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Comet Powers,... Common Enemy...

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. For a brief moment he even smiled. Shego, he thought as he saw the sturdy cells that flowed through his body. How many times had they made love? How many times had they made-out? Even each kiss had exchanged some of their bodily fluids. If he could channel it right then there was a source of power to heal his wounds - her comet powers. Still he would have to hurry, each moment even in this state of deep sleep consumed oxygen that he could not replace. And his body saw those cells as invaders. Tough as they were, they were still slowly dying. If he didn't do something they would be extinguished before he could use them. The chance was slim, nearly infinitesimal. Yet it did exist.

He wondered how Shego was doing. He hadn't got her out of that place. Instead he was on the edge of death himself. He had to make this work if only to save her. And if she were already dead, then to avenge her. He focused his thoughts. Anger would only consume his fading resources all the more quicker.

He studied the cells. He saw them. Knew their power. But how to make use of them. The power wasn't his. The comet power in each cell was foreign to him. He examined the cells in-depth. The body, to a master of Tai Shing Pek Kwar was a temple. Yet a temple was just a building. In a way a machine created to provide protection. The cells were a machine and with his innate knowledge of machines he studied them. He studied the flow of energies within the cell and came to a realization. The comet powers were an artificial construction. A construction designed on purpose to be compatible with Shego's body. The comet that had hit her and her brothers had not been natural. Someone had made it.

Briefly he wondered if it had been the aliens, the Lorwardians. But he thought not. He had seen their machines. They were malevolent. Designed to cause harm. The comet powers were designed to interact with the body. The construction wasn't human, but it was beautiful. The beings that had designed those powers had not been evil.

He studied the way the energies of the comet's power interacted with Shego's cells and knew what needed to be done. He needed to change the wavelength of those energies. At the moment those wavelengths made the energies compatible with Shego. He needed a wavelength that made the energies compatible with his own body. With no machines to use he wondered how he could do that.

And time was running out. He had slowed his body to a near death state. Still each cell was consuming the fading resources left to it. Mainly oxygen. Not only that but to think at a normal speed he was using his Mental and Spiritual energies. That too was fading. Soon it would fail and his brain would be reduced to thinking no faster than its slowed state could sustain. If that happened he would be dead in minutes.

He focused. He saw one of the cells die and nearly wept. It was a part of Shego that had died. For some reason that hurt, even with him knowing it had been just a single cell. He prayed that, hopefully, she was still alive and whole.

He controlled the flow of energies within his body and slowly he brought some of those cells to his heart. The task took a long time. Too long maybe. He studied the wavelengths and computed the wavelength he needed. He had nothing to work with but his own body. So he used the water within his body as a lens.

There were millions of her cells within his body, yet they faded as he tried again and again to convert their wavelengths to one compatible with his own body. Then as one of her cells died it gave up the infinitesimal remains of the comet power it had left. That power radiated out through the liquid lens he had surrounded it with. Briefly it touched on one of his cells and that cell changed, it absorbed the power. Within the power of the comet took hold.

He watched. Slowly the feeble power that the cell had absorbed grew. In the outside world he knew hours must have passed with him just watching that one cell. Finally it was full of power, The energy it contained radiated outward and touched the nearby cells. Including a few blood cells that had been near by. The flame in those cells slowly grew. Hours more passed. Then finally, they too started to radiate their comet powers to the nearby cells.

It was a race against time. The human body contained a hundred trillion cells. From one cell the comet powers would have to grow, touching each of those cells. It would take a long long time. Days would pass before the power was great enough to heal the damage. He slowed his rate of thinking to conserve energy. From here on he would just have to wait. There was nothing else he could do. He watched from his focal point, observing his body for one last time, before he let his consciousness fade. The oxygen was lasting longer than expected. It changed the balance. There would be enough time.

Kim sat in a chair watching the very still form of her best friend. She recalled how she had run from the lair. Had heard it explode just a minute later. She'd hoped that the creature that had killed Ron was dead. She wasn't sure why she had run though. She should have stayed and fought too. It was the least she could have done for him. To have stayed there and died along with him. Like Shego had planned to do. But Shego had ordered her, and for some reason Kim had obeyed.

She had, even knowing it was hopeless, pushed the car to its limits. The thirty kilometer drive had taken less than fifteen minutes. She had taken turns at speeds that should have left them all dead. Mark had been in the back, holding onto the bloody form that had once been her best friend.

