A/N: Well, a few people reviewed, and a few guessed. I honestly thought I was being a little sneaky with vague hints, but a couple people managed to get the clues. Yes, this is a Metroid crossover. For the person who guessed atomic betty... honestly, I've never seen that show... sorry. Now, onto more pressing matters. I looked back and realized I left off the disclaimer. So, here goes, just to CMOA. I own nothing but twisted plot line. Kim Possible and all characters are property of Disney, Metroid and all aspects of said franchise belong to Nintendo. I am just a poor writer who is doing this for his his own enjoyment and the praise of a few people on line. What can I say, I love feed back. SO PLEASE REVIEW. Thanks for reading, I hope you enjoy.

On Ship. Following Kim.

"Well, this is certainly a bleak hallway…" Kim looked at her surroundings, her helmets headlamps providing a limited light source. The hall was barren and provided no obstacles whatsoever. "I was hoping for a workout… or at least someone to talk to."

She walked down the hall, checking the door at the end. She blinked at it's design. A large white half sphere with a metal ring. It wasn't opening. She walked around the door a few time; running her fingers along the smooth surface, and then along the metal ring.

"Weird. No handle, no panel, no way to open…"

The center of the white dome depressed and spun, then the door split into thirds and slipped easily into the surrounding wall as Kim watched. She looked into the room beyond. Inside her spotlights traveled over a single ship and several large crates.

"Ok, that's good to know… Hmm… I wonder…" She looked around at the dark room, then back into the hallway she'd come through. "LIGHTS"

Kim smiled widely under the helmet as the lights flickered on, this would be a lot easier than she thought apparently. She walked up to the ship and ran her fingers over it's surface. She activated her communicator ear piece and spoke into it.

"I've found a ship, and some cargo apparently. Can't tell what's in them, but no personnel and no sign of Shego yet… however, the doors responded to English, so they apparently speak our language." Her fingers found some indentations in the ship and she traced them. "Some symbols on the ship, not sure what they are."

"We read ya Kim," Wades voice played in her ear, "After you left we picked up an incoming signal. We think a part of the ship broke off and impacted in the Middleton Forest. Ron, Will Du, and Dr. Director went to check it out."

"Got ya Wade, I'll keep checking the ship…" Kim turned her head quickly as she heard something. "I think I have incoming… I'll check back in."

Kim looked around, a scurrying sound had caught her attention. She didn't see anything though. Carefully she made her way around the crates until she found it. Her eyes widened in shock as she pulled the comm link back into existence and spoke to Wade in a hushed voice.

"Wade, I found a crew member. Unfortunately, he's been eaten by… three giant beetles. They look to be about the size of a two year old child, exoskeleton looks extremely tough… on earth I'd say some form of Hercules Beetle… but more skeletal structure, sharper angles, and extremely ugly." Kim said, before hiding behind the crates once again.

"Ok, that's disturbing, uh… beetles… I'd say avoid them…"

"Already planned to…" Kim turned back to leave and froze, "But they seem to have different plans."

Her eyes traveled over seven of the beetles boxing her in, the only way out was past the three beetles eating the crewman. Greater numbers here, and a taste for blood behind her. She turned and ran, using the suits enhancements to speed her escape. She saw the beetles eating the crewman turn as she barreled around the corner. Then she paled as they rushed at her, moving with speed like nothing she'd ever seen before. She leaptout of their path and watched them barrel headlong into a crate, their chitinous skull plates piercing the metal and sticking them fast. She looked at the others rounding the corner to chase her and started running again.

"Ok… come on… run at me.." She turned, her back to one of the metal crates, the beetles started their mad dash at her. "Jack pot." She leaped a split second before they reached her and all of them stuck fast in the metal frame of the crate.

She looked at them as she landed, examining them closely. Burrowers it looked like, a quick forward dash designed to spear prey on there horned face plates, but not as able to reverse for some reason.

"Well, that was certainly a nuisance… guess I should be careful about wishing for excitement." She looked around, examining the hanger and cargo area again, "Gotta be a way outta here."

