I do NOT own Kim Possible
Drakken Strikes Again,... Global Justice's Decision,... The Party
He woke up with her cuddled up against him. His arm around her. He opened his eyes to watch her sleeping form. To take those few brief, indescribable moments to watch her before she too woke up. Her eyes opened and she was staring back at him.
"Morning Buffoon." She said, reaching for him.
"Morning Shego." He replied.
They made love and then showered together as they had each morning for the last two weeks. They quietly talked as they ate breakfast and then Ron left for school after a very long good-bye kiss. Shego kept herself busy around the house for a while and then took her new hovercraft out for a short trip. She had visited one of Drakken's backup lairs and took it. She ignored her beeper and had sent him a message saying she resigned.
Ron walked to school with Kim and Mark. Things were getting back to normal. The slow rate at which the war machines had destroyed buildings meant the damage wasn't too massive. A few buildings per city. A few agricultural areas had also been hit. Food prices would be a bit higher but once again the machines had not done too much harm. Ron recalled the WOW-2 and WOW-3 messages and shuddered. They had been very lucky.
He looked over at Kim. She had changed. She no longer talked about being a normal girl. She was sadder, more depressed. Both he and Mark had tried to cheer her up. So far it wasn't working. She was taking the news that she might or might not be entirely human pretty hard.
He and Wade had done some research looking for others who had been modified like her. They had thought that with others like herself to talk to she might start to see herself as normal again. They had both sworn never to tell Kim what they had found. There were three others like her who had been modified. All three had started mutilating animals by the time they were eight. By the time they were twelve they had moved on to mutilating people. By the time they were fourteen Global Justice had gotten involved. All three were now frozen in suspended animation in the most secure facilities Global Justice could think of. They were considered too dangerous to be taken out of their suspended state for even a few minutes. They didn't want to rule the world like the villains Kim fought. They just wanted to hurt people and in that aspect they very capable indeed. Ron suppressed a shudder.
He and Wade had wondered why Kim had turned out different. They had done more research. They had found that Mrs. Dr. P had had her fetus tested for a variety of genetic disorders. A week after the tests Mrs Dr. P had disappeared from sight for a three week period. It was mostly speculation but records suggested she had met several times with Amy Hall, aka DNAmy. Rather than let her child be born a monster, or abort her, Mrs. Dr. P had taken steps to make sure she was normal. Or, at least, not a monster.
Not that it mattered to him. To him Kim was Kim. They had been through a lot together and in all their years had never let each other down. It wasn't as thought he was normal any more either. It was hard to see but, if one looked close enough, he now had a greenish tint to his skin.
"I wonder how those others turned out?" The redhead wondered out loud.
Ron gulped. He should have figured Kim would eventually wonder that.
"We could try to find out." Mark suggested.
"Why bother? They'll be different people who had different lives. They won't be anything like you." Ron tried to dissuade her.
"I'm still curious." She replied.
"It's not going to change who you are. You're Kim. The same person I've known since pre-K."
"I know that." She retorted. "I still want to know."
Ron sighed. This wasn't going well.
"You know something. Don't you?" Kim accused him.
"KP, look at your arm. The cast is gone. A normal person would have had it on for six weeks. You heal fast. You're strong. You're fast. Most people would give anything to be like that."
"I know that. It's just ..." She shrugged. She looked down at her hands, examining them, as though they were disformed somehow.
Mark immediately took her and hugged her. She hugged him back.
Beep! Beep! Beep!
Kim opened the Kimmunicator and turned it on. "What's the sitch Wade?"
"Dr. Betty Director wants to talk to the three of you."
"Oh. About the Lorwardians?"
"Yeah. They've been planning on getting a report from you but they've been busy with the clean up."
"Okay. I got some questions I want to ask her too."
Soon they were at a Global Justice base courtesy of a Global Justice transport tube.
Dr. Betty Director greeted them with a nod. "Thanks for coming." She added.
"Our pleasure, Dr. Director." Kim returned the greeting.
"If you don't mind I would like a complete description of your involvement with the Lorwardians and any ideas you might have on them." She pushed three forms their way along with three pens. She nodded towards three seats where they could work.
The three completed the forms and passed them in. They waited while she reviewed them.
"Only one world?" She asked Ron.
"That is the impression I get. They don't colonize. Actually they can't colonize." He replied.
