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Some notes to answer some of the questions in the reviews:
Chapter 7 was the night of the junior prom, chapter 8, though I did not directly mention it, took place during the break between the junior and senior years (Kim talked about Ron's grades), chapter 9 took place during the start of senior year. Each chapter does have a long period between then. I am just showing snapshots of what's important.
Yes Ron will develop more and will develop/use more gadgets. Actually he will, at the very least, develop a gadget in this chapter.
As for Kim noticing Ron's development she did that in chapter 8. Please remember Kim herself is not normal and has "superpowers." Where she gets them will eventually be explained. She is not judging things by a normal perspective but by her own superhuman abilities. Remember she can run on walls and knows more styles of kung fu than anyone her age could ever hope to learn. That's what's "normal" for her. If someone was to duplicated her feats she would not consider it strange. She considers herself a 'normal' girl.
Kim is busy. She had a boyfriend, she leads the cheerleading squad, she has her own school work (advanced courses), the missions, ... Ron and Shego have plenty of free time to get together without her noticing.
As for Kim accepting Ron/Shego as a pair. She went into shock that he even finds her attractive. It's going to be a hard sale.
Burning Buildings, First Kiss
Ron and Shego danced around the yard in quick, sure, movements based on kicks and punches. Ron had got up early to work on ideas he had had during his last session with Sensei. Shego had dropped by after doing a villainous type job for Drakken. They had decided to spar a little. For both it was a fun way to pass the time. Occasionally Shego would bark some order at Ron to correct his movements. Lately it was something she rarely had to do. He was getting really good.
A ray hit the ground beside Shego. By reflex she had jumped out of the way.
"Shego stand where you are." A voice ordered from above.
Shego looked up. "Hego?" She muttered, confused. What is he doing here, she wondered. She jumped as Hego, holding what looked like a heavily modified helmet, pointed it at her. The ray from it missed her
She flipped around the yard several times, each time dodging the ray. She tossed plasma back but of course Hego's own comet powers protected him. Eventually she got lucky and struck the helmet, breaking it. With Hego having no long range weaponry to use she now stood still and poured ball after ball of plasma at him. It would, she knew, do no good unless she went all out. That she refused to do. But it still felt good.
The jet Hego was in rose rapidly into the sky and vanished.
The attack had taken Ron by surprise. There had been nothing he could do against the superhero who had been in a jet around ten meters from the ground. Even if he had been within reach he knew Hego's powers would have protected him from harm. He had frowned as Shego flipped around the yard. He had felt helpless.
"Wonder what that was about." Shego said as the jet vanished from view.
"Superhero hunting a supervillain?" Ron suggested.
"Nay. He's never come after me before."
Ron chewed on his lip, not liking that someone might be targeting Shego "How dangerous is he?" He asked.
Shego shrugged. "I can handle him if I go all out. You know, like that time with Kimmie. I'm also more agile. But he's a lot tougher and a lot stronger."
Ron knew Shego didn't like going all out, but would if the situation demanded it.
"Strange." Shego muttered, half to herself, thinking.
"What is?" Ron asked.
"He's got a hero complex. With the sparring he would have thought we were fighting. He should have jumped down to save you." She stared into the sky where the jet had vanished. It had been a long time since she'd seen Hego but something about him had definitely been off.
"Will you be okay?"
"Yeah." Shego reassured him. "He's way too inept to be much of a threat to anyone. If he didn't have comet powers to protect him he'd be a danger to himself." She shrugged.
Bleep! Bleep! Bleep!
Shego sighed and moved away from the Buffoon. She turned on her communicator. "What's up Dr. D."
"Get back to the lair. I got a job for you."
"Okay Dr. D. Be back in a few minutes." She turned the device off and turned back to the Buffoon. "See you later Buffoon." She waved to him and left.
Ron watched the hovercraft door close, rendering the vehicle invisible again. Feeling the draft the lifting craft made he sighed. It was unusual for Shego to be around in the mornings. It had been fun. His thoughts turned to what Sensei had told him in their last session. The art of Monkey Kung Fu was derived not from monkeys themselves but from all primates. That included humans who were masters, in the primate world, of technology. A master of Tai Shing Pek Kwar, he was told, was also a master of technology.