She recalled the doctors taking a quick look at his body and noting the time. There had been no need to check to see if he was dead. His heart was a gaping wound. Both lungs had been pierced with that damn spear. Both were collapsed. That monster had obviously known some human anatomy to strike where she did.

She recalled her mother standing over him, weeping. She had taken her stethoscope and placed it against his chest, just above the wound to his heart. Kim guessed something in her mother was just unaccepting. She had had to make sure. Ron, Kim knew, was as much a son to her mother as she, Kim, was a daughter. She had watched her mother weep. Kim was still holding his cold hand. He was dead. She hadn't known what to do. For perhaps the first time in her life Kim had felt true hopelessness. True despair. For the first time in her life she knew there was something a Possible could not do.

Then something in her mother's face had flinched. Disbelieving, yet a flicker of hope. Then her mother had looked at the body again and that look had faded. Yet that look had come again. She could recall the disbelief on her mother's face. She had stood there, holding that stethoscope to his chest for more than fifteen minutes before Kim saw acceptance in her face. There was a heart beat. One very faint one every three minutes.

He had had one hope. A lung and heart transplant. He wouldn't get it. For one thing there was no time to find a suitable donor. And then there were the sunspots. The equipment needed to perform such a delicate surgery would be disrupted by them.

So for six days she had sat in this room, holding his hand. Mark brought her food. She had watched the heart monitor and the fantastically low heart beat it showed. She expected it to stop at any time. It should have. It didn't. It had lasted for six days. The bandages around his chest were red. Each heart beat, feeble as it was, caused minor bleeding. Some blood was pumped along his veins, some was bled out through the hole in his heart. Blood was being pumped into him to replace the little he lost. There had been some argument over that. Her mother had said yes, the doctors treating him had said no. The blood loss was so slow they said that it wasn't a concern. And that he would die anyway in a manner of minutes. Her mother had won.

She looked over to the corner of the room. Shego was there. Kim wasn't sure why she'd allowed her in. But she had. She recalled the look on the woman's face as she'd ordered Kim to take Ron and flee. That total acceptance of death to avenge the person Kim had held in her arms. The person Kim had failed to protect. She thought that maybe the person willing to do that deserved to at least be there when he died.

Then, just the day before, Shego had done something strange. She had stood up and approached Ron as close as Kim would allow her too. Her eyes had been wide, her face had held the same expression as her mother's had when she had felt that first heart beat. "There's a chance." The woman had said. Then she had went back to her chair.

The heart monitor beeped again. He wasn't dead yet. Kim felt hope. He should be dying, but he wasn't. And though Shego had refused to say anything else Kim held her words in her heart. There was a chance.

Shego had woke up to a world of pain. The people at the Middleton hospital where Hego had brought her had not known how to treat her wounds. They had set the bones. Or at least as many of them as they could. Hego had tried to get them to give her more pain killers since her body got rid of any foreign substances with astonishing speed but they had refused. Not that it was too bad when she didn't move. It didn't really matter.

What did anything matter? The Buffoon was dead. She had failed to kill the monster that had killed him. She was still alive out there somewhere. And she had a star ship. She was probably far beyond Shego's reach by now.

As for her. Her wounds would heal regardless of what the medical staff did. Her body would mend without pain killers. Even the tiny amount of food she was being fed would only slow the process down.

Then word had come from Global Justice. Her pain killers were increased and she was allowed to eat whatever she wanted. It meant she would heal faster. But what did that matter. Soon they would come for her and she would be in a cell again. This time she would stay there.

She had spoke with Hego a bit. It seemed he had been called by Wade. Wade had wanted information on what the Team Go electrical systems were like with the sunspot activity. He had, in passing, remarked that something close to Middleton was reacting to the sunspots. Hego it seemed, had decided to check it out. He was after all a hero. Strange things were to be checked out. He had seen Kim's car fleeing at over a hundred kilometers per hour. That, to Shego, is where things got strange. Rather than following protocol and stopping the speeding car her brother had decided to check out the lair. Even stranger was him calling her Amy, not Shego, but Amy. Not that it mattered any more.

Then after two days lying in bed she head heard that the Buffoon was dying, but not dead. She had asked to see him and it seemed that Princess, who stood guard over him day and night, had allowed it. The gratitude she had felt for Princess then was beyond words.

