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THE REAL DREW LIPSKY
Chapter 3
So, What Do You Really Do?
The next day Drakken drove in his flying hover jet with Drew beside him.
"Cool! We have a flying car in the future!" he exclaimed excitedly.
"Mmmm... Where is your house?" Drakken asked as they flew around his childhood neighbourhood. Drakken was sick of his eight-year old self being so cheerful all the time and wanted to get rid of him.
"I don't know... I can't remember…!" Drew started to wail annoyingly.
"What do mean you don't know?" Drakken asked and gave him an annoyed glance.
"I just don't know where it is exactly. Why don't you know where we live?" Drew asked, thinking his older self should know where his childhood house was.
"I can't remember either... we moved a dozen times..." Drakken said sadly.
"We move twelve times?!" Drew shouted, clearly shocked out of his mind.
"Yeah, that's what a dozen means!" Drakken snapped. Drew made a face at him and turned around looking out the hover jet.
"There it is!" Drew shouted and pointed to a small house in the corner of the street. Drew hopped out of the jet just after Drakken parked it down the street from the house. When he saw people coming out what the house, he stopped running towards it and backed away slowly.
"Who are they?!" He shouted in a desperate panic. Fortunately the people didn't hear him. Drakken got out of the jet and put his hand on Drew's shoulder. He felt sorry for him or well, for himself.
"C'mon..." Drakken whispered slowly and brought Drew back to the hover jet. Drew couldn't believe new people were living in his house.
When they got back to the lair, Shego was no where to be found, which meant she had gone out. Drakken had cancelled all take over the world plans for now until Drew was gone. The henchmen seemed to be gone too. It was better this way because now they wouldn't have to watch what they said in front of everyone and remind themselves not to act suspicious. Last thing he needed was them finding out who Drew really was. Instead of worrying about all of this, Drakken decided this would be their vacation time.
The blue tinted man went into the living room and sat down on the couch. It was stressful trying to mind this kid. He thought teaching him to defend himself, which Shego had yet to finish with him, might be why he was here but he's still here. Who's a better teacher than Shego anyway?
"Tobby!" Drew shouted from upstairs. 'What's he's up to now?' Drakken wondered.
"Tobby! Tobby!" Drew kept shouting walking down stairs.
"Who's Tobby?" Drakken asked curiously but wanted him to stop shouting the name all over the place.
"My DOG! Tobby...TOBBY!" Drew shouted again louder. "Where is he?"
"Dog? I don't have a dog!" Drakken said as Drew's face dropped.
"…no dog? NO DOG?!" He blew at the top of his little lungs; Drakken looked worried and pulled back a bit.
"I grow up to be aguy with no dog?!" Drew yelled in disbelief.
"I don't own a dog... I never had one... I'm never home..." Drakken said trying to defend himself. 'I'm usually trying to take over the world.' Drew threw his arms up in annoyance and walked over to the kitchen, then he went into a few rooms and back to Drakken, obviously looking for something else now.
"What now?" Drakken asked knowing he had some other question.
"Yeah, shouldn't there be a woman here or something? You know, like a mom or wife?" He asked looking around the place some more. Drakken looked at him weird he was never asked something like that before.
"Well… there's only Shego... She just works for me..." Drakken said. Drew looked unhappy with that answer.
"So you're not married? Or have a girlfriend?" Drew asked raising an eyebrow slightly.
"No! I'm not married." Drakken said flatly.
"Why?" Drew questioned.
"I...I... I'm just not...so what!" Drakken snapped.
"So what do you do? Like for a living?" Drew asked. 'Oh great another hard question what am I supposed to tell him?' Drakken wondered.
"Well I'm a doctor... sort of..." Drakken hope this would be enough for him.
"Sort of?" Drew questioned looking confused.
"Well I guess I'm an inventor too... I've made some really cool-" Drakken was going to say about his ray gun and other things he had built, then stopped. He couldn't tell him about his inventions. Drew waited for him to continue. "Em, I'm like a politician, I'll tell countries how they should be run."
