What About Shego?
Chapter 4
Two green eyes snapped open and were staring at an ornate ceiling.
Shego had finally woken up and was still in the king-sized bed Altrix had placed her in.
She crawled out of the bed and tried standing up, but a wave of nausea swept over her causing her to clutch a bedpost.
She felt tired, weak and a little sick and with a sudden urgency she quickly made it to the bathroom that adjoined the large bedroom. Sounds of sickness were heard and after a few moments a toilet flushed.
She emerged from the bathroom, looking worse for wear but still alive even if she didn't feel it.
She had only dry heaved, but felt an empty belly and a hunger that went along with it, how long had she been asleep she wondered.
Looking around the extravagant room she noticed an object that got her attention.
On a table, a red light blinked on and off to attract attention to it.
Shego, made her way to the table to find various objects had been placed on top of it, each with a purpose.
They were: the red light, a one quart silver thermos, a timer that was at thirty-eight hours and counting up and a hand written letter.
She turned her attention to the letter that read:
Dear Shego,
I suspect that you had quite a restful sleep, but at this moment feel as if the world is trying to tear you apart
The timer is how long you have been asleep, first time my powers awoke I slept for forty-eight hours after passing out.
The thermos contains a homemade concoction of nourishment that will make you feel more like yourself.
Shego stopped reading after that sentence and focused on the silver thermos that was before her.
It had a label on it with the title: CHECK FOR ALLERGIES and listed ingredients, none of which she was allergic to. It sounded like an exotic fruit smoothie but with a few vegetables added to it.
She unscrewed the thermos and was just about to take a drink when she stopped herself.
As hungry as she was a thought went through her head, "Could she really trust Altrix?"
True, the guy hadn't done anything to really try and hurt her. He was a good guy, a stupid uptight good will always triumph good guy and the good guys never poisoned anyone, not even their enemies.
Altrix though didn't seem to really act like any male heroes she had encountered in her life though.
As she pondered this a heavenly aroma of the contents in the thermos entered her nostrils. It smelt so good she involuntarily began to drool a bit over the smell; she took just a sip to test it.
It was very sweet and had an unbelievable bouquet of flavors all tasting fresh and new.
She gulped the sip down and immediately began to chug on the thermos until it was completely empty.
After finishing it off she let out a deep gasp, and then realized she had just drank the whole container when she had meant to just test it.
She stood there for a moment, waiting for something to happen, the effects of the drink were almost immediate but not what Shego had expected.
The feeling of weakness and nausea disappeared and although she felt just a little tired it wasn't as crippling as before.
She turned her attentions back towards the letter:
If you're allergic to the ingredients in that thermos, four others are underneath this table each with a different mix
The white one contains a hypoallergenic mix I don't recommend drinking if you don't have to, it tastes like snot.
She looked beneath the table to find indeed three more silver thermoses and one white one, each labeled with ingredients.
What had Altrix been doing in the lair while she slept?
She turned back to the letter:
Word of advice, you're going to want to eat fruits and vegetables as your primary food, with little breads and cereals and go with fruit juices more then dairy.
Meat, avoid for the next week, trust me if one morsel touches your tongue you'll feel an overwhelming urge to empty your stomach and will end up doing just that.
It's ironic, getting enough power you could easily hunt down any prey but you can't eat any of it for a week, small price I guess.
Once it's been a week starting from whenever you got up, you can go back to your normal diet.
That's about all the advice I can give, since Drakken doesn't seem to keep a fresh stock in his off-season lairs I stocked the pantry while you were sleeping.
You'll find the recipe for these drinks if you feel like making some in the kitchen along with the fresh food. Level twelve, but you already knew that.
I suspect though right now your thoughts have nothing to do with food and everything to do with finding answers.
What you are thinking right now is stupid, rash, and a plan of complete idiocy and passion.
I'd be disappointed if you didn't do it though Shego.
To answer the question you have, yes, all the answers you seek will be found there, but you're not going to like them.
Good luck anyway and it goes without saying I wouldn't tell Drakken about it.
Sincerely yours,
Altrix"How could he have known?" Shego stood a gasp at the last lines of the letter.
She stood for a few moments, contemplating if she truly wanted to go through with the plan Altrix obviously knew about.