That had made him think back to many of the missions he had been on. How technology had played a big part in his role on them. How devising new gadgets seemed to come so easily to him now. He frowned, thinking back on how helpless had felt seeing Shego dodge whatever Hego had been using. How helpless he had felt. He didn't like that feeling. He decided to do something about it. Ten minutes later he was in the kitchen, parts from many sources spread out on the table. Some came from devices Wade had used, some from Kim's twin brothers, some from Felix's projects.
Comet energy he knew radiated from the bodies of people like Shego and Hego. It was pretty much the same as the heat and electrical impulses generated by people. A sensitive enough device could detect it. First he started off with an antenna. Small, formed in a circle that would fit around a wrist. It wasn't easy. He wanted it to be able to detect a large range of frequencies. He added in a few computer chips that came from some of Felix's robotics projects. They would analyze the frequencies and compute a counter frequency to neutralize it. That was the easy part. It was just a chip and some code. The third part required a little more thought. He wanted something to generate the counter frequency but a battery just wouldn't have enough power. Finally he modified the first part to not just detect the frequencies but to absorb them. He then added some circuitry to convert that frequency to the counter frequency.
Finished he looked at the wristlet he had built. Turned on it would work automatically, scanning for and detecting certain frequencies and generating one to counter it. It wasn't much. But if it worked it would mean he could punch someone like Hego. His fist would pass through the comet powers protected by the counter frequency, allowing the blow to land.
He walked to school with Mark and Kim. He no longer felt the hurt he'd once felt seeing them together. He recalled how he'd been wrong about no one seeing him stroke Shego's hair. Mark had asked about it. Ron had just shrugged and said it was something he'd always wanted to do. Mark had bought it. At least Ron thought he had.
They didn't get far into the school day before the Kimmunicator interrupted it. Kim opened the device and started talking to Wade with Ron and Mark looking on.
"What's the stich?" She asked.
"Something weird is going on in Go City." Wade answered. He showed them images of the Go Team superheroes on a rampage. The Wegos ran into an electronics store and swarmed, creating at least ten copies of themselves. When they had all run out the store was devoid of any video games and a fair number of music CDs. Hego was shown smashing through walls and just generally wrecking stuff. He seemed to be pretty good at it. Mego was shown shrinking, running into locked rooms through some small opening and coming back out. When he returned to his normal size he was shown to be carrying some fair sized bundles of money.
"Wow!" Kim uttered in surprise. "That's Team Go?"
"It is. Or exact duplicates of them. Either way I thought it might be something you would want to check out." Wade explained.
"We have a ride?" Kim asked.
"Your mother's car. Seems she's getting a new one and is now giving you her old one for nearby mission. It should cut down on the favors you need to turn in for rides."
"Oh." This was the first Kim had heard of her mother getting a new car, let alone giving Kim her old one. Not that she had anything against having her own set of wheels. She and Mark had been talking about cars lately but with the saving up for college had decided to put it off.
"It's still at your house though. You need to walk home to pick it up." Wade sounded apologetic.
"That's okay Wade." Kim grinned. Her own car was way cool.
Fifteen minutes later the trio were in the car and on their way.
Several hours later they'd been in Go City
None of them had noticed the cloaked hovercraft following them. Inside was a very annoyed Shego. Her morning had been interrupted to open a jar of pickles. That was the villainous job Dr. D had called her back for. She sighed. Something had been wrong with Hego this morning. And the Buffoon was heading to Go City where Hego was. She followed. She dreaded the thought of going to Go City. She might run into her brothers. Or worse, she might into her. Shego trembled but maintained her course.
Go City, the trio noticed, was in a panic. They passed numerous fires, downed telephone poles, half wrecked buildings, ... Things didn't look good.
"Where too first?" Kim asked.
"Probably Go Tower." Mark suggested. "That's probably still their base."
That was the plan. When they stopped at a red light, a dozen Wegos swarmed out, lifted the car and turned it around. They were facing the wrong way in the traffic and given the traffic conditions there was no way Kim could turn around. She drove backwards.
Then Mego jumped out behind the vehicle close enough that Kim almost ran him over before she could stop. He shrank before he was crushed by the car and ran off.
Then a large truck was dropped on the road, upside down, blocking all traffic towards Go Tower. They would find out later that Hego was blocking all major traffic routes in the city with such obstructions.
