Yono, My Yono: part 2
For a few moments, Kim is rooted in place by shock and loss. Then the pain in Kim's heart flares up into anger as she grinds out, "Ron? What….the….SITCH!?"
Ron stutters and stammers wordlessly, apparently so shocked and confused he's unable to get out anything coherent, but at Kim's outburst the young woman looks around. When the girl sees her, her face lights up once again and, heedless of the fury in Kim's eyes, the young woman rushes towards her, crying out, "Kimmie!" Unprepared for this girl's reaction, Kim makes no move as the girl wraps her arms around her, and Kim could feel the trembling from the girl's silent crying and the wetness of her tears as the fell on her shoulder as the young ninja said, "I've missed you guys so much!"
Completely baffled by this girl's behavior, Kim looked over at Ron and asked, "Uh, Ron? Just who is this girl?"
"I have no idea," Ron answered her, looking as baffled as Kim felt, "I'm just as lost and clueless as you are, KP."
"Huh?" the girl said, looking in confusion between Kim and Ron, then the confusion clears as she smacked her own forehead and said, "Of course! You guys wouldn't likely recognize me like this." The girl then backed up to face them both as she gave a respectful bow and said with a huge smile, "Guys, it's me, Hanna! Hanna Stoppable?"
Kim and Ron's jaws drop in surprise. Kim was the first to recover, saying, "That's impossible, you can't be her. Hanna's just barely over 2 years old."
"That's right, and you're so….big!" Ron agreed, then he looked askance at the girl and said, "Mom and Dad didn't carbo-load you when I'd moved out, did they?"
The girl claiming to be Hanna laughed as she said, "Same ol' Ron! Just as funny as ever! No, silly, I'm from the future!"
"Uh huh, and I'll bet you've left your DeLorian parked outside," Kim said skeptically, "Time travel just isn't possible."
The girl looked at Kim patiently, as if she understood Kim's disbelief, as she sighed and said, "I still remember what you told me about destiny, how it may take you from those that you love, but that doesn't mean that you love them any less."
Kim felt shock at hearing her own words coming from this strange girl's mouth, then she chook her head to clear it as she asked, "But how can you possibly remember that? You were….I mean Hanna is….only two years old!"
"Well, the way your mother explained it, I was born with a photographic memory," the teenage Hanna explained, "I can remember anything and everything I've ever seen, heard, or felt ever since my birth. Sometime I think I can remember from even earlier. I even remember my birth mother, she was so beautiful. She had died shortly after I was born, although I was too young to understand at the time."
"Oh, Hanna! I'm so sorry!" Kim sympathized, though when she'd accepted the girl's claims of being Hanna she wasn't sure."
"Don't worry about it, Kim. You guys, and Mom and Dad, had filled me so full of joy I had little room in my life for unhappiness," teen Hanna assured Kim, then she turned towards Ron and said, "Anyway, that was how I'd defeated Yono and Monkey Fist. You remember, Ron?"
Kim didn't remember anything about that part first hand, due to her doing a good impression of a statue, but apparently Ron did as he said, "You mean that photographic memory thing…?"
"That's right," Hanna confirmed, "I've also got a muscle memory thing that's directly linked to it. Essentially, if I see something, like that Flippies video you showed me back then, then I can generally do it. Of course I don't think that means I can become a master chef or artist just by watching some cooking or painting shows." Hanna then giggles at this.
Hanna then sobers up and says, "I'm afraid that I don't have time to reminisce with you guys, however. We came back to stop my nemesis from changing the past, and thus forever dooming the world to darkness."
" 'We'?" Kim asked in confusion, picking up on the plural pronoun. Just then Kim sees a female figure silhouetted in the dark hallway Hanna had tackled Ron from, a figure whose hands begin to glow green.
"Shego!" Kim exclaimed as she turned that direction, "I knew you and Drakken were behind these break-ins!" Kim then rushes the shadowy figure even as Hanna cries out, "Kim, wait!" Before Kim could get too close, however, the newcomer unleashed an energy blast at the floor before her, and Kim barely skidded to a stop before she could slam into the wall of thorny vines that grew from the place the blast struck. "What?" Kim asked in confusion, certain that Shego never had that kind of power.
Hanna quickly caught up to Kim and said, "It's okay, Kim. This is my partner and best friend, Liego."
As the vine wall receded and disappeared, leaving only a small hole in the floor where they'd emerged from as evidence they were there, the figure stepped into the light, and Kim could see this Liego clearly for the first time. Apparently sharing the same fashion sense to Shego, this girl also bore similar facial features to Kim's former enemy and rival. Liego's complexion, however, was more of a blue green compared to Shego's pale green, her hair a striking blond, and her eyes a brilliant sapphire-blue.
