Chapter 30

"Ron I swear if you ask me one more time if I'm ok I will go full Lorwardia on you!" Kim shook her fist at her best friend.

Yes, she had dark bags under her eyes,

Yes, she lost some weight, which woman wouldn't be happy about it?

Yes, she looked like a mess with her usually net hair resembling now more wild fox than human but can't she change her style a bit?

"No need to be so aggressive KP! I'm just worried!" Ron pleaded with her." You look like you went through a hurricane and then got mangled by the pack of raccoons!"

"Am not!"

"Yes, you are princess." Shego shook her head with a mocking smile." I mean come on when was the last time you batched?" She cringed her nose.

So Kim was a little bit dirty, big deal. You don't have to batch every day, water needs to be conserved after all…

"Every minute I waste NT is using to kill his victims!" Kim protested.

"ANNNNND CUT! The Oscar for the best performance goes to Kimberly Ann Possible!" Legion cheered from the sidelines. Kim did her best to ignore him. She felt horrible for lying to Ron, not so much to Shego.

But for the world to be a better place she couldn't allow them to discover the truth.

"It's been over a week since the last attack, you should rest a bit," Ron told her." You won't be in your top shape if you burn yourself out"

Since the battle with Drakken Kim has thrown herself into training under the careful eye of Legion. True her hunting had to stop but she understood it well. She needs to be better to perform her duty again.

That plus she decided to lull the criminals into a false sense of security with her temporary disappearance. Let them crawl out of their hiding places again…

"Besides this NT can't be THAT dangerous, I mean Drew kicked its ass," Shego added making Kim put a godly effort to not show boundless rage at this statement.

That was a VERY sore spot for Kim. She had to pretend to trip over her legs at GJ HQ to not murder Drakken at the first sight after her humiliating defeat. Now that she started to observe Drakken more she noticed the changes in the man.

The most obvious bulking of the body, the confident step but that paled in what she had seen in his eyes…

Wisdom.

Yes, the eyes of Drakken now possessed some sort of unnatural wisdom. As if it wasn't him who spoke but something else. Never once Legion manifested itself in presence of Drakken. Later he explained that if he did the man would connect the dots and discover who they truly were.

Since that day she avoided Drakken like a plague. She would get him when the time is right.

" Well I don't know if you got the memo but Drakken right now can produce a whole FOREST out of nowhere and control the plants!" Kim replied." Who could be prepared for something like that?"

"True, pity that he didn't manage to catch the creep." Sheila sighed.

"Don't worry guys we will deal with it soon, I mean with all of us together Night Terror stands no chance!" Ron grinned at them." We will kick NT's ass and things will go back to normal again!"

Kim mustered a weak smile.

If Ron only knew how far away from the truth that was…

GJ HQ

Drakken kneeled in the middle of his lab meditating. Yes, he, the man who was the definition of a walking noise station was sitting in one place with his eyes closed, not uttering a sound.

As of late his laboratory started to resemble a botanic garden than the place of science proper. Yet that was of no consequence.

His mind was processing the battle yet again, dissecting every move Night Terror made. Repeating it thousands of times over. Deep down he knew that the monster would come after him again.

NT said this much to him or herself. Normally Drakken would be shitting his pants trying to find the darkest hole in which he could have hidden but this wasn't one of those normal times.

For Nature commanded him.

Never before had he gotten a response like this. This being that composed the world around him only responded to his requests, never initiating one of its own.

Up until now.

It came to him in a dream or rather a nightmare. For a moment he was in a lush garden full of life and peace…only to see it wither and die almost screaming in agony.

Then he saw the culprit behind it as the Night Terror stood before him, its eyes glowing the sickly orange color as if its very presence was a poison.

Yes, a poison.

That being that wanted to kill him was like poison. Drakken briefly mussed if it was human at all.

All things came from nature and were a part of it. How come something so perverse came to be? Because he had to fight for his life he only briefly focused on its presence so he did not get a good read on the creature.

Not that he wanted to feel such abomination ever again but it seemed that it was inevitable.

Nature wanted to be rid of such an abomination. While NT scared him on so many levels he could only dread thinking what a primordial existence could do to him if he did not obey its will.

He sighed.

He won just because NT walked into his territory when he had a gigantic advantage. But what if he did have a whole forest to command but few mere pot flowers to command?

