I do not own Kim Possible, or any other Disney or DC character. I'm just borrowing them for my own view of alternative tales.
KP: Green Lantern's Light
By LJ58
Part 3: Face-Off
"Ready to launch," Kim asked the other ship as she settled into the command chair on the alien ship with Shego behind her.
"Ready, KP," Ron's voice carried over the radio, he already being familiar with the space plane being the ideal pilot after a quick refresher course.
Of course, her dad's new AI also helped by being in control of most of the ship. Ron would only have to guide the computer in doing what they needed. What Kim had planned.
"I could have flown either of these buckets….."
"I'd rather not take the chance you had a change-of-heart halfway to our target," she told the green-skinned woman behind her as she started the engines. "Not when we might need all the help we can get before this is over."
Just now she was wearing her space suit over her battle-suit, and had willed the ring to vanish again, deciding a sneak-attack on the Juggernaut and its defenders was going to be their best ploy this go-round without tipping them that another Green Lantern was coming.
"Engines are lit," Ron's voice called again. "We're waiting on you, KP," Ron told her.
The space plane carried the rest of Team Go, while hers carried a crack team of military commandos with state-of-the-art armor and weapons to help them.
"All right, guys. Get ready then. On my mark. Three, two, one, and….launch!"
Kim tensed, feeling the ship move, and the controls respond just the way she expected, but she couldn't help but worry about Ron. Not that she doubted his skill, or the AI, but Hego was with him. And she already knew he and his brothers had the tendency to argue over who was supposed to be doing what. She still remembered the day Mego had simply reached over, grabbed the controls of the Go Jet as they were en route to a mission with Team Go, and declared he was the better pilot, and should be flying.
Fortunately, she had been wearing her jetpack that day.
"We're on your starboard wing, Kim," Ron declared as they gained altitude. "Man, this is one sweet ride. Thank we could get your dad to hand it over after this," he asked.
"I doubt the Space Center would appreciate even us taking over their experimental spacecraft, Ron," she grinned.
"Yeah, but just think of the dates we could have. The moon? Mars? Maybe an asteroid just for two?"
"Doy, and I thought Blueboy was loopy," Shego commented at the cheesy remarks.
"Sweet, Ron, but let's focus. I'm going to put a tractor beam on you now," she told him as they left the planet's atmosphere behind, "And then I can drag you along in slipstream when I fire a hyper-burst thrust."
"You can do that," Ron asked, then immediately asked, "What does that mean?"
"It means we're going to go real fast," Shego cut in.
"So don't fight it when you feel me latch onto your ship," Kim told him. "Even dad's space plane probably can't keep up with this thing when it warms up, and I need you guys with me when we get to the Juggernaut."
She paused, then added, "And don't forget, Hego. You guys don't activate those amplifiers until we're ready to fight."
"We know, Miss Possible," the voice came back, "And we'll be waiting for your signal. Don't worry, Team Go won't let you down."
"Wow, I never thought I would see that. Well, hear it."
"Hear what," Kim asked as she prepped the hyper-thrust, and activated the tractor beam on the alien shuttle as she used the initial course to simply reverse their trajectory to find the invader coming to their system.
Shego smirked, but even Kim saw she looked a bit worried. "He sounded scared. And that isn't like the big glory hound," she admitted.
"And you aren't," she asked.
"Please," she huffed. "After those Lorwardians, how much worse could it get?"
"We're about to find out," she told her, and threw several switched, pressed the actuator that drew the space plane into their slipstream, and then slid the throttle controls forward, and pressed the large, yellow button attached to that throttle control where her thumb rested.
For four long seconds the world turned into a gray-green streak of color that blurred around them, and then she felt the tug of gravity from something huge, and she banked away even as the burst faded, and she realized they were just passing Jupiter.
"Halfway there, guys," she radioed, though she wasn't sure if the transmitter worked in this weird speed as there was no reply. Then again, from the looks on the agents' faces around her, they might not be able to reply.
"Suck it up, guys," Shego spat, not liking the shade of an agent near her.
Kim gave them a week smile as she felt her stomach tighten, but she had lived half her life doing wild and extreme stunts. She willed herself to resist the nausea, and studied the controls as she now shut down the hyper-thrust, and slowed the ships before she risked releasing the tractor beam so any residual inertia didn't inadvertently damage the smaller spacecraft.