"Oh?"
"They're psychopaths. But they also got advanced science. They know what would eventually happen. The colony would eventually evolve away from its parent world. Then they would be fighting each other. It's in their nature."
"And you think their total population is less than two billion? We have seven billion people here on earth. Why so few of them?"
"Their size. It means they need three to four times the food a human does. They can't support seven billion. There are other reasons but that's the main one."
"How do we defend against them?" She asked.
"Learn how their technology works and build defenses based on it. Their ships are fast but if I read their navigation display right their home world is anywhere from two to three thousand light years away. It will take them, even with their star drive, twenty years before they pay us another visit. Assuming they send a ship right away. With twenty years to work with they aren't that great of a threat."
"Twenty years?"
"Yeah. Their star drive is fast, but it still takes time for them to travel that distance."
"That's a relief." Dr. Betty Direction said.
"You know Shego helped to save the world too." Ron said.
"And?"
"Well. Shouldn't there be some sort of compensation? Say if she wants to get out of the villain business then remove her name from Global Justice's wanted list?"
"Ron." Kim interrupted. "She's a villain. They can't just take her off their wanted list."
"There's two problems with that suggestion." Dr. Betty Director informed him, ignoring Kim.
"What are they?" Ron asked.
"First of all the system we have for maintaining the wanted list doesn't allow for the removal of names. Once entered it can't be removed. The data can be changed but the name can't be removed. It's hardwired into the system."
"That's pretty extreme." Ron commented.
"It is." Dr. Betty Director agreed. "But to get on that list you need to try and take over the world through the use of a doomsday device not once, but twice. A person's name isn't going to be put on it by accident. It used to be a villain could hack the system and remove their name, or bribe someone to remove their name, or fake their death.. Just three examples. This system was put in place to handle such extreme cases."
"Oh." Ron didn't know what to say. "And the second problem?" He finally thought to ask.
"Shego has been seen stealing for Drakken a few times since the Lorwardian incident."
"She has?" Ron blinked in surprise.
Dr. Betty Director hit a few keys on her laptop and turned it around. On it was the image of Shego breaking into building. She was using a crowbar to tear the lock off a door. Dr. Betty Director turned the laptop back around.
"When was that video taken?" Ron asked.
"Around six a.m. yesterday morning."
"Hrm. That wasn't Shego."
"The camera says otherwise." Dr. Director Betty stated.
Ron knew where Shego had been at that time. He could remember that very clearly. It was the time the two of them woke up each morning. But he couldn't tell that to the head of Global Justice. "To get through that lock she wouldn't have needed a crowbar. She would have used plasma. How many videos do you have of her breaking into a place since the Lorwardian incident?"
"Three."
"And did she use plasma in any of them?"
"Actually she didn't." Dr. Betty Director sat back to think and then added. "Our analysts say it's her. Thought they're also wondering why she isn't using plasma."
Ron backed off. He didn't know what else to say.
Kim stepped forward. "Dr. Betty Director, those others like me. Do you know who they are?"
"Why do you want to know?"
"I just want to talk to them."
"Sorry." Dr. Betty Director lied. "We're not sure what happened to them."
"Oh. Okay. Thanks." Kim backed off.
Shego flew along in her new hovercraft. Briefly she wondered if stealing it counted as a villainous activity. She decided not since she stole it from a villain. Besides Drakken had been neglecting her paycheck for a few months. He had kept saying he had expenses but had never explained them. She wondered what he thought of her resignation.
She looked down at the paper she held. It was an invitation to a birthday party for the Wegos. It's arrival had surprised Shego. For one thing she'd never known Hego had allowed any of them to have birthday parties. He claimed it distracted from their main purpose of defending Go City. And secondly, just how had he known to have it delivered at Ron's place. She read the invitation again. She would go. It was for the Wegos.
She looked at the ground as it passed by. Lost in thought. What would she get them? She had visited them a few times but she really didn't know what they liked yet. And just what was a kid's birthday party like? She'd never been to one.
She sighed and wondered if the Buffoon would go to the party with her. When she visited the Wegos she'd just talked to them. She'd rarely interacted with Hego or Mego. Somehow, she thought at a party it would be different. They would be there.
