held up a key ring which was full of different key-cards to open hotel rooms. "I'm a junior police officer in training. I'm on the team when I turn sixteen."
"How old are you then?"
"It isn't really a good time for questions. Please stay close." Shelynda said as she stood in front of the elevator. She pushed a button but no elevator came. She shrugged and scanned a card to open the stairwell doors.
"We're going to an empty room. We're safe to talk there." Shelynda informed her.
"Okay." Kim huffed as she rushed up staircase after staircase. They exited stairwell 1 and continued to stairwell 2.
"There," Shelynda breathed, "is a room… o-on the forth floor. The forth floor hardly has any reservations at-at all."
"What will we," she huffed, "What will we get accomplished hiding? I'm supposed to be keeping an eye on them. This is the sort of thing I should handle!"
"You don't yet understand." Shelynda said gasping as she unlocked the forth floor. "We're in room 809."
Kim readjusted herself and tried to keep Ron secured on her shoulder. During the whole journey through the hotel he hadn't moved. He was out cold. It was so strange. What the hell was going on? Shelynda found the room and noticed it was already unlocked for them. The hotel management had prepared this room just for them.
"This may seem awful confusing Miss Possible and to be honest I'm not sure what's going on either. Wade called me out of the blue just now telling me that I had to escort you as far away from the ballroom as possible!"
"I had the room equipped with some security televisions. We can watch from a safe distance." Wade said through the Kimmunicator.
"Wade!" Kim whined. "I ought to be down there investigating!"
"You don't—understand." Wade struggled with his exclamation.
They entered the room and Shelynda told Kim to lay Ron out on the bed and to find him something cold for his face. Kim sighed realizing her tingling desire to rest would not be sufficed. She hurried to the bathroom and filled the ice bucket with water. When she returned she poured a generous helping on Ron's face. He didn't even shiver. His face remained frozen in an unelected slumber.
"Ron." Kim was careful while using his real name. She still didn't want to blow cover. "Ron."
He still lay motionless on the bed his mouth open with drool watering inside. Shelynda gazed at Kim and sighed. "Well I'm supposing my cousin is going to know more than I do."
Wade took this slight bit of bitterness as an invitation to start speaking. "Kim… I'm not so sure what is going on either. I just know that I was expecting a full fledged report as you promised but hours past and I received none."
"That's impossible!" Kim exclaimed. "I was still at the dinner."
"Kim," Wade spoke comfortably, "It's two am."
"WHAT!" Kim sputtered as she noticed the alarm clock on the end table.
"That's what I found strange… hours late... and a neglected call. I began to worry just a little so I started to call you when you didn't answer. So I turned on the camera and noticed that the entire room was like dead daisies on the floor!"
Wade continued, "The first thing I did was try to find somebody in the hotel. I finally found the manager reading contracts in the laundry room. I told him of what had happened and he hurried to send police here. I also called Shelynda here so that she could move you some place safe in case there was more to come. All that we know is that it was something that every guest ate or drank."
Kim grimaced. "It was probably the wine. Everyone had some wine and Ron and I felt sleepy soon after."
"So it was just a sleeping potion?" Shelynda wondered.
"Maybe. I'm not sure."
"Wade. I think I'll go back down and investigate see if anyone is armed or something. I don't know. This still seems fishy."
Wade scratched his head, "Well… alright… police are here anyway."
Kim tore out of the room running as fast as her legs could take her. "Miss! Miss!" Shelynda chased after her leaving the room wide open. "You need the keys miss!" Kim turned around as Shelynda tossed the key ring too her. "I'll be down shortly as soon as I wake him up!" Kim decided it would be best to leave all the doors open so Shelynda and Ron could exit that way. She punched on the elevator which surprisingly came this time. The doors opened and a police officer stepped out.
"Oh… you're… a…" he seemed under the impression that the whole hotel was deserted.
"Kim Possible. Official business. Let me through please." The police officer stepped aside generously as she hurried into the elevator and pressed the door close button.
