Chapter 19: Letting you go

"We meet again… daughter"

I look at him with surprise in my eyes. "You?" when he tries to get near I hiss at him.

"Why so hostile, little one?" I give him an incredulous look. After he made me reduce to ashes my former home what did he expect? "I know our last… meeting didn't go as well as planned but you can't blame a father for trying to get her daughter back, do you?" He says with a caring voice.

For a moment I forget my situation. The anger in me makes me snort at him making him frown. "What kind of father kidnap his own daughter?" I ask sarcastically. When he is about to answer I speak again. "That was rhetorical, you fool"

He frown deepen. "Like mother like daughter" he murmurs somberly. "If you are going to act like her I may as well treat you like I would treat her" he uses his hands to make his wheelchair move in my direction. "Now stay quiet" he orders taking my hand violently.

"…Don't" we hear a voice. The fake Shego take his hand away from me. He just smirks at her and reach in his pants pocket with the other hand and she suddenly falls to the ground screaming and twisting slightly in pain.

"You are as stubborn as her" he says smiling casually. Talking about mom I guess. "But unlike her…" he takes out a device from his pocket. "I. Will. Break. You" He says with a twisted smile and with each word he twisted left the red like button in the center of the device causing the woman's screams to get louder and louder.

"Stop it!" I scream. I couldn't take it anymore. Her screams were soul let out a resigned sight and turns off whatever he was doing to her. I walk warily and revise her. She fainted. I look up at him with anger in my eyes.

"You saw what I can do to her… to you" I gulp at his calm yet threatening voice. "Will you obey?" I reluctantly nod then he comes near to me and put some shackles on my wrists and ankles. When he put them in my wrists I try to turn on my plasma with no avail. He laughs humorlessly "You really think I wouldn't think about your powers?"

I spit at him. "You will pay" then I smirks and he loses his cool exterior. His face is twisting in anger. "I would be choosing my coffin I were you. When my moms find you…"

"She won't" he says angrily ignoring the use of plural when I said 'moms'. I bet the fool think it just slipped. "She would be here If she had the minimal idea of where you are"

"Aw" We hear a muffled moan from the floor. The woman stands up still shaking a little bit and with a vacant look on her eyes she says "What are your orders?"

His anger quickly vanishes then he laughs and with a smug grin he says "The marvels of the mind control" he hurls the control on her hand "I admit it needs a bit more work due to it not being in my work field" He looks at the woman with disdain "She still has moments of self-control but all in all it has shown its true worth specially after adding this… safe function" He tells turning on the devices and making the woman squirm.

"You are a monster" I shout with all the hate I could muster.

"Why?" he asks with mock-confusion "Because I like preventing the betrayal this bitch was surely to do?" He almost yells "Then forgive me for not wanting to make the same mistake again" he puts a finger on his chin thoughtful. "I should have put it in your mother when I had the chance" he says grinning evilly. That puts me over my edge I leap forward to him and when I am about to punch him he pushes a button in his wheelchair and I feel a force pulling me to the other side of the room to finally keep me hanging in the steel wall. I try to free myself from the wall but every time I move a hand it automatically is pulled to the wall again. It feels like… "A magnetic field specially designed to attract the jewelry I just gave you and while you are wearing them you won't go anywhere out of this room" I look at the shackles with wide eyes. "Hang on there while I put the last touches to my greatest invention" And he wheels out or my room with the fake Shego in tail.

I can only pray that Kimmy and mom will be on their way here.

SKP

"No!" I say firmly and angrily to Shego. I am sitting on my bed after a few hours (ok, it was just an hour) in which Betty has sent her 'goons', like Shego likes to call them, away from my hospital room and in which Shego explained her plan. "I… you can't do that!"

