"What did you do?" Shego growled, stomping over to the villain.
"Ah ah ah!" Gemini swiftly waved a finger from his flesh hand before resuming its place on the button, clearly having sensed weakness. "I can keep doing this all day!"
That made Shego pause and repeat, "What did you do?!"
He chuckled. "Why don't we watch the show and find out?"
Shego growled, but obediently turned to watch whatever was happening to her husband.
Alpha screamed again. The bony-looking mounds seemingly exploded, bursting out into vicious spikes. Correction...
Thorns. They looked like large, bony thorns.
"Fascinating…" Gemini muttered. "This mutagen seems to be reacting to his other mutation…" He gave a low chuckle. "I suppose this is what happens when you mix mutagens from different mad scientists…"
A strange tinkling noise caught Shego's attention. Looking back over at her husband, she realized that his teeth were falling out. One by one, most of them fell to the ground. In their place, long and thin needle-like teeth erupted from his gums. All but his front teeth apparently suffered that fate, the front few staying in place, if a bit crooked.
From his forehead, around his hairline as if it were a barrier, erupted several varying-length bony thorns, twisting around each other to form almost horn-like protrusions. It was obvious they hurt coming out; blood was dripping down his face in small rivulets.
His chest enlarged, his ribcage puffing out considerably. His clothing strained to keep it in. Miraculously, even with the damage, it did.
Her husband rolled onto his knees and pounded the ground with a fist. Unlike most transformations Shego had seen, this one seemed to take the cake for pain. Was it because Gemini had mixed maddie formulas…?
Any which way, it didn't matter.
Shego hesitantly made her way over to her husband. She was still wary of him attacking her, but she wasn't sure if he was even cognizant enough to realize what was going on. He looked like he was in intense amounts of pain.
"Drew?"
"I…" he managed to say thickly, pain laced in his voice and drool and blood falling from his lips. "I…" His face shot up, eyes flashing. "...AM AGENT ALPHA!"
Shego jumped back as vines again began whipping about, trying to catch her. She managed to flip next to Kim, who was cradling her arm. Kim's dad took the opportunity to stand.
"Good!" Gemini laughed, then pointed with his good hand. "Kill them! Then, make me another new hand!"
"Yes, Lord Gemini!" Alpha moved towards the two women, murder in his eyes.
"What was in that collar?" Kim asked as she took a worried step back from her dad.
"It's loaded with more, different mind control serums than Drakken's - specifically keyed to me - and some of DNAmy's more... Experimental mutagens," Gemini explained with a careless shrug. Then, smiling, he said, "You're in for a world of hur-.."
Then, inexplicably, Ron wandered in. "Okay, KP, I'm here to pick you u-.." The other four stared at him as he looked around. "...I have no idea what is going on, but man, Drew, you look bad."
"...BUFFOON!" Alpha began charging him, vines flailing angrily.
"No, you idiot!" Gemini slapped his face with his organic hand. "I didn't mean him when I said kill them all!"
Her husband stopped. "But…" He looked torn. "You said kill them…"
"He's inconsequential," Gemini said with a wave.
Alpha paused, then slowly nodded.
"Aww man, really?" Ron crossed his arms. "Even after beating the Lorwardians I don't get any respect!"
"Ron!" Kim looked absolutely relieved. "Gemini's here! Drew's brainwashed! I'm hurt and She-.."
"What?!" The blond looked at Kim like it was the first time seeing her. Then, aghast, he yelled "KP!" and began running for them.
Agent Alpha sneered with a slight lisp, "What do you think you're do-.." before Ron casually shoved him aside. He seemed so taken aback by the action that all he did was stand there, staring at the back of the running sidekick.
"What's wrong?" Ron asked as he ran up to the two women.
"My arm's broken," Kim said, indicating her left arm. "Gemini-.."
"What are you doing?!" Gemini shouted at Alpha, cutting Kim's explanation off. "Get them!"
Kim's dad let out a strange noise, almost an animalistic snarl, before he again charged, this time at the three of them.
Ron said, giving the one-eyed villain a concentrated look as Rufus jumped out of his pocket and skittered towards the edge of the room, "That's Gemini, right?"
"RON!" Kim shoved him and dove for cover as her dad passed by like a freight train. Shego blasted him in the face before diving for cover herself. This was a life-saver as he lost control of his vines long enough for all three of them to dodge through the practical cloud of them.
Clearly surprised at how fast he managed to go, Alpha sputtered to a stop a couple of meters away from the group. He turned and growled again, eyeing Kim.
"We could really use your monkey mojo about now, Sidekick!" Shego shouted, shooting off a few blasts at her husband.
He barely flinched this time at the body shots, practically snorting with disdain at Shego's efforts. "Too little too late!" Alpha said, chuckling as the last of the labcoat he had been wearing burned away. Thankfully for Kim's sake, his pants were, for the most part, intact.
