What about Shego?
Chapter 3
"No! No! No! No!" Altrix, was screaming with a red face, "You're reacting Kim, not thinking this through."
Kim Possible, was frantically dodging bullets being spewed out by two turrets. She had been slowly and stealthly sneaking through a test lair Altrix had constructed at Global Justice's headquarters.
The test lair was the size of a city block and had more entires then she could count. It was built with practically every design she had ever encountered in her career and some she hadn't.
Altrix, had given her the scenario, evil villain has stolen technology at the center of the lair. Recover if possible to return to its rightful owners.
She had done this before, recovering stolen technology by sneaking into a villian's lair. Kim, had thought this would be a cake walk, every entrance was easily breached.
Of course, this was her fourteenth attempt, she had been going at this for two weeks now.
The lair was frustrating, every time she thought she had bypassed a defense and gained entry, another defense would take its place.
The lair was designed like an unstable rock pile, move one stone and hundreds more would cascade down.
She had tried this attempt without Ron, but was beginning to think it wouldn't have mattered anyway. Even though all the weapons and traps were non-lethal, the principal of it was getting to her.
While avoiding the fire of the guns she saw a solution to getting out of this trap. The guns were ground turrets in the middle of the large room, both were shielded enough that turning their fire on each other wouldn't destroy them, she had already tried that.
What Kim did see, were loose ceiling tiles above the turrets. The room was made of four foot thick concrete walls, they were that thick for the number of bullets being shot everywhere.
It was a risky move, but if they were as lose as they looked it might work.
Running past the turrets it gave her a few seconds out of the their fire as they rotated to gain a lock on her.
She quickly pulled out her hairdryer and fired a grappling hook at a tile directly above one of the turrets.
Pulling with all she was worth, she dislodged a tile, that was actually a four foot cube of concrete.
It crashed down on one of the turrets, destroying it as the other started firing again.
Kim, dived behind the block with her back against it. She could hear rubber bullets being deflected off the block.
She took a deep breath, then felt a muscle spasm on the back of her right shoulder. Stress must be getting to her, she thought.
She paid it no heed and using the fallen block as a shield grappled another ceiling tile and sent it crashing atop of the other turret.
Finally, there was silence in the chamber until she heard a door slide open with Altrix standing in the doorway.
"What?" She was a little annoyed at the disappointed look he was giving her, "Not fast enough?"
"No, plenty fast," he crossed his arms and cocked his head to his right side, "but what are you planning on doing with the poison darts in your back?"
Kim, felt the back of her right shoulder where she had felt the muscle spasm earlier. Four, four darts were sticking out in the location, a wave of dizziness started to come over her.
"I told you four days ago Kim," he wasn't looking at her, "you can't use any part of this lair as a tool.
The blocks in the ceiling were rigged, using them as cover or to disable the turrets was expected."
Kim, was on her knees with her vision so blurred she couldn't make out shapes, "Recon, Wade, detect…" she was losing it.
"Recon can't always know what is in a lair," Kim, finally collapsed on the floor, "I said you need to think this through."
A naked mole rat scurried to Kim and tried to wake her, but she was out like a light.
Altrix, turned, "Dude! Those weren't really poison were they?" Ron, had a look of concern looking down at his unconscious friend who was on the floor."
"Just knock-out darts Ron," Altrix, was looking directly at Ron, "but they might as well been poison and she should be dead after that idiot display."
"Aren't you being a little hard on KP?" Ron, was looking at Altrix with a cross look.
The sight was quite humorous, two blonde men looking at each other, one dressed in black leather, well built, muscle toned and a lot taller then Ron.
Ron, dressed in mission garb and having a much less pronounced build compared with Altrix.
Both men's faces were average in looks, other then the difference in build they could literally be mistaken for brothers.
"I'd rather she fail here," Altrix, pointed his finger at the floor, "here it isn't fatal compared to out in the field."
"None of the lairs KP and me have been to have ever been like this." Ron, countered back.
"You both will though Ron," Altrix, raised an eyebrow at the boy, "and you'll encounter the worse villains too."
"Dude, she's already fought and won against more villains then I can count." Ron, waved his hands in the air.
"Yes," Altrix, crossed his arms again, "villains nobody is afraid to send a teenage girl after." Ron, had a ticked look at him, "She's good Ron, I'm not insulting her skill, but she needs more experience dealing with some more lethal villains.
