Anarchy.
That was the only word Kim had for the scene she was coming upon.
It was as if a mad scientist had taken everything they had and unleashed it all at once.
Kim suspected that that was exactly what had happened.
Her and Ron were coming upon the western edge of the Scandinavian Mountains. Even from where they were, they could see explosions, fleeing men, and robots of all kinds wreaking havoc below.
Deciding they didn't have time for pleasantries, Kim merely waved at their ride and signaled Ron to jump with her.
It was a short, fast descent to Kim, probably because she was so focused on figuring out a way into the base. It wasn't as hard as she'd expected; all they had to do was go the opposite direction of the fleeing men.
The hard part was figuring out how to get between all of the fighting.
The men who were fleeing were massively outnumbered by those who were staying to fight. Shock sticks and battle batons met their match against swinging metal arms and laser blasts. To Kim's surprise, she spotted a few Bebes in the crowd, clearly modified to, likely, not rebel as they did before. Alongside them were a few Diablo robots, likely also modified to keep their form, some of the robots from the time Kim and S.A.D.I.E. worked together, and, looking up the mountain, Kim could see what had likely been the Avalauncher that she'd missed stopping due to Team Impossible's interference throwing rocks, snowballs, and other projectiles down the mountain.
"C'mon, Ron!" Kim said as she landed with a roll, discarding her chute with flourish.
"Got it, KP!" Ron rolled as well, but got himself caught in his ropes.
Rufus cut him free with his teeth before hopping back into his pocket with a chitter of "Good luck!"
Team Possible made their way across the battlefield, dodging the various mini-battles that were taking place and battling a couple of henches on the way.
"Hey, ah, KP?" Ron asked as they swiftly made their way into the base. "Is it just me, or are we being ignored?"
"Now that you mention it…" Kim thought about it for a second. It almost seemed like Team Possible… Was in a blind spot? For the robots, at least...
Kim felt a little choked up as she realized the probable 'why'.
Drakken and Shego…
"Well, whatever it is," Ron said, breaking her thoughts, "I hope it continues!"
"I have a feeling it will…" Kim said with a wide grin.
Once they were inside, the redhead called Wade. "Wade! Do you have a lock on Drakken and Shego's locations?"
"Just a sec…" He typed on his computer for a few seconds, then shouted, "Got 'em! They're actually together…" he frowned "...fighting Gemini."
"Fighting? Together? Since when does Drakken do any hand-to-hand combat?" Ron asked.
"There was that one time on the train when I forgot everything…" Kim reminded him. "I'm willing to bet that after that Shego trained him more. And don't forget about his vines…"
"Yeah, it does look like he's using those things like he knows what he's doing," Wade confirmed. "And get this: they're actually doing really well!"
"Really?" Kim couldn't keep the incredulity out of her voice.
"Yeah!" Wade pulled the security cam footage up that he was streaming directly from the cameras.
Gemini was shooting rockets every which way, trying to hit either of the nefarious duo. For their part, Drakken and Shego were doing a very good job not getting hit. Drakken was using his vines as shields, using them to intercept missiles and throw them back at the one-eyed villain. Shego kept Gemini on his toes as well, shooting flames in short bursts at his legs.
It was a deadly dance they were performing. Someone would slip up eventually, and considering the three, Kim's bet was on Drakken.
"We have to get to them," Kim said as one of Drakken's flailing vines took out the security camera. "Wade, do you have a path figured out?"
"I do… But there's a problem…" Wade pulled up a counter. "Per his normal MO, Gemini's hit the self-destruct button. You guys only have 15 minutes to either stop the countdown or get everyone out of there."
"That should be easy enou-.." Ron started.
"They're on opposite sides of the base."
"...oh." The wind taken out of his sails, Ron looked to Kim. "What didja wanna do, KP?"
"Divide and conquer?" Kim suggested.
Ron nodded, a flash of blue in his eyes. "A-booyah! Divide and conquer!" He gave Kim a high-five and asked, "Okay, where are we going?"
"I'll take Drakken, Shego, and Gemini. You get to that self-destruct shut off before someone gets hurt!"
"Okay then." Wade typed a few moments and brought up a map on the Kimmunicator. "Kim's is easy enough to get to. Just go down the hall and take a left. That'll lead to the hanger, where they're fighting…" Wade activated the Ronnicator. "Ron, yours is going to be a little more tricky. I'll have to direct you."
"Fine by me!" Ron began running down the hall and took the second right.
"It's the other way!" Kim heard Wade's voice call out.
"Alright…" She slammed her fist into her palm. "Mission time…"
Kim ran down the hallway and took the first left.
After running for what felt like forever, heart pounding at the thought of what in the world was happening during the fight while she wasn't watching, she finally came to the wide open space that she saw in the video.
To her shock, the scene she came across was one she wouldn't have imagined in a million years.
Drakken, Drakken, had Gemini in the grips of his vines. The one-eyed villain's arms were trapped in the vines, his rocket fingers stuck clean to his thigh. If he tried to use them, he would've blown his own leg off. Gemini looked singed on the left side, clearly having taken one of Shego's blasts to his chest.