He had been so pale. The heart monitor showed a pulse rate slow beyond belief. An IV slowly dripped blood into him. She wanted to hold his hand. To be beside him. But she knew Princess wouldn't allow things to go quite that far. Better to be quiet and sit in her chair. At least then she would be with him in his final moments. She marveled at what control he'd gained over his body through the use of Tai Shing Pek Kwar. He had mentioned it to her a few times. She felt pride even as she watched him die.

For some reason she was allowed to remain. Global Justice did not come to collect her.

And then, just the day before, she had felt it. If she held still and focused she could feel the sense of power from his direction. Comet powers being used. How he had got them she didn't know. She just knew he did. And that if he did then he had a chance.

She sat in her chair and waited and hoped.

Beep! Beep! Beep!

The two women in the room both jumped. Fear rose in their throats before they realized it was Kim's Kimmunicator.

Kim flipped the device open. "What is it Wade?"

The genius appeared on the screen. His picture was bit out of focus. The sunspots were affecting just about everything. "How's Ron?" He asked.

"The same." Kim replied. She looked at his still form and had to clench her teeth together to keep from crying. She had done quite a bit of that lately.

Wade noticed her reaction and continued with the message he had called about. "It seems your brothers put a satellite in orbit. Well almost. It's a decaying orbit. They didn't get it quite to where they wanted it. But the technology they used is more resistant to the sunspots than anything else we've got. We actually managed to do a few scans of Middleton with it."

"Oh?" Kim was intrigued. If Wade was calling her about it then he had found something.

"There's a ship above Drakken's lair. We're guessing it Warmonga's ship."

"Any way we can get to it?" Kim asked. She felt Shego looking over her shoulder but ignored her.

"No. Not with the sunspot activity. And it seems to have a barrier of some sort around it anyway. But we're also getting some faint readings from the ground. We think it's Warmonga."

"Thanks Wade." The redhead answered.

"Be careful Kim." Wade begged her.

"I will.": Kim answered. She lied. Anything to hurt that bitch back. Anything.

She turned to go to the car and froze. She turned back to Ron and took the wristlet from the stand beside him. "I will bring it back Ron. I promise." She told the still form.

She looked at Shego standing in the doorway. She knew she would be going with her. The expression on her face said so. Kim recalled her expression in the lair. She knew something was going on that she didn't know about. Didn't have the capacity to think about right now. Not with Ron like this. She took the gauntlet from the same stand and tossed it to Shego. "That's Ron's. When we get back it's his again. Understand." The villainess nodded. Kim tossed her several batteries.

It was, Kim thought, okay to make a pact with a lesser devil to get rid of a greater devil. Besides, she knew she had no chance alone. Anything to pay that bitch back.

"Not bringing your boy toy along?" Shego asked.

"He's not my boy toy. He's my boyfriend." Kim answered.

Shego decided to met her halfway. Princess was after all playing nice. "Not bringing Mark along?" She asked.

"No. Not for this. Synthodrones, sure. Henchmen, sure. But not for this."

Shego nodded. It was reasonable decision. A single hit would kill him.

Kim reached over to show Shego how to work the gauntlet but the villainess pulled away.

"I already know." Shego told her. She inserted a battery into it.

Kim wondered how she knew but didn't bother to ask. She'd probably seen it in use enough times to have figured it out.

The two headed for the car and were soon on their way.

Kim considered the enemy she would soon be facing and realized she knew nothing about her. There was only one source for her questions. "What do you know about Warmonga?" She asked.

"Not much." Shego admitted. "I just showed up and there she was. Seems she took a liking to Dr. D."

"How does she fight?"

"Like nothing you've ever seen before. She's not like the other villains you've fought Princess. They just want to take over the world. They don't want to kill anyone. This woman, she likes killing people. That makes the way she fights different."

"She strong?" Kim asked. She knew she was from the hit she'd taken. She wanted Shego's view though.

"Strong enough to send me through one of those stone walls in that lair."

"Oh." That, Kim decided, was strong.

"And she's fast. Very fast." Shego added. "Plus she has a force field that can block my plasma."

"So. How do we beat her then?"

"I wish I knew." Shego replied. "With that wristlet you can punch through whatever she has protecting her. Except maybe for the force field. Not sure there. Just make sure the capacitor is on. Too bad that capacitor only works for one hit"

How did she know it has a capacitor, Kim wondered. And how does she know it's a one shot deal?