He felt a shiver go down his spine, an image of the creature's way too sharp claws in his gut. He needed to get better at using his powers…since Betty now

With Ron and Shego,

Sometimes in life, you witnessed things that simply escaped your understanding as a human being. Things were so bizarre and so impossible that your brain simply shut down from the pure shock of such impossibility.

"The world is ending" Sheila uttered with wide eyes.

"Aren't we past that phase?" Ron no less shocked replied.

Drew Drakken Lipsky was training.

There was no way around it. Not denial, no rejection. That was simple and plain. The man was training his skills with his powers.

Currently, he was using two vines as makeshift whips mercilessly hitting the dummies. He was now in his tank top and boy the man got bulkier in the last few months.

Ron felt kind of jealous. He was the lean type, no matter how hard he trained his muscles simply did not get the pump…Yes, he could lift a car but so what?

Drakken's bulging muscles seemed to laugh at him.

"Admiring the view?" Suddenly Betty appeared out of nowhere.

"No/Yes eww No-Maybe" Ron as Shego spoke simultaneously with blonde giving his girlfriend a horrified look at her shameless admission. Betty meanwhile burst out laughing drawing Drew's attention.

He recalled the vines into his body and approached them his body shining with sweat making his clothes stick to his body.

Ron glared at Shego who had the decency to look at the ceiling. The raven-haired beauty was equally amused by Ron's jealousy, disgusted at herself by the fact that she ogled Drakken, and maybe a little bit regretful that she did not kick the man to the gym earlier.

"OK! Time out!" Ron bellowed as soon as Drew approached them." How did you get jacked like that?! I train every day and I do not look half like that!"

"Oh? I kind of always had that kind of body." He shrugged. "If you saw my father you would think that I look scrawny, the man was like a grizzly bear!" He gesticulated. "I guess I took a bit after him"

"Especially the Grizzly Bear part." Betty wiggled her eyebrow making the man go purple in instant.

"EWWWWWWW" Ron like they got caught in the middle of their parents talking about sex. He almost gagged thinking about Drakken's, Grizzly Bear"

"Now I need a brain bleach" Ron lamented." Anyways we did not come to talk about it!"

"I guess that you want to talk about my encounter with Night Terror?" Smile slipped from Drew's face." Let me take a shower and I will be with you." The man let in a small hurry wanting to fill them in asap.

"He changed hun?" Ron spoke with two ladies nodding. "I kinda miss the old one thou"

"Ha! Bit easier time then." Shego smiled fondly reminding herself of lighter days before the invasion.

"Come on you two, reminiscing like old people." Betty shook her head.

"You like this very much more eh? "Shelia smirked." Come on Betty spill, how is he in sheets?" She leered making Betty burst out in melodious laughter.

"I would punish you for insolence if you weren't so amusing."

"Oh come on, at the least tell me if he's what you expected!" Shego pressed ignoring Ron's horrified expression.

"I can only say that he rode my expectation to the ground."

Scratch that now Ron was horrified.

'Alien invasion anyone!?' He begged the higher powers.

"Ulalalala" Shego whistled. "Holly hell, heard that Ronnie?" She nudged him.

'God strike me down right now." The world was not worth it anymore.

After five more minutes of relentless teasing from Shego, Drakken finally came back THANKFULLY wearing his usual lab get-up that cowered his physique. He invited them to his quarters and then began explaining in detail what occurred that night.

"That's all" He finished." Which is why you see that I needed to improve my skills, this…thing swore that it will get me no matter what, so it's just a matter of time…"

"But can you tell me more about this sense you got? Sounds Badical!" Ron was honestly impressed with the man's story. He could not wait to tell this to sensei.

"Not then, felt like somebody poured acid over my brain." He shivered." That thing was simply revolting…I don't know what it was but…I think that's how pure evil feels like…"

Well, that brought the mood down.

"But don't NT target criminals only? Would it go after innocents too if it was pure evil? "Shego asked.

"Honestly I have no idea…but trust me if you felt what I felt you wouldn't describe it as a good guy" He made his infamous air quotes." When you meet it fight like your life depends on it."

"She's lucky for the princess to not fight it alone then." She sighed." Good that you forced her to take some days off. She looked like death."