Kim parked the car and the trio got out. She looked back at it and hoped it would be still in one piece when she got back. Somehow she doubted the car would last long if used on missions.
They headed for Go Tower on foot even though it seemed none of the superheros turned villains were there. Still what had caused this might be. Or at least some information on what was going on.
An hour later they stood in front of the doors of Go Tower. They tried the doorbell. If no one was home then it would be impossible for them to get in. The doors would only open from the outside for someone with comet powers. With the three members of Go Team out wrecking the city it was a long shot. It paid off. From the tower came a voice.
"Who is it?"
"Kim Possible." Kim said.
"Who are you?"
"I'm a member of Team Possible. We're here to see what going on with Team Go. Why they're wrecking the city." She explained.
"So you're superheroes?" The voice asked.
"Well, I guess you could call us that." Kim admitted. She hated to brag.
"Just a second."
The door opened. A figure with long dark grey hair and a greyish tint to her skin appeared. In her hand she held a device much like the one Ron had seen Hego use that morning. He jumped to one side, pulling Mark with him. A second later a beam shot out from the device where they'd been standing.
The woman turned to aim at Kim who leapt to one side.
The trio dodged the beam as the woman fired again and again. Thankfully she aimed mostly at Kim who was the most acrobatic of the three. The beam came nowhere near her.
"You know." Ron called out. "We don't even know your name."
The woman turned the device on him. He leapt just as a bluish ray hit the ground beneath his feet.
"It's Electronique." The woman answered. She took aim and fired again.
Ron dodged to the side. "I'm Ron Stoppable." He replied. "Don't worry if you forget it. Everyone does."
"What's going on?" Kim asked the woman.
The woman turned and aimed at Kim.
"I'm just going to rewire you a little." The woman explained.
"Rewire?" Kim asked.
"Yeah. Soon you will be out wrecking havoc on the city like the Ego Team."
"No way." Kim declared.
"That's the Attitudinatior Kim. We get hit by it we will be evil." Ron explained. He'd just recognized the heavily modified helmet.
"Oh." Kim flipped out of the way of the beam again. She was trying to get close to Electronique to knock the device out of her hands but the woman was very fast.
"It's the Reverse Polarizer." Electronique explain. "Much better than the Attitudinatior I would think." She demonstrated by aiming and firing again.
"It could still be made better." Ron stated
"No it can't." Electronique argued. Her weapons were always optimal. Annoyed at the suggestion she turned her focus on Ron and started firing.
Kim flipped up to the woman and knocked the Reverse Polarizer out of her hands. "That's the end of that." Kim stated. She barely had a chance to jump out of the way as the woman emitted an energy bolt from her hands. It singed Kim's hair as she jumped back.
"You ever wonder why the villains always got the good stuff KP? Ray guns. Superpowers. Stuff like that." He dodged a bolt of energy from Electronique's hands.
"Ron, ray guns are not good." Kim stated. She flipped from where she was standing to another position. A bolt of energy nearly hit her. She wondered what she had that could stop the woman. As the woman was distracted shooting at Ron she pulled out a tube of lipstick and tossed it at the feet of Electronique. A few seconds later as the gas took hold she fell down. Covering her mouth and nose Kim ran up and grabbed the lipstick again.
"Well, that was fun." Ron spoke in a tone that indicated it hadn't been. He didn't want to be a villain nor did he want to be fried by some strange bolt of energy.
"At least we know now why Team Go are acting evil." Kim replied.
'"How do we restore them?" Mark asked. He was glad the woman hadn't taken very many shots at him. She seemed to be on a whole different scale than the villains Team Possible usually went up again.
"We have Wade scan the device and see if it will reverse the affect if it's used on them again." Kim explained.
"It will." Ron answered.
"How do you know?" Kim asked.
"By what she called it, a Reverse Polarizer, that means it reverses the good and bad in a person. Doesn't just work one way. All we need to do is find the members of Team Go and use it on them." Ron was pretty sure it would work.
A few minutes later Wade had confirmed his suspicions. It would work. Or it would have if not for Electronique.