"A... politician... Like those business like people on TV? Why would I want to be like them?" Drew asked.
"Not like them. Different." Drakken said outraged. Drew looked him in the face.
"So what do I do?" He asked again still confused.
"You make machines and inventions to help you... so you can... help the world!" Drakken said he couldn't believe he just said that 'help the world'??
"But whatdo I do?" Drew asked again getting impatient. Drakken didn't answer him.
"And why am I blue?" He added pointing to Drakken's light blue skin.
"You only ask now?" Drakken smiled. "It was a chemical formula gone horribly, horribly wrong, in college." Drakken said simply.
"What happened?" Drew was intrigued.
"I destroyed two labs got covered in Blue chloride formula mixed with an experimental new drug. Then I dropped out of college and I was laughed at by the people I once thought of as friends." Drakken said simply. "Plus there was the time I made these robot girls...didn't work out..."
"..Oh..." Drew said quietly. "So why does everyone call you Drakken? Are we not called Drew anymore in the future?"
"I hated my name... Drew Lipsky... So I changed my name after college and started a new life... as Doctor Drakken." Drakken said looking at Drew.
"Hold on, if you dropped out of college? Then how are you even a real doctor?" Drew questioned. Drakken didn't answer.
"So you're not a real doctor?" Drew asked, figuring out he couldn't be a doctor if he left college. Drakken just nodded. He couldn't really lie to himself.
"So, I'm forty, I'm not married, I'm not a real Doctor and I have no dog. I grow up to be a loser!" Drew shouted at Drakken and ran off into another room.
Drakken fell back on back onto the couch. What he said he knew was right… on some level.
"Babysitting this hard?" Shego said from behind the couch, making Drakken jump in surprise.
"It's complicated, Shego." He sighed and sat up. Shego sat down beside him.
"Well he seems to like you." She said sarcastically.
"You really think so- wait you're being sarcastic again." Drakken started excited, then his face changed into an annoyed frown. Shego rolled her eyes.
"Just stop treating him like a little kid and maybe you should be nicer-" Shego suggested to him.
"-I am nice!" Drakken protested. "You're not one to talk anyway! Since when do you tell people to be nice?" Drakken snapped. Shego looked angry and was about to reply to Drakken when-
"What are all these?" Drew asked coming back in with Drakken's notes and pictures of his old schemes. "Why do you have 'mind control devices' and plans for building a 'death ray beam'?" He asked confused. Drakken looked worried.
"Yeah death ray was done and was destroyed." Shego said before thinking which earned her an evil look from Drakken.
"Shego! What she means is they're just drawings, not real." Drakken said hopeful.
"Yeah. It's what I thought... at first. Then I checked out all those labs and found blue prints and plans for all these machines. You have detailed plans for 'world domination' and 'operation: destroy Kim Possible'" He stood there not impressed.
"Wow, gotta hand to you kid, your smart. Unlike your uncle." Shego said then turned to Drakken. "Why would you leave all those plans lying around with your nephew coming?"
"It's not like I had any warning, that he was coming." Drakken argued with her.
"So what, you're a criminal or something is that it??" Drew asked looking disappointed and pissed off.
"Super villain." Drakken corrected him, forgetting himself.
"Oh good what a cliché, I'm a super villain!" Drew said sarcastically to Drakken so Shego didn't hear.
"Well yeah I... I..." Drakken didn't know what to say. Tell his eight old self he was a villain again?
"Dr. D, Why don't I take little Drew for some ice cream and you can come get him at my place later." Drakken nodded. "Would you like that?" She asked Drew who nodded too.
Shego and Drew got into Shego's car and they dro
ve down the road to the local ice cream shop.
After driving for ten minutes, Drew calmed down and looked at Shego.
"So do you work for me...my uncle?" He asked her, and hoped she didn't notice his slip up. She nodded slowly.
"You're a villain too?" She looked at him and nodded again.
"You know your uncle's not that bad of a guy. He fails at his schemes anyway." She tried to reassures him.
