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Shego Beats Kim Possible, Twice, or The Matchbox and the Flame

It was lunch time at Middleton High and Ron was gulping down his food as if his life depended on it. He felt good. He was now a senior, he had expectations of getting good grades, he had fun in the evenings sparring with a Shego, Rufus was better, the Kim and Mark sitch didn't seem to hurt anymore, and along with all that, the food was good. For whatever reason Barkin wasn't confiscating his packed lunches anymore. Beside him Rufus was busy digging into his own plate of Ron's homemade cooking. Across from him Kim and Mark were doing the same. Life was good.

"HEWU?" Monique spoke as she approached the table. "Hey everyone, What's up?" She explained.

"Not much." Came a chorus of responses.

Ron handed her a plate of food. She sat down and dug in. He found nothing kept Monique's questions at bay better than food.

Shego was in a library. It felt strange. Though once she'd considered them to be her second home it had been a long time since she'd been to such a place. She had once loved the books and the computers that gave her access to a whole world of knowledge. Things change, she told herself. For some reason the thought made her sad.

She sat down at a computer terminal. She could have used Dr. D's computers but she figured a library would be safer. She did searches using names from the Camp Wannaweep records she had. Of the seven potential names for the monkey gang she found two were in a hospital for psychological reasons. Hacking into the hospital records she found the reason they were there. PTSD, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Interesting, she thought to herself, wondering if it was related to Camp Wannaweep.

She continued probing, accessing the accounts for the doctor listed as treating them both. It seemed he recorded their sessions in digital format. Records that were kept on computer. How wise is that, she thought to herself as she plugged in a pair of headphone and sat back to listen. What she found out surprised her. It was Camp Wannaweep related but the two hadn't been bullied by the monkey gang, they had been members of the monkey gang. Their psychological problems were caused by guilt over what they had done.

She sat back, thinking. Those two were in a hell of their own making. They would go to their graves remembering what they'd done. Live their whole lives regretting it. A part of her, the villain, still wanted to tear them apart. She suppressed that part. She stared upward, seeing column after column of books. She searched deep within herself and found another part, a part that was satisfied. A part that was even sad. They would pay forever for a mistake they made as kids. She pushed those two names out of her mind.

From the sessions she'd found out the names of the other three members of the monkey gang. She continued her search. Two were in jail. She hacked into the jail records. Life in prison for multiple accounts of armed robbery and one account of torture. There was a long list of other offenses. They would be inside for at least twenty years. She accessed their jail photos and an evil grin spread across her face. The grin would have shaken Zorpox himself to his boots. They were cute, very very cute. Her mind played with the idea of what being in jail must be like for them. Of the fun the older inmates must have with them day after day after day... The villain in her howled in glee at the thought.

She searched for the fifth name. Cal Ryan. She found his highschool record. Decent grades. His highschool picture showed him to be decent looking, nothing out of the ordinary. There wasn't much else. After a long search she found his latest address. She wiped the computer's history and rose. As she left the building she couldn't help but turn and take one last look at those columns of book. A part of her wept and she ruthlessly crushed it.

The building he lived in was decent. It even had security at the front door. She bypassed it by taking her cloaked hovercraft up to his window. She dug her glove claws into the window and pulled. It opened easily. She loved super strength.

Inside she searched and searched. There was nothing out of the ordinary. Just a normal guy living a normal life. At least until she looked in the toilet tank. There was a steel box there. Interesting, she vaguely thought to herself as she took it out and used plasma to burn through the lock. Inside was a bag weighting about a kilogram along with a small book. The book had a list of names, the contents of the bag was white. She didn't need to guess what it was. She just didn't know what to do with it.

The door opened. She looked up to see a young man walk in. Seeing her he froze, surprised. Then he moved, reaching under his shirt to pull out a small gun.

Shego reacted faster. Plasma tossed the man back into the wall, unconscious. She walked over to stare at him. He seemed so average looking. She still didn't know what to do. Something in her cried out to burn him but she figured if she did that the Buffoon would never speak to her again. Besides even as a villain that just wasn't her. If it had been Drakken would have taken over the world ages ago.

