Disclaimer: Kim, Ron, Tara, Bonnie et al are property of the Walt Disney Company. I've taken them and the stories from the series to created my own tales for no money or glory. "NO MONEY ROCKS!" to quote a musician from the pink poof episode.

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Chapter 16 Epilogue

"Are all the civilians out?" Ron yelled to his team. The all clear signal came from Tara, Felix and Kim. He turned to his wife. "Dearest Heart, will you do the honors and close down this opium den?"

"I'd love to Sweetie," a very pregnant Kim chimed and gave him a peck on the lips. Her hair began to blow up and away from her head as she closed her eyes. When they opened, her eyes blazed with an emerald fire. Sparkling dark green plasma ignited around her hands and the three other teens engulfed themselves in their glowing orbs. Kim fired plasma balls at the support beams and columns of the warehouse. She surrounded herself with her own glowing sphere when she saw a crack in the roof begin to run the length of the huge room. She fired off a couple more balls of energy at the ceiling before it collapsed.

Four glowing balls of energy floated from the wreckage of the building and safely alit in the street. The auras dissipated as the team turned to look at Kim's work.

"Not to shabby KP!" Ron yelled with a pumping fist and a huge grin on his face

"Yeah," Felix said. "You're getting better with your aim. I think you only missed one shot."

Kim scratched the back of her head. "Two actually. One went wild, but one barely missed the intended target and hit a pillar behind where I was aiming. That one went astray because she wanted to get in on the action." Kim rubbed her distended stomach.

Ron gave his wife a quick peck on the lips. "All in all, a good first mission."

Kim curtsied and said, "Why Thank You Honey. I do what I can with what I got." The three other teens laughed.

"You better not let Bonnie hear you say that," Tara giggled. "She says Ron and I need to get a different script writer when we use it."

Ron leaned down, kissed Kim's belly and playfully chided his yet-to-be born Daughter, "And you keep out of it until you've had some training Young Lady." He wrapped his arms around Kim. "How are you feeling? You didn't use too much energy, did ya?"

"I feel great!" Kim rubbed her swollen belly and said, "Though I do feel..."

"HUNGRY!" they all chimed together and laughed.

The four teens walked to the edge of town, (well, Kim rode piggy back most of the way on Ron's back,) and arrived at a field edging a forested area. Felix got his Rentonunicator out and pushed a button. Their jet black, wedge shaped ship shimmered as it appeared in the pasture and the ramp automatically lowered.

Felix went to the cockpit and strapped himself in. "Activate interlock, dynotherms connected," he said to himself as he flipped a couple of switches. "Atomic batteries to power, turbines to speed, mega-thrusters are go," he spoke again as the gages and lights lit up on the dashboard. He started to sing to himself, "Off we goooo, into the wild blue yonder..." He hummed the rest.

Kim laid back in her reclined lounge and rubbed her swollen belly. "Oof, she's really kicking up a storm today!"

Tara came over and placed her hand on Kim's belly. "Wow! She's going to be a fighter, just like her Mom and Dad," she giggled. "I'm surprised everyone at school believed the story we concocted about how all your freak fighting advanced the gestation period for your pregnancy."

"Well, Monique is a great Spin Doctor. Mom also helped a little with that fabrication," Kim said with a smirk. "The letter she and Dr. Frank sent to Mr. Barkin did the trick. Mom's so happy now that she knows there's a baby on the way, she's almost giddy. It's like she's the one who's going to have it. Would you believe she's already knitted three sets of baby clothes for Penny?"

Ron poked his head out of the craft's brand new galley, laughing and twirling a spatula in his fingers. "She says the knitting is good for her finger dexterity, keeping them limber for surgery. But we know she's only doing it cause she's so anxious about the baby. She needs to burn off the nervous energy somehow."

"You guys," Felix called from the front of the ship, "we have a request to pick someone up."

Tara and Kim went to the cockpit and looked at the message. "Okay," Kim sighed and shook her head, "pick her up. It's on the way." She yelled back to Ron, "Honey, set another place, we're picking up Shego!"

Ten minutes later, the green skinned woman walked up the ramp and sat down in one of the lounge chairs. "Thanks for the ride. I had to stay behind and clean up a few things on our mission. My Brothers had to rush back to Go City to help thwart a bank robbery."

"No big," Kim said before she took a bite of her sandwich. She finished chewing before adding, "By the way, I don't like the new outfit. All black with the thin green racing strip doesn't looks good on you. Your face sticks out like a sore thumb. Maybe you should reverse the color scheme."

"What?" Shego said disheartedly, "and blend in with the trees and shrubs?" She laughed out loud. "Anyway, who are you to give out fashion advice. You're still wearing the same thing you have been for the last four years!"

"Am not," Kim said defensively. "My pants are rip stop nylon now so I can use the transport beam and go to Kalzaria for my doctors appointments."