Now Shego could see what Drew was always embarrassed about with the vines coming out of him… It was like bulging veins, popping clean out of his arms and neck in branching clumps. A bit unsettling… But Shego was more distracted by how foreign the thorns looked. They were scattered about haphazardly on his body, wickedly barbed at the ends and the base. Thankfully, in her opinion, they seemed mostly settled on his back and thighs, including the spot where Shego had burned him earlier. She wondered… Did they hurt? How much pain was he in now, just existing?
She shook her head. Now was not the time to get distracted by stuff like that!
Ron stepped between her husband and Kim. "I'll take him." He looked over his shoulder at the redhead. "You guys got Gemini?"
Kim smirked. "Without his arm? Should be child's play!"
"Ha!" The villain laughed, latching his old arm onto the now-empty stump. "At least that oaf served as enough of a distraction for this!" Gemini aimed his fingers at Kim, smiling evilly.
"...okay, it'll be a little bit harder now," she admitted. "But we got him!"
"Good!" Ron's entire body was encompassed with a blue glow. He made a 'come hither' motion at Alpha.
The blue man sneered at Ron, stomping towards Kim. "As if I'd bother with you!"
Ron grabbed his arm. And Alpha stopped moving.
The sneer dropped from the larger man's face. "What the-.." was all he got out before Ron threw him halfway across the large room.
Gemini's jaw dropped. "Since when can he do that!?"
"Since the invasion," Kim answered with a shrug.
The one-eyed villain growled. "Be that as it may, you still can't beat us!" He dropped his flesh hand onto his mechanical arm and pressed a button. "Especially after I pump him full of so much mutagen he'll-.."
A hole opened up next to him.
"...what." Gemini looked between his older model hand and the scrapped remains of his newer one that he'd tossed to the side. He attempted to go for the hand, but found it was torn out of his reach by Rufus, who ran off with it. With a disappointed frown, he muttered, "...I did not think this through."
"No, you didn't," Shego replied as she loosed a ball of plasma at him.
Across the room, Ron was having a bit of a harder time than he'd expected.
Since the sitch with the Lorwardians, he'd been cruisin' pretty hard on his MMP. Kim didn't notice because she thought it was all glow. There was a subtle use to it that he'd been taking advantage of, lining things up better in key with KP. With it in full-on mode, Ron had felt unstoppable.
But now, he was finding that he was having too much trouble going easy on Drew. If he went all-out, he might kill him, and Ron didn't think he could handle that on his conscience.
At the same time, Drew seemed to have absolutely zero problem with trying to kill Ron. The blond wasn't sure if it was because Drew really did dislike him that much or what, but whatever it was he hoped that the raging madman would start calming down enough for Ron to not have to resort to worst-case scenario. Heck, Drew had even tried biting him! And those teeth looked like they'd do some serious damage!
Ron was dodging and dancing around the vines and Drew's attempt to grab him, stab him, anything he could manage as best he could while trying to shoot off a few punches of his own. So far, the glancing blows that Ron had managed didn't seem to do much. He'd had to pull a punch a couple of times to keep from hitting the ouchy-looking spiky things sticking out of Drew's skin, which saved the blue man from pretty solid hits.
Then, a slip-up.
Ron had been trying to avoid another attempted biting when he jumped up.
He'd forgotten about the horns.
The left one struck home, sticking into his left side like he was a particularly plump Naco getting poked through with a toothpick. Ron pulled himself off at lightning speed, adrenaline pumping, when a couple of vines took the opportunity to grab onto his wrist.
"Oh boy," Rufus said from the sidelines.
Drew began swinging Ron around even as the blond fought to get loose from the vines. "You!" Slam! "Stupid!" Slam! "Buffoon!" Slam!
Ron finally managed to break free of them and throw Drew away with those same vines, but the battering and horn-y attack he took hurt pretty bad. If there was one thing that his MMP was not designed for, it was defense.
"Look at you," Kim's dad sneered as he stood back up, staggering slightly. "Just a little bit of a beating and goring and you're already breathing hard."
"Look who's talking!" Ron said, trying to nonchalantly dust himself off as if the bleeding wound in his side totally didn't bother him. "You were having trouble standing just now!"
Drew frowned. "No I wasn't."
"Yes you were!" Ron pointed at the blue man. "You're totally lying!"
Drew rolled his eyes. "Oh please. Lord Gemini has no use for a pawn that can't take such easy hits!"
"'Lord Gemini'? Like, when did he get a title?" Ron asked, confused.
"He just-.. You just-.. Grrr…" Drew's face turned a deep, barely-perceptible purple. "Once again, you prove your incompetence!"
"Uhm, yeah…" the blond trailed off, thinking. "That's a school word…"
"You are an idiot!" the blue man shouted as he began charging again, this time with a touch of incredulity in his face.
Ron dropped down into a defensive stance, risking for a moment to take a look at Kim, Shego, and Gemini…
Gemini swallowed as he shot missiles every which way he could manage. This was not going according to plan.