"She is right" I hear Dr. Director talking I her 'bossy bitch' mode. I arch an eyebrow surprised that she is agreeing with me. In this hour I think she got some sick pleasure on disagreeing with me every time I wanted to make an input to the plan "I can`t 'lend' you" she makes air bunnies ears with her fingers when saying the word 'lend' "an assault team to attack a facility without any prove that something really bad is being done"

"I will give you a reason" Betty looks at Shego. She don't have any idea what Shego is talking about with that smug grin on her face. "Especially now that Kimmie is out of service"

I don't need to see her smirking mouth to know she is mocking me. But that put my mind back in track. "I couldn't fuck care less about that" I shout getting scolding stares from my parents. I turn my head angrily at Shego. "You can't expect me to wait here until you miraculous come back!" I lock eyes with the green skinned woman. She is dead serious about this. "You can't do that to me, you can't leave me behind" I look at my parents for some kind of support. They just look away faking ignorance. At least I hope they are really faking. Then I turn to look at the other people, that consist only in the twins, Betty and Wade (Via Kimmunicator), in the room only to get the same reaction. "You can't… can you?" this time I am asking to all of them.

"Kim you are injured" Dad tries to reason with me.

I cut her off saying "And I have been before; that didn't keep me from doing my thing. This isn't any different"

"From what Shego told us this is much riskier than anything you have faced" This time is my mom who is trying to convince to stay.

"Your point being?" I look at her as if her statement doesn't even have any kind of basis. "Even the twins will be helping"

"They will just be the tech support from the outside because Wade can't do a lot with a closed computed system" before I could say my next complain "And so will be your dad and Anne"Shego says exasperated. "Basically I will be the only one to get in while Betty and her goons are the distraction and possible backup in case I won't finish my task in time"

"Someone said backup?" we all hear a panting voice from a window. I turn to the voice to see golden locks "Hey KP" how did he climb up here? We are on the fourth floor?

We all see how Ron struggles to get in the room miraculously not losing his pants in the looks around the room then his eyes fall on Shego. Uh oh. I close my eyes expecting him to freak out and forgetting all about the previous situation.

When I don't hear anything similar to a 'Shego!' or the rustle of things being knocked down to the floor by his frantic running in hope to get away from the plasma wielding woman I open my eyes.

I can see everyone expecting some sort of confrontation. They are looking awkwardly at each other; Ron fidgeting uncomfortably fighting the urge to look at anything but Shego like when he tries to lie.

When he make an audible gulp Shego rolls her eyes. "Stoppable" She says momentously.

He yelps "Sh…Shego" He greets her.

After that tense greeting I am happy to see him. "Ron, make her regain some reason" I say in hope to have someone on my part in this.

"What reason?" Betty jokes making Shego growl at her and making the others suppress their laugher.

After a bit of briefing to get Ron know about the sitch in hand I wait expectantly to have him say something on my favor.

"I see your point" he says. My confident look falls into pieces.

"What?!" I yell.

"I think it is better if the main team only a little one" that is a too consistent of a reason to have come from him.

I grunt but I am not giving up yet. "The more reason for me to go with her" I hear a lot of sighs around me. "I can't let her go alone if this is going to be as risky as we all think it would be"

"Right" he says making me smile. "But you are in no condition for that" again he crushes my expectations.

"Ha, I win" Shego says triumphantly.

"That is why I am going with her" And like that he crushes Shego's expectations too.

"You what?!" Shego's and my voice gather a great amount of surprise and incredulity.

"Please" he says a bit offended "I may not be the most sneaking person but I can be very helpful when it counts"

"Uh hu, uh hu" Rufus says getting out of Ron's pocket.

Shego gives an annoyed grunt "We will see about that" She says to Ron. The she turns to me "And about you my decision is final: you will stay here"

I can feel my eyes moisten but even like that I glare at Shego. She can't do this to me. I can't be left behind when the girl I consider my own daughter is suffering in some psyco's hands.

"You can't…" I scream at her. "How can you think in doing this to me?" I can feel the first tears rolling down my chest.

"This is for your own good" She is screaming. "Why are you so stubborn?"

"You are the stubborn one" I counter "This mess is my responsibility I have to be the one doing this I owe it to Ami. Why can't you understand that?!"

