Junior let out a girlish shriek when he heard a thud and turned around to see his old villainy tutor standing in the middle of the control room.
"Shut down the machine Junior and nobody gets hurt" Shego ordered him, cutting right to the chase.
"Please i did not know that your daughter would be at the home of Kim Possible! But i assure you she has been safely put into the care of that blue man you used to work for" Junior explained, trying to avoid admitting that he had let his wife believe Heather was Kim Possible's daughter and then handed her over to the blue scientist in exchange for a doomsday device.
Shego just stood dumbfounded, for moment her brain wouldn't even process what Junior had just said.
"Wait what? My daughter? What are you, wait you mean Heather?" She questioned, the situation finally clicking.
"Wait a minute Heather is with Dr. Drakken?" She demanded, she was wondering why Heather was with Drakken to begin with but it didn't matter. What mattered was that of all the people one earth she could be with right now, she was with Drakken.
"Yes, you seem surprised? Did Kim Possible not contact you?" Junior questioned, this only adding to Shego's new found stress.
"Kimmie's here?" She questioned, putting her hand over her head in frustration.
What had she gotten herself into?
The four teenagers, plus Zach and Drakken, had just made it to the top of the wall when another earthquake hit.
It was stronger than the previous one, much stronger.
It shook the entire wall and the six people struggled to keep their balance. As he attempted to stay balanced Drakken noticed Heather bending over, plowing her fists into the concrete surface of the wall to keep herself from falling. He couldn't help but hate the sight of it, she was his daughter and she was quite literally about to fall off of a twenty foot wall and yet he was hesitant to help her. As far as Drakken was concerned any decent father would've reached out and held onto his daughter but he just stood and watched until the tremors had passed.
"Is everyone ok?" Cam asked as everyone slowly got over the shaking of the earth.
The others nodded and gave murmured responses so the plan commenced.
It was a relatively simple plan. Drakken, Tony and Cam would break into the control room since Drakken knows where it is as well as is the only one who actually knows how to shut the machine down. Cam is good with computers and Tony could keep watch. Meanwhile Heather, Mark and Zach would go to the main room and free Kim and Ron.
As the two groups parted ways Heather, who was leading the way to the living room where she had been held, pulled Zach up with her.
"You didn't tell them about my powers right?" She whispered the question her little brother. From the day she discovered that she had powers her parents had made it very clear that no one outside of their family was ever to find out but under the circumstances, Heather was wondering if Zach had been forced to tell.
"No" he answered, his voice just as hushed
"Thank you" Heather said with a small smile as they continued on their way.
Shego was still in the control room, although by now she had moved past the fact that Junior had 'accidentally' kidnapped Heather and then handed her over to Dr. D, and was now trying to shut down the machine after she tied Junior up in a corner. She was about to finish, about to shut it down, when there was a rustling noise in the air vent above her. Shego looked up in curiosity, just in time for Drakken and two teenage boys, to come falling out of the opening.
Groaning, the three picked themselves up from the floor and that's when Drakken noticed the presence of his ex-sidekick.
"Shego?" He questioned in shock
Shego just stood there awkwardly, she hoped Drakken didn't know who Heather was. She hoped that Kim and Ron had kept their promise and didn't tell Heather anything about her biological family, not that it could even be called a family.
"Hey Drakken" She finally said.
Drakken blinked, the whole ride here he had been thinking of what he would say if he ever saw Shego again but he hadn't expected that he would, especially not this soon. He wanted to be mad, to demand to know why she hadn't just yelled over him that night. But now that he saw her, he couldn't even think about it because he realized how much he had missed her.
Shego didn't know what to say either, all she wanted to do was ask if he knew who Heather was but she couldn't because, what if he didn't.
"Uh do you two know each other?" Cam asked, finally interrupting the awkward silence
"Er… Yes this, this is Shego. She used to, used to work for me" Drakken told the boys, saving Shego the embarrassment of explaining herself in front of Junior and two boys who neither of them knew very well.
Cam and Tony looked at each other, they could easily tell that Drakken was hiding something but they let it go for now.
"Uh huh, I'm going to keep watch" Tony said as he left the room
"What's with the new outfit?" Drakken questioned Shego as she turned her attention back to the control panel.
"I'm working with Global Justice now" Shego answered to which Drakken was about to reply but he was cut off by Cam
"Not to be rude but can you two please catch up after we shut down the machine?" He asked, he really did hate to be rude but they were kind of on a time limit here.
"Yeah just finished that" Shego said as she hit the final button needed to shut down the machine
"What? How? How did you even know how it works?" Drakken asked in exasperation but Shego only shot him a look.
"Drakken i was your sidekick for five years, i know how to work your machines" She told him and she had to admit that it was pretty enjoyable watching his annoyed expression grow.
"Ok then well it was nice meeting you and we should go help the others" Cam said gesturing towards the door.
Drakken nodded "I'll catch up" he said to Cam who looked like he wanted to ask why but once again he left it alone and exited the room.
Now ignoring the presence of Junior, Drakken turned to Shego.
"Why didn't you tell me?" He sneered
"Tell you what?" Shego asked trying to sound like she didn't have a clue but failing miserably, she knew very well what.
"Don't play dumb with me Shego! Why didn't you tell me about Heather?" Drakken demanded
"I was going to but you were so set on staying evil and i didn't want my kid growing up in prison!" Shego nearly shouted
"How do you know it wouldn't have changed my mind?" Drakken demanded
"Would it have?" Shego fought back, Drakken didn't respond.
He stood there thinking, he had thought about the idea of having children before, both before and after Heather was born. And truthfully he had always imagined he would still be evil.
"That's what i thought" Shego said coldly, pushing past Drakken and leaving the room.