Kim saw as Liego appraised her up and down, the look in the young woman's eyes relating that she'd found Kim as wanting, before Liego turned towards Hanna and said, "I think that he's over this way. Come on, we need to hurry."
Hanna and Ron start to run in the direction Liego indicated, but when Kim started to follow, Liego stopped and held her hand out before Kim, ordering in a stiff tone, "NOT….you!"
"What!?" Kim bristled indignantly.
Hanna, who with Ron had stopped running and turned back, walked up to Liego and said pleadingly, "Liego, Don't you know who this…?"
"Yes, I'm well aware of who this is!" Liego interrupted in an angry tone, which it seemed to Kim was also masking a number of other just as volatile emotions, "I also know, just as well as you, that she's never been any match for him any of the times they had faced off. In fact, she was the one who'd cost your brother…" Liego trailed off into a growl of frustration, then she sighed and pointed into Kim's face as she narrowed her eyes and said warningly, "Fine, come along if you want, but don't you DARE get in my way!" As the three of them resumed hurrying down the hallway, Kim rushed after them while muttering to herself, "She's just like a pint-sized Shego!"
When they got closer to their destination, a doorway that appeared to lead to a display room similar to the one they'd investigated this morning, Liego pulled them up short in order to proceed more stealthily. Kim took advantage of the slower pace to ask Hanna quietly, "This 'nemesis' you were talking about, who is it?"
"The most dangerous individual who'd ever existed, ever since he'd gained the power of the Yono," Hanna told them in a low voice, which made her announcement sound even more ominous.
"Yono? But you smacked him down before, and you were just a toddler back then!" Ron commented in surprise.
"Yes, it's true that I defeated Yono as he was back then," Hanna confirmed as they cautiously entered the room and looked around, "but this Yono is cold, calculating, ruthless, and without a single shred of honor."
The four of them start as an evil cackle fills the room, followed by a familiar voice overhead saying, "Stop, please! You're making me blush!"
"No!" Kim exclaimed as she followed the direction of the voice, and as Ron did so as well he added, "It can't be!"
Descending slowly from the ceiling, Monkey Fist was supported by a yellow aura which lit this room better than the security lighting in addition to accentuating the hollows of his face, making his appearance seem even more sinister than usual. "Hello, boy," Monkey Fist greeted Ron in a tone devoid of friendliness or empathy, "Long time no see."
"Monkey Fist!?" Ron barked out in surprise, "But how!? You're still a statue!"
"Yes, in this time I was still suffering from the side effects of my defeat at the hands of your baby sister," Monkey Fist confirmed with a leer, "However, as you can see, I'm now quite different than I was on that day. And please, call me 'Yono Fist'!"
"Doesn't matter what you call yourself, Yoyo Fist, cause you're still going down!" Ron declared, then he started levitating on his own blue aura as he said, "You see, I have changed as well."
At that declaration Ron engages Yono Fist in a frenzied mid-air battle. Soon after it begins, Liego fires at the ground by her feet, where some unusual plants begin to grow, while Hanna rushes forward, leaps off an obelisk, rebounds off a wall behind her, then launches into a flying kick towards Yono Fist. Meanwhile, Yono Fist blocks one of Ron's kicks, grabbing his leg and hurls him at the oncoming Hanna, causing the both of them to crash into the ground below.
Then, once Liego's creation finishes taking form, the sizable rose bush aims its buds in Yono Fist's directions and starts rapid-fire spitting thorns at him. Yono Fist raises his arm to shield his face as he glares at the young hero in annoyance, then he unleashes an eye blast in her direction. Liego barely dodges in time, the blast striking her hedge instead and turning it to stone.
While the villain is distracted, Kim aims and fires her hair dryer grappling gun at him. Yono Fist apparently sensed Kim's intentions, however, as he caught the grapple easily, swinging her around and slamming her hard into a display case down below. Yono Fist then focuses on Ron stirring down below as he calls down mockingly, "You disappoint me, boy! You provided me a much greater challenge during our final battle in the future." Yono then looks at Kim, who's struggling to get back to her feet, and he sneers evilly as he adds, "'Though some things never do change."
As Yono Fist's eyes begin to glow again, Ron sees where Yono Fist is looking and cries out as he flies towards her, "Kim!"
