The Kim Possible characters are owned by Disney: Shego, Kim, Ron, Rufus, Wade, Global Justice, and any other that has or will appear or be mentioned. The only original character are Sheila Go, The Corrupted Supreme One, Duane Tiamat, and Assistant Sherry

Awakenings

Chapter 5 - The Big Showdown, Part 1

James Possible stepped back, his face was stricken with a blank, stunned expression. "Activate Sherry? Now!? She still has terabytes of military training to go over!" he protested.

One of the Global Justice agents kept his composure. "Orders from Dr. Director, Dr. Possible. We're anticipating the target's next course of action and we must strike quickly."

From his desk, Drakken quickly stepped to the side of his former college roommate. "And where exactly do you expect her to show up on such short notice?"

"Fort Wayne, Indiana."

The agents and scientist turned to see Wade standing at the door. "Wade? How did you get here?" Dr. Possible asked.

Panting, short of breath, Wade shook his head. "That's not important. The Corrupted One is going to Fort Wayne, Indiana and we have to get there fast!"

James nodded. "Alright, if you say it's true Wade, I believe it." He turned to Dr. Porter who was monitoring Sherry's progress. "Cut the feed, we're sending her out now."

Vivian Porter cut off the data stream and activated the robot remotely from her laptop. The newly constructed machine stood up from it's metal slab, now controlled by Sherry's digital persona. It looked more like a person than a robot, smooth, without joints or wires but featureless and metallic grey from head to toe. Wade titled his head as he gazed upon it. "It seems pretty conspicuous, don't you think?"

The metal being turned toward Wade and the metallic flesh began to change into an exact duplicate of what Sherry's old body looked like. "How about now," she asked, even her voice was a perfect duplicate of what it was before.

"Wow... I'm impressed. What is that, nano-metal alloy?"

Sherry nodded. "Yes and though I would love to go over all the features, I believe I was activated for a reason?"

"It's going down right now, The Corrupted One is headed for Fort Wayne and we need you with the others."

The mechanized heroine-to-be nodded and started toward Wade until Dr. Porter spoke up. "Just remember what we talked about Sherry."

Swiveling her head back, Sherry cracked a sly smile. "I might not have all GI Joe stuff down but I know how to tussle and I've always got that secret weapon to fall back on."

Wade looked up at her. "Secret weapon?"

She looked down and winked. "If I tell you now, it'll ruin the secret."

"So... this is it. You think you're up to it?"

Shego pressed her head against the wall when her mother asked her that. It seemed so sudden; not more than a few minutes ago she was on the floor, bawling in Ron's arms and now she was being told that the person responsible for her scars, both emotional and physical, is about to make a surprise appearance at DNAmy's home. She feared, also, she might not get another moment alone with her mother so she took the opportunity to tell her something that she needed to let out. "Mom... I know it sounds weird... bringing this up now... but what happened in the mess hall..."

Sheila slowly walked up to her daughter and gently put her hand on her back. "I know we might not get along, that we fight like wild animals sometimes. But I think it's because Anne is right about us... we only fight because we see so much of ourselves in one another. But no matter what, I love you honey... and I'm proud to be your mother... and proud to call you Shego."

She turned back to her mother and embraced her. "I'm sorry I was such a bitch mom. I love you too," she sobbed.

The two just basked in the moment before taking a step back. "Now... are you up to it?"

Wiping a single tear from her eye, Shego flashed a cocky grin. "Against that bitch? Between the two of us, she doesn't have a chance."

The two stepped out and were both stunned to see Hego and the twins dressed in their Team Go uniforms. Hego stepped forward. "It's about time. And here I thought we were going to have to take off without you two."

Shego shook her head. "Sorry guys, you can't get rid of this black sheep that easily."

"Hey, my ears are burning." They all looked to the side as Mego sheepishly made his way toward them. "There wouldn't happen to be room for one more in this little family reunion, would there?"

Hego couldn't help but smile, forgetting all about the argument they had recently. "It wouldn't be Team Go without you, Mego."

Shego shook her head. "Oh god, you're right. This is a Team Go reunion, isn't it?"

Her mother shrugged and laughed. "Sorry Shego, you know what that means. Everyone, hands in the center!"

After an impulsive roll of the eyes, Shego placed her hand along with the others. "Alright, but this is the only time I'm doing this."

Their voices rang out in unison. "Go Team GO!"

Laying on his bed, staring again into the black dots of the ceiling tiles, Ron had no idea of the events about to unfold. All that ran across his mind was how strange it was to be that close to Shego, to be, of all things, her emotional anchor. Any other time, she would push him aside to get to Kim and try and beat her senseless but now it seemed she was drawing strength from him, strength to confront her own true feelings and change for the better. It touched Ron but at the same time, it reminded him of how empty he truly was at that point. He had no one; no Kim, he couldn't turn to Yori, not so soon, and even if they were there, he somehow knew his parents couldn't even begin to give him help he needed. "I really am alone..."

