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Kim Possible: Freaked Out
Chapter Four
By Deaku
The noise was deafening; Kim could feel her body shaking from the sheer volume of Freak-Out's roar, but she still was able to look around and see how the others were doing. Ron was right next to Kim with his eyes closed and his ears covered, she saw Rufus briefly peek out of his pocket and quickly duck back down when he saw what was making the noise. Team Go had looked a bit unsettled at first by Freak-Out's current form, but they had recovered and looked determined to fight. Director and Will Du looked calm and collected, however Jackson had an expression that was a mix of disgust and rage. Shego was standing next to Kim on the opposite side from Ron with a fierce smile on her face; while Kim saw the usual confidence in Shego's expression she thought she saw something else too, like a sense of pride in what stood before them.
"I'm ending this now!" Jackson yelled and grabbed his sidearm, red bolts of energy flew through the air as he fired several times.
The energy bolts impacted on Freak-Out's body but dissipated without effect, the attack didn't even leave a scorch mark. Freak-Out made a noise that sounded like a snort then raised his arms, both the humanoid ones on his upper body and the scorpion-like ones on his lower body, and quickly brought them down to the floor with a thundering crash. Everyone dived out of the way as a large section of floor was shattered, shaking the whole area and sending pieces of concrete flying everywhere.
"Impossible!" Jackson growled as he stood back up after having dived to the ground to dodge the attack. "This bio-disrupter is keyed to his genetic structure, it should have stunned him! Or at least done some damage and slowed him down!"
"I couldn't imagine why it wouldn't work." Will commented, his voice thick with sarcasm. "Did you ever think that there might be the slightest possibility that his genetic structure doesn't remain in a constant state? A side-effect of his shape-shifting ability?"
"We can figure that out later. Right now we have a situation to contain." Director told the pair as she stepped forward. "Justin, I ask that you cease this at once and resume your human form." Her voice was calm, but firm. "I do want this resolved as peaceably as possible; but if you insist on this course of action I will be forced to take whatever means I must to put a stop to it."
Freak-Out growled and began to move forward; Director just sighed and unholstered the twin energy pistols she had at the back of her belt and opened fire. Director aimed at joints and anywhere Freak-Out's armor appeared weaker than the rest, each of the golden energy bolts struck their targets in rapid succession. While Director's attack didn't have anymore effect than Jackson's Freak-Out actually moved back a bit, seeming surprised by the speed and accuracy of the attacks. Director saw that she hadn't caused any damage so she ceased with her attack to think of a new strategy and allow her weapons to cool.
As Director backed away Team Go went into action; as the Wegos and Mego tried to draw Freak-Out's attention Hego ran around to the side. Hego grabbed onto one of Freak-Out's legs and began to pull; Hego managed to pull Freak-Out in his direction but Freak-Out pulled back, lifting Hego up off the ground. Freak-Out began quickly swinging the leg Hego was holding onto, while Hego managed to hang on for a short time he eventually lost his grip and was sent skidding across the floor. Mego and the Wegos kept up with their distraction tactics as Freak-Out swung at them trying to swat them away. Shego even joined in, laughing as she dodged around.
"C'mon Justin, can't you be any faster than this?" Shego taunted as she laughed and dodged.
Freak-Out stopped swinging with his arms and leaned forward slightly, as he did so the serpent tails suddenly shot forward with considerable speed. Team Go was forced to quickly jump out of the way to avoid being struck, Mego gave Shego an annoyed look considering the attack her fault, while Shego just seemed amused. Director, Will and Jackson ducked down to avoid being hit, while Kim shoved Ron out of the way and jumped after him to get out of the way herself.
"What are we supposed to do here KP?" Ron asked as he got up from the ground. "He may look like a monster now but it's still Jet… err Justin… the guy we hang out with, just this afternoon even."
"I know Ron…" Kim responded, she was unsure about the whole situation herself. While Justin looked to be the monstrous beast attacking the brave heroes Kim knew there was more to it than that. Justin was just trying to live free and survive best he could, though Kim felt that there must have been a better way to do it than stealing food like had been doing, as he was trying to hide from those that hunted him. Now Justin was feeling threatened and backed into a corner, he was fighting back because he saw no other way. Kim was wracking her brain trying to figure out a way to end this without getting Justin captured and hauled away by Jackson or anyone getting seriously hurt, unfortunately she hadn't come up with anything yet.
As Kim was trying to think there was a flash of movement and a yelp of surprise from Ron; Kim found that Ron was no longer next to her, he had been grabbed by one of the serpent tails. Before Kim could try and save him one of the serpent tails rushed at her; she stepped to the side to avoid it and just as it looked like it was going to pass by her, its tongue lashed out and wrapped around Kim's waist. Kim found herself lifted up and carried after Ron; the pair was placed back down a distance behind Freak-Out, near a doorway.
"Kim, Ron, please get yourselves out of here. I don't want you getting caught up in this anymore than you already have." Justin's echoing voice came from the mouth of one of the serpent tails that had set them down. Kim and Ron were a bit shocked, it was weird hearing their friend's voice come from a giant version of something they had referred to as a 'snaky thing'.
"No way, we just can't leave it like this." Kim told him. "And even if we did leave what do you plan on doing about everybody else?" Kim pointed towards where the others were still battling with the main body of Freak-Out.
"I'm not going to kill anyone or seriously injure them if that's what you're worried about. Not even Jackson." Justin answered. "I'm just going to try and knock them unconscious if I can, or at least keep them fighting until they're too tired to move, and then use that chance to get out of here. Though I'll have to be sure to knock out Jackson long enough for me to get out of town, or he'll probably just call in so many agents to chase after me nobody around here will be able to do anything without tripping over one."