A part of her told her what to do, but she suppressed it. That part of her was long dead. Or so she had thought. Now it screamed in her mind. I've spent too much time with the Buffoon, she realized. It was something she'd known for a long time now, yet she kept going back. She stared at the motionless form on the floor. Her plasma would leave him unconscious for at least an hour. She gave him another dose just to make sure. She continued to stare at him. She flipped though the book, not just names but locations were mentioned. Names like Middleton Junior High School. Finally she sighed.

She imagined how the conversation would go. What she would say. Then she picked up the phone and called the Middleton Police Department. Two minutes later she was in her hovercraft heading back to the lair. The police would be at the apartment in minutes. She had conveniently left the door unlocked and ajar. Even a knock would cause it to open. They would see the man, the gun, the drugs, the book. They would put the pieces together. She doubted that his sentence would be light. Not if he was selling hard drugs to junior high kids.

She cursed her weakness. This seemed too much like being a hero. She hoped Drakken had a job for her when she got back. She needed to let out some of her frustration. If he didn't she would take her frustration out on him.

"Next job." Shego ordered, as she walked into the lair. It certainly wasn't a request.

"Ah. Nothing at the moment." Drakken replied.

"Next job." Shego lit her hands.

Drakken gulped. Shego certainly seemed to be in a mood for work today.

"Next job." Shego tossed a ball of plasma at his feet

"Next job." Drakken repeated, having danced away from the plasma. "Got just the thing Shego." He turned and rummaged through a drawer. He pulled out a pen and paper and started writing."

Shego looked at the paper he'd handed her. It read, 'Part Number: MKLPHGCVBTRPQ97.' She looked back at Drakken.

"Go to Smarty Marty, look in the electronics department. You'll find it there." He explained.

"Smarty Mart?" She asked.

"They're the only ones who carry that particular part." Drakken explained.

Shego shrugged. A job was a job.

Beep! Beep! Beep! The sound drew the attention of everyone in class.

Kim opened the Kimmunicator. "Hiya Wade. What's the sitch?"

"Hi Kim. It's Shego again. She'd been spotted in Smarty Mart."

"She shops at Smarty Mart?" Kim seemed surprised.

"KP, Smarty Mart is where all the smart shoppers shop." Ron defended the store.

Kim looked Ron. "You saying Shego is smarter than I am?" She asked.

"Well if she shops there she's a smarter shopper." Ron refused to back down.

"No way." Kim fumed.

"Is too." Ron stated.

"People!" Wade broke into the conversation. "That's not important right now. We need to stop her."

"Got a ride Wade?" Kim asked.

"All set up. It's outside the school waiting for you."

The ride turned out to be a taxi service. Motor Ed had once tried to steal all their cars and Kim had stopped him. In ten minutes they were outside of Smarty Mart.

"What could she possibly want here?" Mark wondered out loud.

"They sell everything." Ron answered.

They entered the store and looked around. It was huge. Kim opened her Kimmunicator.

"Any luck Kim?" The super genius asked as he appeared on the screen.

"Not yet. Any idea where she is?" Kim asked.

"Hrm. Well first she was spotted in the pets section, then in the exotic pets section, then the dangerous pets section. You should be careful Kim. For some reason she let all the animals lose."

"Where is she now?"

"Not quite sure Kim. That place has a lot of departments. I'm guessing she heading for the electronics department. Or maybe the rockets department. Then again it could be the artillery department, or maybe the heavy weapons department." Wade stopped.

"Artillery? Heavy weapons?" Mark asked.

"Smarty Mart has everything." Ron replied.

"Wade, can't you narrow the search down a little bit? This place is too big to search. Even all those departments you mentioned are too much." Kim was eyeing the multiple aisles and the multiple floors in front of her. She was understandably overwhelmed.

"Doing my best Kim. That place has over six thousand departments and over fifty thousand cameras. Plus she's not always in view of a camera." Wade looked a bit overwhelmed himself. Even having hacked the security system he was having trouble locating the supervillainess.

"Well she was making straight towards the electronics. I'm guessing you should try there first." Wade suggested.

"Okay." Kim closed the Kimmunicator. She looked around. Just where is the electronics department, she wondered.

Ron must have read her expression. "I think it's that way, KP, on the far side of the store." He pointed down an aisle.

"Okay. Then we better get moving." Kim suggested and they marched down the aisle.

They had walked around fifty feet when Mark screamed, "Look out Kim."

