To LunarLitey: Truthfully, it's just easier to manage if I update chapter at a time. Plus, it adds to some sense of suspeeeeennnnssseeee.
When Ron had explained that Rufus thought someone was up on the roof, she checked and found nobody. Ron was smug about this and reassured Rufus that, as he said before, there was nothing, and they carried on with studying and working on projects. But she still felt suspicious.
At the same time she checked on the roof yesterday, she quietly climbed up and found Shego. Shego, sitting on her roof. Kim held her breath. She could only see Shego's back and didn't want to meet her face to face (yet), but she seemed relaxed and calm.
After an eternity that only lasted a minute or so passed, Shego turned around. "Oh."
"What are you doing here, Shego?" Kim asked, getting into a fighting stance.
"Relax, cupcake," Shego sighed, crossing her arms in front of her chest. She didn't seem like a threat, but years of conflict gave Kim the idea she should be prepared for anything. She didn't move from her stance as Shego continued, "I'm not here to fight you."
"Then why are you here?"
Shego opened her mouth to reply, then closed it. "That's a good question." Then she ran, and Kim was too confused to chase her.
She didn't tell Ron. Or Wade. But she could always rely on Monique.
"It can't be that unusual," Monique replied after Kim explained the situation. "You don't exactly have a secret identity, so any villain could find out where you live."
"But why would they just sit there? On my roof? She didn't even fight and there's nothing missing from my house."
"Maybe she has a crush on you?" They both laughed, then Monique said, "But in all seriousness, I think you should be careful from now on. There's a thousand reasons someone would stalk you, and all of them are bad news."
For the next few days, Kim checked the roof at random times. Shego didn't come back.
The next time Kim saw Shego, Drakken had tried holding twenty congressmen and women hostage in exchange for a generous amount of ransom money. Kim and Ron were called to the scene. Wade had arranged a ride in a private jet, which they parachuted off of so they could land on the roof. Police officers and SWAT members had the building surrounded. Ron let Rufus open the vent. "Okay, I'll go in first, and you come in after me," Kim said. "We have to be quiet, and try to get the hostages out first before anything. They're all being held in the back room, so just follow me through the ducts."
"Got it, KP," Ron replied. They got into the vent and Kim followed the path Wade had set up for them. Through the vents they passed, Kim gathered there were six henchmen along with Drakken and Shego. When they were almost to the back room, the duct broke and Ron fell through.
With a yelp, he landed on the ground in front of a henchman. "They're here!" he shouted, and took aim at Ron. Kim jumped down and kicked the gun out of his hands before knocking him out.
"Thanks," Ron said, standing up and wiping himself off.
"No problem," Kim replied. The other henchmen came in.
"I'll go look for Drakken," Ron whimpered, and he made a break for the back room.
"Be careful," Kim called after him. She knocked over one of the file cabinets and ducked behind it as they opened fire. She tried to calm down, think of how to get out of this. She glanced up at the air duct and grinned. Aiming her grappling hook as best she could given the circumstances, and pulled the trigger. The hook soared into the hole left by Ron and attached onto the duct. Kim pulled down as hard as she could, and the loosened duct fell on top of the henchmen. Three of them were knocked out. The other two had dropped their guns and were trying to lift the duct up. Kim took care of them.
Ron was already tied up when Kim went into the back room. "Uh, hey!" he said, chuckling nervously.
"Ron," Kim sighed. Shego was leaning against the wall behind Ron. Instead of glaring at Kim like she usually would, she was doing her best to ignore Kim. The hostages were tied up and gagged. Drakken was pacing in front of them.
"Kim Possible! We meet again!" Drakken exclaimed.
"Hostage situations aren't the usual gig," Kim observed. "What's the deal?"
"Renting out lairs takes a lot of money, sweetheart, especially when you keep destroying ours," Shego replied.
"We've already defeated the buffoon!"
"Hey!"
"Imagine the ransom money we could make off of Kim Possible herself! Shego, get her!" Drakken took a remote out of his pocket. With a click of the button, the ceiling was torn off by one of his devices. It looked like a helicopter with a claw machine arm on the bottom. With his remote, he brought it down and climbed on top, and it retracted, taking him up to the helicopter.
Shego brought herself in front of Kim. She took her stance and Kim took her own. As her hands lit up, she said, "I almost missed fighting you, Kimmie."
Kim scowled and took the first punch, which Shego dodged. "You had plenty of time."
Shego kicked at Kim's head, and she ducked. Then she fired plasma bolts, so Kim jumped and rolled to the side. "I haven't got the faintest idea of what you mean."
Kim jumped at her and brought her down to the floor. She pinned her arms and legs and growled, "Why were you stalking me?"
Beside them, Drakken was loading the hostages into his helicopter. "Uh, KP, bad guy getting away!" Ron said, struggling under the ropes."
"I'm a bit busy!" Kim replied. Shego's arms erupted in plasma and Kim jumped back.
Shego grabbed Kim's shoulders and whispered, "I wasn't stalking you," before throwing her across the room. Kim glanced at Ron, who was almost out of the ropes with the help of Rufus.
She stood up and had to run across the room to stay ahead of shots of plasma. She hopped off the wall and kicked Shego in the stomach. "Why were you at my house?"
Ron, who was out of the ropes and waiting for the claw to come down, looked at them and asked, "Shego was at your house?" Rufus looked smug in his pocket.
"Stay out of this, idiot!"
"Ron, pay attention!" The claw had picked up another hostage and was rising into the air. Ron had to jump up and grab hold.
Kim swung at her, Shego jumped over and landed behind Kim. She started swiping at Kim with plasma, and Kim took the defensive, dodging each time. Then she fell to the floor and kicked up, hitting Shego square in the jaw. "Fuck!"
"What were you doing?" Kim asked.
"I wasn't doing anything!" Shego replied. When Kim glared at her, she said, "Seriously, princess! I was just… Waiting."
"For what?"
Before Shego could respond, the hostages taken up to the helicopter slid down the claw, and Ron followed after. "We gotta go!" he exclaimed. When Drakken followed, the helicopter exploded. Shego ran with Drakken, and Kim and Ron managed to herd the remaining hostages into a stable part of the building.