"And Shego?" Kim inquired.
Justin was silent for a moment. "Tasha and I, we have…" A strange screeching noise suddenly came from Freak-Out, from the head on his main body and all of the serpent tails.
The serpent tail that had remained by Kim and Ron pulled back and Freak-Out glared at Will Du with all of his golden eyes. A thin line could be seen extending out from Will's Stop-Watch to Freak-Out's shoulder where he managed to land his attack. But before Will could recall the line and try for another attack Freak-Out swiped with his arm and snapped the line, rendering the weapon useless.
"I didn't think that Stop-Watch would have enough power to have any effect." Jackson smirked. "Even if he is vulnerable to electrical attacks."
"Which is probably why he came here." Director commented. "No electrical power at the moment and it's nowhere near cold enough to have any effect on him, eliminating both of his vulnerabilities."
"The cunning fiend!" Hego shouted.
"It's common sense you idiot." Shego said dryly. "If you choose a battleground, pick one that you have an advantage in."
As the others started to battle with Freak-Out once again Kim spotted a door other than the one that Justin had wanted her and Ron to use to leave. Kim walked over and opened it, revealing a stairway leading down to another door. Kim thought of something that might put a stop to the fighting, at least temporarily.
"Doctor Director!" Kim called out to get the woman's attention, then pointed through the doorway. "Down here! We can regroup!"
Director nodded. "Everyone fall back!" She ordered and pointed towards the doorway.
Everyone ran for the door, though Hego had to grab Shego and carry her when she gave no indication she was going to move. Shego growled and hit him, but couldn't get out of Hego's grip before he had them both through the door and down the stairs.
Through the door at the bottom of the stairs turned out to be a small room, most likely intended for storage. Team Go used their glow to give everyone light as they all caught their breath.
"Just wonderful Miss Possible." Jackson growled. "You've led us into a dead-end and trapped us."
"She did nothing wrong Jackson." Director glared at him. "She found us a place to catch our breath and where Justin can't come after us at his current size."
"You're the only one that's done wrong here Jackson! If you hadn't tried to shoot him back in Bueno Nacho I would have been able to talk to him and we wouldn't be in this situation!" Shego yelled in his face, most everyone else in the room nodded in agreement. "If you had never gotten involved with us in the first place none of this would have ever happened!"
"I was doing my job! To protect the people from any threat!" Jackson yelled back. "And your friend out there is a massive threat!"
"Hey! Could you please keep it down?! There's something going on out there." Ron spoke up as he had his ear to the door. "There's a hissing sort of noise… along with what sounds like something breaking and grinding. Like wood being put through a meat grinder, or maybe meat through a wood chipper…"
Shego quickly went to the door and pushed Ron out of the way before putting her own ear to the door. "He's changing form, probably into something small enough to get down here."
"Well that didn't take him long." Kim sighed.
"We can't fight him in such a small space." Will said matter-of-factly.
"Hego smash a hole in the floor." Shego suddenly ordered.
"For what?" Hego questioned
"Well I'm hoping there's a sewer tunnel down there and we can use that to get out of here and have a bit more space for when he comes down after us." Shego answered
"Sounds like a plan to me." Mego shrugged. "Better than just sitting here waiting for him."
Hego just nodded and punched the floor. The first punch left cracks as did the next one, with the third punch a large hole opened up in the floor and revealed the sewer tunnel below. Without a word everyone quickly jumped down the hole and into the sewer below.
"The sewer again…" Ron groaned as he looked around and walked along with everyone, the tunnel dimly lit by the agents' flashlights and Team Go's glow.
"Reminds me of that one Halloween adventure of ours." Wego2 mentioned as they continued to walk.
"Yeah, the vampiric Stalker." Wego1 grinned and moved an arm in front of his face like he was wearing a cape.
"I remember her," Mego commented with a smirk. "Seemed to have quite a thing for Hego if I remember right."
"That's for sure." Shego actually laughed. "Wanted more from Hego than just his blood."
"Fortunately she's still in prison." Hego breathed a sigh of relief.
"This is not the time to be reminiscing," Jackson growled. "In case you forgot…" Jackson suddenly went quiet when he noticed movement at their feet and swung his flashlight down.
The light revealed several rats running by their feet, causing looks of disgust to appear on many of their faces, all the rats were running from the direction they had come from. Now that nobody was talking or moving they could hear a sound in the darkness; something scraping and dragging along the ground, something that was getting closer to them. Flashlights were shined down the tunnel and Freak-Out moved into the light.
Freak-Out's new form was smaller than the last, one that was able to move through the tunnel easily. Freak-Out's upper body was still humanoid but just a little larger than human size; his head had two golden eyes in an otherwise featureless mask and was crowned with several long spikes. Instead of the scorpion-like lower body of his previous form Freak-Out's lower body was now serpent-like and heavily armored.
Jackson briefly took aim with his weapon and growled; but he suddenly holstered his weapon spun around and ran, disappearing around the corner of the tunnel junction they had come to.
"Get back here Jackson! That's an order!" Director called out as Jackson went around the corner, but he did not heed her.
"I always knew he was a coward." Shego gave a half-laugh as she watched Jackson run.
Everyone's attention was drawn back towards Freak-Out as they heard the scraping movement again, Freak-Out swung his tail around and everyone had to duck or jump back to avoid being struck.
Director suddenly charged forward as Freak-Out swung his tail back for another attack, she jumped the attack but grabbed onto the tail and hung on. As the tail slowed Director pulled herself onto it and began to run up the tail towards Freak-Out's upper body. Freak-Out turned his upper body to face Director, but before her could do anything more she lashed out with a kick to his face and connected. Freak-Out swung a fist at her but Director twisted her body as she was in the air and avoided the blow, she grabbed onto Freak-Out's arm as it passed by her and used it to spin herself around to deliver another kick to his face. Director finished her assault by kicking both feet into Freak-Out's chest and launching herself back away from him, landing lightly on the ground in a defensive crouch. As Freak-Out snarled at Director Will began to run towards him.
