Disclaimer: I don't own anyone except for War Hawk, Tigress, Golden Arrow, Theygo, Artica, Metaphor, and Mischief. I wish I owned Shego and Drakken.
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"So all that's left to do is leave." Kim murmured. Her and Drakken were sitting across from each other in the kitchen. No one else was up.
She hadn't been able to sleep after Drakken had told her last night about Shego's text conversation. Drakken had gotten up an hour early, looking for Tigress's location via the internet.
He nodded.
"I can have them ready by the time you get home. We'll take the fastest vehicle, turn them back to normal, and have Tigress imprisoned by dinner."
Kim looked at Shego. The green tea had worked; she was out cold. The others were dozing on and off, but Golden Arrow had been staring at War Hawk's blankets since before Kim came down for a glass of water. She looked like a female version of Ron, without the freckles.
Shego was right. She'd have gone immediately for Ron.
"No." Drakken's brow furrowed in confusion.
"Tomorrow, then?"
"No. Get the girls ready now. I'll be down in five."
"Do you want me to call the buffoon for you?"
"No. He can't afford to try to make up the credits with his records."
Golden Arrow shot out of her sleeping bag.
"It's about time the girl came to her senses!" She declared.
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"Are we there yet?" Artica whined.
"I'm hungry." Metaphor decided.
"I have to use the facilities." Drakken said.
"Shut up or she'll turn around!" Shego said worriedly.
Kim wished she had remembered asprin. Luckily they were on the outskirts of Go City.
"How are we going to find her before she finds us?" Kim asked, looking to Drakken. He had been messing around with the Kimmunicator the entire trip.
"Go right." He said. She looked to her right.
"There's nothing but forest." She replied. Shego grinned.
"That's what she wants you to think." Shego said.
"You should park here and we go the rest of the way on foot." Golden Arrow suggested. Kim did as she suggested.
The woods were very dense. So dense they could barely move and everything looked the same. Drakken was staring at the Kimmunicator intensely, checking it with the surrounding forest. Reluctantly, Kim dropped from the lead and Drakken, with a nod of recognition, took it up.
"I have a plan." Shego stated. She looked to Kim.
"What's your plan?" Kim said, remembering Avarius's words. It was taking everything she had to trust Shego already.
"We split up into three groups. Metaphor, Artica, and me all distract Tigress. You and Golden Arrow go find War Hawk. Mischief and Drakken will find the Juvy thingy." Mischief grabbed Drakken's hand.
"'Cause Drew knows how to use it and I'm his girlfriend!" She exclaimed.
"Since when am I Drew or your boyfriend?" He asked.
Shego grinned. They were going to be such a cute couple. Then again, Mischief had been boy crazy since birth and her crushes flitted from one "hot" boy to the next. Maybe it would last, maybe it wouldn't.
"This is it." Drakken said, looking up from the screen. The entrance was a dilipidated stone well overgrown with ivy and moss.
"My group will go in first, then Kim's, then Drakken's." Shego decided.
Metaphor morphed herself into a sparrow and flew down the small opening. There was a pause until they heard a low chirp. Artica created a layer of ice on her fingertips that stuck to the edges of the well. She broke off the ice, created some more, and repeated the process, crawling down faster than Spiderman. Shego jumped up, did a flip in midair, and fell down the gap.
"Show off." Mischief muttered.
They waited a few minutes and then heard another low chirp.
"Come on, Kim." Golden Arrow said, jumping down the well. Kim climbed down using the small gaps someone had dug in between the stones.
Drakken and Mischief remained quiet until another low chirp came from below. Mischief climbed onto the rim, prepared to jump down.
"No, Mischief, you'll get hurt." Drakken said, grabbing her.
"No I won't." She giggled. He cradled her and then braced his feet against the walls.
His feet pressed against the sides slowed them down, but Drakken still managed to fall on his back when they landed. Mischief giggled.
"You're funny." She told him.
"I try." He muttered. He looked around and saw only Kim and Golden Arrow.
"Where's Shego's group?" He asked.
Golden Arrow sighed, as though they were slow.
"They're going to go distract Tigress. Once she's distracted, we go to the left. You guys check Tigress's bedroom for the Juvy thingy." Golden Arrow's head tilted.
"They're ready." She said, darting off.
"I didn't hear anything." Kim insisted, but followed Golden Arrow.
"How are we supposed to know where Tigress's bedroom is?" Drakken asked. Mischief took his hand.
"It's where the most sunlight comes in. Come on, chicken butt."
They ran off down an earthen corridor.
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"I'm always the distraction." Metaphor muttered.
"It comes with the power to morph. Now, go in there and tick Tigress off." Shego gently pushed her. Metaphor sighed.
Tigress was having a nap, wrapped in a blanket sprawled out on a mattress on the floor, sunlight warming her fur. It was a nice, deep, dream-less slumber, one like she hadn't had in weeks.
And then she woke up because her nose itched.
She rubbed at it, annoyed that something so trivial took her out of such a rejuvinating sleep. She turned over and tried to get comfortable. There was something on her face now. She slowly opened her eye closest to the object.
A rat. A huge, juicy rat.
She was too slow from just waking up. It jumped off before she caught it. She sat up and shook herself awake. She lunged at it again, but it scampered away. It was just a rat, she scolded herself, nothing to waste energy on. But she couldn't resist the temptation the cat side of her had.
She chased it out of her bedroom and pounced.
"Got you!" She hissed. From right under her paw, the rat changed into a scaled human. Tigress growled.
"No, got you, stinky pussycat!" Shego yelled, jumping on Tigress's back. Prepared for this, Tigress whipped around, sending Shego flying into the wall.