"What does she have protecting her other than the force field?" Kim wondered.

"Not sure. But there is something. Hit her with some low level plasma and it didn't leave a mark. Turned the plasma up to high and she used the force field."

"Low level? High level?" Kim asked.

"Low level is what you normally see me use. High level, well you saw me use that once."

"Oh." Kim wondered why Shego bothered with low and high levels. Why not high level all the time.

Shego guessed the question. "High level kills. Besides my plasma burns me too."

"It does?" Kim was surprised.

"It does." Shego replied.

"What did that matchbox mean to you? It made you use high level." Kim found herself asking.

Shego remained quiet.

Soon they were at the ruins. Warmonga was standing there.

"Where is the Great Blue?" She demanded.

"Great Blue?" Kim wondered.

"She means Drakken." Shego explained.

"Great?" Kim wondered.

"That was my thoughts exactly." Shego admitted.

"Do not mock the Great Blue!" Warmonga ordered.

Shego let the plasma flow over her. She knew if she waited too long Warmonga would be hitting her and she wouldn't have a change.

Kim watched the process, still not believing it. She could have defeated me at any time, she realized.

Warmonga attacked. Her punch went through Shego's plasma and knocked her to the ground. Not as hard as before, Shego realized. For some reason my plasma does weaken her blows.

Shego flipped to her feet. She moved in to attack Warmonga who rapidly backed away. Shego stopped following. She was pretty sure she could trust Princess in this fight. She wanted revenge too. To win they had to stick close together so they could back each other up. Shego backed back closer to the Princess. She did toss a few bolts of plasma towards Warmonga but the force field came on and blocked them. It was, Shego decided, a waste of energy. She stopped and the force field went down again.

Shego stopped and waited. She studied Warmonga. The alien she knew was blindingly fast. She would have to predict how the alien would move and react on that. Given the alien's tendency to just punch and kick it wasn't too hard to predict. She waited.

Warmonga moved and Shego jumped forward into the punch before it was ready to land. She wrapped her arms around the alien and tried to hold on and lift her from the ground.

Kim saw her chance. Knew that Shego had done it just for her to get an attack in. She jumped in close, behind the giantess and punched like she had never punched before. She felt the wristlet grow warm and felt the sensation as the capacitor fired. Her blow went through whatever defenses the woman had and she felt something crack. A rib probably, she thought.

Both the giantess and Shego were knocked forward from the force of the blow. Shego landed and rolled coming to her feet. The giantess, slowed by pain, was still getting up. Shego poured plasma at her only to see the force field come up again. She cursed.

Kim took the wristlet, still warm, and plugged it into her suit. It was a new feature Wade had added so she could recharge her gadgets in the field. It was handy. The display told her thirty second to full charge. She gulped as she realized it took twenty percent of her suit's energy to recharge the thing.

"Not much damage." Kim commented sourly as she back away from the giantess, Shego beside her.

"I was hoping for more." Shego admitted. She was keeping a close watch on Warmonga. The biggest danger at the moment was that the alien would attack Kim who, while faster than Shego, wasn't nearly as durable. If she did that Shego would have to try and intercept her.

Kim took the wrislet, now recharge and slid it back on her wrist again. "Too bad I can wear one of those with my suit." She pointed at the gauntlet Shego had.

"Yeah. At the moment I'm wishing that too Princess."

Warmong moved. Charging Kim this time.

Shego ran head long into her and tried to hold her again. Warmonga flipped backward and tried to circle around. Shego tossed plasma at her and the force field went up.

Kim smiled. "Keep that up for a second." She ran at the giantess and punched. Just as the punch was going to land Shego stopped the plasma. The force field went down and Kim's punch went through. The giantess screamed as more of her ribs were broken.

Kim and Shego backed away again. Kim was recharging the wristlet. Her suit was at fifty percent power when she slid it back onto her wrist.

Warmonga charged Shego.

This time Kim predicted her attack and leapt forward and tripped the woman. Warmonga went down and Shego had an opening. She punched with all her might, multiplied by the power the gauntlet added. The giantess gasped from breath and rolled away.

Shego changed batteries.

Kim and Shego studied Warmonga. Sure they had broke a few ribs, but the woman was obviously not feeling it much. She was as fast as before and still attacking. Shego threw some plasma and the force field went up. Kim moved in and launched another attack. Just as before Shego stopped the plasma as the blow was about to land and the force field went down.