It's not an insult Ron, Global Justice has felt for awhile she was ready for bigger fish, I'm just here to make sure she is ready."
"But," Ron looked at Kim, "this lair makes no sense, no one even in my worse nightmares has designed a lair like this."
"Oh, there are lairs like this out there," Altrix, looked at Kim as well, "and she is good enough to take down those villains, I'm just showing her some stupid mistakes she can make to get herself killed."
Ron, knelt down next to Kim and tried waking her along with Rufus.
Altrix, let out a sigh, "After two weeks I do wonder if I should just tell her the secret of beating this lair though.
She'll be up in about twenty minutes Ron, tell her today's training is over, we'll pick up tomorrow."
Altrix, turned to leave when Ron stood up and stopped him, "Wait! Before you go I have kinda a personal question to ask you."
"Sure," Altrix, turned to face the boy, "what is it?"
"Well," Ron, scratched the back of his head, "we've kinda talked with people around Global Justice, asking about you and such.
Most say that you've fought an awful lot of villains in your career that's why they have you training Kim.
A lot say you've fought some really powerful and ruthless ones even super powered heroes don't want to fight."
"You want to know if she's in any real danger," Altrix grinned at the boy, he had felt there was something between these two, "the worse villains out there Ron are the ones that aren't afraid to die.
When they die, they want to take as many with them as they can, don't worry, if she learns what I have to teach her, she'll always make it."
Ron, blinked twice, "Uh, no dude, I know KP will always win, I just wanted to know who's the baddest bad guy you've ever fought.
A lot here at GJ say you took out the worse of the worse."
Altrix, chuckled, "Well ,that's egg on my face getting all philosophical with you."
His grin got even wider, "Dark Lord Cessation was the worse that ever lived and ever will live."
"Dark Lord?" Ron, had a confused look, "That's a weird title and I can't even spell cessation."
"Oh, he earned that title Ron," Altrix's grin faded a bit, "and cessation means, a bringing or coming to an end, which many heroes and villains found when they opposed him.
It was over a year ago when the Dark Lord fell, took an army of super powered heroes and three armies worth of Global Justice agents.
It was a dark day indeed when the Dark Lord finally died, so dark I really don't want to relive that day by telling someone else the story."
Altrix, turned to leave Ron, Kim and Rufus, "There are very few at Global Justice that remember the day who want to talk about it Ron.
Needless to say, even the worse villain today is only half of the ruthlessness and power the Dark Lord had Ron.
I doubt the world will ever see such evil ever again."
With that, Altrix left Ron with Kim and left the chamber to walk Global Justice's halls.
"They are too slow!" Shego was screaming as another syntho clone melted into a puddle.
She was currently surrounded by a dozen synthos and about a dozen puddles of goo as well.
In the two weeks after returning from the convention, she had been madly at work on the syntho machine.
Twenty-four synthos, maxed out in every aspect as far as the machine could go and then some had finally been created and she was now fighting them in a combat room.
A henchman was there to tweak the syntho's programming while she fought them.
At first, she had fought them one at a time; they were strong and fast but just didn't match Altrix. She had continually ordered the henchman to increase their skill and fierceness; they still weren't at Altrix's level.
She had ordered them higher still and to her dismay the henchman had told her increasing the level would cause them to malfunction and self-destruct. The control room he was in was shrieking warning alarms by that point.
"Send the rest after me!" Shego yelled at the henchman.
"But, that's twelve against one Shego…"
"Do it!" She cut him off by sending a green bolt at the ceiling above his head, after he pressed a few buttons, the remaining syntho's came at her at the same time.
She was overwhelmed for about twenty seconds, having her arms and legs grabbed and held and feeling punches coming from everywhere. To an outside observer it would look that Shego was finally defeated, of course no one was there to see it, the henchman had ran after putting in the final command.
From the crowd of clones around Shego, a hiss began to be heard, the ones in the center melted away, to be replaced by Shego's angry face.
She snapped necks, removed limbs and cut clones in half with her green flames until one remained.
What little intelligence the clone had, it knew enough that opposing her was an insane endeavor and so ran. A green bolt cut it down quickly from Shego that had so much power it turned it into ash.
Shego, noticed that the henchman had left and realized she was alone in the training room surrounded by destroyed syntho's.
She fell to her knees and brought both hands up to her eyes; in a few moments tears were seen streaming from behind her hands.
