A/N: Challenge on KP Haven board inspired fic. AU with a dash of Kigo. Shego's faith in herself as a villain has been shattered when Dr. Drakken recruited her brothers using some unknown method.
Summary: Kigo, AU. No longer a hero, No longer a villain, I am Shego, and I walk the line.
Fallen Heroes
Chapter 1 : The Encounter
(Middleton High: 1200 Hours, Thursday , Shego's POV)
Kimberly Ann Possible, world saving cheerleader and my only rival in skill, walks up to the lunch line. She picks up her 'food' and goes to her seat. Ronald Adrian Stoppable, Kim's sidekick and rival of Lord Monty Fisk, also known as Monkey Fist, sits down beside her and the two begin talking about something, I couldn't hear them over the rest of the cafeteria.
Who am I? I'm Sheena Go Downe, Also known as Shego, Plasma manipulation, green glow, rivals with Kim Possible, eighteen year old albino human being, ex-hero of two years and now ex-villain of two years. My powers were granted to me from a comet that hit me directly in the back. The comet tinted my already albino skin a pale green, it also made my almost pure white hair turn a shade of green so dark it almost looks black. With my appearance so different from the rest of my family I often wondered if I was adopted as a new born or something.
Dr. Drakken, my ex-employer somehow got all four of my brothers, Team Go, consisting of Hego, super strength, blue glow, all around dimwit, my older brother, Mego, size manipulation, purple glow, vain beyond vain, barely three years older than me , and the Wegos, Twins with the ability to multiply themselves several hundred times, red glow, in high school when they can attend, two years younger than I am. Of course, I'd never associate with them so I left after he manipulated them to his side, after all, part of the reason I turned evil was that I wouldn't have to deal with them except in a fight, so evil has no appeal to me anymore, and I can't be a hero again.
I notice Kimmie looking my direction and I pull my head back behind the door, hopefully I can talk to her alone before Dr. D sets his plan in motion. As wacked as Dr. D's latest scheme is he might be able to pull it off with my brothers helping him, they have a tendency to give more effort than I do and still have that annoying hero fighting style, I used to be able to intimidate Hego...but whatever Dr. D did, I can't anymore.
They are family, I can't kill them...well, I can't kill period, I vowed never to take another life after the villain I had to kill just before I became a villain myself. His name was Virus, he kidnaped me and tortured me for almost a month before my brothers found me and released me. The next time I saw him I went into a blood rage, I still hate myself for it, I may never be a hero again, but I'm no longer a villain, I just can't hack it anymore. I hope I can join Possible's group, we would even be in the same grade, despite my being two years older than her.
(A few minutes later)
I hacked Middleton High's mainframe to put myself in Kimmie's grade, tomorrow I'm going to run into her in one of our classes, I just hope I'm ready for this...
(My apartment, 0430 Hours, Friday.)
I wake up and go through my morning regimen of exercises with my powers, stretches, Tai Chi, all with my hands glowing. I light a series of candles using my plasma blasts then head for the shower to wash away the residue from my work out, It's part of being able to manipulate plasma, my hands feel dirty right after I light up my hands, something to do with the particles of dust clinging to my body when I start charging my powers.
I shampoo and rinse my hair twice, wash my body once, and forego my make-up so Stoppable doesn't recognize me right away. I grab a pair of black jeans and a dark green tank top as well as my black back pack. I grab a quick breakfast and head towards the school, arriving extremely early to school. I've contacted GJ and warned them of my brothers' betrayal, I just hope it was enough. I head into the building and sit in my home room, the same as Possible's.
I can't believe I'm going by my real name again, I had my last name changed from Downe to Bauch, my name's always been symbolic, I just only a few days ago realized how symbolic it really was. My original name when said quickly was "She nay go down" now it's "She nay go back". I suppose I'll have to deal with that pun when people find out my middle name. The phrase is true though, I can't go back to either of my old lives, only forward.
The bell just rang, Kim is sitting on my left and Ron is sitting on the other side of her. I pull a piece of paper from my back pack and write a quick note, passing it to Kim once I finish.
"Kim, we need to talk. Sit with me at Lunch. Sheena Bauch."
Kim nods and I smile slightly. The teacher comes in a few seconds later and the whole class quiets down. I sit through class and follow Kim to her locker, not hard, considering she doesn't really seem to care who knows where her locker is. After memorizing my locker number I find mine to be right next to hers, what a coincidence, considering when I hacked myself into this school I just picked one of the empty lockers. I go on ahead and head towards my next class.
(Middleton High Cafeteria, 1145 Hours, Friday.)