She recalled how she'd asked the Buffoon about his parents and why they were never home. He'd explained his father was an actuary. He was rarely home because he was visiting various locations and calculating risks for different companies. His mother traveled with him. That was why they'd never shown up when he was in the hospital. His father had been in Norway at the time and the sunspots had disrupted travel. Even Wade hadn't been able to provide transportation for them. Ron claimed he didn't mind, but Shego thought he did. At least a little bit. She wondered if he, like her, minded never having birthday parties.
She thought about Hego. He'd changed. It seems he did remember her real name after all. During all the years they'd had comet powers he'd never called her anything but Shego. It was as if he'd forgotten her real name. But he'd called her Amy several time now in the past few months. And he was throwing birthday parties.
And, she wondered, what am I going to do with my time now that I'm no longer working for Drakken? The Buffoon would soon be graduating. He would be either a chef or go in for a degree in technology. But just where would he choose to go to? Maybe she would be able to do more online courses. Sitting around in the house just waiting for him wasn't her style as much as she loved him. She would have to find something to do. Something that didn't bring Global Justice down on their heads.
Beep! Beep! Beep! Everyone in the class turned at the sound of the beep.
Kim opened the Kimmunicator and turned it on. "What's the stich Wade?"
"Shego's just been spotted hitting a warehouse. Thought you would like to know."
"I do. Where is it?"
"Just six kilometers east of your school. I'll download further directions to your Kimmunicator when you're in the car."
"Thanks Wade." Kim looked up. "I'm really going to have to start driving to school."
It was a five minute run back to her house to get the car and soon after they were outside the warehouse. Kim was hoping Shego hadn't finished stealing what she had come for and left already. They were just in time. Kim spotted her leaving the warehouse and jumped out, ready to fight.
"Stop Shego." She ordered.
Ron flooded his system with strength and speed boosts. He felt them work in conjunction with his comet powers. He rushed past a surprised Kim and grabbed Shego by the wrist. He began to squeeze.
Shego kicked at him and he twisted her arm around to stop her. He increased the pressure on her wrist. She didn't seem to feel any pain at all from it. It was like fighting a synthodrone. He squeezed harder. Green goo burst out from her hand and she slumped to the ground.
"Synthodrone?" Kim muttered, looking puzzled. "Why would Drakken be making synthodrones in the form of Shego?"
"No idea." Ron truthfully admitted. "But that explains why Shego wasn't using plasma. It wasn't Shego."
"Not this time." Kim admitted. "But we can't be sure it wasn't her any of those other times."
"It wasn't." Ron assured her.
Kim looked at him. "Okay. I'll admit it's pretty unlikely. If it had been Shego she would have used plasma." She sighed. "And I will be sure to mention that to Dr. Director."
"Thanks KP." Ron smiled at her. He wondered what Shego was going to think of the new synthodrones.
"I don't think Shego's working for Drakken anymore." Mark looked down at the remains. "If she was he wouldn't need to use synthodrones to steal."
"Maybe." Kim admitted. "Or maybe he's got her on a more important job at the moment." She kicked the remains. "Wish Global Justice didn't keep letting her escape." Kim down on the ground and sighed.
"KP?" Ron asked, worried.
"Kim?" Mark asked, also worried.
"It was just a game to her. All those fights. She could have beat me easily." The redhead muttered. She recalled the amount of power her arch-foe could really summon and shuddered.
Ron shrugged. "Shego doesn't want to hurt anyone. She used what she could within those limits. But wasn't that one of the rules you set when you started fighting villains. That you wouldn't hurt anyone?"
"Yeah. But I'm not a villain. Why would a villain set such a rule?"
"Because she's human."
"But..." Kim sighed. Her view of the world was really getting shaken a lot these days.
Beep! Beep! Beep!
Kim opened the Kimmunicator. "What is it Wade?" She asked, tiredly.
"Big trouble Kim." Wade held up a small robot.
"The toys Bueno Nacho is handing out to kids these days. What about them?"
"They got cybertronic technology in them. I just scanned the wreckage of the Middleton Space Center. The Lorwardian war machine didn't leave much behind but I was able to check the debris and the cybertronic technology is gone."
"Gone?" Kim became more alert.
"These toys if they receive the right signal can grow into giant fighting machines. And they've been distributed all over the world." Wade added.
"How many were distributed?" Kim asked.
"Around twenty million."