"Their still not good enough." She sobbed to herself.
She wasn't crying out of sadness, just out of frustration with this new challenge that had entered into her life.
She had only faced off against Altrix twice, but it was enough for her to know he was far out of her league.
It was different then fighting Mrs. Perfect as well, Possible was a lot like these clones. Good fighter, a little better then her but if she could get a lucky shot in with her powers it would change the tide of the battle.
At least with Possible she had always had a chance, with Altrix, even her powers seemed to be of no use in fighting him.
Now, she had no way to even train at the level it seemed as the syntho's should have been able to be faster then Altrix, but they weren't.
A shiver went up her spine, how many spankings would she have to endure in trying to find some weakness or advantage against him.
"It could be worse I guess." She thought to herself. "He could have superpowers." she had an idea of what his invisibility act was at least.
There were scientists in the world that were working on an inter-phasic cloaking device, gave invisibility as well as the ability to pass through solid matter. It was in the theoretical phase, but Shego figured Global Justice had Altrix outfitted with a prototype one.
Although, the lab Drakken had sent her to a month ago said the device didn't even exist, was just in theory currently. Perhaps they finally made a breakthrough; she might have to revisit the lab to find a weakness.
She wiped her tears dry and stood up, having formulated a new plan to take down this Altrix. She started to walk out of the room when Drakken's voice came over the intercom.
"Shego." His voice seemed a little scared, "I need to speak with you when you are free."
She wasn't at all surprised with his tone, in the last couple of weeks while she had pushed herself hard in trying to find a way to defeat Altrix, everyone had avoided her.
She wasn't angry, just frustrated the solution to her problem hadn't been found yet, she so wanted to kill Altrix she was bordering on obsession with the man now.
The lair Drakken was currently inhabiting was an underwater lair, shaped like a bicycle wheel with the tire being divided into many large chambers and the spokes leading to a main central chamber.
Drakken's main lab was located there and she made it to the doctor in about twenty minutes.
She found him sitting in a chair in the center of the chamber that was raised up on a platform. He was staring at various monitors and typing on a keyboard, apparently calculating something.
"What is it now Dr. D?" She crossed her arms, having an annoyed look on her face.
"Oh, Shego you're earlier then I expected." Drakken, was physically showing signs of being nervous. He had been spying on her training so was able to see the vicious display of her tearing apart clones.
It was times like this a voice in the back of Drakken's head would whisper that he was only the boss because Shego allowed him to be the boss.
What didn't help matters any was what Drakken needed to ask Shego to do, but he couldn't delay on it, he had put it off for too long as it was.
"Shego," Drakken, stood up and looked at the woman, "it's come to my attention that the authorities are closing in on my current lair."
"So?" Shego, turned away from Drakken with arms still crossed, "Move to a new lair then." Her eyes suddenly went wide.
"Noooooooo!" She turned and looked at Drakken in disbelief, "You're not serious? Not now!"
"Shego," Drakken, was looking a little apprehensive, but was standing his ground, "when you signed your contract you knew this would be asked of you."
"I didn't think you were actually serious about it." She clinched her fists together and let out a frustrated grunt.
"We're moving back to the Rocky Mountain lair," Drakken, continued to talk while Shego just shook her head back and forth, "it's been a year since we've inhabited it and I think it's time to move on back."
Shego, started to walk out of the room with a very sour look on her face.
"Shego, make sure you…" Both of Shego's hands lit up, which made Drakken dive behind his chair and stop talking.
She couldn't believe this and now of all times, but this is what you get for signing on with a mad-man bent on taking over the world she thought to herself.
When she had signed her contract with Drakken, it had quite a funny little section she had thought was nothing more then a gag. She paid it no mind and went ahead and signed thinking it was just a joke.
Oh, how wrong she was on that, she had found out when Drakken and her had moved from one lair to another.
Drakken, had, "Issues" with a new bed that wasn't prepared and made by a woman, issues that bordered on superstition.
When they had first moved to a new lair he had ordered her to, "Make his bed!" which she had laughed in his face about. He had asked her again with more urgency, which she had hurt Drakken and told him the joke was over.
Of course, he had returned to her again and begged and pointed out in her contract she had signed, it stated as the only female in his group, she would be responsible for making every new bed he had not slept in the night before, once.
She had burned the copy of the contract in front of him, then kicked him out of the room she was sleeping in, she found out in the following week that was a mistake.
