I do NOT own Kim Possible
Waking Up,... A Nice Shower,... Warmonga,... Warhok
He stood at the center of his being, the focal point of Mind, Body, and Spirit. The glow that seemed to fill all corners of this space was no longer blue. Instead it was filled with a light cyan colored light. Blue and green combined, he thought, pleased. A part of Shego has become a part of my very essence. He looked out and surveyed the world before him. The wounds that had threatened his life were no more.
Shego sat holding the hand of the Buffoon. She was tired. Her right hand held his wrist, cradling it, her left held his hand. Her torso was leaned forward against the railing of the bed to rest a little. Across from her Princess slept, her hand still holding the Buffoon's other hand. The sensation she felt from the Buffoon, those of comet powers at work, was fading. He would soon wake up. She wanted to let Princess sleep. To have a moment with him alone. But Princess had held her vigilance for eight days with only the exception they had made to face Warmonga. And Princess had played fair with her. Letting her in to see him. Letting her sit with him. She wanted that moment alone, but... She sighed. She reached over and prodded the sleeping redhead.
"Huh?" Kim muttered as she slowly woke up. She was dead tired. Then the memory of where she was came to her and she was instantly awake. She looked across at Shego who was the only one close enough to have woken her. "Is something wrong?" She asked with a worried voice.
"He will soon wake up Princess. Thought you might want to be awake when he does."
"He will?" Light shone in Kim's eyes at that news. "How do you know?" She asked. To her Ron still looked to be in a deep sleep.
"The comet powers are not working to heal him any more. They've finished so he should soon wake up. At least I think he will. With the damage gone there shouldn't be any reason for him to keep himself in such a deep sleep."
"Oh." Kim tighten her grip on her best friend's hand a little. Not enough to disturb him if he was coming to.
"Should get some food in here." Shego suggested. "He will be hungry."
"Will it be okay for him to eat so soon? He had a lot of damage and hasn't eaten for eight days?"
"He won't just want food. He will need food. Those wounds were pretty bad, it would have taken a lot of energy to heal them. On top of that he had to develop those powers first. He will be starving."
"Oh."
"Don't worry Princess. If he wasn't able to eat the comet powers would still be at working fixing things so he could. He can handle food."
Kim buzzed the nurse's station and asked for food. She left a message for her mother. She would want to be here too. So would Mark but he'd been kept busy. Those war machines were acting strange and people were out handling the various emergencies they were causing.
She looked down at her best friend's sleeping form. Over the last two days his lungs had not just went back to a hundred percent efficiency but to two hundred percent. That Shego had explained, was the comet powers enhancing them so he would have enough oxygen to support his enhanced abilities. Her own, Shego had added was at two hundred as well while Hego's was at three hundred percent. It was normal. The hole in his heart had closed and his heart beat was at forty beats per minute.
The food arrived and immediately the nose of Ron Stoppable began to twitch. He sat up, his eyes focused in the direction the smell came from. He was distracted from the food by Kim throwing her arms around him and hugging him. "Hey, KP." How's things been? His eyes focused on Shego, running over her body, looking for any sign at all that she was hurt. She seemed okay other than looking tired. Relief flooded him.
Shego smiled back him. "Hey Buffoon. Finally awake I see."
"Don't call him that." Came Princess' muffled voice. She was Shego noted, crying. But then she felt a few tears run down her own cheeks too. She wiped them away before Princess could turn around and see them. More replaced them.
"Hey Shego." Ron smiled at her. His hand moved so it was now his hand holding hers. "Guess what." He told her.
"You got comet powers now." Shego couldn't help but smile back into the eyes that were focused on her.
"Yep."
"Just how did you get those?" Kim asked. She backed off a bit, no long hugging him but still holding his hand.
"Well, see KP... Hmmm, there's a long story behind that."
"My turn." Shego interrupted. She threw herself on the Buffoon, holding him in a hug. Pushing Princess to one side.
"Shego!" Kim exclaimed.
"What Princess? You got to hug him." Came Shego's voice.
"But that's different!"
"How so?" Shego asked.
"It just is. Stop that. Let him go." Kim insisted. Then she saw Ron's arms had come up to close around Shego. He was holding her back.
