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Ron and Shego in the Lair, Gill makes an appearance
Ron sat across the kitchen table from Shego. She was eating while he was modifying the wristlet. He wondered if he should give it a name. Just calling it a wristlet seemed sort of plain. He decided it didn't really matter. It was what something did that was important, not the name assigned to it. Probably why Drakkens's plots fail, he thought. He's so busy thinking up a name for the device that he misses the more important details.
He recalled the night before. It had been raining so the two of them had spent the evening inside, talking. They had watched some tv in his room. It was the only tv in the house. His father thought tvs were a passing fad. With the tv going, totally content, they had fallen asleep. He had woke up this morning with her in his arms. It had been surreal. He had watched her sleep. Her soft breathing, the content smile on her face. The feel of her in his arms. The dangerous game they were playing definitely had its rewards. During the night not once had the nightmare disturbed his sleep.
Nothing serious had happened but that was where they were headed. The time would come when they would no longer be just girlfriend/boyfriend. They would be lovers. There was no rush. At the moment he was quite content to be where he was, with her.
He had learned her age last night. It was something he should have already known. He had had all the information he needed. She had been sixteen when she graduated highschool, skipping two years. She had spent a year as a thief and then hired on with Drakken for what had been nearly four years. She was twenty-one. He would soon be eighteen. Just a little over three years difference. It was, he thought, an okay difference in age.
He finished making a few adjustments to the wristlet and put it on. He held up his hand and looked at Shego. "Zap me." She did so. The wristlet worked to perfection. It detected the incoming energy and used it to make a counter frequency. The same as before. But now it could handle a greater amount of power and focus the counter frequency into a narrower beam. The changes enabled it to act as a small force field. He had also added capacitors which used his body heat to recharge. It allowed him to counter a large amount of energy once, and then smaller amounts for an unlimited number of times. The capacitors could also be used during a punch, delivering an attack that would always find the weakness of someone supercharged with comet powers like Hego.
Shego studied the wristlet the Buffoon was wearing while she continued to eat her breakfast. It was interesting. They had sparred a few times with him wearing it. He might not have her speed and strength but that device neutralized her endurance. When one of his punches landed it could hurt her just the same as it had when he hit Hego. Of course with her he pulled his punches when wearing the device. She would bet that with an all out punch, boosted by those capacitors he had just added, he could knock her or Hego out cold. Easily so. He was pretty strong.
She took a bite of egg. It looked like just a simple egg, fried, but the taste was very unique and good. She wondered what the Buffoon had done with it. She recalled the way she had woke, cuddled up in his arms. It had been heaven.
She eyed the wristlet again. "You know if you made a suit with gadgets like that you would be pretty much unbeatable."
"Sure, but where would I get the parts? They're expensive." Ron replied.
'"Steal them." She suggested.
He smiled. He knew she was joking. Or half joking anyway.
She sighed. "Time to head back to the lair. Drakken is probably wondering where I'm at, and you should get too school."
Ron nodded. "Guess so." He replied reluctantly. It still took them ten minutes to get out the door. Exactly how long the good-bye kiss lasted.
Ron watched Rufus as he jumped around the school cafeteria. He had polished off the lunch Ron had brought for him and then started gobbling down every piece of mystery meat he could find unattended in the cafeteria. The little guy was back to a hundred percent but Ron still didn't let him come on missions. For one thing he never knew whether he should treat Shego as a friend or foe. Whether to attack her when Ron and Shego were sparring, or to run up to her in a lair and say 'cheese.'
"He seems to be better." Kim commented.
"Yeah. That's one worry off my shoulders." Ron replied.
"You going to let him go on missions with us again?"
"Not for the time being." Ron answered.
Kim nodded. Rufus had been a big help a lot of times but she understood Ron's worry. Besides, Ron had more than stepped up enough to make up for Rufus not being there. "You modified the wristlet?" She asked. It looked a little different.
