Shego pushed her way through the line. She looked back and could see Robin's spikey hair sticking up close behind her. She slipped into the concessions booth and hid under the counter. Her ear piece buzzed.

"Apprentice, you have not yet returned," Slade said. "I am beginning to grow impatient."

"There's been a set-back," Shego whispered back, hoping she'd go unnoticed as the server felt around her for a bag of chips.

"Did you bug the communicator?" Slade asked.

"Yes, but I've been spotted. They don't know what I did, but they're chasing me."

"Who?"

Now Shego was the impatient one. "What are you, stupid? Team Possible and the Teen Titans. Who else would be chasing me?"

"Watch your tongue, apprentice," Slade warned.

The concessions seller reached down and accidentally brushed his hand against Shego's hair. "What the…?"

He never finished his sentence. She pulled him down with her, then threw him out the back of the booth. Seeing this, Robin, Beast Boy, Raven, and Ron Stoppable leaped over the counter after her. Robin whipped out his Bo staff.

"End of the line, Shego," he said.

Her hands lit up and she punched him in what would have been the mask, had he not blocked her first. He returned with a jump and kick to her stomach, which she gracefully dodged. "Not bad," she observed, grabbing his staff, "but not great." Her green energy grew stronger until she was finally able to break it in half. In response, Robin stepped behind her and shoved her off her balance. She fell, but kicked him down with her. Both picked themselves back up, and returned kick for punch, block for chop, and acrobatically avoiding injury in the nick of time.

Ron saw that now was his chance to help. "Rufus," he said to his naked rodent buddy, "get Kim." Rufus obediently scurried away toward the field.

Ron looked around for something to use as a weapon. He spied a big bag of hot dog buns. "Booyah!" he exclaimed, picking them up and swinging them around his head. When he let go, the bag soared through the air until it made contact with Shego's forehead, distracting her from fighting Robin. Instead, she lunged for Ron now.

Panicking, Ron grabbed the next closest item and held it in front of him. "I have a weapon!" he warned her.

She looked. So did Robin. So did Ron. It was a ketchup bottle.

"Heh…heh…heh…" he laughed nervously. "Can't blame a guy for trying, right?"

Shego shrugged and grabbed Robin. He squirmed out of her iron grip, took a few steps back, and threw a birdarang at her. She held up her hand to stop it and burned it to a crisp. She was about to launch a shot of green power at Robin, but suddenly felt a blast of a thick liquid on the back of her hair. She spun around and was hit by a stream of ketchup to the face. Blinded, she stumbled toward the back exit.

"And you thought ketchup wasn't a weapon," Ron said with pride in his own ingenuity.

The battle was invisible to the concessions line due to conveniently placed boxes of food, so they were all wondering where the server went and why their orders weren't being taken. The fighting was taking place in such a small area that Beast Boy could not find a way to help, or even get in. A man yelled, "Hey! Can we have some food, please?"

Beast Boy realized the man was talking to him. "I'm not actually the guy…" A few angry faces changed his answer. "I mean, uh, sure, dude. What do you want?"

The orders all poured in at once.

"I'll have a slushy and some barbecue chips!"

"I want a popsicle!"

"Two sodas and a pretzel!"

"One hot dog, please!"

"We want a diet soda and a slushy!"

"Can I get some onion rings?"

Beast Boy tried to remember how he did this back when he worked at Mega Meaty Meat. He passed food around and collected money, but everyone was ordering at once. He groaned. This was exactly like Mega Meaty Meat.

"People, calm down!" he said, trying to pour a slushy with one hand and open the cooler with another. "I'll get to you…just…a second…"

In the back, Robin blocked off the exit for Shego with one birdarang in each hand. The two of them fought, his birdarangs meeting her gloves in a perfect rhythm. Ron grabbed one unopened two liter soda in each hand, shook them both really hard, and aimed at Shego. "Watch out, Robin!" he said, before uncapping them both.

The force of the following blast pinned Ron to the wall behind him, but it also knocked Shego right into a stack made of very large bags of hamburger buns. The stack collapsed over her so that she was totally buried. Ron was unhurt because he was still wearing most of his football padding. Shego was unhurt because she landed in a pile of bread.

Ron and Robin walked carefully toward the mess. Just as the two of them reached out to take the top bag off, they were thrown back with a huge blast of green energy that made the hamburger buns explode in all directions. All the boxes of food and supplies felt the heat and toppled over. The glow and explosion were so bright that it scared away the rest of Beast Boy's customers. Shego stood up, hands on fire. It had taken a lot of anger to make that big of an energy bolt, and she was not anywhere near letting it go. She blasted through the back entrance of the snack shack and swung up onto the roof, then jumped from there onto the bleachers.

