Disclaimer: Kim Possible is the property of Disney. The only thing I own in this story is the ideas for the Dragon's Den. (Which I will open someday when I am rich.)
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Shego and Kim followed Wade directly back to his house while Ron and Yori went to get their gear. Kim had already been in Wade's lab many times, so the new addition of a severely scorched target in the corner stood out to her immediately.
Before she could ask about it, Shego handed her the black battle suit and ordered her to go change. When Kim returned she tried again to ask a question but Shego beat her to the punch. "How does it work?" asked Shego.
"Just hold her hands and ignite," replied Wade.
"I can do that," Shego stood in front of Kim and took her partners hands. Wade pointed a scanner of sorts at them.
"Go ahead Shego," he said.
Kim fought the urge to pull away as her hands caught fire along with Shego's. "Hotter," ordered Wade. Shego pushed up the plasma flow to the point it was almost dripping from their hands. Kim marveled that she wasn't being burned. The original battle suit had been white with blue highlights. Wade's mods for Autumn had left it a solid black. Now the formally blue parts slowly grew green until they matched the green of Shego's cat suit.
The older thief released her hold and took a step back. "You look good in green, Princess."
"So the present is a new color scheme?" Kim was confused.
"Snap your fingers," said Wade doing so as an example.
Kim still looked confused, but did so and immediately her hands were engulfed in the same green glow as Shego. The redhead held her arms at full length and stared.
"Surprise, Cupcake," Shego was all smiles. "So, Wade, how long does a charge last?"
"It is only designed for emergencies," said Wade. "Autumn can keep her hands lit for about five minutes, but using projectile shots will each cost about a minute of burn time."
"I can throw plasma!" Kim said excitedly "This rocks!"
Shego gave Kim a quick tutorial on plasma throwing. With each throw at the target, the green highlights faded until it was solid black and her flame died.
The green thief gave her partner a fresh charge before saying. "Let's go hurt Dr. D."
"You mean save my mom," Kim corrected.
"Sounds like each of us has our own part to play."
When Ron and Yori arrived the attack force was complete. "Yori and I will be needing comm. units that match what Kim and Shego have," said Ron.
Wade gave Ron a blank look of innocence.
"Come on, Wade," Ron said. "Who else could make all the cool toys Autumn has been using?"
Wade rolled his eyes, but dug through a drawer and pulled out two of the spare headsets he had made for Autumn and Shego. "Don't worry," said Ron. "My lips are sealed as long as I get a cool expanding attack stick thingy."
"You are not going to be satisfied until you actually put your eye out, Stoppable," said the green thief.
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Mrs. Possible turned away from her computer monitor and rubbed her temples. Around her she could see her fellow hostages working under the tight guard of dozens of synthodrones. Each scientist had been given a workstation and vague instructions to create a mind control chip.
"Back to work, Dr. Possible," Drakken paused in his prowling of the lab.
"What is the point of this Lipsky?" she asked. The headache of working at the computer screen for twelve hours was making her grumpy. "Kim is just going to blow up your plan like she always does."
"Do you mean Autumn?" he sneered. "Last time I checked she wasn't in the hero business anymore."
"You kidnapper her mother," replied Anne Possible. "Hero or not what do you think she is going to do?"
"Well I had to," he replied while trying to look aloof.
"Had to?" she asked not sure if she really wanted to understand the madman's logic.
"Your name was on the list," he said.
"What list?" she sighed wondering where this was going.
"When I was escaping the Global Justice detention center I stumbled upon a list of neural and cyber specialist that GJ wished to recruit for a project to design the perfect mind control blocker," Anne could see the glint in the man's eye as he began to get excited. "So in my genius I realized I could use that same list of scientists to create the perfect mind control device that would be unstoppable!"
"Let me guess," she interrupted. "To take over the world?"
Drakken nodded enthusiastically.
"And where exactly did you find this list?" she asked fearing the answer.
"On the guards desk," he replied. "It had a shiny cover that said 'Top Secret'.
"And my name was near the top of the list," she stated.
"Oh, you've seen it?" he asked.
Anne Possible turned back to her workstation and shook her head. "I am going to kill Betty for this," she mumbled to herself.
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"So what's the plan?" Ron asked. All four were standing in the woods just beyond the perimeter of the sweeping searchlights.
"Yori would you take Ron and sneak in the back way," asked Kim.
"Of course Autumn-san," replied Yori. "Is it your plan to be the distraction while we rescue the hostages?"
"Sorry to leave you with the boring part," Kim said.
"No such thing when you are involved, KP," said Ron. The couple disappeared into the woods to sneak around the backside of the lair, leaving the thieves alone to storm the front gate.
"Let's make a game of this," suggested Shego.
"What are the rules," Kim asked.
"First to tag Drakken wins." Shego's hand ignited in explanation of what 'tag' meant.
"Sounds fun," Kim said. "But before we go I have something for you." The redhead held out something.
Shego took a small gray cube from her partner's hand. She held it close in the low light to see what it was. There was a hissing sound then she found herself encompassed in black smoke.
The green thief could hear Autumn's footsteps as the younger thief ran towards the lair. "Cheater!" Shego roared.
"What do you think I am?" came the reply. "Some goodie two shoed teen hero?"
Shego cleared the smoke cloud in time to see her partner scale the fence surrounding the compound. Autumn dropped down on the far side and zigzagged her way to the main hanger door avoiding the searchlights.
The pale villainess followed. Instead of simply avoiding the searchlights she took them out with a few well-placed plasma shots. Alarms began to sound throughout the lair.