"Okay, guys, power down, and hold position. Do you copy, Ron," she called.
"Y-Yeah, KP. Some r-ride, huh?"
"Beats the coasters at Cold Mountain," she agreed cheerfully.
"Uh, Kimmie," Shego rasped, staring at the monitor before her.
"What, Shego."
Shego only pointed.
"Uh, this is probably clichéd, but…..I've got a bad feeling about this," she told Kim as what she first took for a moon out past the icy rock that might be a planet. Might be an asteroid. Only that moon was heading right for them, and it was getting bigger. A lot bigger.
"Guys, now," Kim told the agents. "Remember, we have to get the drive systems down, and change the navigation coordinates at the least. Anything, and anyone in your way has to be dealt with hard and fast. You get that, Ron?"
"We're moving to flank them, Kim. We'll come in behind them, and try our luck from the far side."
"Just keep your locator beacons on, and don't get split up. In this case, I suspect we'll all need to cover one another's backs."
"And my back," Shego asked irritably.
"You follow Commander Du, and listen to him."
"And you?"
She smiled. "I'm going to do what I do best," she said, still flying directly toward what looked like an important nodule on the surface of the huge, metal sphere that was heading toward them.
Even as it neared that icy rock Shego had first spotted, the lower hemisphere of the metal sphere opened like gaping jaws, and just engulfed the planetoid. The jaws closed even as a burst of superheated flame melted any ice on the rock, and internal mechanisms began crushing the planetoid even before the jaws were closed.
"Holy…… Spit," Shego gasped. "We're going to fight that?"
"No. Just stop it. The fighting is going to be….."
"We're close to what looks like some kind of engine," Ron announced at that point, hidden behind the yellowish sphere. "We're going down to investigate. I'm betting that whatever is most guarded is going to be where we want to be."
"Work fast, guys. From what I can tell, we're two hours before this thing reaches its first targets, and we lose our first charge. If it reaches Jupiter's moons, someone is going to die."
"Not gonna happen, KP," Ron assured her. "We're going in, and…."
"Ron?"
"Sorry," he said over the sound of a large explosion. "Welcome committee is definitely out. We're definitely on top of something important. Good luck, Kim," he shouted before the radio went silent.
"Are they…."
"I still have them on radar. They're about to land. We're approaching what looks like….."
"Is that…..an eye," Will Du exclaimed as they gaped at the massive node that looked like a silver ball attached to a thick cable as they approached it.
"Two nodes," she noted even as an electronic squall suddenly filled the cabin.
"I think they noticed us," Shego hissed as they narrowly evaded the energy blast aimed at them, and that might well have taken them out even with their shields.
"Definitely," Will agreed as he nodded, and his men suited up, and armed their weapons.
"You, too, Shego," she was told. "It's time to get serious."
"You think?"
"Will, you and your men head for that second orb. Take it out, and maybe if it is some kind of eye, or….guidance dealie, we can slow this thing. Shego, you amp up, and take out that first one."
"And you," Shego asked, clinging to her seat as the ship bucked as Kim ducked and flew lower, heading to a point just between the two massive orbs.
"I'm guessing if those are….eyes, then the brain, or control center must be somewhere just up ahead. Take out the orbs, and join me. We'll go from there."
"You're kidding. Right," Shego asked as Will offered her a pulse rifle after she activated the band on her wrist before pulling on the helmet to seal her own battle armor.
"It's going to be a fight the moment I set down, guys," Kim cut them off. "It looks like this thing has some kind of atmosphere, but for now, keep your suits on just in case. Ready?"
"Ready," Will nodded, and cocked his own weapon as his men gathered around the hatch.
Even as they landed, Kim activated her battle armor, and jumped up as the hatch opened.
"Use your shields," Will shouted as their modified space suits shimmered with blue even as the reception outside fired at them the moment the hatch opened.
"I've got this side," Shego growled, and leapt out from the hatch without waiting on a ramp still being extended as she flung bright, fiery green balls of plasma at the nearest group.
The explosions sent almost a dozen of the aliens flying, and more ducked, or outright ran as she charged them, flinging more balls of potentially lethal energy that seemed stronger than ever.
"That thing does shut down, right," Will asked Kim as she jumped out behind him as they spotted Shego headed right for the nearest orb stalk.