"Oh, don't be so hard on yourself. You'll always have me."

Ron nodded. "Thanks Rufus, I knew... wait a minute... Rufus doesn't talk."

The room echoed with laughter and Rufus, who was sleeping on Ron's stomach, woke up with a shiver and buried himself in his master's pocket. "Hello, Mystical Monkey master. You already know my full name but why use such formalities? You can simply call me Tiger Fist."

Realizing who was speaking to him, Ron narrowed his eyes and stood up from the bed. "You... you're the one that tricked Fukushima into selling his soul. Common, show yourself!"

"Patience my boy, I'm still only a rug on a statue. You'll see me soon enough but perhaps you'll settle for my new apprentice. I know he's just dying to meet you."

Ron shook his head. "No, I won't play your games Tiger Fist. You might have fooled Fukushima but I know what kind of lowlife you are; you're just like the Yono."

"Such harsh words; lowlife, me? I only gave Fukushima what he wanted. I'll even give you a free piece of enlightenment, just because I want us to be friends. Your allies are getting ready to fight the Corrupted One right now and you're friend Yori is on her way to get you."

"Fine, then I'll just wait for her and-"

"But Ron, what about your family?"

Ron froze in place. "...What about my family?"

Before his eyes, a black vortex, similar to the one created by sensei, showed an image of his family in the living room with the Possible twins. "They're such nice folks, aren't they? Agreeing to watch over the Possible boys while their parents are away. It really gets me chocked up."

Ron gnashed his teeth. "What are you going to do to them?"

"Oh Ronald, it's not me you should worry about." The image pulled back to an outside shot of the house with Fukushima slowly making his way toward it. "It's him you should focus on."

He could feel his stomach tighten as his mind quickly pieced together what was going on. "You... monster!"

The room thundered with a villainous laugh, causing Rufus to tremble inside Ron's pocket. "So glad I have your undivided attention. You see, I'm here to make a proposition. You can go with your friends and use your Mystic Monkey Powers to stop the Corrupted One or you can face Fukushima and save the lives of your parents, your adopted sister, and the Possible twins. Either way, you'll be coming out a hero!"

Ron rolled his hands tightly into a pair of fists, his fingers quickly becoming numb from the pressure. He tried to control himself as tears were welling in his eyes. "Asshole... you're making me choice between losing my family or abandoning the team when they need me most. You're making me choose who I want to live or die!"

"Now the boy gets it! Yes, if you go after your girlfriend's murderer, your family will most likely die. But if you try to stop Fukushima, you'll have a bunch of de-powered superheroes and someone you love face down a sadistic, all powerful being born from the nothingness. See Ron, this is the problem about being the chosen one... sometimes a villain will force you to make a decision where they are no victories, only soul crushing defeat. So what's it going to be... your family... or your friends... no, even better... your family... or Yori?"

Ron dropped to his knees. It felt so unfair, having to choose while knowing either choice will have horrible repercussions. "...What does it matter anyway? I can't get home fast enough anyway! Fukushima is a block away!"

"Just step through the looking glass Alice, and I'll take you 'Wonder-if-I-made-the-right-decision Land.'"

Yori knocked on Ron's door. "Ron-san, open the door! Something important is happening!" she shouted. There was no answer. She turned the knob and pushed the door open. Nothing; except for an inexplicable cold breeze, there was no one inside. "Oh no..."

Sometime later, in the Global Justice docking port. "What do you mean nobody can find him!?" Sheila howled after hearing Yori's bad news.

Ashamed and worried, she lowered his head. "I... do not understand... but he is nowhere in the building. It's as if he vanished."

The aged team leader sighed and shook her head. "There goes our mystic kung-fu advantage. We'll just have to do without it."

Fear and anxiety filled Yori as she looked down. "I'm scared... what if something horrid happened to him."

From inside the GJ transport, Sherry peeked her head out. "Have faith kid, something tells me he's going to be alright."

Sheila stepped inside and took a seat next to her sons. "Female intuition from the twenty billion dollar toaster? I hope you can fight as good as you make predictions."

The mechanized beauty only smiled. "Don't worry about me. You should be more worried about yourself, we still have a fight to finish."

Shego came into the spacious hanger running, she couldn't continue her search for Ron any longer. Wade caught sight of her and waved his arms. "Shego, wait!"

The green clad vixen made a b-line toward him. "What, we're in a bit of a hurry," she snapped.

