AN: Well, by this chapter I thought Tri Stoppable deserved a theme song but I didn't know what to write until I was listening to "Say The Word" and inspiration struck me. I also didn't want to get into any legal trouble or fanfiction trouble by using a song already out there. I don't usually do my own songs so tell me if you liked it and... be honest or nice, no flames please:D
Chapter 19: Memories Upon a Star
Original Song: Try Stopping Us
By Aero Tendo (aka me)
When your world is crumbling,
When you need help,
When it seems that the bad guys are winning,
Try Calling,
Try Beeping,
Try us, we are waiting to hear from you
Try Try Try Stopping us,
We are on the way,
Here to save the world,
Save your world,
Save you from the bad guys,
Save you from the freaks,
Try Try Try Stopping us,
We are on the way,
You can't stop us,
You can't beat us,
You can't block us,
We are Tri Stoppable!
(At the Space Station in orbit around Earth)
As Shego ran through the corridors, she thought about how in the old days she would be the one doing this to Kim, not trying to save her and Ron's neck. But then she also had never expected them to become friends either.
Shego remembers the day when it had all started to change for her... She and Drakken had grown close over all the years of fighting Kim and Ron.
There was something about the news of how Kim and Ron were finally dating that had caused her to start looking at prospects for her own future.
It was about that time when she remembered that Drakken had several qualities that she'd liked in him. From time he had wooed D-N-Amy to Karaoke night where he proved he could touch people with his singing and then there was the strongest reason to look at Drakken seriously, and that was the time she'd been under the effects of the Moodulator.
So, she bit the bullet a few months later and asked Dr. D out on a date. She grimaced as she remembered his surprise and how he asked if she was under another Moodulator or under the effects of any other weird beams.
Once Shego had been able to reassure him that she was under the control of any such thing, he surprised her by actually saying, "Yes" to her. Their first date actually went pretty well and it was something that even to this day she reflected upon with a little smile.
Shego jumps ahead in her mind until where one day she found out she was pregnant and after having the lair doctor confirm it, she wondered about how to tell him even as Drakken launched into his next take-over-the-world plan.
She had actually tried harder than usual to help his plan succeed, as she wanted Drakken to be in a good mood when she told him that she was pregnant. That day was full of surprises for her though as when Kim showed up, surprisingly a little later than usual with Ron Stoppable in tow.
Shego had been very surprised when instead of going head to head with Kim as usual, Ron took up the charge with him using not only his monkey kung fu but even his monkey power to counter her plasma powers that she was using.
She remembered how good he had actually been and when Kim got angry at him taking the lead, that was when Ron let slip the shocking news that pretty stopped time, or so at least it did for her.
Ron had told Kim that there was no way he was going to let Kim endanger their child by fighting Shego! What if Kim got kicked in the stomach and it hurt the baby? When Shego heard that, she began to worry about her own baby growing in her and before Ron could strike at her, she leaped back and called an end to the battle.
This shocked everyone in the room and enraged Drakken and when he demanded to know why, that was when she told her own startling news about also being pregnant herself! The size of the eyes that bulged out after that could have been seen from space.
On some level, Shego took a kind of pleasure at their reaction but for the most part she was a little upset that they didn't think she was capable of it as well.
Kim and Ron had to ask who the father was as she was walking to the exit and without saying anything other than "Him" as she pointed at Drakken. Two things happened that she remembered...
The first thing was that Drakken had stuttered "M-m-me? A-are you sure? R-really?" to which Shego had somewhat testily answered, "Do you know anyone ELSE I'm having sex with Dr. D?"
The second thing which surprised her was what came out of Kim's mouth, "Congratulations Shego, I'm sure you'll be a terrific mother" At which Shego had turned in shock to see that Kim had truly meant those words and since Kim was also pregnant, she knew that if anyone in the room knew what she was going through, it would be her and so a instant bond of mother-to-be formed between them.
She shook her head as she supposed that was when she decided to make sure Kim's words come true. For at first she had been thinking about telling Drakken and see what his reaction was before they discussed her having an abortion.
However, those words from Kim suddenly made her see that to have the abortion was unthinkable... she knew she could never do that to the new life that she'd already thought to protect by calling an end to the fight.
Shego sighs a little as she had remembered how both Drakken and Ron were freaked about her being pregnant at first. Ron had to be elbowed and given a look by Kim before he snapped out of it and apologized.
After being turned into rambling idiot for a few minutes until he seemed to snap out of it after she called his name a bit loudly. Once he did that, he surprised everyone in the room by announcing that until further notice, ALL taking over the world plans were halted because he didn't want to risk harm to the babies in the room. He even said that he would try to convince the other villains to hold off until the babies of Kim and Shego were born before pulling off any take over the world plans.