I go through the line and sit down at a table. Lunch ends at 12:15...hopefully Kim hasn't been called away on a mission yet. Kim goes through the line and I wave to her when she finishes going through. Kim walks over to my table, followed by two other students...Stoppable and a dark skinned girl with black hair, I've got to learn her name. The three of them sit down.
"So, Sheena," Begins Kim. "Why did you want to talk to me?"
I sigh and look her directly in the eyes.
"I'm surprised you don't recognize me, Princess." Kim and Ron's eyes go wide as realization strikes. "I'm not working for Dr. D anymore, he's got four new super-lackeys, Team Go." Kim's jaw drops.
Kim sputters. "But...how...I mean...Team Go were gung-ho good guys, what made them change their tune so suddenly?"
"Whatever it was that brought them to Dr. D, I don't know. I left while they were moving in, I haven't lived in a lair with Dr. D for a year, while I did work for him until three days ago." I respond. "I don't know what his current plan is, but I'm willing to bet it's going to be huge."
The black girl looks at Kim and Ron strangely. "Who's this, I thought you said her name was Sheena Bauch?"
I turn to the black girl. "Yes, that's my name, I had it changed two days ago from Sheena Downe. I have no doubt you've heard of me as Shego though. Or does Kim not talk about her missions?"
The black girl looks confused. "Shego? Sorry, Kim doesn't say much about her missions...or are you that girl in the picture inside of her locker?" I nod. "I thought you were a dangerous criminal, what are you doing here?"
I sigh. "Going straight. As of two days ago I'm no longer a bad girl. So, what's your name?"
She looks slightly embarrassed. "Sorry. My name's Monique Thanewe."
I chuckle. "Mo' 'Nique Than You, huh? Nice. Almost as bad as my full name, but I'm not going to say it out loud here."
Monique glares at me a bit for making fun of her name. "Really, what is it? Sheena Go Bauch."
Some of the green drains from my cheeks. "How did you know that?"
Kim breaks back into the conversation. "I hope that's a promise, Sheena. I'd rather not be fighting you again, those fights had been getting rather brutal as of late."
I turn back to Kim. "Yeah, I'll agree with you there, Princess. Besides, I can't go back to Dr. D even if I want to, in order to get the new name I had to rat Dr. D and his new accomplices out to Dr. Director."
Kim's jaw drops again as she subconsciously reaches into her pocket and pulls out her little device and clicks it on. "Wade...You're not going to believe this."
I lean over and look at the screen. "Hi, Nerd boy."
I grin as I watch Wade fall out of his chair. He starts talking as he pulls himself back up into his seat. "Shego! What the hell is going on?"
"Contact Dr. Director, Possible wants to talk to her." I answer without missing a beat.
I sit back into my seat and go back to eating my 'food' it's not half as bad as some of the stuff I've had but it could be a lot better. Ron and Monique are both staring at me and it's starting to get on my nerves.
"What do you two want?" I ask, slightly perturbed, I don't like people staring at me like that.
Ron answers first. "You're actually willing to eat this stuff?" His eyes go wider as he sees me take another bite.
"Yeah." I answer. "It's not the best food in the world, but it's better than nothing. Besides, I've had worse."
The others all stop staring at me and go back to eating their food. I finish my plate of food and go dump my tray with Kim, who virtually inhaled her food, probably so she wouldn't have to taste it. She walked with me to the garbage can.
"Sheena, what's your next class?"
"Study Hall." I answer. "Not that I need it though, High school's still as easy as I remember it, I dropped out two years ago when I became a villain."
Kim nods as we dump our trays and put them in the clipper. The two of us start walking down the hall toward her locker.
"What's your next class, Princess?"
"I've got a study hall as well, but like you, I don't really need it. I tend to get my homework done in class if I can."
I laugh. "Kimmie, I'd be surprised if you didn't. After all, you're a Possible, isn't there some kind of family curse or something?"
Kim shrugs. "Wouldn't know. If there was my parents haven't told me about it. Other than the anything's possible for a Possible motto I haven't heard of anything else."
I nod. "Just thought I'd ask, cause nobody else in the world could keep up with me one on one like you do, not even Hego."
Kim laughs. "I've got a disorder of sorts. I can repeat anything I see someone else do, except super powers. I want you to come over to my place tonight, I take it you know where it is."
I nod. "Will your parents or little brothers be home?"
Kim shakes her head. "They won't be home until tonight, there's no Cheer Practice tonight unless you want to try out for the team."
I must have looked completely lost. "You want me to be a cheerleader? Princess, you know what I am, what I've done, and you're trying to get me into more contact with your classmates. What the heck, I'll try out on Monday, but I'm going to need you to teach me the basics either tonight or Saturday, I'm going to church on Sunday morning."
