- Joining the Company.

Tommy and Chuckie, in their Dynamo and Feline identities, sat at a bench at the police station, concern and worry evident despite their masks, especially in Chuckie. After an hour of Team Go not returning, and they didn't responding the communicators, the two heroes-in-training went with the cops both to keep an eye on Ram (in case he could react and fight to escape) and wait for the persons they called.

"Excuse me, officer, I'm Kim Possible; two friends of mine are here."

"Over here, Kim." Tommy raised his hand to get Kim and Ron's attention. The cops allowed them to pass, recognizing Kim from previous collaborations with Team Go.

"What happened, guys?" Ron asked the boys while placing his hands on their shoulders in a comforting way while Kim motioned them to move a few feet away from the officers for some privacy.

"We have no idea, Ron." Chuckie sighed, "This Eco Loco guy appeared with the other villain and we tried to stop them… but that… Gill fish captured Angelica and Mego, and we had to split up; Hego and the twins went after Gill while Tommy and I handled Ram, and… things just went wrong from there."

"Yes; Team Go never returned, and we had been trying to contact them, but it had been useless." Tommy rubbed the back of his neck, "And we're pretty worried; cops here seem to have no idea about where to start looking and it had been more than an hour since they disappeared."

"Don't worry; we'll find them." Kim did her best to comfort both boys, but it seemed no words would do the trick. "This Ram guy had said anything?"

"Only that he's saying nothing unless his lawyer is present." Tommy told the cheerleader, the boy getting an increasingly angry tone. "I am pretty tempted to give him a shock therapy… and if that fish boy hurts my cousin in any way, the world will be missing another species pretty soon!"

"Okay, we'll start looking for clues at the crime scene, and then try to track the route Hego and the Wegos used when chasing Gill." Kim said to her friends, trying to cool them down. "And trust me, I'm just as angry as you two; we'll help Angelica and Team Go, and then kick Gill and his boss back to a cell very soon."

Team Possible and the duo left the station, ready to start their own investigation.

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"Want some more water, Miss Angel?"

"No… thanks, I'm fine." Angelica politely refused Mister Hench's assistant's offer, the girl sitting next to Shego and right in front of Hench, all of them traveling in a black helicopter, while Team Go was transported in another one flying next to them, that one a little larger to accommodate Gill and all the henchmen guarding the unconscious heroes.

Finally, after a half-hour flight, the helicopter transporting Angelica landed on top of a large building, part of a huge complex, while the other helicopter did at a landing field next to the building, several henchmen running to receive it the moment the vehicle touched land.

"So, are you guys finally telling me what's going on here?" Angelica asked Jack in a half-demanding, half-pleading way as they jumped down the building and entered an elevator.

"It's quite simple, Miss Angel; business." Jack grinned slightly, "I have a little question for you; when there's a war, who wins?"

"The side with more soldiers and weapons, I guess." The blonde shrugged.

"Exactly, but there's another winning side… the one providing said soldiers and weapons, and charging a fortune for doing it; that's exactly what my company does, Miss Angel. You see, every super criminal, no matter if he or she is a world dominator or a petty thief, gets involved into a war against law enforcers and even other criminals with similar goals. Here, at Hench Co, we provide trained henchmen for those who don't want being crushed by competition or law, not to mention we also provide basic weaponry and some services, like lair repairing and legal help."

"And you have no problems with authorities? You can't tell me this is a legal business." Angelica arched an eyebrow at the man.

"We have our ways; all our operations have legal covers, and for our computer system, even that Wade kid can't hack our system without us finding out immediately; otherwise, I'm sure Miss Possible would have enough evidence to put us out of business by now."

The elevator finally stopped and opened its doors, Jack leading Shego, Angelica and his assistant out of it and into a stereotypical Bond villain-like lair, with several technicians moving around doing assigned tasks.

"Anyway, one of our company's goals is to create the best henchmen; we had been trying to do it through technological enhancements, but, sadly, there are several inconveniences about them, including the classical design problems, side effects and criminals trying to rob them instead of paying for the service."

"Hey, in this business, that's everyday stuff, J." Shego smirked at the man.

"In deed… well, anyway, we're now taking another direction; instead of trying to create super-powered henchmen, we're focusing on employing those who already posses those abilities, like our friend Gill."

Jack pointed at one side, Angelica wide opening her eyes when looking at a gigantic fish tank and several modified furniture next to it. In a perfect cue, Gill appeared through a thick door and headed to the tank.