"Kim sadly took the hunt for NT too personally which affected her performance," Betty told them. "You need to explain to her that an exhausted agent very often tends to be a dead agent and to face NT even your top shape won't be enough." She looked at Drakken. "Hence why we need to draw it to us instead"

"What do you mean?" Yet Ron already knew the answer.

"We will set a trap"

Kim's house

"That is so clever!" Legion exclaimed just after Ron cut the call where he explained the whole plan to lure NT into their trap. To be honest, if Kim did not hear about it she would have fallen into the trap.

"I know right!?" Legion poked her head a few times." We would take it line, hook, and sinker!"

"How does this make it any better?!" Kim growled." We are monitored at all angles!"

"Yes, but we KNOW this so not only we can spring the trap but also we can reverse-trap them!"

"Hmmm…"Kim rubbed her chin." If I only manage to somehow fool them that I am resting but at the same time be somewhere else." She felt a smile build on her face.

Legion liked his lips. His little protegee was growing so fast.

"Well good that we're living in the XXI century and getting a replacement is not that hard…" Legion suggested.

"True, true, I think that I have one of those decoys drones in the garage," Kim replied already feeling the rush of adrenaline in her veins. Those few days off really managed to replenish her energy and she was itching for some action.

"Fighting while exhausted is nothing but stupidity. One has to plan their battles well so the enemy doesn't catch them with their pants down – Sun Tsu" Legion agreed sagely.

"I don't think he used those exact words…" Kim rolled her eyes. "Now let me get to those decoys…we need to make a show."

Lowerton a few days later

Shego hated reconnaissance and ambush missions. The was utterly and killingly boring. She was bored out of her mind. Boredom was her whole existence.

Did she mention that she was bored?

GJ wisely used Drakken as bait since NT had a grudge against him. Of course, it was just a decoy modeled after Drakken since neither Shego nor Better would go with the plan to use a real doctor as bait for a psychotic killer that mopped the floor with the head of GJ.

"Ronnie dear anything?" She asked over the comm.

"Nothing Sheila" Came the frustrated replay. "NT is nowhere to be seen. Maybe Dr.D hit him or her too hard and he decided to quit?"

"You know that by some weird will of the cosmos or something else, we aren't that lucky." Shego retorted dryly. " I bet just as we are complaining right now about the lack of action, we are going to get hit by it in the least expected moment."

"Come on your being paranoid." Ron tried to laugh it off. "I mean come on what are the chances-"

"Team Alpha do you copy?" Agent's Du voice cut in on another channel.

"We copy what's the sitch?" Ron asked.

"Night Terror attacked again." Came a curt reply.

"Where?! The Lowerton is silent!" Ron exclaimed.

"He struck federal prison about half an hour ago…the guards were ok but the prisoners were slaughtered." Du told them grimly." Over a hundred inmates were killed most of them from the high-security wing but some small-time offenders got roped into it too…"

"Fuckin Hell." Shego swore." What do we do?"

"The teams were dispatched, NT is gone already and the investigation is on the way. Await the orders from Doctor's Director. Du out"

"Don't say anything," Ron spoke before Shego could so much than utter a word.

"Don't feel like it. Shit starts to get serious. Let's call it a night and go home."

The duo moved to the masked hovercraft and flew toward the Middleton. The flight was filled with some small talk yet both of them were in far from a cheerful mood. Again problems were brewing on all fronts and they had a psycho mass murderer on the loose right now.

With a grudge against Sheila's only father figure she ever had…

Ron put a comforting hand on her thigh giving her his support. As always he could read her like an open book.

"Don't worry we won't let anything happen to Drew." He told her but her face remained grim. With a long sigh, she landed near Ron's home and the duo went inside.

Shego sighed tiredly imagining the total shitstom that the massacre at the prison will cause. Now GJ could no longer keep the existence of NT under wraps. Ron went to the kitchen to make something light so Sheila decided to use that time to take a shower.

She let a pleasant sigh as the hot water ran down her body washing the woes of the day off. She already missed Cuba and their little vacation. They pretended that there was never any invasion, no worries just the current present and that was all they needed. But as soon as two weeks of bliss ended they were thrown back into the post-apocalypse fray.

Now with the addition of a psychotic killer that was after Drakken. Her thoughts were interrupted by a quiet rustling coming from behind the curtain. She felt a smile build on her face. Ron always knew how to destress her. Nothing worked better than a shower together and then some bed action.

