Andrew Lipsky continued his way down the long, narrowing corridor. He regarded the fact that the cavern around him hadn't shaken any further as a good sign. But with time rapidly running out, he forced his pace ahead as fast as possible, his guilt giving him all the power necessary.
He finally came into an enormous chamber, decorated with advanced computer terminals all around the room, and the incredible Mega Cannon positioned directly in its center, its tip sticking out through a large vent in the ceiling, exposing it to the air.
"Ah-ah-ah." A flashing green figurine leapt before the scientist, her hand glowing brilliant emerald. "Look… but don't touch." Shego grinned.
Of all the sights that Dr. Lipsky had been exposed to since crossing over to this world, this was the one that he had been dreading more than any other. Only a steel dedication to his duties, and a certain gold band around his finger, gave him the strength to face down this newest intruder.
"I… I have to shut that weapon down." Dr. Lipsky stated.
"Mmhmm, yeah, sorry. Not going to happen, but if you want, I'll let you grab a seat. The fireworks are going to start any minute now." Shego offered sarcastically.
"This is not some kind of light show. Real people are going to be hurt." Dr. Lipsky replied forcefully, already disgusted with this sick perversion of the most heroic woman his world had ever known.
"Well yeah. I kinda figured we weren't calling it a Mega Cannon so that we could use it to make it rain teddy bears all over the world!" Shego offered, her pose not wavering in the slightest.
"Certainly something to look in too for the future though." An eerily familiar voice came from the side, emanating from a tall, black haired man in a dark blue coat with slightly lighter blue skin and a scar beneath his left eye.
Dr. Drakken and Dr. Lipsky shared an awkward moment, as they stared at each other.
"I don't mean to pry, but just how did you…" Dr. Lipsky left his question unfinished, as he indicated to Drakken's scar.
"You know you're the first person to ask me that. The whole thing is quite fascinating actually…" but Drakken was cut off as Shego interrupted.
"Hey! Sorry to interrupt you two, but I believe we're in the middle of taking over the world here."
"Whatever you've been promised, I guarantee you, they lied to you." Dr. Lipsky stated confidently. "What was it? Did they offer you the Mega Cannon? They tell you they just wanted to go home after they had their fun? Empty promises."
Lipsky's words of caution seemed to come as no surprise to Shego. "Thanks for the warning." Without pause, Shego let fly with a blast of emerald energy, straight for the good doctor's head, but Andrew managed to dodge the attack, earning a slight burn to the side of his face in the process. Even as he did so, he reached into his pocket, drawing a dart gun, which he quickly leveled and fired.
Shego saw the weapon and managed to dodge the dart just as it flew past her. She quickly spun to her side just in time to see the white coated scientist fire again. Shego quickly moved to act, but her warning came too late as the second dart dug itself straight into Dr. Drakken's neck, directly injecting a powerful tranquilizer directly into the blood stream of the target, causing the mad scientist to crumble to the floor, unconscious.
Bringing herself around, Shego's claws flashed emerald energy, firing at and melting the dart gun to harmless goo, dripping out of Andrew Lipsky's hand.
"A gun, huh?" Shego sounded almost impressed. "I gotta say, I didn't think a goody two shoes like you would ever have the guts."
"Well, I must confess, I'm not much of a fighter." Andrew admitted sheepishly even as Shego moved closer, coming right up to him.
"Gee, that's a shame, cause I am." Shego's arm shot out to disable Andrew, but the scientist quickly caught the half hearted attack, twisting Shego's arm and flipping her over to the ground.
"Which is why my wife insisted that I make the time to pick up a few moves from her." Andrew continued proudly.
Shego merely scowled, pushing her hands back and throwing her legs together up into the air, crashing into Andrew's jaw and sending him stumbling to the ground.
"Well there's another free lesson for you." Shego scowled.
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Kim gasped at the sight of the living armor as it completely covered the figure of her alternate dimensional twin.
"So, I take it you've seen this neat little suit in action before." The other Kim grinned as she admired herself in her new outfit. "Then you probably know all about the nifty little features it has. All I have to do is think about killing you and this suit gives me half a dozen different ways to do it. For example," even as Kim spoke, the twin blasters located on each shoulder plate came to life, immediately responding to their master's will, automatically targeting and firing rapidly.
The original Kim leapt into action, running forward before jumping through the air, twisting as she flew to dodge the barrage aimed at her. Even as she came down, she turned to see twin cannons extend out, one from the top of each of her foe's arms. The other Kim brought the new weapons to bear, firing twin pulse blasts and hitting Kim head on, knocking her back.
"You know, as much as it is to blast you into submission…" Kim admired her armored fingers as they came to life before her, extending and sharpening into a deadly set of claws "… I really enjoy getting up close and personal."
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Ron stared in horror as his twin from across the dimensional whatever, he could never remember what they were calling it, waved the Lotus Blade in front of him.
"How… how did you get that?" Ron asked weakly.
"Oh that part was easy. I just called it to me." The other Ron stated simply.
