W00t on month long absences. At the rate I'm going, it'll take years to get to a hundred chapters.
Oh well, at least I do still have some idea what I want to do with some of the later antics of Drakken. Also, Kim appearance. And Drakken's mother. And Ed. And cookies.
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Her eye twitched. She didn't notice it, but Ron did. When he noticed her eye twitching, something clicked inside his brain, a wheel that normally sat unused in his mind began turning. He understood what the body signals of this woman were trying to tell him, and it scared the boy. At that moment, a small hairless rodent decided to appear, and look up to his best bud, only to notice something amiss. Looking to the source of the problem, the rodent's instincts picked up on it immediately. Squeaking like crazy, he grabbed on for dear life as the hero saving kid dove backwards to avoid a clawed plasma attack.
As Shego continued to assault the boy with near miss after near miss, screams of both fear and anger scared nearby guards from their posts; they didn't want to witness the villainess's torture session. They felt bad about whoever was bearing witness to the steam the woman needed let out, but there wasn't enough money in Drakken's bank account to pay for even a moment of what could be dished out by the mad woman.
Ron needed to keep moving. Every inch he didn't move was an inch closer to death. He needed to let her calm down; or wear out. She was a professional, and not likely to do either for a long time if she was determined enough. This was not looking good. She was going to do some serious damage soon, he was wearing out, and running out of maneuvering room.
Oh, this boy had some nerve. He was going to pay for even thinking about being smart with her, especially about that. If he did make it out of this, she was going to laugh for so long. He was helping her let out more stress than her usual goof. But what was that out of the corner of her eye? A flash of red, it seemed. Not that there was enough time to think about it before Shego was pinned, her arms held down. Letting out a mighty roar, she fought against this teenage do-gooder. "Ron, get out of here, fast," Kim said, being thrown away as her attention shifted.
Getting up, the evil woman glared at her arch nemesis; her antithesis in fighting. "Stay out of this Possible, you don't even want to know what that idiot has done to me." Diving again at the retreating boy, she felt her foot suddenly stop, her body with it. Falling to the ground, Shego saw the wire around her ankle. That girl didn't know when to quit, did she? Well fine, more stress to free up.
Ron stopped running. Kim didn't understand why he was here; he made Wade swear not to say anything. Even if Wade had told Kim, his friend wouldn't understand that he wasn't going to be in danger. So what if he was just about to be cut to shreds when she showed up. Turning around and heading for the fighting girls, he made up his mind. He had to stop the fighting... somehow. Seeing the two get into their stare-down, he got ready. There it was, they dove at each other, completely absorbed in taking each other down. He jumped between them, hands held out, stopping them with a palm to each of their faces. "Girls, wait, the Ron has some 'splainin to do!"
Shego snarled while Kim started in. "Ron, she's evil! What are you even thinking, trying to give her a present? And where did you even get seeds for those roses?" Shego caught that. Seeds, not the roses themselves? That means this kid took the care of growing these things for months, quite possibly the year and a half he had known of her. "And buying that super growth formula, what were you thinking?" So much for that idea, but at least she knew it still took some work to make sure the roses turned out to look this good.
"Kim, it was her birthday! You know how mean she is, I thought maybe if someone was a little nicer to her she wouldn't be so grumpy all the time!"
"Oh yeah, because that worked yesterday, and it sure worked today." Both teens looked over at Shego, who was standing cross-armed against the wall.
"I got it, you don't want birthday presents, so I was just gonna start giving to you the rest of the time" This boy was obviously not getting it.
"Ron!" And his little girlfriend wasn't helping. Neither of them were supposed to bother her unless Drakken was doing something evil.
"Shego, where are you!" Speak of the devil, the evil-genius was coming here. Oh, what a mess this was going to be. "Ah, there you are! Hurry up, we have to go." Pointing to the gathered crowd, he stopped in his tracks. "Kim possible! And her sidekick?" nervously trying to think a way out of what he had just said, he said the first thing that popped into his mind. "How about some tea and cookies?" Oh, her boss was such an idiot.
"You know, not so much on the tea, but cookies would be kickin'." And the other idiot decides to encourage him. At least Kimmie knows how aggravating this is. Maybe she'll stop them.
"Well, I could use some tea, I guess." So much for that. Everyone walked into the kitchen, Drakken getting tea while the others sat down. An uncomfortable silence settled while waiting, but sooner than it seemed the blue man had returned with a tray of cups, cookies, and a tea kettle. There was some more silence before Dr D started drumming his fingers.