Reflexively she dodged. A snake, what sort she didn't know, dropped to the floor from someplace above her. It was huge and had very big fangs. It slithered towards her. She backed away.

A dart came out of nowhere and hit the snake. It went still. A man, carrying a gun, raced up. "Sorry folks. Someone set all the animals lose. Here's a Smarty Smart coupon to make up for the trouble." He handed Kim a fifty cent Smarty Mart coupon. He then picked up the snake, dropped it in a cage, and raced off.

Kim, Mark, and Ron stared at where he had raced off to. Then all three shrugged and resumed their march.

The got forty feet this time. Something scurried past above them. Whatever it was knocked a crate down. It nearly hit Kim who once again managed to dodge out of the way. The crate shattered on the floor sending night crawlers everywhere, including over the three teens. Kim nearly screamed. She felt the sudden urge to strip as she felt them crawl inside her clothes. She barely resisted the urge.

Ron and Mark were in the same sitch. Then Ron realized they were beside a washroom. He dashed in ignoring the fact it was a woman's washroom. Mark quickly followed. The two stripped and shook the night crawlers off their clothes. It took them a long time as they double and triple checked that they were clean of the things. They exited the room to see an annoyed Kim.

She had waited less than patiently outside as she felt the things crawling over her. She had been tempted to strip there. There was no one around and the boys were in the room marked for ladies. She was the only lady there. She should have had first access to the room. She felt things squirm all over her and nearly screamed. When, after what seemed like ages, the door opened she dash inside saying, "Finally," as she passed the two boys.

After a time the three were ready to move on again. All three were reasonably certain they were night crawler free. Kim simply pointed down the aisle. She didn't say anything. The three resumed their march.

They got thirty feet this time. A pack of wolves came racing down the aisle. Kim leapt up to the top of the shelves while the other two climbed the shelves one by one.

Kim looked down not really believing what she was seeing. "Is this a shop or a jungle?" She asked, half to herself.

"It's Smarty Mart KP, where all the smart shoppers shop." Ron said. Then, after a pause he added, "Though if they're really smart they don't shop when Shego's shopping. That isn't smart at all." He looked down at the wolves.

The three tried crawling along the shelves but the wolves just kept pace with them. Finally Kim dropped her knockout gas lipstick down among them. The three climbed down and resumed their march.

They got twenty feet this time. An elephant came charging down the aisle. It barely fit, its sides scrapping both sides, leaving debris behind it. Kim leapt over it. Ron dove onto one of the shelves as it raced by. Mark had dove onto another shelf on the other side. Kim turned and looked at the rapidly disappearing elephant. She sighed. She had a feeling getting to the other side of the store was not going to be easy.

"Okay, ready?" She asked the two boys who were both looking back at the elephant. They both nodded and tried to crawl off the shelves they were on. They couldn't.

Kim tried to move and found she couldn't. She looked down, then at the sides of the aisles. There were signs marked 'GLUE DEPARTMENT' everywhere. There were smaller signs labelled 'Super Deluxe Glue' on both sides of her. She sighed. They were glued in place. The debris the elephant had left behind it was broken bottles of glue. It was over everything. She tried to move her arms to get the Kimmunicator. Glue dripping down on them had them firmy glued in place.

Then Kim noticed something. She had missed one of the night crawler they had run into awhile back. She watched it crawl up her leg, up her stomach, up her chest, up her throat, then it was on her face, then it crawled in her nose. Kim Possible screamed!

It took the Smarty Mart Damage Control Department six hours to free them. It seemed the super deluxe glue was really good glue.

Shego had entered the Smarty Mart superstore and headed right for the electronics department. When she had seen the size of the store she had used the hovercraft's computer to print out a map. She had studied the map for a full forty minutes before she dared step foot in the store.

She had passed the pet supplies department and entered the pet department. There she had let the animals loose. Why? Because she was a villainess. A few minutes later she was in the exotic pets department. Once again she let the animals loose. She repeated the process for most of the animals in the dangerous pets section. She let the tigers and lions stay locked up. She didn't want to actually kill anyone. She had then passed through eight more departments before she got to the electronics department. It was huge.