"Good luck to you Possible." The police officer's face seemed unusually grave.
"Erm… thanks." Kim spoke as the doors closed in her face.
Kim reached the first floor and dashed out of the elevator towards the dining hall. There were flashlights coming from every direction and she could hear scattered noise now. She stopped dead in her tracks when a police officer grabbed her shoulder.
"Hold it." He said.
"Problem officer?"
"I can't let you pass. There's been an accident." His voice was heavy and unhappy.
"I know," she breathed, "I was just there. It's okay, I'm Kim Possible!"
"Kim Possible?" He raised an eyebrow. "Very well, proceed." He let her by.
Kim walked past him slowly as she noticed there were people trying to proceed out. The police held them back and explained that doors were closed until the investigation was complete. Monty and Summer Gale were screaming the loudest. Kim could see behind their heads there were still people passed out on the floor. She sighed and strolled right into them.
"Please step aside. Let me through please!" She said timidly.
The shoving villains sneered at her and continued to rant.
She sighed and tried again, "I need to get through."
Still… nothing. Kim resolved this by taking out her exploding lipstick from her purse. It exploded in several directions into many different faces. There was a twinkle in Monty's eye when he realized, "Kim Possible!"
"Surprised much?" She asked as she gave them all shoves of her own. They smashed together like swinging doors. Kim only smirked and walked in.
Kim noticed that the police were paying no attention to the passed out guests all over the floor. They weren't even asking questions to the guests that had managed to wake up. The entire police force seemed to be crouched around in a little circle. Kim was perplexed and walked over to them.
"Hello…"
"Kim Possible!" The police chief looked at her horrorstruck.
"What is going on?" She peered over them and become aware of what they were observing. They were surrounding the four bodies of go-team-go. One of the officers was crouching by Wego 1 and checking his pulse. She gave a sad shake of her head. Kim had a bad feeling.
"What's wrong? What's happened?" She demanded.
They ignored her as the woman officer reported, "He died about seven hours ago. That's my guess."
The word 'died' hit Kim hard. She felt her insides bubbling up into her throat. "What's happened?" She repeated again. She looked at them. Hego's face was turned away and the twins were being hovered over. She suddenly looked at Mego. His eyes were glassy and opened and his face seemed a pale blockish violet. She must have gasped because the police chief turned to her.
"You've figured it out yourself." He said. "When we got here, we observed everyone realizing it was only sleeping drugs. Maybe a gas leaked in or something. But they… they well didn't just pass out... they must have had a full blast of it…because... well…because…"
Kim felt tears coming to her eyes remembering Hego's friendly nature just a few hours ago. "No…" she started to say.
"NO!" Someone else cried. Kim turned around to see Shego stumbling around. She must've just woken up. Drakken was still on the ground rubbing at his eyes. Shego's face was flushed and her eyes had turned from their calm emerald green to a fierce gold.
"No way!" she cried again as she started to rush over. Unfortunately she was still quite dizzy and she tripped onto the floor again. She quickly got up again and Kim noticed tears streaming from her eyes.
Drakken tried to calm her down, "Shego…" He too had overheard the conversation.
Kim got to her feet with tears pouring out of her eyes herself and went to Shego's side. She took Shego's arm. "You're still lightheaded." Kim tried to explain. Shego slapped Kim's hand and shrieked "What did you do to them? What did you do?"
Before the flabbergasted Kim had a moment to respond Shego was already beside the officers. "This is a joke!" She pulled on his shirt. "It's a joke!"
The chief stared at the distressed woman and then nodded to his men who began to lay a gigantic white sheet over the team. Shego shrieked again and threw her body over Hego's. "Don't bury them yet!" She said fiercely. "Who killed them? Who?" She almost sounded like a loopy owl. She pointed to Kim.
"It was her." Then she turned again and pointed at Orlando still on the floor.
"Or maybe him. Or her. Or him. It was everyone! They all killed them! Not me! They did!" She buried her face into Hego's limp body. Her hands reached and grabbed Mego in her arms when she whispered, "I'm sorry I forgot your birthday… so many times!"
