Disclaimer and A/N: The series Kim Possible is controlled by Disney. I am not, but given nothing for my writing. This is a small addendum to the story, written just before posting. Call it one final loose end to knot.
Chapter 20 One Final Villain
The raven haired woman put down her nail file and sauntered to the door. "Who is it?" she chimed through the metal portal.
"Just a friend with some friendly advice during the truce," the female voice answered.
Shego opened the door tentatively and saw a green streak zip into the room. "What the F...!" she exclaimed. She turned to see Kim Possible lounging, sprawled across her favorite chair in front of the TV.
"Princess? How did you...?" Shego sputtered.
Kim looked surprised. "You didn't hear? Haven't you been watching the television?"
"No I haven't," Shego stated flatly. She crossed her arms and smirked. "Dr. D is in prison and I have some down time. I've been catching up on my reading." She pointed to the stack of magazines next to the chair.
"So you have no idea what happened yesterday?" Kim asked.
"No, I haven't watched the news in weeks," Shego said, slightly miffed.
Kim pointed at the television and it turned on. A news anchor chimed, "Again, our top story, Global Justice is in shambles. Their space station has been destroyed and all the Super Villains died when the station's prison area came crashing to Earth atop the company of Henchco Industries. Everyone in the building, including the founder and owner, Jack Hench perished in the fiery crash." Shego took a quick step toward the TV. "Global Justices' head, Dr. Betty Director, is undergoing psychiatric evaluations and all major World Power nations are calling for the disbanding of the law enforcement agency."
Shego smiled broadly. "That's great news!" Her countenance fell. "Except for the fact that all the villains are dead. That means Drakken is gone." Her face brightened. "That means I'm out of my contract. Woo Hoo!"
"Drakken's dead and you cheer?" Kim said in utter horror. "Drakken, Adrena Lynn, Duff Killigan, Dr. Dementor,
Motor Ed, Gill, DNAmy, the Killer BeBes, even Frugal Lucre! They're all dead! Monkey Fist killed them all!"
"Yeah, so?" Shego shrugged and went to the kitchen. She opened the refrigerator and pulled out a diet cola. "Want something to drink? In the spirit of the truce?" She blinked her eyes and her hand was empty. Kim was sitting in the chair sipping the soda. "How did you get that so quick?"
Kim smiled broadly. "You know Ron has Mystical Monkey Powers." Shego nodded. "Well, they kicked in full force."
"So?" Shego shrugged, "The buffoon got a little upgrade. So what."
Kim shook her head. "Not so little. Did you hear about the Monkey King Amulet incident?" she queried.
"Yeah yeah," Shego said exasperated. "You almost went full monkey. Get to the point!"
Kim smirked. "The amulet was from a piece of the jade statues that gave Ron his Power." Kim hyper-sped to stand, face to face, in front of Shego. "I got the Power too." Shego's jaw dropped a full two feet and her eyes shot to the size of dinner plates. Kim placed a finger on Shego's chin and closed her mouth. "You'll be swallow flies if you keep your mouth open like that," Kim chuckled.
"Y-Y-You just moved t-t-t-twenty feet in a split second," Shego stuttered.
Kim zipped back to the chair. "Yeah, neat isn't it. I'm super fast and have quite a few other abilities since our last meeting." Kim's eye's flashed green flames. "If you know what's good for you, you'll get out of the villainy business," she telepathically growled to Shego.
Shego gawked for a second before she caught herself and gained her composure. She folded her arms. "I'm from the Show Me state and I'd LOVE to see you in action. How about going a couple of rounds. Just you and me?"
Kim smiled. "I know you're not from Missouri but I accept your challenge." Kim looked around the room. "But let's go someplace where we won't do much damage. I'd hate to destroy this room, it's so homey."
Shego's hands flared with her plasma energy as she smiled wickedly. "I don't care much for the room. It's Drakken's lair anyway." She fired a bolt and blew the chair to pieces.
Kim yawned as she floated in the same position she had been sitting in before the chair disintegrated beneath her. "Nice shot. Too bad you missed." Shego rapidly fired three more plasma balls at the teen hero. Kim caught them in her hands and started juggling them. She tossed them, one at a time into the air. Closing one eye to take aim with a gun shaped finger, she blasted each with a plasma shot of her own. "I can take care of anything you throw my way," Kim chided and floated to her feet.
Shego growled audibly. "Try to take care of this!" With a long low growl she produced a plasma ball the size of a prize winning pumpkin. She grunted as she heaved the huge destructive sphere at Kim.
Kim caught it with ease and spun it on one finger, Globe Trotter style. She palmed the globe and it shrank down to nothing with no more than a mere spark igniting. Kim yawned again. "How about some hand to hand," she suggested.