"Will wait!" Director called out, but Will didn't listen.
Will suddenly turned as he got close to Freak-Out heading directly towards a wall; Will jumped up and planted his feet on the wall and pushed himself off, launching himself towards Freak-Out's face. Will tried lashing out with a kick like Director had, but Freak-Out grabbed hold of his foot before the kick could connect and simply held onto Will leaving the young agent hanging upside-down. Director leapt forward to attempt to save her subordinate, but as she jumped into the air Freak-Out swung Will and struck Director. Freak-Out released Will's foot and both agents went flying into a wall, they fell to the ground unconscious.
Freak-Out turned towards Team Go and swung his tail once again, but this time Hego braced himself and caught the tail. Freak-Out tried pulled his tail back but Hego would not let go.
"Not this time Freak-Out!" Hego said in a heroic voice. "You made a bad choice with this form, as horrifying as it looks its actual combat ability seems pretty low."
Freak-Out didn't respond, but suddenly Hego felt the tail he had a hold of suddenly go extremely soft and it simply slipped out of his grasp. Freak-Out's tail was pulling back, becoming shorter as Freak-Out began to change form. There were sounds like things were cracking and grinding in Freak-Out's body as he began to change; as the tail finished retracting it split, becoming legs as Freak-Out assumed a fully humanoid form. As the transformation continued Kim and Ron took a few steps back as they stared on in both shock and awe, it wasn't quite like anything they had seen before. The armor covering Freak-Out's body seemed to start shifting and became dark red fur; his face extended into a muzzle full of sharp teeth. As his transformation ended Freak-Out's new appearance could be likened to a blood-red werewolf.
"Nice going Hego, great advice you gave there. Too bad it helped him and not us." Mego said in an exasperated tone, the Wegos nodding in agreement.
Before any of Team Go could react Freak-Out leapt forward directly at Hego. Hego managed a punch but Freak-Out ducked under the swing and delivered an uppercut, the blow had enough force to lift Hego off the ground and sent him into the air. As Hego came down Freak-Out grabbed hold of him and swung him into the wall, then spun around and slammed him into it again. Freak-Out finished the assault by throwing Hego across the tunnel into the opposite wall. Hego managed to stand back up, looking dazed, he seemed to be about to say something but then fell backwards landing flat on his back and unconscious.
Freak-Out turned to the rest of Team Go but didn't attack immediately. Instead Freak-Out's muscle mass suddenly increased, his muscles becoming even bigger than Hego's, and he spread his arms wide. Shego realized what was about to happen and spun around; finding Kim and Ron in her way she grabbed them and threw them around the corner before ducking behind it herself. Freak-Out slammed his hands together and the result was a thunderous boom and a pressure wave blasted forward catching Team Go and throwing them back. Shego, Kim and Ron saw the Wegos and Mego hit the ground near them; the Wegos were out but Mego was still barely awake.
"I told Hego he wasn't the only one who could do that stupid thunder clap…" Mego managed to get out before losing consciousness.
Shego spotted a manhole cover across the tunnel above them. "Let's go." Shego ordered as she pointed towards it. "I'd rather finish this outside."
"But what about…?" Kim started to ask.
"Don't worry about it, I'll get Justin to follow." Shego answered before Kim could finish asking. "Now get climbing."
Kim and Ron started up the ladder and Shego was right behind them, but she stopped partway up the ladder and turned to watch Freak-Out as he stepped over Mego and the Wegos, seeming careful not to step on them, and looked down the tunnel in the direction Jackson disappeared. Shego flung a small bolt of plasma that struck Freak-Out in the back of the head, while it didn't do any damage Freak-Out spun around towards Shego.
"C'mon Justin! The party's this way!" Shego called out then pointed up as Kim and Ron pushed the manhole cover out of the way and climbed out. "You know you want some of this!" Shego taunted as she patted her behind before quickly climbing up the ladder laughing. She could hear a loud growl as she pulled herself up out of the manhole.
"Really Shego, it is such a good idea to taunt him like that?" Kim asked as Shego was still laughing a bit. "I don't think it's such a good idea to make him any madder than he already is."
"Don't be such a spoilsport Princess, I'm just having a bit of fun with him." Shego smirked. "Besides he'll have to change into something smaller to come out after us, no way he'll fit through that hole as that big wolfish thing."
"Well just what do you plan to do once he gets up here?" Kim questioned. "Fighting won't solve anything."
"Listen Kimmie, just keep back and watch." Shego told her. "Justin and I, we have our own way of working things out between us. So just stay out of it and let us do our thing."
Just then there was a loud impacting sound, quickly followed by another as cracks started forming in the road around the manhole. With another blow a red-furred fist burst up out of the concrete as the surface around the manhole shattered; as Freak-Out pulled himself up out of the hole the few civilians that were around screamed and ran.
"Or instead of becoming smaller he could just make the hole bigger so that he can come up without changing." Ron said nervously as Freak-Out walked towards them.
Shego motioned for Kim and Ron to stand over on the sidewalk, as they did so she took a few steps forward. "I must admit Justin I'm very impressed, you've gotten a real handle on your powers and can really lay down the pain." Shego said honestly as she smiled, but that smile soon became a smirk. "But you know, the Freak-Out look really isn't you, especially this wolfish thing you got going on right now. So how about you change into something a bit more recognizable before we continue this?"