She turned around seeing her silhouette behind a curtain. The steam obscured the view a bit but she could see it approaching.

Yet when Ron reached to move the curtain she noticed that his fingers were weirdly…elongated.

Also, why did they look sharp?

Like in some sort of a very classic and good horror movie, a taloned hand gently reached the edge of the curtain and slowly started to slide it open.

Shego whose mouth was already open wide saw the trails of blood sliding down the curtain as water dripped on those claws.

When Drakken told her that NT was a being of pure nightmare, no pun intended. She called it a bull. Drew had a knack for being dramatic so she just put Night Terror as some sort of creep.

Yet right now she could surely understand why as raw fear gripped her soul, unconsciously forcing her back to the very corner of the shower. Normally she would attack in a second but now she couldn't as terror gripped her throat and held it tightly.

'Why can't I move!?' Shego thought desperately. A creature with glowing orange eyes entered the shower cabin almost pressing itself to her. There was so much blood on it that the water in the sinkhole turned crimson making Sheila curl her toes as it washed over her feet.

The row of needle-like, sharp black teeth parted showing nothing but darkness inside its mouth.

"You won't save him."

Suddenly as if something in her brain clicked. Her fists came aflame already in motion to punch the monster in the jaw but NT was already on the move.

It jumped backward tearing the shower curtain down and flying out of the bathroom landing on Ron's bed in a crouch.

"RON!" Sheila yelled at top of her lungs. Rushing out of the bathroom taking a defensive stance. To his credit, Ron took only about 3 seconds before he burst into the room.

"Shei-" He began looking at her in panic but before he even noticed that she was naked his eyes drew to his bed as all his instincts screamed danger! " HOLLY NACHOS!"

Not a second later Lotus Blade was in his hand ready for combat. The trio stood in tense silence as both sides were waiting for the other to make a move.

Ron and Sheila nervously exchanged glances at NT were perfectly still…inhumanely still. Then NT tilted its head to the side.

With a growl, Shego rushed at it with all intent to break its skull. NT jumped up and stuck the ceiling on all fours like some sort of demon eliciting the what the fuck comment from Shego. But no sooner that happened Ron morphed Lotous's blade into a gigantic fly swatter but their enemy was faster.

With dexterity out of this world, it narrowly avoided the hit and closed the distance between itself and Ron coming face to face with him.

Blonde's brown eyes widened to comical proportions as the looked into those glowing pools of orange. Then like thunder, a realization came upon him.

He knew that glow. He knew that gripping feeling of terror.

Using the second distraction NT kneeled Ron into the solar plexus and with a swift move threw Ron at approaching Sheila making both of them collapse on the floor. Looking at the tangled mess of limbs NT felt exhilaration.

'I am strong!' Kim's mind was giddy with excitement. Yet she held the urge to fight further. She did enough tonight and tomorrow was going to be her grand day!

With one last sweet smile at the duo who was now gaping at her might like a pair of fish she crouched and jumped out of the window leaving the room among the shards of broken glass.

To Shego's credit, Kim had to dodge a few of her plasma shoots before she even landed but that was of no consequence.

The stage had been set. Tomorrow was the time for the next act!

Up in Ron's room, Sheila was pacing making the call to Drakken, Betty, Du, and the president of the USA…

" The fuck your agents are doing that some creep can come inside our house?!" She growled at agent Du." So what you're spread thin!? Does it make it ok to fuck up on your duty!? That fucker could have killed us in our sleep!" She cut the call breading heavily. "Fuck!"

Ron wordlessly came to her and wrapped her arms around her. He knew that Sheila under all that anger and fury was terrified. He could see it in her eyes, hear it in her tone as she spoke to Drew to bunker himself in the deepest hole he could find.

Night Terror came to mock Sheila that she won't be able to save Drew.

"Don't worry we will deal with it Sheila, I won't let anything happen to Drew." Ron gave her a reassuring squeeze.

"We just came back Ronnie, why the hell things had to go to the gutter so fast…this fucker came HERE drenched in blood…this isn't fucking normal…"

" I know, I know…" Ron muttered not wanting to place one more burden on her. Because during the exchange at the moment, they came eye to eye, Ron realized who exactly they were dealing with. There was only one being that held such a disgusting and twisted aura in this world, the only one that would be close to having acid poured over one brain as Drew described it…

Yono the Destroyed has made his comeback.

A/N

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