--Chapter 6--
Kim took a step back, looking at Liz in surprise. "You're Drakken's daughter? The… the baby girl he and Shego had together while… um…?"
"Yes, I'm that 'baby girl' that was born inside Lowerton State Penitentiary," Liz responded, "although, you don't know how many times I wish I wasn't. My name is Liz Go, and you don't know how happy I am to finally meet you…"
"That's Drakken's daughter?" Ron exclaimed himself, turning his head between her and Kim. "But… well… you don't look at all like your parents! I would have thought you would have a… a mix of blue and green skin or something, and um… an overall evil complexion… Tell me, have your parents ever told you how you were exactly conceived? Like, how it really happened? Because I still can't envisage or even imagine Drakken and Shego… um… uh… well, you know… together in… um… yeah."
"Well, uh… mom and dad do really love each other, that's one thing I know for sure, having grown up with them," Liz responded with some unease. "They are capable of love, even if that sounds weird to you—in fact, it even sounds weird to me at times… Anyway, I'm glad that I look normal, like everyone else and not like them, though."
"You were still born with your mom's special ability, nonetheless," JJ said. "Show them your plasma hand thing!"
Keeping her hands to herself, Liz answered, "I'd rather not…"
Kim looked straight at Liz with a distrustful face. "If Drakken is now using his own daughter in a ploy against me, then he has now sunken to a new low," she said assertively.
"No, no! Dad—uh, I mean, Dr. Drakken has nothing to do with me being here now with you, Kim—uh, if you don't mind me calling you 'Kim'," Liz responded anxiously, putting her hands up. "JJ and I… we're not at all evil like our parents! Please believe us! We want to want to be like you! We want to be heroes and do good!"
"Your parents? Are you brother and sister?" Kim exclaimed, pointing at the two teens in front of her.
"No way, we're from different families, but my father and grandfather are villains as well, just like her mom and dad," JJ exclaimed immediately. "I am… uh, the son of Senior Senior Jr.—your enemy as well—not me, I don't want to be your enemy, just father and grandfather! My name is Junior Jr., but please do call me JJ! And I'm very please to meet you as well!"
"Junior has a son now as well?" Kim said, looking at JJ with awkwardness.
"I thought you looked familiar!" Ron exclaimed. "How did Junior have… um, I mean to say, who's your mom?"
"My mother passed away from cancer when I was still an infant, so I never got to know her," JJ responded. "My father was never married to her, and from what I understand, I was the product of a one night stand he had with her…"
"I'm sorry to hear that," Kim said. "Now… if I understand correctly, you two both have been raised by villains, and yet you both want to be heroes like us…"
"Has the world turned upside-down, Kim?" Ron exclaimed, looking at his wife. Suddenly turning back towards JJ, he said, "Was it just me, or did your bag move?"
JJ quickly grabbed his bag with an embarrassed smile. "No, no, it was nothing!" he responded, holding it tightly shut.
"Oh, please don't tell me you brought him with you again…" Liz exclaimed, slightly rolling her eyes up.
"What is it?" Kim asked with uncertainty.
"His stupid mole rat," Liz responded. "JJ brings that small animal with him everywhere he goes…"
"YOU HAVE A MOLE RAT?" Ron exclaimed out loud.
"Hey, he's not stupid, Liz, and he's my best friend, ok?" JJ responded, cautiously opening his bag to allow the small animal to peak his head out. "His name is Clevis, and I have him well trained."
With his small front paw, the creature waved to Ron and Kim with a small 'Hey!'
"Can I hold him?" Ron gasped, reaching forward to touch the little animal. "I—I… I had a naked mole rat myself once… a long time ago…" he softly lamented, standing still as Clevis exited the bag and began crawling all over him, as if to give Ron a thorough inspection.
"My father wanted to get me a white long-haired cat to pet on my lap when I was twelve… but because I'm allergic to dander, he was the only pet available at Smarty Mart that I could stand," JJ responded. "What was yours like?"
"I got mine when I was 12 as well because, like you, my father is allergic to dander," Ron responded. "His name was… Rufus, and we were inseparable until… uh… Here, take him back." Ron, handing Clevis back to JJ, then turned around and went to sit alone un a quiet corner of the café.
