I do NOT own Kim Possible
Timeline:
Chapters 1-4 happens in around a month. Chapters 5-15 happens with a month or more between them (it's been over a year since chapter 1). The following chapters will be happening closer together with little time between events.
True Love's Sacrifice
Ron woke up as he usually did, five minutes before Shego, with her curled up against him. Each morning it was as indescribable as it was the morning before. A moment when he just watched her and let the emotions course through his very soul. He didn't try to understand them. Some things were not meant to be understood. He just lived in the few moments of perfect bliss and accepted them.
Shego woke too as she usually did. Feeling safe and warm. The Buffoon watching her. She stretched and enjoyed the way his eyes widen, appreciating the show. "Morning Buffoon." She smiled at him. The smile reached her eyes and her whole face lit up. She reach out and ran her hand through his hair. She pulled him close.
"Morning Shego." The Buffoon responded, his own hands reaching out. The smile she greeted him with each morning made her irresistable..
After the morning love making she showered with him. His hands washing her back, and other parts, made showering pure bliss. Of course it also meant it now took a lot longer.
Sitting down for breakfast she found the Buffoon looking at her in a strange way. "What is it?" She asked.
"If there was a way for you to give up being a villain, would you?"
She stared back. Once a villain, always a villain. She knew this. Why didn't the Buffoon?
"Forget about it being impossible. I'm asking would you? What do you want to do?"
Shego thought. "I certainly don't want to be a hero." She replied. "As for being a villain. It was fun for a while. I could do anything. And I wanted to trash the Team Go name. But now it's just a role I'm stuck in. A few jollies from fighting once in a while, but not what I want to be."
"So you would give it up?" The Buffoon was persistent.
"Yeah. I would give it up. What I would do I'm not sure but I would give it up." She could see he was satisfied with the answer.
"It's probably not impossible." He informed her.
"Ron." She interrupted. Using his name when she was serious.
"Shego. Don't worry. I know how difficult it will be. But difficult doesn't mean impossible, I have a few ideas. I won't do anything without talking it over with you first okay? Trust me?" He smiled at her.
She gave in. His smile did that too her. "No rash actions without talking it over with me first okay?" She insisted.
"I promise Shego."
They ate. As usual the meal was delicious. They parted after a long good-bye kiss. She for the lair, he for school.
Shego sat back in the hovercraft, letting the autopilot do all the work. She wondered what the Buffoon's plan was. Not that it would work. Global Justice had never removed a villain from their wanted list. Not even when the villain died. They kept the name on their list just in case the death had been faked, so people would still be on the look out. Even when they died in Global Justice custody and they had the corpse the name wasn't removed.
She had thought about running. Just not going back to him. She knew he would respect her decision. He wouldn't try to follow her. But she had learned to respect him too. To respect his decisions. He wasn't just a kid. He'd faced villains and monsters during his missions with Princess. He knew the score. So she would stay and they would try to work through it together. She hoped it was the right decision.
And perhaps he was right. She thought it was impossible but the Buffoon often tore to shreds what she believed was impossible. Take for example Drakken's killer army of synthodrones, taken down with thumbtacks. She hadn't seen that one coming. For that matter she hadn't seen love coming her way. She'd thought that impossible too. She would trust him.
Ron walked to school beside Mark and Kim. He had a bad feeling. He pushed it to one side. Whatever it was it he couldn't do anything about it. It was just a bad feeling with no information to go on. He hoped it wasn't about Shego.
He turned his thoughts to her villain dilemma. There he thought the situation wasn't as bad as she believed it to be. For one thing Shego had been a villain for a long time. She thought in terms of what she could steal. Other methods never occurred to her. Take for example the eleven countries she was wanted in. They were not that large of a problem. When it came to their self-interest countries were willing to negotiate.
He considered Japan. To supply its energy needs it had spent considerable money developing methods to extract uranium from seawater. A device that let it do that for just a few yen a kilogram would be worth a lot. For it they would be willing to negotiate. Even to the point of dropping Shego from their wanted list.
The same went for France. Over seventy-five percent of their energy came from nuclear powerplants. They were the largest exporters of electricity in the European Union. They would negotiate for the same device as Japan would. They too would be willing to drop Shego from their wanted list.
He was pretty sure there was something the other nine countries would want. He would just have to look at those countries and determine what it was and if he could make it. There would be something.
