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, Tiger Fist, Duane Tiamat, and Assistant Sherry

Awakenings

Chapter 8 - And From the Shadow was Born the Light

Shego had pitted herself against an all powerful psychotic, she knew the risks, she knew every power she would have to face, she knew her chances to survive were slim to nil. She didn't care. She must've slaughtered six or eight of those copies with just her bare claws by then but not without enduring injuries of her own. She stood there, panting for breath, covered in black and red blood; black blood from her inhuman adversaries and red blood from herself. With each breath she could feel her injuries; a nasty gash on her hip, a hard bruise on her right ribs, a throbbing headache from all the falls and kicks she's had to endure to force those doubles to leave themselves open. She could feel blood dripping out her nose and mouth, warm at first then cooled and crusted on her skin. She never had to be that savage before, she never felt pain like that before, and she never felt a resolve like that before. Even if it killed her, she was going to end this fight and kill the Corrupted One. Although she, or more aptly, they, had the advantage, Shelly's doubles began to show more reluctance to fight with each one created to the point that her freshest creations were beginning to refuse to life a finger. "Hey, I might just be born a second ago but I remember what she did to the others, no thanks," the copy declared, crossing her arms defiantly.

Shelly turned to her traitorous creation with a snarl. It was something she didn't expect; even though the Go powers became stronger when contained inside a single person, the ability to duplicate enhanced not only in durability, but in consciousness and logic. For Shelly, that enhancement was now becoming a hindrance. "You worm! I am the Supreme One and you will do as I command! Kill that bitch!"

The clone huffed and upturned her nose at her creator. "You want her dead so badly, you do it. I might just pop out of existence but I don't want to be suffering before I do that."

Infuriated, she created another copy in hopes that it would follow her orders. "You, destroy her!"

The new copy turned her back on the original. "Yeah right, I'm on break."

The Corrupted One began to grind her teeth, a spat of anger overcoming her. "Traitors! Cowards! I'll rip you all apart, starting with her!" she shouted, pointing to where Shego was.

While she was ranting, Shego saw her opportunity and lunged toward her alternate future-self. Just as Shelly pointed her finger, Shego swiped her claw across her face with murderous intent. Shelly fell back, screaming in pain, the claws sliced her upper lip in half and completely destroyed her mechanical eye, causing it to spark and short-circuit inside her head. Shego wasted no time and pinned Shelly down to the ground and raised her blood soaked hand into the air, the look of a wild beast in her eyes. "You're going to die today, Shelly. I'm going to cut you to ribbons and dance on your corpse. And after that, I'm going to get really nasty!"

Just as Shego was making her threats, Sherry burst into the basement and saw only the two doubles standing around but not Shego and the original. She pointed the crystal to the one on the left and it shot out a strange beam. When it hit, the double arched back in momentary pain and quickly vanished. Sherry clicked her synthetic teeth in frustration. "Damn, wrong bitch."

Seeing the other suddenly vanish from existence caught the remaining double's attention. Spotting Sherry and the crystal in her hand, the double fired off an energy blast just before suffering the same fate as her counterpart. Sherry couldn't react in time and the copy's final act hit it's target and shattered the crystal in a violent explosion. The sudden noise made Shego turn her attention away just long enough for Shelly to retaliate. With just one punch across the chin, Shego feel motionless to the floor, the impact of the attack dazed her. "Well, it's about damn time things started going my way," Shelly hissed as she forced herself back to her feet.

Even though her secret weapon was now as useless as a broken wine glass, Sherry still had to complete her mission; eliminate the alternate reality Shego. Drawing the cannon out from her forearm, she aimed it at the white-streaked sociopath. "The only thing going your way is a bright light shining at twenty-five-hundred Celsius!"

Shelly quickly bent down and picked Shego up by the back of her neck, holding her like a shield. "Go ahead, tin girl. You're a cold, soulless automaton, you should have no problem firing your laser through this helpless worm to get to me. Come on, I dare you," she taunted as she moved her free hand just behind Shego's arm, charging her energy into the tip of her finger.

Sherry tried to aim but she couldn't risk hitting Shego. Finally, she drew her cannon back into her forearm with a snarl. "You piss-drinking-"

The Corrupted One fired her shoot straight through Shego's arm, her pain filled scream distracted Sherry enough for the blast to go right through her chest. "Maybe that will teach you a lesson in manners," Shelly mocked with a wide grin. "And ask for you," she continued as she slammed Shego face down on one of DNAmy's work stations. "Who do you think you are to touch me, to scar my beautiful face? Did you think that would avenge little Kimmie's death? Did you think you can wash away your sins with this little act of redemption? Come on, I heard your pitiful little scream, I know you can answer me."