After a few moments she made up her mind, grabbed the three silver thermoses and headed down the stairs to the lab and elevator.
The lab was just like the bedroom, immaculate and untouched. If not for Altrix's gifts she would have thought everything had been a dream for the lack of damage her powers had caused.
She pushed the elevator button and within moments the car arrived and opened.
She boarded and pushed the button for the landing bay at the top floor.
While the car headed up, a mental struggle was being fought in Shego's head.
Was she really going to go through with this, this crazy plan of hers?
She almost felt she was starting to obsess about Altrix, the man was a pig, the spanking wasn't so bad but being kissed. Being touched without her permission it just ground into her mind, no man touched her unless she wished it.
What she was planning to do was borderline insane when she would step back and just look at the direction she was headed.
The elevator doors opened to the bay where she had parked her saucer.
She stood for a few seconds in the elevator, then walked out to an equipment locker and started filling a bag.
She tossed the bag in the saucer but was still struggling with herself in her mind, trying to find reasons to go through with this and not to go through with it.
In about fifteen minutes she had the saucer filled with everything she needed and jumped in.
She sat in the drivers seat, still chewing on it in her mind about what she was about to do.
She had never met a man that had so irritated her, even Motor Ed, who obviously got too close to her as well. With him though, Ed was an idiot and easy to figure out, the only reason he showed her any interest was, as he put it, "She's a hot green babe!"
After finding Altrix to be super-powered and not only that he seemed to almost know about her powers and what he could do with them.
It was a mix of personal interest in her and professional, she felt he was actually interested in her for what she was. Not for her looks, not for her powers but for who she was and he seemed really interested in her villainy.
It drove her nuts that he seemed to know everything about her, but she knew nothing about him, she didn't like that situation and wanted to correct it.
"Was that the only reason she was doing this?" she thought.
Shego, had learned quickly when she had first become a villainess the one way people always looked at her once she crossed that line.
They looked at her the same way someone looks at a bomb; she was a dangerous woman, one to be feared.
It didn't bother her, it had always been one of the perks she liked from being a villainess and the fact other villains out there, one's even she thought should be feared were afraid of her, brought her even more joy.
Altrix, when she had finally seen his face, didn't fear her one bit, not even during the burst of power she had found in their last meeting. No, not found, he had brought it out of her and had been expecting it; in fact, he was disappointed it took so long.
She remembered his face, his eyes while she had fought him, it wasn't eyes of someone that felt they were stronger then her, they were eyes of someone who had seen something much more evil and more powerful then her.
What did he know or had seen?
The man knew something that she wanted to know, what possibly in the world was more dangerous then her.
"That's not the only thing you want, is it?" she thought to herself.
What else is there, the man apparently claims to know a lot about my powers, definitely doesn't see me as a threat.
He's going to keep coming at me even if I tell him, "No" on the training offer; he wants to train me one way or another. I've got to find out everything about him, to either stop him from mocking me or kill him.
What else is there that is making me do this?
At her question, a memory rushed through her head, the kiss, his hands firmly holding her face and the gentleness, almost from preparation of his lips on hers.
Shego, started to get out of the saucer.
Before her foot had touched the ground another memory went through her head, "All the answers you seek will be found there…"
The saucer took off and left the mountain lair.
Shego put the coordinates into the autopilot, which immediately caused an alarm to go off.
"Please double-check coordinates, high-risk location entered." The alarm blared out.
"So, Drakken wasn't that dumb." Shego thought considering he had blocked the location from being entered into the autopilot.
She overrode the alarm and entered the location for a second time.
The autopilot immediately took over and headed off into the direction of the entered coordinates.
Shego, went to task on all the equipment she had gathered up, where she was going she would need every bit of it.
The saucer continued on its course, taking Shego into the belly of the beast.
Global Justice's headquarters.
"That was a dirty trick!" Kim was irritated.
"True," Altrix was grinning a little at her, "but you can't always think you're going to have a perfect mission."
Altrix, Kim, Ron and Rufus were the only ones in a large auditorium at Global Justice.
Kim had finally figured out how to beat Altrix's lair, she had just finished telling him how.
Altrix had laughed a little at her look when she finished, as it was a look that she didn't believe what she had just described doing.
"That," Altrix was looking directly at Kim, "is the beginning of seeing the fight against evil in a different way Kim.