He reached into his sling case and pulled white cardboard box with a note attached. "A little something Kim asked me to make a few weeks ago and... well, when I knew I was coming here, I thought it be best to take it with me to give to you."

Shego stared at the box, unsure what to think of it. "What is it?"

The portly tech genius would only smile. "You'll see."

With the box clutched tightly, Shego basically leapt into the transport and immediately went into the room in the back, away from the others. She ripped the note off the box and began to read it.

Shego, I always knew this would happen one day

I'm glad we can finally get past all the bad blood and be friends

Here's a gift of good faith. I know you'll put it to good use

-KP

Stubborn, clever girl. She was so sure she could turn Shego back to the side of good, she even made something well in advance to celebrate the occasion. "Well... I guess you were right after all princess." She opened the box and all she could to is stare with a shocked expression. "Damn... that is some really good faith."

The transport slowly lowered back down to the ground, the time had come. All the hesitations, doubts, and fears had to be abandoned; there was no room for error. They had no idea what to expect, only that they had to be ready for the worst. Throughout the flight, Shego could feel something wasn't right, that something had already gone terrible wrong. Acting on that instinct, Shego leapt off the transport as soon as it landed and made a mad dash to Dr. Hall's home. Sheila tried to stop her but the safety restraints pulled her back. "Shego! Wait!"

Her cry was left unanswered as Shego disappeared through the front door. Everyone hastily freed themselves from their seats and tried to follow after her. Sheila attempted to lead the charge after her daughter but was stopped in her tracks when an explosion of black fire erupted right in front of her. A quick look around summed up the situation; four copies, three coming out of hiding from the surrounding houses and one now perched atop the transport. The latter copy looked down at the gathering of heroes and grinned maliciously. "Welcome to hell! The illustrious Supreme One will be taking care of your precious Shego personally and we will be your executioners for today. Hope that doesn't upset you."

Sheila turned toward to the others. "Alright, change in plans. Melvin, you and me are going to hit the one on the hard left. Yori, you take the boys and team up on the one up ahead. Hector, you're a big boy, you can handle the one on the right alone."

Sherry peered upward over her shoulder. "I guess that leaves me with laughing girl up there."

Mego waved his hands to get their attention. "W..wait! Are you two nuts?! They might be copies but they have Hego's super strength and Shego's energy blasts! Not to mention they can read our every thought!"

Sheila nodded in agreement. "Yes, but the copies can't make copies so we have an advantage in numbers. Not to mention her blind side."

The Wego twins nodded. "Of course, she lost an eye during our last encounter," Winston chirped out.

"That means she'll be blind on that side!" Wesley concluded.

"Right, but you boys stay careful. Now, on the count of three... THREE!"

They all scrambled to their respective copies, determined to overcome the seemingly overwhelming odds against them. Mego crept toward the right, seeing as the copy's left eye seemed glazed over, signifying it's uselessness. Sheila had other plans and stood her ground right in front of her enemy. The twisted, future Shego smirked. "Well, well. Mom and Mego. I'd say this was an unexpected surprise but I never really knew you that well in my lifetime mother."

Sheila thumbed her nose and readied her stance. "Common, you claimed to be some big shot world dictator from the future. I'm sure you took the time to track your dear old mother down when you were all settled into your ivory tower of oppression."

The Corrupted One slowly advanced, her guard down, treating them both as if they posed no threat to her. "Actually, I did track you down mother. You see, I wanted to kill the whole family... just for kicks. But you could imagine my disappointment when I found you buried in Nevada. Heart failure, it happened years before I conquered North America. It was a real shame too, you can't imagine how disappointed I was when I was standing at your grave."

Sheila didn't move, she just stood there, waiting for the Corrupted One to make the first strike. "Oh, why's that?"

Mego choose then to try and be heroic, charging in on her blind side. Unfortunately, he didn't take into account that repeating his attack plan over and over in his head only made it more obvious to his mind reading foe. He was easily snatched up and tossed toward his mother who caught him with ease. "Because I hate you mom... and I always wanted to kill you."

Sheila set Mego down carefully and glared at the evil duplicate of her daughter. "Well, you're about to be disappointed again."

Yori instructed the boys to split up and circle around while she kept their target busy. Putting her training to good use, Yori dodged and evaded as the copy fired a series of black energy beams at her from her fingertips. "Well, I have to admit Yori, you're as fast as the last time we fought," she complimented as she continued firing.

Yori reached to her side and tried her lucky at throwing some shurikens. "The last time we fought, you merely blasted me out of mid-air."

The copy merely shrunk herself down and let the flying stars soar past her. "Oh no, we've met a life time ago. When my forces were ready to take Japan, your silly ninja school thought it could beat us back. I had to admit, you were their most skilled warrior, my men couldn't touch you," she reminisced, never slowing her rate of fire while dodging Yori's attacks. "But I guess they never taught you how to fight against machines though, because you couldn't even evade a simply security drone. And even though it took you down, it was me who took you out," she ended with a cold, vicious grin.