Freak-Out breathed out a sound like a sigh and just shrugged. Freak-Out then started to change and become smaller; the cracking and grinding sounds accompanied the transformation. As he returned to his human size the red fur seemed to shift and once again became dark green armored plates. His face returned to its human form; but his skin was dark gray and his eyes gold, even his usual hairstyle was emulated by armored plates ending up looking like a strange sort of helmet. As the transformation ended Shego, Kim and Ron found themselves looking at a dark-skinned armored version of Justin Case.
"Better?" Justin asked, his voice still sounding a bit echoing.
"Much, I kinda like it actually." Shego answered. "Now let's do this, just like we used to."
Shego charged forward and Justin punched as she got close, Shego dodged the swing and spun around behind him and delivered a kick to Justin's back. The kick didn't have any effect, Justin didn't even budge, but he swung around to try and strike Shego again. Shego simply leapt back out of the range of the attack.
"Not more fighting." Kim groaned. "I thought we figured out that didn't work for this sitch."
Ron just shrugged as they watched Shego charge at Justin again, this time however she jumped at the last moment and began to pass over him. Shego brought her foot down into Justin's shoulder and she pushed herself back up into the air before he could grab her. As Shego flipped in the air away from Justin she let loose with several plasma blasts, the blasts impacted but the energy dissipated without causing damage.
"Now you should remember that doesn't work on me." Justin shook his head. "You're just going to have to try something else, something new; just like I'm about to try something new on you."
Justin slammed his fist down on the hood of a small car he was standing next to; the result was the front of the car being crushed and the back of the car bouncing up to where the car was standing vertically on its smashed front end. Before the car could fall over Justin spun around and kicked it, sending it flying at Shego. Shego quickly dove out of the way and watched as the car flew by her then hit the ground and slid to a stop.
"Okay, you're pulling something." Shego said as she gave a bit of a laugh, but sounded slightly impressed. "You should not have that kind of physical power when you're this small."
"I increased the density of my muscle tissue, instead of bulking up like I did as the wolf thing." Justin told her. "I stay small but get stronger."
"No wonder I couldn't budge you with those kicks" Shego shook her head. "It also makes you a lot heavier, not to mention slow as a snail."
Justin frowned but Shego just laughed and charged forward once again, letting off several more blasts. As Justin just stood there and let the blasts hit him and sneaky smiled appeared on Shego's face, she let loose with one more blast aimed directly for Justin's face. The flash from the dissipating energy briefly blinded Justin and Shego used the distraction to slam her shoulder into Justin's midsection, knocking him off balance. Shego quickly dropped down and swept Justin's feet out from under him before he could regain his balance, dropping him onto his back.
"How was that move?" Shego asked as she rubbed her shoulder a bit.
"Not bad." Justin answered as he quickly reached out with his hand and grabbed Shego by the ankle before she could react.
Justin quickly stood up and swung Shego around before releasing her and sending her flying towards a wall. Shego twisted around in the air and hit the wall feet first and rebounded back. Shego yelled as she rushed forward and slashed with her claws, leaving cuts across Justin's chest. Though the cuts sealed back up almost immediately after they were made Justin still growled and swung a fist at Shego.
"Somehow I knew it'd come to this." Mego's voice came from behind Kim. "When there's a problem between them it always comes to this."
Kim looked back to find Mego standing right behind her. Behind Mego Kim could see that the Wegos had multiplied so that there were two each to help Hego, Director and Will, the three still looked rather dazed.
"They've done this before?" Kim inquired
"Yeah, when one of them has a problem with the other one they would eventually end up fighting it out." Mego told Kim. "They've been doing it since they were both little, they'd get in an argument over something that'd turn into a big fight. It's just sorta a thing between the two of them; they have a problem, they smack each other around for awhile until they work it out somehow."
"I'm gonna guess that they didn't use powers before though." Ron voiced his thoughts.
"Nah, even after Shego got her powers she'd never use them against him in their fights." Mego confirmed. "And Justin either didn't have powers or didn't know how to use them after the Freak-Out thing started."
"Well now they're both using their powers against each other." Kim stated. "This could end up very bad if we don't figure out something to do about it."
"These fights always end up getting worse before they're over." Mego sighed and motioned back towards Shego and Justin.
"And I can't believe you actually trusted a guy like that!" Justin yelled at Shego as he dodged an attack.
"I just wanted to get you help!" Shego yelled back as she continued slashing with her claws. "Nobody else was able to cure you of Freak-Out, nothing ever worked! Jackson guaranteed he could help! I thought it was my last chance to get you help before something bad happened to you!"
"As if being locked in that freezer wasn't bad enough." Justin growled as he lashed out with a kick, narrowly avoided by Shego. "Did you even try to get me free?"
"I thought it killed you." Shego said in an unusually quiet voice as she continued to dodge Justin's attacks. "They even put on a funeral for you."
"How lovely…" Justin commented sarcastically. "Was it at least a nice funeral?"
"I wouldn't know, I didn't go. I couldn't face anyone there, your aunt and uncle, our friends, I felt like I failed them all." Shego almost sounded like she was about to cry, then she snarled. "Why didn't you come to me after you broke free?!"
"Why? You must understand that I was just a little bit upset with you." Justin answered. "The last time I saw you was you just standing there as they locked me in that freezer."
"And why'd you have to go to her of all people?!" Shego demanded as she pointed at Kim, then leapt forward and tried slashing Justin again.
"I didn't go to her on purpose, I barely knew who she was. I saw her name a couple times in the papers as I was making my way after I escaped but I didn't know anything else." Justin growled as Shego slashed across his side. "I didn't find out more until I decided to hang around here and began making a new ID, I came across her website and read over it."
"So then you went to her school to get closer to her I suppose." Shego accused as she tried a high kick.