Not something you are use to, using deadly force to accomplish your task."
"How could I?" Kim was cross, "It's insane, and you would destroy what you're supposed to recover let alone killing the villain."
Altrix, stopped grinning and got a grim look on his face, "That's exactly what the villain is counting on you thinking.
To enter the lair is to sign your own death certificate and the villain's as well.
The villain doesn't care if they live, they will have killed Kim Possible by doing so. One of the traps you will fall into if you don't guard against it as your fame and accomplishments build.
You get so caught in being the number one super hero you forget some villains aren't in it for money or power.
Only fame and recognition in ending the career of a super hero.
Don't ever exclude failure as an option; it gives you the advantage of seeing things as they are, instead of what your mind wants."
"But," Kim was physically showing signs of not liking this solution, "you're not exactly being a hero by destroying everything.
What if hostages not property are taken?"
"Same deal Kim," Altrix, wasn't phased, "although harder to make.
You're going to encounter evil out there that even evil fears.
In your current mindset it will be, crossing the line between hero and villain, thankfully, such evil rarely surfaces because it is so destructive to all involved.
I sill have much to teach you, but you will understand and find few villains a threat when finished.
Global Justice is sending you into the wild Kim, to fight villains that can only be described as things, not people."
Kim just sat there for a moment, taking it in.
Altrix was so very different from the other heroes she had been introduced to since Global Justice had inducted her.
Not in a creepy good shall always triumph like Hego's attitude that seems to run in a lot of new recruits and some moderately seasoned veterans.
It was more, he talked as from experience and just had lethalness to what he described, she was sort of glad he was on her side.
She looked over at Ron, who was trying to look busy by appearing to be taking notes.
Ron was just doodling, but looking at him reminded her of what Ron had told her recently.
"Does that include glowing villains as well?" Kim gave Altrix a hard stare.
Altrix, in turn looked directly at Ron, "Someone apparently has loose lips." He said sternly.
"Uh, it was just too good of a secret to keep?" Ron finally stopped doodling when he felt Altrix's eyes on him.
Altrix had forgotten to turn off his glow when leaving the lair Ron and him had been at.
The young boy had of course, freaked out, seeing him glowing similarly to Shego.
Altrix really hadn't been too concerned about it and only asked Ron to keep it to himself.
Which apparently he hadn't, no matter, at least Kim knew sooner then later.
"Yes," Altrix looked back at Kim, "even super powered ones.
Although, most will use their powers as a crutch, very few have real skills without them."
"Shego doesn't seem to use hers as a crutch." Kim responded.
"No," Altrix replied, "she uses hers like a brute with a club.
She lacks any real finesse or skill compared to others with such gifts, or curses depending on how you look at it.
Probably the reason she's become skilled in hand to hand fighting."
"You fought her?" Ron blurted out, "I though you said you put her to bed?
Aren't your powers like the sandman or something?"
"When did I say that?" Altrix was a little confused at this, "My powers only give me the ability to phase from reality.
Making me invisible as well as walking through matter. I still had to take her out the old fashion way."
"That sounds like a major advantage against someone like Shego." Kim said.
"A little, but she is sensitive to my powers. She could, in a limited manor, detect my location; just not touch me unless I want her too." Altrix said back.
"Well, either way at least she's behind bars again, for a time at least." Kim had a look of tiredness at this statement.
"Not really," Altrix had a sheepish look, "she got away.
I was concerned at getting Ron to safety so didn't call Global Justice immediately.
I saw the saucer she arrived in leaving soon after we did.
I'm sure she'll turn up again so we'll have another chance to…" Altrix trailed off and looked at a solid concrete wall to his right.
He stared so intently at it that both Kim and Ron looked at the wall too.
After a bit he ginned, then turned back to Kim, "How would you like to play a game of Hide-n-seek?"
Both looked a little puzzled at this statement.
"Someone, is trying to get into the base that shouldn't," Altrix continued, "I'm sure security will catch them, but why no put some training to use and see if you can first."
"Ummm," Ron was the first to talk, "how can we find someone when we don't know who they are?
I mean most games of hide-n-seek, you all start out together, someone covers their eyes and counts to a hundred, there are rules to this you know."
