What the Other Doesn't Know

Prompt: Same as last chapter

A Fishy Situation

"What do you mean you have no idea how this works?" Ron whined in exasperation. "You're his sidekick." He jerked back as Shego angrily got up and in his face.

"First off, I am NOT his SIDEKICK! And secondly, does it look like I care about his stupid inventions?" Shego raised two fingers up as she made her points.

"Uh...no?" Ron said hesitantly when he saw Shego was waiting for his response with arched brow.

"Exactly," Shego backed away from Ron and crossed her arms over her chest as she went to go lean against the giant man sized fish tank. Inside it Drakken was swimming about, his eyes wide and mouth making letter o shapes. "So I have no idea how to turn him back, or Kim."

Right now, said teenage hero was back to chasing Rufus around the lab in order to keep her distracted and from bothering Ron and Shego as they tried to amend the situation.

"Maybe, Drakken has some evil blueprints or something that we could use to figure out how to use this modulator," Ron shook the device in his hand and Shego, feeling unsafe with him holding it, swiped it out from his hands.

"Don't wave this thing around, it's dangerous and even more so in your bumbling oaf hands. I'll hold onto it for now."

"And why is it safer in your hands? You could use it to turn me into an animal and then Drakken's plan would be complete!" Ron accused.

Shego rolled her eyes. "As if I want to turn the lab into any more of zoo than it already is. Besides, I'm actually trying to help you."

"Well you haven't been very helpful, all you've done is say you don't know what to do and that's it." Ron crossed his arms over his chest.

Shego's lips thinned. "Maybe I should turn you into an animal."

"Uh no! Don't do that!" Ron waved his hands.

"Then start being useful. I know how hard that can be for you, but do try just this once. I can't have my boss remain as a guppy. And you can't have Kim remain as a puppy," No matter how cute she is, Shego thought internally.

"Sheesh, no need to be so mean. I do have feelings, you know," Ron said slightly downcast.

"Your feelings are not important right now. What is, is figuring out how to work this blasted device!" Shego almost growled out. How did Kim put up with him? Was he always this annoying?

"Fine," Ron conceded. "Like I was saying before, we need blueprints-"

"I'm not going to just hand over Drakken's blueprints to you. Their top secret."

"Then do you want him to remain a fish for the rest of his life?" Ron was beginning to lose his cool. How could Kim deal with this woman each and every time they fought? She was so stubborn! "Do you want to have to clean his fish tank, feed him fish food and carry him around in a giant fishbowl from base to base?"

"No, I don't! But I can't just give you the plans! Why can't you just call nerdlinger or something? I'm sure he could figure it out!"

"And why can't you give me the plans-oh hey, actually that's a good idea," Ron stopped himself as what Shego had said sunk in properly. He pulled out the kimmunicator and called Wade.

"Hey, what's up?" Wade asked, the glow of his many computer screens lighting up his face.

"So, Kim kind of got turned into a puppy. Not a literal puppy," Ron amended quickly when he saw Wade's facial expression. "Just a human with the mindset of one and I was wondering if you could have a look at this device and tell us how to operate it so we can reverse the effects."

"Us?"

"Yea, Drakken got turned too." Ron angled the camera so the fish tank and Shego's unamused face were visible.

"Alright, hold out the device so the kimmunicator can scan it." Ron held the front of the kimmunicator so that it was facing Shego.

Shego did as asked and a red beam came from the front scanning the item.

"What's the verdict Wade?" Ron asked, turning the device to his face once more.

"I think..." Wade rubbed his chin thoughtfully. "I need to see the blueprints."

"Ha! See I told you!" Ron cried out triumphantly while Shego slapped her face and let out a low groan. "Now make with the plans." Ron held out his hand eagerly waiting for the plans.

"Fine. Just wait here," Shego stomped away and returned two minutes later with the blueprints.

She held them up in front of the kimmunicator so that Wade could scan them.

"And?" Ron asked.

"I can't read it. It's all chicken scratch," was his answer.

"See, his blueprints are useless," Shego stuck out her tongue at Ron.

"This isn't something you should be gloating about," Ron pointed out. "Because now it means we have no way of reversing this."

"Ah, right," Shego said glumly as she realized this, rolling up the blueprint once more and then tossing it over her shoulder. "So now what? Got anything in that good guy arsenal of tools?"

"If I did I would have used it by now."

Shego arched a brow at this.

"Oh, okay, so maybe I would have forgotten to check, but I did check. This time. Specifically this time. Since Kim's not here."

"Don't be too down. There's no need to do anything about this situation," Wade cut in, casually taking a sip from his drink.

"And why not?" Ron asked.

"Because what I could make out from both scans was that the transitive species modulator's effects are ethereal."

"Meaning?" Shego arched a brow.

"It should be wearing off...any second now." Just as Wade finished that sentence Rufus called for Ron's attention. "Ron! Ron!" He hopped over to his friend and jumped onto his shoulder, tugging his head in the direction of Kim who was sitting on the floor, rubbing the top of her head in confusion.

"W-what just happened?"

Shego's lips split into a smile. "You went barking mad!" Then with a laugh at her own dog pun, she backflipped so that she was standing on the lip of the fish tank and reaching in, she grabbed Drakken by the back of his neck, half pulling him out of the water.

"Shego?!" He half coughed half sputtered. "What happened? Why do I feel the need to eat fish food? And why am I in water?"

"I'll tell ya later, Dr. D. Now we gotta get out of here." Then turning to Team Possible, Ron tending to Kim and helping her to her feet, she saluted them. "Gotta go kiddies. Got bigger fish to fry." Two animal puns in a row. I am killing it. And then she tossed a soggy Drakken over her shoulder and was gone.

"Should we go after them? They got away with the modulator," Ron asked Kim who was staring at Shego's retreating back until it was gone. "No," the girl shook her head. "We'll get them later. Right now I have the strange urge to chase a ball."

"Right. We should probably get that checked out."

To be continued