Liego exclaims, "No!" as she unleashes a blast just as Yono Fist's eye beams burst forth. Liego's blast causes a vine wall to burst forth from the ground beside Kim, shielding her and Ron from being turned to stone by Yono Fist's beams. Liego then turns and growls at Kim behind the stoned vine wall before focusing again at Yono Fist, but he had already smashed open a display case and removed an artifact from inside.
"You got lucky today, boy," Yono Fist called out while he rose through a hole he'd blasted in the ceiling, "but I assure you our next meeting will be our last!" Yono Fist then laughs evilly as he flies off out of sight.
Kim stands up and dusts herself off as she said, "Well, that was humiliating."
Early the next day, Kim, Ron, Hanna and Liego are sitting together at a booth, and Hanna giggles as she takes a bite of the establishment's signature Nacos.
"Wow!" Hanna commented with delight as she dabbed a blob of nacho cheese off her face with a napkin, "I can't believe how good this tastes!"
"Don't they have Bueno Nacho back when you come from?" Kim asked Hanna.
"Yes, but it's just not the same," Hanna explained to her, "You see, a few years from now a huge health craze sweeps through the general public: reduced carbs, reduced fat, zero trans fat, and so forth. Many fast food establishments tried to take advantage of the trend. Things generally went downhill from there."
"Ewww! Sick and wrong!" Ron exclaimed in disgust, "Remind me to stock up now!"
Kim sees Hanna get a depressed look on her face, as if something Ron said had triggered a bad memory, before she tries to cover it up by slowly sipping her soda. Kim then turns towards Liego, who'd been quiet the entire time, and asks her, "How's yours?"
Liego grunts and replies in a flat, rude tone as she said, "It's fine." She then stands abruptly and picks up her cup, saying, "I need a refill," before walking off.
Ron then takes a sip from his cup, only getting empty slurping sounds from the straw, which then he states, "Looks like I'm out too. Be right back KP." Ron then kisses Kim on the cheek before taking his cup to the counter.
Taking advantage of being alone at the boot with Hanna, Kim leans across the table and softly asks her, "It may be just my imagination, but Liego appears to be the rather moody sort, and she seems to be particularly hostile towards me."
Hanna reached across the table and placed her hand on Kim's as she pleaded, "Please don't hold it against her. It's just ever since Yono Fist was first revived he'd caused her so much pain. He'd hurt us both deeply, actually, but at least I still had Mom and Dad. Liego, on the other hand….she lost her entire family that day."
Kim gasped as she got what Hanna was saying, "Drakken and Shego?"
Hanna's eyes widened in surprise as she said, "How'd you know?"
"Let's just say that there's a definite family resemblance," Kim told her.
Hanna nodded in confirmation she said, "Anyway, all of Team Go, including Drakken and especially Shego, were in Middleton to….meet with you when Yono Fist struck without warning. With his tremendous powers, and surprise on his side, they didn't stand a chance and thus fell quickly.
"What about that thing Liego started to talk about in the museum? That thing that I 'cost' Ron…" Kim asked Hanna. Then she gasped as realization she put the pieces together, guessing, "It's his life, isn't it? Ron's….gone….because of me, isn't he?"
"No! It's not like that! He's not dead…per se," Hanna protested, then she sighed and explained, "The thing that you've got to understand is that Ron loved you more than life itself, and when the attack took place you were in no condition to be fighting. So when Team Go fell, Ron was the only one left who could face off against Yono Fist. I've never seen him fight any fiercer or more valiantly."
"Wait, you remember because you were there?" Kim asked Hanna.
Hanna nodded as she wiped a tear from her face, saying, "Mom and Dad had their hands full trying to keep me from going out to help Ron, and poor Liego was beside herself with what happened to her family, so instead I'd committed all of Ron's moves to memory. After a while it became apparent that they were evenly matched, so instead Yono Fist turned his attention to you, much the same way he'd tried in the museum, knowing full well your Ron wouldn't let anything happen to you. Once Ron was out of the fight, there was nothing anymore to stop him from attacking you in earnest. Finally it became too much for Liego to take anymore, and I think that was when her powers manifested for the first time. While Yono Fist was caught up with the surprise attack of the Possibles' front lawn, your parents and mine spirited us and the twins away in the confusion, using the GoCar's tractor beams to retrieve the stone forms of the rest of our family, then they took off before Yono Fist could get free."
Hanna sighed and set down her cup as she added in a morose tone, "I think that the worst part of all this was that he wasn't even after you guys at all. I was the one Yono Fist was after, but you guys got in the way, and so everyone suffered as a result."