"Yeah. Added a few extra features and made it so can it handle more power."
"Still no parts to make one for me and Mark?" She'd asked him to. The device was amazing. Shego would really feel a hit from that if she had one.
"Sorry, KP. The parts are pretty expensive and the compound the antenna is made out of is very rare. I could probably get the parts from your father if he knew it would help your missions but the antenna is a whole different matter." It was true, the antenna was made out of a very rare compound that was neither metal nor crystal but a combination of both. And the wiring to convert the energy had to be made out of the same material. He didn't have a single gram of it left.
He looked at the wristlet. "Actually I'm not even sure where the material for this one's antenna came from. It was just lying around in a bunch of parts left over from things the twins and Felix had made and left over at my place." He shuddered. "Just how many contraptions of theirs did I test I wonder?"
Kim grinned. She knew it was a lot. He and Rufus had been the tweebs' guinea pig quite a few times. Not to mention for Wade and Felix at times. It was a wonder he was still in one piece. It must have taken a lot of courage for him to test some of the things they'd come up with.
"I could still make things if I had the parts. Just not one of those. That, along with the stuff Wade makes, should help out on the missions some."
"I'll speak to my father about it." Kim agreed happily. She liked the stuff Wade came up with and Ron seemed to be on the same level as Wade when it came to that sort of thing.
Ron looked at Mark. "Of course you could always accept DNAmy's offer to upgrade you. Bat wings and gorilla arms." He grinned.
"No thanks." Mark shuddered. "I doubt Kim would approve of gorilla arms."
"I wouldn't." Kim stated. "I like him just the way he is."
Beep! Beep! Beep!
Kim flipped open her Kimmunicator and turned it on. "What's the sitch?" She asked.
"It's Drakken again Kim."
"What's it this time?"
"He's stolen a crystal and used it to make a laser cannon. It will have enough power to punch through the earth's crust." Wade paused.
"Where he get the crystal?" Ron asked.
"There's a company researching how to make artificial diamonds. They've developed a method to create a perfect diamond of any size."
"And it can punch through the earth's crust?"
"At its weak spots the earth's crust is only seven kilometers thick. The laser can penetrate to a dept of eleven kilometers. He will be able to wipe out whole cities at the push of a button." Wade explained.
"Got a ride ready?" Kim asked.
"It's just thirty kilometers from your location. I suggest you take your car."
"Okay. Give us directions." The redhead ordered.
The lair was pretty typical for Drakken's lairs. A place that was supposed to be hidden, but wasn't. It didn't take the trio long to arrive at the main lab of the lair.
"Kim Possible!" Drakken exclaimed.
Ron looked around. He spotted Shego standing a few steps behind Drakken who had been working at a console of some sort. He forced his eyes off her. The center of the room was taken up by what was probably the laser. He looked at it. Impressive, he thought.
"Give it up Drakken. It's over." Kim Possible was ready to jump into action. As usual.
"It's my greatest plan yet Kim Possible. You're no match for me this time." He pointed and ten synthodrones rushed into the room.
Only ten, Ron thought as he and Mark moved into action. He knows that isn't nearly enough to overwhelm us. He was cautious. Something was off here. He stepped back from his attack and tried to warn Mark to do the same. It was too late. Mark stepped up behind one of the synthodrones and punched. There was green goo. There was also a cloud of gas that erupted and enveloped Mark who fell unconscious to the ground.
Ron ran from the four synthodrones that were trying to close with him. Booby-traps, he realized. if we take one down we get taken down ourselves. If we don't then eventually we tire and they get to beat us up. He kept running away from them. Thankfully he only had four to avoid. He saw Kim was easily avoiding the five that was trying to close with her.
Looking Ron noticed Shego was smiling at him. She was obviously wondering how he was going to get out of this one. The self-destruct was right behind her. It would be hard to reach. But, he thought, who needs a self-destruct when they got a mega laser cannon to use. If only I had time to use it. Drakken he saw was fiddling with the machine.