"Not at all, I figured I could hide at the school by blending in. Never thought I'd cross paths with Kim at all." Justin managed to grab Shego's foot and tossed her again. "Turns out I ran into her and Ron my first day. Guess I'll have to file that one as a happy accident."
"Did you even think about trying to contact me at all?!" Shego leapt back at Justin with her claws poised to strike.
"We have got to put a stop to this." Kim said as she watched the continuing battle. "Ron, follow my lead. And whatever you do don't let go."
Kim began running towards Shego and Justin with Ron following along right behind her, though Ron had no idea what Kim was going to try. As Shego leapt back to avoid a kick from Justin Kim made her own leap, landing on Justin's back and wrapping her arms around his neck. Kim was hoping she was right in her guess that Justin wouldn't hurt them since he had tried to get them out of the fight earlier because he didn't want her or Ron caught up in it. Ron followed Kim's example by jumping in and wrapping his arms around Justin's waist, hanging on as tight as he could and hoping whatever Kim had planed would work. Shego had a look of surprise on her face seeing what the two were doing.
"Hey! What do you two think you're doing?! Let go of me!" Justin shouted in surprise as he tried to shake the two off; he even spun around a few times to get them to let go, but they still hung on. "Will you let go already?!"
"No way Justin!" Kim shot back as she hung on. "Not until you stop fighting! It's not getting you guys anywhere and someone's going to end up seriously hurt!"
"Let go and I'll think about it." Justin told Kim as he looked back over his shoulder at her.
"Not a chance, you're going to have to change back or something to show that it's over." Kim told Justin in a stern tone. "Don't make me break out the PDP."
"You have got to be kiddin…" Justin started to say, but saw a familiar expression started to appear on Kim's face. Justin quickly looked away and sighed. "Oh alright…"
Justin's skin on his face got lighter and resumed its usual color and the skin on his neck also changed back as the small armored plates that wrapped his neck vanished; the armored plates that made up his 'helmet' softened and then became hair. Finally Justin's eyes changed from gold to their original light blue.
"Good enough?" Justin asked, his voice no longer echoing.
"Good enough." Kim confirmed as she finally let go of Justin, quickly followed by Ron who let out a sigh of relief.
Shego came walking towards them, her eyes cast downwards and a troubled expression on her face, she stopped in front of Justin. "Justin… I'm sorry, so very sorry." Shego's voice was a bit unsteady as she looked Justin in the face. "I just wanted to help you so badly that I was willing to do anything, and believe anyone that came along if they said they had a cure." Shego sighed and shook her head. "Even if I thought that freezer killed you I shouldn't have let Jackson take you away, I should have fought through them all to get you back."
"It's okay… I'm sorry too, I shouldn't have blamed you. Jackson lied and manipulated just to get the results he wanted." Justin told her. "But being trapped for so long unable to do anything but think, I had time to work little things into big things and everything got a bit mixed up in my mind. I was over-thinking everything I suppose, overworked my brain and sprained something."
"Oh come here you idiot." Shego grabbed Justin by the arm and pulled him into a hug. "I missed you."
"Missed you too." Justin said as he returned the hug.
After a few moments Shego pulled back, but left her hand on Justin's shoulder. "You know how boring it was with you gone? Especially with no one to help me mock Hego and Mego?"
"You think that was boring? I couldn't mock at all." Justin actually laughed. "Worse still I could see people I wanted to mock, knew just how I wanted to mock them, but couldn't. I think not being able to mock anyone might have been worse than the being frozen part." Justin grinned and Shego just smirked and shook her head.
"I hate to interrupt," Kim spoke up. "But since the fighting's done don't you think you should change back completely Justin?"
"You know Kimmie," Shego said with a mischievous smile on her face. "As much as I would love to see your reaction to him changing back right here and now I think I'm going to have to axe that idea."
"Why's that?" Kim questioned.
"You do realize I don't have any clothes on at the moment right?" Justin said as he looked down at his armored body. "Kinda left them in shreds when I changed back there. I think you were the one that spotted them first."
Kim briefly looked over Justin, then quickly looked away from him as she started blushing. Shego started laughing at Kim's reaction, Justin tried not to laugh but wasn't doing very well at holding in his laughter.
"You're running around streaking and hardly anyone even knows it." Ron started laughing. "Dude that is so wrong." Rufus popped out of Ron's pocket to get a look for himself and started laughing.
"What are you laughing at?" Justin asked Rufus with a laugh. "You're naked too."
"Yeah, but he's a naked mole rat, he's supposed to be naked." Ron patted Rufus on the head as he continued to laugh. "You're not."
"Oh come on Kimmie, don't be such a prude." Shego said as she saw that Kim was still blushing and not looking in Justin's direction.
"I'm not being a prude, I'm just trying not to be rude by staring." Kim replied quickly while her blush got a little deeper.
"What's to stare at? It's not like he's actually showing anything while he's all armored up like this." Shego smiled mischievously again "But then again I must admit that armor doesn't leave a whole lot to the imagination, especially around the back." She laughed as she saws Kim's eyes quickly look towards Justin's backside before looking away again.
"Not that I want to change the subject or anything." Justin said as he cleared his throat. "This may sound strange coming from me, but you two seem awfully friendly. You know, supposedly being enemies and all."
Shego immediately stopped laughing and spoke in a cool tone as she glared at Kim. "The only reason Princess is even here is that she doesn't know how to mind her own business."
"As I told you before Shego, I was going to help with this no matter what." Kim said as she returned Shego's glare.
Justin's gaze shifted between Shego and Kim as the two glared at each other, eventually he looked at Shego with an eyebrow raised and a bit of a smile.
"What?" Shego asked as she noticed Justin's look.