"Kim?" Her communicator buzzed in her ear. "Kim? Are you ok?"

"Sorry Wade," Kim replied, her eyes taking in the large room she was in and the maze of boxes. "I got sidetracked by the murderous attack bugs… can I point out, we are probably seriously unprepared for this…" She used the suits grappling gun to get on top of the cargo, her eyes looking up at the ceiling. "Oh shit."

"Kimmie-Cub, I didn't think you used that sort of language!" Her father's voice rang in her ears.

"Sorry Dad…but if you saw what I see, you'd understand…I'll get back to you guys when I can." She cut the link at the first bony birdlike creature dislodged from the ceiling and flew at her. She dodged and groaned as it pierced the crate where she stood and kept going. Tunneling through the metal. She looked up as two more flew at her.

"Damn!" Kim back flipped to avoid the first and leapt to a second crate to avoid the third, her eyes taking in the ceiling briefly as she landed. More of them. She ran, leaping from crate to crate, heading farther and farther from her ship. "What are these things!" She yelled out and nearly froze as a computerized voice answered.

"Morphology: Shriekbats, ceiling dwellers, and very territorial, bony wing plates are used in combat to defend their nest and they have a core temperature of one hundred and twenty one degrees centigrade" The voice cut off after the explanation.

Kim ducked behind a crate as she avoided another shriekbat that had tried to impale her. "Why are they on this ship?" Kim asked, hoping the computer would hear.

"This is an arch class science vessel in route to science colony with various specimens and technological studies." The computer spoke again.

"Why are they free and not in containment?" She asked.

"Unknown."

"How do you speak English?" She tried.

"I speak three million five hundred and seventy two intergalactic languages including the language form basic you refer to as English." The computer answered.

"Can you tell me what happened to the crew?" She asked.

"Specify."

"Where are they?" She tried.

"Of the two hundred and fifty crew members on assignment, ninety five percent remain on board. Of those, all vital statistics appear to have flat lined."

"And the rest?" Kim asked.

"Unknown."

"Any escaped vessels?" Kim asked, wondering if the empty hanger meant that they'd left, but she didn't think that that many ships would be needed for such a small portion of the crew.

"All escape pods are still in there births, as are all shuttles and the two fighter class vessels."

"Any life signs on board that do not match known specimens or crew members?" Kim asked.

"Yourself and one other."

"Anything unusual about the other life sign?" Kim asked.

"Frequent plasma based heat blooms appear in it's vicinity." The computer stated and Kim smiled.

"Is there oxygen on this ship?"

"While my major functions are now off line due to damage my basic life support, scanning, and common functions are still within specified parameters. However, my mapping functions are completely off line as are my communication systems beyond basic user input and response." The computer spoke seemingly easily.

"Can you turn the lights on throughout the ship?"

A brief moment and the computer spoke, "It is done."

"Thanks, is there anyway out of here?" Kim asked again.

"I cannot provide that, my mapping functions are…Error…zzztt…"

The sound of static and electrical buzzing filled the air and then silence. Kim waited, listening for the computer. "Ok, I guess the computer is off line…which sucks sense it was the only thing that gave me any clue as to what was going on." She looked around the crate she was hiding behind and smiled. A door stood a hundred yards away. A shriekbat and one of those beetles were in her path however.

"Lets see if we can't use those two against each other." She leapt out of cover and headed straight for the beetle, letting it charge her as the shriekbat flew at her from another angle. She smiled, leaping to the side a split second before they connected with her and let bony horns meet chitinous wings. Once they were out of the picture she walked to the door, wondering why this one was blue.

"Open." It didn't move, "Great, blue doors either don't work on command, or whatever happened to the computer has me locked in… oh well, guess I'll have to find a way around this thing." Kim started searching for another exit.

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On Ship, Following Shego. Fifteen Minutes before Kim's Arrival.