"Just hope it lasts long enough to shut this thing down. I'm headed up the center," she told him. "Good luck, Will."
"You, too, Possible," he growled, and turned to lead his agents into battle, and toward the far orb-stalk as Kim charged right down the middle, using her enhanced speed and strength to break through, and clear a path as she headed toward anything that she hoped might be some kind of control center.
KP
"I thought you guys were going to be tough," Shego laughed as she saw the weird creatures around her falling back, their bizarre visages twisted in outrage and indignation.
A plasma punch, and a few more fireballs, and she had more of them running and hiding.
Right before something or someone hit her from behind with the kick like a mule.
She went face first into the metal plating at her feet, hitting hard enough to slide a dozen feet, and ending up with her head spinning crazily as she slowly got to her feet as she heard heavy footsteps coming at her from behind.
She turned to look behind her, and groaned.
"Oh, you have to be kidding me," she complained as she saw the seven foot, bipedal cow-man that charged her with fists the size of her brother's thick head curled to strike again.
"Do you know….how much….I hate…..cows," she roared, her entire body radiating green flame as her temper surged at the memory of a certain vacation on a certain ranch that Drew had talked her into not long ago. Like most things Drew suggested, it had not ended well.
"Let me show you," she smiled viciously as she held up flaming hands, and met the bull's charge head-on.
The other sentients around her stood and gaped as the seemingly mismatched pair charged headlong into one another, and for a second neither seemed to yield. Until the female visibly faltered, fell back, and landed on her back.
Right before the man-bull went flying over her, bellowing in shock as he slammed into that nearby metallic stalk as thick around as a tree.
Shego grinned as the stalk still shuddered, and the orb swayed high atop its perch.
"Not so tough after all," she jumped up to preen. "Are you?"
Not far away, she heard the explosions and fainter shouts of men over her helmet receiver, and briefly spared a moment to wonder how Cyclop's boys were doing. Right now, she realized she'd better borrow a page from Princess' book, and duck!
She rolled forward, diving under the charging bull's legs who had recovered with surprising speed, and roaring in what was obviously fury even if she didn't understand him. Some things, she knew, were universal. Then she thought of another page from Kimmie's playbook, and raced for that nearby stalk. Putting her back to the orb-stalk, she turned to grin at the bovine behemoth, and waved one hand.
"Yoo-hoo, horn-head. Not too quick, are you," she grinned as she reached behind her, her hands lighting up again.
"Yeah, that's it, come and get me," she grinned, and stood in place as the bovine almost howled at that point, literally lowered his massive head crowned with short, but potentially lethal horns, and charged at her.
She noticed he was leaning forward, keeping her from escaping as before. Unfortunately for him, she had more than one move.
He was just three feet from her when flung her hands forward, blinding him as she leapt up, planted a boot in the center of his thick skull, and helped drive him forward into the metallic stalk as she jumped clear.
The clanging of bone on metal was clearly audible as the air was also filled with a peculiar tinny shriek, and Shego guessed this planet-thingy was just as alive as Kim had told her. It was certainly reacting to the toppling of that orb after she superheated the stalk where she had grabbed it, and then guided horn-head into hammering.
She watched with smug satisfaction as the stalk snapped, and fell over to crush the bovine even as the tinny shriek echoed around her.
"Oh, yeah," she grinned, holding up her clawed gloves that emulated her own. "Who's next?"
The creatures around her might not have understood her. They did, however, understand danger. Almost as one, they turned and fled as she laughed just a bit madly as she turned, and considered where to head. She guessed Kimmie might need backup, but then realized that other orb thingy was still waving overhead not far away.
"Never send a man to do a woman's job," she grumbled as she raced toward the embattled agents.
KP
"I told you guys," Kondor complained as they hunkered down behind a twisted column starting to smolder from the barrage of energy weapons being fired at them. "Birds don't belong in space. They just don't," he sputtered as Ron peered up to look around.
"What do you think, Stoppable," Hego asked, surprising his brothers, who knew he was usually more of a charge first, and think later kind of guy.
"I'm thinking from the firepower they're laying down, they do not want us inside that door," Ron told them knowingly. "Trust me. Years of blowing up lairs tells me something important is in there."
"I'd have to agree," the twins spoke as one.
"But we still can't get there," Mego told him.
"No, we can't. You, however, can," Ron told him.
"Huh?"