"Nothing, nothing at all." Justin told her, shaking his head as he struggled to keep from ginning, though he couldn't keep himself from snickering a little.
They all went silent as Director walked up to them; Shego's expression was one of anger and showed she was ready to fight, Justin looked distrustful.
"Justin Case, I am Dr. Director, leader of Global Justice." Director introduced herself and nodded her head. "I hope that despite our earlier unpleasantries we can have a civil conversation."
"Yeah I suppose a conversation would be alright." Justin replied in a bit of a cool tone. "Though I hope you'll understand that GJ isn't exactly high on the list of my favorite things. Being frozen and imprisoned for years tends to give one a negative opinion."
Director nodded. "That's understandable, Jackson was way out of line with what he did. Even with the top-secret nature of his facility he should have gotten clearance for such an operation. While I would have approved the idea of helping you, I never would have allowed him to freeze and contain you like he did."
"Thanks, I guess." Justin sighed. "But that's all in the past, bit pointless to discuss it now."
"Maybe not as pointless as you think." Director smiled. "Because now I offer my help; no tricks or traps like Jackson, I give you my word that GJ will find a way a way to cure you of Freak-Out."
"If you think I'm gonna fall for that again you're making a big mistake." Shego growled and stepped between Justin and Director.
"Shego, Dr. Director is nothing like Jackson. I know she's telling the truth." Kim told Shego as she stepped up beside her. "You should have noticed they seemed to have a big difference in opinion earlier."
"Justin will not be thought of as a prisoner." Director assured them. "While I insist that he does stay at a GJ facility while we're working on a cure; he'll be free to go out to visit friends, go to the movies or mall and hang out as he pleases."
"That does sound like a pretty good deal; but if I let him go and find out you're lying I will come to get him back, and nothing will stop me." Shego ignited her fists for emphasis.
"I can't believe I'm gonna say this," Kim shook her head. "But I'm in agreement with Shego on this one."
"I appreciate your intentions you two, I really do." Justin spoke up as he put his hands on Kim's and Shego's shoulders. "But shouldn't this be my decision?" The pair looked briefly surprised, but then nodded and stepped back.
"Well Justin, will you accept my offer and allow GJ to find a cure for your condition?" Director smiled warmly and held out a hand.
Justin didn't move for a moment, like he was still thinking it over, but finally began to move his hand out towards Director's. Suddenly there was a bright flash and Justin screamed in pain and dropped to his knees as electricity crackled and sparked around his body.
Everybody began looking around for the source of the attack; in the air above them they saw Jackson wearing a jetpack and wielding some sort of high-tech rifle. In the darkened evening sky the light emanating from several more jetpacks could be seen approaching.
"Jackson! Stand down! This mission is over!" Director ordered; but Jackson didn't respond, instead he began aiming his weapon.
"Not this time." Shego said determinedly and hurling plasma blasts at Jackson.
As Shego's attack forced Jackson to dodge and prevented him from being able to fire Kim and Ron checked on Justin, who was still down on his knees and breathing heavily.
"You okay?" Ron asked as he and Kim began to help Justin up.
"Can you stand okay?" Kim asked as Justin seemed a bit unsteady on his feet.
"Yeah, I'm alright. That's one of the things they used when they captured me, I forgot how much those electro-cannons hurt." Justin looked at Jackson and the other incoming agents, a determined expression appeared on his face. "I think this is a battle that I need to fight myself."
"What are you talking about Justin?!" Shego questioned as she continued her attack on Jackson and the other agents. "You can't fight them when they have those electro-things."
"You're just going to have to trust me on this one Tasha, I know what I'm doing." Justin said as he took a few steps back from everyone.
Justin leaned forward slightly and large feathery wings erupted from his back, they were dark green just like his armor and resembled the wings of a bird of prey. Justin then leapt into the air and took flight.
"Now that's cool." Ron said in awe.
What does that fool think he's doing?" Shego grumbled to herself as she blasted plasma at any of the agents that got near Justin.
As Justin rose higher and weaved around the bolts from the agents' weapons his left arm extended and split into several whip-like tendrils. Justin swung his arm out at an agent that got close to him, most of the tendrils wrapped around the agent while the rest pulled the weapon from his hands. Justin pulled the agent around and flung him towards another agent, the two agents couldn't avoid each other and collided. Spiraling towards the ground the two managed to slow themselves down enough to avoid serious injury, but the crash ruined their jetpacks. Justin managed to take out four more agents with the same tactic, while Shego managed to take down three as she blasted at them from the ground.
There was a flash of blue as an agent that had a different weapon from the others fired, the light blue beam hit Justin in the leg and suddenly Justin found his leg encased in ice. Justin slammed his fist down on the ice and broke it, freeing his leg and getting rid of the weight of the ice that was threatening to hinder his flying. But as Justin's attention had been focused on the ice Jackson took aim and fired, Justin screamed again as the beam struck him in the back and knocked him from the air.
Shego, Kim and Ron began to rush forward hoping to somehow break Justin's fall; but they stopped when they saw Justin open his eyes and then wink at them. Justin's wings then wrapped completely around him and seemed to shift into something else; then Justin began to spin as he continued to fall, his spinning getting faster as he got closer to the ground. When Justin hit the ground there was no loud crash as most were expecting; instead Justin bored into the ground, throwing up dirt in all directions, only losing a small bit of speed as he vanished underground.
Jackson quickly landed cursing as he looked at the spot Justin came down; there was not a passable tunnel, just and area of broken and churned up earth. "Find him!" Jackson ordered his men. "He can't have gone far."
"You seriously think you're going to find him that easily?" Shego laughed. "Don't think so."
"Use the scanners!" Jackson further ordered, ignoring Shego.