Shego screamed and rushed the auburn haired woman. She threw a series of kicks, chops and punches that would have normally floored anyone in the world. Kim brushed all the incoming fists and feet aside with ease. After two minutes Kim deftly grabbed a wrist and flung Shego to the far wall. The green and black clad warrior crumpled in a heap. Kim hyper-sped to her side and offered a hand up. "Had enough?" she queried, "or do you want to go another round?"
Shego took the proffered hand up and squealed, "Ow Ow Ow OW! My HAND!"
Kim loosened her grip and frowned. "Oooh sorry, I forgot I also got an upgrade in strength."
Shego massaged her sore hand and said incredulously, "I just threw my best stuff at you and you thwarted every shot." She slumped. "We used to be equally matched but now I got nothin. I guess I should reconsider my career."
"That's great," Kim enthused. "I thought I'd have a lot tougher time convincing you. What do you think you'll do?"
Shego paced and pondered for a full minute. She finally threw her hands in the air. "I have no ideas. All I've ever done is fight crime or committed them. And with my reputation," she slumped to the floor, "no one would ever give me a chance."
Kim sat cross legged in front of her and gently placed her hand on her former foe. "Shego, you're an intelligent woman. You can do anything you want. Ron and I will even pay for any training or classes you'd like to take."
"That's all well and good, but with my skin color and power, everyone will be afraid of me. Cure That Meteor!"
Kim looked at the floor and doodled a bit. "Do you really mean that?"
"What!" Shego said in astonishment. "Do you think I like having this plasma junk running through me? It's made me evil and ruined my life!"
"Would you be happier if you didn't have your powers?" Kim asked. "When did it happen?"
Shego sighed then growled, "It's time to tell my life story, isn't it?"
"Only if you want to," a concerned Kim answered and grinned, "but remember, I know most of it already."
Shego briefly chuckled. "Yeah, I guess you do after you got Hego's power and fought Aviarius. Well, the highlights then. I was fifteen when the meteor struck and the power started to show about two weeks later on my sixteenth birthday. Luckily only the cake was destroyed when I got mad at my brothers for throwing me the party and no one else showed. I was sorta the intelligent outcast in school and no one wanted to hang with me."
"No one?" Kim begged.
"I WAS A GEEK, O.K.? YOU HAPPY NOW?" Shego growl/yelled.
"Alright already," Kim said defensively. "But usually a geek would have other geeky friends."
Shego calmed down. "Not in my situation. I was the only freak at Go City High. All the other smart people were good looking, not geeks like me."
"I don't believe you could ever be called geeky looking," Kim shyly said. "You've always been so beautiful."
Shego laughed. "Yeah, after the meteor!" She got up and went to a cabinet. She pulled out a photo album and, hesitating for a moment, brought it back and handed it to Kim. "The meteor changed my appearance. Look at my pictures from before the damned thing. The first couple of pages."
Kim opened the album and gasped at the face that looked back at her from the book. A black, Moe Howard haircut with dueling pigtails sprouting from the sides of her head, black horn-rimmed glasses, teeth in braces that stuck out between clenched lips and a horrible case of acne made Kim turn the page quickly. Another picture jumped out at her. It was the same funny looking girl wearing a short, green gingham dress with knee high white socks and saddle shoes, clutching her school books to her bosom. "My G..." she gasped. "Why would you let your mother dress you like that?"
Shego sighed. "Mom didn't. Hego... I mean Henry used to dress me and Mervin did my hair. Our parents died in a car crash when I was little and Henry took over raising us."
"I sorry," Kim mewed.
Shego snatched the book from Kim's hands. "I don't want your pity," she snapped. Kim's eye's flared green flames. Shego closed her eyes and took a long, deep cleansing breath. "I'm sorry," she said weakly stroking the photo album like it was a pet. "I keep the album to remind me of what could have been. I sometimes wish I could go back and save Mom and Dad. If they were around, we wouldn't of moved to the house that the meteor struck and I would be a normal woman." She laughed. "If I didn't have my powers back then..." Her voice cracked and faded and tears rolled down her cheeks.
Kim stood and wrapped her arms around the raven haired woman. "Would you like a new start?" she whispered. "I mean a brand new, clean slate, normal skinned beginning from now on?"
"Normal skin?" Shego whimpered. "How?"
A booming voice came from everywhere."There are more things in Heaven and Earth, my dear Shego."
"That," Shego thought for a second, "That sounded a lot like Stoppable's pet rat!" She looked around. "But it couldn't be. It never sounded like that or spoke in complete sentences!"
"Hi Rufus," Kim said aloud. "You're right on time." Kim turned to Shego. "Rufus died but he has the Power too. He talks to us occasionally and suggested a way to remove your green plasma power."
"Wait. You said he died but he still talks to you?"
Kim shrugged and said nonchalantly, "It's the Power."