Shego stared. The electronics department was around a hundred meters by a hundred meters. Electrical items were packed in piles that reached ten meters in height. From the map she'd known it was huge but this was insane. She gulped. This might take some time, she thought as she looked at the numbers on the items she passed. Then she looked up and read the sign that dominated the place. 'Smarty Mart Electronics Department : More Than One Million Parts For Your Daily Needs.'

Shego gulped. A million different parts! This will take forever! She thought to herself. She looked up. I don't even know if it's near the floor or not. She wondered if there was a salesperson around. There didn't seem to be any in sight. She sighed and looked around again. It was hopeless. Something scurried around in the column of parts above her head. She looked up and saw a chimp. It was pointing to something not more than five feet away from her. She looked. It was a stack of nearly wrapped parts all marked with the label 'Part Number: MKLPHGCVBTRPQ97.' She looked back at the chimp. "Thanks." She said. She guessed it paid to be nice sometimes after all. She was pretty sure it was one of the chimps she had freed.

Shego handed the part to Dr. D. "What sort of device you making this time."

Drakken grabbed the part. "Oh, it's for my new and improved Coco Maker 2.0."

"Not a doomsday device?" She asked.

"I can't think without my coco moo." Drakken replied. "The doomsday device comes after my coco moo."

Shego shrugged. She took the hovercraft and left. So much, she thought, for acting like a villain. More like a common shoplifter. She never learned she'd beat Kim Possible.

She landed in the yard, same as always. She went in the house and grabbed a plate of food along with some coffee, same as always. She went outside to watch the Buffoon, same as always.

"What's up Buffoon?" She asked as she sat down beside him.

"Not much. Heard you hit Smarty Mart today."

"Yeah. Place is huge. Why didn't Princess show up to stop me? Could have used a good fight."

"She sort of got tied up. We all did. Sorry to disappoint you."

"Oh well. It wasn't anything big anyway. Just a part Dr. D needed for his new coco maker." She sighed.

"Coco maker?" Ron asked.

"Yeah."

Ron burst out laughing. He thought about the snake, the night crawlers, the wolves pack, the six hours glued to a shelf. All because Drakken needed a part for a coco maker.

Shego watched him, wondering if he was okay. "It not funny." She finally said. "I'm a villain and here I am reduced to shoplifting parts for a coco maker."

Ron laughed harder.

Shego watched him. They hadn't talked about his nightmare since that night. She wondered if she should tell him how the monkey gang had ended up. Seeing him laugh made her feel good. She decided not to talk about such a dark subject.

"Practice?" She asked.

Ron nodded and the two got up.

As they circled each other Shego studied him. Faster and stronger, she thought. She wondered where that speed and strength was coming from. She wondered if he would ever become a villain but knew he wouldn't. He didn't have the capacity to hate that much. Nor the capacity to be that greedy. To be a villain you needed one or the other. She sighed as she blocked a punch and then jumped back from a kick.

"What's wrong Shego?" Ron asked.

"Ever think about becoming a villain?" She asked.

"If you mean take over the world sort of thing then who hasn't?" He answered.

"Oh? So you have?"

"But who would want to? I wouldn't have any time left over to cook."

"Could hire a hundred cooks." Shego replied.

"That wouldn't be me cooking. Besides would never know when one of them wanted to poison you and save the world." To Ron it didn't sound like a good deal.

"True." Shego admitted. She wondered what would happen to her peace in the lairs if Drakken ever succeeded.

"Ever think about becoming a hero again?" Ron dared to ask.

"Not really." Shego admitted.

"You didn't like it?"

Shego shrugged. She looked at her hands. She wondered what the Buffoon thought about green. She wondered where that thought came from. "Doesn't matter." She finally answered his question. "No one would accept Shego as a hero again and I don't want to be one again."

Ron looked her. He thought of the Shego he had seen over the last several months. The one that loved his food, who liked going to Bueno Nacho. The one who was his friend. The one with the sharp tongue, yet also free with the compliments. The one who seemed so sad. He realized how much he would miss her if these visits were to stop. "Bueno Nacho?" He asked.

"Sure." She replied.

Beep! Bleep! Beep! Bleep! Beep! Bleep!

They both jumped and then realized it was the Kimmunicator along with her communicator going off at the same time. They both sighed and moved a little distance apart.

"What's up Dr. D." Shego asked.

"I'm launching my greatest plan yet Shego. Get back here." Came the reply.