"And how big are the fighting machines they grow into?
"Around fifteen feet tall." The super genius replied.
"Okay. That is big trouble." Kim admitted. "Here we just got rid of a thousand Lorwardian war machines and some idiot is about to let loose twenty million more war machines." She sounded pissed. "Do any of these villains have any common sense?"
Wade shrugged. "All I know is we've got to stop that signal from being transmitted. The Lorwardian war machines might not have done much damage but the military forces that tried to take them out got hit pretty bad. They're in no shape for another fight. Certainly not with twenty million fighting machines like these."
"Any idea where the transmitter is?" Kim asked.
"Not yet." Wade admitted, sounding apologetic.
"Scan the Bueno Nacho locations." Ron interrupted. "They're the ones distributing the toys so they're linked somehow."
"I've thought of that Ron, but it will be a few hours before I'm able to scan them. No satellites free. Sorry."
"What about the one Jim and Tim launched?"
"It burned up in the atmosphere last night. They didn't get it into a stable orbit."
"You know, this sounds like one of Drakken or Dementor's plots. It's not something someone like Monkey Fist or DNAmy or Killigan or any one of the other villains would come up with." Mark commented.
"True. So it's either Drakken or Dementor." Kim agreed.
"If it's Drakken then odds are the main transmitter will be near Middleton. The guy is always focusing on it. He sees you as his arch-foe and wants to beat you."
"True." Kim agreed with him again.
"Is the Wade-bot capable of doing such a scan?" Ron asked.
"It would be if I could get it a kilometer or two high. No way of doing that."
"Call the weather station, see if they got a weather balloon available." Ron suggested.
"I'll try that." The image disappeared.
"Meanwhile we will check out Bueno Nacho." Kim said. She stood up.
The three headed for her car. They stopped. Kim recalled that last night she and Mark had ate at Bueno Nacho. She'd taken the offered toy, planning on giving it to the tweebs. It was still in the car. Or had been anyway. The car wasn't there any more. It had just stretched, the windows cracking and popping off. Then it had split in two. Left in its place was a fifteen foot robot that sort of resembled the toy she'd left in the car.
"My car." She said, in a disbelieving tone. "My car."
"KP, I don't think this is the time to be worried about the car." Ron said. He lifted a hand and threw plasma at the robot. It bounced off. Plasma proof. "Okay, that settles it. Only Drakken makes his toys plasma resistant." He lifted both hand and threw more plasma. It didn't quite bounce off, but it only left a small burn mark. A mark that disappeared in seconds.
The robot lifted its arms and fire shot out from them. The trio scattered. It aimed at Mark and Ron ran close to the machine, firing more plasma. The machine switched its attention to him.
Large, fast, agile, and plasma resistant, Ron thought as he dodged the attacks coming his way. Not good.
Kim leapt at the machine and, with her gauntlet set to ten, hit it. It fell backwards, a hole punched in it. It fired thrusters from its legs and got itself back up right. The hole started to close. She hit it again and it went down again. Another hole in it. Once again it fired its thrusters and righted itself. The first hole was now repaired and the second was closing as well. It swung both arms, blazing fire, at her. She flipped away from the machine. Dodging.
Ron rushed up and threw plasma into the hole before it fully closed. It didn't seem to bother the machine much. It did turned its attention on him. He jumped away and nearly slipped in some mud. He dodge the fire from the machine and thought, it can't be that simple. He reached down and picked up some mud and flung it over one of the eyes of the machine. It raised one arm, trying to wipe the mud away. It couldn't reach. Ron threw more mud at the second eye. The machine stopped attacking them. It turned around as if searching. It's arms tried to clear the mud and failed. It turned around and around faster. Then it exploded.
The three of then stopped to stare at the wreckage.
"I can see why the mud stopped it from seeing, but why did it explode?" Mark asked.
"Drakken doesn't want anyone to analyze them so he put in a self-destruct to prevent then from being captured." Ron explained.
"My car." Kim said.
"But still, who would have thought mud on the eyes would take out something like that." Mark hugged Kim who was staring what remained of her car.
"That's Drakken for you. Always missing the obvious." Ron patted Kim on the shoulder.
"My car." She sobbed.
"I think I saw a store in that direction." Ron pointed.
"Store?" Mark asked.