"Hey, Jack, Team Loser is at the cages. I'm taking a rest while Eco Loco arrives." The mutant said before diving at the tank.

"Sure, Gill, have fun." Jack said to the merman before turning back to Angelica, "We could have brought Eco Loco, but every time we do it the helicopter must get disinfected. Anyway, we gave him Gill's contract a while ago at a very good price on the condition he would help us whenever we need an extra hand, even if a very dirty one."

"So that's why you want me; to offer my services as a henchman… or hench-girl." Angelica smirked at the man.

"Not just your services, dear, but Team Go's as well; we had been planning that for a while now, but, when three new super powered beings appeared, decided to delay our take over until said persons got the right training so we would appropriate three very capable super humans instead of having to train them ourselves, saving us a lot of money and effort."

"Only one problem; I doubt Team Go will cooperate with your plan, and the other two are way too moral for that."

"We already had taken… measures for that." Jack then opened a large door, with a massive ninja guarding the other side; Angelica almost fainted at the sight of the huge warrior.

"Mister Hench, sir; I had been guarding as you requested; no damage done to your equipment." The ninja replied in the most ridiculous voice Angelica ever heard, making her lose her fear immediately.

"Thanks, Sumo Ninja… but remember, please, no talking; it kind of ruins your image." Jack said to his employee as leading the females inside the room, a large weird-looking machine at the center of it with several chambers attached to it. Many technicians were making adjustments at the device, all of them supervised by a blue skinned man in a dark blue lab coat.

"How are things going, Doctor Drakken?" Jack asked the blue man, who turned to see him, a maniacal grin on his face.

"Almost done, Jackie… can call you Jackie, right?"

"He's your boss?" Angelica, who remembered Drakken's name from conversations with Kim, whispered at Shego.

"Yeah; he owes Hench a fortune due all the times his company repairs our lairs, so is paying him with work." Shego whispered back at the blonde before Jack turned back at Angelica.

"This, my dear girl, is an Attitudinator; one of our best devices ever; designed here at Hench Co but Doctor Drakken here has some… experience with it, so he's a very valuable asset to modify and improve the technology. It changes a person's attitude and nature, turning nice guys into evil ones and the other way as well. The only problem, of course, is that the process is reversible… which can be a good thing if one of us gets affected by accident."

"Ah, but that little detail is gone with this toy," Drakken pointed, "This one has permanent effects, which means any good guy blasted by it…"

"Remains a bad guy forever," Angelica ended the phrase.

"And we're using it on Team Go as soon as we capture the last two recruits. We could do it right now, but this device needs a lot of energy to work, so prefer transforming all of them at once." Jack said, a knowing smirk appearing on his face. "We thought about using it on you as well, Miss Angel, but Shego here confirmed you already have enough evil traits, and the Attitudinator would only succeed on making you extra-sweet and kind."

"I see… and you guys aren't worried about Kim Possible breaking in here?"

"Actually, we're waiting for that." Jack was cut by Drakken.

"More like, we're sure she'll do it! That annoying cheerleader can't keep her nose out of our stuff!"

"True, but it will not be easy," Jack chuckled slightly, "unlike most lairs, my air ducts are too small for even her to use, and the vents are so tightly closed a rodent wouldn't be able to open them."

"Why I never get this kind of ducts for my lairs?" Drakken whined.

"You hardly can pay us with the regular ones." Jack continued, "Plus, my computer system is extremely secure, as I already mentioned; the whole configuration changes constantly so her techno geek can't hack us or use our security cameras to guide his friends; once she appears, she'll have a very hard time entering the building, and then an even harder one trying to navigate in here, giving us the perfect chance to trap Team Possible… and I'm almost sure she'll bring our little friends with her."

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"Over there, Kim."

"Good eye, Tommy." Kim said to her young friend, who was using his magnetic hovering trick while Kim jumped from a rooftop to next one.

When Hego and company chased Gill, nobody at the street could follow their moves, so asking for witnesses' help was useless; luckily, the mutant left behind some slime everywhere he went, so Kim and Tommy could use that to know the chase's route.

"The trail ends here." Tommy said to Kim as checking the last rooftop they found slime on it. "Maybe they entered this very same building."