"On my way, Dr. D." She turned off the communicator and headed for the hovercraft. The Buffoon was still on the Kimmunicator.

Ron turned the Kimmunicator on. "What's the sitch Wade?" He asked. Out of the corner of his eye he watched Shego leave. He wished he could call her back. Bueno Nacho with her was far more fun than a mission.

An hour later Team Possible had infiltrated Drakken's latest lair and had entered the main lab. Shego and Drakken were waiting for them.

"Kim Poss.." Drakken started.

"Yeah! Yeah! It's Kim Possible" Shego interrupted. "Get on with the plan Dr. D" She was irritated at having missed out on Bueno Nacho ... With the Buffoon.

"Shego is that any way to talk to your boss?" Drakken demanded.

Shego shot two balls of plasma at his feet. "Get on with it."

Drakken gulped. "Ah yes. Where was I..."

"You were about to tell us how you turned a coco maker into an anti-gravity ray." Ron suggested. He was peering at the device in the middle of the room.

Shego blinked. How did he figure out what the device was so quick, she wondered. He was right. Dr. D had found out that the vibrations of his new coco maker cancelled gravity. He had added an amplifier and a projector and viola, a doomsday device called the Gravity-Nulifier.

Drakken blinked. He was thinking the same thing as Shego. "Ah..."

"Synthodrones." Shego reminded him.

"Synthodrones! Capture Kim Possible." Drakken ordered.

Fifteen of the devices came to life and tried to swarm Kim who simply jumped out of the way. She bounced back and kicked one in the head. It went down. These were ordinary synthodrones.

Shego leapt to her feet and tossed two balls of plasma at the teen. Kim was forced to turn and fight her.

Mark circled around one of the machines and punched. It went down.

Ron sighed. There were still thirteen. Too many for Mark to handle alone. He moved in and thrust his fingers in the throat of one. It went down. He brought his elbow back in the throat of another that had tried to get behind him. All thirteen went down pretty quick.

Shego watched, feeling a little proud, as her pupil took down ten of the synthodrones. She jumped aside as Princess tried to kick her. She sent two balls of plasma her way and then quickly turned and sent two towards the buffoon. As usual they missed him.

Ron watched the fight for a few seconds. Both fighters were angry. Kim was mad over being glued to the floor of Smarty Mart for six hours while a night crawler made its home in her nose. He shuddered. He couldn't really blame her for that. Shego was also upset he realized. He knew her well enough by now to know that, though the cause eluded him.

Anyway, he thought, I should be focused on either the machine or the self-destruct. He moved towards the machine Drakken had made realizing he didn't even know what Drakken had called it. It didn't matter.

Shego started tossing plasma at Princess as fast as she could.

Kim for her part kept jumping away. The barrage of fire often came close enough to make her skin tingle but it never touched her. The nearly continuous stream of plasma did serve the purpose of keeping her from getting close to the villainess. Her anger increased. In her mind she could still feel that thing crawling up her nose. She started tossing things. Books tossed at the plasma throwing villainess often caught fire and fell to the ground. Soon the lab had several fires in it where those books had landed on flammable items.

One of those items was a desk. Shego felt her blood run cold as she saw the desk start to burn. She launched herself forward and grabbed a box from it.

Kim saw Shego stop her barrage of fire and grab the box. That's important, she realized. She leapt at the distracted villainess and kicked the item out of her hand. Flipping over she grabbed it from the ground. She turned to face Shego who had froze. Her eyes were on the box.

Shego had kept the box there, within reach should they need to flee. She'd never expected Princess to grab such an ordinary looking item. It was just a fireproof box made of a nearly impenetrable metal. She should have left it on the desk and not brought it to the attention of Princess. Too late now. She watched as Princess opened the box.

Kim looked at the matchbox inside. She blinked. Why would she keep a matchbox inside a metal container like that, she wondered. She took it out and looked at Shego who was still froze. She opened the matchbox and looked inside. A number of burnt out matches. She shrugged. She was puzzled.

"Stop. Given that back." Shego spoke.

Kim looked up. Whatever this was it was important to the green-skinned bitch who was responsible for her spending six hours with a night crawler up her nose. Something inside her felt glee as she tossed the matchbox into the flames rising from the desk. She looked back at Shego smirking. The smirk faded.

