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Chapter 2: Drakken's Plan
Kim reached the water and crouched down on her good leg. As she was bending over to drink the water, she heard a new voice.
"You're not going to drink the water like that, are you?" a girl with shaggy brown hair stood on the banks of the stream.
"Bonnie?" Kim said, "wait… you're just an illusion, a figment of my imagination."
Bonnie didn't seem to care, "you're going to drink from a stream… like a dog? Ugh, that's so gross."
"No I'm not," Kim said, mentally kicking herself for letting even a phantom of Bonnie have control over her. She then tried to balance on her good knee so she could use her hands to scoop up some water.
Almost immediately she lost her balance and felt face first into the stream. The ice-cold water was pure bliss on her burning skin, she took a couple of small sips of water, remembering not to drink to much at once after not having anything for almost a day.
When she pushed herself up she felt a lot better, and when she noticed Bonnie was gone she felt almost great.
She cleaned the wound on her leg and changed the bandages and then decided to stay on this spot in wait for rescue. This time she did manage to make a fire and have a reasonable comfortable night.
When she woke up the next day, Kim noticed that her fever was back. And when she looked at her leg, she saw thin deep red lines coming from the wound.
"Blood poisoning, I'm going to need antibiotics pretty soon," Kim thought to herself, she wasn't sure how long she could hold out when waiting for rescue, but what else could she do?
"Hey princess, you up a round of fighting? Or are you to weak?"
"Beat it Shego," Kim growled, "you're not even real, you can't do anything to me."
"So? You can't do anything to me either," Shego smirked, "I can just bug you all day."
"Seriously Shego, get lost," Kim said, trying to look as threatening as her condition allowed.
"OK," Shego said as she walked behind a tree, "See, I'm gone."
"Haha," Kim mocked, "why am I even making you up in my mind?"
"I don't know," Shego said, "I'm only a figment of your imagination."
"Why don't you go haunt Drakken," Kim said, part of her questioning her logic, "his lair can't be to far away…"
"Of course, Drakken's lair." Kim thought to herself, he should have adequate first aid equipment, considering what happened to him when his plans failed or when Shego was angry at him.
Kim tried to orientate herself from where she had landed and where Drakken's lair should be, and then started limping in the direction she thought the lair would be.
She had only set a couple of steps when she realised she should take water with her. Kim started looking through her inventory for something that could hold water, when she found out that the parachute cloth was waterproof she folded it into a water pouch. When she filled it, it didn't seem to leak and it should be able to hold enough water to get her around for a short while.
She tied the water bag to one of the crutches and started towards Drakken's lair again.
After a couple of hours, Kim came upon an open spot from which she had a splendid view of her surroundings. However, only the object that spoiled the view had her full attention. Drakken's lair was only a couple of miles away, she probably couldn't make it before nightfall, but she could certainly arrive the next day in the morning.
That evening Kim could see the lair at less then a mile distance, but it was already getting dark and it would be more than an hour walk in her current condition, so she set up camp, she didn't dare to make a fire this close to the lair so she pulled the remains of the parachutes close around her to keep at least a little warm. The fever dreams and hallucinations had not disturbed her for the rest of the day, but Kim knew she wouldn't be able to make it much longer without medication.
Before she went to sleep Kim wondered how she would be able to enter the lair, she was in no condition to fight Shego and she doubted that Drakken would allow her in and provide her with medical equipment.
"Well, those are things for tomorrow," Kim thought while sleep took over.
That night Kim woke up three times, and each time it took her longer to distinguish nightmare from reality. After the third time she knew she needed antibiotics real soon, even if she had to surrender to Drakken.
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Meanwhile, in Drakken's lair Shego was sitting in her chair, watching Drakken pace around restlessly.
"Calm down Dr. D, you're going to carve a hole in the floor."
"Kim Possible should have been here by now, she and her buffoon. If I had a real take over the world plan, I would have won already," a very agitated Dr. Drakken said.
"Talk about irony," Shego smirked, "maybe she found out it was a trap?"
"Talk no nonsense Shego, we've been stealing equipment all around the world and I have made a power drain simulating a super-laser so her computer guy would think there was something real going on here…" Drakken ranted.
"Think of the time you could have spent building a real laser," Shego mocked.
"Shego! If I want to successfully conquer the world, I have to take out Kim Possible first. And now I have everything set up and she won't come, that's just unfair."
"Well live with it," Shego said, "by the way, how is your new team-building plan going?"
"Ah, glad you asked," a suddenly much happier Drakken replied, "tomorrow we're all going out for the day, I have bargained a nice company trip with Henk Perkins. And after that the henchmen get the rest of the weekend off, there is not much world conquering on anyway at the moment."
"Hey, I knew nothing about a vacation," Shego said.
"Off course not, you spent your vacation time last Christmas, remember? And that one was all paid for."
"Hmph," Shego muttered as she returned to reading her magazines.
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