"But you seem too nice to be a villain." Drew said. These words got to Shego. This kid thought she was 'nice', he never saw her fighting Kim Possible. What would he think of her then?
"Well I'm not always this nice...I'm usually more evil..." She smiled. Drew didn't seem bothered by this. He still liked her.
"It's funny I'd never guessed, he'd be a villain but now I don't know..." Drew said sadly. "Can I ask you a question?" She glanced at him and then looked back at the road.
"Yeah." She replied wondering what he would ask next.
He took a short breath "Are you our girlfriend?" Shego looked surprised by this question and stared at him for a few seconds before coming to a stop light. Her and Drakken? She never thought of him like that but this kid does act a lot like him with his tantrums and whining. He's like a sweeter Drakken.
"Well that's a weird way to put it. No, me and Drakken just work together..." Drew looked sad by her answer. "Can I ask you a question?" Shego asked him and he nodded.
"Are you really Drakken's nephew?" She wanted to know because she had her suspicions but she wasn't sure.
"Well mostly...No." Drew said slowly.
"But you are related?" Shego asked and when the green light come up, she stepped on the gas.
"Yeah, you could say that." He replied.
"And your close? How close?" She had to ask.
"Very." He said. Shego now knew who he was just by the look he gave her and the tone of his voice. Coming to the ice cream shop, she frowned slightly and got out of the car. She would have words with Drakken later. Most definitely.
Drakken looked at the time and decide he should go get Drew. Shego still had her old apartment but she mostly stayed in her room in the lair. Drakken couldn't understand why she still bothered to keep her apartment. He flew the hover jet toward her apartment and saw Shego's car outside. He pulled up behind her and got out of the jet.
He couldn't really blame Drew for being upset but he hoped the ice-cream would have calmed him down. Shego better not have said anything else to make things worse. He sighed and went to open the door.
Shego got to the door first. She had seen him coming up the road. I mean, who wouldn't miss a flying jet? She slowly opened the door and saw her boss's defeated looking face. If Shego wasn't so angry she might have noticed that he looked down.
She looked positively outraged. She held the door open and for a minute Drakken was afraid she would slam the door in his face. Her hands were almost glowing.
"Eh heh" Drakken laughed uneasy knowing Shego was obviously mad with him. "Hi Shego..."
Her eyes narrowed. "Nu-uh, don't 'hi Shego' me! I know who he is!" Drakken gulped and looked at his shoes. Had she figured it out? He thought but didn't say anything.
"He's your son isn't he?" She sounded way more pissed than she looked and it scared the snot out of him. Drakken looked shocked but slightly relieved.
"No, no Shego, you-"Drakken tried to explain.
"I don't want to hear it." She said storming away from the door but left it open so he could let himself in. In the small living room, Drew was watching TV. It's not that Shego cared if Drakken had a son but the fact he never told her is what pissed her off the most. Why did she care anyway?
Drakken followed her in but said nothing because no matter what he said now, it would come out in a sputter and he would only sound like a lying idiot. He didn't want her to get the wrong idea but at the same time couldn't help noticing she cared so much. Shego never cared about anyone.
"It's not like I care...I don't even want to think of who his mother... he is..." Shego said as Drakken followed her. Shego didn't care at all about Drakken's wife or ex-wife or if he was even married at all. She didn't know why this was making her mad. Drakken's stupid, annoying, whiny, and self-centred.
"Shego!" Drakken whined trying to get her to listen.
"I just thought that you might have mentioned this to me... You know after all the years working with you!" She hissed quietly, not wanting Drew to hear their argument.
"Shego! Listen to me!" He grabbed her arm and spun her around so she'd listen to him. She really seemed cared if this kid was his son. Why? He kept wondering. He looked into her dark green eyes. She looked angry but deep down Drakken could see a small bit of hurt.
"He's not my son!" Drakken said slowly trying to convince her. She looked at him but didn't seem to believe him.
