"Dad!" Kim walked into the Caribbean lair's large room that led in from the outside door, Shego tagging close behind. After they'd finished their spa treatment, Shego had insisted on shopping. While Kim wasn't against getting nice stuff, it seemed like a bit of a mean move to leave Drew all alone for even longer than the extra day they'd ended up spending at the resort. Still, Kim gave in and they spent part of the day shopping at the biggest mall in the world before heading back. It wouldn't've hurt much; Ron was supposed to pick her up soonish as she had, again, lent him her car, so even if they were late at least Ron and Drew could have hung out. "We're here!"
The lack of response didn't worry her. When they'd left, he'd been in the middle of one of his invention spurts. He was probably in his lab working on even more inventions to patent or just entertain himself with.
"We brought you stuff!" Shego called out louder.
"How touching," a voice that was definitely not Drew's uttered from the couch.
"Who…?" Shego and Kim both dropped their bags by the door and walked over to the couch. There, to their shock, Gemini sat, drinking from a short brandy glass.
"Hello," he said with a smirk, tossing the drink to the side. It hit the ground and broke audibly. "Welcome home…"
"Where's Doctor D?" Shego instantly demanded, taking a few steps towards the madman.
"Hm?" Gemini made like he was thinking. "Oh. Are you talking about that nutball that had the audacity to wrap me up in vines?"
"You know damn well who I'm talking about!" the green woman growled.
"He was kind enough to make me a newer, nicer hand. He even managed to upgrade it some," Gemini said, chuckling, purposely dodging the question as he flaunted his mechanical hand. Kim realized that yeah, it did look a lot shinier and newer than the last time she'd seen him, with strange ports on the top of it. From a loop on Gemini's belt his older hand hung, still nicer than the last time Kim had seen it.
"Where is he?!" Shego lit her hands up.
"Ah ah ah!" He settled a finger over a button on his mechanical hand. "While you don't know what this does, I can assure you that it will be very… Unpleasant for him.
"You see, I worked very, very hard on my revenge…" Gemini got up from the couch and circled around the women to the other side of the room.
"I thought, what could be worse than what I'd done to him, and you? How could I make it worse than plain old torture? Then, it came to me as I was looking through all of the mad science gadgets I found in Global Justice's evidence locker!" Gemini chuckled. "Some of them he even recognized. It was still… Interesting… Seeing how well likely expired mutagens worked. Of course, I didn't realize his mutations were simply suppressed, so imagine my surprise and joy when he mutated even more!" He gave a genuine laugh of pleasure. "Those so-called scientists of mine thought they'd gotten everything out of him that they could… Clearly they weren't as visionary as I am!"
"You monster…" Kim muttered, mouth gaping in horror.
"Please, Kim Possible," Gemini said, waving a hand in the air as if clearing it. "You haven't even heard what I did!
"It was, at its basic form, a delightful combination of the mutagens I found, some brainwashing tools, one of which was his own formula, and good old torture…" The one-eyed villain looked thoughtfully at the two. "Tell me, do you happen to know what flaying is? I didn't when Drakken and I had our initial sessions all those years ago… It's how I learned about his incredible healing ability!
"But enough about that…" Gemini smirked. "How about I tell you about the end goal I had in mind for him?"
Shego sensed movement behind her.
Swiftly, she dodged to the right, sweeping Kim into her arms along the way. It was a good thing she had; long, sinewy vines crashed down where they had been standing, leaving the ground and couch broken in their wake.
"You idiot!" Gemini growled. "I had them perfectly distracted and you wasted it!"
"I'm the idiot?" Drew's voice grumbled in return. "Who couldn't hold their attention long enough for me to hit them!?"
"Is that any way to talk to me!?"
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry, Lord Gemini!" She could hear scrabbling on the floor. "It won't happen again!"
Shego's heart dropped into her chest.
"It'd better not…"
Kim had a clear view behind her. Her jaw dropped and tears were forming in her eyes.
Shego was afraid to look. But… She had to. What else could she do?
She swiftly flipped around, staying in front of Kim in a guarding pose.
Drew was kneeling on the ground in Gemini's direction. Nearly to the second that Shego had turned around he got up and looked at the two women.
He looked like a hot mess.
His hair was stringy and dirty, crusted with blood and who-knew-what, hanging in wild clumps. His clothing, his normal lab coat and pants, were, strangely, impeccable. The only additional clothing was some kind of strange metallic collar around his neck. His face was marred by a few fresh-looking scars, none of which were quite as vicious as the large gouge under his eye, but still noticeable.
His eyes… They were so bloodshot that it looked like he'd stained the whites of his eyes red. Somehow, his skin was now a midnight blue, even darker than his coat, which was bumping up in random areas around his shoulders and back from something under it, Shego couldn't tell what.