Shego coughed out some blood but she was too stunned to break free from Shelly's grasp. "Go... to hell," she spat.

Shelly clutched tightly onto a clump of Shego's hair and pulled it back painfully, forcing Shego to face her. "You're going to dance on my corpse, huh? I want you to know something, before I kill you. It really is your fault she died. The little hero saw you in danger and she threw herself to certain death to save you, she knew it was suicide because I read her mind. If you weren't so weak and pathetic, she'd be alive. It's your fault Shego, you killed Kim Possible."

Shego tried to block her out but she could feel the tears streaming down her cheeks. "No... you're lying..."

"Accept it Shego, you killed her and your murders didn't stop with her. The robot didn't come alone; your mother, your brothers, even that sweet, little ninja all came with you but only the machine made it this far. You killed them too, Shego. You could have helped them, could have prevented their deaths but you went straight here and let them get slaughtered. You're a monster Shego, a cold blooded killer who cares about no one but herself. You truly are JUST-LIKE-ME!"

"No! I'm nothing like you! I'm not a killer! I'm not a monster!"

Shelly laughed and tossed Shego over the workstation, leaving her sprawled on the floor as she made her way to the center of the basement. "As much as your tears of misery bring me such joy, I really should get this taken care up before it scars up," she said, referring to the cuts on her face. She suddenly slammed her fist through the floor boards, her enhanced strength tearing through the thick steel door of the safe hidden below. From the fresh cracks on the floor, beams of orange light broke through, slowly intensifying as her hand gripped the meteorite. Shelly grinned with malicious glee, the cuts on her face were beginning to heal. "Oh yea, oh yea! That's what I'm talking about, come to mama!"

The energy flowing through her caused her hair to whip around wildly as if she was standing in the middle of a wind storm. She moaned, almost in complete ecstasy, as the power of the orange meteorite began to flow into her, filling every inch of her being with the new power and strengthening all the others. "This is it, this is what I've always deserved! I'm not just powerful, I'm all powerful! I truly am a god now!" she declared as she freed her hand from the floor. She turned to her past self, sprawled helplessly on the floor and approached, licking her lips in anticipation. "And all true gods require a sacrifice. Since you're so against the thought of being like me, I can't think of a more fitting end for you then becoming a part of me." She stood over Shego and knelt down, reaching out to grab her by her face. "Did you hear me Shego? I said I'm going to eat you alive."

As Shelly began to turn over her future meal, Shego plunged a fragment of the crystal into her side, sliding through the ribs and piercing into the heart. "From hell's heart, I stab at thee; for hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee. Everyone you ever hurt, everyone you ever would have hurt, I put their souls in this piece of glass and condemn you to hell!"

Shelly groaned in pain through clenched teeth. "You... you think I'm done for? I... I can heal any wound now... I'm immortal! This is nothing to a god like me!" As the Corrupted One tried to focus her energy on healing what would've been a mortal wound, the two began to screech in pain. Shelly screamed as she felt her very essence being ripped from her and Shego wailed as an overwhelming amount of energy surged through her body. The shard of the power-sapping crystal had acted as a catalyst, transferring all the powers from one being to the other once Shego's tight grip on the fragment cut through her glove and into her skin. With all her powers gone, the crystalline blade finally released whatever strange hold it had on them, allowing Shelly to fall to the ground, her unearthly dark blood spilling freely from her wound. The world around her began to darken and seem hazy until a brilliant white light shone upon her. Too weak to shield her eye, she could only turn her head to see a figure standing in the light. Even with her vision slowly dimming, she knew who it was. "If you kill me... you'll be no better than me..."

The shadow in the light shook it's head. "You claim to be me from the future. A future destroyed by Kim and Ron, that just proves we have the power to alter our destinies. I'll never become like you, my future isn't written in stone. And I'm not killing you, I'm simply sending you back to the nothing where you came from." Everything was silent after that, even the beam of pure light that enveloped Shelly made no sound or caused any kind of explosion. It simply consumed the apparition until there was nothing left. "All this power... and I can only think of one thing to do with them."

Anne sighed as she peered through the clear surface of the preservation pod, studying the still, motionless expression of her daughter's face. "Do you think they pulled it off, James? Do you think they really stopped that monster?" she asked, never breaking her eyes away from Kim.

James Possible gently put his hands on his loving wife's shoulders and kissed her gently. "As long as our Kimmie-cup is with them in spirit, they can do anything."

