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
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Kim was still smiling as she landed the Roth just outside the school on the main drive, and behind her, the battered SUV attached to a tow cable was hitting the ground as the Roth's cable guided the anti-grav pads once ANI had taken control of the pads.
She was climbing out, intending to present Mr. Barkin his vehicle and show that she could be helpful and not a threat when three shadows abruptly appeared just beside her as she closed the door of her car.
"Kim Possible," stereo voices declared. "We are here for you."
"Huh," was all the young woman could sputter as she stared at the three blue-skinned robots shaped like females with startlingly blonde wigs attached to their heads.
One of the robots moved to grab her, pulling her into its powerful arms as it declared, "Kim Possible, you will accompany Bebes. You will obey. You will accept our authority."
"Oh, heck no," she roared, and tore free, almost pulling one of the robot's arms out as she shoved back at it.
The arm somehow managed to repair itself even as Kim staggered forward, and into a hard, metal fist.
Behind her, another barrage of fists started slamming into her as one of them declared, "Kim Possible will aid Bebes, or Kim Possible will die."
"Off," she screamed, and slung both fists out, driving back two of the machine-women trying to swarm her.
Both robots slammed into nearby cars and lifted them even as they recovered, and flung those now warped vehicles at her.
Kim batted one of them away and got slammed into the pavement by the other catching her in the back.
"I'm getting tired of you," she hissed, and lifted the car atop her, and flinging it back.
The robot she targeted just ducked the car, and then grabbed another, and threw it at her. Kim slammed now glowing fists into the small coupe, all but bisecting it as she raced forward, and tried to grab the robot, intending to rip it apart.
Only to get assaulted by the other two from behind again.
Just as someone began shooting at the robots.
"No good," she heard her brothers say. "Those look like titanium reinforced bots with some serious enhancements."
"Kimmie, what's going on," Shego shouted at her.
"I have no idea," she complained, more students coming out behind Shego and the boys as the bell rang, and the sounds of battle drew just most of the students not already staring out of windows or doors. "They just showed up."
"Has to be Drakken," Shego declared. "I heard he likes making weird machines."
"Bebes are not weird machines," one of them fumed as if indignant. "Bebes are perfect. Bebes will rule."
"Man," Kim complained as she got slammed into the ground again, "I could really use a few extra hands," she declared, even as she began to glow again as she spun around, trying to keep track of the robotic women.
Only she was glowing red.
"Princess," Shego gaped as everyone just gaped as suddenly over a dozen Kim Possibles now stood where one had been.
The Kims lifted fists as they eyed one another, then the robots.
"I have no clue," one of the Kims told Shego, and smiled smugly, "But I'm not complaining. Everyone, hammer those metal freaks!"
"Bebes are not…"
The complaining robot squealed as its face was suddenly smashed in by a now green glowing fist, and another Kim took out most of its chest. The other redheads swarmed their other two targets, and began pulling the shrieking, and complaining robots apart even as Tim shouted, "Kim, take off the heads! They have a hive-mind, and as long as they're connected, they can coordinate attacks, and keep repairing one another!"
"Right," Kim shouted back. "So, headless bots are best," she said and helped hold one of them as two others tackled the bot she held, pinning it down as they pulled off the head.
"One down," she grinned, and they joined the other redheads around her trying to contain the robots now trying to flee, but running into the very redheads they had tried to attack.
"Two," another of the redheads cheered as a hard punch launched a metallic head off its body, and into the air to go rolling before it stopped at Jim and Tim's feet.
"Beee-beeez….."
The glowing eyes faded as the boys looked down at it, and remarked, "Who puts blonde wigs on robots," as one.
"Drakken," Shego muttered. "Has to be Drakken."
"Right," Jim said as all fourteen Kims now advanced on the remaining Bebe. "We need a CPU to track them and find out where they've been. That likely leads us right back to that jerk."
"Leave it to GJ this time, boys. You don't want the grief," Shego told them.
"Darn it," Kim suddenly howled, all of her duplicates vanishing with faint pops as the last Bebe, now battered, and barely standing, suddenly whined, and then vanished in a blur of speed. "It got away."
"I'd say you got their number, though," Jim and Tim said, and Kim looked around, and grimaced as she saw the wreckage around her.
"I'll call the harpy," Shego sighed as she came toward Kim.
"I….. I brought Mr. Barkin's car back," she said, pointing at the pitted, dirty SUV that remained untouched except by whatever had impacted it while in orbit. "Do you think that will show I'm helpful, and not dangerous," Kim asked as the redhead eyed her bashfully as she stood in the middle of a parking lot filled with ruined cars.
Jim and Tim both howled with laughter.
Shego sighed and shook her head.
"C'mere," Shego told her and held out her arms.
Kim smiled wanly and walked over to hug her as she let the woman hug her back.
"I was just trying to help," she sighed.
"I know that, Kim. Just…. When did you start making with your own cheer squad?"
"Uhm….just now," she sighed. Then gave Shego a look that worried her as Kim smiled, "My own squad?"
"Oy," Shego groaned even as Global Justice now began arriving even as Steve Barkin stormed out of the school only then, and demanded, "Possibles? I knew you were trouble. I knew it. Look what you did to my truck," he shouted, eyeing a vehicle that had been hammered into metal confetti.
"Uh, I found your other car," Kim told him, pointing.
Steve just stared at it, and her, and sputtered, "How did you…?"
"Oh, I went up into orbit and saw it while I was up there, so I brought it…..down," she said as she had a lot of different expressions aimed at her even as Will Du arrived.
"You what," more than one demanded, asked, or questioned as the boys just grinned, and said, "Told you you'd like it," as they eyed virtually the only car untouched on the nearby lot.
The little purple coupe sat nearby as if nothing had even touched it despite the wreckage around it.