"Water guns filled with paint I think should be easier to use than mud." He explained.
Kim took one last look at her car and the trio headed off towards the store. Soon all three were equipped with water guns large enough to carry a fair amount of paint.
Another one of the diablos, as Mark said the toys were called, charged them as soon as they left the store. It was immediately met with three streams of paint that blocked its sight. It spun around a few times and exploded.
'"Effective." Mark commented.
Then they were swarmed. Forty of the machines moving in formation down the road spotted them and charged.
Ron ran at them, blinding as many as he could. Mark he knew would be in trouble if many targeted him. He twisted and dodged the fire coming his way. Enough of it came close enough to burn some flesh. The diablos he blinded started spinning and exploding. He ran between them blinding more. Fortunately they were large enough they got in each other's way.
Kim had the done the same mental calculations and charged as well. She flipped on top of one of the diablos and jumped around blinding them. She didn't quite have Ron's speed but she had picked a better location to fight from. She blinded one after the other. As she did so they spun around and exploded.
It wasn't enough. Eight of them targeted Mark and he was forced to put all his efforts into dodging. He would soon have been seriously wounded if a strong hand had not reached down and plucked him out of harms way.
Seeing the tiny dolls grow into huge fighting machines Shego had decided to find the Buffoon. Knowing him he would be in the midst of it all somewhere. She had located him by simply flying high enough to see a large section of the city and flying around, looking for the largest number of the machines she could see. She had arrived just in time to see Mark about to be swarmed under by eight of the machines. She had dropped the hovercraft down and pulled him in before sending it skyward. She had already located the Buffoon and saw that while he was under pressure from the swarm he wasn't in any serious danger.
"Hope you don't mind if I used this." Shego simply stated and took the water gun from the hands of Princess' boy toy. She hopped down on the head of one of the eight and started taking them out. That's Drakken for you, she thought. A water gun taking out a giant war machine because he missed the obvious. She aimed and fired until all eight were gone.
"Hey Buffoon. Hey Princess." Shego greeted the two who had just wiped out thirty-two of Drakken's fierce war machines.
"Shego!" Kim yelled. "What have you done with Mark?" She had seen him in trouble and had been trying to reach him. Then he had disappeared.
"Oh him." Shego pressed a button and the hovercraft floated down to her. A door opened and Mark appeared. His face was white.
"Mark." Kim rushed to him, hugging him. She was sobbing onto his shoulder. She had been sure she'd lost him.
"Thanks." Mark said, looking over Kim's shoulder at Shego.
Shego shrugged. She turned to Ron and asked. "So what have you been up to other than wiping out Drakken's latest army?"
Ron matched her shrug. "Not much. What have you been up to?"
"Just flying around thinking. By the way, you want to go to a party tonight?"
"Sure." Ron answered.
"What!" Kim yelled, turning around. She kept her hand on Mark though, needing the comfort of his presence.
"It's nothing big Princess. Just a party." Shego explained.
"But..." Kim sighed. She would talk to Ron later. "What's Drakken up to this time?" She demanded.
"No idea."
"We just finished saving the world from the Lorwardian war machines and now he cooks up twenty million to replace them and you have no idea?" Kim yelled.
Shego froze. "Twenty million of those? Just how did he manage that?"
"Cybertronic technology." Ron explained.
"Oh. He finally got his hands on it?"
"Yeah." Ron answered.
Ten more of the machines charged down the road. Ron, Shego, and Kim took them down in seconds. All three charging in, dodging the fire, while blinding them. Mark knew enough to keep back.
"We need more paint." Ron looked at the level of pain in his gun. It was nearly empty.
"Want a ride?" Shego offered.
"Sure." Ron walked into the hovercraft.
"Ron!" Kim cried again.
"Fastest ride in town Kim." Ron called back.
Kim sighed and climbed aboard, keeping her eye on Shego. Mark climbed aboard as well. Shego hopped in and soon had them at a paint shop where they refilled their guns.
"So what now?" Kim asked, eyes still on Shego.
"We go to Buneo Nacho and see what's happening?" Mark suggested.
"We could call Wade and see what he's come up with." Ron suggested.
"Wade and then Bueno Nacho." Kim agreed with both suggestions. "What about her?" She pointed at Shego.
"What about me Princess?"