He rushed at Drakken, grabbed him, and tossed him in the path of the synthodrones. Two of them went down. He easily avoided the third. When Drakken stood up he grabbed him again and tossed him once more into the path of the synthetic men. Once again two of them were tripped. He repeated the process again. It kept Drakken from working on the machine and it kept the synthodrones from him.
"Stop that! Stop that!" Drakken was yelling as he was tossed around. "Shego help."
"Dr. D." Shego calmly explained. "I'm supposed to guard the self-destruct remember. You're on your own here." She did however toss a few balls of plasma the Buffoon's way, just to make things more interesting. She wondered how long the two heroes could keep it up. Princess was wasting way too much energy each time she jumped away from the five chasing her. She would tire in no time. Then all the synthodrones would be free to chase the Buffoon who was more conservative in his use of energy. However, she thought, the Buffoon will come up with something. She was right.
Ron saw the synthodrones trip over Drakken again and had an idea. If I can control where they fall then... He looked around the lab and saw that the laser cannon had several sharp spikes pointing out of each side. To feed energy into the machine, he thought, his mind immediately analyzing their purpose. He had another purpose in mind. The next time he used Drakken to trip the synthodrones he planned it so that one of them would fall on one of the sharp edges. It exploded, releasing the gas. There were now three chasing him. With Drakken now fast asleep he was of no use.
Shego watched and sighed. She tossed a few more plasma balls. Some at the Princess, some at the Buffoon. Neither of them had any trouble avoiding them. The Buffoon used a chair to trip another synthodrone. It fell on a spike and exploded. For him two down and two to go, she thought. Still zero down and five to go for the Princess.
Kim noticed the trick Ron was using and started to use it herself. She started kicking chairs around, tripping the synthodrones onto the spikes, keeping a safe distance from their booby-traps. And Ron comes through again, she thought.
Shego started tossing all the plasma she could at Princess. At least within the limits she set herself.
Kim was having trouble. Still having three synthodrones after her and having to avoid the plasma was too much. Just as she kicked a chair to bring down a third the plasma hit her. Then the two remaining synthodrones were on her. One of their booby-traps went off and she was fast asleep.
Ron meanwhile had eliminated the remaining two chasing him. Glad these chairs are nearly unbreakable and reusable, he thought as the last remaining synthodrone closed in on him. He took a position directly across from Shego, with the machine in between them. It acted as a shield against her plasma. He kicked a chair and the last synthodrone expired.
"Well done, Buffoon." Shego congratulated him.
"Thanks Shego."
"However you still lose. Drakken will wake up and resume his plan."
"Have you looked at that laser lately?" Ron asked.
Shego looked. Having nine synthodrone fall on it hadn't done much physical damage. But while the synthodrones had carried canisters of gas they had been mainly goo. The machine was covered in it.
"Hrm. I guess all that goo isn't good for the machine." She sighed. The laser would need a lot of work before it could fire.
"What was it called anyway? We didn't give Drakken time to get into his rant."
Shego thought for a second. "I'm not sure. Mega Laser, or something like that. I didn't really pay attention."
"Well, if he tries firing it now all the energy is just going to go into the machine and heat it up. It would explode. The goo has jammed everything."
"He can build another so long as he has the diamond."
"True." Ron reached up and pulled the diamond from the top of the machine.
"Hey." Shego replied to the action.
"So what now?" Ron asked.
"We could fight but that would leave the self-destruct unguarded." She looked down at the three sleeping forms on the floor. "Of course if you hit that you would have two people to carry out."
"I could manage to drag them."
Shego looked at the Mega laser. The Buffoon was still hidden behind it. Safe from her plasma.
"Thought if I wanted to hit a self-destruct all I would need to do is turn the laser on." The Buffoon spoke from his hiding place.