That left the matter of Global Justice. Sure Global Justice never removed a villain from their wanted list. But, on the other hand, there were villains they hardly ever went after. Take the Seniors for example. Unless it was to stop a plot they never went after them. The Seniors came and went as they pleased without worry. The reason was simple. They were worth in excess of ten billion dollars. The economic empire they controlled was worth hundreds of billions. Touching them would cause too much economic disruption. Unless they were a direct threat, they were ignored.
Of course he didn't have ten billion dollars and didn't control an economic empire worth hundreds of billions. However it did show that Global Justice could be persuaded to be reasonable. It just came down to thinking of a method that would persuade them. That, he knew, would require quite a bit of thinking. He did have a few ideas. Just nothing that was workable yet.
"Ron." Kim's voice brought him back to where he was.
He looked around. They were at the school entrance. He had been lost in his thoughts during the whole walk.
"Anything wrong?" She asked.
"Just a bad feeling something bad is about to happen."
"Anything in particular?
"No. Just this horrible feeling. Nothing I can pin down." He shuddered.
Shego walked into the lair. She stopped and stared. There was a nine-foot tall green woman there beside Drakken along with a number of advanced looking devices all around the place. She was sure they hadn't been there when she left yesterday. She had a bad feeling about this.
"What's up Dr. D?" She greeted her boss.
"Morning Shego. This is Warmonga." He went back to examining the strange devices.
"Ummm. Where she come from?"
"I am from the planet Lorwardia. I have come to this world to serve the Great Blue." The nine-foot tall green woman spoke.
"Great Blue?" Shego was baffled.
"She recognizes my greatness Shego. Look at all the devices of destruction she brought with her." Drakken pointed around the room. He was excited.
"Your greatness?" Shego was skeptical.
"Yes Shego. My greatness. She doesn't mock me like you do."
"Okay, okay, Dr. D." Shego shrugged. At least Dr. D would have someone around to keep him safe if she left.
"You serve the great Blue too?" The new woman asked Shego.
"I guess you could say that." Shego admitted.
"Shego. Look at all the devices." He pointed at one. "This is a ..."
"Neutron Imploder oh Great Blue. It will cause a thermonuclear reaction in any matter it hits." Warmonga spoke.
"What a great doomsday machine it will make." He turned and pointed at another. "This is a ..."
"Black Hole Replicator oh Great Blue. It will replicate the effects of a black hole's great gravimetic disruption within a ten kilometer radius of the beam." Warmonga explained.
"Shego was pretty sure she'd explained before and Dr. D had just forgotten."
"Another perfect doomsday device Shego. They all are." Drakken practically danced around the room in excitement pointing at the machines.
"With you and Warmonga to guard the lair from Kim Possible and with these devices I will be unbeatable. The world is finally ours Shego."
"Are you really sure you want to use these Dr. D? I mean you don't even understand how they work."
"Of course I do Shego. Why wouldn't I? Nothing can stand against me now." He was beyond reason.
Shego sighed.
"You do not approve of the Great Blue's decision?" Warmonga asked her. She had noticed the sigh.
"Not really. His plans always has a way of going wrong."
Warmonga frowned. This woman did not respect the Great Blue as she should.
"Just what do you mean by the Great Blue anyway." Shego was curious. "What is he supposed to do?"
"He is the one that will lead the Lorwardian race across the galaxy. All shall fall before us and kneel before the Great Blue."
Shego laughed. "He can't even open a jar of pickles for crying out loud. How is he supposed to rule a galaxy?"
"Shego. What did we say about words hurting?" Drakken demanded.
"Shall I take care of her for you oh Great Blue?" Warmonga asked.
"Yes. Do that." Drakken answered without thinking.
Warmonga attacked and Shego found herself flying across the room. The woman, she realized, had a pretty good punch. Shego hit the wall but staggered back to her feet. She lit her fists and tossed some plasma at Warmonga.
Warmonga dodged the plasma with ease. She moved in with blinding speed, delivered another punch, and rapidly backed off. Shego flew through the air and hit the wall again.
Shego got to her feet slower this time. She looked at Warmonga. The woman, she realized, was playing with her. Shego lit her fists again and threw multiple bursts of plasma at the nine-foot woman. Somehow the woman dodge it. How someone that size could be so agile was beyond Shego. Something should have hit.
Warmonga moved in again and hit Shego. Shego hit the wall again. Again she got to her feet.
