I do not own any Disney characters named herein and am only borrowing them to tell a nonprofit tale meant for entertainment purposes only.
Kim Possible: Gifted
By LJ58
18
"Think they know we're here yet," Kim asked as she and Shego walked toward that huge, metal panel she had left torn and melted when she had left months ago.
"They know," Shego nodded, eyeing the big panel as they approached it.
Even as they neared that door, the huge metal door clattered and began to pull back to the left.
"Yeah, they know," Kim said, her expression darkening.
"Remember, let them lead us to the boys, and then we cut loose, and get everyone out," Shego murmured.
"I know. Don't worry, we'll get them out," Kim assured her. "And whoever is in there, we'll make sure they understand why this was a bad idea," she said as she stepped forward only after visibly steeling herself for the action.
Shego understood.
Kim had been a prisoner of this place and its accompanying loons for virtually her entire life. She had seen captives before that didn't do well when faced with their captors. Some, she knew, tended to collapse. Some, however, snapped.
Either way, Kim was facing her own demons here, and from the look in her eyes just then, Shego had the feeling those demons were about to wish they had stayed hidden.
Following the redhead into the dimly lit corridor still marked by gouges and scorch marks, she frowned as Kim paused to eye some of those marks, and look all the more somber. The redhead pointedly pulled off her jacket, dropping it behind her as she pulled her sleeves up to bare her forearms.
"All right, we're here," Kim shouted, and even Shego could hear the barely subdued fury in her voice.
"Keep it cool, Princess," she impulsively called her. "Remember. Cool and calm."
"Right," Kim nodded back at her. "Don't worry. I go this," she said, her eyes fixed on the doors around them that led from the wide chamber. "Let's go get your brothers."
Even as they moved forward again, they heard another mechanical clatter, and a door just ahead to their left opened.
"Looks like we're being herded," Shego murmured.
"They have to show up sooner or later," Kim told her, and then glanced to her right.
Her hand flashed out and smacked Shego on her arm, and the woman glared.
"What the hell….?"
"Looks like a…..bug," she frowned and saw the tiny, mechanical parts that fell from her hand.
"No telling. Just glad that you whacked it. No telling what it might have done," Shego told her. "Let's go find these wannabe puppet master, and educated them," she told her.
"Oh, yeah," Kim smiled, and it was far from warm, or pleasant.
~KP~
Gamma swallowed hard and looked helplessly around as the monitor went blank.
"What happened," Gemini demanded.
"I'm rechecking now, sir, but….it looks like the fly-cam was destroyed," he admitted.
"Indeed."
"We have movement from…them," Beta reported, hoping he could distract their leader from Gamma long enough to get him spared. "We should be able to move their fly-cams into position to monitor Possible inside….fifteen minutes," he told the scowling leader of WEE.
Gemini looked from Gamma to Beta, and then back, both men tense, and uneasy.
"Excellent, Beta. You continue to prove your value. Gamma," he snapped, "Learn from him. It may save your life someday," he added pointedly.
"Yes, sir. As you say, sir," Gamma nodded as he quickly tuned the nearest fly-cams on the GJ transport so they could watch the teams headed for the same location Possible had already reached.
The moment a certain one-eyed woman appeared on the camera, speaking silently since there was no audio, Pepe jumped to his feet and began yapping furiously.
Gemini only smirked and watched as his hated sister rushed to play hero, and he mused in the value of creating an explosive his fly-cams could deliver where and when he required. He would have to work on that one. Or find someone who could build what he desired. Yes, he would definitely have to put that one on his to-do list.
For the moment, all he had was the very pleasant fantasy of igniting such a device right on top of his loathsome sibling's head. It was pleasant, too.
"Keep the monitor focused," he ordered. "I want to see Possible as soon as….possible," he chortled at his own inadvertent pun.
His men didn't say a word, or so much as give a smile.
~KP~
"We're ten minutes out," Agent Du reported from the second jet as the two sleek VTOLs raced through the sky. "And we're definitely getting active energy readings from the lab."
"Which suggests it was not quite as deactivated as previously indicated," Dr. Director remarked. She glanced to her left, and told the woman there, "Find out who is likely down there, and what they may be doing," she ordered.
The woman nodded, and turned to the computer at her station, switching from communications to satellite links she could exploit.