Drakken, couldn't sleep in the bed, tried sleeping on a sofa, stairs, floor, pool, front door…etc. Of course, he couldn't get to sleep and over the week slowly got worse and worse through sleep deprivation.
About the time he almost made a reactor go nuclear, Shego decided he wasn't joking about needing his bed made.
She had gone to his chambers, saw him in a corner in a fetal position sucking his thumb and drooling and then looked at his bed. It had one sheet, pulled back halfway in a triangle shape; she had pulled it back straight like a bed should be made.
Instantly, Drakken had jumped in the bed and had fallen asleep after she was done.
It wasn't she had to wash the sheets, make the bed and everything, Drakken just needed to know a woman had touched the bed and done something to make it up.
Like she said, superstitious, she suspected it was because his mother as a child had spoiled Drew.
She found out for sure it wasn't her that had to do it, at a hotel one of the maids could come to his room, fluff the pillow and he would fall asleep so it wasn't something a special person had to do.
Nonetheless, it was degrading and irritated her to no end; if she couldn't find another female to do it, she generally would setup a camera and record her either kicking the mattresses on the floor, or shredding the pillow over the bed.
Hey, she made it into something.
She had finally made it to one of Drakken's saucers, she wasn't leaving for the new lair to make his bed, she was leaving just to get away from this place and do some research.
While flying toward the Rockies, she was checking her E-mail, she had put out an information bounty on Altrix with the fight winnings she had won.
So far, nothing had really been sent to her even though the bounty was almost one million dollars now.
Most of it was just made up crap people were sending her and they must be sharing it because she found herself reading the same stuff over and over.
So, she had changed her bounty and said anything that was made up or irrelevant to Altrix, she would find whoever had sent it and take a bounty out of their rear end.
That, had completely gotten rid of useless information, but she was once again getting information that was common knowledge about Altrix.
He worked for Global Justice, was some high-ranking agent, liked to tease certain females and was suspected in being the Bucketnator.
Same old same old she thought while scrolling through messages, until one popped out from the rest.
SUBJECT: Theory on Altrix's past.
That caught her attention so she opened it, but of course was disappointed again and was just about to laugh at what she read.
Some conspiracy kook had the crazy idea that perhaps Altrix was the missing super powered hero Paladin; it nearly had her burst out with laughter.
Paladin, had been a real hero and had been a part of Global Justice's Super Powered Heroes group. She had first heard of him when she had been a member of Team Go, she actually had a hatred for the group even then.
Mainly, because Team Go had been graded in not being, "Super" enough to be a part of the group.
Of course what she had heard of Paladin, was he wasn't all that either, but at some point that had changed. He had almost overnight suddenly become the most powerful and important super hero of the group.
She had soon left Team Go after reading about it, so didn't really care all too much about Global Justice's Super power group.
What made her almost laugh was the fact Paladin was dead, a year after her going to evil it was all over the news. Paladin, had died in some heroic battle with a super villain, she had actually caught the funeral flipping through channels.
Of course, there were always the nuts that thought it was some sort of cover-up by Global Justice. Something along the lines that Paladin had found some sort of corruption in the organization and had vowed never to work for it.
That was as crazy as Kimmy giving up fighting for the side of good though, Paladin was dead, end of story.
She didn't have time to trace back who had sent her the message so she could give them a proper reward as she had arrived at the lair.
The entrance looked just like the mountain face, perfectly camouflaged from investigation. Shego, almost couldn't make it out as well and went to send the signal to open the portal to the lair when she stopped.
Something didn't look right about the entrance, she couldn't exactly place what it was but something in her head was telling her that it didn't look right.
She pulled out binoculars and took a closer look at the mountain but still couldn't see anything wrong.
Against her gut feeling she sent the signal, sounds of machinery echoed slightly in the mountain but the mountain face didn't change.
She flew on what seem to be a suicide flight, but disappeared into the mountain's face. The entrance was concealed by a hologram, but behind the hologram were large steel doors to keep anyone out who got past the illusion.
The lair had fifthteen levels all carved into solid granite, the very upper level was a landing bay large enough to fit multiple saucers and other large transport vehicles.
She parked the saucer in the first available spot, then grabbed her luggage she had brought along.