"Great Dr. D. Send me into space and pray I figure it out. A deserted room. Not even any ships." Shego looked around the empty hanger bay and walked toward one of the two doors in the room. "No lock, no panel, no handle, not opening for my presence…" Shego shrugged and ignited her hands, blasting the door. She blinked as it absorbed her plasma and slid open. "Ok, that's good to know… why a door opens for a concentrated plasma blast is confusing though."

Shego continued into the next part of the hanger and grinned as her headlamp lights settled on what appeared to be a cargo hold. At least that's what the crates and containers would suggest. She walked toward one of the crates and used a plasma bathed hand to cut it open. She grunted though when all she found inside were barrels of food and seeds.

"Well, let's keep looking." She said to herself as she continued through the bay, finding nothing but supplies and foodstuffs. "Ok, no big, all ships need a food container or supply hold."

She walked to the next door and smiled as she used her plasma to open it. It looked like it was about four steps across but it went straight up. Shego looked up smiling at the platforms that made moving through the room possible.

"These people are strange…" She shrugged and jumped to the first platform, then the second, back flipping to the third and yelling as something plowed into her and knocked her off. She reached out and grabbed the lower platform to keep herself from falling off of it.

She pulled herself up onto the platform and turned to look at the third, her lights playing across what appeared to be a moving rock running around the platform. She blinked twice trying to figure it out then launched a plasma ball at it, amazed when the shell glowed hot for a moment before cooling.

"Ok, plasma does not affect strange rock like creatures that move when they shouldn't." She watched a few more moments, timing her jump.

She leapt and brought a plasma charged fist down on the things shell and was once again launched backwards growling as she managed to again land on the lower platform. Her mind worked trying to figure out a way to attack the think. Her plasma didn't affect it and her punch only served to ricochet her backwards. She shook her hand as she admitted at least that Dr. D's pressure suit did absorb the impact enough not to break her hand.

"Can't get rid of it, move past it." She looked up to find the next platform, smiling as it had another of those plasma opening doors on it. She charged up a plasma blast and leapt with her timing, jumping off the platform before the thing could hit her and threw the plasma ball at the door in mid air, she landed and rolled through the door and into a room with a giant pink and purple horned frog looking at her from the beam of her head lamps.

She almost laughed until it launched itself at her with a mouth full of spiked teeth. She launched a plasma blast on instinct. She smiled as it launched backwards and evaporated into nothing. Then her smile faded as two others walked into her light beams.

"Great, moving rocks, killer frogs, what's next?" Shego ignited her fist and ducked under the attack of the first thing and brought her fist up into it's gut, smiling as it to evaporated into nothing upon impact. She used her free hand to launch a second ball of plasma at the next to move and back flipped to avoid the last attacker. Her headlamps bathed it in light as she looked at it, it's own eyes staring back at her. She knew how it worked on earth. Don't break eye contact. Keep the animals will under your own. Show it the dominance it needs to understand.

She held the stare for what seemed like hours but lasted only seconds and then the toad leapt. Shego launched a plasma blast and the last of her attackers was gone. She stood, letting her lights travel over the room. She looked up at the light panels in the room, silently wishing they'd come on.

"This is proving to be a weird ship, and I still haven't seen any crewmen." Shego shook her head and then her mouth hung open as the lights came on. She quickly looked around the room for what could have caused it. Her eyes taking in a strange bird head statue in the corner of the room. "Huh. Ok, weird bird statues…" She walked over to it and ran her clawed gloves along the surface, "Why statues on a ship?" She shook her head and walked to the door that lead to the next room, smiling at the now familiar blue door. She hit it with a plasma charge and walked through.

"Well, at least there aren't any monster things in here." She looked at the high ceiling room and saw another door with a red hatch on one side and the familiar blue on the other. This one had a computer panel and an observation window along the free side though. She walked over to it and looked down into the hanger she'd landed in. She smiled as she saw a small white ship parked near her own. "Princess is here. They must have picked up our launch. Wonder if she's the one who got the lights on?" Shego shrugged and turned to the blue door. "Best keep going in case she catches up to me."