"Whatever they are trying, it's bound to bring problems if Gordeaux and Possible have been lured here," Will pointed out.
"Obviously. Have everyone ready for anything the minute we land," Dr. Director ordered him.
"Ma'am," one of the men on Will Du's jet broke in. "We're getting some strange readings from the lab, and they don't make sense."
"Define them," Betty demanded.
Will turned, his back to the monitor as he studied whatever was being detected, and he looked back genuinely pale.
"Dr. Director, whatever they are doing, it looks like they are disrupting the dimensional fabric of reality down there. We have a rising thermal event around a fluctuating spatial tear that looks to be growing exponentially," he told her.
"Possible," Dr. Director asked.
"I cannot begin to guess," Will admitted, "But it does seem less than coincidental she arrives only to trigger this event."
"Get us to that lab. Top speed," she demanded of her own pilot.
~KP~
They entered the second hall, looked, and saw a new door open halfway down its length, and Shego found herself growing impatient.
No people. No gloating. Nothing but doors leading them down empty halls.
"Show yourselves," she shouted. "And my brothers. Or we're not moving another step."
Kim eyed her and nodded.
"Just step into the room, ladies. All will be explained inside," a smug voice declared.
"Fine, let's do this," Kim said.
Walking down the hall, the two women stepped into the smaller room, and frowned as they found nothing inside it.
"Next door, ladies," the smug voice declared as they frowned, and saw the more ordinary door in what seemed an emptied outer office once they considered it. "You will find all you want just inside," they were told through the hidden speakers.
"I don't know, I'm really wanting your neck in my hands just now," Shego growled.
"Temper, temper," a second voice sneered.
"I know that voice," Shego frowned as Kim opened the door, and looked into the dark room that had no lights on.
"You see a light switch," Kim asked, and felt along the wall.
"Got one right here," she said, and pulled out a mini-mag, and flipped it on.
Only to gape as the beam seemed to twist, and turn to their left as if pulled by some unseen force.
"What the heck," Shego frowned.
"Found it," Kim said, not noticing the light beam as she switched on the light.
"Kimmie," Shego murmured as two men smirked from across the room.
"Welcome to our trap," the blue-skinned man smirked in a rictus. "You are now helpless before us," he declared.
"Is he serious," Kim frowned and stepped forward as Shego just stared at the humanoid silhouette that stood to one side of the room.
"Kim, maybe you'd better…."
"Whoa, what was that," she frowned, feeling her plasma surge, but then vanish as if torn from her. She turned only then, seeing that dark shape, and said, "That's weird."
"Back away, Kim," Shego told her as the two men chortled as she eyed the men.
"It feels…. I think….that thing is….."
Shego gasped even as Kim suddenly recoiled, and almost fell.
"Kim," she rushed to her side, sparing a single glare at the two chortling men, one who crowed, "It's working! It's working. She'll soon be in our control."
"What the hell, Drakken," she demanded as he grabbed Kim to keep her from falling, proving she knew the blue man.
"Do I know you," the man asked blandly.
"I once put a bullet in your back, you vicious toad," she snarled. "Where are my brothers, and what are you trying here? Talk, or I'll put a bullet in your face this time," she spat as Kim stared hard at that strangely human shape.
"I don't think you realize we're in control here," the other man with the bad haircut sneered.
"Precisely," Drew smirked. "And I recall you now. Don't worry, I'll be repaying you for that little memento just as soon as we have our specimen under our control. Which won't take long."
"Shego," Kim gasped, still unable to look away from that peculiar silhouette. "I feel funny."
"What is it, Kim," she rasped, and oddly enough felt the girl starting to heat up.
Not just her hands this time. Her body seemed to be releasing a lot of heat, but she could tell, like her flashlight beam, it was somehow being pulled toward that weird shape.
"Let's get you out of here…."
Even as she spoke, one of the men held out a remote, and the door behind them snapped shut and locked.
"Not this time, Shego," Drew sneered. "This time, I win."
Shego gasped, recoiling as Kim's body seemed to grow hotter, and a shimmering aura now surrounded her and seemed to connect to that dark shape at the nearby wall.
"Kim," Shego screamed as Kim screamed herself as she felt her power flowing out of her like a literal river the moment they stepped into that room.
The men watching only chortled.
To Be Continued…..