"I don't think those are going to work." Kim commented. "They sure didn't earlier when Justin was scanned."
"Yeah, one of the agents nearly put it up his nose and it didn't detect anything." Ron added.
Jackson looked at them questioningly but then looked at his agents who were working with the scanners, the agents shook their heads and Jackson growled in anger.
"Face it Jackson, he's gone. It's mission over." Director told him. "We're going back to base where we're going to have a long discussion about your inability to follow orders."
"You forget Dr. Director, special regulations have placed me in charge of this mission. So I'm the one who says when the mission's over." Jackson stated. "And if I can't find him I'll just have to settle for his criminal friend here, perhaps if he hears she's been caught he'll come running back."
"Negative Commander Jackson." Will said in a matter-of-fact voice.
"What?" Jackson glared at him.
"Those special regulations you mention also state that the target of the mission is the only concern and must be apprehended at all costs; any others are deemed unimportant during the mission and are to be ignored, even if the opportunity to capture them presents itself." Will explained, then began looking around. "And look, it appears you have yet to catch the target of the mission. And as long as you have not caught Freak-Out you can not touch Shego, unless you decide to call the mission off right here and now."
"Very well," Jackson said calmly but his body shook with rage. "Agents! Move Out! We have a monster to find."
They watched as Jackson and his men left, then everyone turned to look at Will.
"I wasn't doing to help Shego or Justin if that's what you're all wondering." Will said as everyone looked at him. "I just have an intense dislike for that man and it gives me great satisfaction to irk him like that."
"On the record I must say that I don't approve of my agents acting in such a way." Director said in a stern tone, but then smiled. "Off the record however, I say good job. I don't like that man either."
"Well considering his abilities and the head start the little conversation we just had with Jackson gave him Justin's probably long gone by now." Kim breathed a sigh of relief and smiled.
"Yeah, bet Jackson would have better luck finding a needle in a haystack." Ron grinned.
"We'll be taking our leave now. We are still on duty and technically a part of this mission after all." Director told them. "But don't worry, if we find Justin we get him to safety even if we have to smuggle him out right under Jackson's nose." Director then walked away, followed by Will who just nodded his head.
"Well I'm going to be taking off too; I know Justin won't let himself get caught so as long as he's out there and free I'm fine with that." Shego said with a small smile and began to walk away.
"How are you getting back?" Kim asked.
"With the jet of course. I'll fly myself back to Dr. D's and then they can take it back home or wherever." Shego motioned towards her brothers, who were still waiting near where they had come up out of the sewer. Hego was holding his head as if he had a headache. "You guys hear that?! So get back to the jet right now unless you plan on walking home!" Shego shouted the order to her brothers, who quickly jumped up and began heading in the direction they had left their jet. Shego began walking after them, but stopped after a moment and looked back over her shoulder. "Thanks Kim." She said simply and resumed walking.
Kim just nodded and she and Ron watched as Shego and Team Go walked away.
xxxxxxx
Kim pulled into her family's driveway after dropping Ron off at his house. While it wasn't really too late she was getting home much later than she had originally planned. Kim got out and checked over the car for any damages, but she found none despite the rather rough treatment in had been through earlier. Kim breathed a sigh of relief and went inside. But Kim's arrival did not go undetected as she saw her mother look around the corner from the kitchen.
Welcome home Kimmie." Ann said brightly with a warm smile.
"Evening Mom." Kim smiled back, but then noticed how quiet everything was. "Where is everyone?" Kim asked as she walked into the kitchen.
"Your Father took the boys out for pizza, so you know they won't be back for a while if Jim and Tim get their way." Ann laughed as she poured herself some of the tea she had been making. "So how was your day?"
"A bit mixed actually." Kim told her mother. "A mission came up that was a bit tough to deal with, but in the end things turned out all right I think."
"As long as you felt you did your best and did the right thing everything will be fine." Ann smiled reassuringly. "Oh! I nearly forgot." Ann reached across a counter and picked up and envelope. "This is for you, I found it stuck to the door when I got home a little while ago. Strangest thing is that I could have sworn that it wasn't there when I came walking up to the door; I thought I heard a noise and turned to look but didn't see anything, when I turned back that envelope was there."
Kim took the envelope, it was a regular plain white envelope with the words 'To Kim' written on the front. Kim opened it and pulled out the single piece of paper that was inside, there was a short message on the paper.
'Sorry for all the trouble I caused, and thanks for putting up with me like you did. Thanks for everything, but most of all thanks for being my friend. TTFN until the day our paths cross again.'
The message was signed 'J.C.' and had a little smiley face under it that was winking and had a single fang. Kim couldn't help smiling.
"Who's it from?" Ann inquired.
"A friend Mom." Kim answered. "He had to leave suddenly and didn't get a chance to say a proper goodbye, so it seems he got a note to me so he could say goodbye."
"Sounds like a nice boy." Ann smiled. "Shame I never got to meet him."
"You'll probably meet him sometime." Kim smiled back. "I have a feeling our paths will cross again someday."
xxxxxxx
Shego was making her way through the hallways of Drakken's lair; she had a small smile on her face and had the photo album she had picked up while out on her search tucked under her arm. When she first got back she thought she'd just head straight for her room and relax; but the she figured she'd better let Drakken know she was back, it'd get the inevitable rant from Drakken about her being gone for days over with and then she'd be free to relax.
Shego stepped into Drakken's lab only to find the mad scientist laughing to himself as he was typing something into his computer then he moved to write something in a notebook, he seemed to be almost dancing with joy. As he was writing he spotted Shego.
"Shego, you're back!" Drakken said brightly, then his face got more serious. "You could have at least called or something, you were gone for days! But no matter! While you were gone I was able to proceed forward with my plan. The henchmen and I had ourselves a night out and we actually stole what I needed for my latest plan."