Kim felt the wristlet grow hotter, felt the capacitor fire, and then another of Warmonga's ribs broke. The giantess went flying.

Kim and Shego backed back again. Kim recharge the wristlet and said, '"Suit's down to twenty percent. Last shot with the wristlet."

"Hand it here Princess?" Shego asked and Kim gave it to her. "Now to find an opening." Shego studied Warmonga who stared back.

"Given the way she likes to charge shouldn't be a problem." Kim replied.

"True." Shego agreed.

Warmonga charged Shego and got tripped by Kim. She tried to roll back.

Shego punched. She felt the wristlet burn hot, felt the capacitors fire. The blow landed and Warmonga screamed. Or tried to. Shego's punch had taken her in the face. Not just the face, Shego realized, in the mouth. Her hand was wrist deep in the giantess mouth. She sent plasma down her arm. All she could. Saw the force field come up. It circled around her arm but didn't, as she had feared, sever it. Her hand was inside the shield and her plasma was sent in a direct route straight down the giantess' throat.

The force field went down and Shego was sent flying. She looked up to see that Warmonga had half her face and throat burned off. She could see the bones of the skull and chin. Both eyes were gone. Shego prepared to send more plasma her way but once again the giantess hit a button on her belt and was lift into the sky.

Shego screamed and sent her plasma skyward in hopes of hitting her. The giantess was already out of sight.

Kim and Shego sat back. "Damn!" They both said together.

"Didn't know you knew such language Princess." Shego said.

"At times like this I'm a fast learner." Kim answered. "That was high level plasma you sent into her like that?" She asked.

"Yeah. But once the affects of the wristlet wore off she had some sort of protection. She didn't get the full affect. And with that force field I could only use my hand to channel the plasma. Damn that force field."

"She's going to heal again?" Kim asked.

"Yeah. She has some method of regeneration. She was pretty bad off last time she fled, yet when we got here she didn't have a scratch."

Kim and Shego returned to the hospital. Shego had returned the gauntlet, along with the batteries and wristlet, without having to be asked. They entered Ron's room and saw Kim's mother there, bending over Ron. They both stopped, knowing something had changed.

Mrs. Possible looked up and said. "His left lung started working at twenty percent capacity just five minutes ago. The hole in his heart has somehow scabbed over. His heart beat is now at once per minute." Her expression held disbelief and hope at the same time.

"He's past the worst of it now." Shego went and sat down beside his side. Kim didn't push her away.

"What do you know Shego?" She demanded.

Shego thought for a second. "Actually Princess I don't much of anything about this. Don't ask me where or how, but the Buffoon has comet powers now. So long as he's getting oxygen and his blood is flowing he will heal." Actually she thought she had a good idea of where, she just didn't know how.

"Comet powers?" Both Kim and her mother asked. Shocked.

Shego shrugged. "Like I said. I don't how. But I can feel them working. When comet powers are in use another person with comet powers can sense it as a sort of tingling sensation. I can feel that now. They are in use healing his body."

Kim took Ron's other side and held his hand. He's going to live, she thought. She didn't care how.

She looked over at Shego. Saw the way she was holding his other hand - right hand cradling his wrist, left hand firmly holding his hand. Saw the way her eyes never left his face. Saw the look on her face. Relief. Hope. Joy. Love. She recalled the look that had been on her face when she thought Ron was dead. She loves him, she would die for him, Kim realized. She couldn't understand why Shego would feel that way, she just knew she did.

They sat and waited and hoped.

Beep! Beep! Beep!

The sound made Kim and Shego jump again. Kim Flipped the machine open.

"What's up Wade?" She asked.

"Bad news Kim. Seems that ship has started dropping war machines all over the planet. A thousand of them to be exact." Wade's voice was panicked.

"War machines? Can't Global Justice do something?" Kim asked.

"They tried. Everyone of the world's militaries are trying. Nothing is working."

End of Chapter.

So, the comet that hit Team Go was artificial. Who knew. But wasn't it obvious?

Ron still out of it so not much interaction between him and Shego.

Ron will be getting a major power boost. It just won't be Monkey Kung Fu.

Also, Kim and Shego managed to work together for a bit without killing each other. And Kim know Shego loves Ron.

In the next chapter, the secret of Kim's powers.