Meanwhile, the cheerleaders were pulling off their halftime routine as though they had been born doing it. The crowd that wasn't wondering what a scary green lady was doing on the snack shack's roof were curious as to why a pink naked mole rat suddenly ran up to the red haired girl doing the splits in the front row.

"Rufus?" Kim asked, still moving her arms according to the routine. "What's going on?"

Rufus squeaked and pointed at the top of the bleachers. Kim looked and saw Shego just as she landed on the top layer of bleachers.

"Oh no she didn't," Kim said, her eyes narrowing.

"What is wrong, friend Kim?" Starfire asked, sticking a cartwheel behind her. Kim pointed up. Starfire understood immediately. "Shego."

"Um, Kim," Bonnie said, "you're kind of holding up the dance."

Kim thought for a second, then said, "Tell everybody we're skipping to the human pyramid at the end now. Just do it!" She turned back to Starfire. "You know what I'm thinking?" Starfire nodded.

The plan Kim had made to include Starfire's flying had been to build up a human pyramid as the finale with her on top as usual, but have Starfire fly up from behind it at the last second and shoot off starbolts to look like fireworks. The other girls had been all over the idea. Now there was a slight change of plans.

The girls were confused about why their captain wanted to skip to the end of the routine, they weren't even two-thirds done with the song yet, but they followed orders. As soon as Kim was placed on the top of the human pyramid, Rufus clicked off the music and Starfire soared up from behind, picking up Kim by the arms and dropping her directly in Shego's path.

"Aw, did Kimmie finally come out to play?" Shego taunted. "Good, because that sidekick of yours was getting really annoying."

Kim blocked Shego's first move, swung her own high kick, and cartwheeled backward so that Shego's green flames just barely missed her. The two were evenly matched as always. The spectators began to worry about their own safety and left the bleachers, seeking refuge elsewhere and giving Shego the chance to kick Kim so that the teenager tumbled down the rows of seats and landed on the field. Shego leaped, and was about to land on her, but Raven pulled her cloak around Kim and both girls disappeared in a swirl of dark energy. Shego landed on all fours on the turf. She got up and looked around for Kim. "What the…?"

Raven appeared behind her, opened her dark cloak, and Kim jumped out, kicking Shego onto the ground. The super powered woman was down for only a second before springing back into the fight. Raven looked to her left and saw Ron Stoppable staring bug-eyed.

"What?" she asked, sounding genuinely annoyed.

"Just got to be honest," Ron said, "that cloak thing is both the creepiest thing and possibly the coolest thing I've seen in a while. The darkness and everything is major creepy zone, but it was totally awesome to watch." She didn't respond. The silence got a little bit uncomfortable. "Yeah, I'm going to go get Beast Boy out of the snack shack."

"You do that," Raven replied as he sprinted off to help.

Shego and Kim by now had taken the fight to the middle of the football field. Evidence of Shego's explosive energy blasts was all over the turf, as well as one collapsed folding table and a hole punched into the football team's Gatorade jug, which was spilling all over the sideline. Coach Barkin was having a terrible time getting his team together and controlling the general situation of panic.

Shego's ear piece buzzed. "Apprentice, what is going on? Why have you not yet returned?"

"On my way," she said, sliding under Kim's arm and throwing her own punch in return. "I'll be back in a sec. I've got some things to take care of first is all."

Slade listened to the sounds he heard coming from Shego and those around her. "Apprentice, I ordered you to bug the communicator and get out, not engage in combat. There will be plenty of time for that later."

"Easy for you to say," she retorted. "You didn't just get blasted by ketchup and two bottles of soda, then get discovered by Miss Possible over here."

"Who are you talking to?" Kim demanded, blocking one of Shego's hits.

"Leave there at once, apprentice," Slade directed. "I'm giving you an order."

"Believe me," Shego answered him, "if I could leave, I would."

By now, Robin had joined the fight too. Both teenagers took turns aiming blows at Shego, who took some and dodged others. Before long, they had cornered her at the end of the field. "Looks like you're out of options, Shego," Kim said smugly.

"You wish," Shego replied. She crouched down, then jumped into the air, turned a perfect flip, and landed on top of the goal post. She began raining shots of green energy down on her foes. Robin and Kim jumped, slid, and ducked to avoid getting burned.

Ron returned to the scene with Beast Boy and Raven. "They need a distraction," Raven observed.

Ron grinned. "It must be your lucky day! I happen to be a professional distraction creator, thanks to several years filling out the role of a loyal sidekick. Follow my lead!"

Shego was getting pretty frustrated with the fact that neither Robin nor Kim Possible would stand still for a moment. She paused her firing. A strange sight caught her eye. Namely, that of Ron Stoppable riding a green elephant who was standing on his hind legs like a circus trick. Ron waved his football helmet in the air. "Yee-haw! Giddy-up, Beast Boy!" Rufus stood tall on Beast Boy's elephant head.

