Heather barely had time to process the information in the box, it was just so much. She had expected that she got her powers from her mother, but right now they were the least of her worries. It didn't surprise her that her mother was in prison, although the mugshot was dated eight years before she was born and her mother could be out by now. But this box, Kim and Ron's past, they never told any of the kids about any of this. But now it had been uncovered, just in the knick of time.
There was a scream and Heather jumped up, it was Lindsey's scream. Expecting to find herself pulling Zach off of their youngest sister Heather practically flew down the ladder and then down the stairs but what she found in the living room was a thousand times worse than she had expected.
The scene in the living room was almost unbelievable, Emily sat on the couch huddled in a ball, crying and screaming for help as she tried to keep Zach restrained while a man dressed all in black and wearing a black ski mask chased Lindsey around the room in an attempt to grab her.
"HEY!" Heather shouted, her voice more loud, violent and angry than anyone had ever heard it.
She got the attention of the man who momentarily looked up but he already had grip on the back of Linsey's shirt.
"Get away from my sister!" Heather spat, her voice coated in venom and her hands in fire.
Zach stopped his struggle against Emily's grip with a grin now spread across his face, being an eight year old boy who watches way too much TV he actually wanted a fight to break out.
The blood boiled in Heather's veins and it only fueled the fire on her hands which was a good thing because truthfully she wasn't sure if she could take this man. Not only did he appear to have at least a foot of height on her but he was incredibly built with muscle. But she took notice of how his eyes, the only visible part of his body, were locked onto her hands. It was as if he were trying to make sense of the green flame which burned on each one.
"I don't understand it either, now get your hand away from my sister before I burn it off!" Heather threatened, she didn't actually think her powers were strong enough to burn a person's hand to the point where it fell off, but with all her concentrated anger who knew.
The man's eyes, much to Heather's surprise, actually showed fear for a moment but then his fingers gripped the fabric of Lindsey's shirt harder and the little girl cried out. Heather snarled and charged the man, suddenly she was grateful that she had been secretly disobeying her mom for years and studied fighting techniques, of course this was the first time she was actually using them.
The fight was short, Heather charged the man but swung her leg to kick the back of his knee and it buckled, causing him to fall and release his grip on Lindsey. Lindsey bolted for the couch and jumped into Emily's lap, Heather however was pulled down. The man grabbed her ankle and pulled her to the ground, Heather kicked and squirmed but as the man rose he refused to let her go. Standing up and holding Heather by her ankle she momentarily stopped squirming to throw a fireball at him, no fire. All her anger had been replaced by fear and her fire was gone
"These powers clearly weren't supposed to be defense mechanism" Heather remarked annoyed as she tried to get out of the mans grip but it was no use and next thing she knew she was in the back of a van.
After receiving a hysterical call from Emily, Kim raced home to find three of her children panicking and Heather missing. All three kids were yelling and shouting over each other to try and explain what happened but Zach seemed to be the calmest so Kim silenced the other two and let her son speak.
"This guy broke in and just grabbed Lindsey! So her and Emily screamed and Heather came running downstairs! You should've seen it mom! The guy was huge and she took him down with one kick! But then he grabbed her ankle and she couldn't get away and he… he took her" Zach explained, seeming to only grasp the fact that his sister had been kidnapped when he said it out loud.
Momentarily Kim turned her attention to Lindsey "are you alright?" She asked her youngest daughter who nodded with tears still in her eyes.
Breathing a sigh of relief Kim let the story sink in, she wasn't going to bother calling Ron since she knew he was already on his way home anyway. But Lindsey was safe, so were Emily and Zach. She was still unspeakably worried about her oldest daughter but if any of her children could take care of themselves in a situation like this, it was Heather.
"Ok what did the man look like?" Kim asked, the three kids all looked at each other
"He was dressed all in black, like a ninja" Zach piped up
"But he was really tall and built, Heather didn't stand a chance" Emily added.
Just then Kim's cell phone rang, she whipped it out of her pocket only to see Wade's caller I.D. and with the nervous pit in her stomach suddenly growing deeper, she answered.
"I'm kind of dealing with something right now Wade" she said but Wade's response was exactly what she had been afraid of
"With Heather?" He asked, he knew.
