Part 2: The Nightmare!
"That is just…SICK!" Kim couldn't even begin to keep the disgust out of her voice.
"And wrong." Her mother finished, equally appalled by what she saw.
"Mom, that's Ron's line." She said, the pique still evident in her voice.
"No, Kim, he would have gone straight to 'wrongsick.'… I think."
Shego ignited her fists, stepped off the edge of the balcony and executed a perfect double flip before lighting on the floor below. "What's wrong, Kimmie? I had it made especially for you!"
Kim turned to face her, her own fists clenching, anger flaring in her eyes. "This…this is just so…evil!"
"I thought you'd never notice." Her lips curled up into her trademark vile smirk,her black lipstick shining in the light beaming from inside the sphere.
"How could you do this, Sherry?" Anne possible asked, using Shego's given name. "I thought you would use the information I gave you for good!"
"You helped her with this?" Kim asked, shock evident in her voice.
"I didn't imagine she would do something like this." She said in defense.
Shego walked into the split globe and brought the horror out, holding it at arms length. Kim's expression became even more sour seeing it up close.
It was a sea-foam green taffeta and metallic silver bridesmaid dress. It looked like the product of an unholy tryst between a southern belle dress and Shego's 'Team Go' costume, the silver taking the place of the black panels. Shego snickered, followed by a barely stifled giggle. She broke out into honest laughter as Kim's face deepened into a scowl.
"Oh, well, Kim. It's an old tradition for the bride to pick out less-than-attractive dresses for their bridesmaids." Her mother was trying to keep from laughing herself, finally realizing that Kim had been played by her old nemesis.
"But Mom! I've already picked out nice cocktail dresses for my bridesmaids Monique is going to be my Maid-of-Honor, if I make her wear…that…"
Her mother looked up at the ceiling, whistling slightly.
"O…kay!" Shego said. "Remember a couple years back when I said you were the brains of Team Possible? I take it back now."
"Huh?"
"Kim, I think this is Sherry's way of saying you are not the only one getting married this summer."
"You mean?"
"That's right, Princess. You're the one wearing that dress in a couple weeks." Her smirk was quickly amping up to full power.
"I'm what? You mean all this has been you elaborate way of saying you're getting…married?"
"See, I knew your little cheerleader mind could grasp the concept."
"And you're in on this?" She turned to her mother, hands on her hips.
"She called last week to get your dress size. I just had no idea she still wanted to get back at you so bad."
"Hey, I do what I can with the truce still on." Shego shrugged.
"The truce? What truce? I thought your leaving me alone had more to do with you trying to go legit."
"Punkin, how many times do I have to tell you. I'm evil. I'm the wicked green witch of Mt. Middleton. The only reason I've been staying out of your sights is because my 'sweetie' hasn't done anything to get Global Justice after him the last couple years."
The dark cloud over Kim faded a bit as she got a quizzical expression on her face. "You mean tha…" She started as a small shape collided with her legs.
"Aunt Kimmie!" a tiny voice squealed.
Actually, the words sounded a lot more like ann emmy, but she knew what the toddler was saying. Kim carefully pulled the little girl's arms from around her legs and picked her up. "You're getting so big, Amethyst!"
"I'm fa-ree." The dark haired little girl said, trying to hold up the requisite number of fingers, her 'th' sound coming out as an 'f'. She was the spitting image of her mother (when she wasn't powered up and therefore green) with fair skin and long, very dark hair. The only differences were having very dark brown hair instead of black and her eyes were sparkling blue. Her violet and black jumper, patterned after the Team Go uniform, completed the image.
Shego took her daughter from Kim, hanging the dress on a convenient piece of equipment. As she took the child her skin started to change from light green to a pale peach color, her eyes darkening from bright green to brown. Right before them Shego changed back into Sherry Godfrey.