Drakken and Shego didn't look as well put together, even though they had apparently won.
Drakken was limping, a vicious open wound on his thigh from where he probably took a rocket. Strangely, he wasn't whining about how much it hurt, his angry scowl instead focused on the one-eyed villain. Burnt vines hung out from his coat, the stress from having taken the brunt force of Gemini's assault showing.
Shego's hair was partially burned off in the back. Her catsuit was dirty with smoke and torn in several spots, where blood was seeping through. She, too, was heedless of her injuries, her gaze completely taken with Gemini.
The two of them were talking at the villain, but what they were saying Kim couldn't hear.
"Drakken! Shego!" she cried, interrupting whatever rant they were probably giving Gemini. "Stop!"
The two villains barely glanced in her direction.
"Stay out of this, Kimmie," Shego said, voice firm.
"I won't!" Kim began making her way over to the three of them, but was stopped when Drakken gave Gemini an experimental squeeze and flipped him upside-down. The one-eyed villain gasped out at the pressure put on his lungs.
"Don't you dare try to take this from us, Kimberly," Drakken growled. "You don't get to… To just show up, and stop us! We deserve this!"
"Drakken, stop…" Kim made a calming motion, hoping to save Gemini's life. "You can't do this…"
"I can, and I will," he snarled back, again squeezing Gemini. This time blood trickled out of the trapped villain's mouth. "You can't stop us this time!"
"But first, we were hoping to give a little bit back to him…" Shego vaguely shrugged, but Kim could tell she was tensed for a fight. "Y'know, snap off a few fingers, pull out his other eye, bust a few ribs…" A fist was encompassed in plasma. "Maybe a flame enema?"
"Ohhhh, I like that one!" Drakken cackled. "We should totally do it!"
This was so wrong… This wasn't-.. Drakken and Shego weren't like this. What was wrong with them?
"...Mom, Dad, please…!"
Drakken stiffened, then snarled, fists clenched, "You don't get to call us that!" He turned to her, anguish clear on his face. "You can't! You can't call us that! We were never-.." he choked, then gasped "We never got the chance." Rage clouded his face and vines flailed viciously as he pointed at Gemini and shrieked, "AND IT'S ALL HIS FAULT!"
"You don't think I feel robbed?" The redhead grabbed her arm, squeezing. "Wondering what kind of life we could've had? I love my parents, I really do… But knowing you could've had a different life, with other parents who would've loved you just as much? It's hard to process, really…
"But seeing you two, like this? Because of me?" Kim shivered, then begged, "Please, stop… It's not too late! You can come back, turn him over to GJ, and we can try to piece our lives together… You don't have to be like him…"
That seemed to catch Shego and Drakken off guard, Shego reacting like she'd been slapped. Almost belatedly, she looked between Kim and Gemini, as if seeing things for the first time.
Drakken, for his part, recoiled and growled, "He DESERVES it! He took you from us! He took US from us! I-.. I can't-.." Tears formed in his eyes. Shaking his head, he muttered, "We could've been happy..."
"We can still be happy," Kim assured him, walking a few more steps closer. "Just… Stop. Please. For me?"
"Doc…" Shego turned to him and put a hand on his shoulder. "...Kimmie's right. I think we've done enough..."
"That's easy for you to say! You remember everything!" Drakken growled. "What do I have? A giant blank! I don't have any happy memories of our time in college. I don't get to remember what our daughter looked like! I can't-.."
Shego slapped him. Hard.
"Will you listen to yourself? Talk about a goddamned sensitive baby!" she said. "'Wah wah wah, I don't remember anything'? Really? You're gonna go that route?"
Drakken stared, shocked. "But, but Shego…"
"If you care so much about memories, maybe we should look into making new ones, yeah?" Shego waved at Kim. "Look at her! She isn't rejecting us! She isn't saying 'no' like we thought! She wants us to be in her life."
"I… I… Nnnnngh…"
"And hey, if you really want to see the memories, I'm sure a 'genius' like yourself can make something so we can watch my memories together, right?"
"...right." Drakken shook himself. Then, more convincingly, he said, "You're right. I can make something like that!" A wide smile broke his face as he noted, "It could be a family bonding activity! Watching your memories!"
"Whoa now, easy there…" Shego leaned in and muttered not quiet enough, "Some of those are just for us…"
"My god!" Gemini glared at the two villains from where he was hanging in the vines. "If you're going to kill me, kill me! Don't make me listen to any more of this drivel!"
"You'll listen as long as we want!" Drakken said, kicking Gemini in the side, but falling over in the process. "Ouch!"
Kim rolled her eyes at the same time Shego did.
"Okay, Doc, you proved your point…" Shego helped him up with a sigh. "Let's turn this loser over to his sister and call it a day, eh? After all…" She gave a positively nasty smirk as she said, "It's about time he learned his place as the younger sibling."
Gemini seethed.
"...what happened to his dog?" Kim asked. Pausing, she then called out, "Global Justice!"
Nothing.
"Oh, erm, yes… About the dog…" Drakken sputtered a little, both him and Shego looking both guilty and amused.
"...WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY DOG?!"
"Say 'Ahhhh'!" Drew said, opening his mouth wide.
