Chapter 2

The Night Before

Kim was sitting on her bed, doing some homework I really hate History she thought to herself. Fate, however, interviened BEEP BEEP BE-BEEP went her Kimmunicator.

"What's the sitch Wade?" the familer face of Wade Load, Kim's genius friend who operated her website.

"Drakken and Shego are going after something in the rockies and they've taken hostages"

"Coordinates?"

"Coming in. Your ride should be there any minute"

"Told Ron?"

"Just about to"

"Thanks Wade" she signs off the screen. Kim got up and went over to her closet. She stood for a moment then pulled out her purple and black mission outfit. Something she had gotten recently when her old mission outfit had gotten trashed.

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About an hour later, Kim and Ron stepped out of the helicopter that was carrying them and out onto the rock. Kim didn't want to get too close to where Drakken and Shego were in case they were spotted. Ron wasn't overly happy about climbing the whole half mile over all that rock, but went along with it.

The walk, or rather climb, to where Drakken and Shego were supposed to be was pretty much as Kim expected.

Ron slipped, but managed to grab onto a ledge, though many small rocks fell after him.

"Shhhh" Kim said as they got closer. Ron nodded. Climbing up a bit higher Kim peeked over the rock and saw Drakken, Shego and what looked like several scientists, tied up of course. Drakken looked like he was interrogating them, but Kim couldn't hear what was being said

"Ron..." she wispered "I'm going to go around and distract Drakken and Shego. You go free the hostages. But stay low"

"I thought I was the distraction?"

"Not this time" That was her first mistake. Kim smiled and walked off. Ron sighed and started to move into position.

Kim was in position first. She didn't wait for Ron to get ready, as she didn't know where he was and had no way of finding out, not without exposing her position, so she went for it. Drakken and Shego had their backs to her so she decided to play it coy. She leaned up against a rock, looked down at her nails and spoke

"Ya know, being up a cliff this late at night really isn't safe" she said in a tone that sounded like she was telling someone "I told you so".

Both Shego and Drakken whirled around and saw Kim.

"KIM POSSIBLE? WHERE DID YOU COME FROM? HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN THERE?" Drakken shouted

"Me? Oh, I've been here about an hour now" Kim looked at her wrist, pretending she was wearing a watch.

"WHAT?" Drakken shouted, furious. Then he realized she was kidding. "Very funny" he gave her a sour look

"I thought so" Kim replied with a smirk. Drakken grinded his teeth for a minute before giving the same command he usually gave

"SHEGO! ATTACK!" he yelled, his face getting red. With an evil grin, Shego lit her hands and lunged at Kim.

Shego started off by attacking with a flurry of plasma punches aimed right at Kim's face. Kim, of course, managed to avoid these. She countered with a roundhouse kick that barely connected with Shego's side, just scraping the side of her outfit, though Shego could feel the friction as Kim's boot scraped down her side. She winced, but came right back by firing a couple of blasts right right at Kim. Kim easily dodged the first two, but the third scraped by her head, narowly missing. Kim could feel the searing heat from it and it scared her how close that had come.

Kim threw a hard punch right at Shego's waist, but the green woman blocked it and countered with her own knee, right up into Kim's stomach. Kim staggered backwards for a second, pretending like she was in pain

"That all you got?" she said in a tone that really annoyed Shego

"You want more? FINE!" Shego roared and lunged once again. In a move that would really suprise Shego, Kim flipped back and caught Shego's chin with her knee. Shego flipped up and landed on her back. When she got up, she had her hand on her jaw. That move had not only hurt physically, but Shego's ego as well. No one had ever taken her down like that before. She kicked her self for falling for the old "faking injury" trick. It only inspired her to fight harder.

Shego threw several blasts and then charged. While Kim was dodging the blasts Shego's foot connected with Kim's ankle, knocking the redhead over. Kim got up quickly and charged like a football player, using brute strength to knock Shego back.

Shego quickly lunged again, throwing several punches, all of which Kim blocked with her lower arms. Kim countered again with some punches of her own. Like Shego's hits, most of them were blocked, but one got through and Shego was sent right into a boulder, rendering her nearly unconcious.

Kim looked over and saw that Ron was signaling her that he had gotten the hostages out. She nodded and started to walk over when she was hit from behind. Hard. She went down fast.

When she got up a couple minutes later, her vision was blurry but she saw a familer green glow. She was in pain, a lot of pain, but she struggled to stand and continue. Grimicing, she stood up and took a shaky fighting stance

"I can't believe that you still want to fight" Shego laughed

"I'm not...giving up" Kim forced out

"Okay. It's your funeral" Shego said and lunged. Kim dodged. In Kim's head, she finally realized that there was no way to win this fight. So she made an honerable retreat and ran. She headed towards Ron, right along the cliff edge. It took Shego a second to figure out what had happened, but as soon as she did, she ran after her.

"YOU'RE NOT GETTING AWAY THAT EASILY, KIMMIE!" Shego yelled at Kim. This is when Kim made her second mistake of the night. She looked back to see if Shego was chasing her and she tripped over a small rock on the path. She fell. Normally she would have just pulled out her hairdryer and grappled to safety, but when she reached for it, it wasn't there. It must've fallen out she thought and just kept falling. The cliff was completely steep, nowhere to grab onto.