"You couldn't have helped what happened!" Kim told Hanna determinedly, "It's not your fault!"
"I know that, I really do," Hanna said in an unconvincing tone, "But I still feel that I could have done more."
"Well, don't worry. We'll figure out what Yono Fist is up to in this time and put a stop to his schemes for good. I promise," Kim assured her. Then, as a thought occurred to her, Kim stood up and told Hanna, "I've got to go freshen up, Hanna. Be right back."
After Hanna nodded her understanding, Kim walked straight for the girl's room. Once in the seclusion of one of the stalls, Kim activated the Kimmunicator and asked, "Wade, what's the sitch on the battlesuit?"
"Huh?" Wade said in surprise, apparently not expecting this call, then he shook his head and said apologetically, "I'm sorry Kim, but my hands were so full with this case I haven't been able to put much work into the suit itself. I am still confident that I can get the new suit online by this time next week."
"Oh, um, that's nice," Kim said, feeling somewhat let down as she continued, "but is there any possibility you might be able to get it done sooner?"
"How much sooner are we talking about here?" Wade asks before taking a drink from his Grande sized take-out soda cup.
Kim hesitated for a moment before asking, "Tonight?"
Wade performs a spit take before wiping the camera lens clean and asking, "Tonight!? Why the big rush?"
Kim nervously ticked off on her fingers as she said, "Oh, Monkey Fist from the future, empowered by Yono, is doing something to try and usher in the end of the world."
"Oh! Wow! That does sound serious!" Wade exclaimed fretfully, then he told her in a regretful tone, "I would like to say yes it's possible, but I'm afraid that there's just too much work still to be done on it, and there's only one of me here. Sorry."
Kim sighed as she said, "No, Wade, I'm sorry. I should have realized that there was no way for you to finish it that quickly…" Kim then trailed off as a new idea stuck her, and hope began to show again in her tone as she finished, "…by yourself!"
Wade looked in confusion at Kim's widening smile as he asked her, "Kim? What is it?"
Kim didn't lose her smile as she locked her eyes with his and said in a determined voice, "Wade, I think it's time to recruit you a task force!"
By the time Kim returned from the bathroom, she had a new spring in her step, and as she neared their booth she overheard Hanna laughing and telling Ron, "…and then there's the time Motor Ed tried to crash Drakken and Shego's wedding! Unfortunately for him you and Kim were attending as Best Man and Maid of Honor, and I was there as a flower girl. Oh man, the look on his face when we'd left him sitting deep in a pile of monster truck parts? Priceless!"
"Me? Shego's Maid of Honor?" Kim asked in surprise as she retook her seat.
"Hi, Kimmie!" Hanna greeted her warmly, these fond retellings obviously brightening her mood again, "Yeah, that's correct. The truth is that Shego has always had respect and a form of admiration for you ever since the first time you've defeated her, but her pride as a villain never allowed her to tell you so. When she'd rejoined the side of the heroes, her excuses for not telling you slowly got weaker and faded until she finally did so. By the time she and Drakken finally decided to marry, enough of the old enmity between you two had been lost for her to finally ask you to be her maid of honor, and for you to accept. Eventually, you two became good friends, and this time no brainwave altering technology was involved."
"Oh, that's….well….nice," Kim said awkwardly, recalling the incident Hanna mentioned, where Kim had hung out with 'Miss Go'. In a change of subject, Kim asked Hanna, "Say, where's Liego? Shouldn't she have been back by now?"
"Oh, she said she had to go out for some air," Ron replied while taking a bite of his second helping of Nacos.
"Yeah, she does that sometimes," Hanna explained, "I think that she just spends so much time playing the role of the battle-hardened warrior that she doesn't want anyone to see her cry, not even me, her BFF. Anyway, she usually has some lead on Yono Fist's whereabouts when she returns.
"How'd you guys get back here anyways?" Ron asked Hanna around a mouth full of Naco.
"We'd chased Yono Fist through a portal he'd created with the Tempus Simia," Hanna explained simply.
"Time….Monkey?" Ron asked as one of his eyes twitched, as if his old monkey fear was rearing its head once again.
"Yes, exactly," Hanna acknowledged, "Anyway, in an alternate timeline Monkey Fist, Duff Killigan, Dr. Drakken and Shego teamed up and used it to try and change the past, ensuring you wouldn't be around to foil their schemes anymore. After Drakken's plans to do so, all of which were rather silly, were foiled by you guys and Rufus' future descendent, Shego took the Tempus Simia and enacted her own plan."
"Which was?" Kim asked.