With an unusual metabolism she had recovered from the knockout gas much sooner than expected. Her ability to use energy allowed her to quickly get rid of the ropes tying her up. She dove forward, grabbed the Reverse Polarizer and fired at Kim at point-blank range. Kim glowed for a second and then her face changed into a smirk. She turned and started fighting Mark. Ron meanwhile charged Electronique and kicked the device from her hand just as she turned Mark evil.
Just then Hego, Mego, and the Wegos showed up. Ron was outnumbered seven to one. He made a grab for the Reverse Polarizer but Kim got to it first. She turned towards him with an evil grin.
"Time to become a bad boy again Ronnie." She aimed and fired.
Ron jumped around. Dodging. This, he knew, was very bad. Kim kept aiming and firing. Given her reflexes he thought she was just having fun prolonging the situation. Hego jumped in his way to grab him and Ron punched. He was surprised when Hego went down. Then he remembered the wristlet he had made earlier. It seemed to work. The beam from the Reverse Polarizer missed him and hit the still stunned Hego, turning him good.
Six to two, Ron thought, hopefully. His hopes were dashed as Kim turned Hego back to evil again before he could do anything. Ron sighed and kept jumping around.
The Wegos charged him and he leapt. They were short and he sailed over them. It was pure luck Kim didn't hit him as he was in the air. Then Hego was in front of him again. Ron hit him and he went down. Once again the beam meant for Ron hit Hego and turned him good. Ron didn't get his hopes up this time. Hego was turned back to evil a second later.
It was hopeless. Still he kept dodging, knowing Kim was having fun. Then he stumbled and knew he was about to be hit. Kim smiled at him and pushed a button. She seemed as surprised as he when the beam vanished around six feet from him. The door of a cloaked hovercraft opened and Shego pulled him in. The door closed and she lifted for the sky.
"What's up Buffoon." She asked, as if nothing was out of the ordinary.
Ron sank back on the floor. He'd flooded his body with various hormones when the fight started and it took time to clear his system. "Same ole same ole." He replied. "You know fighting villains. This time though they just happen to be Team Go and Team Possible." He wondered if he should have told her that.
"How that happen?"
"Some woman called Electronique turned them evil with a modified Attitudinatior."
"Oh. Sounds fun." She wondered what an evil Princess was like.
"To you maybe."
Shego grinned at him. "So how did you do it? That trick that knocked Hego down?" That she really wanted to know.
"Tell you if you help me turn them good again." Ron bargained.
Shego considered it. To her, of late, being a villain wasn't something she liked or disliked. To her it didn't ... She sank back in her seat. It did matter, she realized. The Wegos were now evil. Her little brothers were not the cute little tykes she'd once known and loved. They were now villains. Not cute at all. She'd sacrificed her soul for them and now... Plasma rose around her hand unsummoned. Now some bitch had changed them. She wondered what they did in their free time. Play video games. Sports maybe. Chase girls. The last brought a very slight smile to her face. She would bet the girls were crazy over them. She was, she decided, still weak. She would do anything for them. Electonique would burn if they were harmed.
Besides there was still the Buffoon to consider, she thought to herself. He's not nearly as likeable when he's evil. She sighed. "Deal." She agreed. She really was interested in how he'd knocked Hego down.
Ron showed her the wristlet and explained what it did. Just how it worked he kept to himself.
"That was fun. Seeing him get knocked down like that. I guess you were too busy running to see the surprise on his face." Shego was obviously pleased to see Hego get beaten. "Anyway, Buffoon, just how are you going to turn them back to being goody two shoes?"
"It shouldn't be that difficult."
"So you got a plan."
"Yeah." Ron thought it would work. It would just require some patience and a bit of luck. "Actually we got almost all the advantages." He added.
"How do you figure that?"
"They're going to want to wreck havoc on the city again. So they will leave the Tower. That means when we try to get the Reverse Polarizer we will only have to fight Electronique. Not all seven of them. I'm betting you're a match for her. With that device in our hands it will be easy to change them back." He grinned and added. "Besides, they only saw the far side of the hovercraft when you grabbed me. To them it was as if I disappeared. They don't know I got you on my side." He stretched. All that jumping around had been hectic and hard on the body.
"Electronique will feel pretty secure behind that door that only comet powers can open." He added.