Will just eyed them all, and sighed, "Do I even want to know?"
"Drakken sent robots after her," Shego declared, and pointed at the robotic head one of the twins had recovered.
"Right. We'll take that," Will declared, gesturing for men to start gathering up the parts.
"But…."
"Boys, let it go," Shego warned when they tried to resist the agent reaching for the robot's head.
"Fine. We could probably build a better one anyway," Jim huffed.
"And we wouldn't put a wig on it," Tim scoffed.
"I think you all need to come back in, and debrief. Again," Will told Shego.
"Probably. First, we need to go get things calmed down. Agreed," Shego asked.
"Please just leave," Will sighed. "We'll do the calming," the GJ agent told her as Shego shrugged, and remarked, "Don't say we didn't offer."
"Okay, let's bail," Shego declared, even as Kim said, "Let's jet."
"Shotgun," both boys shouted, heading for the Roth.
"One of you can ride with me," Shego suggested as she headed for her car. Another that looked untouched despite the wreckage around them.
"Uhm, how did your cars survive," an agent asked as he walked around, taking photos of the apparent battlefield.
"Force fields," Jim and Tim said as both went in different directions.
"They're not joking," Will told the man as he gaped after them as the twins split up for a rare moment to ride with Shego and Kim.
The man shook his head and went back to taking photos of the rubble.
~KP~
Kim walked into Shego's room just after one in the morning and sat on the edge of the bed.
"You awake," the redhead asked quietly.
"I am now," the woman yawned as she looked up, eyeing Kim as she sat there staring at the floor.
"Everything keeps changing," Kim sighed.
"Well, it's keeping you on top, so that's a good thing," she told her as Kim only then looked toward her.
"I think Dr. Director wants to lock me up now."
"I doubt it. I'll never tell her so, but she's smarter than that. Now, some of those boys that work for her. Not so smart," Shego smiled, sitting up to face Kim now who still looked a little upset over the day.
"They'll probably never let me go back to school now," she sighed.
"Well, they should be glad you weren't in class when those bots attacked you. Imagine the mess if they had?"
"Maybe I should leave," she sighed. "It seems all these people….these things….just keep coming after me. What if I am endangering people just by being there?"
"Kim, that isn't the solution. Sometimes, crap happens. Only it could happen anywhere, to anyone. People like Gemini, or even Drakken? They don't care about others. They don't care about you. They only see a tool they want to use, and like any of their kind, that's all they care about. It isn't even you. I've heard Gemini has gone after others in the past, and he doesn't care who he hurts, or kills to get his way. At least you and your family had a chance to fight back. You stopped him."
Kim sighed.
Shego smiled and patted the bed beside her.
Kim moved to sit beside her now and looked up at her.
"I'm really glad to finally be home and have a family. Really. Just… Just sometimes I wonder if it would have been better if I just went somewhere and hid from everyone."
"That's what the freaks out there on all sides hope you do, Kim. Because then they can come after you, and no one will know, or care if they do. Only if you're here, with family and friends, no one can just attack you, or do anything they want without someone knowing."
"But…."
"And because they know, they know you aren't the one to blame. It's the freaks, and uniforms, and loons out there on all sides."
"Mr. Barkin said…."
"Forget that caveman," she snorted, and impulsively put an arm around the redhead, and pulled her close. "Let's face it, that guy is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. The people that matter, the people that care, they know you were only defending yourself. Like I said, imagine if those loopy tin cans had attacked the school? Or gotten you for whatever reason they imagined? You think Drakken is any better than Gemini?"
"I thought he was still in jail."
"Apparently, he got away," Shego admitted only then, knowing Bets had not done the redhead any favors keeping her blind to potential enemies.
"Maybe…. Maybe I should hunt them down first," Kim murmured as she leaned into Shego's arms, and relaxed with a sigh.
"Yeah, I can see Bets liking that one," Shego chortled.
"The boys could help," she said with a faint smile. "You, too, if you like," she added with a devious grin Shego found out of place on the redhead's guileless face. "We could be a team," she smiled.
"Let's talk about that one when I'm not half asleep," she groaned.
"Okay. Shego," Kim asked after a moment.
"Yeah, Princess," Shego asked as she sat there leaning against her pillows as she held the slender redhead in her arms, and found she really did like it as much as she had thought she might.
"Why didn't you answer your phone today?"
"I forgot to charge it," she sighed as she studied the redhead before her. "Sorry, that's on me."
Kim giggled. "Should I start reminding you?"
"No," Shego growled now and glared up at her.
"I'm just teasing."
"I get that. And I'll try not to forget again," Shego promised. "Just don't take off again like that. You had us all worried."
"I just needed to talk, and…. I couldn't find anyone that listened."
"I get that, too."
"Shego," Kim asked, looking up at her again.
"What, Princess?"
"Can I sleep with you? I….don't want to be by myself right now."
Shego started at the shapely little reached already leaning into her arms and sighed. "Sure, Kimmie. Let's just keep things G-Rated," she suggested. "We don't want your folks freaking out."
"G-Rated? Ohhhhhh," she said. "I just want to sleep," she said quietly. "Long day," she sighed.
"Okay. Climb in," she said needlessly as she already had Kim leaning into her embrace just then.
"Shego," Kim said as she slid under the cover, and stretched out again, still in the woman's arms.
"Yeah," Shego grumbled now as the redhead's eyes slowly closed as she settled atop her.
"I really do want to go on a real date. With you."
Shego just stared at her as she seemed to relax almost at once, and fell asleep as if only waiting for that moment. She stared at her bronzed face, and felt her in her arms, plastered against her body, and suddenly realized she no longer felt tired at all. In fact, she didn't much sleep at all that night.
To Be Continued….