Meanwhile Heather, Zach, and Mark were carefully sneaking down the hallways of the house looking for the living room.
"It has to be around here somewhere" Heather commented in frustration
"Maybe but you won't get there" a snarky voice came and the three kids turned to see Bonnie down the hall behind them.
"You know there's three of us and one of you, i think we can manage" Heather sarcastically said to the older woman who smirked.
"Oh don't worry, i'm not alone" she assured and with the press of a button on the remote in her hands, the heat seat seeking disks were released.
Bonnie fled the hall through a secret passageway while the three kids began running for their lives.
"Where are we going?" Zach questioned as they bolted down a hallway
"Anywhere but here!" Heather exclaimed in response
"We can't run forever, we need to find something hotter than body temperature" Mark said and that gave Heather an idea.
The disks were moving fast, too fast to stop for even a second. But she wasn't ready to trust Mark with her secret, not yet.
"Keep running" Heather ordered the two boys and without another word she fell to the ground
"Heather!" Mark called, only half realizing that his friend had done what she did on purpose.
Luckily Zach caught onto his sister's plan rather quickly and knew that no matter what, they had to keep going, Heather would be ok.
"Come on!" The eight year old shouted, yanking Mark by the arm to continue.
The two boys rounded the corner and the second they were gone Heather threw a flame down the hall, the little robotic disks followed it.
Shego knew where the Stoppables were being held, Junior wasn't exactly a tough nut to crack. So after she left Drakken she hurried to the living room and amazingly was the first one to get there.
"I thought i told you to keep Heather away from Drakken?" Shego questioned in anger as she made quick work of the locks on each cage and released Kim and Ron.
"We tried but it wasn't exactly easy, you could've told us that your powers are hereditary" Kim responded only for Shego to look at her in confusion.
"Wait hold up what?" She asked trying to process what she had just been told, her powers? Heather has her powers?
"You didn't know?" Ron asked, equally as confused.
"No, if i had known do you think i would've considered putting her in foster care?" Shego sarcastically asked but the answer she got wasn't from Kim or Ron.
"I don't know, would you?" An angry voice asked from behind Shego.
Shego turned to see a teenaged girl standing in the doorway of the living room, her hands each lit by a green fire.
If Shego didn't know any better she would've thought someone was messing around in the time stream again, the girl was the spitting image of herself as a teenager. But of course Shego did know better, she knew that this girl was the daughter she gave up.
Upon seeing her birth mother Heather tried to control her anger but seeing that Shego was wearing a global justice uniform, seeing that she in fact had gone good and that the lonely childhood her daughter had been forced to live was all in vain, made concealing her anger impossible.
"Now i try to be understanding and considering everything that's happened to me lately i think i do a pretty good job. But did you people TRY to make me miserable?!" She shouted in fury, the fire on her hands growing.
"Heather we-" Ron began but he was cut off
"You tried, i know. But you could've called her, you could've told her 'hey your kid inherited your powers.' I understand that you were just keeping your promise but do you have ANY idea what that promise put me through?" Heather demanded but gave no one a chance to answer.
"I grew up watching every movie and TV show i could find about people with powers! I read every comic book, looking for some kind of an answer! I've never had one friend for longer than a year because they can always tell that i'm hiding something from them! I shut down every emotion because controlling my anger was too hard! I don't trust anybody and i will willingly subject myself to experiments if they can take this away from me!" She shouted, gesturing to her own hands when she made her last point, then she turned to Shego.
"And apparently it was all for nothing, because you did change" she spat, she was furious. All these years of suffering and her mother had been good.
As the argument proceeded the three adults and one teenager were completely oblivious to the rest of the rescue party, who were now standing in the doorway.
"She..Her hands are on…" Tony tried to say but he was at a loss for words
"Please don't tell anyone" Zach said to the three teenaged boys and Drakken who stood with them.
They could hear the yelling, the screaming and the fighting. At this point it was just between Heather and Shego and poor Zach watched his sister in terror. The fire on her hands was blazing, he had never seen her so mad.
"Heather clam down and we can talk about this!" Shego shouted at her daughter who by now had tears in her eyes.
"Do you not understand that i can't?" Heather shouted back
"I don't know how to control my powers! You weren't around to teach me!" She continued to scream, Heather knew that her words hurt her mother but she didn't care. She was so hurt, so angry. Fourteen years of compressed anger was being released and once she had begun releasing it, Heather found that she couldn't stop.
But much to Heather's horror her powers were stronger than she knew. In each hand a ball began to form, a ball of pure plasma. She had never before created a plasma ball but then again she had never before been so angry.
Shego stared at Heather in shock, she remembered all to clearly the first time she ever made a plasma ball. They were destructive, twice as bad as her normal plasma and with no control they could be deadly to anyone hit.
Heather didn't know what to do, the anger in her eyes was now replaced with utter terror as she looked at her birth mother for guidance. If there was ever a time in which she needed help it was now but the look Shego gave her said it all, she couldn't say anything other than 'calm down.' Heather thought she was about to let the balls explode, a force that could've leveled the island, but that was when the most unexpected of things happened.
Someone grabbed her hands.
Heather whirled her head to see Cam standing behind her, his arms falling along aide her own as his hands curled around her fingers.
Heather liked to think of herself as a brave person, and she knew that she kept her emotions well hidden, but she cried. In that moment she was more dangerous than even she knew possible but her friend, whom she had just met, did for her what nobody ever bothered to do, he didn't leave her alone. She fell into him as she sobbed and with her anger gone her powers died down and faded away without any explosions. Ignoring everyone else in the room the two teenagers fell to the ground, Cam sitting criss-cross with Heather sobbing in his lap.