"How did you…?" She tried to ask but that was all she could get out, it was her worst fear coming true.
"You're never going to believe this" Wade said on the other end.
When Heather awoke her head was pounding. She began to sit up only to find that she was in a metal cage which seemed to be strangely placed in the center of an extravagant living room. She put a hand to her head but she didn't dare turn around, she had caught a glimpse of the man standing behind her.
"The headache will ware off after a few moments, i just needed you asleep while i brought you here" the man explained to the girl who wouldn't face him, though she took note of his thick Spanish accent and strangely high pitched voice.
"Junior breakfast!" A female voice came calling from another room
Breakfast Heather thought the word as if it were a curse, she had been knocked out for the whole night.
"I apologize for locking you in a cage, would you like anything for breakfast?" Junior asked his prisoner who still didn't respond or even turn to face him.
"I assure you i will cook it myself, my wife's cooking does not often taste the way that food should" Heather tried not to laugh at that. She stayed silent, whatever it was that these people wanted; she wasn't about to give it to them.
With no response from the girl Junior left the room and only when she was sure he was gone did Heather turn around.
She was defiantly in a living room, there was a large bay window on the side of the room she had been facing and a lagoon with glass over it off to the side of the room.
"So mom and dad made god knows how many enemies saving the world, and never once thought to warn us?" Heather said to herself in disappointment, she knew that her parents had to have their reasons for keeping where their adopted daughter came from a secret but she failed to see how keeping their own past a secret helped anybody.
"So out of all the villains who could've come back and gone after our kids, it was Junior?" Ron questioned during the helicopter ride to the Senior's island, they had left the other three kids with Kim's parents.
"I know, I would've expected Drakken" Kim commented
"Um KP we adopted his kid, i don't think he would go after her" Ron said only for Kim to look at him in slight confusion
"Ron, Drakken doesn't even know Heather exists and even if he did i think that would just give him more reason to go after her" she explained to him and he thought about it.
"Oh right, sorry when we agreed to adopt her i was too busy freaking out to listen to all the details" he admitted sheepishly, from his position in Ron's pocket Rufus did a face palm.
"Still it is a little weird that Junior's behind all this, especially now that Senior's dead" Kim commented as she put on her helmet, preparing for the jump.
"Senior's dead? How do you know these things?" Ron questioned
"Ron he was one of the richest men in the world, it was on the news" Kim answered before thanking their pilot for the ride and then jumping, fallowed by a screaming Ron.
"Twenty-seven years of fighting crime and i still can't get the landing right" Ron commented as he and Kim walked onto the small sliver of beach that wasn't being contained by the massive concrete wall.
"To be fair this is the first time in twenty years we've jumped out of a helicopter" Kim pointed out as they folded their parachutes back into their backpacks.
"Ok so seven years of fighting crime" Ron corrected himself before dropping the conversation.
Sneaking into the house was surprisingly easy for Kim and Ron, after all these years they thought security would've been improved. But they were able to get into the main room where they found Heather sitting in a cage that looked like it was meant for a large dog, her head snapped up when she heard her parents enter the room.
"Heather!" Kim exclaimed relieved to see her daughter alive but in that moment both she and Ron found themselves each trapped in a cage folding out from the floor.
"Motion sensing traps, impressed?" A female voice inquired, Kim looked up in only what could described as complete shock.
There, entering the room, was Bonnie Rockwaller.
"Bonnie?" Ron asked, just as dumbfounded as his wife.
"Hello loser" she greeted him with almost no interest, well some things never change.
"Hang on, you kidnaped Heather?" Ron asked but Bonnie rolled her eyes
"No, I sent Junior to take the little one, apparently he can't even do that right. But he still brought back one of your kids so can't complain" Bonnie explained, a smug grin on her face as she moved closer to Heather's cage. "Anyway, I'm sorry i had to take one of your kids to get you here but i need you out of my way" Bonnie continued, now leaning on the top of Heather's small cage.
"For what?" Kim asked angrily, Bonnie having turned into a full on villain was one thing but she could not believe the woman had the never to lock her old rivals daughter in a cage and use her as bait.