"Okay, you're powers are supposed to be supercharged now, right?"
"I do feel stronger," Hego agreed. "But I doubt even these force fields Miss Possible gave us are going to last long against that firepower."
"They don't have to last," Ron told him. "Listen. I'm going to give you guys a crash course in the fine art of distractions. Here's what we're going to do," he grinned as his usually hazel eyes glittered blue behind the faceplate of his battle armor.
KP
"What's the hold up," Shego shouted as she jumped a makeshift barrier and landed nimbly beside Will who was helping hold back at least fifty more irate aliens with big guns. Half his team was injured, and the stalk more than fifteen feet away still stood.
"Those guys must have figured out our game plan, because they aren't letting us get close enough to use cutters. And our detonators were crushed before we could set off the explosives Agent Martinez planted.
"Where are they?"
"The detonators," Will frowned. "I told you, they're…."
"No, dimwit," she knocked on his helmet. "The explosives. Point them out."
"Four at the base. Three more planted just five feet from the ground. We were going for a synchronized blast to better….."
"Yada, yada, yada," she cut him off. "More shooty, less talky," she said, and glanced over his shield to eye the stalk, and the defenders that were grouped around it before ducking another volley.
"So, these bombs ready to go?"
"Yes, but…."
"Think a little homemade plasma would set them off?"
A stocky woman laying on her back grinned, and smiled weakly up at her, giving her a thumb's up. "Like nitro on the Fourth of July," the woman told her in obvious pain.
She looked up, noted the stars were changing faster than ever, and saw a massive, ringed planet already in the sky. "We're losing here, guys. Princess ain't going to like it. Will, take your scout troop, and fall back to the ship. If you have to, get off the planet."
"I can't fly that thing," he sputtered.
"You saw how Kimmie was flying it, didn't you?"
"Well, yes, but….."
"Listen, errand boy. Just get the ship in the air, and monitor our radios in case we need pickup. Got it?"
"You really think you can bring that thing down," he asked.
"I got the first one, didn't I," she smirked. "You just run for your lives, and let those goons think you're getting chased away. I'll do the rest. Like always," she snorted more to herself than not. Will's glance suggested he had heard her anyway.
"All right, Shego," he nodded. "Simms, Davis, Barnes. Pair up with the wounded, and let's get ready to withdraw. Anyone still on their feet covers the retreat. Ready?"
"Go," Shego barked as they jumped up, and ran back for the conscripted shuttle.
"Move, move, move," Will barked as they raced for the hatch even as the defenders chased after them. They were almost to the ship when Shego jumped up, hands blazing, and rapidly launched several fireballs of bright, green energy at the base of the eye-stalk.
The explosions blew more than a few of the remaining defenders aside, or apart. Overhead, the orb swayed madly before crashing down to the surface even as the tinny wail echoed again in her ears, and the large metal planetoid began to shudder violently.
"Go," Shego shouted when Will paused at the hatch. "I'll find Kimmie!" He waved, ducked inside after his men, and a few minutes later the ship began to rise as the scattered defenders that yet remained fired vainly after the departing shuttle.
"Maybe it's a good think I can't understand them," Shego mused as she ran in the direction she had last seem Kim. She had the feeling some of that shouting aimed her way was probably not too nice.
KP
"Whoa," Ron staggered when he started to stand up, the entire planetoid shuddering violently as they realized it was actually slowing.
"Looks like Miss Possible is on the job," Hego grinned.
"I don't know. It seems more like a Shego vibe," Mego shuddered at that weird electronic screaming that echoed through the air just then.
"He's right," the twins agreed. "You know how she is at the best of times."
"Never mind. We still have our own job to do," Hego said as Ron nodded at him.
Flexing his muscles, he reached for the metal column before them, and rose to his feet, lifting the entire post like a huge bat. "Go, Team Go," he shouted as Ron grabbed a suddenly small Mego even as Hego used the makeshift bat to sweep the space before them clear even as the twins multiplied dozens of times beyond their former limits to hammer the stunned fallen aliens while Kondor flew up, and swept down to attack any that might regain their feet even as Ron flung the small, purple hero at the sealed door that was their goal.
"Now it's up to Mego," he said as he began to glow a bright blue than Hego's darker indigo. "So let's buy him time," he said, and grabbed another of the bug creatures like they had faced on Earth to throw across the clearing into another alien that looked more like a six-legged cat on steroids.