"How are we supposed to plan with Drakken's sidekick standing right beside us?"
"Oh that. I resigned."
"You resigned?" Kim didn't believe her.
"Yeah." Shego shrugged. "Had more important things to think about than my next heist."
"Seems Drakken misses you." Ron interrupted the two.
"Oh?"
"Yeah. He's got synthodrones that look exactly like you."
Shego was quiet for a long time. "So there are synthodrones going around, committing crimes and I'm getting the blame for it?" That seemed very counterproductive to her desire to keep a low profile. And with Drakken there was no telling what those synthodrones would do.
"As if that would bother you." Kim stared at the villainess.
"Actually it does Princess. It's one thing to be blamed for the things I do. Getting blamed for something I didn't do is something else entirely. Those are machines, the synthodrones. They don't have human judgement. Something could go wrong and I could get blamed for someone getting killed. That's a whole different story from stealing something."
Ron pulled out his Kimmunicator. Soon he was connected to Wade. From the image he appeared to be under a desk and one of the diablos was in the background punching holes through the wall.
"Ron. Get to Bueno Nacho and take down their antenna." The image disappeared.
"Ride?" Ron asked looking at Shego.
"Sure. Hop aboard." She climbed in after him. Kim hurriedly followed with Mark behind her.
The trip took less than a minute. The cloaked craft flew over the heads of hundreds of the diablos. Kim thought it was a good thing they didn't have to fight their way through. If only Shego could be trusted. This was different than the Lorwardian invasion. There she had been in the same position as Kim, defending the planet against a foreign invader. Here it was Drakken who was the enemy, her boss.
Shego hovered above the restaurant. "The memories." Shego said as she scanned for the antenna.
Kim wondered what memories Shego could have at such a place. This was where she and Mark and Ron made memories. It wasn't the type of place she expected a villainess to make memories.
"That's the antenna." Shego said, pointing at the sign.
"What do we have that can take that out?" Kim wondered.
Shego shrugged. "Silly question. You got two people aboard who can throw plasma." She opened the hovercraft door. She threw down a few balls of plasma and the sign disappeared in flames.
Ron looked out over the city. "It seems to have taken care of the diablos." Where once legions of the machines had marched there were now a few toys.
Kim opened her Kimmunicator and called Wade. His image appeared on the screen. He seemed pretty shaken but otherwise okay.
"That was fast." The super genius said. "Was pretty close there. They nearly wrecked all my computers."
"You get a scan of the Middleton area?" Kim asked.
"Yeah. Give me a second. Hope it wasn't on one of the destroyed disks." The super genius moved around on the screen, putting his workspace back in order. "Found it." He exclaimed. "I'm downloading the coordinates to the Kimmunicator now." He typed for a few seconds.
"Got it Wade. Thanks." Kim told him.
"One last thing Kim. I did a full scan of the area. You got maybe five minutes before he's ready."
"Five minutes to get that far?" Kim gulped. She looked at Shego.
"Piece of cake Princess."
"Who was that?" Wade asked.
"We better get going Wade." Kim told him. She signed off without telling him about Shego.
The hovercraft took less than two minutes to cover the forty kilometer distance. It would have been faster but Shego kept low to avoid any radar systems Drakken had up. The craft was cloaked, but it was Drakken who had designed the cloak.
The four exited the craft but Kim hesitated. "Can Mark stay aboard?" She asked Shego.
Shego shrugged and nodded. "Sure. Not like he can do much with the controls locked."
"Kim..." Mark started.
Kim turned around and kissed him. "I'll fight better knowing you're safe." She told him.
Ron looked over at Shego. He walked over and pulled her into a kiss. She was more than happy to comply with the request.
"Shego." Kim yelled as she turned around.
"What Princess? Think you're the only one who should get to kiss someone?"
"But not Ron." Kim stated.
"Why not Princess? Besides he kissed me."
"He what?" Kim turned to stare at Ron.
"Seemed like a good idea at the time." He told her. "Three minutes are up. Two left before Drakken rules the world."
Kim sighed. "Lets go." She headed towards what looked like a large antenna. It was surround by two dozen of the diablos.
Once again the diablos tried to swarm them. They failed. Both Kim and Shego jumped to the top of one of them and started blinding them from there. Jumping as needed. Ron ran through them, dodging and twisting, to avoid their fire. It took seconds before the machines all began to spin and explode.
