Chapter 3: Testing the waters
Shego slammed her book on the table, Gina jumped at the sound spilling her coffee. She glared at Shego as she soaked up the coffee with a rag. Shego had been studying the same book all morning and her frustration was now evident. She had been trying to get as much information on the Ruby Lion as she could but was getting nowhere slowly. It had been weeks since her first experiment with the ring and she had yet to build up the courage to try anything else.
"You should really learn to control your frustration Elyse, this very expensive coffee." Gina said setting the rag aside.
"Well this is unnerving, it looks like if I want any useful information I have to go by trial and error and, I'm pretty sure that would kill me." She shoved the book away and rubbed her forehead.
"Well I never thought I'd see the day. My daughter is scared. My daughter. Scared." Gina gave a disappointed sigh and turned away. "I certainly didn't raise you like this; I thought you were the stubborn type of girl who will stop at nothing to get what she wants. Now you're going to let a little thing like possible death, get in the way of saving that girl." She turned back to Shego with a stern look. "Who are you and what have you done with my little girl?"
Shego was outraged, her mother, her mother, was calling her weak. She wasn't going to stand for that. "I am not scared and, I will not sit here and let you say otherwise." Shego was livid now; she stood from her seat and stormed out of the house.
Gina smiled and continued to enjoy her coffee. "Just needs a little push now and then." She said into her mug.
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Shego sat on the front porch fuming at her mother's words and glaring at the ring. She wasn't a coward; she was going to prove it right now. She was going to prove her mother wrong. The only problem was: what to do first?
She had come across a few theories on what the ring could do. Teleportation, summoning, complete control over time itself. The list went on and on. She played with the ring on her finger thinking of what to do first. Summoning was already proven with Wade, teleportation was as good a place to start today.
She thought about a house she owned on the beach, she closed her eyes and felt as though she was falling. She quickly opened her eyes and landed face first onto the white sand. She picked herself up and spit the sand out of her mouth. She dusted herself off and looked around the empty beach. Behind her was the house she had been thinking of, she walked up the path and placed a shaky hand on the railing of the steps.
"I wonder." She said to herself with a smile. She focused on a new thought and closed her eyes; she felt the same sensation of falling. She quickly opened her eyes and landed on her feet. She found herself in an office she had never seen before; she looked along the walls of the office and found her evidence. Hanging on the wall was a picture of Kim and Ron at their graduation. She resisted the urge to express her joy. Finally she was going to get what she had been waiting for. Voices came from behind the door; she smiled and pressed herself against the wall next to the door.
Ron opened the door and Shego quickly stepped in front of him. She landed a swift punch to his nose and watched him fall back. "That, buffoon, is for that shit you pulled last time." She announced proudly as she kneed down to face him on the floor, she stopped within inches of his face and chucked. "See you around." She said before she vanished, leaving Ron bleeding in the threshold of his office.
Shego broke her fall on a table when she appeared in her mother's kitchen. She lay on her back in the pile of wood that used to be the kitchen table and smiled. Her mother ran to the doorway after hearing the crash.
"Okay, that hurt." Shego said in a labored tone.
"You better fix that table." Gina ordered before leaving.
Shego lay in the wreckage for a minute before painfully climbing to her feet. She stretched out her aching back and glanced down at what used to be the kitchen table. Great, now I have to fix the table. She thought to herself. The table began to slowly piece itself back together, moments later everything looked as though thing ever happened.
"Spankin." Shego said without prior thought. She caught herself but it was too late. The famous Kim Possible phrase she heard so much, she had forbid her from using it, was out in the open. The magnitude of the word hit her; she leaned against the table to brace herself as a sudden rush of vertigo hit. Kim was gone and she had no clue where or when, she was.
A sudden, harsh, feeling of emptiness overcame her. She couldn't find any way to save the girl or even know if she was still alive. She missed Kim more than anything else, she rested her head in her hands, and she couldn't do anything to help protect her this time. How was she supposed to do this? How was she supposed to save someone she couldn't find?
She felt the sudden rush of wind around her; she lifted her head from her hands and saw the dark earth below her. She began screaming curses as she prepared herself for the landing that could kill her. She splashed into a deep puddle of mud; she sank to the bottom and struggled to the surface gasping for air. Blindly she waded through the thick mud and climbed onto dry land attempting to get the mud off her face.
A voice came from behind her but she could not understand the language. She had finally gotten the mud out of her eyes only to see she was in the dark surrounded by angry spear welding women. Another voice spoke but she still could not understand their words. The clink of chains set her off into a furry of kicks and punches. She cleared a path for herself in the group and ran through the dark barely managing to dodge trees and rocks. She felt something tug at her ankle and before she could react she was flipped upside down. Her head hit the ground before she was lurched upward. Now she dangled, unconscious, in the air as the women surrounded her.