"You're enjoying this?" She accused.
"Most definitely KP." He didn't let go. He held the one he loved tighter.
Kim stared back in shock. She knew Shego loved Ron. How that came to be she didn't know. But now here was Ron accepting hugs from her. It was mind baffling. She would talk to him later about the risks of holding plasma throwing supervillainess like that. But for now, she decided, it was okay. He was alive. That was all that mattered. Anything else could be sorted out later. His hand was warm in hers. Alive.
The rumbling sound reminded Shego just how hungry the Buffoon must be. She reluctantly backed off. She pulled the cart with the food closer and let him have access to it.
"Is Rufus okay?" He asked.
"Over at my place acting as a guinea pig for the tweebs." Kim answered. She had made sure that he was taken care of.
Ron dug in. The food vanished in less than a minute. He would need more, a lot more. But for now it was enough. He took a sniff. "I need a shower." He stated the obvious.
"I'll call a nurse to help you." Kim offered.
"No need KP, I'm perfectly fine now. After I want to know what happened in that lair." He stood up and headed for the washroom. He was thankful to see it did include a shower and had towels.
"Ron. You shouldn't move. Not so soon." Kim stated, sounding worried.
"Don't worry Princess. I'll help him." Shego stood and walked into the washroom. The door closed behind her.
"Shego." Kim screamed. She tried the door it was locked. She went to kick it open.
"KP. I'm getting undressed. You can't come in here."
Kim froze just short of kicking the door down. He sounded okay. But he was in there... with her... undressied. She sat down on the floor, hard.
"You know Kimmie, I imagine catching comet powers requires some pretty close physical contact."
Kim looked up to see her mother standing in the doorway. "Close?" She managed to asked.
Her mother nodded. "Real close."
Kim gulped. She knew what her mother was getting at. Her face went red. "Ron wouldn't. Not with her. She's a villainess."
"He seem okay? No dizziness or anything? He seem coherent?" Her mother asked.
"He seemed okay." Kim replied. "He ate by himself. And he could walk without stumbling. But coherent? If he was coherent he wouldn't be in there with her alone."
"He should be okay then. I've been on the phone with Team Go quite a bit since Shego mentioned Ron having comet powers. According to them, if he has them, he should be okay. They heal even nerve damage and spinal cord injuries. Of course, according to them it's nearly impossible to transfer the powers. They tried and failed."
Kim managed to pull herself together enough to move back to her chair. She looked at the washroom door. For a shower they were taking an awful long time.
An hour later the door to the washroom opened and Ron and Shego exited. They saw a glaring Kim and a patiently waiting Mr. Dr. P.
"How are you feeling Ron?" Was the first words spoken, by Mrs. Dr. P.
"Good. Better than good actually." It was true. In that state he had had no idea of what was happening. He had awoke to see Kim and Shego okay, Mark he'd heard was okay, and Rufus was okay. And that hour with Shego had been incredible!
He picked a chair, pulled it close to Shego, and sat down. "So, what's been happening since I was asleep? By the way, just how long was I asleep?"
"Eight days." Kim and Shego told him at the same time.
Ron blinked. "Really. That long?" He looked at the IV sitting beside his bed. "You gave me blood?"
"We did. I thought you needed it." Mrs. Dr. P informed him.
Ron considered how his oxygen had lasted longer than expected. That little bit extra came from the blood she gave me, he realized. "Thanks Mrs. Dr. P. I would have died without it. Was pretty close."
"Glad to hear it Ron. When I heard you had comet powers I was worried it might do more harm than good."
"So what happened in that lair?" Ron asked.
Between them, with only a few snippy remarks at each other, Kim and Shego filled him in on the last eight days.
"We can't figure out why those war machines are acting the way they do." Kim informed him. "They destroy a building, then they sit back and wait some time before they destroy the next. With their technology our entire civilization should have been wiped out by now, not just around ten thousand buildings. The world has billions of buildings. At this rate it will take them decades to destroy everything. And they are slow enough that we got time to evacuate."
"That one is easy to figure out." Ron told them.
"Really. I would like to hear more about that." A voice spoke from the doorway.
They turned to see Dr. Betty Director there.