"Consider it part of the challenge and the fun part," Altrix, just smiled at Ron, "I'll give you a hint, check out the archives, but that's the only hint I'm giving you.
Now go, time is short and this unexpected guest will be quite familiar when you see them." He made motions with his hands for both of them to get going.
Kim and Ron both got up, Kim went to say something which Altrix interrupted.
"Don't worry; I'll be watching all of you." He pointed to a camera in the room, "Besides Kim, you need some work in the field, I have no idea why Global Justice doesn't want me to take you out for some training."
With that, Kim and Ron left the room, leaving Altrix by himself.
As soon as Kim and Ron exited the doorway, Altrix vanished, literally. In his phased form he quickly scaled up the wall and through the ceiling.
Going up five stories through various rooms and departments of Global Justice he arrived at the roof.
It was a starless night outside, storm clouds enveloped the sky, it was the point just before the storm was to hit.
Altrix, materialized from nowhere on the roof, both hands slightly ablaze in black.
From a distance it would appear to an observer he had no hands, the black blended so well in the night.
"She actually came," Altrix thought, "I am impressed." He was looking at her currently, but not in a way any normal human could.
His powers gave him the ability to touch the very fabric of space, a side affect of being able to phase out of it.
Feeling through reality, he sensed many vibrations from living and non-living things, he was a man that could never be taken by surprise.
Shego was about four miles away, but closing fast in the saucer she had came in.
She would stop two miles away, the very edge of the defense perimeter, within the jungle around the installation, out of sensor detection.
"She'll never make it." Altrix thought to himself, "Or will she?"
Altrix's hands burned stronger with their black glow.
She couldn't believe she was doing this, she had only thought about answers on the trip here. It wasn't until now that the entire ordeal she was about to go through hit her.
Global Justice was impenetrable, period. Looking through binoculars she only saw impossible barriers to breach, beyond anything she had ever seen.
The headquarters was situated on an artificial island out in the middle of a lake. The countryside around the lake was a thick jungle, hiding her approach.
Search lights, radar and laser trackers swept around on top of the fortresses roof.
Because of this, she would have to swim to avoid detection, it was a curious thing but the lake yielded no alarms or detection devices to a device she had brought along for just this purpose.
She put the device away and began to prepare for the swim by first tying back her hair into a ponytail. As much as she took pride in her hair, she knew once it was wet it got in her way.
Once tied back, she set to putting on a black wetsuit, a bubbles scuba gear and packed extra equipment into an underwater jetpack that looked more like a torpedo, also black.
The jet pack would get her across the lake quickly so she wasn't tired out by the time she reached the opposite shore. This was going to be stressful enough even without her physically exerting herself.
She slinked into the lake and started up the propellers on the jetpack and was quickly pulled across the lake, an almost silent hum that would unnoticeable to the untrained ear was the only thing to betray her presence.
A quarter of the way there, she found out why the beach and the water itself were so unprotected by alarms.
The lake was swarming with mechanical sharks, each one was the size of a Great White, but could definitely cause more damage then their natural counter-parts.
They were equipped with sensors and more then likely programmed to attack any disturbance in the water. No wonder she hadn't encountered a single fish or any animal in or on the lake.
Shego had slowed to a crawl to reduce the noise of the jetpack and avoid detection. It was impossible though, from where she was she could count thirty, no, fifty of the things in the clear water.
Her powers could easily destroy them, but with so many they would eventually end up mobbing her. Not only that, in the night up above, her powers would show up like a signal flare betraying her presence.
She was beginning to turn back to shore when one shark suddenly veered to intercept her, she had been detected.
Shego threw caution away and powered up the jetpack to full, only to find four sharks now directly behind her blocking the path back.
She drove forward to the base, hoping to outrun the lone shark that was quickly closing the distance.
It was thirty feet away, in a few moments it was only twenty feet. She wasn't fast enough to outrun it; she turned to slash at it when she felt it directly behind her.
Shego, didn't ignite her hands, as the shark was no longer behind her when she looked back, it had vanished.
Not only that, she didn't she any sharks in the water at all, they had all disappeared.
It puzzled her, but she turned back in the direction she was heading just in time to avoid slamming into another obstacle.
In front of Shego, long white ribbons no thicker then cloth and only four inches wide dangled from the surface.
They formed a forest and since she was so close to the island they extended to the bottom of the lake.