"Or maybe they ended the chase down there." Kim pointed at the warehouse right in front of the building, and then took out her Kimmunicator. "Ron, there's a warehouse down here and probably Team Go chased Gill inside; please, you and Chuckie check it while Tommy and I take a look at the building we're now."

"Got it, KP," Ron, him and Chuckie following Kim and Tommy at street-level, replied back to his girlfriend. "I wonder why villains always look for warehouses; is part of the image, or simply like those places?"

"You're the expert," Chuckie said, him still on his superhero ID, just like Tommy; the geek was moving a little ahead of Ron, no panting at all despite them following Kim and Tommy several streets now. "I just want to find Angelica sane and safe, and maybe doing something very nasty to that scaly guy."

"Dude, cool down, okay?" Ron said as placing a hand on the geek's shoulder, "First of all… it's hard to follow your pace…"

"Running too fast," Rufus said; the rodent sitting on Ron's shoulder.

"… and second, you're not helping Angelica if running right into a trap."

"Guess you're right," Chuckie sighed sadly, "is just that… Ron, Angelica does all kind of mean stuff to me, and practically all my life's scariest moments are somehow related to her… but she's also my friend, my counselor, and just like she had given me scary memories, many of my best ones are also related to her. All my friends are always covering my back, but she's the only who does it and also pushes me to face my fears even when I don't want to, and… I simply can't imagine my life without that crazy bossy girl insulting my guts and giving me a hand at the same time. Even if she wasn't my best friend's cousin, that is already a good enough reason to care about her, I can't stand the idea of anyone hurting that blond nightmare."

"We'll find her, dude, I promise." Ron said to his friend as they finally arrived at the warehouse, the elder boy noticing the door's condition and taking out his communicator.

"KP, come to the warehouse; I'm sure Hego was here. No one else can take down a steel door like this." Obviously, even if there was a second door to cover that entrance, the villains had to move so fast had no time to get rid of the destroyed one, simply putting it back on place and hoping nobody would notice its condition until it was too late.

Kim and Tommy joined their companions at the warehouse, the Pickles boy using his magnetism to open the replacement door, and started checking the place. Aside the large crater at the center of the building and some other evidences of a serious struggle, there were no visible clues, the place almost entirely empty, until Rufus, who Ron had allowed to search on his own, got everyone's attention.

"Nice job, little buddy. What did you find?" Ron kneeled to pick up his pet and the little device he was holding.

"Looks like some sort of communicator." Tommy commented as Kim contacted Wade.

"Wade, we got a clue; please, scan this device." Kim placed her Kimmunicator in front of the little device, a little red light emerging from it a moment later as Wade scanned the clue from his lab.

"I think got something; there's a compartment at the left side." Wade informed his friends. Kim opened the compartment and found out an already used tiny dart.

"That dart has a bar code… very small, but I can trace it." Wade typed furiously for a few seconds and frowned. "Got it; the dart was made at LABSCO, the scientific division of Hench Co."

"Jack Hench is behind this? I don't get it; he usually provides stuff to villains, not doing evil things himself." Ron scratched his head in confusion.

"But he loves money, and if there's some way to turn kidnapped heroes into business, he'll find and exploit it." Kim pointed.

"Well then, what are we waiting for? Let's go visit this Hench guy." Tommy said, the most serious he had been in a long time.

The group started leaving the building yet Kim stopped for a moment to look at the place Rufus found the communicator; it was pretty close to a corner, almost perfectly hidden, as if left there on purpose; not easy to find yet not that hard either.

"I have a bad feeling about this." Kim thought before joining her companions.

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"So… once you get all of them brainwashed, Team Go and my companions will be like zombies or something?" Angelica asked Mister Hench, who chuckle a little bit as leading her and Shego into his office.

"Not exactly; they'll just become evil, but still conserve a good amount of independent thought. Of course, without the 'good guy' morals, they'll accept our business proposition; I already have set an auction for them."

"An auction?" Shego raised an eyebrow, this being new to her as well.

"Yes, several villains will make their best offers to get your brothers' contracts, and so your friends', Miss Angel." Jack said to both females as offering them a seat. "In fact, it's about time to contact them and tell most of our… 'products' are currently in our power."

The man pressed a few buttons on his desk, and a huge screen appeared at the wall next to him. It immediately divided into several small screens, each one displaying a different guy's face; Angelica noticed one or two seemed regular people, but most had a somehow scary look

"Gentlemen," Jack addressed the villains, "it's my pleasure to communicate you we have caught most of our new super-powered henchmen; if everything goes fine, we'll have the auction tomorrow. Now, I would like to know if have a particular… interest on any of them." The man said casually; of course, he only wanted to know about this to set the best prices on the most requested super beings.