But the end never came.

After what seemed like an eternity, she felt her body being grabbed very harshly and stopped from falling. She opened her eyes and looked around. The first thing she saw was the pale green skin that she knew could only belong to one person.

"SHEGO?" Shego had saved her from death. A million thoughts formed in Kim's head at once. So many that she didn't know what to say, where to start.

When they had reached a plateau, Shego threw Kim down and tossed her the hairdryer

"Didn't I tell you? You aren't getting away that easily" Shego smiled and jumped off the cliff. Before Kim could react, other than to open her eyes, she saw Drakken's jet flying away from where Shego had just jumped.

Kim sat there for a time, speechless. There she had been, just about to meet her end when her mortal enemy had saved her. That thought sparked many words in Kim's head. The one that was most prominent: Why?

"KIIIIIM!" she heard come from up above. It was Ron, Kim shook her head and yelled back

"HERE!" she yelled and quickly heard a response

"YOU OKAY?"

"YEA. I'M FINE!" she said.

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"And that's how it happened" Kim finished telling her mother the next morning. It was Saturday, so she had slept in and had just finished both a late breakfast and telling her mother the story of her last mission.

"Well, I'm glad that Shego saved you" Anne commented with parental concern

"But why? Why did she do that? She and Drakken have being trying to kill me for years. Why, when I'm about to go, save me?"

"You ask me that like I know the answer" Anne replied.

"I didn't"

"You did. And I'm sorry Kimmie, I don't know. I can only guess, but you know her better than I do"

"Thanks anyway, mom" Kim said and headed upstairs.

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When she got back to her room, Kim picked up the phone and called Ron. She lay back on her bed as she listened to the ringing

"Ron here. Who dis?"

"Hey Ron"

"Oh, hey KP"

"What's going on?" she asked. She honestly didn't call him to talk about anything specific, more to say hello and how are you than anything.

"Not a lot. How are you doing? I'm a bit concerned after yesterday and that whole incident with Shego"

"Ron, I told you, I'm fine" Kim protested At least I hope so she thought.

She chatted with Ron for another half an hour about this and that before her mother yelled that she needed to use the phone. Sitting back down to do her homework her sentiment hadn't changed, I really hate History She thought.

Try as she might, her mind wasn't on what she was doing. Her thoughts mostly drifited towards the woman with the pale green skin and why she saved Kim.

Giving up on doing homework pretty quickly, she instead picked up her Kimmunicator and stared at it. C'mon Shego. Make a move. I need to talk to you. What happened next would stick in Kim's memory as being oh so bizarre.

BEEP BEEP BE-BEEP!

"Go Wade"

"Hey Kim. That was a fast pickup"

"I was close to my Kimmunicator. What's the sitch?"

"Shego and Drakken are on the move again" OH THANK YOU! she thought "You okay, Kim?"

"Huh? Yeah, I'm fine. Tell Ron to get ready. Got us a ride?"

"GJ is on their way"

"Spankin. Thanks Wade"

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"So what's going on with Drakken and Shego now?" Kim asked Wade en-route.

"Drakken was apparently trying to access a millitary lab last time you saw him. He never did get in, but he did find out about the project and is trying to build one himself"

"That's it?"

"Well, he is messing around with Nuclear Reactors here, Kim"

"Good point. So this device, what does it do?"

"I don't know"

"What?" Wade shrugged

"I couldn't find anything. Nothing at all. Not in any database on Earth"

"That can't be right"

"I conferred with a friend in the millitary, he wouldn't even admit the facility exists on the record. But he called me later and..."

"Off the record?"

"It exists. But the scientists live there and the only connection the place has to the outside world is a secure phone"

"Okay..."

"I'm not kidding, this place makes Area 51 look like a minimum security prison it's so highly defended. No record of it exists anywhere!"

"Not the greatest analogy, Wade"

"Yea, sorry. Anyway this device could be major trouble if Drakken gets it right"

"Only if?"

"Actually, I hope he does"

"What?"

"If he gets it wrong, well, all you need to know is that if he gets in wrong and it blows, say goodbye to life on Earth as we know it"

"I'll keep that in mind"

"COMING UP ON TARGET MA'AM!" the GJ pilot said

"Okay, drop us here" Kim said.

This was the fun part for Kim. She loved parachuting out of planes for some reason. Most people would call her an adrenaline junkie. They wouldn't be totally wrong.

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Kim and Ron managed to sneak into Drakken's lair undetected. As far as they knew.

"Hey, Kimmie" came from behind them. Kim and Ron whirled around and saw Shego standing behind them

"Shego" Kim said

"Yeah, that's me" Shego grinned

"We need to talk" Kim said. Before Shego could offer a witty reply, the whole lair began to shake

"Yeah, you might wanna brace yourself, Princess" Shego said as she checked her nails.

If anyone had been watching from the outside, they would have seen the mountain where Drakken and Shego were hiding begin to crumble and out come a large craft that took off over the ocean.

"Anyway, you were saying?" Shego asked. Kim sighed

"Shego, we need to talk"

"Yea, you know something? I don't really feel like it" Kim looked up, not really suprised. Just as Shego lunged at her.