She shot a plasma ball at the door and smiled as it opened into a room with a table and chair bolted to the floor. The chair had a pair of blue uniform clad legs sitting in it, the man concealed by the chairs back. She walked slowly into the room and turned the chair around, plasma bathed fist raised high, then she leapt back as she looked at the corpse, it's stomach and chest left an open wound but the humanoid face still in tact and slack with death.

"Ok, from this point on, it's search and destroy." Shego let the plasma burn brighter for a moment and turned to look at the room.

Empty except for the dead man and the furniture. She checked the corpse again. No weapon. But he did look human. She smiled at that, wondering if all intelligent life in the universe was human. Then she noticed the lettering on the uniform. Nothing she'd ever seen before. Now, what killed him? She took a closer look at the wound and grimaced as she realized he'd been eaten.

"Great. Not just killer animals, but hungry killer animals… I gotta find a better weapon if there's more stuff my plasma won't work on." She looked at the only other door in the room and wondered if what ate him was in there, or one of the frogs behind her. She smiled as an idea came to her and she flipped onto the ceiling over the door, using the magnetic boots Drakken had provided to hang there. Then she launched a plasma ball at the door and watched it open.

A second later she was rewarded as a giant beetle barreled into the room and crashed into the wall on the other side. She looked through the door and saw it empty but for lockers now and flipped in as the door whooshed shut behind her.

"Ok, killer frogs, moving rocks, doors that open for plasma, bird statues, dead men and now giant bugs. When'll this place stop getting weirder? Wonder how Kimmie is taking it?" She shook her head and opened one of the lockers. She smiled as her eyes settled on a strange gun.

"Hmm…" She picked it up and looked for a place to put ammo, amazed at it's resemblance to a standard taser gun used by police forces on earth. Only there didn't seem to be any taser darts. Just a smooth glass front where a barrel should be. She aimed it at the wall and pulled the trigger. Nothing. She checked it again.

"Empty? No ammo… no energy?" She aimed the gun again and closed her eyes. She let her fingers move over the gun, smiling as her thumb found a small depression. She pushed and felt the gun grow a bit warmer in her hand. She pulled the trigger and smiled as it launched a ball of light at the wall, the energy dispersing on impact. Then she sighed as she realized it didn't leave a mark. She launched a plasma ball at it and nodded as it left a dark scorch mark. "Yep, police taser, stun only. Figures." She tossed it back in the locker and kept checking them. A few more taser guns and box of something that appeared to be glow rods. Useless.

Her eyes settled on the door that moved forward and the one with the giant bug in it. She shrugged, ignited her hands and sent a plasma ball at the door, grinning as she saw it open onto what appeared to be a hallway with a blue strip leading down one side and a green one leading down the other. She shrugged and walked down the hall, keeping her eyes open for whatever came next.

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On Ship, Ventilation shaft, Following Kim.

"Oh, this is just great, thank god there's atmosphere though. That helmet would have never fit in here." Kim crawled through the shaft toward the light source at the end. "Wade? Can you read me?"

"Loud and clear Kim, and your father would like me to ask you exactly what it is you saw that caused your language before." Wade said as he came on the comm.

"Well, according to the computer, it was a shriekbat. That's one of the few pieces of information I got before the computer was fried by… something. I'm not sure what… it looked sort of like a miniature pterodactyl only with bony plates on the wings and it flew right at me. Oh, and there were a lot of them." Kim shivered as she remembered it.

"Where are you now?" Wade asked.

"Making my way out of the hanger and cargo areas via the ventilation system, I'm still looking for Shego. According to the computer before it fried, Shego and I are the only two living things on the ship, other than biological specimens. I think there was an accident or something and most of the crew were killed by whatever is on this ship. I've only seen a couple bodies, so most of them are probably in the main part of the ship…not really looking forward to that. Place has atmosphere at least, and I got the lights in the ship on so I can see now."

"Uh, Kim? Sure you don't wanna come home now? Considering. We can intercept Shego on her way off ship when it happens and send an armed squad in to deal with the…creatures there." Wade sounded concerned, but his words echoed too much like her father for Kim's taste.