Shego cackled then thanked Ron when he handed her a tray of food. "I suppose they have to be new. Otherwise you'd be letting them out every other day. When's the baby due?"

"Just a little over a month from now," Ron chimed in as he sat down with his own tray. "Though with Kim's meditating, it might be a little longer. Dr. Frank said it's slowing the process a little and he moved the due date back two weeks the last time we visited him."

"Yes," Kim said, wiping her mouth with a napkin. "Now I won't have to miss any of my final exams."

Tara giggled, "Kim'll be huge when she gets her diploma, but at least she'll be out of school when Penny is born."

"So her name is going to be Penny?" Shego queried.

"Penelope Martha Stoppable," Kim stated proudly. Shego laughed. "What?" Kim asked.

"Her initials," Shego managed to say through her cackling laughter.

"Oops!" Ron said as he realized what Shego was talking about. "Maybe Martha isn't a good middle name."

Shego got up, brushed off her hands and walked over to Kim. "Can I feel?" she asked, holding a hand over Kim's belly?

Kim pulled her plate off her lap and smiled. "Sure. Penny was kicking up her heels a few minutes ago. I think she was trying to tell me she was hungry since she's settled down a bit."

Shego placed her hand gently on Kim abdomen and laughed. "You call that settled down? She kicking more than an Alflaxian Garf!" Shego reeled a bit and fell to the floor with a loud "Woof!"

"Are you alright," Kim yelped as she struggled to get off the lounge. Ron came over and helped the green warrior to her feet.

"I forgot about an old Alflaxian trait," Shego said as she shook her head. "When we touch a woman who's along in her pregnancy, we get a very powerful vision of the child as an adult. Penny's going to be a stunner when she grows up. Tall and willowy with strawberry blond hair and green eyes."

"That great to know," Kim and Ron said together.

Kim settled back in her lounge chair. "So, you're from Alflaxia? I haven't learned about the different planets in the FCC yet."

"It's just Alflax," Shego said as Ron helped her into her seat. "It's one of two planets that circle binary Suns. The other planet is Kalgon, that's where Drew is from."

"All Alflaxians are green like Shego," Tara giggled, "while all Kalgonians are blue like Drew."

"So the members of Team Go are not really your Brothers," Kim half asked, half stated as she looked around the ship at everyone. "You guys are all such good actors it's hard to tell. Your fights with Hego and the others are just like a real family. Are they from some other planet?"

"They're all from Kalzaria," Ron interjected. "When they went through the fusion process to get their Human bodies, they chose the special powers they'd have. The skin color goes along with their powers. Just ike the plasma powers go along with eye color."

"But your eyes are brown," Kim stated to her husband, "not blue like your plasma."

"Well, brown plasma doesn't work so well so I had it changed."

Kim looked over to her platinum blond friend. "What about you Tara? Where are you from?"

"Me?" Tara giggled. "I'm from Guinness. It was the first planet Kalzaria colonized. Ron, Felix and Bonnie are all from Kalzaria. We're all Energy Beings when we're not in Human form."

"I know Rufus is from another planet where they're all naked mole rats," Kim said in deep concentration, "what about Wade? He said he's from another planet." Ron, Shego and Tara blanched. "What?" Kim begged in curiosity.

Tara walked over to Kim. "He's from Janis. His real form is..." she whispered in Kim's ear and shuddered. "They need a constant influx of soda to keep their form. Otherwise, they quickly revert to their real...ugh, bodies."

"Ewwwww!" Kim whined with a sour face. "Ron Sweetie, remember to keep a big supply of soda at home."

"All the other planets are colonies of Kalzaria," Tara stated.

"Except one," Shego cut in. "Ssssscalia, that lizard planet. You'll probably never run into one of them though. They generally stay in the swamps of their world."

"If you do see one," Ron said as he finished his lunch, "remember to hiss your S's. They get highly offended if you don't."

"Yeah," Shego laughed. "I went to their planet one time to help with a wild fire. I barely got out alive."

Kim struggled to get out of her chair. After a minute she gave up and held out her plate. "Ron Dearest, could you get me some more of that delicious German potato salad you made? I can't seem to be able to get out of this chair."

Ron quickly came over to her side, grabbed her plate and gave her a peck on the lips. "Are you okay? You're sure you didn't use too much plasma power on the mission."

Kim shook her head with a big smile. "No, that's not it. I get the distinct impression Penny is happy right now and doesn't want me to get up."

"Oh that," Ron nonchalantly said as he went to the galley. "I did some reading on a coupla of past Human, Kalzarian pregnancies the last time you were in with Dr. Frank. They alway report that the baby will start communicating telepathically with the Mother about a week before they are born. It's usually caused by the Energy Being's power melding with the baby in the womb. With me being an Energy Being and both of us having plasma powers now, it seems to be starting earlier with Penny."