For war machines, Ron thought, they are definitely lacking something.
Ron and Shego stood together in front of the giant antenna. They both tossed plasma at it. Nothing happened.
Shego sighed. "He's plasma proofed it and even full out it would take four or five minutes to take it down. Two to three with the both of us."
"Control room then." Ron said. He ran for the door. Shego and Kim followed.
They entered the building with no idea which way to go. Shego shrugged and blew holes in three of the walls along with the floor and ceiling. She looked in through each hole to see if it led to the control room. One of them did.
"Thirty more second and I will rule the world." Drakken was ranting. He turned to look. "Kim Possible!" He exclaimed. Then he saw Shego. "Get her Shego."
Shego blew up the control panel he was standing in front off.
"Shego? What are you doing?" Drakken demanded.
"I resigned. Remember?"
"But Shego! We were seconds from ruling the world." The man sobbed.
"Who told you you could make synthodrones that looked like me?" Shego's eyes blazed.
"Well see. Their fighting style was based on yours so when the computer processed the data it used your image." He explained. He backed away from the raging demon.
Shego lit her hands. Drakken ran. He got two steps before Kim tripped him.
"Shego, help!" He cried out.
"I resigned. Remember?"
"But the world?"
"I don't want the world any more." She answered.
"But..." Drakken didn't know what to say.
I almost believe her, Kim thought to herself. In fact I think I do believe her.
Shego disappeared after a good-bye kiss with Ron. Kim glared at that. Global Justice agents soon rushed in through the door.
Ron watched as Kim gave her report. She was thorough and honest. She gave Shego credit where credit was due. As he'd known she would. When she finished he asked to speak to Dr. Betty Director. This incident had been serious enough that she had taken Kim's report directly.
"Ron." Dr. Betty Director greeted him.
"That's twice now she helped save the world."
The woman nodded. "I know. But she's tried to take over the world nineteen times."
"So no second chances? Ever?" Ron asked.
Dr. Betty Director thought for a bit. "That's not possible. No one can remove her name from the wanted list. But I can modify it so she's the lowest priority risk that the list allows. If she stays out of trouble then that should be enough to keep us from coming after her. The longer she stays out of trouble the smaller the chance she will see us."
"Thank you." Ron told the woman.
"I'll also speak to the countries she's wanted in. I can have her removed from those lists. Of course if she gets into trouble she can go back on them just as easy."
"I appreciate that."
Dr. Director Betty nodded. "Tell her to drop by the Middleton base some time. I want to speak to her in person. I personally guarantee she will be allowed to leave."
"I will." Ron said.
Shego opened the door of the Go Tower. Not that she needed to be the one to open it now. The Buffoon could do it too. He was standing beside her.
Walking in she saw the main area had been decorated. It looked pretty nice. The Wegos where running around, as they usually were. They saw her and swarmed into a group of twenty, all calling out. "Sis."
She smiled as she was nearly swept off her feet. She hoped the gifts she and the Buffoon had brought were okay. Video games the saleswoman at the video store had suggested.
Then they turned and swarmed around Ron. It seemed they had a thousand questions on how he'd gained comet powers. Some of the questions, it seemed, involved sex. She wondered how he would answer those questions.
"Glad you could make it Amy." Hego spoke.
She nodded at him, not knowing what to say. "When did you start having birthday parties?" She finally asked.
"After you left." Hego shrugged. "They're just kids so... I'm sorry you never had one Amy. It was stupid of me."
Shego looked around and saw several other kids running around or just standing. "I never had any friends to invite anyway. Still it would have been nice, I think."
Hego looked down.
Shego considered what the Buffoon had told her. She would be placed lowest on the wanted list. Global Justice would never bother her so long as she kept out of trouble. It was a second chance. She looked at Hego. He was still a cartoonish hero, but he too had changed.
"So what does one do at a birthday party?" She asked.
End of Chapter.
Yeah. It seems Drakken finally managed to implement his Diablo plot.
Shego has completely reformed, resigning from Drakken's employment.
She has gained what amounts to some freedom. Global Justice accepts that she has reformed but will be keeping a close eye on her.
She also accepts that maybe Hego should be given the same chance.
Next chapter will be whether or not Kim accepts,rejects, or partially accept, the situation.