Shego remembers with a smile at how touched she was by what he said and knew that one thing about her Dr. D. was that he usually tried his hardest to make what he said come true, which was the main reason he kept trying over and over to take over the world.
Just as Shego reaches the main doors to the power station for the whole space station, she remembers how Drakken had kept to his word and managed to get the other villains that were Kim and Ron's arch-foes to stand down any plans for the next couple of months.
Shego knew that Kim even had made Wade reroute the calls that were too dangerous for her as she became more and more developed until Wade finally just stopped accepting any calls with a posting of her being pregnant on the website which Kim had finally allowed.
Over the many months in which Kim and Shego had been pregnant, they would talk to each other by videophone so often that Wade finally just set up a private number just for the two of them so that Shego would quit bothering him at the website.
Shego ignites her hands as she looks around the door for any signs of boobytraps while remembering how Drakken had tended to her every need with nearly a complaint and that had surprised her.
She had never expected Drakken to take such good care of her, much less propose to her and arrange for them to be married before the baby was due so that the baby would be born with legal parents. The lengths that Drakken had gone through for her was something she'd never forget and she was happy to be married to be Shelia Lipsky even though she could remember a point where she had not liked that thought.
After carefully observing no signs of a trap, she tries the door to see if it would even open, but did it in a such a way that if there was a trap behind the door, she was as safe as she could be. It had turned out to be a good idea as the power core had been directed to fire a blast at the door the moment it had been activated.
The energy blast would have seriously hurt or possibly even killed her if she hadn't been playing it careful. The blast had charred the wall so badly that it reeked of burnt metal. She fires a plasma blast, which knocks out the connected device and looks around carefully for any more internal traps but finding none.
Shego walks over to a console and starts to type quickly and frowns before growling in frustration as she finds that many of the commands were locked out and all the power was being rerouted to overload the thrusters and push the station down out of orbit. With the few screens she could pull up, she saw that over 75 had already blown up and the remaining were mere moments from going as well!
She gasps as she sees that once the thrusters were all gone, the power would not return to powering anything in the station, but it'd been set up so that the power core would get a feedback loop and thus blowing up the entire station during reentry!
Shego knew she could probably hack into to computer given enough time but she didn't know enough about space stations to be able to divert the power safely back to the places where they needed to go!
She could only think of one option left to her if she wanted save their butts. She walks out of the room and punches a communications console in the hallway since those were independent from the power core and says, "Kim? Jesse? Anyone hear me? Animal is pushing the station out of orbit with its own thrusters so hard that they're blowing up under the strain."
Kim's voice is heard then, "I understand, you better get up here. The Astronauts have already left, so we're stranded here."
Shego's voice goes hard as she says, "I was hoping we could still get off, the power core is going to go into a feedback loop which will blow up the station during reentry once the last of the thrusters blow."
There is silence for a few moments before Kim says, "I understand... then we better finish with the module and get out of here. How soon do you think we have left?"
Shego bites at her lower lip in thought while glancing at the power station before she says, "Probably 15-20 mins top."
More silence follows before Kim says in a soft, almost shushed voice, "Understood... see if there is any way you can buy us more time. The module won't be ready for another 25 mins."
Shego simply says, "I'll do my best... and please...tell my children how much I love them." She hears Jesse suddenly say, "Mom! What are you going to do? Mom! Please answer me? MOM!"
Shego is already walking away, tears threatening to spill from her eyes as she could her Jesse's pleas from the speaker. She could think of only one way to save everyone before the last of the thrusters blew and caused a feedback loop that would be unstoppable as it just built its power output from where it was low to so high where it would almost certainly vaporize more than half the station on detonation alone.
She shuts the door to the power room and locks it in case anyone tried to run down there to stop her and she had a pretty good idea who might try to do that.
Shego ignites her hands and gets ready to destroy the power core, hoping that the damage wouldn't extend to wherever Kim and the others were building their escape module. She raises her hands to aim and thinks, "I am doing this for you Jesse... and for even the Kim and her family who have come to mean a lot over the years to me as well. Please take care of Jesse, Cindy and Mindy..."
She closes her eyes as tears escape and run down her cheeks to drip off her chin and that's when time seemed to freeze as her plasma blasts launched from her hands.
AN: I know that this was more of a Shego/Sheila chapter, but it shows how they bonded. Did anyone find Kim and Shego bonding over something like that a bit unrealistic? Anyone care to guess or speculate about if Shego will even survive this? Is anyone surprised about the space module plan? Did you feel for Jesse as he pleaded for his mother to answer him?