"Start up a small company in Norway in the 90's, which grew into a major corporation, then she offered your mother a well paying job in that company," Hanna explained.
Ron scratched his head and asked, "What'd be the point of that?"
"To put as much physical distance between you two, rendering it impractical for you guys to work together anymore," Hanna answered him.
Kim looked over at Ron and felt a deep sadness at the thought of that happening now, so all she was able to manage to say was, "Oh."
Hanna must have sensed Kim's distress, for she quickly said assuringly, "Oh! Don't worry, this took place back when you were still only calling in favors for rides, long before you guys ever started dating. Anyway, her plan worked. With the guys as her sidekicks, Shego was able to conquer the entire world. Fortunately, you guys were able to follow her to that distant future where you, dear brother, ended up accidentally breaking the Time Monkey, which reversed all the changes in the time stream and erased everyone's memories of the altered timeline."
"Oh yeah! Ron-man, Master of Breakage!" Ron said proudly.
"But if everyone's memories were erased, then how do you know what happened?" Kim asked Hanna.
"Monty likes to gab," Hanna explained simply.
"He does, doesn't he?" Ron agreed.
"But how does he…?" Kim asked, still confused.
"It's the power of the Yono," Hanna told her, "Somehow he was either able to find and repair the fragments of the Time Monkey scattered throughout the time stream, or he had retrieved it from a point where it was not broken, and he used it to come back here."
"Any idea what his plan is?" Kim asked Hanna
"None," Hanna admitted, "All I know was that he stole an artifact from a museum case before Liego and I could stop him."
"You know, Yono Fist may be pretty powerful now, but he still isn't all that bright," Ron commented as he took another drink of his soda. When Kim and Hanna looked at Ron as if they didn't get it, he exclaimed, "Oh come on! He searches through the rubbish bins of time, in order to find and glue back together a mystical paperweight, then he only uses it to rob museums!? If I were him, I would've it to erase the threat any heroes posed to me in my own time."
Kim gasped as a thought suddenly occurred to her, then she jumped up from the booth, yelling out, "Ron! Bag up, we've gotta go!"
As Kim and Hanna raced out of Bueno Nacho, Ron just barely managed to stuff the rest of his brunch into his doggie bag, then he juggled the bag around to pull his key fob from his pants pocket as he called out, "One sec, KP!" Ron then pressed a button on the fob, which caused his scooter to morph into flight mode, fly onto the back of Kim's car, then attach to it and morph again into an extended spoiler.
"Nice!" Kim exclaimed in admiration.
"Tweebs whipped it up," Ron explained to her.
They then all piled into Kim's car, which changed into flight mode and quickly took off into the air, flying at high speeds.
"Where are we off to in such a hurry?" Ron asked Kim in concern.
"Go City!" Kim answered him while keeping her focus ahead of her, "You were onto something back there, Ron. Yono Fist does have another agenda in this time, it just happens to be next on his to-do list!"
Hanna gasped as she understood as well, saying in a concerned tone, "Liego!"
Inside of Go Tower, the conference room is eerily quiet as Liego entered. Looking around, it wasn't exactly like she'd pictured it, recalling how Hanna's parents said that it was so full of life the time that they'd visited.
"Hello? Is anybody home?" Liego called out. When there was no response, she reasoned that they must be out, so she went over to what she figured was their communications terminal and started to punch keys as she said, "Maybe I can use this to warn…"
"Hey!" Liego hear a voice call out behind her, a familiar voice that caused her heart to speed up and set it to aching all over again. Whirling around, Liego already knew who would be standing there, but she help but freeze at the sight of Shego standing just inside the doorway. Dressed in the same kind of outfit as she herself wore, Shego must have just gotten out of the shower as she was towel drying her hair as she said, "I know that my brothers have an open door policy, but that doesn't mean you can just come in and touch whatever you want around here."
When Liego came here alone (she hadn't wanted Kim Possible to slow her down again, and it was apparent Hanna didn't want to split up from her brother and his girlfriend), she had determined that she'd come here to do what was needing to be done. But now, looking into this face she hadn't seen in so long, Liego felt years of repressed grief and loneliness welling up inside her as Shego continued, "Though I must say I do admire your taste. I wasn't even aware that I had any fan…"
"Mom…" Liego whispered, the word barely escaping her trembling lips as her eyes welled up.
"Pardon?" Shego asked as she looked at Liego in confusion, apparently having not heard her very well.