Yori didn't let the story phase her, she continued darting around the fiend's energy blasts and kept her occupied with waves of projectiles of her own. When the clone shrunk herself down to avoid another group of spinning stars, the two boys rushed in, hoping to take the advantage while they could. In perfect harmony they both attempted to punt a now two-foot-tall Corrupted One only to have their feet held in place by her tiny hands. They both knew they had gotten themselves in over their head and in unison cried out "Uh-oh!" The next sounds they made were the sounds of their bones snapping and screaming horrible, bloodcurdling screams.

Unable to read the machine's mind, the clone atop the transport kept her distance and continued firing her black bolts of energy at Sherry. Not without her own arsenal, Sherry gave as good as she was being given by using a weapon that sprang out from her forearm. "It's going to be a cold day in hell before I get outdone by a fancy paper weight!" mocked the Corrupted One's copy as she continued dodging as best she could.

Sherry's strategy was mostly the same; to evade and retaliate. "Oh please, any shoot you can shot, I can shot better. Hell, I can shot any shoot better than you."

The duplicate snarled at that blow to her ego. "No you can't!"

Sherry smiled and fired off another round. "Yes I can!"

She began to gather the energy in her hand to create a more devastating blast. "NO YOU CAN'T!!"

Using one of her Centurion-inspired armaments, Sherry's shoulder popped open and a small cannon fired a sonic wave at the Corrupted One, stunning her long enough for Sherry to fire a direct shoot through her chest. With a fatal wound, the copy merely blinked out of existence. "Yes I can, yes I can. Just call me Annie Oakley, bitch."

Hego made a straight dash toward his assigned doppleganger and pulled back his fist. "I'm going to bust you back to whatever corner of the void you came from, you cheap knock off!"

His punch was caught as easily as a fly ball in the Corrupted One's palm. "Hego, Hego, Hego," she sighed, shaking her head. "You never change. You could've stopped me from being the Supreme One in my time. But you didn't have the sense to kill me... you wanted to talk. I guess I'll do to you what I did to my Hego."

The pressure she applied on his fist racked Hego in pain, slowly making him bend down to one knee. "We... will defeat you! Good will always prevail!"

She laughed. "You are pathetic! Look at you! Powerless, worthless! You're on your knees because you can't even defend yourself! Good will prevail? And what is good, who defines good? I am God compared to you insects, my will is the only good that matters!"

"No... she took your eye... you're mortal like any one of us... and that means you have weaknesses!" With blind aim, Hego hurled his fist upward.

The next thing Hego knew, his hand was freed from her grasp and she began to slowly back away. Taking a second look, he was a bit ashamed of himself when the injured area the Corrupted One was cradling was between her legs. "You... BASTARD! You hit me in the... ah! I'm your sister you sick, perverted shit!"

Leaping back to his feet, Hego clenched his fists together and smashed them against her face, causing her to stumble backwards. "You're not my sister and you're not a God! And considering where you're going, you won't see him either."

Shego rushed through the house and down into the basement, she knew if she had to find a snake like the Corrupted One, she would need to look under a rock. As she burst her way through the door and leapt down the flight of stairs, she turned to see a chair facing away from her and then slowly turn toward her. "Shego, I should've known that you would be the first to make it here. I know we have a lot of catching up to do but why fight on an empty stomach? Care for some bacon?" she asked before offering a white china plate carefully adorned with strips of still steaming but off colored bacon. "A treat from our hostess the good doctor."

Glaring at the strange offering, Shego slowly walked toward her nemesis. "You know... something's been bothering me. I had this whole monologue played out in my head... but it just seems forced with that name we're calling you. The Corrupted One, a great description but a real mouth full."

"Well, you can always call me the Supreme One or Shego, if you want to be informal about this."

Shego let herself chuckle and unclasped the neck of her green colored GJ jumpsuit. "Oh no, for you, I thought of the perfect name. You're the me I'll never become... so I'm going to call you by the same name as the me I've left behind long ago."

The Supreme One's sadistic, playful smirk turned into a sour frown and she hurled the plate into the wall, smashing it to bits. "You wouldn't dare..."

With a quick pull, Shego ripped off the jumpsuit, revealing what she was wearing underneath. A gift from beyond the grave, Kim had made Wade design a black and green version of the battle suit designed especially for Shego. "You're going to pay for killing Kimmie and burning that picture... SHELLY!"

An unnatural blackness consumed Shelly's eyes as her hands blazed to life with unholy black fire. "Congratulations... you've officially pissed me the fuck off."