Trio

Chapter 6
Oh, You Mean…?

Shego with a great deal of frustration reigned in her annoyance. She wanted nothing more than to dart through the corridors with Kimmie and find their Ron now but the maze of corridors and twisting side passages of the huge complex made that impractical. Failing that she wanted to use her plasma fire on Dr. Director and the fat guy and goad them into guiding them to where Ron was faster. A few times faint flickering green flames could even be seen around her hands with that idea.

"Somehow though, I doubt toasting the head of the largest semi-secret police/paramilitary organization in the world would help me to get to Ron any faster." Shego thought to herself.

"Unless of course he's in a deep dank prison cell somewhere in here right now."

That thought caused the flames around her hands to flicker even more. Fortunately Dr. Director and the fat guy were ahead of them showing them through the corridors, even if it was at a casual snail's pace. So they didn't notice but someone did.

Kim placed a hand on Shego's arm causing the flickering flames around her hands to disappear instantly.

"Amp down Shego. We're going to find Ron." Kim quietly mouthed to her so the two in front of them wouldn't hear.

"I think they are leading us around in circles." Shego mouthed back.

Kim shook her head at Shego's foolishness but then stopped. Some of the corridors they had passed sure did look familiar now that Shego mentioned it.

Shego raised one hand and letting her plasma fire glow just around the tip of her index finger she brushed the wall leaving a slight burn mark. Nothing too obvious but if you were looking for it you would spot it.

Shego and Kim fell farther back from the two Global Justice agents so they could talk in whispers.

"Why would they want to separate us from Ron?" Kim whispered.

"Maybe he really did leave and they are stalling for time knowing I will go berserk when I find out?" Shego whispered back but not seriously.

"Ron wouldn't just leave without telling us." Kim stated.

Several corridors came and went and half a dozen turns as the two young women thought silently.

"Maybe they took him down to run some tests on him? You know that Dr. Director was very impressed when she saw Ron's Mystic Monkey powers working last night." Shego offered in a whisper to Kim. Shego suppressed a shudder as she remembered when she had gotten her plasma powers from the meteor that had killed her mother and father and turned her and her brothers into 'super heroes'. Shego pulled to a complete stop her face paling in horror.

"You don't suppose they took Ron to be dissected in an attempt to figure out how Mystical Monkey power works do you?"

Kim pulled to a stop beside her and her face too paled, for a moment. Then Kim shook her head. "No! No. Shego these are the good guys they wouldn't do that." Kim then grabbed Shego by the arm and started dragging her after Dr. Director and the balding guy so they wouldn't wonder why they were lagging so far behind them.

"I wouldn't be so sure Princess. The government was considering doing that to me and my brothers before we started doing the hero thing." Shego whispered back. Suddenly she grabbed Kim's arm and pointed at the wall they were passing.

There was a black scorch mark on it.

"They have been leading us around in circles!"

As Kim stared at the mark on the wall trying to figure out what it could mean, Shego leapt the short distance from where they were to where Dr. Director and the fat guy were walking. Grabbing 'Mr. Tubby' as Shego started to think of him she spun him around and slammed him backwards against the wall.

Raising the free hand not pinning him to the wall to just beneath his chin she ignited her plasma fire.

"Okay buddy. You got two seconds to tell me where Ron really is and why you are leading me and Kim around in circles or I teach you a new way to burn off unwanted fat!"

To her surprise the man showed no trace of fear at all but just calmly looked back at her. "Now Ms. Shego, if you were to harm an agent of Global Justice do you really think you would ever get to see Ron again?"

"I'm not seeing him now! Where is he?" Shego shouted.

Dr. Director placed a hand on Shego's shoulder to try and calm her. "He is in the cafeteria. We are leading you there."

Shego turned her head to glare at the woman. "You are not! I made a burn mark on the wall several twists and turns ago and we just passed it again a moment ago. You are leading us around like rats in a maze and I want to know why!"

Dr. Director looked over to where Kim was standing next to a burn mark on the wall. "There are marks like that all over the place. They come from new recruits that haven't learned how to handle their laser side arms yet to careless guards who smoke while on duty."

Even Kim, who was still willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, looked like that was the lamest excuse she had ever heard.

"If you still doubt us, the next turn up ahead is where the cafeteria is located. Just go and see for yourself." The fat guy said still as cool as ice.

Shego released him and allowed the fire dancing around her hand to go out. "We'll just do that and if you are lying to us, you better run fast and very far away."

Kim and Shego ran the few yards to the next intersection, casting an eye back to where the two Global Justice agents stood to make sure they didn't make a run for it. Reaching the intersection they could see to the right there was a set of double doors. There was no sign above the doors and Kim had a sneaking suspicion that they had walked past those same doors several times on their long trek without going to them.