Each was four feet apart, just wide enough for a person to swim through unaided.
It puzzled her; they appeared to be harmless and had no electronics she could see attached to them, so they weren't any sort of alarm she had ever encountered.
For the first time she had entered the lake, a fish swam into Shego's view, it avoided the ribbons with what seemed to be experience.
Shego, darted her hand out and caught the fish in her claws, it struggled but was unable to escape her grasp.
She brought the fish in contact with one of the ribbons; it quickly stopped struggling in her grasp.
Paralyzed, the fish was still breathing, just couldn't move.
"An excellent trap." Shego thought.
If an intruder bumped any of the ribbons they would be paralyzed and float to the surface to be seen.
Shego ditched the torpedo, it would encumber her movement and she needed it to get through. She thought it curious for such an apparently effective trap; they would leave enough of a gap for a very good swimmer to get through.
She took a deep breath and swam full speed into the forest, nimbly avoiding all the ribbons she encountered.
The first thirty yards was easy, the ribbons were stationary and in a fixed pattern, easy to navigate.
It wasn't until she looked behind her panic set in as the real secret of the trap became known to her.
The ribbons were moving, not just moving, they were converging on where she was swimming.
The trap was ingenious; her movement through the water was propelling them towards her.
She swam faster, but this made them move faster towards her.
She stopped, thinking they would stop, but they had built up such momentum they kept coming towards her.
One just barely touched her left elbow; Shego screamed out in pain and almost lost her scuba gear's mouthpiece.
The pain was excruciating, she bolted away from the ribbon that had touch her, only to see more begin to surround her from all sides.
Her left arm was starting to go limp, it slowed her down more to the point she couldn't navigate or outrun the ribbons.
She stopped, realizing how futile escape had become; she just floated in the water, waiting for the conclusion as the ribbons closed in on her.
Right before they touched she closed her eyes to the oncoming pain that never came.
A minute passed before Shego opened her eyes to an unbelievable sight.
The ribbons around her were tangled together and not moving, dumb luck she thought to herself.
She noticed that in the direction she was heading, they had become tangled as well, making a path to the shore.
Her left arm was still limp, but the pain and paralysis wasn't spreading thankfully.
It took awhile but she finally made an uneventful trip to the shore, by the time she made it she had use of her arm again, just no feeling in it.
She popped her head just above the water to check out the shore, even in the darkness she could make out an empty rocky beach.
She emerged from the water and set to preparation in the infiltration of the fortress that appeared up the beach as a solid black structure in the night.
She stashed her scuba gear, wetsuit and goggles in a convenient hole she found a few feet up the beach.
She left he ponytail in, considering her hair was soaking wet she didn't want to fight with it now.
The distance from the shore to the building was about one-hundred yards, easy for her to cover.
Even though she had lost the night-vision goggles she had put in the torpedo, she could clearly make out two cameras, obviously motion sensitive, sweeping the area she planned to cross.
They were alternating, so the window between them when she could make it without detection was almost nonexistent.
She was looking for another way when both cameras just stopped their sweeping; both were pointed away from each other leaving the path completely clear for Shego.
She wasted no time and sprinted the distance to the wall, once she reached the wall she began to search for an opening of some sort.
Suddenly, the sound of a door sliding open to her left was heard, Shego flattened herself against the wall and kept in the shadows.
"Sure! Send the new guy to check them out." A guard stepped out of the wall from where the door was, which had looked exactly like the wall itself, "Don't know why we have the cameras. No one is going to break into this place anyway."
He was to Shego's current right and much to Shego's surprise; he was walking away from her.
She took the opportunity to quickly dive into the doorway before it closed, she had no time to think about dangers beyond as this appeared to be her only chance to get in.
Once inside the door slammed shut behind her, she was inside and in a dark corridor that was thankfully empty.
The corridor was dark, barely lit by emergency lights that hung on the walls; the main array of lights going down the middle of the ceiling was off, probably because of the lateness of the hour.
Since the light inside was so close to the outside's she didn't have to wait for her eyes to adjust and quickly saw down the corridor.
At the very end, about fifty yards away light bathed the corridor from what was obviously a guard's station. Right before it was her only alternative path, a door with a sign sticking out of the wall above it marked, "Stairs", that was only five feet from where the guard station was.