"Because I don't want to lose you!" She snaps. She looks surprised at her own word but she doesn't do or say anything to take them back.

I don't know what to say; my mouth suddenly feels dry and for some reason I can't keep my eyes on hers. I look away and notice that at some point the other residents of the room had left us alone.

Shego starts pacing with a hand over her mouth and the other on her hip.

"Wha… what did you say?" I ask after a few minutes.

She stops her pacing to look at me. She gives a tired sigh "I told you before,I won't deny it or saving my Freudian slips anymore" she says. "You and Ami are the most important people on my life. I couldn't bear losing any of you" I am blushing a deep scarlet red. "Ami for being my daughter and you…" I look at her expectantly "…you because you have been there all along this mess with me even if you didn't have to…" she pauses to make it more dramatically "and even before; the thrill of fighting, the need to keep myself on my toes in what martial artist refers to… you were the only thing that kept me from swallowing myself in my depression so I won't allow any harm fall on you" she locks eyes with me and takes my hands in hers. "You are my family" I can see she is keeping her tears at bay "Please… don't do this and obey me. If not for you then for me"

I am at a loss of words and when she notices this she smiles sadly at me and silently got out of the room.

SKP

"All teams ready?" I ask them through the handsets we all are using. We are in a cargo jet getting close to the place nerdlin… Wade tracked down Amadis.

"Roger. Teach team ready" The twins' voice comes out eagerly.

"Roger here" Anne says from her sit. Dr. P. only gives me a thump up.

"Someone could please present me to this Roger guy?" Ron says.

"Buffon" I hear Betty mutters stealing my precise thought.

I only roll my eyes. I swear if he keeps this up I will give her a Plasma enem…

"Roger, commander" I hear a voice that isn't supposed to be here. I look around scanning the aircraft room the my eyes falls on one of the equipment trunks. When I open it I found a grinning red head. "Hi?"

"What the hell are you doing here? Better yet how did you get here?" I ask her more worried than angry.

She get out of the trunk and looks defiantly at me. Now that I can look at her I notice she is wearing her battlesuit. Nerdlinger! And with that I have my answers.

I take out my Kimmunicator. I am ready to beat Wade head off.

"She forced me" Wade fast reply confirms what I already knew.

"He is right. It was this or I would have sneaked here in my old missions clothes" she says smugly.

"At least this way the battlesuit will compensate her injuries and keep them from getting worse" Wade tries to justify himself.

"Shut up!" He instantly cut off the communication. I know too well that this could happen and if I am blatantly honest (which I am not) I would have done the same only to keep her safer but now I can't think about anything else but her not being safe where we are going. "Kim…"

She put a finger over my lips silencing me. "Hear me first, please?" I reluctantly nod, not before buffing annoyingly. "I know you think I am not safe here" that is an understatement. "But I have being thinking about what you said in this…" she makes a show of looking at her inexistent watch "… Two hours" she chuckles at her lame joke. I am far from amused. "And I realized that…" she break eye contact "No… It just noticed that you and Ami two of the most important people of my life and I couldn't bear losing any of you too" Her blush intensifies.She is so cute. I barely can suppress my own blush. "I will have your back" fighting her sudden shyness she looks me straight in the eyes. I can see her honesty, her caring, her worry… her love. "So I will be here for you until the end… and beyond" she gives the most warm and beautiful smile I have ever seen.

I shake my head in defeat. "Do whatever you want" I lock eyes with her "But if you die down there I promise I won't talk to you again" she chuckle softly.

"Deal" she says.

"There are some other surprises I am not aware of?" I look around and all of them shake their heads "Any?" I ask one more time and I get same response. "Ok then"

Suddenly from one of the upper compartments a girl falls on my arms. I catch her before she hits the ground.

"Hello" that Jen girl says nonchalantly.

"Arghhhh!" I put her on the floor and start to smack my head on the nearer metallic surface I could find. There is no turning back now. We are too close to Ami and who knows what that monster that is her father could have done by now she doesn't have time to waste. "Ok…ok…" all of them are looking at me warily. "Change of plans"