They waited. Shego turned on the tv to watch. The news showed a city in panic. Team Go might now be in the Go Tower but the devastation they had wrought on the city remained. There were fires and the roadblocks Hego had put in place was stopping rescue workers from getting around. It was chaos. Shego wondered where she was, the girl she had burned all those years ago. Was she out among that?
The night began and the fires still raged. The villainous group Electronique had created remained in Go Tower. They both figured it would be morning before they left.
Shego watched the news, thinking of the city she'd once protected. She thought it ironic that she would be back protecting it once again. This place she feared so much. A villain doing a hero's work. She sighed.
"What's wrong?" The Buffoon asked.
"Nothing." She replied. A news item caught her attention. A building on fire and the news reporter was showing pictures of the people still thought to be in the building. Some firefighters had reached the building and they had kept the flames under control for a short time, but now they had lost the water and the fire was running out of control. Shego stared at one of the photos the reporter was holding up.
"Shego. What's wrong." The Buffon was asking her again."
She pointed. "That's the girl I burned." Shego saw the flames around the building rage out of control and knew the girl would burn again. She touched the controls of the hovercraft and sent it flying. She feared facing that girl. She wanted to turn and run. But she couldn't let that girl burn again.
It took merely a minute to reach the scene. The two of them sat, watching as the scanners searched the building. There were two figures inside, deep within the building, surrounded by the fire.
Shego picked one of the sides of the building and set the hovercraft to remain there. She blasted a hole in the wall and entered. "Stay here." She ordered when the Buffoon went to follow her. He would burn in there.
The scene before her was one from hell. The entire floor was aflame. She walked through it, setting a straight line towards where the scanners had showed two figures, side-by-side, somewhere deep within. She ignored doorways, they would just take her out of her way and through more fire. She blasted through the walls. She could smell flesh burning. Her own. It was nothing new. She walked, blasting through wall after wall. She was afraid she'd missed them, in the smoke and fire. That she had come too far. Then she heard crying. Shrill screams of pain. She remembered those sounds so clearly.
She found them, huddled together in a bathtub. There was water in it. Something they must have filled it with back before it stopped running. The room was in flames and Shego figured by now the water must be pretty hot. Not that the two figures could leave it, surrounded by flames. It was a miracle they were still alive.
The older figure was holding, trying to protect a smaller girl who was the one making the shrill screams. She looked up, the older girl did, and Shego saw her face. The face of the one who she'd burned all those years back. The girl screamed, echoing the screams of the smaller girl. She tried to pull back away from the monster she saw before her. A monster she clearly remembered. Shego could see it in her eyes. She could remember those eyes.
"Hold still." Shego ordered. She wondered if the older girl would panic and run into the fire. Her fear of the monster so great.
"Stay still and stay low." Shego ordered. She pushed the girl down. Shego looked up. The tiles above the tub were still free of any flames. She leap up and stared to pull them down. Above them there was insulation, also free of any fire. She pulled some down. It all went into the tub and the girls soon had something other than the near boiling water to lie on.
She grabbed the tub and began to pull. Even for her strength it was hard to pull free from the wall. Then she made her way back to the hovercraft, walking through the hell again, pulling the tub behind her. She wondered how the girls were doing. The younger one was still screaming, the one she'd burned was quiet. She could smell flesh burning. She hoped it was just her own. The path she'd made coming in was blocked in places by falling debris. She cleared it again. Where she couldn't she made the smallest detour she could, blasting through the wall next to it.
It seemed to take forever to make it back to the hovercraft. The air from the entrance she'd made in the outer wall was feeding the flames. The fire around her intensified. She heard the older girl whimper. The younger girl was still screaming. There was no longer any smell of burning flesh. The hot air she breathed burned her nostrils, taking away any sense of smell.
She reached the hovercraft, stumbled into it, pulling the tub with her. She fell to the floor. The Buffoon closed the door and sent the hovercraft flying away from the building.
She looked up. The two girls had left the tub and was huddling in the far corner from her. She couldn't blame them. That tub must be hot and she was a monster. The girl she'd burned held the smaller girl protectively. Her eyes held terror, yet they dared Shego to even try and harm the one she held so protectively. Shego looked away, unable to face those eyes.
The Buffoon must have plotted a course to the nearest hospital while she inside that hell. It only took the craft seconds to reach it. The door opened and he was outside calling for help. The two girls disappeared into the arms of the nurses. When a nurse approached her she pushed her away.