"So, what brings all of you here to my nice little home?"
"I was here giving a normal every day gift to Shego there." The silence broken, Ron answered before starting to shove cookies into his mouth. Rufus was sitting on the table, gobbling on some cookies, before drinking out of the tea cup.
"And I was here trying to stop him, and Shego from hurting him." Sipping her tea, Kim simply tried to observe the situation.
Sitting across from her, Shego downed a mouthful of the searing hot tea, anything to avoid the situation. "I live here, unfortunately."
Drakken looked back and forth among the people gathered before coming up with his answer. And oh, it was definitely the wrong answer. "So, you and Shego here are an item?" Spitting out the mouthfuls of food and drink they both had, they started to deny his claim when the doorbell rang. "Oh, one moment, I'll go get the door."
Shego leaned back in her chair, grabbed a Villain's Monthly magazine, and buried herself in it. She was no longer going to be a part of this. "Oh Drewbie, your kitchen looks so nice!" Oh please no, not today. Things were crazy enough. All the more reason to bury herself further in the magazine.
"Mother, you remember Shego. Here with us are... Rival radio show hosts. This is Kim Possible," he said, motioning to the heroine, who looked at Shego for an explanation. Getting only a shake of the head, she turns to Miss Lipsky and takes the offered hand.
"It's a pleasure to meet you. I've had some interesting experiences... Radio show hosting with your son."
Turning to the boy who was busy getting cookies inside his mouth, he continued. "And this is her partner, whom I can never seem to remember the name of."
Looking up, he groaned, "Its Ron stoppable! What is up with remembering my name?"
Before getting to say anything else, the doctor added one more piece of information. "He is currently courting Shego here."
Her hands lit up at that one. Even if only for a second, her magazine was now destroyed. Miss Lipsky almost saw it, but the hands were out before the mother turned to her. "Oh, what wonderful news!" Grabbing the green woman and picking her up in a powerful hug, she continued, "One day you might have kids, and they can be radio show hosts, oh, I'm so happy!"
Trying to pry herself free, she needed to say something... anything. "Look, we're not..."
Not having time to finish, the elder tossed her down. "Oh, I have news of my own. Edward is back again. I have to go now, but have fun with him Drewbie! And don't let him get you into trouble again!"
Running out, her small visage was soon replaced by a familiar mullet-bearing motor specialist. "Dude, green babe, I'm back!" Quickly swooping in and grabbing the vixen, he was just as quickly blasted away. "Ed, don't bother. She's taken now, Possible's sidekick snatched her up."
Quickly seeing that Kim and Ron were in the room, his convictions were suddenly focused on the latter. Picking him up by his collar, he glared the boy down, "you, kid! You're the one Shego has her eyes on now? I say we fight for her!"
"Whoa, I'm a lover, not a fighter! Besides, we're not a couple man!" Tossing him across the room, Motor Ed was having none of that.
"What, so now you're not good enough to admit it? I am definitely going to have to rearrange your face. Seriously." Getting a bolt of green energy to his abdomen, Eddie flew across the room.
"All right everyone, listen up! I am not now, nor have I ever been, nor will I ever be Stoppable's girlfriend! Everyone got that?" Her hands were lit, the table had been destroyed by the wayward plasma, and Kim's shirt had tea on it. That was going to take forever to get out.
Quickly recomposing himself, the recently blasted man moved in to lean over Shego, his arm on the wall behind her. "So what, you're free then? Say this Friday maybe?" Simply ignoring his ramblings she stormed off, intent on going back to bed and making like today never happened. "Saturday maybe?" That earned him a blast straight through a wall. Let Drakken try to take the repair cost out of her pay, he'd know what it was like to be his cousin.
Finally back in her room, she laid down and closed her eyes. Looking over to her dresser, she saw both roses, the one from yesterday and today. Oh, if he came back for tomorrow's promised rose, he was going to regret it.
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So why so crazy so soon? I was going to do something this wild later, but I figured that by the time I was going to get around to it there'd be less I could toy with. Not that I toyed with everything just yet.
I've had people say to combine chapters to make them longer (another story). I didn't really get what that meant before, but after reading some stories with dividers midchapter, I think I got it.
I won't do that. I either let the flow change the scene, like I did in the first chapter, or I cut off the flow. Putting in dividers makes the story seem too... jumpy for my taste.
3 chapters down, 252 to go, neh?