"Hrm. True." Shego admitted.
"How long will that stuff keep them out for?"
"An hour. Maybe less for Princess' boy toy."
"So we wait?"
"We wait." Shego agreed.
"You know, seeing all these parts lying around is almost enough to make me want to be a villain. Just imagine what I can build with them." Ron drooled at the sight.
Shego laughed. It felt good. True laughter was a skill she had only just started relearning. "There's a lot more where these came from."
"Where does Drakken get all these parts anyway."
"Mostly from Hench Co. Rob a few banks, make a few million, then buy the parts. Some though are specially ordered, as in I got to steal them from various places."
"I just realized something." Ron admitted.
"Oh." Shego asked.
"Soon as Kim and Mark start to wake up you can just knocked them out with your plasma. Of course Drakken is on my side of the laser so I can keep knocking him out. This waiting game will never end."
"You just noticed that Buffoon? About time."
"Blame it on the company. You're very distracting."
Shego smiled. "So what now then."
"I guess I hit the self-destruct." Ron answered.
"We fight?" Shego asked.
"Nay. I mean the laser. It will give us about a minute to get out. Maybe two."
"That's no fun." Shego pouted.
"Sure it is Shego. Just think of all the villainous jobs Drakken will have for you. He will need to replace all these parts after all."
"True." She admitted. "If the lairs didn't get blown up I would be pretty bored with nothing to do."
Ron flipped the switch that turned the laser on and then smashed it. "Time to get out." He call to Shego. He ran to Kim and dragged her to the door. He then dragged Mark to the door. Mark, he noted, weighed a ton. Then he dragged them both away from the lair before the laser exploded. He had taken note of Shego grabbing Drakken and fleeing too.
A hovercraft dropped down in front of him. "Later Buffoon." Shego's voice came from it.
"Later Shego." Ron replied. He watched the craft disappear. It would, he realized, be a lot more fun to be in it with her. He sat down on the ground. Both Kim and Mark seemed to be fine, just asleep.
Shego slowed the hovercraft and looked back for a few seconds. The Buffoon was sitting on the ground, waiting for his friends to wake up. She wished he was in the hovercraft with her. She looked down at Drakken. She would get him to one of his backup lairs. Given how fast they got destroyed he had quite a few. Then she would be busy gathering items for him. It would be late before she got to the Buffoon's tonight. She sighed.
She recalled the last month. The making-out had gotten more intense. She knew soon they would take that next step. Maybe tonight. She didn't want to rush things though. She would be careful to wait until he was ready. She was no longer existing from day to day in a lair. She was hoping, dreaming. She was afraid that the dream would crumble. So she would be careful. No dream lasted forever, but she would make sure this one lasted as long as it could.
She set the hovercraft on autopilot and sat back. She watched the ground pass below. At the speed she was going not much could be seen. It came and went before the eye could register it. It was hypnotic. She sat back and thought about her future.
She was no longer sure she wanted to be a villain. That was irrelevant though. Once a villain always a villain. There was no turning back. Global Justice was not about to forgive her transgressions. Nor would the other dozen or so countries she was wanted in. She was sure she didn't want to be a hero. There were two types of heroes. The cartoonish ones like her brother Hego who believed justice always triumphed over evil. Who had silly ideals. His kind could never burn out. They were too far gone from reality. Then there was Princess. Those kind either got out of the game early, if they were wise, or they burned out. She thought that Princess was wise. She would get out of the game.
She'd once had a pretty good life and had thrown it away. She knew that now. She'd had options other than Hego. She could have went to Mego. Sure he was self-centered but he was more of a realist. He would have helped. He was good at convincing Hego of things when he wanted to. And he could have stayed with the Wegos, shrunk, and kept an eye on them. Or, she could have even gone to Dr. Betty Director. She had done a few good deeds for Global Justice. She had even talked to Dr. Betty Director a few times. She could have asked for help there. She hadn't. Instead she had hurt that girl and then taken her guilt over it out on Hego.
