What the Other Doesn't Know
A Sticky Situation
"Oh, so now this is my fault?!"
"If you hadn't struck the gum machine, then all the gum resin wouldn't have covered us, causing us to bond together!" Kim shot back, losing her patience. Today had been a bad day. First there had been that pop quiz on the one chapter she hadn't read from her textbook. Then she had fallen asleep in her other class because she was tired and gotten a scolding from the teacher. Then she lost her pencil case, all before getting into an argument with Monique over something trivial. To top her bad day off, she'd missed the bus to go home, and had to walk back-in the rain! Because it had suddenly decided to rain.
And now she was stuck-literally- with Shego.
Drakken had had the ingenuous idea to attack a gum making factory so that he could steal all the gum and figure out how to make his own so he could enhance it with some nanites and use it to mind control people when they chewed it. Or something along those lines. Really, he seemed to be making this crap up on the go.
Shego and Kim had been duking it out, trying to gain an edge over the other while Ron tried to take out Drakken. The two girls fight had taken them all over the warehouse. Just when Shego had thought she had had Kim cornered, the teen's back to a huge vat, the glowing fist she threw at her failed to meet it's target, the girl ducking at the last moment. Shego's hand had sunk through the outer casing of the vat, getting quite stuck. And when she increased her powers to pull it out, it only caused a bigger hole in the vat. Kim had then taken Shego's moment of distraction to kick the villain in the abdomen. This finally caused Shego to pull free, letting lose the flow of pink sticky stuff, which rapidly covered the two of them before they could so much as make a run for it.
It was everywhere, covering their hair, their clothes, and seeping onto their skin, leaving only their eyes and mouths open. "This...sucks!" Shego growled out as she tried to get up, but the material was too sticky and she barely moved at all. "Why am I stuck with you?!"
Kim was trying to do the same. With the same weak results. "Because you punched the vat and let this all out!"
"So, it all just cycles back to being my fault, does it?!" Shego snarled out.
"Yes. Now be quiet, I'm trying to get free! Walk in the opposite direction." Grumbling under her breath, Shego followed the instructions. "Keep going!" Kim grunted out as she strained as far as she could go, the tendrils of gum stretching thin. First one foot, then the other. Shego mimicked her moves. "I'm going alright!" She shouted back, her eyes closing in concentration. She was almost free! But there was a huge pressure on her arms and legs as she pulled away; too much pressure. The tension of the gum caused her to snap back as she lost her footing. Kim was jerked backwards as well and the two of them collided hard, back against back as they ended up back where they started.
"Well, this is great," Shego muttered under her breath.
"Use your plasma powers or something like that!" Kim suggested. "They should be able to free us."
"Fine." Shego heated up her hands, the gum around them bubbling. But that's all it did. In fact, it got even stickier and even more of it formed. "Yea, not working," she commented, the disappointment in her voice clear.
"Great. Just great," Kim muttered out. "Just when I thought my day couldn't get worse."
How were they going to get out of this one? Kim couldn't even reach for her kimmunicator. And Ron was off busy destroying Drakken's gum sucking device.
"Hey, you don't see me jumping for joy either," Shego said. Damn, this was gonna suck. She wished she could file her nails or something while she waited, but...her hands were stuck. "I guess we'll just have to wait for them to come get us."
"I guess so," Kim sighed sadly. Silence fell on them as they waited.
A Solution
"With this specially designed solution, the little bacteria in it will produce an acid that will eat through the bubble gum and leave you both free once more," Wade said through the kimmunicator, the one Ron was holding up to Kim's face. In his other hand was an empty eye-drop. One he had just used to put drops of the solution on the sticky gum mess that the two were in.
"That's great Wade. Thanks," Kim blinked gratefully at her friend.
"I could have done the same thing!" Drakken grumbled out petulantly from where he was sitting in the corner of his evil lair. Since the two girls were stuck together, the two boys had to call a momentary truce. After all, Drakken had said it wasn't a real fight if Kim was immobilized. And the quartet had gone back to one of Drakken's old lairs, completely trap free as he liked to reassure them, while the solution began it's work.
"How long will this take?" Shego asked, ignoring Drakken's sulking like she always did.
"About three to five hours."
"Three to five?!" Shego, Ron, Rufus and Kim all exclaimed at the same time.
Wade winced at the combined cries. "Sorry, but gum is a viscous fluid. It'll take a lot of time to be completely rid of. If I wanted it to be quicker I would have used different bacteria. But that bacteria would have eaten through your clothes and flesh. It was too dangerous. The bacteria now, are harmless to you both and will get the job done."
"I can't be stuck with her!" Kim and Shego both chorused in frustration.
Wade again winced at the volume of their protests. "Sorry, girls. But this is the best I can do." Then the screen blinked off.
"Well, huh, what do we do now?" Ron scratched his head.
"See, I told you I should have been the one to make the solution!" Drakken piped out, raising his hands above his head as he began to rant maniacally. "It would have worked way faster than nerdlinger's stupid solution. It could have had you freed in less than an hour. And then I could have modified it to even eat through steel, or cement, or-" at this he broke off into an evil laugh and ran off to his lab to immediately come up with this new invention. And this was why neither of the girl's wanted Drakken to make the solution-he'd probably turn it deadly.
"Should I stop him-?" Ron asked Kim who shook her head. "We'll just bust whatever he makes by the time I get free."
"If someone's going to be doing the busting, it's me," Shego retorted. "Don't think our fight is over any time Kimmie."
"Wouldn't dream of it. As soon as I'm free you're so going down," Kim vowed with equal ardor.
"I think I'm gonna go keep an eye on Dr. D," Ron said as a loud crash came from the room the mad genius was in. "You two, uh, stay here and don't fight. What am I saying, they can't even go anywhere." Ron mumbled to himself and ran off, Rufus riding with him.
Great, spending time stuck with one's mortal enemy, Kim thought with a shake of her head. What could possibly happen now?