"Charge!" he squealed, signaling the elephant to run forward, aiming for Shego.

She yelled something incomprehensible and jumped down, only to be caught in Beast Boy's trunk. She writhed and squirmed, then dug her sharp nails into his green flesh. He yelped and transformed into a turtle stuck in his shell. Ron landed on the ground with Rufus on top of him.

"Ron!" Kim exclaimed, rushing to her boyfriend's side.

Raven did the same thing. She held her hand over his head. "He's fine," she said, "though he should have been wearing his helmet." She glared at the now human Beast Boy. "No thanks to somebody."

"Hey," he insisted, "that chick has some sharp nails."

"He'll be back up in no time," she assured Kim, "just go help Robin get Shego."

"You're sure?" Kim asked.

"Positive. Go!" Her hand began to glow a kind of purplish grayish color, the way it normally did when she healed people.

Kim ran after Robin, who was chasing Shego, simultaneously dodging more green energy bolts. Before either of them could catch her, she had swung up onto the other side's goal post and was looking for a way out. She could just see the parking lot where she had left the hovercraft. If only she could get over there…

Someone new crossed her line of vision now. Someone with red hair, orange skin, a cheer uniform, and bright glowing green eyes. Starfire hovered threateningly in front of the villainess, each hand forming a starbolt. "I advise you to give up now," she said, her bolts growing larger by the second as she allowed herself to feel her righteous fury welling up. "I do not wish to harm you."

Shego did not answer with words. Instead, she jumped off the goal post, hands ablaze. Somehow her glowing fists met Starfire's. In an attempt to stay in the air, Shego grabbed Star's wrists and hung on tight. The combined energy of both their super powers ran through their bodies, even on the inside. From the ground, it looked like they were both enveloped in one huge ball of glowing green flame. They shut their eyes as they felt the burn.

Memories flashed before their eyes. There was only one other time when Shego had felt so much power so much like this surge into her. It was that fateful day when the meteorite crashed from space. In a moment, she relived it all. As the meteorite made contact, she had felt electrocuted, like someone had pumped a huge amount of energy into her body. When the smoke had cleared, she realized that she was still alive, and that the energy had stained her skin and given her power.

Starfire's memories flashed before her eyes too. The combined impact of her own starbolt and Shego's called her back to her days as a prisoner on a foreign ship. She had tried to forget what had happened there, but it all came back. She felt the energy surge into her as her cruel tormentors watched to see if she would explode. Her whole body felt like it was on fire on the inside, but once she broke free she discovered that she had retained much of the same energy. The only other person in her situation had been Blackfire. Why was this earth woman capable of releasing the same type of painful energy that had been forced onto her? The longer they stayed up there together, the more memories of torture Starfire endured.

The pain became too much for Shego first, who let go of Starfire's wrists and plummeted to the ground. She didn't land on her feet as though she had planned to fall. She crashed into the bushes, tearing her ketchup and soda stained uniform on some sharp branches. She looked up at the alien, confused about what had just happened. Starfire too fell to the ground, staring straight forward in shock. She felt like she might faint, so she grabbed the fence behind her to stable herself. Both gasped to catch their breath. Shego heard the other teen crime fighters coming toward the scene, so she sprinted to the hovercraft and took off into the night sky. She stopped just before losing sight of the school to observe the strange alien girl who had possessed the same power as she did. It was just so strange.

"Apprentice!" Slade said, appearing on the hovercraft's screen. "Are you quite finished? I am not accustomed to be kept waiting."

"Yeah," she said, turning her back to the football field and speeding forward. "I'll be there any minute." After the screen turned black, she lit up her right hand and looked uneasily at it, still not making any sense of what had just happened.

(A/N: Yes, I am including some of Starfire's original comic book backstory. It is going to become important, but if you grew up with the cartoon and don't know much about the comics, you'll still understand it fine. I won't go too deep into it. If I did, I'd probably get everything wrong. Just know that before Starfire found her way to earth, she was tortured to see how much energy her body could take before exploding. She broke free before that could happen, and the result was her starbolts. The cartoon implies that the energy bolts from her eyes were more of a coming-of-age thing and that all her other powers were normal for Tamaranians. I don't know if that's accurate or not, but I'm sticking with it. Starfire is going to stay her PG-rated cartoon self personality wise. She's just having some darker backstory thrown in. I just couldn't resist the opportunity to point out the similarities between her powers and Shego's. It is interesting, isn't it? Both shoot green blasts of energy from their hands that was put onto them by something from space? What a coincidence.)