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Kim Possible: Invisible

BY LJ58

7

Shego was leaning over one unseen shoulder as Kim worked on the computer schematics before her as she had two monitors now filled with data and blueprints as she spent an entire week going over the work before her.

Shego had come in to bring her Kim's second lunch since she had yet to take a break that day and set the tray down near the desk on a small end table.

"How is it going?"

"I think….it is probably as good as it is getting. Based on all I know and what Wade had in both files, this is as close to perfect as this device is getting. It's the building that may be an issue," Kim remarked as the first overlarge sandwich vanished as Kim began to eat.

"And this should cure your invisibility?"

"I hope so."

"You don't sound very confident, Kimmie," Shego pointed out.

"Good or bad, neither Wade nor Fyne seemed too confident they could eliminate all the multi-phasic energy from my cells once saturated. This is admittedly all theory. Only it's all I have, Shego. I have to at least try," Kim said with a desperation she wasn't used to hearing from the redhead as the second sandwich now vanished.

"Right. I can see that," she told the young woman. "If someone had me I could be….cured, I'd likely be just as desperate."

Kim said nothing as her glass of juice rose just then, fading away even as it was lifted, and Kim remained silent even as the glass began to slowly reappear a few moments later completely empty.

"Was that enough," Shego asked as Kim seemed to make no sound.

"For now," Kim sighed. "I know you don't have to help me," she finally said. "Thank you, Shego. I won't forget this. I won't forget you."

"Hey, I owe you a few. I haven't forgotten how many times you were there even when I gave you no reason to help."

Kim said nothing as a tool before her suddenly rose, and began to vanish.

"So, figured out what you're doing yet?"

"The underlying foundation of the energy siphon is pretty simple. I can build it without issue. From the look of it, though, I'll need to find a power source to confirm it's operational before I begin the rest. That will be the problem. We'll see."

"So, power source?"

"I have an idea," Kim said quietly after another moment. "I'll just have to be….clever."

"I have faith in you. I'll just go start supper now since knowing you, you'll want it early. Any preferences?"
"Just…a lot. Make a lot," Kim said quietly.

"Right," Shego said as she recalled what Kim had said of her requirements of late as her metabolism seemed to demand more energy of late to balance the phasic energies now filling her to keep her body from tearing itself apart.

Knowing what she did now, she couldn't believe that little Nerdlinger had risked Kim's life as he did. Fyne, sure. That guy was a fruitcake. Only Wade Lode should have known better. Apparently even Shego was wrong, though. Or Kimmie wouldn't be working feverishly to build a machine that might just kill her.

That thought still unnerved her. More than that, it scared her.

"So, ah, how come your chair is gone now, but I noticed the other morning it wasn't. Is your power…fading sometimes," Shego paused at the door to look back at her as she spoke.

"No. No, I think it has something to do with my hands or something like that," Kim remarked absently.

"Your hands?"

"I've noticed anything I actually touch vanishes faster and completely. If my hands aren't actually directly touching," she said, and Shego noted some of the chair's frame began to appear. "See? I figure it's either my hands or something related to focus. Not sure. I just know this….isn't really fading. Still, at least the food disappears. Imagine seeing that," she said with an audible grimacing sound.

"No, thanks," Shego huffed and left her to her work.

~KP~

Professor Dementor cackled as he began assembling the final pieces of his new weapon, his Henches dutifully quiet if attentive as he prepared to launch a new ploy that might just work this time since he had seen no signs of that annoyingly irritating busybody that liked to butt in every time he tried to impress his greatness upon the world.

Rumors suggested the redheaded do-gooder had been badly injured, and while details were sketchy, no one had seen her anywhere of late. They couldn't even find her in the usual places, so that meant she might finally be out of the game for once, which gave him every real chance of finally reaching the destined success he could not help but feel was his right.

Sliding the new power core into the module before him, he turned to reach for the tool he needed to install the power source into his weapon's primary housing, and begin his reign of terror.

Turning back to the module, he frowned as he looked at it and realized the power core was no longer glowing. It was, in fact, quite dark.

"Vas iz zhis," he asked, poking a finger carefully into the empty slot he knew he had just filled with the new energy module he had just acquired from Bonn's Science Lab.

