King in Yellow: To avoid having to actually know geography I just pick and choose names from one place and shove it in another. Behold my bastard city.

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She sighed with relief when she heard Shego's voice. They were back to back. "What happened to you?" she asked.

Kim recounted her story. She and the soldiers had split up into groups to disarm the bombs. To her knowledge, they were all taken care of. As she was taking care of one of the last bombs, a swarm of henchmen attacked her. As she was fending them off, someone shot her in the neck and she was knocked out.

"I found Jonas. He got away and a few henchmen attacked me, too. Then I was knocked out." Shego groaned and struggled behind her. "Where are we?"

"Somewhere owned by Jonas, I'd guess," Kim replied. She pulled her hands as far from each other as they'd go. Her gloves had been taken. "I think they took my gadgets."

"Which I always tell Drakken to do, but no, that's not fair," Shego scowled. "Sorry. What do we do now?"

"Try burning the ropes off."

"I don't want to hurt you."

"Now's not the time to be considerate," Kim said. She felt heat on her wrists and she bit her lip to prevent from an outburst. Just as it was almost unbearable, it stopped, and she snapped the rope. Shego burned her ropes off and Kim untied her own. As they got up, Shego grabbed her arms. "What?"

"I'm sorry if it hurt," Shego said, examining the reddish wrists. "Are you alright?"

"I'll be fine. What about you?" Kim looked at her face, bruised and scratched. She reached out and, as she hesitated, Shego pushed her face into Kim's open hand. Kim blushed and said, "You still look like a badass."

Shego grinned at her and Kim's heart sped up. This was adrenaline, probably. The after affect of fighting. Certainly, she wanted to hurt whoever did this to Shego. "I'm fine."

Kim looked around the room. It was barely lit and extremely cramped. The only door was locked. Kim kicked under the lock and the door swung open. "No guard," Kim said, peering down a narrow hallway.

"That's just suspicious," Shego replied. Her arms were covered in green flames that cast a better light on the room. Vents made up the ceiling. The hallway was the same. "I'm getting a bad feeling about this."

"C'mon," Kim said. "Let's not stick around to see what those are for." She had more than a few guesses.

At the end of the hallway was another door, also locked. Kim tried kicking this one down too, but it was reinforced and much stronger. Shego tried her hand at it, and managed to dent the door. "I can burn it down," she said.

Her hands were pressed against the metal door, plasma and flames erupting off of her, when a speaker turned on and the voice of Jonas said, "You're up sooner than we expected."

"We?" Kim whispered.

"Probably hired doctors to put us under," Shego replied, sweat dripping off her face.

"I gave you your warning, Ms. Possible." The vents whirred to life and clouds of gas seeped out. "But you still got in my way. You have around five minutes. Good luck."

"Shego, stop!" Kim shouted. "This stuff might be flammable."

Shego kicked the weakened and melting door instead. It dented again, more than last time, but it still remained shut. "Fuck."

"Calm down." Kim grabbed her hands. "We can get out of this. Search the walls for anything." They separated and ran their hands on the walls. Nothing.

"What now, Kimmie?"

She looked around. There was still nothing. "I don't know."

"Fuck." Shego kicked the door again. It dented a little. She kicked again, and a small hole appeared in the door. She tried again and Kim followed suit, but she felt faint. Shego coughed. "Five minutes already?"

Shego grabbed Kim's hand. "Maybe it's a bluff," Kim said. Her lungs felt hot and weak.

"Thank you," Shego said. "For being my friend."

"Thank you for becoming mine," Kim replied, feeling a little sad and a little worried, but mostly tired.

"I don't know why I started to care so much about you," Shego admitted. She coughed again. "You're cute, in an annoying way."

"I slept better whenever you were watching over me," Kim said. She felt hazy and weak. The world around her twisted and fell.

"We're going to be okay," she heard Shego say, and then everything went black.

Then, beyond her vision, there was something bright.