"What happened?" Liz asked, looking at Ron as he slowly began to mope.
"There was an accident, almost a year before you were born, that actually involved your parents," Kim began to explain. "Rufus… was badly hurt, he never recovered from his injuries, and died a couple of days later, peacefully within the loving care of Ron's hands. He's now buried in our back yard, and the only thing that really pains Ron now is that our son never got to know him…"
"Your son! Jonathan!" Liz exclaimed, sitting up straight. "That's what I called you for! I mean, I'm very, very sorry to hear about… Rufus, and if his death involved my parents, I could never apologize enough for them…"
"What about our son?" Kim said, looking back at her with reservation. "And… how do you know his name?"
"Both of us here go to the same school as him, and there's very few people who wouldn't know who he is," Liz explained. "I've even spoken to him personally, and he knows who I am as well."
"Drakken sent you to the same school as Jon?" Ron exclaimed, slowly wandering back and clearing his face. "What did he want to do? Have you spy on him all the time?"
Liz groaned. "No, I am not a spy for my parents," she responded vigorously. "Dad doesn't even know what school I go to or who I encounter there—he basically stays out of my normal life, and I like it just like that. Mom does know what school I go to, but I never told her that your son goes there as well. In fact, I don't think they even were aware you had a son… until very recently."
"I was pregnant at the same time as your mother, so they should be aware we have a child…" Kim said.
"Yeah, but to my knowledge, they never really encountered you again ever since…"
"What do you have to tell us now about our son Jonathan and Drakken?" Kim asked assertively, looking directly at Liz with a straight face.
"Yeah, I want to know about that at last myself," JJ exclaimed beside her.
"Alright. This evening, I snuck into my parent's lair in our basement without them knowing to see what they were up to…"
"Drakken has a lair within his own home, here in Middleton?" Ron interrupted.
"YES, sorry to say," Liz continued with a slight sigh. "Now, when I was down there, I noticed dad—uh, Drakken with two identical copies of your son Jon. I don't know if they were clones or robots, but both were indistinguishable duplicates of him, facial features, hair, clothes and everything else. If they hadn't both been completely motionless and behind restraints, I might have guessed that they were in fact the real Jon."
"Drakken made two carbon copies of Jon?" Kim exclaimed with some surprise. "How's that possible? How could he even had access to Jon in order to make copies of him, if what you're saying is true?"
"Because I unfortunately introduced Jon to my parents myself," Liz responded with some guilt. "Please believe me, it wasn't my parents, it was Jon himself that wanted to meet them! He… actually tricked me into introducing them to him, I don't know why yet. All I really wanted was to meet you, Kim! I may be Drakken and Shego's daughter, but I'm not at all like them! I want to be good like you! You are my real hero, Kim Possible!"
"So you brought my son to Drakken, just so you could meet me?" Kim exclaimed with some shock and mar. "How did you figure that one?"
"Jon, for some reason, seemed very interested in meeting my parents," Liz tried to explain. "We then had made a deal that if I would introduce him to my parents, he would then bring me to you afterwards as well… When he came over to my place, everything seemed normal—no villain stuff or anything. We just had supper together, then did some stupid karaoke, and Jon left again on his own, that's it that's all! Not once did dad ever bring him down to his lair—I mean, I never noticed it happen if it did… I don't know how dad could have made a copy of him if last Friday night was the only time he ever saw Jon."
"So you're saying that it was Jon who was interested in meeting Drakken… hmm… interesting…" Ron said, putting his hand up to his chin.
"I find that a little hard to believe myself—although, Jon did ask about Drakken recently…" Kim said. "Why would he want to submit himself to my worst enemy like that?"
"What doesn't make much sense to me is that before we went in, he expressively told me not to tell anyone that he was indeed your son, and not once while he was there was there any indication that my parents knew he was your son," Liz exclaimed. "To them, he was just a 'friend' from school, no one special. There was absolutely no talk about you whatsoever."
"Drakken must have discovered who he was afterwards then, and found a way to copy him," Kim said. "If Drakken somehow kidnaps Jon now and replaces him with one of his copies, Ron and I could be in serious trouble…"
"That's why I called you tonight! That's why I'm—for the first time in my life—actually betraying my parents!" Liz exclaimed. "Do you know where the real Jon is right now?"