They both jumped as the doors slammed open. They turned toward it but they quickly had to shield their eyes from the bright light. They could hear it's footsteps as it got closer, the light was so dazzling they couldn't resist as it gently pushed them aside. "Sorry for the interruption but I have some business with the recently deceased," Shego said as she made her way to the capsule.

Anne looked at the brilliant figure through squinted eye, making out the shadow in the center. "Shego? Is that you?"

"Anne, James!" cried out a voice at the doorway. The two hesitated but made their way to the entrance when they saw it was Sheila, Yori, and Team Possible who was calling out to them. Sheila, tears running down her face, embraced Anne with a joyous laugh. "Anne! My god, it's a miracle! It's the only way I can describe it, an honest to goodness miracle!"

Anne slowly returned the affection but with great confusion. "Sheila... what's going on here? That glowing light, was that Shego?"

Hego stepped forward to answer her inquiry. "Shego not only defeated that twisted future version of herself, she absorbed all the Go Powers, even the healing one! It made her into this... I don't know, she's like a... like a-"

The Wego twins chimed in together. "A living star!"

Mego tried to contribute to the explanation. "She came out of the house and... it was incredible, unbelievable even! She just walked past us and all our injuries just vanished, like they never happened!"

Yori nodded. "Truly, it was as if the heavens parted and made Shego a goddess."

Shego looked down at Kim, her vision not disturbed by the reflection of her own light. "This better work," she whispered before tearing off the lid as easily as wet paper. She laid her hands gently on Kim's cheeks, feeling a lump form in her throat when she sensed how cold they were. Slowly, her hands began to grow brightly as she tried to pour the rejuvenating power of the last Go meteorite into Kim's body. "Come on Kim... do something. Open your eyes, take a breath. If all this can do is bring you back as a brain dead vegetable, fine, I'll take it, just do something!" she pleaded.

Some time pass and Kim remained motionless. Shego continued pouring her essence into Kim and lowered her scowling face next to her's. "You're enjoying this, aren't you Possible? You're watching me from god-knows-where, grinning like a cat that you were right about me turning good all along and you just want to play up the drama for as long as you can. Well fine, I'll admit it, I can turn good, I have turned good, but it doesn't mean anything without you! Even if I was still evil and I had these powers, I'd still be here trying to bring you back. I need you Kim... when I was evil, you were my benchmark, you were the only thing that made my life worth any effort. I lived everyday with just one thought... to beat you... to be better than you and live to see the day you admit it. And now... I don't think I can do this whole good girl thing alone... I need you to help me Kim! So damn it... stop being so friggin' selfish and come back to life already!"

Her mind was so fixated, she did not see what was happening to her; the white aura she was emitting now fluxed between all the Go colors. Soon, the colors began to shoot out of her body; red, blue, and violet flew out the door and into the Go brothers in perfect order. Team Go was once again back to it's former glory. A ray of yellow light zipped and danced around the halls of the compound, avoiding all others in it's path until it forced itself into Zita's body. The sudden surge shocked her and she fell to the ground next to a now panicking Felix. He cut the engine from his chair's hover generator to get closer to the love of his life. "Zita... are you ok?" he asked, reaching out to her.

Zita groaned a bit and slowly picked herself back up. "Yeah... I think so... but would you stop talking about getting me a doctor, you're chattering like a chipmunk on a sugar rush," she sighed, rubbing the side of her head.

Felix just sat there, shocked at her statement. "I... didn't say that... I was thinking in my head that I needed to get you to a doctor... Zita... did you just read my thoughts?"

Zita looked into his eyes and her jaw dropped. "I... I can read your thoughts... madre de dios..."

The final color to leave Shego's body escaped through her hands, completely enveloping Kim in orange light. The sudden shock of losing all but her original powers threw Shego back, knocking her unconscious on the floor. Once the confusion of the impromptu light show had passed, the others rushed into room, shocked too see Shego on the floor, no longer with her brilliant aura. But even more shocking to them was Kim's temporary casket, liberated of it's top half, with Kim sitting up in it. Kim felt groggy, as if just waking up from a long night sleep. She looked around, not sure where she was or why her parents and team Go were looking at her like that. She then looked to the floor and gasped to see Shego laying on the ground, a small trickle of blood coming from her nose, caused by the sudden surge of energy leaving her body. Kim sprang out from her former tomb and kneeled to Shego's side. "Shego, are you alright? Say something," she pleaded. She tried to wipe the blood off Shego's face and her desire to help her caused her hand to glow orange the same way Shego's hands glowed green when she summoned her energy bolts. The sudden emergence of her power made her yelp in surprise and draw back her hand. Though it was only for a moment, the glow was enough to bring Shego back from her unwanted slumber with a slight groan. "Shego, you're alright!" she cried out.