He looked around at his Henches, scowling, and demanded, "Who took zhe power core," he demanded, holding the tool in his fisted grip, beyond furious he was being delayed when greatness was all but assured.

"No one took it, Professor," one of his men told him with a frown. "We just saw you…put it…. Where did it go," the Hench frowned as he looked closer at the housing of his boss' newest machine.

Just as someone grunted and fell to the ground behind them.

Then another. Another man abruptly fell, and another went flying. The Henches turned, looking around, but they saw no one. Nothing. Yet more men were falling or being slammed into walls, or anything in their way.

"G-G-Ghosts," someone howled, and the remaining Henches fled in fear.

"Nein, you fools! There are no ghosts! Professor Dementor does not believe in ghosts! Someone is trying to…. Vas?"

He gaped as his helmet suddenly rose from his head, and was then slammed into his skull with a great deal of force. The bearded dwarf went flying and landed out cold near the main console. His helmet dropped from unseen hands, parts of it shimmering as if trying to vanish, but slowly regaining form even as it fell to roll away.

Even as things went silent and stayed that way for a time, four GJ agents burst into the lair and froze in the door to the lab to stare at the unconscious men lying around them.

"Looks like Possible already beat us to this one," Agent Dunne told Agent Du.

"Indeed. See if we can recover the power core. It's imperative that…."

Ben Dunne gasped when an unseen hand suddenly grabbed his left wrist, lifting his hand, and an unseen weight suddenly filled his hand. Even as he stared, the small, cylindrical shape began to shimmer and pulse, and then a glowing experimental energy core began to appear before his eyes.

"I think I, ah, found it," Ben told Will as he held out the core now all but completely visible in his palm now.

"Possible," Will barked, guessing what was happening. "Are you still here?"

There was no reply.

"Possible, I demand you stand down, and come in for…."

"I don't think she's here," Ben said as something slammed somewhere down the long corridor drilled into the mountain where Dementor had made his latest lair.

Will scowled, and then spat, "Take everyone into custody and sweep this lair at once. Possible is up to something, and we need to ascertain what she might have taken this time if we're to learn exactly what she plans."

"I suspect she is just be working on a way to make herself visible again," one of the other agents asked. "I mean, isn't that why…?"

"We believe this incident may be affecting her mind of late, and there is not any way to tell how, or to what degree, Agent Startz. So follow your orders, and get your job done," Will ordered.

"Sir," he nodded, and went to start cuffing men with the other agents now arriving.

~KP~

Shego saw the small, purple car shimmer into view even it began to power down, and a still mostly unseen door slammed as if on its own.

"Back already, Princess."

"I would have been back sooner. The wrong power core," came a disgusted tone. "It was a standard EM pulse generator. Those jerks at the lab reported the fusion generator stolen, and tried to have the insurance repay the value on it when all was taken was a stupid run-of-the-mill EM generator."

"So, waste of time," Shego asked.

"Not completely," Kim said a little smugly and dropped something weighty on a coffee table as Shego stood beside the screen door that opened and closed before her.

It was a moment or two, but a large, circular frame almost a foot in diameter began to appear, and in the center, a bluish glow was just starting to appear.

"Let me guess…"

"Well, they had claimed it was already stolen. I just made sure they were telling the truth," Kim spat indignantly as Shego saw the cushion on her pale green couch sink. "Besides, if it works, I can always take it back later."

"Kimmie, are you okay?"

There was a long silence, and then Kim let go a long, heavy sigh.

"Hungry," she grumbled.

"I'll get started on something right away. Meanwhile, I have a few snacks you can have," Shego told her. "So, do you think that doohickey will work?"

"I don't know. Wade kept saying I'm stuck. That nothing he can fathom will reverse whatever is inside me keeping this energetic phasing cycle active. Not without….killing me," she grumbled.

"Yet you don't trust him? I thought you always trusted the Nerdlinger," Shego pointed out as she came over and sat on the side away from that sunken cushion as she set a tray filled with various high-calorie snacks on the table before the couch.

"I do. I did. Only I told you that in the same breath he used to say I'm stuck, he tells me how much more I can do since I'm stuck like this and no one can see me coming."

"I don't doubt that," Shego said in a neutral tone.