"Tell Dad I'm sorry, but the only way he's getting me off this ship before I find Shego and figure out what's going on is with an armed squad Wade. What would people say if they knew the girl who could do anything backed out when it got a little unorthodox?" Kim smiled as she said it and flipped down into a new room. She looked around.

"I'm in a new section of the ship, I'll get back in touch as soon as I can." She cut the communication and started examining the room she was in. If it were for the pair of blue doors on either side of the room she'd be more impressed, but the lockers and equipment on the walls looked promising. She found a rack of what appeared to be rifles but with laser emitters on one wall, but they were locked in somehow and she couldn't get them down. She checked the lockers.

"Jackpot." She pulled the shoulder rig and gun out of the locker and slipped it on, looping it into the belt of the battle suit and then testing the draw a couple times. She found a second gun in another locker and slipped it into the thigh holster on her battle suit. "Now I'm ready for these… creatures…" She looked around. "And yet, I'm still locked in a room." She drew both guns and aimed at the door that lead away from the hanger bay, firing one at the door.

She shook her head as the door glowed blue a moment and opened for her. Inside where two of the beetles that had attacked her in the hanger bay. She fired the second gun at one, then leapt to the side as the other rushed her. She fired at it's back.

She sighed as she realized what the guns did. Stun weapons. She looked at the insects, encased in pink energy. She shot them both again for good measure and then walked slowly into the next room. Computers, monitors, another rack of weapons.

"Ok, I must be in the security sector. That would explain the weapons, why the weapons open doors is still a little confusing… wish that computer was still on line." She shook her head and walked fired at the next door, both weapons still aimed as she scanned the room, floors clear, ceiling clear, corner?

She fired at movement in the corner. The pink energy encased several small scarab like bugs and revealed several others that had frozen stock still and looked hard as rocks. She fired at them all until the entire infestation was frozen then she walked into the room, still scanning it for signs of life. She sighed as she found the rest of the room clear and went to one of the computers that seemed to still be operating. She checked the keyboard but couldn't read any of the symbols. The screen was the same.

"They may speak English, they may look human, but whatever they are, they don't seem to write in English." She checked the keyboard again, typing in a few keystrokes just to see if anything happened.

"Hmm… obviously I don't know what I'm doing…" She said as she watched the cursor moved, but she couldn't understand what it said. "I need a map." She watched the screen. It didn't change. "Knew that was too much to hope for." She shrugged and turned to the door the next door, her eyes scanning it. She seemed as if she was trying to see past the door by sheer force of will alone.

Her gun fired and the door opened. Nothing on the floor, air? Two Shriekbats she quickly froze to the ceiling, smiling as the pink energy encased them. She looked around the room. Another locker room it seemed. She checked the walls. Another locked rack of rifles. Probably the lethal weapons. The lockers held several more of the stun pistols and a uniform. Still nothing useful. She turned to the door and shot it open, smiling as she walked into what had to be a very useful room.

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On Ship, Tech Sector, Following Shego.

Shego let her eyes move over the computer panel. She couldn't tell a thing. The keys, the characters on the screen, everything was in some weird alien language. She shrugged and turned to the equipment in the rest of the room. Lab tables, computer panels, work benches, half finished inventions, lights, wires, circuit boards, computer chips. It looked like Drakken's lab, if he were about fifty times smarter and not as spastic.

To top it all this was the third room like this. She figured these were the basic rooms and the real good stuff would be in the center of the sector. She looked toward the red door. Her plasma didn't work on this one. There was a blue door that led in another direction but she knew what she wanted was behind the red one. A normal person might have given up. Shego was a lot of things, but only fools called her normal.

She'd been checking the doors when she could and had about figured out the locking system. The locks were triggered by an energy sequence or frequency. An energy level high enough would unlock any door. She could produce a power level for the blue door easily, but this red one was stubborn and stayed closed even with her highest level plasma blast. Shego grinned as she came up with an idea.