"Would you like our help to have a normal life?" Rufus asked.
Shego looked around the room. "Yeah, of course I would. But again, how?"
An image of Ron appeared between the two women. "Ron, come on in," Kim said to the image. He nodded and the door opened.
"Hi Shego, how's it hangin?" Ron quipped and walked over to Kim and gave her a peck on the cheek. "Did she say yes?"
Kim returned the affectionate buss and smiled, "I think she did."
"So you two," Shego started.
"Three!" Rufus corrected her.
Shego looked around again. "Three... think you can remove my plasma power? The best doctors around couldn't cure me back then."
Ron shrugged. "The Power took my cancer and arthritis away, I think we can do the same with your power."
Shego paced back and forth for a minute. "I would be a lot better off without the damned power, but how would I live? I've had them for so long I don't know any other way?"
"What were you planning to be before you got them?" Ron queried.
Shego stopped her pacing. "I... I was planning to go into law. I've always been fascinated with corporate law."
"Would you like to start law school in say... two or three weeks?" Kim asked.
"Yeah, of course," Shego enthused. "But it's too late to enroll in a good college for the fall semester."
"It can be arranged," Ron said with his goofy grin firmly planted on his face. He became serious. "Now... bottom line. Do you want us to remove your powers and get you into school?"
Shego didn't hesitate. "Yes, damn it! You don't know how often I've dreamed of getting rid of this damned curse!" Tears flowed from her eyes as her body shuddered and shook from the onslaught of emotions coursing through her.
Kim and Ron stepped up and hugged her. Ron's body glowed blue and Kim shone green. A pink aura flowed from above. They stood holding the green and black jump-suited woman for what seemed like hours, but was a mere two minutes.
Shego sighed and pushed them away. "O.K. Enough with the group hug. Get it over with."
Kim giggled. "It's already over."
Shego shot a glance at Kim, then Ron. "What? Already?" She looked at her gloved hand. It didn't ignite. She rushed to the bathroom and pawed at her cheeks. "The color... it's gone!" She ran back into the room and tackled Ron and Kim. "I love you guys!" she screamed.
Ron rolled away from the pile and helped the two women off the floor. "Now. Which college would you like to attend? Harvard? Yale?"
Shego spun around and around. "I have no idea, and I don't care!" she enthused. "I'm free of that darn meteor for the first time in..." She stopped her revelry and giggled. "Oops, I almost gave away my age." She paused and thought aloud, "And I didn't swear either."
Ron scratched the back of his head. "Ah, that's a little side effect from our embrace. Our, shall I say, lack of colorful language rubbed off on you. Also Kim's bubbly personality."
Shego laughed. "I really don't mind one bit. I don't want to be a sourpuss anymore."
"I'm glad," Kim giggled. "But we gotta get your life up and running Shego." Kim paused. "And we can't call you Shego anymore. What's your real name?"
The black and green clad woman took off her gloves, blushed and extended a hand. "I'm Sheba. Sheba Gordon."
Ron shook the proffered appendage and smiled. "Like the..."
Sheba blush deepened and cut him off. "Yeah yeah. Just like the prosperous land in the Bible. Silly I know, but Daddy always called me his little Queen of Sheba."
Kim smiled. "I like it!" She thought for a moment. "Then you calling me Princess was..."
Sheba giggled. "Yep! A little in joke and jab of my own."
Goofy grinning Ron laughed. "O.K. Sheba. We need to start making plans and some phone calls. How about you two sitting down and talking and I make some dinner?"
Sheba put on the airs of a Southern Belle. "You cook dinner for little ole me? I've heard of your reputation Mr. Stoppable, but what would your girlfriend slash fiancé say to that?" She batted her eyelashes.
"I don't know," Kim chided her, "since we've been married almost a week now. His wife would say she's hungry."
"Really!" Sheba dropped the act and in astonishment, gawked at Kim. She grabbed Kim's arm and led her to a sofa. "Tell me what happened. The wedding isn't supposed to be for weeks!"
"Well," Kim said, "it all started when Ron and I went to Japan to train a bit and rest up before our wedding and then head off to college." Kim really perked up and proudly announced, "Oh! You're now invited to the wedding on the 19th." The two women giggled.
Ron shook his head and chirped in his best Bogart impersonation, "This looks like the beginning of a beautiful friendship." He hitched his shoulders, turned and headed off to find the kitchen.
A/N: This is the last installment of this Alternate Universe. I mean where can I go from here? Kim and Ron settle a border war between two nations? If diplomacy failed their Power could wipe out both armies before lunch. Go after terrorists? Again, with their abilities, they could fearlessly ferret (pun intended) out the baddies and... end of story. Ho Hum! So this AU is finito! But fear not dear readers, there are other stories to tell and my book is back on track.