The original plan had been simple enough. Brainwash Drakken into killing his family, then gloat as he regained his senses and realized what he'd done. But now it had been complicated by the two women refusing to die!
How dare they interfere with his scheme! They deserved their comeuppance! Pepe demanded it!
Maybe he'd overestimated the mad scientist's mind control formula. Whatever it was, Gemini was certain that if it had been anyone else, they would've been dead by now! Drakken must have been taking it easy on them; being cowed by the threat of more torture along with traces of mind control were clearly not enough even for someone as weak-willed as Drakken. The blue man had clung too hard onto the hope that his family would've joined WEE of their own free will.
It looked like if he wanted a true Agent Alpha he'd have to continually use the mind control serum to its full effect on him. But, considering Drakken's performance otherwise, Gemini felt it wasn't too bad of a thing to be stuck doing, especially if additional mutagens made him even more powerful than he was now. It was truly interesting, seeing the interaction of the chemicals in his body. He was excited at the opportunity to create his own personal super soldier...
Right now, though, the one-eyed villain was in trouble. Shego and Kim Possible were outmaneuvering him. The second he went after one, the other would start to close in. They were on opposite sides of him, flanking, and he was certain he would be stuck in hand-to-hand combat with both of them shortly.
Even with a broken arm the redheaded girl seemed entirely capable of handling herself. Impressive, if annoying.
Gemini finally decided to give in to the fact that it was about to be reduced to melee combat. He lit his mechanical hand up with electricity and backed up to try and force them to come at him from the same direction.
They were having none of it, to his frustration. They kept the flank up, following him until he hit the wall.
He cursed at himself. How did he not notice how close they were getting to the edge of the room?
"Ready to give up?" Kim Possible asked, calmly waiting. Gemini knew better than to assume that she was anything but ready for a fight.
Gemini's eye narrowed. "You don't have me beat yet!" he snarled, even as he took a quick look at Drakken and realized he was in an apparent and surprising stalemate with the blond boy. That meant that he was stuck taking them both on alone… Even then, he wasn't about to give up! "Bring it!"
The two women closed in on him from opposite sides.
The one-eyed villain decided to take down the weakest link first. He swung at the redhead with his mechanical arm, electricity arcing off of it and towards her.
She dodged under it. To his consternation, Shego took his back, blasting him hard with some of her powers. The scent of singed flesh was worse than the pain, but it was still annoying.
He swung his flesh fist at her, hoping to clothesline her and at least knock her back.
Again, it failed. She not only leapt over it, she got in a windmill kick on top of it!
He wiped his chin, which was now bleeding. Apparently it was far different going melee combat with two women who knew how to fight instead long distance with one of them and an inexperienced man with superpowers.
He growled, then aimed a missile straight in Kim's face. Playing fair was for chumps.
"Good luck dodging this!" Gemini fired it off.
It barely made it off of his hand before it was quickly shot down by a blast of plasma.
Shego almost nonchalantly wrapped an arm around Gemini's neck.
"Yeah, time to go nighty-night," Shego said, a finger on her other hand encompassing with a shot of plasma.
"AGENT ALPHA!" Gemini shouted as the green woman pressed her finger to his forehead, hoping his underling would make it to him before-..
Everything went dark.
The shout from Gemini did not go unnoticed.
Both Ron and Drew turned in time to watch Gemini slump to the ground between KP and Shego.
"LORD GEMINI!" the spiky man shrieked before he abandoned combat with Ron and ran at the two women with a snarl on his face, apparently intent on rescuing the one-eyed villain.
It was the opening that Ron had been hoping for.
Ron flipped onto Drew's back, using some of the spines to balance on as he grabbed a handful of vines and wrapped them around the blue man's neck.
"Ack!" Drew gasped out before the blood was cut off from his brain. He flailed, attempting to reach behind him and pull Ron off with both his hands and vines.
The blond leaned backwards, putting more pressure on the other man's neck as he pulled harder with the leverage. This time he put his all into keeping the same pose, resisting the vines' attempts at pulling him off.
Eventually, Drew's flailing slowed, then stopped as he wavered drunkenly before he passed out, falling to the floor with a resounding 'thud'.
"A-booyah!" Ron crowed, letting go of the now-limp vines. "Got it done!"
"Good job Ron!" Kim cheered.
"Not too bad," Shego said, swiftly walking over to check on her husband. She bent down and put her hand to his mouth. "...yup, still breathing."
"Okay…" Ron turned to KP. "So, what's going on?"
A/N: Hope that I managed to do action right... Thanks for the encouragement, MrDrP and Mengsk! I really appreciate the input. I like slice of life stuff, so I wanted there to be more of it for this, to really show how their lives have changed, see things from a family angle, and give Gemini time to get his ducks in a row. I do get what Mengsk means by there not really being a 'story', though. Hopefully I'll be able to pull it together better in the upcoming stuff. Though, again, I like slice of life... :/