Finally, Liego couldn't hold herself back any longer, and her tears fell fast and thick on her face as she rushed forward crying out, "Mommy!" Before Shego could react, Liego had her wrapped in a tight embrace, sobbing piteously on her shoulder as Shego's arms were stretched out to either side, apparently clueless as to what she should do with them.
"Uh….Miss…?" Shego said hesitantly in an uncomfortable voice.
"Shego? What's all the racket?" Drakken grumpily asked as he entered the room, wearing his jammies and rubbing the sleep from his eyes as he said, "I was trying to catch a nap after yesterday's all-nighter, and I'd appreciate…"
Drakken was interrupted Liego went to give him a back-breaking hug, sobbing, "Daddy!"
"Shego?" Drakken wheezed as he looked at her in confusion, "Who is this girl that's trying to squeeze me to death?"
The commotion Liego was making must have alerted the rest of the team, for they'd rushed out of their rooms towards the conference room with their uniforms on as Hego called out, "What's the situation?"
They were stopped in their tracks as Liego went around and hugged them one by one, calling out as se did so, "Uncle Hego! Uncle Mego! Uncles Wego! I never thought I'd ever get to see you guys again!"
"Uh, who's this girl?" One Wego twin asked, to which the other finished, "And why did he just call us 'Uncle'?"
All of Team Go looks towards Drakken and Shego, which prompts Shego to say defensively, "Hey, the girl claims that she's our, but we never had a kid." Shego then glares in suspicion at Drakken as she adds, "At least I didn't!"
Drakken's eyes widen at the thinly veiled accusation, and he replies just as defensively, "Hey! I didn't…!"
Hego silenced the potential argument by raising his hands in a placating gesture, then he and the rest of Team Go led Liego back into the conference room as he said, "Let's all calm down, everyone, so we can get some answers here. Let's start with who you are, young lady?"
Liego wrung her hands in front of her, displaying an uncharacteristic moment of shyness as she said, "Ok. My name is Liego, and I'm Drakken and Shego's daughter from the future."
"The future!?" Mego exclaimed in surprise and disbelief, "How…?
"Why…?" the Wego twins said together in confusion.
"Whoa guys, time out!" Shego called out, raising her voice over al of theirs and calling their attention to her, "I know this girl kinda looks like me and dresses like me, but that doesn't mean…"
Liego interrupted her by aiming her glowing hand at the conference table and unleashing a blast, causing a good-sized hydrangea bush to sprout up out of the center.
"Oh," Shego said, mollified somewhat, "Well I guess that's kinda convincing. Just a little."
"Aha!" Drakken exclaimed, experiencing an eureka moment, "So you're the one who created that flower Kim Possible showed me here yesterday!"
"What!?" Shego exclaimed angrily, her hands flaring up with power as she glared at Drakken, "Kimmie was here and you didn't tell me!?"
Drakken shrank back timidly as he said, "Sorry, it sorta slipped my mind. You know how I can get wrapped up in my work."
As Drakken chuckled nervously, Hego placed a consoling hand on Shego's shoulder as he apologized, "Sorry, sis. I too forgot to mention it to you."
Shego sighed in exasperation as she powered down and said, "You know, this lack of communication was a large part of why I broke off from Team Go in the first pla…"
"Guys, there's no time for this!" Liego yelled anxiously, recalling her reason for coming here, "I came back to warn you! You've got get out of here now, before…"
Just then an explosion rocks the building, and Team Go looks up to see Yono Fist floating through a hole that was blasted high up on the outer wall.
"What!?" Drakken cries out in surprise, "Monkey Fist!?"
"Helooo! We have a door here!" Shego hollers sarcastically, "And my brothers never lock it!"
"So sorry, but doors are a little to pedestrian for me these days," Yono Fist apologized in an insencere tone, "Besides, I love a good flashy entrance, especially for old…former friends. And the name's Yono Fist now. But enough of that, let's see if you can perform any better in your prime than you had back…"
"No!" Liego cried out as she powered up and placed herself roughly between her family and Yono Fist, "You've got to get out of here now! Run!"
Liego then leaps into the air at Yono Fist, at which Yono Fist knocks her away with a savage backhand and cries out, "Quiet!"
Liego cracks the huge screen of the communications terminal as she crashes into it hard, then she falls limply to the floor, unconscious.
"It's quite rude to interrupt your elders," Yono Fist continues to admonish the unconscious Liego, then he focuses on Shego and Drakken and tells them, "You really ought to teach you daughter better manners, Shego."