"We had a late supper together with him this evening, and then he locked himself in his room afterwards," Ron responded. "We invited him to come out on our evening walk with us, but he said he was too busy with school projects to do so…"
"We have to get home and warn him," Kim exclaimed. "This could so be the drama if something bad happened now."
"Kim, please, before you go, is there anyway JJ and I could become your students, to help you do good in the world, and to fight villains?" Liz asked at last.
"You mean you want me to teach you two to be heroes—exactly the opposite of your parents?" Kim responded with a sly smile. "You want to become like Ron and I were when we were your own age… Well, seeing as my own son hasn't ever expressed any desire to follow in my footsteps, I do believe I could help you become heroes yourselves. Although, I could never have imagined that my successor would someday be my nastiest enemy's daughter! I guess there's hope for this world after all!"
"Drakken's daughter and Junior's son as your students, Kim… That just doesn't sound right," Ron exclaimed. "You mean you're going to train them to clash with their own parents?"
"We want to clash with our parents!" Liz exclaimed. "We want to rid the planet of villains, even if… even if we're forced to throw our own families in jail."
"I'm not as forth going as Liz, on the subject, and I'll admit that I'm not exactly quite as brave as she, but Clevis and I promise we won't let you down!" JJ exclaimed.
"You know, I could show you some great moves and tricks myself that have even saved Kim herself in the past as well," Ron said. "That, and some great superhero recipes you can cook in the kitchen!"
"You cook?" JJ exclaimed with some interest. "Cool! Me too! If Liz hadn't convinced me to be a hero like you, I would want to be a chef myself! I've created my own share of recipes, you know…"
Kim and Liz both looked at their male counterparts with bored eyes as the two began sharing with each other even more things they had in common.
"Um… we had better get going now, we don't know how much time we have before Drakken unleashes his Jon clones…" Kim said, grabbing Ron by the shoulder. "Liz, if you really want to become a hero like me, I'll start your training now, and ask you to come back to our place with us to help us come up with a counter strategy against your parents. Do Drakken and Shego even know you are with us now?"
"No, I haven't spoken to them since suppertime, and I simply told my brothers to tell them that I'd be back later…" she responded.
"You have brothers?" Ron exclaimed, taken aback. "Shego and Drakken had more children after you?"
"Uh, yeah, I have two twin brothers who are indeed younger than me," Liz responded. "They were born when I was 7, and have been a slight pain in my neck ever since. Unfortunately, unlike me, they've both decided to join my parents on the villain side, and sorry to say, but they're also very smart for their age."
"You… you have twin, younger genius brothers?" Kim said, looking at Liz with disbelief.
"Yes! It seems that twins run in the family on my mother's side… In fact, two of my uncles are twins themselves," Liz said. "They are superheroes as well, along with two of my other uncles, believe it or not…"
"Hego, Mego and the twins Wego, in Go City, of course," Kim responded. "We know them, and we know your mom was once with them as well…"
"…before she turned evil, I know. Don't worry, I will not switch sides like my mom," Liz exclaimed assertively.
"I believe you," Kim said with a gentle smile. "Your brothers, though, do you ever find them to be… how to say, dweeb-ish?"
"Dweeb is the word I use all the time to describe them! Even more, since they are also twins, I often combine the two words into…"
"TWEEBS!" Kim and Liz both exclaimed together as one.
"I don't believe it, you and I have more in common than I would have ever guessed, girl…" Kim said. "I'll have to tell you all the trials and tribulations I went through with my own set of tweeb brothers…"
"Um… I told my Father and Grandfather that I was out for the evening on villainous activities with Liz," JJ input, at last. "That's how they let me leave the house tonight, and why I also have time to come with you now as well…"
"Right, so let's go!" Kim said at last. "Our home is only three blocks away from here…"
"West?"
"No, East, why?"
"My own home—and Drakken's lair—is located three blocks West from here… I never knew you lived so close to me, Kim…"
To be continued…
A/N: I hope this chapter finally explains Rufus's 'mysterious' absence from the story so far, for all those who were wondering. I was hoping to do so sooner, but never quite got to it. I don't want to expand on what the accident that took his life was just yet, although there may be a flashback sequence in the future.