Shego smirked weakly and forced herself to sit up, despite Kim's quiet plea for her to remain still. "Hey princess, good to see you're finally up and about. Though I'd love to draw out this teary reunion, a lot has happen since you've been out of commission and we should get out of here, pronto."

Finally able to regain full control of her body, Dr. Director stormed out of her bedroom, having been placed there by Sheila and the others after Yori rendered her unconscious. She burst into the research area where she had previously assigned the scientists to design the ultimate robot to combat the Corrupted One. All she found there were her regular technicians working on a lifeless silver body. "Where is Dr. Possible?" she growled. "And Porter, and Lipsky, and Renton? Where the hell is everyone?"

One of the technicians slowly approached her. "Th... they left, Madam Director. Mission accomplished, they just all left for home."

Betty grabbed his collar. "Who authorized their release?! You can't have civilians simply 'walking' out of a top secret military base!"

He quivered in her grip. "But... but you left a video message... you said it was fine for them to leave on their own."

Director released her underling and kicked over a chair. "You idiots! That video was a fake! Kim Possible's super nerd was here, he must've forged that message right under your noses!"

"Please... we're sorry Dr. Director... we didn't know! B-but they did leave this, they said to... to deliver this to you personally," he added, nervously handing her a disc.

Betty snatched it from his hands and slowly looked at the lifeless machine. "Mission accomplished, huh? So I take it our billion dollar toy was damaged in the fight?" she asked, slowly calming down.

"Yes... unfortunately. Lucky shot, it destroyed one of her central processing systems."

"And the crystal?"

"Wasn't on her."

"What a waste. Fix it up and shelf it, that thing still represents the combined work of some of the greatest mechanical minds of our time; it may just be useful to us later. If anyone needs me, I'll be in my office."

Retiring to her personal office, Betty slid the silvery disc into a slot and sat in her chair. She gave her parakeet a loving whistle and a gentle pet with her finger before turning to her monitor screen. The image caught her attention; it wasn't everyday a dead woman leaves you a message. "Dr. Director, I know this seems strange coming from me, especially since I'm suppose to be dead. But I've heard about what's happened here while I was gone; about Sherry's sacrifice, about Shego and Ron's emotional break down, and most importantly, about you. I would hope me coming back to life will change things back to the way things were, the way things should be. Somehow, I don't think it's going to happen in this case. You want to declare war on us, because we're not controlled by the government, because we do what's right without a badge or a federal check. You called us vigilantes, criminals passing themselves off as heroes. Believe what you want, I'll never stop what I'm doing because I know in my heart, I'm doing the right thing.

"And now you're doing with you think is the right thing... so I can't just ask you to change your mind. I can't ask you for special treatment either because no one should be above the law. But you're a secret paramilitary group, you work outside the law, just like we do, only you take orders from the governments of the world. So go ahead, come after us, declare your war on superheroes and 'vigilantes' like Team Go and myself. But just remember, if you do this, you're only doing two things; you'll only make it easier for the villains of the world to hurt innocent people and you'll be making yourself a hypocrite."

The video cut to black and Betty leaned back in her chair. Slowly, a strange smirk painted across her lips. "She's back... she's back and just as naive as ever. I wonder how it will feel when I finally bring her in and show her how right I really am."

Ron was laid down in his old bed in the attic after his fight with Fukushima. He had been resting peacefully for almost a full day until he felt someone trying to wake him up. A hand was placed on his shoulder, shaking him gently as a distant voice whispered into his ear. "Ron... wake up Ron. Time to get out of bed, sleepyhead."

Ron groaned and buried his head back into the pillow. "Mom... please... I just wanna stay in bed a little longer..."

The whisper changed to a giggle. "Mom, huh? Well unless you have some weird Oedipus problem, this is really going to complicate our relationship?"

Ron's eyes widen at the sound of her voice. Recognizing it, he turned over quickly to see if it was really her. "KP!?"

Kim laughed and held Ron tightly. "Oh Ron, when your parents called and told us what happened, I made sure this was our first stop after we left GJ!"

Ron slowly wrapped her arms around Kim, unsure of what was happening. "Kim... my god... this is amazing... you're alive!"

Kim smiled and pressed her forehead gently against his. "Yeah, I missed you too much so I decided to come back."

The two shared a deep, passionate kiss, one more affectionate than the one they shared on that cruise ship before this whole mess started. "But... how... how is this even possible?"

"Anything is possible for a Possible."