Taking an elevator down eight levels to the living quarters she headed to the den area that was central to it. Hitting the lights it revealed the den was a circular room nearly fifty yards wide and filled with sofas and recliners. Around the area was a hallway, an outer ring that was divided by pillars supporting the ceiling and lead to other hallways that ran off to the living quarters.
The central focus of it was a eighty inch widescreen T.V., this was a rest area for Drakken's henchmen and it was all hers at the moment.
Shego, threw her luggage on a sofa, pulled up a recliner, turned on the T.V. and started to read a magazine she had brought along.
It would be a few days before Drakken caught up with her and for now she had the place to herself so decided to relax.
Of course, Shego thought she had the place to herself, the truth was far from it.
Hiding behind one of the various pillars two blonde men were hiding and whispering at each other.
"Dude, we need to get out of here now!" Ron whispered urgently.
"Why?" Altrix responded back, "Shego's fun."
"She is so not fun!" Ron snapped back a little above a whisper, which made Shego look up for a moment.
"You might want to keep it down Ron," Altrix's barely audible voice only reached Ron, "I think she might have heard you." He showed a grin at Ron.
Ron, made a fist at Altrix that was parodied by Rufus in Ron's leg pocket, Shego, went back to reading her mag.
Ron and Altrix were in this lair for one reason, Altrix wanted to see Ron in action when it came to infiltrating a lair.
Kim, was at a charity car wash that Ron had decided to skip out on, so he had snatched up the boy and taken him to this deserted lair.
Ron, was tickled pink at the fact he could run around an evil villain's lair with no one around and had engaged in a little Tom foolery.
Of course, once he had heard the doors open up above and Altrix was right next to him he had started to freak out.
Running around screaming in panic yelling about getting caught Altrix asked him if this was the secret skill he used to help Kim.
Ron, didn't like Altrix's attitude about the situation, but Altrix reminded him the only exit was the one up above, so they would have to wait and see who this was.
When the elevator started to come down, Ron really freaked, but Altrix hit the lights and dived with Ron behind the pillar the most far from the elevator.
"I wish Kim was here." Ron whispered.
"Why, Kim would have to do the same thing we're going to have to do." Altrix looked right at the boy, "The only way out is the elevator and we're going to have to fight her to get out.
On the bright side I could teach you something that really annoys Shego but might make Kim jealous if you tell her about it."
Ron, had a puzzled look on his face after this last comment and suddenly Altrix threw a quarter that hit a lamp right next to Shego.
Ron, looked at the broken lamp in horror as Shego threw down her magazine and jumped up from her chair.
He turned to look back at Altrix and discovered, he had vanished, Ron went solid with his back against the pillar and Rufus sought shelter in Ron's pocket.
Shego, was slowly investigating the area when she made out a familiar sound and ran straight at the pillar Ron was hiding behind.
She jumped to the other side expecting to find someone, but no one was there, Ron had quickly moved to the other side.
Shego's, head popped around to the other side and caught Ron.
"Ah! Shego!" Ron, looked on the verge of a heart attack.
"I thought I recognized that rapid heartbeat." Shego, didn't look at all amused with the boy. "So, where's Possible?"
"Uh, she's not here right now," Ron, looked a little desperate at her, "if you give me a message I'll be on my way to give it to her."
"So," Shego just grinned, "you're here all by yourself then. Oh well," Shego lit up her hands, "pummeling you to a pulp won't be too satisfying but it'll get back at princess."
"Shego wait!" Ron, was about to run as fast as he could from Shego, but Shego suddenly got a look on her face that struck Ron as odd.
A split second later Ron suddenly figured out why Shego looked like she did and started to giggle a bit along with Rufus.
"Why you smart," Shego, went to lash out at Ron for laughing when suddenly Ron vanished into thin air.
"What did I tell you Ron?" Altrix's voice was heard, "Doesn't she have to most adorable look on her face when she gets spanked."
"ALTRIX!" Shego's blood curling voice rang out in the lair.
"That face is even cuter!" Altrix responded.
"What are you doing here?" Shego demanded to thin air, having no idea where either had gone.
"Well, I took Ron on a field trip," Altrix was heard, from nowhere, "but it looks like I'll need to teach him something else now that you showed up.
You see Ron, the key is to hold all your fingers apart for the least amount of air resistance. Then, you need to approach Shego forty-five degrees behind either eye as she seems to have a blind spot there."
"I'm not sure if I should be doing that Altrix." Ron responded.