"Come to take me back?" Shego asked.
Dr. Betty Direction just waved a hand her way as if it wasn't important at the time. "What's your theory?" She asked Ron.
"They want to cause the maximum amount of suffering possible. They're playing like a cat plays with a mouse. The rate at which the buildings are being destroyed is slow but it is faster than they can be replaced. I'm also betting they are hitting agricultural areas. Not all of them but just enough to ensure people go hungry. In a few years things will be bad. The number of homeless will be a billion or two. Food will have to be rationed to just provide the basic minimum for survival. Billions of people will be suffering, millions will have died. They will continue the process, playing with us, slowly destroying more and more of our infrastructure until billions are dead and what's left is living in absolute misery. They will play it out until they can't get any more fun from us. They won't kill our race off. They will want to come back in a century or two when we've started to rebuild to repeat the process."
"How did you figure that out?" Dr. Betty Director asked.
"From the machines I saw in Drakken's lab. They are all based on hate. The Lorwardians believe themselves to be a superior race. Everything exists for them to play with. From those machines I'm pretty sure we're dealing with a race of psychopaths."
"Interesting." Dr. Director Betty sat down on the last remaining chair. "Whether or not you are right on their motives I can't say for sure. Global Justice psychologists say you are. But your analysis of their method of operation is pretty much spot on."
"How do you know that?" Kim asked.
Dr. Betty Director was silent for a few seconds. "What I'm about to say remains in this room okay?" She looked at Shego.
They all nodded, Shego included."
"You've heard about the WOW signal that was received from space in 1977?" She asked.
Again they all nodded.
"Well, after that Global Justice put its own SETI program in place. We received what we call the WOW-2 and the WOW-3 signals. They were both analyzed. It seems that two worlds were hit by the Lorwardians. They took over two decades to reduce those races down to less than a hundred million people on worlds that once supported around ten billion. They didn't wipe them out, they did exactly as Ron described. They left just enough for the race to rebuild."
Dr. Betty Director looked at Kim closely. "We spotted one of their ships around earth nineteen years ago. At the time they didn't do much, but they did play with us a bit." Once again she peered at Kim.
Kim got nervous from the attention. Why is she looking at me, she wondered.
"I'm guessing we weren't quite advanced enough to be worth playing with then?" Ron suggested.
Dr. Betty Direction shrugged. "Why they didn't attack then we aren't sure. But as I said they did play with us a bit."
"What do you mean by play with us?" Mrs. Dr. P asked. The way the woman was looking at her daughter was making her feel nervous herself.
"They performed experiments on a few people. They genetically altered some of us. To be precise, They would put a pregnant woman in stasis. Genetically modify the fetus she was carrying. And then release the stasis. The women never knew anything had happened."
Mrs. Dr. P now looked at her daughter and swallowed. "What did they do to the fetuses?" She asked.
"Made then stronger and faster than normal. They are also naturals when it comes to fighting."
"I see." Shego suddenly interrupted. "They don't just like destroying, they like physical combat on a personal level. A normal human just isn't going to cut it. So they changed a few and then, when they matured, came back. That's what I got from fighting Warmonga. She wanted to have fun killing, but just squashing insects wasn't fun."
"You may be right." Dr. Betty Director remarked. "It's as good an explanation as any." She looked at Kim again.
"Why are you looking at me?" She asked.
"You don't think..." Mrs. Dr. P started to ask. She couldn't finish the question.
"We're hundred percent sure of it." Dr. Betty Director answered. "One of our spy satellites saw the procedure take place. It's one of the reasons why we were so interested in her."
Kim gulped. "Hey wait now. I'm just normal. Like everyone else." She looked at her mother to back her up.
"I love you Kimmie." Was the response she got.
"But I'm just normal." She insisted.
"Kimmie. You can run on walls. You can toss around men four times your size." Her mother told her.
"I'm normal." Kim insisted.
"You are. In most things. In all the important things." Her mother reassured her.
"But..."
"We tested your reflexes when you started doing stuff no one else could do." Her mother told her.
"And?" Kim asked.
"They were better than any natural process could explain. Same with your strength."
"But..." She found her mother's arms around her. Comforting her.