"Ah, man, there went our ride," one of the Wegos complained as something exploded behind them, and they turned to see the space plane in flames as more aliens charged them from behind.
"Never mind. Just remember what's at stake," Hego told his brother as he continued to hammer the advancing horde with his rapidly crumpling bat. "For all of us!"
"Guys, my force field meter is glowing red," Wego shouted as he began to retreat, several of his bodies bursting like balloons as they were taken down.
"Your energy thingy is shorting," Ron told him, risking a moment to glance at his wrist. "You must be straining it too much trying to divide it between all those copies."
"Can't be helped. Do what you can, Wego," Hego said, the heroes now being backed toward the door by the advancing aliens with none before them to hold them back. Only that door still remained open.
"What now," Wego asked, soon down to less than twenty copies, and visibly flagging.
"I think it's time to knock," Ron said, and shouted to Kondor. "Hey, birdman. You and the Wegos focus your force fields on our backs while Hego and I play open sesame!"
"Got it, monkey man," the mutant hero grinned, some of his confidence restored when he found he could fly here, and was faster and stronger than some of his opponents after all.
He landed between the twins who were now down to nine copies, and created a living barrier between the aliens now pressing their advance even as Hego turned with Ron to eye the thick, metal doors. Raising their fists, they started to begin smashing through the barrier when the panel just slid aside, and a grinning purple face greeted them.
"Hey, guys. You won't believe this place."
"Inside," Ron shouted, and then turned back to Mego. "Close it again!"
"Right," the hero nodded, gaping at the horde charging them.
"Where are we," Kondor asked, looking around the huge chamber filled with all manner of electronics and mechanical devices.
"My gut says this is the engine room," Ron told him. "So, everyone pick a spot, and start doing some damage."
"Weren't there any guards in here," one of the Wegos asked as they set to work.
"There were," Mego smirked. "It's amazing how easily you can sneak up on someone when you can shrink," he crowed as they came across the first unconscious sentry.
"Good job, Mego. Now, let's shut this thing down permanently before it starts snacking on innocent people. Or planets," he said, hammering a chirping console before him.
Kondor found a heavy iron bar and smiled. "I'm all for smashing. Let's do this, and get out of here. I just hope Possible has an escape plan, because this just keeps getting….."
"What was that," Mego asked as he paused in smashing a panel before him.
Ron frowned as he looked around, and realized the entire planetoid had shuddered again.
"Something is going on."
"No, you think," Kondor frowned.
"Are they coming through the door," one of the Wegos asked, glancing back that way.
"I think it's more than that," Hego said as the walls shuddered, and the ground beneath their feet shook violently.
"This is Kim to all teams. Get off this planetoid," she radioed. "Use your jet packs, or retreat to your ship, but get off this ball now," the redhead shouted over their receivers."
"Uh, guys," Ron said. "When Kim sounds like that….. It's past time to move," Ron shouted, and turned and ran for the exit even as the chamber began to rain debris as it shook violently again.
"What about the bad guys," Kondor asked even as the door opened.
"Not an issue," Mego smirked, and looked out at the clear space, as the defenders of this planet-eating giant had obviously fled themselves from the look of it.
"We better use jet packs, and try to find Kim's ship," Ron suggested as he reached for his own controls. "Because I don't think the space plane is going to help," he stated needlessly as they spotted the smoldering ruin not too far away.
"Kim? Kim, if you hear us, we're going up on jetpacks," Ron transmitted. "Our ship was flattened, so if you have a spare ride….."
"We're coming for you now, Stoppable," Will Du's voice called. "Just keep transmitting your position, and watch out for the combatants still around you. A lot of them seem to be forming a perimeter around the planetoid after they abandoned ship."
"Appreciate the warning," Ron told him. "Where's Kim? Is she….."
"Whatever she's doing, it's working," Hego exclaimed as they all flew higher and higher, leaving the metal planet behind. Only they weren't flying that fast.
"Is that thing…..shrinking?"
"Don't look at me," Mego told Ron. "I didn't do anything."
"It's shrinking all right. And it's starting to shrink even faster," Ron exclaimed. "Kim? Kim, are you there?"
"Stoppable, it's Will. We're coming up behind you," he told him as they glanced back to see the alien shuttle maneuvering behind them. "I think Possible is still on that thing."