Shego held off on the plasma this time. It wasn't working. She watched the giant in front of her. From the expression on her face Shego knew this woman liked killing. Not just fighting. She liked killing. Shego had seen such people before. Even as a villain she'd avoided them. She wondered if Drakken knew that 'take care of' in Warmonga's vocabulary meant kill. She doubted it.
Shego waited, watching the giant. Something told her Warmonga was about to strike and she lit her hands, throwing out plasma. She felt herself go flying through the air. She hit the wall again and barely struggled to her feet. No one had ever hit her that hard before. Warmonga was back to standing just several feet away. She was unharmed. Shego had been sure she'd hit her with at least some plasma this time. Yet there wasn't a single burn.
Warmonga smirked. She moved in and struck again.
Shego remained on the floor. From the way her ribs felt she knew some were broken. She was bleeding in numerous places and was sure she had some internal bleeding. She was going to die here. She eyed the self-destruct. It was her only way out. She stood up, preparing to summon all the plasma she could, to go all out. She didn't have time.
Warmonga moved in again. This time with a kick that actually sent Shego through a wall of solid stone..
Shego gasped for breath. More ribs had been broken. Her head was one massive ball of pain. She struggled to her feet. She knew the Buffoon would be here when Drakken implemented his next plan. That he would have to face that beast. She had to ...
Warmonga moved in with another kick. Shego was sent flying again.
Collapsed lung, Shego realized as she tried to breathe. Not that the pain mattered much. She was used to it. But she couldn't move like she needed to if her body didn't have enough oxygen. She needed to hit that damn button. She stood up. She went flying again as Warmonga kicked her again.
"Stop! Stop! Stop!"
She distantly heard Drakken shouting. Seems he had finally figured out what 'take care of' meant. Shego blacked out. When she came to she was hung on the wall with chains. She looked at them, ignoring the pain as she moved her head. They were, she was pretty sure, plasma proof. She could also feel an electro-magnetic field that would in any event disrupted her ability to use plasma. She took stock of her injuries. Nothing that wouldn't heal in a few day if she was given the time. However she doubted she would have that time.
"Do not speak of the Great Blue with disrespect again."
Shego looked. It was Warmonga speaking to her. She didn't have a mark on her.
"You're not eating your lunch Ron?" Kim asked. She looked at her best friend worriedly. Ron always ate no matter what.
"I don't feel like eating now KP."
"What's wrong?"
"Still got that bad feeling, it's getting worse."
"You want to go see the school nurse?"
"I don't feel sick. I just got a bad feeling KP. Something's wrong."
Kim stared at her best friend. She opened the Kimmunicator and called Wade.
"What's up Kim." The super genius who was always online, day and night, appeared.
"Is anything going on?" Kim asked.
"Nothing too unusual. Some sunspot activity is the biggest news at the moment."
"Oh. Keep an eye out okay."
"Will do." The super genius signed off.
Kim looked at Ron. Sure it was silly to think that bad feeling of his meant anything but ... She shrugged. Something felt off to her too. Something was wrong.
A few seconds later the Kimmunicator went, Beep Beep Beep.
Kim flipped it open with nervous hands. "What's the sitch Wade?" She asked.
"I just rechecked some data Kim. There's something strange about those sunspots. They're interacting with something just thirty kilometers east of your location. I tried to do a scan but the interference is pretty bad. All I could see is what might be a lair. With the image so distorted it's hard to be sure though."
"We will go and check it out." Kim told him.
"Be careful Kim." The super genius signed off.
"We're going to have to start riding to school." Kim commented. The car was still at her house.
"Yeah." Ron replied. He wasn't positive but he was pretty sure that was the direction Shego had been flying off in lately. He felt ill.
Things went as they normally did. They arrived at the lair and found an entrance through the vents. They arrive in the main lab a few minutes later.
"Kim Possible! This time you've met your match!" Drakken ranted from a corner of the room.
Ron ignored him and looked around. He froze as he saw Shego. She was hanging on a wall in chains and looked pretty badly beaten. He stared at her, fear taking hold of him. It released its grip as she looked back at him and smiled weakly. She was still alive. She would heal. All he needed to do was get her out of here. He watched as her eyes shifted direction and then back to him.