"You're normal honey, just a bit faster and just a bit stronger. In everything else you're normal. We did some pretty through checking." Her mother reassured her.
"Am I human?"
"A hundred percent so honey."
Ron knelt down beside her and wrapped his arms around her other side. "To me you're just KP. So long as you don't turn out to be a monkey things are cool."
"If it matters any you're just my arch-foe." Shego interjected. "Of course now that I know for sure you're enhanced I won't be taking it so easy on you." She smiled at the girl. She recalled how she'd freaked out when she got comet powers. As fun as they were she had wondered if she was still human.
Dr. Betty Director raised an eyebrow at the super villainess' attempt to comfort the girl.
"Have Global Justice tried taking out the war machines?" Ron asked.
"We have." Dr. Betty Director informed him. "We even evacuated one small isolated community and used a 50-megaton nuke. The machine survived."
"That's probably a good thing." Ron told her.
"Oh." Dr. Betty Director raised an eyebrow at that.
"They want fun. But if they find something dangerous they'll just wipe it out. If you had destroyed their machines they would have just used what passes for a doomsday device for them and wiped the planet clean." Ron shrugged. "At least that's how I'm guessing they would act."
"So what do we do?"
"We need to take out Warmonga first. If she isn't around then she won't be able to give the order for the planet to be wiped out when those machines are destroyed."
"She's pretty tough. I burned off half her face and it didn't stop her." Shego informed him.
Ron shrugged again. "She's not human, which means a different anatomy. Losing a face to her might not mean the same thing as it would to a human. Besides, she's making use of technology to enhance herself."
"How?" Kim asked. She was still trying to get over the shock of being not normal but was still paying attention.
Ron reached over and grabbed his wristlet. He flipped open a cover on it and started pressing button. "Hrm. This is almost fried." He muttered.
"Sorry." Kim and Shego both said.
"Oh well, more data to work with." Ron shrugged. "It keeps a list of the frequencies it encounters. When I hit her the wristlet got warm and it required the capacitors to get through her defenses. She had a device similar to this one. Only thing is hers covers her whole body while this one just punches a small hole through an energy field."
He looked up at Shego. "You said her punches were weaker when you were using a lot of plasma right? Well that's why. That device was drawing a lot of energy to defend against that plasma. To keep it from burning her. That meant she had less energy left over to power something like the gauntlets." He pointed at the gauntlet resting on the stand beside him. "Hence weaker punches."
"Thing is those devices take a lot of power." Ron continued. "She must be getting it from somewhere. I would bet those sunspots aren't actually the result of sunspots. It an effect of using her ship for broadcasting power to those machines and to herself."
"Can we beat her?" Dr. Betty Director asked.
Ron nodded. "Not too difficult. Just need time. Would be easier if I had more of that material I used to make the wristlet. For some reason I can't find more of it anywhere."
"What is it?"
"It's something that's a combination of metal and crystal. I can do without it, but it helps."
"If it's what I'm thinking about then Global Justice might have some." The woman informed him.
Ron, Kim, and Shego, along with Dr. Betty Direction relocated to the nearest Global Justice base. Ron had insisted, to the dismay of Kim, on Shego being present. She had, he pointed out, been the only to seriously hurt Warmonga so far.
"Seems pretty empty." Ron commented as they walked through the base.
"It is. Almost all our agents are out helping with evacuating people from the paths of those war machines. We don't have many left to man the bases."
They descended several levels beneath the ground and Dr. Betty Director opened a vault. She pointed in. "Parts and stuff we managed to scavenge from some of the lairs we've taken down. Along with other items.
Ron walked in. He looked around. Next to waking up beside Shego this had to be heaven. Soon he was busy.
"What are you making?" Shego asked.
"How would you like a device that lets you get through that force field of hers?" He asked.
"Would love it."
"That's simple enough. When Kim was punching Warmonga the wristlet got a good reading on its frequency. I can make something that will open a hole in it. Will have to get within three feet though." Ron paused for a moment. "And while I'm at it I can add the functionality of a wrislet in with it. You should be able to fire plasma that gets through then."
Shego felt herself smiling. She bent down and kissed him on the lips.