"Then I have GJ, now trying to hunt me down again because they now think this whole sitch might be affecting my mind, and making me evil or something from what Du was babbling. It's always something with those clowns," she hissed in the same breath. "Sometimes…."

"Hey, I do understand. Remember, Bets was chasing me long before you came along."

"Because…"

"It had nothing to do with my crimes. She was chasing me when I was with Hego and the boys. She was convinced they could use me to empower her agents even then. She was still new to the game, too, but even then all she saw was another tool to use. Bets has always been that way, Princess. She's just gotten sneakier about it."

"She sure had me fooled," the invisible heroine said as the snacks began to vanish with amazing speed.

"Trust me, she was after Ronnie and his ninja buddies before either of you realized what he could do, too. Because she knew. Believe me, she already knew. Now you, a real invisible agent? Yeah, she wants you. I'm surprised she hasn't told your tech-buddy to hand over his suit schematics to her."

"I, ah, took them away from him already and deleted all his backups," Kim said in a quiet tone. "I wanted to see if he was telling me the truth after all that happened. Then I decided he and Fyne were never going to do this to anyone else. So I stole the plans."

Shego said nothing to that.

Kim, she knew, was usually a lot more trusting. And borrowing energy cores allegedly stolen or not. It sounded like Bets might have a point this time. Kim did seem to be….getting desperate. Then again, maybe she did have a reason.

"So, what now?"

"Now that I have a viable power core, I can see if it can build that energy vacuum, and determine if Wade was wrong."

"Isn't that the very thing he said could kill you?"

Kim was silent for a time, and the last of the snacks vanished about that time. She finally said, "And what kind of life do I have now? So what if I can sneak up on anyone out there? There is more to my life than that. I can't finish college. I can't date. I can't do anything. No one out there will believe it is me, and even if they do, I'm freaking a lot of people out. Even Ron hates me coming around him like this," Shego was told.

"So, what else do you need?"

She was silent again, and Shego heard paper rustling, and Kim apparently leaned forward, tapping on the coffee table.

"Is that…"

"Shopping list," Kim told her as a piece of paper torn from a notepad began to slowly appear as it was left lying. "I need to get started on it now that I have the fuel source that should power the device."

"Whoa," Shego said as she saw some of the things on the list. "Kimmie…."

"Yeah. No one is going to sell me some of that gear. Or even lend it to me. I think that is part of the reason Wade hesitated, too, because those things are going to be very hard to get. Legitimately, at least."

"Only you want to get them anyway," Shego asked.

"I have to try, Shego. I have to at least try. If it works…."

"And if it doesn't? If it kills you," Shego asked her.

Kim was silent again, which she could understand would freak people out if they didn't realize if Kim was there or not.

Then Kim grumbled.

"If I die, at least my problem is over," she finally spat heatedly. "And if it doesn't work, well, at least I tried. Wade won't even try. It's like he really wants me to stay like this," she spat in disgust again.

"Did you stop to think that maybe he does," Shego asked. "Just like we said earlier, maybe that was the plan all along."

Kim sat there in silence.

"C'mon, in his way, he's as bad as the harpy. He likes to think he runs you. He points, and you go kick and punch. Right? Suppose… Just suppose this was actually his plan all along. Now, maybe he didn't intend for it to go this far, but once it did, who is to say he didn't decide to try to exploit it. So maybe…. Maybe he never really even tried to help, but just said there was no way back so you would stay in line with his desires," Shego asked.

"Just now," she said ominously. "That almost makes a lot of sense. I'm building this energy vacuum, Shego. Whatever happens, I'll cope with it. Either way, Wade and I are going to have a long talk afterward."

"You know, if you're smart," Shego told her now. "Maybe you should not bother asking him anything. Maybe you should just get into his files again, and find out what he was really planning long-term?"

Kim was silent again.

"Kimmie?"

"That…makes sense," she said quietly. "Yes. It makes sense," she said, and Shego again had the eerie feeling that Kim did not really sound like Kim. "Now, I really need food so I can manage when I start my shopping spree," Kim said with a faintly mocking tone that sounded more like Shego than Shego just then.

"I'll just go put together something now," she said, eyeing that list again, and knowing Bets would be coming after the redhead for certain if she pulled this one off. Or even if she didn't.

To Be Continued…..