Where did that leave her now if she wanted a life with the Buffoon? She sighed. Not in a very good position, was the only answer she could come up with.
The hovercraft slowed and she took control. They were at the new lair.
Ron sat working at the kitchen table. He'd sorted through the parts he had, went begging at the tweebs and then went crawling to Felix. He had amassed enough items to build a few things. Not much but something. What he'd decided on was a simple gauntlet. Nothing fancy. Just something that would store mechanical energy and then allow the user to release it in a punch. Either as kinetic energy or as electrical energy. It would, he thought, have come in useful with those beefed up synthodrones and synthobots Drakken and Dementor had come up with. The extra power of the punch would have allowed them to compensate for the extra armor the synthodrones had had.
The gauntlet could be charged through an electrical outlet or by the wear's body movements such as flexing the fingers or the arm. Depending on how high the user set the output it would allow one punch at ten times normal strength, or ten punches at double their normal strength. Given how strong Mark was Ron thought he would like it.
After it was finished he studied it. Ten punches was better than nothing but still not a lot he decided. He added the ability to recharge through the warmth of the user's hand and added the ability to plug in a battery that would give an extra punch at ten times normal strength per battery. Given Mark's strength he figured the guy could just carry a few batteries. Besides, unless he wanted to kill someone he wouldn't be using it at ten times the normal power.
He went into the backyard to give it a test.
"Hello dweeb." Came a familiar voice.
Ron didn't even both to look before he was dodging. He knew Gill would already be throwing slime. He was right. Some hit the spot he'd been standing in.
"Hello Gill." He replied, looking over at the mutated boy, ready to dodge again.
"Afraid dweeb?" The mutant smiled. He wanted to see the dweeb frightened.
Ron flooded his system with strength and speed boosts. Then he set the gauntlet's output to ten times normal. Focusing he brought his hand down on a boulder the size of a large grocery cart. It shattered into dozens of pieces. "Not really." He answered the mutant.
The mutant's eyes went wide. He ran. "I'll be back dweeb." He yelled behind him.
Ron shrugged and proceeded to throughly test the gauntlet. Then he went in and made one for himself. He didn't like it. Too bulky. He could have made something much better if he'd had the parts.
Later than evening Ron sat back on the grass. He watched as Shego appeared from the hovercraft. "Shego." He greeted her with a smile.
"Buffoon." She sat down beside him.
"Get Drakken settled in a new lair?"
"Yeah. Hit a few places and got him some parts. He's busy working on some new idea. I will give him this, no matter how many times he fails he never gives up."
"I've noticed that." Ron admitted. It was one of Drakken's traits that he admired. Too bad the guy was a villain.
Shego ran her hand through the Buffoon's hair. She wondered if tonight would be the night. She stared up at the starry sky.
Ron showed her the gauntlet. She could tell he wasn't pleased with it. She gave it a try. She liked it. She already had super strength and knew how to throw a punch. With this she could have punched through the door of a bank vault. Not something the Buffoon would agree with.
She sighed and gave it back. "If you're wearing that along with the wristlet then please don't set it to ten okay. At least not when you're fighting me."
"I would never try to hurt you Shego." He leaned towards her and soon they were busy kissing.
Something rose in her. A need. She looked at the Buffoon. She could tell he wasn't ready yet. She suppressed the need. Tonight wouldn't be the night. But still, this was heaven. There would always be another night, another time. Soon.
End of Chapter.
Review Questions:
- Mark is practicing with Kim. I'm sure his skills are improving. However since he isn't the focus of the story that won't be show in detail.
- Motor Ed only saw Ron in disguise so he doesn't know it was Ron.
- The Wegos only know that Ron and Shego worked together to save Team Go. Not about their relationship. I'm sure they will be bothering their sister a lot though.
- Ron and Shego accept that they are in a relationship