"You brought back up. That's something I didn't expect from an independent like you." She tightened her grip on Metaphor, slashing her other claw out to trap Artica against the wall.
Mischief saw Tigress. Mischief saw Artica and Metaphor pinned underneath her. Mischief saw Shego charging towards Tigress to free Metaphor and Artica.
"Stay back." Mischief warned Drakken. He watched as Tigress caught Shego's arm in her mouth.
"Hurry." He urged.
Meanwhile, Golden Arrow and Kim were descending deeper into the ground.
"Is it technically a basement if the whole house is underground?" Kim asked. Golden Arrow shrugged.
"All I know is that War Hawk's in a basement, which is usually the last story in any house."
War Hawk heard voices. She tensed.
"War Hawk, are you in there?" War Hawk got to her feet and walked towards the door.
"Golden Arrow?"
"Good. Stand back." There was a clicking sound.
"Where did you get the-" Kim was out there, too. The door shattered into a thousand toothpicks.
Golden Arrow put the gun back in her belt.
"Found it." She shrugged.
"Where are the others?" War Hawk asked.
"Upstairs. Hopefully they found the Juvi...Juvi...I'm so sick of this." The trio ran back to where their comrades were.
Mischief came out of the room with something that didn't look like it belonged with Tigress's things. She remembered she used to have a toy like that when she was little...before her brothers broke it.
"How does it work? Do you just twist this and press this...?" She asked, pointing it towards her friends.
"Mischief, no!" Drakken didn't say it quick enough.
A green ray hit Tigress, freeing the girls.
"Mew?" Tigress asked. She looked down at herself. She had been turned into a six-month-old kitten, barely looking like a human. She stood up on her four legs.
"Mew!" She yelled in outrage. She growled.
"MEW! MEW! MEW! MEW! MEW! MEW!" She yowled, stomping up and down, but then falling down on her face.
"Ahhh, she's so cute when she can't talk English." Metaphor said.
"Can we keep her?" Mischief asked. She picked up the kitten Tigress in her non-Juvinator hand.
"Don't pick her up! She hasn't had her shots or has been declawed or anything." Shego said. Tigress swatted at the Juvinator's rings.
"I know! We can reraise her! Train her to be good! Then we can all be friends and live happily ever after!" Mischief was so caught up in her new idea she failed to see Tigress press the button.
Next thing Mischief knew she was an adult again...but so was Tigress. She laughed like a sheep.
"The end?" She asked, sounding like Alvin from Alvin and the Chipmunks. Tigress's tail twitched irritably.
Drakken took the Juvinator from Mischief and shot it at Metaphor. Metaphor morphed into a wolf and knocked Tigress off of Mischief. They tumbled into Drakken, who then fell over. Mischief grabbed the Juvinator.
"Come on, babies. Let's go kick some Tigerese diapies!" She said in Tommy Pickle's voice from the Rugrats.
She shot at Artica, turning her back into an adult but before she could hit Shego, Tigress kicked at the back of her knees, making them buckle. The Juvinator went sailing in the air. Artica dove and caught it, pressing the button on the top.
The ray shot War Hawk, who was just rounding the corner. War Hawk, feeling stronger, unfurled her wings.
"Kim, jump on my back!" She called. Kim hesitated.
"Now!" She shouted. Kim jumped as softly as she could. War Hawk dipped a little, but regained her altitude.
Tigress wrestled the Juvinator out of Artica's hands, hitting Kim.
"Ow, my back..." She groaned. She looked down and saw veins coming through her wrinkly, frail hands.
"I'm an old woman!" Her voice shook from the energy.
War Hawk swooped down, flapping her wings in Tigress's face. Unable to see, it made stealing the Juvinator a cinch for Drakken. He set it at Kim's correct age and then shot her again. War Hawk didn't wait for Drakken to switch her back to her correct age, since the ray had turned them both into eighteen-year-olds.
War Hawk shot through the well, landing on the grass.
"Stay here. I'm going back to get the others." She said. Not waiting for Kim's insistence to help, she dove back into the lair.
Drakken failed to hit Shego, but shot Golden Arrow instead.
"Yes!" She cheered. Tigress threw Mischief at Drakken, sending the Juvinator aloft again.
"So, here we are again, my darling." She said like the skunk from Looney Tunes.
War Hawk caught the Juvinator in the nook of her wing, hitting the button and turning herself back into a 22-year-old.
"Hit me!" Shego whined. War Hawk aimed at Shego and pressed the button.
Shego ignited her hands with green flames.
"Finally." She murmured, pleased her voice was nice and deep again instead of high pitched and annoying. "Golden Arrow, Metaphor, Drakken, War Hawk, Artica, get out. Me and Mischief's got this cat in the bag." She commanded.
"That was terrible, Shego, even for your puns." Tigress grinned. She could practically taste Shego's death.
War Hawk scooped up Drakken and Metaphor morphed back into a sparrow. Golden Arrow followed, using the same gaps as Kim had to climb up. War Hawk swept back down and came up once more, Artica clinging to her. War Hawk folded her wings back into her skin, breathing hard. Drakken was heavier than she expected.
"Shouldn't we help them?" Kim asked.
"Nah. The fleabag's probably going to run off with her tail between her legs since her plan got spoiled." Artica shrugged it off.
Yeah. Shego was a great fighter and it was two against one. Kim dismissed her insecurities.
Five minutes passed without a sound, then ten. There was an alarming thud, but they all assumed it was Tigress. Then there was the sound of malicious laughing and then nothing. Kim strained to hear something.
And then it came, a horrible noise Kim had never thought she'd hear come from a villain.
Someone was sobbing.
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