"Shego!" Kim screamed.
Dr. Betty Director raised her eyebrows again. Never a dull moment around either of those three, she thought. I think maybe sometimes I would like a dull moment. Just once. She recalled how easily Shego seemed able to break out of her cell. Nope, never a dull moment, she thought again.
It took Ron two days to build the gadgets he thought they needed.
There was the wristlet, version two. It was a lot bigger but it carried enough capacitors for eight hits. It also included the ability to disrupt a small portion of the force field. Depending on how she set it Shego could get within three feet and pour plasma through the shield, or actually move in and punch. He made one for himself too. He'd tried and could use plasma. It would take some time to learn how to use it properly though.
For Kim he made a gauntlet that was compatible with her suit. The suit's energy supply he tripled. It also had the ability to get through the force field and would automatically act as a wristlet.
"The one problem I don't know how to solve is finding her. If she remains in her ship I don't know how to reach her." He told the group around him.
The problem was solved two hours later.
Beep! Beep! Beep!
Kim opened the Kimmunicator. "What's the sitch Wade?" She asked.
"The twins satellite just went over Middleton again. She's back on the ground." The genius informed her. "Hi Ron." He waved.
"Hi Wade." Ron greeted back.
"Know what she's doing on the ground?" Kim asked Wade.
"No. Resolution isn't that good." Wade answered.
"She's trying to locate the pieces from those devices she was going to give to Drakken." Ron answered. "I'm guessing she doesn't want to leave Lorwardian technology lying around."
A Global Justice jet got them to the location within minutes.
Warmonga saw them. Her face turned up in a snarl. She flicked her wrist and the spear that had nearly killed Ron appeared. It seemed she was taking no chances on being defeated this time.
Ron flooded his system with strength and speed boosts. Along with the comet powers he now had it was a very potent combination.
Warmonga charged, aiming for the one she'd thought she'd killed before. Her spear was aimed for his heart again.
Ron saw the move coming. His speed now was nearly equal to that of Warmonga's. He twisted to one side and grabbed her wrist as she thrust the spear at him. He felt the new wristlet get warm as it negated her protection and he twisted. Her wrist snapped. She flinched backwards and he grabbed the spear as she did so.
Warmonga stared at him in surprise. She'd thought he was dead. That she'd killed him. Yet now he was here and seemed to be a match for her. The surprise was written on her face.
Ron tossed the spear behind him. Shego he noticed was covered in plasma from head to toe.
Ron moved towards the giantess this time. Slowly, watching her reaction. If she got away this time she might very well just order the earth's destruction.
She charged him again. This time going for punches. Ron leapt into her charge and grabbed hold of her. Much like Shego had done once before when he had been asleep. He felt the plasma rise around him. He didn't know how to control it well yet, but he could call it. He screamed as his flesh was burned.
Shego saw her chance and jumped at the immobilized giantess. She poured forth her plasma and the force field came up. A hole appeared in it where her hands were aimed and the plasma in its full fury went through. She heard the Buffoon's screams and knew the pain he was in. She upped the plasma she was throwing even thought it meant her own flesh would burn all the faster too.
Before her the head of Warmonga began to disform. The skin peeled off. The bones began to blacken. The mouth was open in a scream and Shego thrust her hands into that mouth again. Plasma poured down the giantess' throat.
Kim searched for an opening, but there was none. If she hit Warmonga then not only the alien but Ron and Shego would go flying. The the giantess started to rise into the air. She jumped forward and her hand penetrated the force field. She grabbed hold of a leg and held on.
Ron felt himself rise from the ground. He knew Warmonga was fleeing. That couldn't be allowed. He held on.
Shego saw them start to rise and grabbed on the nearly destroyed head of her enemy. She felt herself rise too.
They were drawn upward at a rapid pace. Fast and faster until they, along with Warmonga, passed through the barrier around her ship. Then they were inside the ship.
Warmonga struggled, trying to force the pest that had latched itself to her off. She felt something break but he held on.
Shego resumed her plasma. Throwing all she could. The giantess writhed in agony.
Ron felt himself go flying as the alien managed to shake him off. He struggled to his feet. She had to be stopped before she reached the controls of her ship.