Shego quietly made her way toward the door, as she neared she overheard two guards talking.
"Why do you think they let him back?
Especially after what he did and that incident a year ago?" one guard spoke.
"Don't know, but it was definitely him." A second guard responded, "I remember that face back in the old days, amazing how little he's changed."
"But him!" the first guard sounded a little distraught, "He was the worse of the worse and to be here at Global Justice. It's like bringing a cat into a fish factory, he shouldn't be allowed back."
"He wasn't always like that," the second guard replied, "back in the day he was a man you could trust with your life."
Shego, froze, she had nearly ran into a laser grid that lined the corridor right before the door that was her target.
Last line of defense apparently, she retrieved a small can and sprayed dust into the air revealing the beams.
They were tight, but she could easily contort through them, she started confidently slipping through the multiple beams.
"I can't believe he was ever a good guy, considering how far he went." The first guard continued.
"Well, believe it;" the second said, "in fact he seems to be that good again. He actually distracted the general yesterday for me when I was late."
"He did not, not for you anyway." The first replied sharply.
"Yeah, he just winked at me when I got to my post behind the general's back for no reason.
Brass was quite in a bad mood yesterday, I think I owe him my life, or at least my job.
Anyway," the second guard made a sound of getting up from a chair, "I've got patrol in east block, I'll catch you later."
Shego wasn't through the beams yet and she could see the guard approaching through the window of the guard's station.
She might be able to take him out before he sounded the alarm, but not his friend.
Her heart was pounding in her ears; she tried to hurry through the last of the beams. She came close, very close to touching them in her hurried scamper.
She wasn't going to make it though, not enough time as the guard opened the door to the corridor, and she could see his foot step out.
KABOOM!
An explosion echoed through the corridor, causing the guard to turn around.
"What did you do!" the second guard yelled.
"I didn't do anything! The pop machine just exploded!" The first replied in a panic.
The hissing of pop cans was heard, along with the yelling of two bewildered guards.
Shego had made it through and quickly crashed through the stair door that was unlocked.
She nearly fell down the stairs but had stopped herself just in time and quietly closed the door behind her.
Once the door shut, she found herself in pitch black darkness; there was no light source at all in the stairwell.
Finally, she lit up one of her hands casting a green glow in the stair well, showing only a flight heading down and not up.
Looking over a railing she saw the stairs went down four flights, at the very bottom she saw a little bit of illumination so it wasn't completely dark.
She made her way down the stairs and once she arrived extinguished her glow as there was enough light for her to see without it.
It was big, nearly as big as the fortress that was above it but her experience in Drakken's many large lairs it didn't faze her so she started to look around at the surroundings.
All the walls were concrete, but they were numerous stairs leading up and down just like the stairwell she had come from.
A lot were labeled, laundry, kitchen nothing really caught her attention as being what she was looking for.
Off in the distance she saw a corridor and headed for it, she'd just snoop she guessed until something caught her eye.
This corridor lead into an even bigger chamber, but the floor was a finished marble and it was illuminated much better then the last one.
Here, the stairs were labeled with important signs, administrator, new recruits and also one that caught her attention, Super-powered agents.
Yeah, she'll be avoiding that as more then likely at the end of those stairs waited Altrix.
She finally saw a sign that looked promising, restricted access which was behind two double doors.
She slowly opened them to reveal a corridor that was made of solid steel walls, the light was lower then it was in the main chamber.
Down this corridor, was a door that was illuminated in a blue glow and had a matching blue sign above it.
The sign read, "Archives" while a red sign on the right of the door read, "Authorized personal only"
Shego checked the doors which were locked tight, a panel on the right read, "Level 20 keycards only."
"We'll see about that." Shego thought to herself and produced a device that was the most valuable thing she had brought with her.
Drakken, had originally been angry with Shego when she had first stole the device, he had sent her on a mission for some rocket fuel or hair growth formula or something unimportant.
When she had broken into the lab though, she had found two things to steal, the unimportant garbage Drakken wanted and this device.
She had only enough time to grab one as security had detected her and had her greatly outnumbered. In a split-second decision she had grabbed the device and its manual, the title of manual is what had made her grab it.