For a moment, Shego stands there frozen in shock, then she turns and snarls at Yono Fist. Displaying a maternal instinct equivalent to that of a lioness, Shego launches into a flying kick at him, firing a blast behind her for extra momentum. Despite how fast she was traveling, Shego is surprised when Yono Fist casually catches her by her outstretched leg with one hand, holding her in place as he says, "Now I know where Liego got her temper. For old times sake, I'll save you for last."
Yono Fist then casually tosses Shego off to the side as the other members of Team Go begin their attack and Drakken desperately looks around for something to be used as a weapon. The Wego twins begin rapidly multiplying as Mego shrinks to a foot tall. Hego then picks up Mego and hurls him at Yono Fist, upon which Mego rapidly grows to around 20 foot tall. However, Yono Fist just blasts Mego with his eyebeams, turning him to stone and killing his momentum, and the Wego multiples have to scatter to avoid being crushed by Mego's stone form. Yono Fist then turns his eye beams on the ground, petrifying each Wego that's caught in it.
As the battle rages around him, Drakken wonders to himself how a team of heroes like Team Go had managed to last this long without a single weapon-like item to their name. Then Drakken's neck flower-vine enters his line of vision, and Drakken smacks his head before whispering to the flower, "Go and get my Super-Hyper-Pollinator! Quietly!"
As the flower extends and slithers low along the floor and out the door, Yono Fist has cornered the remaining two Wego twins and is preparing to unleash an eye blast at them. Before he can, however, Yono Fist spins and deflects a piece of metallic debris tossed in his direction. He looks and sees Hego is tearing the communications terminal apart and throwing at him, chunk by chunk. Despite the size, weight, or sharp, jagged edges of each piece, Yono Fist is able to deflect them all with ease. Finally, when there are no other parts Hego can easily reach, Yono Fist calls out, "Out of junk to throw, Hego? No matter, you guys have entertained me enough for me to make this sporting for you." Yono Fist then lands on the ground and puts one hand behind his back, gesturing with the other in a 'Bring it on' move as he says, "Whenever you're ready."
Hego then roars as she charges Yono Fist, assaulting him with an onslaught of full power punches. Yono Fist doesn't even bother to block any of them, dodging them all easily instead. After a couple of moments, Yono Fist yawns and says, "Okay, bored now," Yono Fist then catches one of Hego's punches and tosses him into the wall behind him. As the Wego twins help him up, Yono Fist petrifies all three at once.
Yono Fist then sighs in disappointment as he says, "I guess there's no one le…"
He was then interrupted by a clanging sound as Drakken's neck vine accidentally bangs the Super-Hyper-Pollinator against the door jamb on its way back in, prompting him to chuckle and say, "Very sneaky," Yono Fist then petrifies the vine around Drakken's machine, the effect quickly spreading up towards Drakken himself. Luckily, the added weight of the stone vine caused it to tear off from the rest before the petrification could reach him, and Drakken ran over to try to free the nozzle from the granite foliage. Before he could, however, Yono Fist aimed a blast at him that Drakken was barely able to dodge, and Yono Fist leapt between him and the Super-Hyper-Pollinator.
As Drakken quickly backed away and Yono Fist slowly pursued, Drakken pleaded, "Hey, I thought you wanted a fair fight!"
"That offer was for Team Go. You, on the other hand, are worse than pathetic. You're a worse bungler than that buffoon Stoppable ever was. You're a disgrace to the title of villain and a traitor to boot," Yono Fist replied to him, stopping once Drakken had his back against the conference table. Then he powered up his eye beams and said, "Believe me, you will not be missed."
With literally nowhere else to go, Drakken looks past Yono Fist's shoulder to see that Shego had recovered enough to leverage herself into a kneeling position, one hand raised at the elbow and powered up. At that same time, one of the Blooms growing on the hydrangea bush behind Drakken's back nudges his hand, and as Drakken and Shego's eyes meet they share the same half smile.
Then Shego fires off a blast at Yono Fist, forcing him to dodge and drawing his attention. Taking advantage of the distraction, Drakken reaches for the hydrangea bush behind him just as it uproots itself, then he throws it at Yono Fist. As the sudden motion causes Yono Fist to turn back around again, the bush separates itself between its crown and the stem branches, and Shego blasts the crown into a blinding cloud of leaves while the lower half wraps itself around Yono Fist. As he rips himself free, Shego pummels him with a barrage of seemingly wild shots, against which Yono Fist can only stand firm and defend against.
One of those 'wild shots', however, shatters the stone vine around Drakken's machine. Not wasting a motion, Drakken rolls towards it and, not even bothering to strap it on, picks up the nozzle and fires it at Yono Fist's feet, causing vines to erupt from the ground there and bind him tightly up to his neck.