By then, the planet-eater was less than a quarter of its original size when a green explosion rocked part of it's surface, and a green flame rose out of the shimmering haze surrounding the planetoid. Even as they turned to close on the green fireball, the nimbus faded, and Shego's exhausted form was spotted now just drifting before them.
"Shego," Hego exclaimed. "Let's get her," he exclaimed needlessly they converged on her with the shuttle behind them.
And all around them, the remaining defenders and/or partners with the planet-eater waited.
"Let's get her on board," Mego stated needlessly.
"Wait," Shego croaked, her eyes opening. "Get….the planet. Don't let….those guys take it. They can still…..fix it."
"Not to mention Kim's on that thing," Ron added.
"That, too, Buffoon," Shego agreed with a weak smile.
"Why did you leave her behind."
"Got….a plan," she told him. "Just….get the thing before…..they do," she pointed as the aliens now began to move, obviously not after them, but the basketball-sized planetoid now slowing its dwindling as it approached softball size, and seemed to just hover in space before them.
"Will," Ron shouted. "Pick up the guys. I'm going for the….ball."
"Go," Hego shouted, grabbing his barely conscious sister, and heading for the shuttle that was maneuvering toward them, the hatch starting to open.
Ron was already gone, his suit's jets at full thrust as he reached out for the small, yellow globe now hanging in space like a mini-planet he easily scooped up. He turned and looked back even as he snatched it out of space, feeling its surprisingly weight and mass, and realized he was about to be body slammed by more than twenty of the biggest and baddest left from the Juggernaut.
"Time for a game-saving run," he told himself, and clutched the yellow sphere close as he flew in, through, and around the larger, clumsier creatures that got in one another's way as he managed to gracefully dodge, or leap around them in spite of the fact they were in space. He used one of them as a base at the end to launch himself at the shuttle at the last, and flew into the open hatch just before it slammed shut, and he shouted at Will, "Get us out of here," as the hatch echoed with hard fists banging on the far side.
"I'll do my best," Will told him. "But I don't know how to do the super-thrust this thing uses," he told him as something shook the shuttle, and more than one monitor showed the other ships out there firing at them as they pursued.
"Shego said she had a plan. So, what is it," he demanded as the still lethargic woman looking up at him, obviously spent as she sat there in a corner. The Wegos slumped beside them, both acting as if they had been sapped of strength.
"Mego," she gestured. "Shrink down, and….get her. You can….bring her back."
"Are you nuts," the young man exclaimed, staring at the yellow ball Ron still held. "Sure, I can probably get that small, but there's still going to be a lot of aliens on that thing. And I have never tried to use my powers on another."
"But you could if you tried," Ron asked.
"I don't know. I….I guess," Mego frowned as all of them looked at him, even the agents as Will glanced back, and snapped, "Somebody better do something. Because this crate can't outrun these guys without Possible flying it."
"She….thinks you can do it, Mego," Shego told him, giving him a careless thumb. "Trust me. Or her. If she thinks it can be done, you can bet she's probably right."
Mego glanced around, nodded, and said, "All right. But someone better be ready to drop me in the right vicinity, because it'll still be a big planet when I shrink down far enough to reach her."
"She'll be right between the two broken eye-thingies," Shego told him, still yet to recover.
"Okay. I can drop you there once you get small enough to jump in my hand," Ron said, shifting the small metal planet until the area was on top. "ready?"
"I guess I'd better be," he said grimly, and nodded. "Guess it's time to find out how far I push myself, too," he told them, and began to shrink down smaller and smaller until he was less than three inches tall, and Ron knelt to hold out a hand for him to climb onto.
"I'll hold you over the general area, and let you use your jetpack to get down," Ron told him as the hero waved, then vanished into his gloved palm as he shrank even smaller as Ron moved his hand over the small metal orb he held.
"Anything," Will asked fighting the controls as the ship shook again, and Ron almost stumbled.
"Give him time," Hego told him. "I know my brother. He'll do what has to be done."
"Well, he'd better do it fast," Will told him. "They're about to cut us off!"
KP
Mego shrank far enough that he realized he could see the planet filling his new horizon as he used his suit's jetpack to rise into the air again. He flew the wide space now between the massive gloved hand, and the metal sphere, and looked toward the fallen orb-stalks, and saw a small, green bubble far below him. He flew down, and realized that that bubble was shielding Kim Possible, and keeping a virtual horde of furious alien creatures from reaching her.