Shego saw the matchbox disappear and knew tonight she would be in nightmare number eight. The power that kept the nightmares at bay was gone, forever. Something inside her broke. She felt the flames rise and she had no control over them.

Kim watches the flames around Shego's hands spread up her arms. Fire also started at her feet and spread upward. Her head blazed with fire. Kim felt herself stepping back in fear. The thing before her blazed like the comet that had given her her powers.

Shego felt her flesh burn where the flames wavered a little. It meant nothing. She raised her hands and pointed. Power poured from her. She could feel it rising from her feet and flowing up her legs, growing in both speed and strength as it did so. It flowed up her torso and out along her arms. All the while she could feel the heat from it become a raging inferno. A hurricane that she had only once ever pointed at another living person. Her brother Hego all those years ago. The flow of power left her hand and leapt into the air.

Kim tried to move, to dodge, but the coming inferno moved too fast. There wasn't even time to blink from the time if left the hand of the creature blazing before her to the time it hit. Pain erupted across her body as the two balls of plasma flew by her, one on each side, and hit the wall behind her. She felt the explosion lift her and throw her forward to the feet of the blazing creature. Even the miss caused more pain than she had ever felt before. She tried to move and couldn't. The suit which usually protected her had partially melted in the passing heat of the fireballs. It had now solidified, immobilizing her. Until it regenerated she was helpless. She looked up at the creature blazing before her. She missed on purpose, Kim realized. She's just playing with me.

Shego stared at the person who had taken away her peace, who had returned the nightmares, and the hate in her raged. She wanted to burn this creature from existence, but something stopped her. She had never killed before.

Kim saw Ron approach Shego. "Ron run, get out, and Mark too." She knew of nothing that could fight the being that stood above her.

"Shego." Ron spoke. He reached out his hand. "I think you dropped something."

Shego saw his hand reach for hers and knew it would be burned, reaching into her flame. She felt the flames around her hand vanish of their own accord rather than harm him. He took her hand and turned it palm up. The matchbox was dropped in it and she felt the flames around her vanish. She looked at it in disbelief. She had seen it go into the fire. She closed her hands around it protectively. She looked up into brown eyes that were kind. She heard the self-destruct counting down and knew she had a part to play. She pulled back, grabbed Dr. D who was standing to one side mouth open, and fled.

Ron had seen the fires, saw the two fighting. He had known that things were getting out of hand, that they needed to be stopped. He turned from whatever the contraption was that Drakken had built and moved to the self-destruct button. He had hit it only to turn and see Kim toss something small through the flames of a burning desk. He had grabbed it and saw it was a matchbox. She went back for it and kept it, he realized in shock. The box was unharmed. Kim had only tossed it through the flame, not directly into the fire. And the box was of a sort that didn't burn easily. It hadn't even been singed.

He had then looked up in and been shocked to see the flames rise around Shego. Had watched as she blasted through three of the lair's walls effortlessly. He had watched her stare down at Kim unmovingly. As frozen as Kim herself. Unsure of what to do. She wasn't trying to kill her, he realized and relief flowed in him. He moved towards her. As he reached for her hand the flames around them vanished. He had known they would. Shego was no killer. Something in him had always feared her. That fear vanished. Shego he knew, would never kill.

With the countdown going both Ron and Mark grabbed hold of Kim and helped her flee from the lair. They got a safe distance before it exploded. Kim was a little singed but not seriously burnt. Wade told her the suit would repair itself given enough time.

Kim and Mark had wondered about the matchbox and Ron had honestly wondered along with them. He had simply explained his actions by pointing out that if the loss of the matchbox had caused Shego to blaze up like that then returning it might calm her down. It had, he pointed out, worked.

End of Chapter.

Had to have at least one chapter where Shego beat Kim.

With the monkey gang we see Shego does make sure they are punished. But she is fair about it even though she wants to really hurt them.

Ron has seen Shego's true power. He knows she's a villain, but also that she's no killer. She has immense power, but also the control not to use it to kill even when angered.

Shego is starting to have romantic thoughts, wondering what he thinks of her green complexion. We also see they would rather spend time with each other rather than on missions or taking over the world.

At least that is what I hope the chapter showed.

Next chapter, the next step in the RonGo part.