Kimberly mimicked wordlessly. To her surprise, a spoonful of cereal found itself in her mouth. The baby sputtered a little, but still swallowed the mouthful of food.
"Be careful with doing it like that!" Shego warned. "She might aspirate some of it!"
"Well, aren't we just full of five-dollar words today?" her husband said, clicking his tongue.
"As opposed to your fifty cent ones?"
"Nnnnngh… Shego…!" He snorted. "You know I'm not good at English!"
"Yeah, I noticed," she deadpanned.
"You're so frustrating!" he said as Kimberly fell onto her stomach as he stopped supporting her in favor of putting his hands on his hips. "Oops!"
Instead of crying, the baby laughed, lifting herself up on her hands.
"Oh my god!" Drew gawked. "Shego, she's lifting herself on her own! She's lifting herself-.."
"I can see it myself, thanks." The green woman knelt down and played with her baby's hands. "Such a good girl, being able to do that allll by herself!"
The baby giggled, smiling a wide toothless smile.
"I think that was the best mistake I ever made!" Drew beamed.
"Nah, the best mistake was trusting dear ol' Mama Lipsky."
Drew tilted his eyebrow at her, confusion etched into every corner of his face. "What?"
"Yeah…" Shego stretched out on the floor with their baby, who was now playing with locks of her mother's hair. "Just think: If you hadn't been so trusting, we wouldn't have our dear little Kimmie here."
"...maybe…" Drew crossed his arms, a frown on his face. "But if you think I'm going to trust her at all wi-.."
"That's going a little far," Shego agreed. "I just meant that we owe that old bag more than we'd expected, y'know?"
Her husband sat, thinking. "...yeah, I guess you're right."
"Of course I am!" She smacked his shoulder. "I'm always right!"
"Oh really?" Drew murmured, tracing a pattern on Shego's back. "Then tell me, what am I thinking now?"
Shego smirked. "I think we're thinking the same thing…"
"Well then," he said in the rumble that Shego loved so much, "let's put Kimberly to bed and go fu-.."
"Cutting it off there, folks," Shego said from the back of the room. She detached herself from the machine Drakken had built to view her memories and strolled over to the couch in the Caribbean lair's large room.
"Thank goodness!"
"Ron! That's really rude!" Kim hissed, elbowing him lightly in the ribs.
"Ouch!"
"Ohhh trust me, Bubble-butt, you would be saying that too if you knew what happened next," the green woman said with a saucy grin.
"TMI!" the redhead said, flinching away from Shego.
"Now who's being rude?" Drakken tsked. "I would expect better of you, Kimberly!"
"Drew's right," James admonished. "That was rather rude of you…"
"I didn't mean it like that! Just, imagining my parents…" Kim got a weird look on her face and shuddered.
"Oh, Kimmie," Anne said, hugging her daughter's side. "Don't feel like that! Why, having a healthy sex life is essential to a good rela-.."
"That's SO WRONGSICK!" Ron shouted, putting his hands over his ears.
"Ron, she's doing it on purpose," Kim said, giving her mom the evil eye.
"WHAT? I CAN'T HEAR YOU BECAUSE I'M COVERING MY EARS!"
Shego, Drakken, and Kim all rolled their eyes.
"James, can you do something about him? Like shoot him into a star or something?" Drakken asked plainly. "Because if you don't, I'll come up with something on my own."
"I already gave Ronald the black hole speech," James assured him.
Ron uncovered his ears. "What's a 'rack hold sitch'?
"It's nothing, Ron," Kim said, glaring at the other two men.
"Anyway…" Shego coughed a little and walked into another room.
"Where's she going?" the younger redhead asked Drakken.
"Uhm, erm, gee, I don't know…?" he said about as convincingly as Ron's attempts to hide that he wasn't the one to become a genius during the whole Phoebus project sitch.
"Uh-huh." Kim decided to give her parents the benefit of the doubt and assume that they weren't trying to trick them into a take-over-the-world scheme.
Small steps.
A minute later, Shego came back in with cards in her hand. "Here. I figure since you're already here…"
The green woman handed Ron, James, and Anne their own cards.
"Nothing for me?" Kim asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Well, that's something I wanted to talk with you about…" Shego trailed off, looking almost nervous.
"Shego…" Anne looked up at the green woman. "These are…!"
"Yup." Shego shrugged unconvincingly. "Figured since we'd already tied the knot…"
"What?" Kim looked over at the card Ron was holding.
"'Andrew Theodore P Lipsky and Sheila Go request your presence…'" Kim looked up, surprised. "Wedding invites?"
"Recommitment ceremony," Drakken corrected peevishly.
"Practically the same thing, Doc," Shego chuckled. "Anyway, Kimmie, I was hoping to see…" She shifted on her feet, looking at her nails in disinterest. "If you'd wanna be my maid of honor. If you don't want to, that's fi-.."
Kim tackle-hugged her biological mother. "I'd love to!"
"Awww man! Why's mine addressed 'to the buffoon'?"
Kim rolled her eyes as Drakken and Shego shared a petty laugh.
They might not have solved everything, but they'd figured out enough. And things would work out fine… Eventually.