Shego felt herself go flying as the giantess hit her. The hit wasn't hard, having to go through her plasma first, but it still knocked her away. She came to her feet immediately.
Kim saw the giantess shake Ron free and saw Shego go flying. She too knew the alien couldn't be allowed to reach the controls of the ship. She leapt forward, as Warmonga was about to turn and run, and hit with all her might. The alien went flying and smashed into a wall. Kim saw her trying to rise and hit again. Then again. She kept the alien pinned to the wall with brutal hit after brutal hit until both Ron and Shego arrived beside her. Then the two of them poured plasma out into the body of the alien.
They kept it up until they had no more plasma left to use. Both of them dropped to their feet. They, along with Kim, stared at the body of Warmonga. There was little left of the alien. With her protections negated by Ron's devices the plasma had hit her full force. Even the super strong body genetic engineering had made for her couldn't withstand that power. She wouldn't threaten anyone ever again.
The three of them sat back to rest. Kim eyed the burns on both Ron and Shego.
"They will heal Princess. At least the world is safe. Sort of. Still got to do something about those war machines." Shego stared at the Buffoon and hoped he wasn't in too much pain.
Ron struggled to his feet. Kim and Shego stood too. "Just want to look around a bit." He explained.
The three of them walked down one corridor. There they found the body of another Lorwardian. A male this time. He was frozen in what they assumed was suspended animation. The turned and tried another corridor. They came to what appeared to be the control room.
"Hrm." Ron said. He sat down in what seemed to be the main chair.
"It's all alien writing Ron. What can you do if you can't read anything." Shego asked. She knew he was good with machines but those had been earth machines made by human minds.
"A machine is a machine. They all work on the same principles Shego." He pointed at a console. "That's navigation. I can tell from the display around it." He pointed again. "That life support. Again from the display." He looked at the display in front of him. "Given that they worship violence above all else I bet the main seat is for the weapons. Including those war machines."
He sat back and studied what was in front of him for six hours. He reached forward and pressed a button a number of times. Each time he saw the display beside it change, the bar it showed getting smaller. "Kim, go to the airlock we got pulled in through and see if you can contact Wade with the Kimmunicator. Ask about the sunspots."
Kim did so. When she returned she reported that the level of the sunspots was now at half the level they had been.
Ron pressed the button a few more times. The bar on the display completely disappeared. When Kim checked with Wade again the sunspots were gone.
"That should help with destroying the war machines. They aren't getting any power broadcasted to them now." Ron told them. "They will still have internal power. But the controls to them must be here somewhere."
He studied the controls for another three hours before he dared to make a move. He reach out to another button and pressed it a few times. The bar on the display beside it grew smaller. "Ask Wade if there's been any change in the war machine's behavior."
Kim ran off and came running back faster. "They're faster now." She told him, panicked.
Ron swiftly reached out and pressed the button again, setting the bar back to its original level. Shows time not rate, he determined. He pressed the button until the bar was a bit bigger than it had been before. "Check now."
Kim ran off and came back. "A bit slower she reported."
Ron pressed the button until the bar hit the top of the screen. It disappeared. "Ask now." He hoped he hadn't just destroyed the earth.
Kim came back. "They've all stopped moving." She reported.
They heard a sound behind them. The male Lorwardian that had been in suspended animation stood there. He looked surprised.
"Damn." Ron said. "I should have thought of this. With no Lorwardians around the ship would have woke him up for orders. We can't let him near the controls. No matter what!"
The alien moved fast, leaping toward one of the consoles. Shego was the closest and managed to get in front of him. Her plasma was rising from her feet again and flowing up her arms. We don't have enough energy left to fight another one, she realized. This is going to be bad. She hardly felt the blow.
The alien reached out to swipe the pest in front of him away. He screamed.
"He doesn't have the devices on him that Warmonga did." Ron realized. "He came here first to check on things."
The alien backed away. Then he turned and fled. The three gave chase. He was fast. Ron might have been faster but he was badly burned and unlike Shego couldn't fully handle the pain. It slowed him down. Shego saw that she was losing ground and tried harder. The alien was fast.