When Shego entered the main hanger she found the remains of several synthodrones. Having more experience in this lair it was easy to guess which route Kimmie would take and she knew a better one.
Kim found her way blocked by a pair of automated laser cannons. The devices were mounted in the corners surrounding the access way that led to the various labs. When she rounded the corner they quickly locked on and opened fire. Kim was forced into a series of flips as she moved closer. Timing the shots she found an opening.
The redhead made a quick run up the side of the wall under one of the lasers getting just enough height to latch onto its mount. Grabbing the laser she pointed it at its match and opened fire. The other laser was burnt beyond recognition. Using the increased strength afforded y the suit she ripped the first laser from its mount and used it as a club against a new wave of synthodrones.
Meanwhile, using a less guarded hallway Shego arrived in the lab containing the prisoners first. When the alarms had gone off Drakken had his hostages corralled to the back of the room. A few drones guarded the scientists. 'Now where is Drakken?'
"Shego!" he said. "What are you doing here?" His voice came from nearby, but Shego couldn't quite get a bead on him.
"Just playing a game with Princess," she said sweetly. A smarter man would have been concerned by the sweetness in Shego's voice.
Drakken stepped from behind a computer terminal.
"It's a trap, you idiot," Kim's voice rang out, but not soon enough. A large plasma blast struck the man dead on, knocking him out cold.
"I win, Princess," Shego crowed. "You cheated twice and I still won!"
Kim rolled her eyes. Before she could respond the sound of new fighting reached them. Ron and Yori had finally made it. Their more cautious entry had taken much longer, but the pair was now taking down the few remaining synthodrone guards.
Once clean up was complete, Ron and Yori led the hostages out of the building. Shego collected her former boss/favorite target and led the way out of the lair and right into the open arms of Global Justice.
Shego dumped Drakken's body by the entrance. Kim and Shego stood alone facing a number of armed agents that they didn't even try to count.
Kim could see Betty Director and her mother just behind the wall of men. "Why don't you go ahead, Shego," Kim said. "I'll catch up."
"You sure, Princess," the green thief asked with concern.
"I need to have a word with Dr. Director," Autumn replied.
"This had better not be a plot to get out of helping me baby-sit Jesse. You are the one that volunteered us," Shego said.
Kim laughed. "I'll be home in a few hours." The redhead put an arm around Shego and pulled her in for a quick kiss on the lips. "Thanks for helping me rescue my mom."
When they separated Shego had a smile on her face. "See you later, Pumpkin." The villainess' escape was relatively smooth. It only cost GJ a few broken stun rifles and one helicopter.
Kim allowed herself to be handcuffed and escorted at gunpoint to the Director. "I can not believe you used me to get her," Kim heard her mother shouting.
The Director ignored Dr. Possible and faced Kim. "I see your partner has abandoned you, Miss Possible. Hard to trust a thief."
"Says the woman who set me up," Kim replied coolly. "And the name is Autumn to you."
"We set this up, not to catch you, but to show you that you are a hero, not a thief," Dr. Director said.
"Sorry, you got dragged into this mom," Kim said.
"I must say that I am really disappointed in this whole Autumn thing," said her mother. "But this situation is the Directors fault, not yours." The older Possible shot her old friend a look designed to kill.
Kim turned her attention back to the one eyed woman. "Leave my family out of this," she snapped. "Or I will do more then just knock out a few agents next time we meet."
"Threats, Miss Possible?" asked the Director. "I fear Shego is rubbing off on you too much."
"You want to see what else has rubbed off on me?" Kim held her cuffed hands up between herself and the Global Justice leader. Snap. Whoosh. Both the Director and Kim's mother took a step back as green plasma flared from Autumn's hands. The heat quickly weakened the cuffs enough that Kim could break them easily.
The redhead turned and raked the air between herself and her armed escort. The men back peddled at the surprise, giving her enough room to get past. Using her reservoir of plasma Kim made short work of the three trucks that had been used to bring all of the agents to the remote lair. While dodging the fire of dozens of stun guns Kim pulled out and threw all of her flash and smoke pellets.
Kim used the chaos to slip behind the wheel of a small blue sports car she found hidden behind one of the trucks. The car had the license plate GJ #1. That was the last time Dr. Betty Director would ever bring her personal car to a bust.
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The next night:
A high-pitched scream filled the manor. Shego hopped up from her bed and tossed the book she had been reading onto the nightstand. She quickly made her way to the room where her niece was sleeping. She kicked the door in and marched inside with hands alight. She scanned the bed and found that the little girl was missing.
The green thief turned around and came face to face with Kim who was wearing an evil grin. But Shego was too concerned to notice it or the fact that Kim had her hands hidden behind her back. "Did you hear Jesse scream?"
"Did you scream, Jesse," Kim looked over Shego's shoulder. The older woman turned and looked down the other direction of the hall. Jesse was standing there with an evil grin and hidden hands too.
Shego realized she had fallen into a trap. "This is why I hate babysitting!" Four cans of silly string were unleashed upon the trapped villainess. Laughter followed the green thief as she attempted to outrun her giggling pursuers.
Downside of being the bad guy is you have to be in constant fear of ambush and you are always on the run.
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Authors notes: And so ends my first ever fanfic. It was a learning experience to say the least. I am looking forward to trying again. I see myself doing a sequel to this story. As any good sequel goes it will have to have bigger explosions and more Kigo.
Shego helped Kim rescue her mother. When Team Go disappears, Kim wants to return the favor. Now if only Shego actually wanted to rescue her brothers….