Shego with Kim right by her side pushed open the double doors…

And found themselves in a perfectly normal looking cafeteria. To Kim it almost looked like the one at Middletown High. Right down to the grouping of tables and chairs. She almost expected to see Bonnie sitting at the 'cool' table snubbing her. The most noticeable difference though was the heavenly smell of freshly baked cinnamon rolls that the school's cafeteria never had. And this cafeteria was nearly empty.

"Okay, it's a cafeteria." Shego admitted. "But where is Ron?"

Dr. Director and 'Tubby' arrived behind them and breathed in the freshly baked smell with pleasure. Together all four of them headed over to the serving line, Shego and Kim constantly scanning the room looking for Ron the whole way.

As they reached the serving line both Kim and Shego spotted Ron's distinctive mop of blond hair at the same time, he was standing behind the counter with a smile of satisfaction on his face.

"Ron! Where the hell have you been? We were worried sick about you!" Both Kim and Shego said at the same time.

"Jinx you owe me a coke." Kim replied to Shego a second later.

"Oh hey Shego, K.P. Look at this kitchen, isn't it amazing? Every piece of kitchen equipment or gadget you could possibly think of and what do they make?" Ron with a grimace reached out and removed a metal cover off of a serving tray on the line revealing a brownish oily bubbling pool of…something.

Kim was about to continue chewing out Ron for making her and Shego worrying about him but was too stunned. "Is that…Mystery Meat in gravy?"

"Yeah. Sad isn't it?" Ron said with a grimace. "Turns out the head chef here is related to the lunch lady that works at our school. Small world isn't it?"

"Forget about that where did you…" Shego paused as she leaned down to look at the disgusting bubbling mess. "You know, that looks like one of Dr. D's earlier failed experiments with synthodrones. It crawled out of the lab, over to a box of my chocolates, ate them and then crawled out of the lair." Shego shook her head and straightening up she glared at Ron.

"Why didn't you wait for me and Kim to finish up so we could join you? Why did you take off and leave us worrying?"

Ron reached up and nervously rubbed the back of his head. "Um, yeah about that? I thought you and Kim would be some time. I mean with Dr. Director telling you what your jobs would be and all. So I came down here to see if I could help with the cooking. I was going to show them how to make Nacos but they don't have the right ingredients here so I just settled for making some fast cinnamon buns." Ron said pointing to a cooling rack behind him that contained trays of cinnamon buns.

Dr. Director and Oracle walked over and picked up a bun and tried it. Dr. Director's eye that was not covered by a patch widen in near ecstasy.

Looking at the five cafeteria workers standing behind Ron she said. "Tell me you got the recipe and watched how he made these!"

The women nodded their heads and as one they held up small pocket notebooks.

Shego stormed around the corner along with Kim till they were next to Ron. "Look I don't care what you made…" She shouted as she snatched up a cinnamon bun. "But you had me and Kimmie worried sick." She finished by biting the cinnamon bun savagely.

Shego's eyes also widen. "Damn you are good." She replied with enjoyment as the cinnamon bun melted on her tongue.

"Oh and just for your information, neither one of us accepted the job offers." She added.

"What?" Ron gasped. "But Kim you have always dreamed about working for G.J.!"

"I realized today that my dreams have changed slightly." Kim replied. "My dream now is to spend as much time as possible with the people I love and if they aren't going to be working for Global Justice then I'm not either."

"But Dr. Director promised me that Shego was going to be hired too. She would be working with you!"

Shego munching on the bun looked over at Kim with a raised eyebrow. "Surely he has to have gotten it by now? I know I've done my part in dropping hints and if you were any more obvious about how you feel, your dad would be stringing barbwire around your bedroom."

"Ron has problems picking up hints from women. He once missed that a girl was crushing on him for a whole semester." Kim said with a shrug.

"That wasn't my fault!" Ron stated folding his arms across his chest. "Why can't women just come right out and say what they mean? Why do they have to keep guys guessing all the time?"

Shego nodded her head. "Okay, I can accept that. I'm a very 'in your face' type of woman and I appreciate no pussy footing around and the value of being blunt." Shego shot a look at Dr. Director and Oracle that plainly said, 'mind your own business.'

"Excuse us. We've got something to discuss with Ron." She then nodded her head at Kim and together they each took one of Ron's arms and literally dragged him out from behind the serving line out into the cafeteria to a distant empty table.

They sat him down in a chair and Kim took a seat on one side of him and Shego took the other side. Rufus popped out from the suit jacket and leaping to the table watched the three with interest. He could sense something big was coming but he couldn't figure out what.

"You said you want women to just come out and tell you what they want, right?" Shego asked him.

Ron nodded his head. Rufus mirrored his master's actions.

Shego looked over at Kim. "Okay. I want to jump Kim and make wild passionate sex with her all night long."

Ron blinked.

"Your turn Kimmie and be honest!" Shego told her.