Seeing her old nemesis like this was, to put it mildly, bizarre. After fighting against her for so long, the image of her holding her child, so obviously full of love was the last thing she would have ever expected. Despite her ire for the joke she had played on her, Kim was starting to smile. She noticed her mother was smiling too. They both remembered a frightened young woman showing up at their home, about to give birth, too afraid to go to the hospital, knowing that by doing so she would likely end up in prison and her child, who already would never know her father, would also be without a mother.
Anne Possible was a practicing neurosurgeon but she was still a doctor. She delivered the baby right there in their guest room. Later, in secret, she went to the new mother and made her swear an oath that the war with her daughter was over. She agreed, saying she already considered it so since she still honored the truce Amethyst's father called between the two women.
Kim just saw the change in Sherry as a win, not only having an enemy turning into a hesitant friend, but seeing a sort of redemption for her old foe.
Okay, she was still angry she had been tricked into believing she had reverted to her old tricks and that dress was just so…UGLY!
Thinking about the dress brought Kim's mind back to her earlier train of thought. Something Sherry said about her "Sweetie" keeping himself out of trouble…
No!
It couldn't be!
She knew the two had been back together, had even spoken to him briefly when he came looking for her after Neil died and she had seen them together from time to time but…
No!
"I'm not sure if I really want to know this but who exactly are you getting married to?" Kim asked sheepishly. Please don't say Drakken! Please don't say Drakken!
"You don't know? I'm marrying Drew! Who did you think I was talking about?"
Kim was having a hard time picking her jaw up off the floor.
"Drew? Doctor Drakken? You're going to marry Drakken? He's so…so…"
"If you say ugly, Princess, I'm going to smack you, truce or no truce." She said dangerously.
"I was going to say old. He's old enough to be your father!"
"Only if he started having kids real early. He's your father's age, but I'm over six years older than you. Drew is only about twenty years older than me, but that doesn't matter since I love him."
"Well, if it works for Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones…" Kim's mother added, trying to help.
Sherry changed the subject. "Do you know what Ammie's first words were?" She cooed at her daughter, "Da da! When she said that, Drew looked like he had been sucker punched in the gut. I thought at first it upset him but when I tried to take her from him I realized he was crying. Drew actually crying because she called him Daddy!"
"My Daddy's blue!" Amethyst said excitedly.
"From then on Drew was Daddy. It changed something in him and it changed something in me. I know he's had feeling for me for a while but I suddenly realized I had some pretty strong feelings of my own for him. Not long after that, we kinda got together. It's really different than it was with Neil, but it's still really good.
"Not to mention," she added with a sly smile, "his tiny hands are really good for…"
"Too much…info!" Kim cut her off.
"What? I was going to say 'massages.' What did you think?"
"Never mind." Kim blushed slightly.
Anne was blushing too for thinking along the same lines her daughter was. Quickly she tried to steer the conversation to yet another subject. "Don't tell me the three of you are living in this…cave."
"Good lord no. I had enough of that back then. We've been renting a bungalow over at the Mt. Middleton Ski Lodge. Cutest little A-Frame, right near the slopes. Nah, I'm just here to use the Costumealator." Before either woman could ask what that was, she activated her powers, once again turning her skin and eyes green. She typed a few commands into a keyboard, then gripped two handles, flaring up her fists. The green fire was absorbed into the machine which closed with a clang, followed by clanking and whirring sounds.
"So that's why you've been using your powers!" Kim said, understanding Sherry was the energy source for the machine. There was a loud 'clack' and the halves started to split once more.
"I figured your friend Wade would pick up on that, since that's how he usually tracked me, so I called him myself so I could have some fun with you." The Costumealator swung wide, revealing yet another dress.
It was just as hideous as the first one, but several times larger.
Warning bells started going off in Kim's mind. "Who else were you planning to ask?"
"I've got a couple evil girlfriends I was going to ask. I want you to be my maid-of-honor, by the way."
"Wow, um, sure! But who is that one for?"
"Oh, this one is for Amy Hall-Fisk!"
Next: "Bachelorette Party!"