Shego, spun around holding a hand back to guard her rear, "If you dare touch me Stoppable…"
"Kim will kill you when she finds out you've been spanking Shego on the side!" Altrix finished the sentence.
Ron, couldn't keep a giggle back which just angered Shego all the more.
This was worse then just being confronted by Altrix alone, he now had the boyfriend of her archenemy to yuk it up with.
"Well," Altrix continued, "I'm thinking you're going to have to head back to Legacy Ron, Shego and me need to talk a bit."
"Fine by me," Ron's voice responded, "if this is the kind of fun you have with her, I really don't want Kim to think I had anything to do with it."
The elevator doors suddenly opened, Shego, made a mad dash for the doors, hands fully ablaze getting ready to fry any movement at the doors.
She unfortunately, got another spanking delivered to her rear that made her stop and lash out around her.
When she looked back at the elevator Stoppable was in it, the door was closed and it was heading up.
"Fine," Shego exclaimed, "Stoppable wasn't the one I wanted to fight anyway, I've been wanting to get another shot at you Altrix."
"I bet you have," his voice again came from nowhere, "and let me guess, you've been training with robots or artificial humanoids to try and get some training.
Unfortunately, none of them are nearly at the same skill or speed I have, am I close?"
Shego, had a look of shock, but quickly composed herself back, "Oh, just shove it!"
"Guess I was close," Altrix responded again, "but, if it wasn't for the look on your face when you get spanked you'd be kind of boring Shego.
You know what, I think this is a great opportunity to move our relationship to the next level, don't you think?"
The Elevator doors opened again, but only the shaft was there, the car was still heading up.
"Met you in the lab Shego!" A voice was heard in the shaft.
Shego, quickly looked up the shaft to see the doors open on the fourth floor, Altrix had already moved four levels up?
She entered the shaft and quickly bounded from wall to wall up, when she finally burst through the open fourth floor door she expected to be greeted by the empty lab.
The room was huge and three hundred foot square in shape, was generally filled with computers, various chemicals and beakers, a lab.
To her surprise it had a new addition, at the center of the lab, grinning at her stood a blonde man.
He was dressed in black leather and was only four inches taller then Shego, this was Altrix she realized.
She sent two green bolts at him immediately, which he just as quickly avoided by ducking.
Suddenly, a flurry of bolts flew across the room, the place was filled with them as Shego pumped out more then she ever had in her life.
Of course to her horror, Altrix dodged, ducked, jumped, hanged from the ceiling and slid to avoid all of them.
Shego, stopped to catch her breath and was panting heavily from the strain.
"Well," Altrix looked behind himself, "you've managed to hit everything else in the room."
A screamed echoed as Shego launched herself full force at Altrix, just wanting to kill this man anyway how.
Altrix, grabbed her out of the air and slammed her on her back against the floor. In the same move he landed on top of Shego and brought his face an inch away from hers.
"Well, this is comfy!" Altrix commented while laying on top of her, but immediately jumped back off of her and to his feet.
Shego, jumped up as well and started slamming blow after blow at Altrix.
After each blow she would yell, "Die! Die! Die!" and Altrix kept blocking each one.
"You seem a little upset Shego, you haven't been obsessing about me have you?" He winked at her after the last comment.
That did it, she ran full force in a berserk rage at Altrix, who grabbed her belt and launched her at a cabinet in the lab.
A shattering and crashing of metal was heard in the lab, Altrix suddenly stopped, then rubbed his hands together with a grin.
He bounded up to the cabinet and looked directly at Shego, "Look what I caught! I might have to throw her back, I think she's under the limit."
Shego, was trapped in a webbing of wires that were in the cabinet she had crashed into. Every part of her was bounded and her glow was of no use, as she couldn't move her arms to cut the wires.
It looked like she had been caught in a large web and was struggling a little to get out of it, but gave up realizing she was hopelessly entangled.
"Ok," She finally looked up at Altrix, "you got me, now get me out of here and take me to jail…again."
"Jail?" Altrix, raised one eyebrow at this, "Who said anything about Jail Shego?
Oh no, I promised you I was going to take our relationship to the next level Shego and that's what I plan to do."
"Next level?" Shego, was a little puzzled at this, "I don't know what imaginary relationship you think we have, but I'm definitely not your girlfriend."
"Oh no Shego," Altrix grinned, "I'm not talking a romantic relationship here, unless you're trying to drop me hints.