Kim looks slightly surprised as we stop at her locker. "I never figured you'd be one to attend church, my family doesn't go most of the time."
I grin a little. "I guess I wanna see what all the hype is about it. I was an atheist even before I became a villain. I thought at the time that if there was a god he must have hated me. Depends on how the people at the church I'll be attending act towards me to decide whether or not I'll go again."
Kim nods and the two of us start to walk to Study hall together. I notice that Kim's blushing slightly and I decide to find out why, that and I'm starting to get aroused.
"Hey, Princess, you're cute when you're blushing." I comment.
The blush fades and she looks at me strangely. "What makes you say that?"
I smirk and decide to let Kimmie in on a little secret. "'Cause I'm not attracted to guys."
Kim's blush returns with a vengeance. "I so did not need to know that right now, Sheena."
I smirk and slow down enough to get behind Kim and put my arms around her. I whisper into her ear, "Yeah, you did." I give her a peck on the cheek before releasing her and resuming my position beside her as we enter study hall.
Kim sits down beside me at a table in the back of the library, well out of the way of everyone else. Kim gets out an emerald green notebook and red pen then writes something in it and shows it to me.
"Let's talk on this piece of paper. We don't want Barkin to see or hear this."
I nod and get out a green pen I bought the day before. I write a message back to her.
"Sounds good, I'd rather not have a teacher know about who or what I was."
"Understandable, Sheena. Although I'd like to know how your powers work and other such information I'm going ask that we do this one question each, just to be fair."
"Sounds good, Princess. You go first."
"What were your reasons for going evil?"
"My reasons for becoming a villain were simple, My brothers and I didn't get along and...I killed somebody instead of letting the authorities handle him. The guy tortured me for almost a month, part of the reason I dropped out of school before becoming a villain."
"If it makes any difference I probably would have done the same thing in your position."
"Have you ever had sex?"
"Still a virgin, physically. Can't say I haven't pleasured myself some nights though."
"Really, that's pretty interesting actually."
"Ever had any crushes?"
I hesitate for a few seconds before writing my answer to that one. I'm half tempted to lie about it, cause it'll definitely cause some tension between me and Kimmie here.
"Yeah, and believe it or not, the crush was on you, since our first fight."
Kimmie's eyes go wide as she reads what I just wrote.
"Ok, now I'm regretting I asked. Alright, your question."
"When was the last time you pleasured yourself?"
"When was the last time I fought you?"
"Alright, I know my next question."
"Where was Dr. D's last lair?"
"He's not there, He was planning on moving the day I left. I guess he saw my vanishing act before I did. He didn't even tell me where he was going."
"Crap. Ask your question, I probably already know what it is."
"How long have you been crushing on me?"
"Called that one." Kim circles the words 'our first fight' on the page. I suppress a chuckle at her answer.
"Nice." I stop writing and close the notebook as the teacher walks toward us. Kim snaps her attention from the notebook to the teacher, Mr. Barkin, I think.
"What are the two of you doing back here?" He asks in his obviously militaristic voice.
"Working on a bit of homework." I answer coolly. "The two of us were assigned to write a story together for English class."
Mr. Barkin raises an eyebrow at me and doesn't ask any questions as he turns and walks away from us. Kim releases a breath she didn't realize she was holding. The two of us pull those first few pages out of the notebook and throws them away and then we start working on our group assignment for our creative writing assignment for our English class. Which I set up so that we would be together.
(Kim's locker, Middleton High, 1530 Hours, Friday.)
Kim and I walk up to her locker to see Ron and Monique standing there talking to one another. Even with my sharp senses I can't tell what they are saying. I do know plotting when I see it though.
"Hey Monique, hey Ron." I say trying with all my might not to sound nervous, cause I'm starting to get flashbacks to the Zorpax incident where Ron nearly killed me twice. "What are the two of you up to?"
"Not much." Ron starts to grin. I remember that gleam in his eyes and I hide behind Kim. Monique starts to laugh.
"Ron, you're evil, you know that." Kim says, sounding very condescending. "Sheena's starting another chapter in her life. She's left her old life behind her and as the pun of her name states, she's not going back."
Monique pops Ron on the back of the head as Kim opens up her locker. I glare angrily at Ron.
"I didn't appreciate that." I turn my glare to Monique. "You didn't have to laugh. I'm shamed enough as it is of that incident."
Kim contacts Wade. "Wade, I need you to search for potential lairs that Dr. Drakken could use and keep at minimum four Exotics as henchmen inside of."
I look at Kim with confusion spelled out on my face. "Exotics? What's that mean?"
Kim turns her head and looks me in the eyes. "Exotics, people with super powers. You, Ron, even myself are classified as Exotics. Although I'm not sure why they classified me as an Exotic...as far as I know I'm just a mundane."