He turned to look. There was a nine-foot tall woman standing in the corner beside Drakken. He looked back to Shego. He could read her look. Danger. The woman was dangerous. Ron reached down and turned the capacitor to his wristlet on. Then he set the power on his gauntlet to ten. Anything that could hurt Shego like that was dangerous. And anything that hurt Shego like that was something he wanted to hurt.
He turned to look at Kim and Mark. They had, he noted, already seen the woman. It was only his concern for Shego that had stopped him from seeing the strange woman as soon as he entered the lair. Ron poke Mark and then pointed to his gauntlet. He mouthed the word, ten.
He then looked around some more. The room was full of strange machines. His innate sense of how technology worked told him the basics of each. It also told him it wasn't human minds that had designed them. They were somehow strange. It was like knowing English and then trying to read a different dialect. He could read it, but it wasn't the dialect he was used to. Alien, was the word that came to mind. He shuddered. There was something malevolent about those machines.
"What are you up to this time Drakken?" Kim asked. The huge woman made her nervous.
"Taking over my world Kim Possible. There is nothing that can stop me this time." Drakken was sure of himself.
"Who's she?" Kim nodded at Warmonga.
"Warmonga, my new assistant. She's the one you will be fighting today. Unless you want to surrender now?" Drakken felt like being generous.
"I don't think so." Kim answered. She settled into a fighting stance. This, she knew, wasn't going to be easy.
Warmonga looked at Kim. She smiled. Kim shuddered.
Kim barely had time to dodge back as the giant charged her. Even so she felt the giant's fingers graze her. She whirled around, trying to get back into a fighting stance. A blow hit her that sent her across the room. Without the suit she would have been seriously hurt.
Ron watched. He took note of Kim dodging and Warmonga twisting around to follow the dodge, off balance. That was when he moved. He put everything he had into the punch. His system was flooded with strength and speed boosts. The capacitors to the wristlet was on. The gauntlet was set to ten. As the blow struck he felt the wristlet blaze with heat. In the split second it took he knew what was happening, the wristlet was encountering technology that was trying to counter it. Then the capacitors fired and the blow hit. He felt bones break beneath the impact of the gauntlet. The giant went flying. A surprised look on her face. She hit a wall and went through.
Shego watched Warmonga go flying. She knew the fight wasn't over. She pulled on the chains holding her. She felt the bones in her hand break as she forced them through the cuffs chained to the wall. Blood squirted out from under her fingernails under the pressure, coating the wall behind her. She felt one hand come free. Then the second. Half the bones in her hands were broken, but she didn't need them to use plasma. She went to light up. Again too late.
Warmonga appeared from the shattered wall. She flicked her hand and a spear appeared. She moved.
Ron didn't even see her coming. One second she was on the other side of the room, the next she was before him. The spear had been thrust into his heart. As the snarling giantess ripped the spear from his heart he felt the massive damage the barbed ends of it did. She thrust the spear again, then again. Three times in all. He fell to the ground, the world going dark around him. Three mortal wounds in his body.
Kim froze. The world around her was spinning. This couldn't be happening. She screamed out his name, "Ron." She moved towards him and fell to his side. He was dead. No one could have survived those wounds. She screamed his name again.
Shego watched her world disappear. She stumbled towards him. The pain of her battered body didn't even register. The pain as her shattered hands hit the floor beside him didn't register. All she knew was that her world had ended. She called his name, her collapsed left lung, distorting it. She reached for him. He was so still.
Kim looked up. She saw Shego kneeling there. Why, she distantly wondered, does Shego care what happens to Ron. She moved to protect him. To keep Shego from him. And Shego backed off.
"Take him Princess and go." The voice was the voice of death.
"But..." Kim looked up and her voice froze. Plasma was flowing down Shego's face. A face that was filled with torment. A face that spoke of an end to hope. And end to everything. Shego, she knew, planned to die here. To avenge Ron.
"Take him and go." Shego had never felt such rage. Such despair. Hope given and then taken away. She didn't care any more. She would die in this place and take that bitch with her.
Kim watched as plasma rose from Shego's hands, from her feet. From her head. Spreading across her body. She felt the heat of it burn her even through her suit. She grabbed Ron and fled, Mark with her.
Shego rose and turned to face Warmonga. The bitch had stood back to watch the grief she'd caused. She'd enjoyed it, the suffering. Shego felt the fire rise in her as never before. She had always tried to control it before. To keep from burning. But now she didn't care if she burned. She saw Warmonga still gloating, even the power of a comet didn't scare her. Shego would teach her otherwise.