"I'm not his son." Drew said softly. He had heard them arguing and had come from the TV towards Shego and Drakken. Shego pulled away from Drakken and gave him a stern look. Then turned to Drew.
"Well then... if you not his son... you said you were close... Who are you?" Shego said wondering who he was and why Drakken was being so secretive. Drew looked at her wanting to tell her. Then to Drakken who was behind Shego waving his hands trying to get Drew not to say anything else to Shego.
"We have to tell her." Drew said firmly. Drakken's face fell. Shego noticed and looked at him.
"No." Drakken said quickly. Shego gave him a quick look of mistrust.
"Yes." Drew persisted
"No. She won't believe us!" Drakken hissed. Shego paused for a moment. What wouldn't she believe?
"We have to try!" Drew growled, his temper coming into play. Drakken's face went red with frustration.
"Grh... Hurh... She won't listen... I'm telling you. I've know her longer!" Drakken raged.
"Huf, Grrhh uh!" Drew whimpered similar to Drakken. Shego looked to one to the other. "You're so annoying. Let's just tell her!"
"NO!" Drakken folded his arms in a huff. Drew did the same.
"You're such an idiot!" Drew growled.
"Good! I'm glad I don't act like you..." Drakken said then in lower voice. "...Anymore at least!"
"Well, I never want to be like you!" Drew stated angrily.
"Well that's just tough!" Drakken said as green plasma went flying over his head.
"Shut up! The both of you!" Shego said furiously. She shot a look of angry to Drakken.
"Wow, that's cool, how'd she do that!" Drew shouted in amazement but with a sense of 'it's very cool'.
"Don't ask..." Drakken mumbled.
"He's you!" Shego said still in somewhat of a shock. She had figured it out as they screamed at each other, but then again, hearing their dialog, who wouldn't?
"Mmmm yes, he is..." Drakken said quietly. Shego looked faint. "Shego are you okay... Don't faint..." He went over to hold her. She pushed him away in anger.
"I'm not going to faint you doofus!" She said looking mad but forced herself to calm down.
"Shego don't be mad... I just couldn't...well, I didn't think you'd even believe me." Drakken said slowly.
"You, from the past, as a nicer, quieter, eight year old? Yeah I don't think I'd would have believed you." Then her face softened somewhat. This wasn't what she had first thought. She might have acted angry but she actually felt a little happy. This kid wasn't his son at all. He was a younger more innocent version of Drakken.
Later Drew went back to watching TV in Shego's living room while Drakken made some coffee. Shego was staring in amazement at the little Drakken. Drakken came over with the coffee and handed her a mug. She took it and sipped it slowly. Drakken looked at himself watching TV.
"Doesn't the fact that I'm a pathetic dweeb make you despise me?" Drakken said knowing Drew looked like more of a geek than Drakken does today. Shego looked at him surprised.
"No. Why? Do you despise you?" Shego asked and wondered how Drakken really felt about himself. Did he really despise himself? Maybe all her taunts and being sarcastic to him just damaged him more.
"No... It's just when I see him I just see everything about my horrible childhood. I tried to block out most of it out..." Drakken said slowly. Shego raised an eyebrow. Drakken block out his childhood memories? As if! He babbles about it enough to remember for a life time.
"Well most of it. The really horrible parts anyway." Drakken sighed looking sad. Shego just smiled at him. "Look at him. It's so embarrassing." Drakken moaned looking at Drew eating ice-cream all over his face.
"You're not embarrassing. You're adorable..." Shego said then stopped suddenly the minute she realised what she had just said. Drakken looked and gave a funny smile. "...back then. You were adorable then..." Shego quickly said. Why did she say that? Drakken was not cute. Maybe as a kid but not now. He's not! Or is he?... No! Why was she thinking like this? It's nothing. She brushed it off. Or tried to, at least.
Drakken was looking at her. Did Shego really think he was adorable? Or at least himself as a kid... but Shego hated kids. Why would she take a liking to Drew or to him? Was it possible she might like him more than just friends? Now that he thought about it, did she even consider him as a friend? He always thought they were like an evil family.
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