"Buffoon, back in here. We got a job to do remember." She ordered. Seconds later he was back aboard and they were in the air. She noticed his worried look. "It's nothing." She said.
Ron stared at the burned form of Shego. The desire to return to the hospital and beg for help was nearly overwhelming.
"Don't worry, Buffoon. I can still stand and fight."
Ron looked at her. Despite the words he wasn't sure he believed her.
"Besides I got until tomorrow morning to heal. My body can heal a lot in that time. And don't look this way until I tell you too." At his wondering expression she answered. "I need to change and apply first aid." He blushed and looked away.
She slowly stripped out of her uniform. The damage wasn't as bad as she'd feared. Just a few layers of flesh gone. She used the first aid kit and treated the wounds. Unable to just stand around naked in front of the Buffoon she pulled on a clean uniform despite the way it agonized the burns.
Finished she told him he could look. She went and led down after ordering him to find food. She decided if he knew the controls of the hovercraft well enough to find the hospital he knew them well enough to find someplace with food. She was proved right. Ten minutes later he exited the craft and then reappeared five minutes after that with bags of food. She ate, her body demanding fuel for healing.
Morning came. They watched the news together. Some order had been restored to the city. The roads had been cleared and traffic was flowing once again. Most of it was out of the city. Emergency workers could get around and the fires were starting to come under control. Many building though had just been evacuated and allowed to burn. At the very least the hospitals and emergency shelters had electricity and water. Still, there were just so many resources to go around and things were still bad. Both Ron and Shego knew that soon that delicate order would be broken as Electronigue released her evil army upon the city again.
Ron stared at the monitor and knew his plan would have to be implemented as soon as possible. However, until Electronique was alone in the tower, it had no hope of success. There were seven villains in that building, all unhurt. There was no way he and Shego could face them. He looked at her. The night had done wonders for the damage her body had taken but the burns were still obvious and he knew they had to hurt.
It was nine in the morning when they left. The Wegos, Hego, Mego, Kim, and Mark. They headed for the city. Ron wondered why Electronique was senselessly destroying the city. Even for a villain it served no purpose. He set the hovercraft down beside the door of Go Tower. The two of them exited and Shego opened the door to the tower for them.
From Hego having had one of the devices plus Electronique having one he knew there could be more than one Reverse Polarizer in the building. If they could find one unguarded and snatch it then fine. If not they would have to fight her. They ended up running into Electronique.
"Shego." The woman exclaimed in surprise. "About time you showed up."
Shego tossed plasma at the woman, forcing her to dodge before she could aim the Reverse Polarizer and fire. "Why were you expecting me to show up?" She asked.
"You're a part of Team Ego, of course you would show up." Electronique aimed the device and fired.
"What?" Shego blinked and dodged the ray from the Reverse Polarizer. "No one told you I quit the team?"
"You quit?"
"Yeah. This is the first time I've been back in nearly five years." Shego tossed more plasma at the woman, forcing her to back away.
"No one told me." Electronique sounded stunned. "I had them out in the city stirring things up trying to drive you out." She aimed at Shego and fired.
"You mean that chaos out there was just to find me.? Shego dodged and more plasma got fired.
"Yeah. I'm turning all of Team Ego evil. You're the last one on my list." The woman dodged and then was forced back another step before she could use the Reverse Polarizer.
"Sorry to tell you but I'm already evil. I quit the team and went into villainy." Shego explained. She kept tossing plasma, trying not to hit the device the Buffoon needed.
"You're a villain. No one told me!" The shock froze Electonique long enough for Shego to hit her with plasma. Stunned she fell to the ground.
Ron grabbed the device and ran. Shego was right behind him. Blue bolts of energy blazed around them. It seemed Shego's plasma had only knocked the woman out for a split second. They entered the hovercraft and took off. Cloaked they could look down and see the woman shaking her fist at the sky.
"What now Buffoon?" Shego asked. Her wounds hurt and she wanted rest but if the Buffoon still needed her then she would help.
"Now I improve it a little."
"Improve something Electronique made? Is that possible?" Shego sounded doubtful.
"Of course it is Shego. There a lot of ways it can be improved."
"Such as?"
"Such as making the ray neutrino based so it can penetrate walls."