"Called it?" Ron's mind carried him back to his first visit to the Yamanouchi School, and his encounter with the Lotus Blade. After it had fallen off the side of a mountain into the seemingly endless abyss beneath, Ron had still been able to summon the sword to him, causing the blade to literally fly right to him, and then straight into the side of the school wall. Ron knew that it was possible for one with Monkey power to call the blade, but to do so from across the entire globe was a feat he had always assumed impossible.
"Hey wait a minute; don't you have to be pure hearted to summon the Lotus Blade?" Ron asked.
"Oh I am pure hearted. There isn't an ounce of compassion anywhere in me." The other Ron announced proudly and coldly.
"I really don't think that's what was meant."
"Blame Sensei for not checking the fine print on those stupid ancient texts of his. I think I'll thank him personally by shoving this sword right into his heart… again." Even as the alternate Ron spoke, he leapt forward through the air with the enchanted sword, coming down to the ground and swiping with a slice that would have taken the original Ron's head clean off if he had not ducked back and dodged the attack.
Ron moved back dodging several slashes from the sword, but the blade moved with super natural grace and power, and the short haired Ron wielded it with a master's skill. Finally the sword struck true, driving straight into the original's right shoulder, eliciting a cry of agony as the shorted haired Ron slowly removed the sword, leaving the original Ronald to fall to the ground as the other admired the blood covering the sword's tip.
"Bet you thought I was just going to run you through and be done with it." The alternate Ron mocked cruelly as his twin crawled on the floor, struggling to keep pressure on his wounded shoulder. "Oh no. This isn't a fight to the death; this is just to soften you up. When I get my hands on her, I want you to watch."
Rage seared through Ron as he pressed himself past the pain, leaping up in the air to assail his twin. But Ron's arm was injured, his attack weak and sloppy as his twin easily dodged the weak punch thrown at him, only to retaliate with a roundhouse kick that knocked Ron back to the ground.
"So, still got some fight left in you, huh?" With this, the alternate Ron turned his focus on the Lotus Blade in his hand, focusing his will and power through the sword, prompting it to change its form, transforming into a long flail in his hand. "Well, let's see what we can do about that."
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Kim ran straight for her alternate self, leaping into the air, before landing directly in front of her opponent, driving her fist straight into her enemy's armored gut. The alternate Kim made no move to deflect or defend against this attack as Kim's fist impacted against the Centurion armor with a loud, ineffectual clang.
Kim's fist ached in response, but she tried to wave it off even as she kicked out with a roundhouse to the side of the alternate Kim's right leg, and a firm Judo chop against her neck. Each of Kim's attacks had the precise same effect, which was to hurt Kim more than her opponent as they impacted harmlessly against the armor.
Kim looked up to see her twin smiling smugly, totally unconcerned by her assault. Kim took her still sore fist and shot it straight for the alternate Kim's unprotected face. However, just as the clenched hand was about to reach that over confident grin, a metal shield shot over, perfectly covering the form and figure of the alternate Kim's visage, and protecting it from the assault.
Kim's fist reeled back once again in pain, allowing the shield to slide back as quickly as it had covered, revealing the smiling face of her foe.
"If you're done now…" The alternate Kim slashed out fiercely, tearing across Kim's exposed stomach, drawing blood from four parallel claw wounds that traced across the front of Kim's gut "... it's my turn."
The alternate Kim kicked out in the wound, knocking the wind out of Kim and sending her stumbling back. Kim pushed past the pain, coughing and hacking, looking up just in time to see twin rockets reveal themselves from within the back of the Centurion armor. The alternate Kim propelled herself forward across the room and straight into Kim, punching her as she flew past, and knocking the hero back into the ground.
Kim came up from the dirt of the floor just in time to see her armored twin hovering high in the air above her.
"You know, I really love this armor. I don't really use it too much; I just try to save it for special occasions. Something I picked up along the way. I noticed Ron was starting to get very interested in all that Monkey power crap, and I figured I out to pick up some super powers of my own. Like I always say, hokey religions and ancient superstitions are no match for a good piece of cybertronic armor." At her mental command, the armor's mounted shoulder blasters aimed down and began firing again, blasting down on Kim, forcing her to roll across the ground in a desperate attempt to escape the assault.
Kim continued to roll on the ground, until her armored opposite came crashing down, landing feet first right on top of her, prompting a cry of pain from the already battered hero.
"Bet that hurt."
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Ron flipped over the flail as the end came flying at him, missing, flying right past him and into the granite wall behind him, tearing out a large part of rock and debris with frightening implications before coming around and flying right back into the alternate Ron's hands.
"Why even bother stealing the Lotus Blade in this world? Can't you get one of your own?" Ron asked, his voice poorly concealing the agony he was putting his body through just to stay alive. Trying to dodge an ancient weapon with mystic powers, all the while he struggled to keep pressure over his shoulder wound.
"Blame it on Lord Montgomery Fiske. I'm not sure who he is in this world, but in mine he's a real pain in the tail. Managed to steal the blade back from me after finding some ancient mystic runes that keep anyone from calling the blade, mystic monkey power or not. Still, no sense crying over spilled blood." The alternate Ron swung the flail around by its enchanted chain, before letting it fly again.