The device was, S.O.I.L.D. or Security Override Infiltration Lock pick Device, it was the ultimate break-in tool. Anything and I mean anything that was locked down it could easily get through, it's only drawback was the fact it needed physical touch to the lock or system, so it couldn't hack a computer remotely.
She placed it on the panel and pressed five buttons to start it up, about three seconds of clicking and whirring and the device emitted a red light.
She removed it and pressed the open button on the panel of the door, the door slid open revealing an empty room that was illuminated.
The, "Archive" was a relatively small room compared to the large area she had come from.
Only thirty feet wide and forty feet deep it did have a high ceiling about fifty feet tall. The floor was tiled in white and black checker board style but the walls were steel and appeared solid other then two large vents on either side that were big enough for a human to crawl in.
Only five office chairs that were on rollers were in the room, they looked to be quite expensive pieces, very comfy looking.
In front of Shego, was a computer screen that put anything Drakken had ever had to shame, it was nearly the size of an entire wall. It was displaying some type of geometric screen saver currently.
Below it, a huge computer panel, filled to capacity with all manor of buttons and input devices, mice, drawing table, scanner you name it the panel had it.
Shego, grabbed a chair and rolled up to the panel and pressed a button, the screen saver cleared and revealed one line that said, "Username:"
"Please enter username." A monotone computer voice announced from the panel.
"Oh great, a talking computer." Shego absently said.
"Voice Print not recognized, failure attempt logged, two more attempts allowed before security lockout initiated." The voice responded.
Shego, nearly gasped at this statement, so the thing has been programmed to keep out unwanted user, will have to fix that.
Locating a security card terminal she attached the S.O.L.I.D. to it and pressed a different sequence of buttons, thirteen in all this time.
The device whirred and clicked again and the screen responded, throwing up technical jargon and security codes on the screen. It made very little sense to Shego, but she knew what the device was doing was what she needed, so she waited.
Three minutes later the voice made an announcement, "Please enter new voice print."
"Shego." Was all she replied to the computer.
"Voice print recorded, entry added, resetting to main." The computer said and once again the username entry appeared on the screen.
"Open database search, locate files on Global Justice agent Altrix." Shego said.
The computer didn't verbally respond, but a, "Accessing Database" line appearing on the screen, soon followed by, "Searching Records" and finally a, "Restricted Access to all users." appeared on the screen.
Shego, once again pushed eight buttons on the S.O.L.I.D. and it went to work again on the computer.
Two seconds later, "Access Granted, unlocking triple Z security access files." The computer worked for a few moments, "Altrix search reveals two-million, four hundred twenty-one thousand, six-hundred and forty eight entries all relating to this Global Justice Agent.
Two-thousand eight-hundred and fifty-five entries not related to Global Justice but to man named Altrix."
Shego's jaw dropped, she had hacked Global Justice remotely in the past just to look up her entry as well as a few agents including Kim Possible. Her profile, had only had around two-hundred entries, Kim, only had a thousand and the average agent only carried around five-hundred entries.
Whoever Altrix was, he was big in relation to Global Justice, but she didn't have time to go through all the files, she needed something condensed.
"Is their some summary or primer on the man Altrix?" Shego asked the computer.
"Yes," the computer responded, "Altrix, introductory entry to level twenty agents, updated last week by Dr. Director.
Entry is considered an introduction to the man, super-powered hero and classified secrets of Altrix."
The computer displayed the file on screen and had the question, "Do you wish to open?"
Shego, was about to say yes when she was interrupted by a voice behind her.
"Doing a little research Shego?" a very familiar voice came from behind her.
She didn't even need to turn around and immediately ignited her hands, "You should try it princess," she jumped and launched herself at Kim who stood in the doorway, "if you live long enough!"
Shego, figured by now all of Global Justice had been alerted of her break in, so she was caught, but she wasn't going down without a fight and was a little glad Kimmy was going to be the one to try and bring her in.
Kim, was completely unnerved by Shego's sudden attack at her, the woman had become predictable so she expected what she was currently doing.
Shego may have her old tricks but she faced a Kim that had changed a bit in the last few weeks.
Kim was in a fighting stance but was holding a length of silver rope in one hand at the ready.
Any other person, seeing the green woman flying at them hands fully ablaze would have lost their nerve; Kim was use to Shego but also thought this was pathetic.