Kim ran. She focused on the monster in front of her and ran, knowing she was leaving the other two behind. But in front of her was one of the beasts who had changed her DNA. She wondered if she was still human. Her mother said yes, but she still wondered. Rage gave her strength. She caught up and he turned to fight her. She hit him in the stomach. The changes they had made to her DNA made her strong. Her suit made her stronger. The gauntlet she wore amplified that already incredible strength. She felt bones snap beneath her punch and saw blood fountain out of the monster's mouth. She went to hit him again.
She felt herself being flung back against the wall. Flicked away like some pest. She came to her feet immediately with the speed her changed DNA gave her and struck again. This time she followed his movements. These monsters like killing. It was all they knew. It made them predictable. Fist stuck fist. The gauntlet and suit protected her arm to some extent, still she felt it snap, broken. The arm of the alien however was shattered. Bones stuck out through its skin in three different place.
Kim kicked at that shattered arm and the alien moved back. She took the time to switch the gauntlet to her other hand. She saw the blood running down the monsters arm and grinned. They were monsters, but without their gadgets they were just flesh and blood. She growled and moved in to hit again. The monster grabbed her and once more flung her against the wall. She rolled to her feet immediately. Her body was a mass of pain, her arm was broken, her head felt like it was split in two. But these creatures had made her a killing machine, so that was what she decided to do. Kill them.
She attacked. The monsters were predictable. She knew how to avoid the arm that came at her this time. She landed another punch in the monster's stomach and it coughed more blood. While it was stunned from the impact she went in for another hit. She was tripped. She rolled to her feet without thinking. The movement a part of DNA now after so many years of fighting.
She realized that somehow she had got between the monster and the direction it had been running in. That was good. It had to get past her to get its gadgets now and that she would not allow. She moved in and avoided the arm again. She landed another punch in the same area. The monster backed back and nearly went to its knees. Kim kicked at its throat but turned it into a feint. Her kick landed on its shattered arm. The monster whirled around, trying to protect it, and Kim grinned a grin that was more like a snarl at the opening the monster had given her. She hit the back of its head with savage force. She heard a crack. And the monster rose to flee.
She had broken its neck, Kim realized, but it was like Ron said. They weren't human. They had a different anatomy. She chased it. The monster suddenly stopped and turned, trying to get past her. She landed another punch to its stomach. It flew backwards and blood poured out of its mouth. She looked up and saw what had made the monster turn and try to get past her. Ron and Shego.
Ron and Shego leapt at the badly beaten monster and flung plasma at it. The two of them became living comets to hurl their flame at the beast beneath their feet. It cried out in agony and, as Warmonga had done, writhered in agony. Then it died.
The three of them looked down at the remains.
"I hope that's the last of them." Ron commented.
"Me too." Shego said. "I don't have anything left.
"Me too." Kim added. Her battle rage had faded and she felt weak. Her suit's power level was at seven percent.
Shego thought of something. "I wonder if there are any more of their ships nearby. What if there's another one around Mars or something and it's now heading our way?"
"I don't think so." Ron answered. "From that navigation display I saw I don't think we got to worry about any more of them for a few years." He looked at her. Her beautiful face was burned. He felt rage. "They will come eventually. But we got their technology to study. We will be ready. Our world won't end up like those two Dr. Betty Director mentioned."
The three headed back to the airlock. They called Wade and waited. Soon they were back at the Middleton hospital. Kim had her arm put in a cast while Ron and Shego had their burns treated. Ron also had a few broken ribs that needed treatment.
To Kim's dismay, as she left the treatment room she'd been in, she saw Ron and Shego kissing.
"Stop that Shego!" She demanded. Despite her broken arm she dropped into a fighting stance.
"Kimmie." Shego smiled sweetly at the redhead. "You don't want to do that. You might hurt the baby."
"Ba... Ba... Baby!" Kim Possible sat down on the floor again, hard. Eyes bulging.
"Shego." Ron chided her.
"Couldn't resist." Shego tried to sound apologetic. That was one thing she would never have. Children. Her body killed all foreign invaders whether she wanted it to or not. She wondered how the Buffoon felt about that.
End of Chapter.
Still no pardon for Shego.
2-3 chapters left to go.