"OK, one high level blast isn't enough… lets see if two are." She smiled and brought her hands together, channeling the double blast, maintaining it in one hand she brought her other away and channeled as much energy as she could into it. She launched the lower level blast first and the high powered one right behind it. The door glowed brightly but stayed shut.

"Ok, that didn't work." Shego shook her head. "Why can't it be a simple pick the lock situation?"

She looked at the door again and back at the room, then her eyes lit on one of the stun pistols. There seemed to be a few of these every few rooms. Funny she hadn't found anybody who would use them. After the dead crewmen she'd only see one other body. A dead woman in a lab coat a few rooms back. Luckily she'd only been hit by one of those flying things she'd run into. She didn't seem to have been eaten. Shego thought about it and then found a piece of adhesive. This could work.

She quickly took the gun apart and looked at the inner workings. She used her plasma to quickly by pass a circuit in the working of the gun and grinned as the power supply started to over heat. She quickly used the adhesive strip to stick it to the door and jumped back, counting off in her head as she used the same method as before to power up a plasma burst. She launched the plasma burst and then smiled as the gun blew up just as her plasma engulfed the door. Shego grinned wide as the door opened.

Inside was what looked to be various weapons and parts in several states of assembly. Drakken's jackpot. She smiled as she walked into the room. Nothing inside but what she came for. She checked the computers first. Still nothing she could read or translate. The lab tables had several larger versions of the stun pistols and she was willing to bet they were far more lethal.

She checked the structure in the center of the room. A silver sphere was suspended in the middle of an array of monitors and sensors she didn't understand. It had two sleek blades slipping out of the side. It looked simple enough, but if that was the case what the hell was it doing attached to so many monitors? She looked around the room, but her eyes kept being drawn to the metal sphere.

"Oh hell." She reached slowly toward it.

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On Ship, Security Sector, Following Kim

Kim looked at the various suits of armor in the room. They all looked to be basic tactical gear. Body armor and blaster rifles hung next to each. She checked the fittings and discovered they were all locked to the walls just like the rifles in the other rooms. Then she turned to the center of the room. A pedestal held a silver sphere suspended in the air. There were no markings on the sphere or the pedestal at all. If it weren't for the glass surrounding it she'd have thought it was just a pretty statue.

She looked around the room and then back at the sphere. "Body armor and guns on the walls, and whatever that is in a case and suspended in the air. Why do I get the feeling that's the big boy?" She checked the panels nearest the sphere and smiled as she found one with a big red button, and a big green button. "Sometimes, it's just too easy." She pressed the green button and the glass slid open. "Bingo."

Kim reached out to take the sphere.

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Middleton Space Center, Mission Control and Observation Center.

"Dr Possible!" Wade yelled as he watched the readouts on the screen, his eyes wide with shock. "The ship is moving, it's turning away from the planet."

"What do you mean its moving? Kim said the ship was derelict that no one was on it!" Dr. Possible leapt into his seat and started to watch the readouts. "Call Kim, tell her to get off that ship immediately."

"Already trying Dr. P. All I get is static. Something major is happening up there, and we have no way of telling what the hell it is." Wade said, "Raising Dr. Director."

"What is it Mr. Load?" Dr. Director's voice came over the communication system.

"We have an issue Dr. Director. The ship is moving, we think its preparing to leave the planet, whatever is causing it is beyond human control. The ship experienced some sort of trauma in transit and is completely derelict. Kim and Shego are the only people on the ship not dead, and all other life forms seem to be specimens from some bio studies, not to mention that we can't reach Kim at all."

"Oh…" Dr. Director sighed, "We'll be there as soon as we can, we've run into some complications of our own out here."

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On Ship, Bridge, Navigation and Helm Control. Computer Visual.

Failsafe activated, first and second parameters met, scanning... ... ... bio-signs affirmed. Meteor containment... ... ... hull breach detected. Sealing off. Warp drive activated, heading locked in. Travel time... ... ... one galactic standard month at full warp. Engaging.