"I know how I got my plasma powers," Shego said in confusion, "But how did the Princess get them?"

"I'll show you Princess!" Kim growled and ignited one hand as she struggled to get up. Ron ran in and wrapped Kim in a big embrace. The plasma flames ebbed from her hand as she melted in his arms. She did manage to zing off a small shot that hit Shego in the arm before the flames extinguished. "Sorry Shego," she said with her head buried in Ron chest. "I guess I still get a little moody once in a while."

"To answer your question, she got her powers the same way as you," Ron answered sunnily, still holding Kim. "Alflaxians are a generation or two away from becoming Energy Beings so it's easy to give your people the powers. Kim is special in the same way. With her mental capacity and athletic abilities, she's more advanced than most others from Earth and thus a step away from being like us."

"I see," Shego said, rubbing her arm where the plasma hit. "I should know better than to tangle with a moody pregnant red-head."

Kim looked up at Ron with her emerald eyes glistening. "Thank You Ron. You're the only one who can calm me down when I get like that. I can't imagine what my life would be like without you in it." She pulled him in for a big sloppy kiss.

Tara watched for a second before she turned her attention to Felix. "So, are we meeting everyone at your pool tonight?"

"Yes. I think my Mom will be working late," Felix said from the cockpit. "You all up for a swim?"

Kim licked her lips as she broke from the buss. ""Ron and I have to do a little studying for finals next week before we can think of relaxing by the pool." She laid back in her reclined chair while Ron went to the galley. "Why don't you all come over to our house. We could study together out back and you won't have to worry about your Mom coming home early. I know she worries a little when we're all out by the pool naked." Kim tittered and added, "I think she believes that's how I got knocked up."

"Well, isn't it?" Tara giggled. She engaged her orb when Kim looked at her with a wicked glare. "Anyway, your stable is a great place to store our UFO," Tara giggled, her hands held up defensively. Kim smiled and Tara let the sphere dissipate. "It's turning into a great command center too. We can hanger the ship and still have room to store all our equipment without it being underground."

Felix came back into the lounge area. "Your back yard is much bigger and more secure than where we've been hiding our transport before. Plus your house is centrally located between all our houses."

"Then it's settled," Ron sang as he came in with a small plate of food for Kim and sat next to her. "We'll make the stable our main base of operations. Though we can still use the other facilities at your houses when we need something fast. They might come in handy for extra storage too."

"Like those cases of fligbors and snatz cakes you brought back after the hearings?" Tara giggled and licked her lips. "You musta spend all your back pay on snacks and transporting them here."

Ron laughed. "Yes I did. But we figure we don't need the money there since our portfolios here on Earth have almost doubled in the last three months."

Kim stroked Ron's face. "You Dad is a financial wizard."

"So, when are you two going to buy Middleton?" Felix laughed as he walked back to the cockpit.

"Maybe next year," Ron giggled. "First we want to get a couple of horses. We both love horses."

"Like when you were a general in the Crimean War?" Kim pondered.

"Exactly," Ron said with a smile. Suddenly his brow furled. "How'd you know about that?"

Kim wiped the potato salad from her lips with a napkin. "You didn't recognize the nurse during your rehab? She was Florence Nightingale back in the war. She told me you two met."

Recognition dawned on Ron's face. "Oh yeah. But she looks fifteen or twenty years older now. Back then I was touring the army hospitals and we talked briefly. There was nothing special about her and I didn't know she was Kalzarian." Ron saw the surprised look on Kim's face. "Hey, it was late at night and I was more concerned with my men than looking into her eyes to see if she was from the home world."

"When did you find out Monique was one of you?" Kim queried.

"Not at first," Ron said, shaking his head. "I didn't know until we had that Naco face-off at Bueno Nacho." He scratched the back of his head. "Though I shoulda guessed when I found out she loved the GWA." He paused in deep thought for a moment. "You know, Monique and I never really talked about it."

"What about Big Mike?"

Ron looked fairly surprised. "I didn't know about Big Mike. As I told you when you were sent to D Hall for being tardy to class, don't look anyone in the eye."

"And chocolate is as good as cash," Kim giggled.

Felix came back from the cockpit and said to Kim and Ron, "I just talked to Bonnie. She's up for a pool party slash study session and will meet us at your house. Rufus and Wade are with your Mom right now. Wade said they're running some more brain scans on both of them to find out why you three can nonverbally communicate like you do."

"Is your Mom still working on that," Tara giggled. "I though she figured it out last week."

"She did," Kim said in exasperation, "but you know how thorough she likes to be. She discovered a highly active region in our brains that's normally dormant. I think she's trying to determine if it's active due to our plasma powers or if it's related to our psychic link. She's probably testing Rufus and Wade as a non-plasma wielding variants. I think you two and Bonnie are next to come under her diabolical hands to test that theory more." Kim peered over at the green skinned woman. "And Uncle Walt help you, Shego, if Mom ever gets ahold of you!"