He was still big enough to be a giant to them, though, and decided against shrinking any more.
Instead, he landed hard, his relative size and weight shaking the metal ball, and driving back the aliens as he shouted to Kim, "C'mon, Possible. Let's get out of here," he said, offering her a hand as he knelt down, only to have her, emerald bubble and all, rise into the air to meet him.
"Glad to see you, Mego. You ready to get us back to normal," she asked as she settled into his hand, and rose off the planet with the aid of his jets.
"Well, I think so. I'm just hoping I can do this. I've never tried….."
"Think about it. You affect your clothes when you grow or shrink, so you must be able to influence anything you're touching if you think about it. Just extend that influence to me," she told him as he lifted them high over the metal ball, and headed for Ron's hand just to be safe.
"Like I said, I'll try. I just hope you're right," he told her as he shrank down more to match her size. "But you have to tell me what you did to make that thing do that."
"Later. Just get me back to normal," Kim told him.
"Okay," he nodded, and put a hand on her shoulder. "Let's see. Focus. Focus. Focus."
Even as they began to grow, dropping from Ron's hand to the deck, Kim could hear them speaking again as Will complained, "Well, he'd better do it fast. They're about to cut us off!"
"Not for long," Kim told them, standing there in her battle suit with her ring glowing. "I think now it's time for them to find out that there is still a Green Lantern in the area."
"A what," one of the agents frowned as Mego staggered, and went to his knees, suddenly beyond weary himself.
"Never mind. Possible, this is your show," Will told her, shutting down the engines since they were not doing any good.
"Right. Hego, you guys should deactivate those power enhancers, and take them off. It's obvious that they work, but they're taking a toll on you if you use them too long," she warned him.
"I've noticed," Shego rasped, and pulled off the band. "Oh, well. Nice while it lasted," she grinned weakly as Kim stepped toward the hatch without sealing her space suit. Instead, her battle armor had morphed into the seemingly striking two-piece green and black costume only a few of them had seen until that moment.
Will gaped, and Ron growled, "Eyes forward, GJ-Man. She's taken," as Kim stepped out of the hatch, and sealed it behind her.
They watched as Kim, surrounded by a bright green nimbus, flew out under her own power, and confronted the nearest of the spacecraft. They heard nothing. Saw nothing. But she simply put herself between the shuttle and the other would-be world-destroyers, and waited.
One of the spacecraft abruptly fired a bright crimson beam at her that bounced off her energy shield. She pointed the ring, and a huge pair of jagged scissors cut the spacecraft literally in half. Her ring then scooped up the occupants wise enough to have been wearing their own spacesuits, and carried them to one of the other nearer crafts.
After a moment, the hatch the green bubble holding them was pressed against opened, and the aliens scrambled inside before the hatch closed again.
Kim continued to stand her ground, but no one fired.
Eventually, one ship turned, and vanished as it sped away. Several more followed suit, then more, until only one remained. For a moment it seemed to be considering a challenge, but by then the shuttle had turned around, and aimed its nose at the other ship. Even if they had yet to be used, there was no missing the deadly cannons that protruded from the nose of the shuttle.
The last alien ship banked abruptly, and sped away. Kim gave a genuine sigh of relief, and then turned back to board the shuttle.
"That was close," she exclaimed as she sealed the hatch behind her, and told them, "Okay, I think you can get out of those suits."
The helmets came off, and Hego grinned at his sister as he stood with her once she regained her feet. "So, we won. Right?"
"We won," she nodded, and eyed the planetoid Ron held. "Will, do you still have one of those EM containers Wade built for electronic threats?"
"I think we do," he nodded, and glanced to one of his team. An agent rummaged in a pack, and came up with a clear box the size of two shoeboxes pressed together. "This do?"
"Perfect," she nodded. "Ron."
"Right, KP," he grinned, and put the softball sized ball into the Plexiglas box lined with gold circuits.
"Activate it. There are still people on that thing, but we can't risk it being restored if they find a way to undo what I did."
"Uh, what did you do," Will asked as she activated the storage device before she turned to take his place at the ship's controls.