Monique breaks into the conversation this time. "Girl, you are A.T.B. mundane."
I look at her confusedly. "Please don't use acronyms when you're talking, I don't know your code."
Monique looks at me apologetically. "Sorry, I tend to talk in acronyms when I'm talking to her." Monique pokes Kim's arm.
I nod. Trying to decipher what she said. Normally I'm not stumped by acronyms...but I'm not used to spoken acronyms. Then it hits me. She said 'Any Thing But'. Monique looks down the hall and growls, I put my hand on her shoulder to keep her from doing something rash.
"Are you guys sure Monique doesn't classify as an Exotic?" I ask. "That's a pretty animalistic growl she's got going on."
"As far as we know, she's not." Kim answers. "Unless she's a werewolf or something and hasn't told us."
I see a group of girls heading towards us. The obvious leader of the group is a brown haired girl who is the same height as Kim.
"Who's the new freak with the green skin, K?" The leader asks. I'm already not liking this girl and I only met her two seconds ago.
"Potentially your replacement, Bonnie." I shiver at the venom in Kim's voice as she says it. I don't think I've ever heard her put so much loathing in her voice. It's kinda scary really, I'm surprised the girl doesn't cower in fear at the tone.
"Like she could replace me. You know I'm the best cheerleader in the squad." The leader of the group, whom I am guessing is Bonnie, replies. Yep, I'm seeing her as a secretary to some CEO in the near future. Kim's annoyed expression turns to a sly grin, I'm getting more scared by the second, although I'm trying not to show it.
"But, Bonnie, she's a lot stronger than you are and she's just as flexible as I am. I'd go so far as to say that Sheena here has more potential to be a great cheerleader than you do." Kim retorts with a sickly sweet voice that almost makes me want to throw up. I can see the rest of the squad behind Bonnie turn pale and shiver, even Bonnie seems to be shaken by the tone Kim spoke in. I'm never pissing her off again, EVER!
Bonnie and the rest of the squad walk off after Kim tells them that there will be no practice this weekend, thankfully not using that damned sickly sweet voice. I never want to hear her talk like that again.
(Possible Residence, Middleton, Colorado, 1600 Hours, Friday)
Kim and I arrive at her home. After the display of power Kimmie showed at school I'm almost afraid to meet her mother. I swear, if the Possible family was made up of villains they would be ruling the world a millennium ago starting with Miriam Possible as the first world dictator.
Kim and I enter through the front door and Kim's parents aren't visible right away, there was only one vehicle in the driveway and I know the Hospital and the Space Center are nowhere near each other so that kinda tells me that they aren't at work. I can see Kim's twin brothers, what did she call them, Tweebs, I think, sitting on the couch looking at the television screen but they both had a gleam in their eyes that made me think of Dr. D when he had a scheme rolling around his head. I sincerely hope the two of them don't stray to the dark side, they'd be scarier than Stoppable was as Zorpax.
The two of them don't notice us as she leads me up to her room. I wonder if she realizes what it looks like she's going to do from my point of view. We confessed feelings of at least lust towards one another and here she is leading me into her room already. I feel the remark burning to be said in the back of my throat but I wait until we get into her room.
"Gee, Kimmie, I with how you and Stoppable acted I didn't think you moved this fast." I say it quietly but huskily. Kim lights up with the blush again and I smirk, although I wonder how she's going to react to finding out I'm a virgin, after all, most sane people find green skin to be a turn off, not to mention that I was just a weapon to Dr. D and his henchmen.
Kim grabs my wrist and flicks her arm past her waist, throwing me onto her bed with what seemed like no effort at all on her part, I'm beginning to wonder if she was holding back against me or not when we fought on those missions. I recover in time to see her lock her door and then whip out her communicator and flick it on.
"Wade, I need you to scan my room for bugs, I want to hear about any frequencies coming from my room except that of the Kimmunicator and I expect you to shut down all monitoring devices on the Kimmunicator once we finish talking." I hear the nerd give a squeak and then Kim walks around her room, gathering up several items that don't look very important until she places them in a pile next to the trap door. After Kim finishes her examination she turns of the Kimmunicator and tosses it on top of the pile. She looks at me and smiles faintly, I shiver again, this time from pleasure instead of fear. Kim opens her door and shoves the pile over the edge.
Kim then motions for me to move her bed over the trap door, I pull her bed away from the wall and slide it onto the door without question. Kim's face splits into a grin that would scare Dr. D silly, suddenly I'm not feeling so confident anymore.
A/N: I'll end this chapter here and leave what happens in that room to your imaginations for a few days. R&R with suggestions, please.