Ron added, "She also got the schematics for the brain switch machine from Drakken and she's trying to convince the hospital to build it to further the research."

"If the hospital doesn't pay for it," Kim continued, "Ron and I will have it built and give it to her as a birthday present." She stroked Ron's cheek. "Right Sweetie?"

Ron shrugged. "What's a coupla million dollars when it'll make our folks happy. And it's for a good cause."

Half of the Stoppable's stable roof silently folded outward as the invisible, sleek black craft lowered noiselessly from the sky and landed inside. Tara shrugged off her sweater as she walked down the ramp. "It's great to be home again," she sighed as she kicked off her boots and let her pants slip to the floor. She went over to a cabinet and grabbed one of a dozen bottles of sunblock before taking off her sock, bra and panties. She raced out the door yelling, "I'll see you by the pool!"

"Not if I get there first Pearl," Shego yelled as she shed her jumpsuit and dashed after Tara.

"Pearl?" Felix asked as he picked up their clothes and put them in a bag with his. He tossed the bag to Ron and said, "Why did she call Tara Pearl?"

"It's a nickname I gave her," Ron tittered. "Tara's skin is just like the string of pearls we saw when we picked out our wedding rings."

Felix stopped in the doorway. "Are you two going to be alright? You want me to wait for you?"

Kim smiled. "No, we'll be fine, Thank You. You go on head." Felix ran out the door.

Ron accepted Kim clothes and put them in the bag. As he finished stuffing his own clothing in he asked, "Are Tara and Felix a couple now?"

Kim slipped into her white fluffy slippers with the rabbit ears and squeaked noisily towards the door. "I don't think so but it's hard to tell. Actually I think Shego is interested in Tara."

"Here you go Alice," Ron chimed as he tossed the load of laundry into a seemly empty horse stall. Flexible metallic arms sprang from behind a panel in the wall and started sorting the clothes as a washer and dryer rose from the floor. "I just love ALICE," Ron chirped happily.

"Yeah," Kim giggled, "I'll never have to do the laundry as long as we have the Automatic Laundry In Concealed Environment around."

Ron walked to the exit and bent over slightly. "Need a lift?" he asked his wife.

Kim smiled and shook her head. "Thank you, no. I've been taking it easy all day so I need to stretch my legs a little before we sit down to study."

They walked toward the house and saw Shego, Felix and Tara sitting on the lawn about fifty feet short of the pool. Tara turned around and silently shushed them with a finger to her lips as they approached. Tara pointed over to the cabana.

Bonnie, in all her naked glory and with headphones on, was dancing and prancing around wildly. Her eyes were shut tight as she belted out:

"I need a hero

I'm holding out for a hero 'til the end of the night

He's gotta be strong

And he's gotta be fast

And he's gotta be fresh from the fight.

I need a hero

I'm holding out for a hero 'til the morning light

He's gotta be sure

And he's gotta be soon

And he's gotta be larger than life."

Bonnie stopped dancing and went into a very fast, very animated air drum solo. One arm shot to the sky and she held an imaginary microphone.

"Up where the mountains meet the heavens above

Out where the lightning splits the sea

I could swear there is someone somewhere watching me.

Through the wind and the chill and the rain

And the storm and the flood

I can feel his approach

Like the fire in my blood."

Bonnie almost literally jumped out of her skin when she opened her eyes and saw her audience. With one quick motion she wrenched the headphones off her head and tossed them to the side. "HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN THERE!" she screamed as her whole bronzed body turned red with embarrassment.

"Shego, Felix and I have been here for the whole song," Tara giggled wildly. "You should know better than to turn your back to where we'd be coming from."

"Was that the Pony you were doing?" Shego cackled. "That dance is soooo Sixties."

"Ron and I came in on the chorus," Kim shrugged. "You have a great singing voice."

"And you play a mean set of air drums," Ron said grinning from ear to ear. "That was Bonnie Tyler, wasn't it?"

"Yeah," Bonnie said weakly. "It's sorta become my anthem since you two got married. I guess I'm holding out for my own hero."

Kim and Tara went over and wrapped their arms around Bonnie. "I know I've found my hero," Kim said in consolation. "You'll find your own when you least expect it."

"And until then," Tara said softly, "you have me and Felix."

"Oh, you Guys!" Bonnie cried.

After a few seconds Shego came over and embraced the trio. "Shego!" Tara squealed with delight. "If you want to cop a feel, all you need to do is ask."

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Notes: The song Bonnie was singing is "Holding Out For A Hero" by Bonnie Tyler. And of course when Felix started their UFO, he used phrases from Voltron and the original Batman TV series, which I do not own.