"I want… Um, ah," Kim stammered. "I want to jump Shego and um, what she said." She finished somewhat lamely.

Ron blinked and then putting his hands on the table he started to get out of his chair as he spoke. "I got that and while it kind of surprised me, I think you two will make a perfect couple. I won't stand in anybody's way…"

He was stopped as Shego grabbed a hold of his wrist in an iron grasp.

"I also want to jump you Ron and have the same wild passionate night of sex, with Kim, at the same time." Shego told him.

Ron his eyes wide could only blink several times.

If Ron thought his eyes couldn't get any wider, he was proven wrong when he felt a hand on his other wrist, this one gently stroking it softly. Looking over he saw that it was Kim's hand.

"I want to make passionate love to you Ron, right alongside Shego." Kim said softly but this time without stammering.

Ron slowly sank back down in his chair. Staring straight forward he could only continue to blink. Rufus grabbing a napkin from a dispenser on the table began fanning Ron as best he could.

"I think we broke his mind?" Kim asked worriedly to Shego.

"Ron? It's called a threesome." Shego said to him slowly as if he was a child.

Ron glanced over at her. "Shego, I am a normal healthy male teenager with a computer with internet access. I know what a threesome is. I'm just shocked you both want me in one."

"Why Ronald, are you saying you have looked at internet porn?" Shego said with a smirk.

"It's the internet." Ron stated plainly. "Kind of hard to avoid the porn."

"Yep. Porn." Rufus said nodding his head.

Ron took a deep breath and then released it. "The question is, now that I know, what do we do now?"

"We get a room, some massage oils, maybe a few restraints…" Shego began with a grin.

A blushing Kim and Ron stared at her. Finally Ron shaking his head trying to dislodge the mental images Shego was painting said. "No, I mean what about Kim's parents? Her dad threatens any guy that comes near Kim to send them to a black hole if they ever touch his little girl. What is he going to do when he finds out she is being touched not just by me but by another woman too? One that used to be Kim's worst enemy at that?"

Ron's voice began to rise in panic. "And what about my parents? They are Jewish. I've almost prepared them for the day when I tell them I want to marry Kim a non Jewish girl but what am I going to tell them about being in a relationship with two women! At the same time! In the same bed!"

Kim blinked back a few tears of happiness when she heard Ron stating that he had been slowly preparing his parents for the day he announced he wanted to marry her. It was such a short time ago she didn't even realize that Ron was interested in her in a romantic way.

"And our ages! Me and Kim aren't yet 18 and you are…" Ron paused.

Shego raising an eyebrow in a challenge. "Yes?"

"Um, 21?" Ron hazard a guess.

"Actually I'm 24 so you are safe." Shego replied.

"We might be safe but you would be breaking the law!"

"Ooh no. I would be breaking the law!" Shego replied in mock concern. "You know what an upstanding citizen I am. Look you will be 18 in what? Three or four months?"

Ron nodded his head.

"I'll be 18 in two months." Kim added.

"Ron. Calm down. We'll face all that in the future if or when it comes up but for right now Kim and I have to know. Do you even want to be with us? Like that?" Shego asked as she held her breath. She couldn't believe how far the once bumbling sidekick had gotten into her heart. If he said no, she would be heartbroken but she would leave. Kim and Ron were destined to be together. It was blatantly obvious to everyone how strong their love was for each other. Even Shego herself could see that. She didn't want to break that up. She just wanted to be a part of it.

Ron looked over at Kim. "And you are all right with this? You want it?"

Kim blushing strongly managed to nod her head.

Ron slowly grinned. "Well I have never been accused of being the brightest in the world but I would have to be the biggest idiot to ever walk the earth if I was to refuse two such beautiful women.

It was Kim's turn to blink. "Does that mean…"

"Kim I thought I was the one who had trouble with the obvious? Yes, I'm quite sure I don't know what I'm getting myself into or where this road may lead to but I do know I love you so much." Ron turned to look at Shego. "I'm sorry I can't say that I love you like I do Kim but I do like you and I think you are extremely sexy."

Shego nodded her head. "I can accept that. For now. I mean you've known Princess here since you were little kids. I'm willing to give you time to fall madly in love with me as well. Say, sometime next week."

Ron blinked at her for a few moments before he smiled. "You really think it'll take that long?" He asked casually.

Shego laughed but it wasn't one of her malicious laughs but one of happiness. "I was at first so afraid that you and Kim were so straight laced that neither of you would even consider what I was hoping for."

Ron smiled. "Well stranger things have happen…" His face suddenly went white and he reached up to clutch his head as if he was in severe pain.

"What? What's wrong?" Shego asked worriedly, while Kim jumped up to put her arms around Ron to try and somehow comfort him.

"Mystical Monkey Power again." Ron muttered through clenched teeth. "It's screaming something about evil below awakening."