Before Shego even reached Kim, Kim dived between her outstretched and blazing hands, grabbed her midsection with on hand and rotated Shego using her own momentum in a wide arc.
She slammed the green villainess into a chair that rolled and slammed into a wall hard by the force transferred to it.
In an even faster move Kim tied both of Shego's wrists together then looped the rope around Shego's midsection and the chair.
It all happened in seconds and Shego didn't even register it until she was sitting in the chair with her hands tied and completely subdued.
"Wow KP, that's got to be a new record!" Ron, had been behind Kim in the doorway, freaked at the sight of Shego attacking, but seeing Kim in action had snapped him out of it.
Shego had a look of complete and utter disbelief on her face, never, never had Kim taken her out that quickly.
Thinking that the bonds were not that tight because of how fast they had been made she struggled with them, to be amazed again they were very tight and held.
"Someone," Shego said with much venom on her voice, "has been training."
"Training with the best," Ron, was gushing of this new development, "they weren't kidding about Altrix being the top dog."
Shego, went very cross at this statement, Altrix had told her he was training Kim, but didn't expect this kind of a result. The guy could be invisible, she had figured that was the reason he beat her so easily.
The memories of her encounters, him stealing the ion cannon, the match at the convention, even in the mountain lair, he had beaten her mainly with hand to hand, not his powers.
The realization that Kim was on her way in getting that good suddenly struck her and angered her as well.
"Don't be so mad Shego," Kim smiled a bit at the green woman, "at least I don't spank you while doing it."
Shego's eyes went wide and she let out an animalistic howl that made Ron cringe.
Her mind was going crazy, "So, he told her that he spanked me, I can just see it, him bragging to Kim about me.
Oh yeah, that green lady is so funny, you just smack her rear and she totally loses it.
We should have a contest Kim; see how many licks it takes to make Shego lose her mind."
"Looks like you struck a nerve KP," Ron, chimed in, "although she did go a little crazy the last time Altrix spanked her."
"Shego has always been a little crazy Ron," Kim, pulled out her communicator, "we better alert security and have her taken away." She almost had a button pushed when Ron interrupted her.
"KP, check it out." Ron motioned at the computer screen, "Is this what I think it is?"
"Looks like it," Kim, looked briefly at the screen, "everything about Altrix, apparently Shego is looking for a way to beat him."
Shego, looked away from Kim after that statement, it was true that was one of the reasons she was here, but not the entire reason.
"You know Kim," Ron, continued, "no one really seems open about Altrix, wouldn't you like to know more about the guy that's training you?"
"Sure Ron," Kim responded, "but we're not allowed access to it, that's only on the screen because Shego hacked it."
"Incorrect agent Possible," the computer responded, "you were granted access to Altrix's records last week by order of Dr. Director.
Your introduction wasn't planned for two weeks, but files are currently in a state to be accessed at your leisure."
"Ha!" Shego let out a laugh, "So the great she can do anything girl doesn't even know what Global Justice has planned for her.
So Kimmy, why not take a look at what this trainer of yours is, I was just curious about how to defeat him. Don't you want to know who he is or what he once was, he was a member of Global Justice's Super Powered Heroes group, or didn't you know that Kimmy?"
Kim hadn't known that, but it wasn't right for her to just access it, they didn't want her to for another two weeks.
"Come on Kim," Ron, looked like a boy that had just been told he could open his birthday presents a week earlier, "the guy is cool and from the sounds of it has one awesome past to him.
Wait, if Kim can access it, can I?' he asked the computer.
"Negative, Ron Stoppable is not allowed access to any of Global Justice's records." The computer responded.
Ron slumped his head in disappointment, Kim was a little relived but also concerned she was given access but Ron wasn't, she made for the communicator again.
"I can't believe you don't have a backbone princess," Shego, was looking at Kim a little disappointed the girl wasn't a little adventures and such a straight arrow, "good thing I do.
Access record!" Shego spat out.
"Granted." The computer responded and the screen came alive, displaying a quick profile of Altrix, a current picture, weight, height, various physical characteristics and at the bottom appeared a message.
"Preparing introductory video."
One thing on the profile had Shego, Kim and Ron all gasping is disbelief and wonder, one entry among many that were being displayed.
SUPER POWERS: Manipulation of space and time.