"I'm mildly impressed Dr. D." Shego smirked. "You actually managed to steal something without me."
"Yes Shego, it may have cost me a few henchmen but I got away with what I needed." Drakken declared dramatically. "It was in a secret government storage facility where they lock up technology and dangerous devices confiscated from captured villains; it was so well defended I almost didn't get in, and nearly didn't make it back out. But I was able to acquire this!" Drakken pulled off a sheet that had been covering something on a table. Shego gasped when she recognized the device. "It's called the Hyper-Genetic Accelerator, and it's capable of creating monstrous creatures that I'll be able to use to terrorize the populace until the entire world surrenders to me! I haven't tested it out yet but… Shego! What are you doing?!" Drakken yelled when he saw Shego's aura flare around one hand as she pointed at the device.
Shego let loose with her power and a stream of plasma struck the device, it only took seconds for the device to melt. But Shego didn't stop there, she didn't cease until the device and the metal table it was on were reduced to a molten puddle on the floor.
"Why Shego…?" Drakken asked, the expression on his face looking like that of a child that had just lost a favorite pet.
"Trust me Drakken that thing is nothing but trouble." Shego said with a serious expression on her face. "It's better this way, that's something that never should have been made in the first place."
"But my plan…" Drakken seemed on the verge of tears.
Shego sighed. "Tell you what Dr. D; I hear Hench Co. has created a new laser, their most powerful one yet. I'll go steal it for you to replace that thing."
"Well, I do like lasers." Drakken was already sounding happier.
"Great." Shego smiled. "Just let me go put something away in my room and then I'll go pick up your new toy."
Shego then headed for her room, flipping through the photo album as she walked. Shego ignored the henchmen as she walked by them even if they were looking at her strangely, wondering just what was in that book that could make Shego smile like that.
xxxxxxx
A woman was quickly making her way down an alleyway in a hurry to get home from shopping so that she would not miss her favorite programs. She knew it could be dangerous to be going through dark alleyways so late in this city, but nothing had happened so far and she figured her luck would hold out.
Suddenly a figure stepped out of the shadows towards the woman, she gasped as the young punk pulled out a knife. "All right lady I think you know how this goes." The punk told her as she backed into a wall. "Give me all your money and I won't mess you up."
The punk thought he heard something and looked to the side just in time to be struck in the face by something; it had a long slim body and a reptilian head, dark green armored plates covered its head and back and it had a dark gray underbelly. As the punk reeled from the blow another of the things grabbed him by the ankle and pulled him off his feet then up into the air; it flung him upward then both of the things wrapped around his legs and slammed him down to the ground. The punk was only able to let out a groan before he lost consciousness.
The woman watched as the things pulled away and went backwards down the alleyway where she saw another figure, though the woman couldn't really make out any details other than a golden glow coming from the person's eyes. The serpent things pulled back towards the figure seeming to have come out of the person's sleeve, but the woman watched as the two things merged together and then reform into a hand.
"Are you alright Ma'am?" The person asked as he straightened out his sleeve.
The woman screamed and ran away, not even slowing down when she dropped something.
"Wait! I'm not going to hurt you…" Justin sighed as the woman was long gone. Then walked over to the item she had dropped and picked it up. "Dropped your bag of apples."
Justin raised his arm, his hand becoming dark gray and clawed as he did so, his arm then extended up until his hand grabbed the edge of the top of the building. Justin quickly pulled himself up and walked over to the edge that faced the street and sat down; he also opened the bag of apples and began eating since he wasn't about to let food go to waste.
Justin had spent the last two weeks running all over the place so that Jackson and his men would lose his trail, and it seemed to have worked since he hadn't seen any GJ agents since he left Middleton. One thing Justin figured that was majorly helping him was that his metabolism seemed to have stabilized since his body wasn't demanding the vast quantities of food like it had been when he first escaped. He still was having to eat more than a normal person would, but since he wasn't having to clean out stores of their food anymore, which gave away his location, Justin was okay with that.
As Justin watched the cars pass by below him thoughts of recent events passed through his mind. He had thought before that he had wanted a normal life, but thinking back over his life he found himself doubting that his life had ever really been normal. There was him becoming friends with Tasha, aka Shego, and all his adventures with her and her brothers after they got their powers, not to mention the whole Freak-Out ordeal. Even after being locked away and then escaping he tried to go back to what he thought was a normal life, then he ran into Kim Possible and her friends. Justin thought that maybe fate was trying to tell him something. Justin found himself wondering why he wanted a normal life anyway when the strange one he had was so much more interesting. He was free to live how he pleased and go where he pleased; he was on an adventure now, one that he had no clue where it'd take him but he hoped would involve his friends again sometime and somewhere.
Justin grinned and laughed to himself; but the sounds of sirens interrupted his thoughts and he looked around for the cause of the commotion. Looking down the street he saw several police cars pull up in front of a bank, the police jumped out of their cars and took out their weapons and one with a megaphone was demanding the surrender of the criminals in the bank. Gunshots ringing out and the police diving for cover showed that the criminals surrendering wasn't likely.
"Well well, looks like something exciting is going on over there." Justin said as he reached into his pocket and pulled out a coin. "Okay, heads I stay sitting here and let the police do their job; tails I go over there and freak out those bank robbers."
Justin flipped the coin into the air, caught it and slapped it down on the top of his hand. As Justin looked as the result he just smirked and his eyes began to glow gold.
The End
Author Notes: And that concludes my first KP story 'Kim Possible: Freaked Out', I hope that you enjoyed it.
Keep an eye out because I'll be writing more KP stories in the future.