The officers were increasingly alarmed. "Please put Mister Mego down." One of them said.
Drakken's face looked paler than it ever had. "Shego… I know this is hard." He didn't seem to know what to say.
The assistant chief looked at Drakken, "Who is she?"
"Shego… no last name. She's their sister." He explained quickly. The assistant quickly penned it down in his notebook.
"Wait… what are you writing?" Drakken suddenly felt himself sweating.
The officer didn't respond and only scribbled down faster when Drakken spoke up.
"This can't… be real," Kim spoke indignantly, "who did it?"
The writing officer glanced up and shook his head. "We aren't sure. This is total chaos beyond anything we've seen."
It was just then that Shelynda burst into the room with Ron at her side. Ron was shaking and Shelynda never looked more serious. Kim could see big bulky white tears streaming from Ron's eyes. Shelynda herself was moving a bit more cautiously.
"Is everything…" Shelynda glanced at the fanatical woman sobbing over Hego's lifeless being. Her voice cracked and softened slightly as she said, "Is everything true?" She looked more human now. Her eyes were full of concern. Kim could tell she had never been around this type of confusion before; she looked horrified. Shelynda also noticed that Ron was only shaking his head over and over again. The sight was truly shocking and Kim couldn't bear to look away; her body was faced towards Shego who was taking this harder than anyone else which was the most shocking shock of all.
"Hego, Mego, twins… why?" Kim could spot goose bumps on the back of her neck as she sobbed and held Hego. Kim could also tell that the police were getting quite impatient with her childish behavior.
"Miss Shego… please… please stand aside." One of the officers barked at her.
"Don't you dare touch them! Don't you realize these are the most precious people I ever knew in my life!" She sobbed.
"We realize it's hard…but…" Shelynda couldn't seem to find the right words either.
Kim wiped her own eyes and then said, "Shego the police need to remove the bodies now. Get out of their way."
Shego's eyes lit up angrily. "No." She said stubbornly.
"Yes." Kim said in the same amount of stubbornness. "The bodies need to be examined… for the cause of the death."
"They won't take them!" She shrieked. "Never in a million years!"
Drakken timidly said, "Shego… I think your phone is ringing."
"Do you really think this is a good time? Give me my purse!" She said agitated. Drakken tossed over her black handbag and she emptied the condiments on the floor. She picked up her phone and chucked it at Ron who dodged it only by an inch. Shego cuddled against Hego again and cried, "Not my big brother. Not him."
At the same time the Police, Shelynda, Kim, and Ron were all staring at Shego's purse condiments in horror. Thousands and thousands of pills had poured out of it onto the floor and Shego hadn't even noticed. Pill boxes were on the floor too. The police nodded at each other and then turned to Drakken.
"Sir," asked a police officer, "what is your name?"
Drakken who was not overcome with sadness said stiffly, "Drew Lipsky."
"Certain people have informed me you arrived with this young lady." The officer said eyeing him.
"Yes of course I did. I'm her boss."
The police did not seem to find and relief out of this reply. He sighed, "I suppose this must mean we have to put you and your employee under arrest."
His heart sank instantly. "What?"
Shelynda had already secured hand-cuff around his hands. Drakken gaped at her.
"This is i-impossible. We're innocent! We've done absolutely nothing wrong!"
Kim looked at the spilled pills, to Drakken, to distressed Shego, to Drakken again and shook her head. She didn't know who or what to believe this time. It was a complete mess. At the moment the evidence was pointing at Shego but in reality there could've been a million more people involved. Her heart gave a jolt as another officer closed in on Shego. The hairs on Shego's arms were now standing up on end and she was holding Hego in her arms as she got to her feet and started to back away.
"Ms. Shego you are under arrest for slaughtering the go-team."
Shego's eyes were shaking horrified, "I didn't – I didn't do it." She backed away slowly.