"You can do that?"
"I don't see why not." Ron answered. "Then we can just stand back in the hovercraft at a safe distance and change them back."
Shego went to rest. She was smart but the Buffoon was the one with the innate technological ingenuity.
It took four hours. The whole machine had to be practically rebuilt in order to use neutrinos. Still it was done. Electonique made it easy. She had called all six of her fellow subordinate villains back to Go Tower. Shego set the hovercraft to hover just a short distance above the tower and Ron started firing, using the hovercraft's sensors to aim. He converted all seven to being good, including Electronique.
Shego opened the door for them again and they walked into the control tower where everyone had been gathered.
Kim jumped to her feet upon seeing Shego.
"Now's not the time KP." Ron ordered.
"But..."
"Was everyone changed back to being good?" Ron asked. He looked around the room. No one seemed to be particularly evil.
"We're okay now." Mark answered him. "Something changed us back. They even made Electronique good."
Ron took the Reverse Polarizer and smashed it on the floor. It smashed to pieces. Everyone except Shego jumped.
"Good riddance." He looked at Hego. "If there are any more of those devices in this tower destroy them."
"But protocol number ninety-seven clearly dictates that..."
Ron decked him. "Destroy them." It wasn't a request. He thought of the chaos the city had just underwent. Of the two girls Shego had brought out of that burning building. Of the burns Shego had received.
"That was the only one." Electronique helpfully spoke up.
Ron looked at Hego. "Why didn't you just say that?"
The man was on the floor, rubbing his chin, looking surprised.
Ron looked at Kim. "You okay KP?" She looked tired but otherwise seemed okay to his eyes.
"I am." She reassured him. She looked at Shego. "Is she good too now?"
Shego lit her hands. "Not in a million years Princess."
Kim crouched down in a fighting stance.
Ron sighed. He saw the two Wegos staring at Shego. "Aren't you going to say hi to your sister?" He asked.
The two swarmed Shego. "Hi sis. We missed you."
She was forced to let the plasma fade from her hands. Kim couldn't hit her for fear of hitting the Wegos.
Shego knelt down and held the Wegos. "You guys okay?" She asked.
"We are." They answered back. She hugged them. She didn't want to ever let go.
Mission completed Team Possible soon departed. It was hard to get Kim to leave without first fighting Shego. Between then Ron and Mark convinced her.
Ron had a lot of explaining to do. He simply told them that despite being a villain Shego loved her brothers, the Wegos. That she had helped for their sake. It was true. She would, he knew, do anything for them. That the Shego everyone thought of as a villain was capable of love.
Kim refused to believe Shego was capable of love.
Ron had asked her what other explanation could there be. She'd been stumped.
He'd had to explain how he could knock down Hego. He'd pointed at the device on his wrist and explained how it worked. Kim had seemed surprised he could make such an item. Mark hadn't seemed the least bit surprised.
He sat back on the grass. He'd spent an hour on exercises, an hour on meditation. He was too tired to do anything else other than sit back and stare up at the sky. He doubted Shego would come. Not with her injuries. As usual he was proved wrong.
The door of the hovercraft opened and she stepped out. She moved slowly, carefully. She entered the house and exited with a plate of food and some coffee. She sat back to eat.
"Thanks." She finally said.
"For what?"
"For helping me with the Wegos. Making them good again. It's okay if I'm a villain hiding in a lair. It's not okay for them."
"You helped me get Mark and Kim back to normal." He pointed out.
"A beneficial relationship."
"A beneficial relationship." He agreed. "How are you feeling?"
"Okay. Two days, three at the most, and I will be as good as new."
"You know that little girl in that building?"
Shego froze. "What about her?"
"She looked an awful lot like the older girl. I'll bet they're sisters." He looked at Shego. "She might always remember you as the one who burned her but she will also remember you as the one who saved her little sister."
Shego thought about it. "You think?" She finally asked.
"I'm sure of it."
She rose to leave. She turned to him and her lips met his, briefly, gently. She pulled away. "Thanks." She'd said again. She disappeared into the hovercraft. Inside she let the craft hover for a few seconds before she left for the lair. She'd watched the startled look on the Buffoon's face. Watched to see how he reacted. She didn't think he was displeased. That made her happy.
End of Chapter.