Bonnie smirked "A few years ago investments took a turn for the worst. Money's been bad lately and we're about to lose the island. Luckily the old man decided that, since Junior didn't want it, he'd pass the family business down to me and I've got to admit, i really like it" Bonnie explained only for Kim to roll her eyes, out of all the people Senior could've trained in evil. "So I've made a deal for something i can use to blackmail the world into paying me for safety, it's on it's way here and all I have to do to get it is trade your kid for it" Bonnie explained.
Well Bonnie had defiantly been taught by Senior, that much was clear. But Kim almost snickered at the eye roll Heather had given the villain, as if she knew this was destined to fail.
"Excuse me but what kind of an idiot is handing over something like that in exchange for a kid?" Heather questioned
"Your parents have a lot of enemies who would be willing to use you as bait, this guy doesn't know i have them trapped" Bonnie explained
"And if i tell him?" Heather questioned smugly
"Don't worry, you'll be asleep for the exchange" Bonnie promised before she headed for the door
"Enjoy some family time, because you've only got about an hour left" she warned them before finally leaving the room.
Kim and Ron, each in their separate cages, looked at Heather sitting in her cage across from them.
"Don't worry Heather, we're going to get out of this" Kim assured her daughter who glared at her angrily.
"I know but first i want some answers" Heather deadpanned, shoving her hands into her sweatshirt pocket to hide how mad she truly was.
Kim sighed "Look i know this is going to be hard to believe, well maybe not that hard under the circumstance. But your dad and i, we used to save the world-" Kim began only for Heather to cut her off.
"I know, i was going through the box in the attic when Junior attacked-" she began but her mother then cut her off
"You what? You're not supposed to be up there!" Kim scolded which only made Heather's anger grow.
"I'm sorry but after finding out you lied to me i had no other choice!" Heather shouted but Kim scoffed
"You could've talked to us!" She suggested angrily
"Like you would've told me the truth?" Heather asked sarcastically
"She has a point Kim" Ron interrupted before Kim could respond
"I mean i know we didn't want the kids up there because it's hard to breath and all but you know we did lie saying her adoption was closed" he sheepishly continued, he knew why they had done what they did but at the same time he couldn't blame Heather for letting her curiosity get the best of her, especially after two nights ago.
Kim sighed
"Ok but first we did plan on telling you, we just wanted to wait until you were older" Kim began only for Heather to scoff just slightly
"How long were you going to wait?" She muttered under her breath
"We don't know, we were thinking until you were sixteen" Ron answered, Heather nodded understandingly, she felt bad about the way she had asked that.
"Your mother's name is Shego, she was a villain who worked for a man named Dr. Drakken" Kim began to explain as Heather listened intently.
"Eventually your mother and Drakken became an item. They helped us save the world and we didn't see them for years after that, we'd assumed they'd gone good. Then one day, and i still don't know how she got our phone number, we got a call from Shego. She was seven months pregnant with you and she said that Drakken was your father but he didn't know about you and she wanted to keep it that way" Kim continued, Heather nodded every so often but aside from that she didn't respond to anything. "She said that Drakken was returning to evil and she was seriously considering doing the same thing, but she didn't want you to be raised that way. She said that she had been evil for too long and didn't know how to be good anymore. She didn't want you to be like her. Originally she had just called to ask if we knew anyone who would want you before she stuck you in the foster system, we told her no but after talking about it we decided to adopt you ourselves and when we did she made us promise to keep you away from her and her family since they were the reason she went evil in the first place" Kim finished.
Heather was silent for a minute, taking in the story.
"What about my powers?" The teenager finally asked
"Shego and he brother's were hit by a commit when they were kids" Ron answered
"And Drakken? What happened between her and him?" Heather questioned, being careful not to call him her birth father, even though he was. Kim and Ron exchanged glances
"She didn't want to talk about it" Ron answered her.
Heather nodded, she thought that was the truth about Drakken but even if Ron was lying she didn't care. She had her answers. She knew where her powers came from and how she ended up raised by the enemies of her parents, her biological mother had nowhere else to turn. So she was about to turn her attention to the escape, about to focus her power on melting the bars of the cage, about to break herself and her parents free.
But that was when smoke filled the room and she became dizzy before it all went black.