"If you just cooperate—"
"I DIDN'T DO IT!" She screamed. All awakened villains now peered over at the scene of chaos where they saw the best assistant crying her eyes out.
"Please put Hego down gently and put your hands in the air." Said the officer.
"Fuck no! My whole family – everything I ever knew about love is lying in a deceased heap and you want me to pretend that love never existed? I'm taking Hego with me and I'm going to be his sister forever… and ever. How dare you think that I'd do such a thing as to kill my own family?" Her voice cracked and she began to sob again as she saw Shelynda and Ron leading Drakken away who was hanging his head not speaking entirely.
"Just put Hego—"
"Not on my life." Shego reached into the front of her dress and pulled out a small laser gun. "Don't make me shoot at you! I'm protecting my brother no matter what the cost! My b-brother…" she sank to her knees. "all of them…"
The police hurriedly armed themselves with their pistols aimed at her but Shego only laughed, "Don't think that'll scared me for a minute." She dropped her weapon and laid Hego very gingerly on the floor.
"That's—a good girl." One of the officers said, "Now… your hands… in the air."
Shego's claws lit up and she fired green flames at them. "I'm not going to let you take me from them!"
Almost immediately after this fire there was uproar in the guests who broke through the barrier of the policemen holding them back. They rushed away all screaming in terror. None of them wanted to end up like go-team-go.
Shego's frown turned into an evil grimace as her hands continued to glow. "I've never killed someone before. I've never been accused of murder either but if it means keeping them by my side forever then maybe…" she shot another green ray at them she hit one of the officers who fell to the ground screaming as he rolled around trying to extinguish the flames.
"We're warning you!" The officers raised their guns higher.
"What does it matter if you kill me? I'm the only go left! There's nothing left here! If you don't want to let me stay with my team, then I don't want to stay in this world."
BANG! Suddenly Shego was no longer standing. She had fallen to the floor screaming in pain. One of the officers had expertly fired his gun into her leg so she couldn't escape. Shego cried again holding her leg as a stream of blood poured out of it.
"God damn—" Her eyes were suddenly green again.
"Take her away." Commanded the chief in disgust.
Shego screamed again in panic. "Not guilty. Me? No. Never. Away…go." She only seemed able to form one worded sentences now.
Some police officers had gathered behind her now and clicked the handcuffs around her wrist. She lurched herself forward and found herself on top of Mego. "Brother." Her voice was shrill and she could suddenly feel such hate. Hatred that she never knew she ever had.
Her voice was softer, "Their faces… in my head." She started to feel them grab onto her cuffed hands and drag her. She resisted. "I see their faces in my head. Lifeless and pale." Suddenly words started coming out of her mouth that now made no coherent sense whatsoever. "Brother—sister—card—death—convention—award—sleep—sad—sleep—cry—die—"she continued to string words together that made no sense at all.
Kim felt her body go cold. Shego was going crazy. Kim knew it was coming and now she had reached her breaking point. Darkness had devoured whatever rational person she once was. She was now only a muttering maniac.
The police's voices were suddenly kinder sounding. "Okay… okay Shego. Hush now." Kim noticed the chief had his tranquilizer ready.
"Is that—" Kim was horrified, "Is that so necessary?"
"She's gone mad." The chief's voice was hollow and without and more hesitation he fired. He hit his target dead on. Shego only continued to mutter for moments longer before she fell in a sleep-like trance beside Hego. The police now carried her off peacefully minding her wound.
Kim had one last thing on her mind. "Will someone care for her wound?"
The officer nodded and said nothing more. He carefully got to his feet and covered go-team-go with the white sheet and frowned, "They still might be innocent you know… we'll see what it was in an autopsy." He seemed doubtful.
Kim nodded and then said tearfully, "Well I'll leave you to your duties then… I really think I should go see Ron now."
Kim didn't even say goodbye she turned without looking back at the poisoned bodies and ran as quickly as her feet would carry her. No one stood at the doors to hold her back. She ran from the hotel as fast as she could feeling for the first time… traumatized. It could have been anyone. She couldn't believe it.