I'm talking about the fact you've made the same mistake every super powered human on this planet has made Shego.
"What?" Shego, was looking at him like he was mad.
"Oh yes, seems everyone with super powers does the same thing," Altrix continued, "makes these imaginary walls they believe are the limits to their powers.
Although I have to admit your wall is much different from the ones your brothers erected."
Shego, didn't really know what he was talking about, he was better then her yes, but she was holding herself back, what garbage was this?
"Having fought you three times now," Altrix smiled a little, "I think I have an idea how to push you through that wall though."
"Oh really?" Shego, smirked a little at him, "I'd like to see that."
Altrix, got a really wide grin on his face after that comment, "Just remember Shego, you're the one who asked for this."
What happened next, both confused and horrified Shego, it happened so fast she was taken by surprise.
Altrix, put both hands on her cheeks, then drew his face close to hers and, KISSED HER!
She only realized what was going on after his lips had been on hers for a second he moved so fast. His eyes were completely shut, it was a hard passionate kiss he was giving her.
"This is worse then getting spanked!" She screamed in her mind.
Something in Shego snapped at that moment, a growl that started deep within her grew until it was heard everywhere.
Altrix, jumped away from Shego just as she became engulfed in green flames that quickly burned through all the wiring that was holding her.
She was dropped to the floor with the charred remains of the wires falling off of her body.
She looked up at Altrix with a face of pure rage, her eyes had no pupils, instead they had solid green irises that glowed an unearthly green, she looked possessed.
"It's about time!" was all Altrix said to this sight.
Shego, sent solid beams right at Altrix, they were each huge, nearly two feet round and when they hit the ground where Altrix stood the whole room shook.
Shego, a little taken aback at what she had just did and stopped the beams to reveal two large holes in the floor that were glowing from the heat her power had transferred burning into the granite.
She was shocked as they were both two feet round and had burned ten feet into the floor.
"You still can't hit me?" Altrix, was standing at the bottom of stairs at the back of the lab. The stairs lead up to a private room Drakken would use for sleep when he worked all night in the lab.
Shego, sent beams at him but he had quickly flown up the stairs to the room above, she followed.
The room was very plush and expensive looking, having a king-sized bed in it's middle. It was a gorgeous room decked out in red, large red curtains hung around fake windows, as the weather outside was too cold to have actual windows.
Although, a balcony that lead outside at the back of this room had its door open, where her prey was.
She cautiously peered around the door and was surprised to see Altrix standing at the end of the short walkway looking out over the mountains.
Altrix, took in a deep breath, he had forgotten how serene and beautiful the Rockies looked.
His moment was cut short from a snide laugh coming from Shego behind him, he turned and faced her, having a bit of a smile on his face.
"I don't know what you did to me down there," Shego's eyes still had a solid green center that glowed and both hands were glowing more vicious and brightly then she had ever seen them in her life, "but I'm going to use it to kill you."
"You don't get it do you Shego?" Altrix, just grinned at her more, "I've trained hundreds of super powered humans.."
"And this one is going to kill you!" Shego, cut him off and sent two super-charged beams directly at Altrix. They were larger then the last ones and nearly blinded her.
What happened next was unbelievable, Altrix made no move to get out of the way of the beams, instead he raised his right hand palm out towards the beams.
The beams split to the left and right of him and harmlessly headed out into the distance.
Shego, couldn't believe what she was looking at after that, she couldn't say it was a glow, could she?
There in front of her, around Altrix's extended hand was lapping black flames.
"…and I'm one of them." Altrix, finished his sentence that Shego had interrupted.
Her blood ran cold at the sight of this nightmare; Altrix was obviously super-powered just like her. What was really creeping her out was Altrix's eyes were solid black and looked like twin pools of black tar.
He raised his left arm in front of himself and Shego felt an unseen force push her back through the doorway. She did a back flip over the bed in the middle of the room and landed, then quickly got up to be greeted by a grinning Altrix at the balcony door.
She sent bolts again at him and with a flick of his hands the beams were bent around him and sent harmlessly out the door.
"That was nuts!" she thought to herself, then put both hands together and started to generate an energy ball.
"That's not going to work Shego." Altrix, commented on what she was doing moments before she sent a ball the size of the bed at him.
The room exploded, the bed was picked up and thrown against the wall, various dressers and cabinets were shoved about. The elegant curtains became torn, ripped and burned by the explosion.