Ron managed to sidestep the attack, before taking the opening to charge forward against the momentarily exposed enemy before him. As Ron reached his double, the alternate Ron reached down to active a control on his wrist device, prompting a purple gas to shoot out. Fortunately, Ron managed to see the attack coming and pulled his head back away from the gas, even as the end of the flail came back on command, tearing into Ron's backside, bringing him crumbling down to the ground in agony.
"Don't worry, I missed your spine. You're not done yet." The other Ron walked casually, swinging the flail in the air casually for a moment before pausing. "You know what sport I always hated as a kid?"
Even as the alternate Ron spoke, he held up the flail, prompting it to change once more, this time into a large ball made of solid steel. "Dodge ball." He finally answered, holding the new weapon in his hand.
"Yeah, me too." Ron admitted, every inch of his body screaming out in agony.
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Kim crawled across the floor away from her opponent, really wishing that she still had her battle suit with her right now. Even if was no direct match for the Centurion technology, it would still be better than nothing. Unfortunately, the suit had finally worn out its untested life. The last mission Kim had bothered to wear it on, the cable impulse had misfired on her, tying her up right in place even as a pair of thugs had moved to attack her. Getting out of that situation had been a challenge, yet it seemed pale in comparison to her current predicament.
"I'll tell you what, if you just lay down now, I'll let you watch as I break Ron in. You can even take notes." The alternate Kim mocked.
Pushing herself for one last desperate tactic, Kim reached down to grab her grapnel gun. Feeling its familiar grip within her hand, Kim aimed up and fired, feeling the grapple secure itself against one of the support beam that ran across the ceiling before activating the function aboard the gun that caused it to retract, lifting Kim with it into the air.
As Kim rose into the air, she watched energy bolts from the alternate Kim fly through the air after her. Uttering a silent prayer, Kim raised her legs, pressing against the wall, prompting her to fly through the air, chased by the aim of her twin the whole way. Kim lifted herself up at the last instant, before releasing her hold of the gun, allowing a series of energy bolts to fly straight past Kim and into the support beam.
Just as Kim hoped, the bolts blasted the beam free from its holding, causing it to fall down, landing directly on top of the alternate Kim and her armor.
For a moment, Kim let out a breath of relief, hoping that she had merely disabled her opponent. She was fairly certain that the Centurion armor was tough enough to protect someone from such an otherwise crushing attack, but her own limited experience with it had never really exposed it to that much punishment.
As such, Kim could not contain her shock or awe as the fallen beam slowly rumbled, eventually rising up before finally falling to the side, revealing one completely unharmed Kim Possible.
"Nice try, but fun's over." With this, the other Kim walked up simply toward her opponent, reaching out and knocking the battered Kim who was unable to defend herself unconscious.
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Ron could only run, or more accurately limp in a hurry, his aching and injured muscles permitting him to do nothing else, as the metallic ball flew through the air, following him as he ran, even as the alternate Ron laughed the whole time.
"Well if nothing else, you're certainly a good runner. I suppose after so many years of it, you'd have to at least be good at that much."
Ron stopped to duck and role, allowing the ball to fly past him and straight back into the other Ron's waiting hands.
"Well, not that this hasn't been fun, but all good things, and so on and so on." Ron went on as he hurled the ball one last time into Ron's gut, knocking the wind straight out of the battered and bruised hero, sending him spiraling into the darkness.
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Another fist smashed across Dr. Lipsky's jaw, knocking him back, forcing him to struggle back to his feet as he tried to contend with his foe who continued to toy with him.
"You seem to be enjoying this way too much." Dr. Lipsky noted bitterly.
"I know. I think that's because I have been actively suppressing the urge to beat the tar out of someone who looks just like you for a while now." Shego smiled widely as she kicked out once more, knocking Andrew Lipsky back into the wall.
"Listen to me, I know you. You don't want to do this." Dr. Lipsky desperately tried to reach out to the sinister woman in front of him.
"You think so? I don't know. Just to be safe, I should probably just keep hitting you till I'm sure." Shego replied just as she blasted a slab of rock to Andrew's side.
"You've got to believe me. The other Team Possible has lied to you."
"Yeah, we've been through this. Not surprised. Not worried either." Shego glared intently.
"Maybe not, but do you have any idea how many millions of lives are at stake? Not just on this world, but mine too. I'm asking you to help me save both our worlds."
"Uh-huh. I don't know if you've been keeping score, but here, I'm one of the bad guys." Shego replied with no small amount of pride.
"You still have people you must care about. People in both worlds that need you."
"Ok, you know what, I don't really see eye to eye with the people around here, and I guarantee there is no one where you're from that I give a flying freak about either." Shego proclaimed.
"What about your brothers? Us? What about your daughter?"
For a moment, time froze. Shego remained perfectly motionless, her face wide as Dr. Lipsky held his breath in anticipation.
"What?" Was all that Shego could weakly muster.