Last, but certainly not least, was the smile he wore. A rictus all-teeth smile, so wide that it must have hurt. With sharp-looking teeth, so much different than his regular all-flat underbite.
"Hello, my dears!" he said cheerfully.
"Drew…" Shego said, covering her mouth.
"He is no longer Drew, Drakken, or whatever else you call him," Gemini announced proudly, "He's my new Agent Alpha!"
The newly-declared Agent Alpha let out a crazed giggle, teeth flashing.
"Now then…" Gemini pointed at Shego and Kim. "It's time to dispose of those two!"
Barely a second passed before there was movement.
Shego and Kim split, each going in opposite directions.
She was glad Kim had the same idea she had: divide and conquer.
To Shego's dismay, it was her husband that chased after her. Gemini turned and went after Kim, rockets and lasers firing from his apparently upgraded hand. The green woman cursed as Kim ducked into the kitchen, where Shego was unable to see, but she quickly realized that she had her own problem to deal with.
The apparent Agent Alpha practically zoomed in on her, running as fast as he would normally away from something, vines zipping out of his sleeves and collar. There was an intense look of concentration on his face, like she was the only thing that mattered. Normally it would touch her, but the insane glint in his bloodshot eyes and the wild laughter erupting from his mouth made her feel otherwise.
"Shego…!" he shouted, attempting to surround her with his vines. She easily blasted them all away even as he closed the distance and began to foolishly try to take her on in one-on-one combat.
Idiot. Didn't he remember that she was the one that had taught him?
It was easy to defend against him, and even give a few good blows. Ducking around a haymaker, Shego delivered a chop to his neck that would down most people.
Unsurprisingly, all it seemed to do was make him angry.
"You're stupid if you think you can take on Lord Gemini!" her husband yelled, trying to get her with an uppercut. "He changed me, he'll change you too!"
"And we can change you back!" Shego claimed, personally unsure of it this time. She let loose a one-two shot of plasma and drove him back a few steps.
"Lord Gemini said to dispose of you, but I think he's willing to do something else! I think we could all serve him! Together!" her husband announced grandly, holding his hand out magnanimously. "We can be a family, crushing his foes and-.."
"Yeah, not gonna happen." She concentrated a blast and shot him clean in the chest. He went flying across the room, skittering along the ground before almost cartoonishly smashing against the wall. She patted herself on the back for that one as he crumpled to the floor. That should've knocked him clean out. Easy enough.
She skipped over to his prone form, vines loosely scattered on the ground, expecting to have to give one last little knock-out nudge of plasma to him. Normally that's all it would take to really make Drakken pay for bugging her. All that was left after this was cornering Gemini with Kim and making him pay for what he did to her husband.
As she bent down to administer the final touch to his exposed forehead, a vine twitched.
She'd forgotten one key detail, she realized as he looked up at her with victory in his face: this wasn't Drakken.
Suddenly, every loose vine around her burst to life, grabbing and twisting around her. She blasted most of them away with her plasma, but the few that got her made it harder and harder to fight. Shego quickly found herself physically tied up in a multitude of vines.
Agent Alpha got up from the floor and dusted himself off. "Well then…" He smirked at her. "That was easy enough!"
"What're you gonna do?" she challenged, trying to light up her plasma to sheer through the vines holding her arms. He frowned at that, having clearly caught on, and used his vines to force her hands against her leg, palms facing partly towards her leg. She realized it was the same thing they'd done when they'd cornered Gemini all those weeks ago. If she used her powers, she'd take a chunk out of her leg as well.
"I'm not going to kill you, if that's what you're worried about," he said, walking over to her. "I'm serious about us serving Lord Gemini as a family. Why not? He'll rule the world soon, and wouldn't it be better to serve under him than be crushed by him?"
"Did you lose a few brain cells with whatever he did to you?" Shego asked, trying to squirm away from him and buy precious time for Kim to come and help beat him after she finished with Gemini. "His base is gone. His army is gone. He has nothing."
"He'll have us," he insisted, flipping Shego around so her back was to him. Vines began wrapping themselves around her neck, as did his hands.
"We can be together," the agent murmured, wrapping his hands and vines more tightly around her neck. "All I need you to do…" he kissed what little space was available "...is go to sleep…"
Sleep. That didn't sound like that bad of a plan. Everything was gray, and her body was feeling heavy...
"You, me, and our Kimberly..."
Yeah… What was wrong with being… With… Family…?
A/N: As with the previous story, if you stick with it after this you're a saint. I will say, if you paid attention in previous chapters your attention to details will probably help some with explaining what's going on in this and the next few chapters.