Shego, was knocked on her rear and had seen the bed fly over her, it was utter chaos of an explosion.
When she finally saw the room, she saw Altrix standing with his back to her hunched over apparently holding his hands to his head.
"My eye! What did you do to my eye?" Shego, got a grin on her face at this sight.
Altrix, spun around and looked at Shego with two perfectly solid black eyes, "Just kidding!"
He was holding a basketball sized green energy ball in his left hand that was sitting on his black glow. He tossed it over his head to land in his right hand, it then started snaking around his right hand, went around his back and finally ended up in his left hand again.
"Seriously Shego," Altrix commented while doing this, "you just got past your self-imposed limits and know nothing of how to use this new discovery. A novice like you has no chance of beating me in a super powered battle."
"Run!" Shego's mind screamed at her.
She got up and ran for the stairs, only to run into an invisible barrier at the top of the stairs.
"What!" She turned and faced Altrix who was holding up a hand at the doorway, the energy ball was gone, "What do you want from me?"
"I only want to train you Shego." He was still smiling at her, "I'll admit though, pushing you past your limitations was a lot more interesting compared with your brothers.
Hego, I had to show the injustices of this world that will always exist no matter how much of a hero he becomes.
Mego, I only had to show how insignificant he compares with the universe as a whole.
The twins, well making them jealous of each other was all it took but the results were always the same."
He walked closer to Shego, who backed the opposite direction away from him.
"A sudden burst of power, followed by, well, you'll find out about that soon enough." He smiled at her again.
"Why me?" Shego demanded from him, "Why do you want to train me? I'm the bad guy remember."
"I'm not going to tell you until you say yes Shego." He answered her question, "I can't have that reason influence your decision, you must choose to want to be trained."
"What is this," She was visually annoyed, "some kind of sick initiation ritual?"
"No," Altrix responded back, "but I'm pretty certain I have a better feel and idea of your powers then you do Shego.
In fact, what would you say if I told you in the next few seconds you will be in my arms and find you are unable to get out of the embrace?"
"I'd think you need to keep on dreaming if you think..UGH!" Shego, suddenly felt the whole room spinning around her.
She couldn't stand up and felt the room go horizontal and was gently caught by something. When her eyes came into focus she found herself sitting in Altrix's lap and his right arm supported her back. Shego's glow was gone and her eyes had returned to their normal green with pupils in them.
"I stand corrected," Altrix looked directly at her, "this is much more comfy." He smiled at her with a slight look of admiration.
"What…you….me?" Shego could hardly talk.
"I didn't do anything to you Shego," he just smiled at her, "you are pretty much going through the same thing someone who hasn't exercised in years would go through if they ran a marathon.
Your powers are out of shape Shego and you're passing out from the strain, what you need now is rest."
After that last statement, he waved a glowing left hand toward the middle of the room. The parts of the bed that had been destroyed by the explosion, suddenly jumped up from the floor and reassembled themselves.
When finished, the be looked almost brand new, the covers on the bed pulled themselves back.
Altrix, gently picked up Shego and laid her in the bed and pulled the covers over her.
With a wave of both hands the entire room reassembled itself to Shego's surprise, Altrix at last turned his attentions to a heater in the room. Not even touching it knobs turned and a solid, "Whoof!" of a fire igniting in the heater was heard.
The door to the balcony shut and Altrix looked back at Shego and brushed her raven hair out of her eyes.
Shego, had a look of apprehension on her face that Altrix noticed and his face went a little grim.
"You're quite mad at me for kissing you?" Altrix, showed a little concern, "I guess I apologize for it, but I had to push you past your self imposed limits somehow.
I promise I won't touch you that way again Shego, it's not needed as you now know you've been holding yourself back."
Altrix, went to leave, then stopped and looked at Shego, "You know, you do have the cutest face when you're angry though."
After that he left her in the room by herself, Shego just couldn't believe what was happening to her.
She struggled for a few moments to stay conscious, expecting Altrix to return and torment her some more.
Her body wouldn't answer her commands, it was screaming that it was tired and wanted sleep.
Finally, she lost the battle and her eyes closed in exhaustion, but she regretted it.
The last thing that went through her head before she lost consciousness sent a shudder through her being, but at the same time an odd curiousness.
The memory of Altrix's lips when he had kissed her, it had felt like a longing and wanting kiss.