As Drakken and Shego give Yono Fist gloating smiles, he grunts with strain as he says, "Very good. It seems that I've underestimated you two. Your daughter obviously got more from you than I could have imagined. I'm pleasantly surprised, not that it will save you."
Yono Fist the glowed with power and shot up into the air, causing the vines to rip and leaving only those around him above his elbows still attached. Then Yono Fist shrugged off the remaining vines and hurled them at Shego, turning the wad into stone before they hit and knocked her flat.
"Shego!" Drakken cried out in distress, then he aimed the pollinator at Yono Fist again. Before he could get off a shot, however, Yono Fist blasted him and turned him to stone. As Shego struggles to get back up, she sees Drakken frozen in position, and shock causes her to freeze too, tears streaming down her face as she weakly says, "No!"
"Don't take it so hard. You two did remarkably well," Yono Fist tells her as he slowly strides up to her, stopping when he's practically right over her, "If you two had bee fully in this fight from the beginning, then you guys might have stood a chance. In fact, I'm half tempted to keep you around to bear witness to my final victory. Unfortunately, I can't have your progeny sticking around to muck up my plans, so I suppose I'd better end it here."
Looking around during Yono Fist's speech, Shego locates where Liego is now stirring and regaining consciousness. When their eyes meet, Shego sheds one more tear as she weakly calls out, "Liego."
"Mom?" Liego calls back to her.
Then Yono Fist's eyes flash, and Shego is turned to stone as well.
"NOOOOOOOO!" Liego cries out as she flips into a standing position and unleashes a blast directly at Yono Fist. However, the blast fades and disappears before it can get within feet of him.
"What!?" Liego asks in confusion, then she tries firing a number of other blasts at him, but each one comes out weaker and flies shorter than the one before. "What's happening!?"
"Must I explain everything child?" Yono Fist sighed in exasperation as he walked towards her, "I eliminated your parents before you were ever born, and so you never existed and, by consequence, neither did your powers."
Liego screamed in defiance as she tried to punch him, but her hand just passed through Yono Fist like a ghost, and Liego started to become transparent like one as well.
"There you see?" Yono Fist said smiling into Liego's tear streaked face, "Well, I'd love to stick around and watch you fade into oblivion, but I have things to do, people to enslave, and a world to conquer. So long, child. See you….never!" Yono Fist then laughs maniacally as he flies back outside.
Liego stumbled back towards where her mother laid, unmoving, her legs giving out at the last moment. She then reached out to try and touch her mother's face, but once again her hand just passed right though, and fresh tears rolled over Liego's cheeks as Kim, Ron, and Hanna ran through the open doorway, their jaws dropping in horror at what they saw.
"No!" Hanna cried out in horrified disbelief.
"We were too late," Kim said in dismay.
"No! We can't be!" Hanna yelled in denial, then she called out even louder, "Liego! Where are you!?"
Straining their ears, Kim and the others heard a barely audible voice saying, "I'm sorry!"
"Did you guys hear something?" Ron asked the others, and Rufus climbs out of Ron's pockets to look as well as they hear again, "I thought I could stop him. I failed. Forgive me."
When Rufus located Liego, who was barely visible by this point, he went back to Ron to get his attention, and when Ron finally spotted her he cried out, "Aahhh! It's a ghost!"
"That's not a ghost, Ron," Kim corrected him when she saw where he indicated, "it's….it's Liego!"
"Are you okay, Liego?" Hanna asked in concern as she hurried over, then she tried to help Liego up, but her hand just passed right through, "What's happening to you!?"
"I tried to save my family on my own, but I couldn't," Liego told her friend, looking and sounding more like a bad television signal now, "Please forgive me."
"Don't be absurd," Hanna replied as a tear made its way down her cheek, "There's nothing to forgive."
"Please, stop Yono Fist," Liego pleaded her, "It's all up to you now."
"Of course," Hanna assured her with a chuckle, though there was no joy in the laugh that was half sob, "We'll stop him together like we always have."
Liego just shook her head no, then she turned to Kim and asked, "Will you help her?"
Kim found that tears were running down her own face as she said, "Of course!"
Liego then smiled as she grew fainter, saying, "I'm sorry I didn't trust you more, Kim. I've always….looked….up to…" Then, with that, Liego vanished completely.
"Liego? Liego!?" Hanna cried out as she felt for any sign of her friend's presence, then she raised her face upwards and cried, "NOOOOO!" Then she collapsed where she was into heartbroken sobs.
To be continued…