"I would like Green, seriously!" A man with long blond hair and moustache said as looking at Shego.

"In your dreams, idiot," Shego growled at the man.

"Mister Ed, we're not offering Miss Shego here; she already has a contract with your cousin." Jack said in a calming way.

"Oh, well… then, I would like offering money on the blue dude, seriously; his strength can come handy to work with lots of metal… then again, the electric kid can be a good option too, seriously."

"I want to offer on one of the cloning twins; like buying by volume." Another man, who looked more like a supermarket employee than a villain, got Jack's attention.

"I don't know, Mister Lucre… you lack the capital to afford even our regular henchmen."

"I have over 50 thousand dollars in 'Smarty Mart' coupons!"

"Mmm… get me some for those tasty muffins, and might make you a place at the auction."

"I want the other cloning guy… or maybe both." An eye-patched man said, "I run out of henchmen at an alarming pace."

"That's because you always dispose of them after any minimal mistake, Mister Gemini."

"Good thing he's not interested in me." Angelica gulped slightly.

"I have a personal interest on the orange one." A man with ape-like hands rubbed his chin.

"Thought your monkey ninjas were the only help you needed, Mister Fist." Jack got a knowing tone.

"True, but many of the artifacts I search for are heavily guarded, so why risking my monkeys if can send someone else? Besides, according to the data you already gave us, Stoppable has some sort of mentor-like relationship with him… it would be a nice revenge having my nemesis' pupil working for me." The simian villain got a little sinister grin.

"Arh, I want to get the shrinking lad." A bearded man with a thick Scottish accent talked next.

"Ah, interested in his stealth capacities, Mister Killigan?"

"Nah… need a caddy that doesn't take too much space."

"Say vatever ya vant," a helmeted-man with a German accent cut the conversation, "I'm getting all I can! These uber-humans can be very useful to me… especially the electric one! Vill save a fortune in electricity; death rays consume much energy, yah!"

"Hey, Dementor, you always want taking all the fun for yourself, seriously!" Motor Ed snapped at his villainous colleague.

"Dementor? He got that name from where; a Harry Potter's book?" Angelica whispered at Shego, who couldn't help get a little grin at the reference.

"Gentlemen, please, all of you will have a chance to get at least a super henchman; just have your checks ready." Jack calmed down the villains.

"Certainly, Mister Hench, you speak truth." An old man, that Angelica considered the most normal-looking of the group, spoke soft yet firmly, "I'm used to work just with my son, but some extra help can come handy. And, if can join the conversation, I would like offering some money on the young lady here," the man pointed at Angelica, "but I'm still not totally convinced."

"Why, Mister Senior Senior Senior? Miss Angel had proved her capacity."

"But I still have my doubts about her," the old man looked suspiciously at Angelica; this guy, she guessed, really meant business.

"And I do too!" A well-built young man appeared on screen next to SSS, "Look, girlie, if you want a good job offer, answer this question… what's your favorite boy band?"

Angelica was taken back by the question, as Shego, SSS, and all the other villains slapped their foreheads at Junior's request.

"Well, Sulky Boys are my favorites; I also liked the O Boys, but after their last album, well, they're old news… still good, but not exactly 'in' these days." Angelica finally replied.

"Wow." Junior gave her an impressed look and then grinned at his father, "This girl is good, Father! Hire her!"

"Junior, I'm not auctioning on someone based on her musical taste," the old man told his son before turning back at the blonde, "I need someone who understands and know villainy."

The old Senior and Angelica looked at each other's eyes before he talked again.

"I want to hear your evil laugh."

Angelica got her trademark mischievous grin, and took a little breath, her glow covering her body a moment later for extra effect.

"HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!"

The villains, both the ones at the screen and those at the office, gave her a long look before the villains on screen broke the silence.

"I want to hire her!"

"I'll get you more coupons!"

"The girl is good, seriously!"

"A natural talent!"

"I'm offering for the lass!"

"Not bad, Blondie," Shego whispered at the girl. "You now are officially a villain."

"Maybe I'll enjoy this after all." Angelica rubbed her hands as hearing the villains offering money for her… yet still hoped the Gemini guy wasn't getting her contract.