"Wade and theorized that the Juggernaut had to have some central command analogous to a nervous system. Rather than try something risky like a virus that might not affect its unique systems, I implanted an experimental matter reduction module into its central core to make the entire thing, and anything and anyone on it shrink down on itself at once. Only I had to stay and protect it so none of those guys could break it. That's why I had to stay until the last minute," she told him.
"You could have clued us to that part of that plan," Ron complained, looking more than a little upset with her.
"Not with the possibility that there were telepaths on that ball that might 'overhear' us," she pointed out reasonably.
"Telepaths," Will frowned as Kim quickly and deftly assessed the ship's systems, and turned them back toward Earth. "They have those, too?"
"They could have. Better not to take the chance. Besides, it worked out. Shego tipped you off, and here we are, everyone safe and sound."
"And what do we do with the evil softball," Ron asked her, still holding the box with the planet-eater inside.
"I suggest a car crusher, and a vat of molten steel," Shego growled, yet to fully recover.
"Shego," Kim snapped. "Juggernaut is still a proto-sentient being, and there are people on it's surface. You can't just kill them."
"Newsflash, Princess. They were about to turn us all into barbeque. You'll excuse me if I don't feel like giving them a second chance."
"They won't get it. I'm sure the Guardians will know what to do with it."
"Yeah, about that," Ron asked just before Kim said, "Hold on, guys." and the ship exploded into motion that closed the distance between Saturn and Earth in only seconds.
"Wow," one of the agents exclaimed, spotting their planet on the monitors again. "This thing is amazing. The things we can learn….."
"……calling Kim Possible," a familiar voice growled. "This is General Paxton, U.S. Army calling Kim Possible. Are you sure this thing is working," they heard over the radio receiver.
"Let me handle this," Will smiled.
"General Paxton, this is Commander Will Du, Global Justice liaison on this mission……"
"Commander, I don't care who you are, I order you to bring that spacecraft back down, and hand it over to our custody."
"Not happening," Kim said quietly as she simply turned off the radio. "Will, I can't deliver this kind of technology into anyone's hands. Do you know what someone like Drakken, or Dementor would do when they stole it. And they would," she told him. "You know they would."
"What do you plan," he asked after a moment.
"I'll drop you at a GJ branch, and then I'm supposed to contact the Guardians regarding my future with their group. I'll just take this thing with me when I go meet them."
"Meet them," Ron asked, not having heard that part of the overall plan. "Where?"
"I don't know, Ron. But I kind of agreed to follow their rules when I put this thing on," she said as she held up her right hand. "For now, that's what I have to do."
"Well, I'm going with you."
"I….I don' know if you can," she told him.
"KP, I've always had your back….."
"And you always will," she agreed as they approached Earth. "But I'll need you here, taking up the slack while I'm gone. All right?"
Ron frowned, and looked away, then glanced at Hego, and sighed. "All right. I've always trusted you, Kim. And I'm trusting you to come back."
"Count on it, Ron," she glanced back at him with a smile. "I can't think of anyone else I want as a partner, or a boyfriend."
"Doy, can you two get any more mushy," Shego complained.
"We're setting down in Upperton in two minutes," Kim told Will, and nodded pointedly.
"Hey," Shego sputtered as the two closest agents reached and snapped cuffs onto her wrists at Will's gesture.
"You are still wanted, Shego," Kim reminded her.
"I just helped you save the whole, freaking world again," she protested.
"And I'm sure they will consider that when you have your hearing," Kim told her.
"Don't worry, Shego. I'm sure your attempt to do the right thing again will count for something."
Shego sulked, but didn't otherwise respond. "If I had anything left, Hego, I'd show you what I think of that statement."
Hego only sighed.
"Here we go," Kim said, and noted there was a lot of activity around the Global Justice division for them to have dropped in without warning. So what was going on?
"Kim," Ron pointed as they settled onto an empty lot near the GJ office. "Look."
"Welcoming committee," Will asked as he spotted four very obvious aliens standing in front of the shuttle as it settled onto the tarmac.
"Friends of yours," Hego asked, noting their familiar green and black uniforms.
"I think that's a sucker bet," Shego snorted as Kim shut down the engines, and opened the hatch.
It had not even finished opening before a massive alien with broad features and a huge, jutting jaw stepped into the ship and eyed them all with cold, dark eyes.
"Hey, Posers," the alien growled as he eyed the colorfully clad people before him. "So, who's wearing the ring?"
To Be Continued…….