Warmonga moved and Shego felt the punch come through the plasma that encased her body. She went flying. But the blow wasn't as hard as the ones the giantess had hit her with before. She wondered why. And how could the bitch hit through the plasma. She stood up, her flesh burning. To win here she had to think like the Buffoon.
Warmonga moved again and Shego went flying once more. She stood up, took control off the plasma and sent it in gentle waves downward. The metal floor at her feet melted. She backed away.
Warmonga moved again and then froze. There was a startled expression on her face. Her feet were encase in metal, having sunk into the melted metal off the floor which had then solidified.
Shego stared at the monster before her. She knew the metal would not hold someone that strong for more than a split second. She felt the plasma rise around her and sent it at the monster. To her surprise a force field rose to surround Warmonga. A force field that held the plasma at bay. Shego screamed and felt her flesh burn more as she let the plasma burn out of control, trying to force it through the shield. It turned colors and Shego knew it was close to going down. But she was at her limit. She had nothing left.
She kept her focus on the woman but took the time to send one small blast into the lair speakers above her. She backed back until she was to a console. Then she hit the red button. No warning blasted out through the lab. The speakers were gone. But she knew she had only seconds to live.
She notice Drakken looking at her. Startled. Scared.
"Run" She told him and he ran.
She turned her focus back to the monster. She felt the last of her energy drain out. She tried to call on more plasma. To lower the force field enough to ensure the lair's destruction got through it. Somewhere she found the strength to throw just a little more.
Then the world around her vanished.
Shego felt pain. She had never felt anything quite like it before. Sure she had burned before, but never quite like this. She had never had half the bones in her body broken when she'd burned before. Or the collapsed lung. Nor had her head been the throbbing ball of pain it was now. What puzzled her was why she felt pain at all. Was this what it was like being dead?
She opened her one eye that still worked. She saw the glowing blue form of Hego lying across her. He must have, she realized, rushed into the lair at the last second and tried to protect her. Since she was still alive he must have succeeded somewhat. She coughed blood.
"Don't move Amy." He spoke. I'm getting you to a hospital right away. You will be okay.
Amy, Shego wondered. Not Shego? Why did he call me by my real name? He never did that.
A distance away a green arm poked up through the rubble. Warmonga crawled forth. Her body was obviously nearly shattered too. From a glance Shego could tell she had numerous broken bones and blood was flowing from a number of wounds.
Shego tried to stand up. To fight her again.
Hego pushed her down. Then he started grabbing the largest pieces of the shattered lair he could find. He threw them at the now standing giantess.
They hit and the giantess went down again. She tried to stand but Hego kept up the barrage of broken cement and steel. She pressed a button on her belt. She vanished, pulled up into the air.
Shego fell unconscious.
Ron Stoppable stood in a blue glowing place. From this view point he observed the damage his body had taken. If he had been a master of Tai Shing Pek Kwar it would not have mattered. He would have been able to heal the damage with ease. For that matter if he had been a master of that art he would never have taken the damage in the first place.
He was not a master of Tai Shing Pek Kwar. He was at best a beginner. A novice. The skill he had would not allow him to heal the fatal damage he had taken. Still he tried. He focused on his heart but what he healed there was undone in the next feeble beat of that shattered organ. His repairs wouldn't take hold.
He focused on his body. Reducing his need for oxygen. Having died many tens of thousands of times in his sleep it seemed had allowed him some mastery of that skill. Still, even in the state of suspended animation he had placed his body, he needed oxygen. Just less of it.
He slowed the rate at which his damaged heart was trying to beat. Then he tried the repairs again. Again he failed. he was dying.
Sensei stood a short distance away, watching his pupil. "Look within and you will find a power that will help."
Ron looked up from where he was standing. "Look within?"
"If you have not the ability to see it then you have not the ability to use it. Look at what flows within your body."
Ron turned and looked. He stood in the center of his being, the focal point of Mind, Body, and Spirit. He did as Sensei had ordered. He looked. And he understood.
End of Chapter.
Yen - Japanese currency
Birth control? That might get mentioned later. As two intelligent people I assume Ron and Shego are responsible enough to use it if they need it.
No, Tai Shing Pek Kwar won't save Ron from this, but (as a spoiler) he won't die. Originally I had planned to leave this chapter at the lair explosion, but thought people might think I was killing them off. I'm not.