He shrieked and jumped up slightly. "B-Blood?! Why is blood here?!" His eyes were wide with fright as he hurriedly scurried away from the stained rocks.

"That's the spot where I bled out for a few days before the thing finally got past my defenses and captured me," she said as lightly as possible, but it was pretty hard. Talking about bleeding out wasn't exactly a light matter.

"This is your… your blood?" he cringed.

"Yeah, I just said that. Anyways, it's been dried for months now. Stop flipping out and sit back down. Your jumpiness is pissing me off."

He hesitantly took a seat on the dried blood, still slightly disturbed. He couldn't peel his eyes off of it. Then something else occurred to him. Taking a closer look at the blood he asked, "Is this… green?"

Shego fell silent for a moment. It wasn't like she'd been hiding it or anything, but it wasn't something she broadcasted to the world. "Yeah. It's green."

Ron's lips seemed to twitch, and Shego prepared for him to freak out. Instead he did something completely unexpected.

"That's awesome! So when you turned green and got your plasma powers your blood changed color too? Does that mean that Hego, Mego and the Wegos all have different colored blood too?!" He had a childish look on his face. Apparently this was so fascinating he forgot how horrified he was.

Her eyes shot wide open when he'd suddenly burst out, but she quickly composed herself. "No."

That took the wind out of his sails. "Aww…" he mumbled.

"What I mean to say is, you're almost correct."

"Huh?"

"Hego has blue blood and Mego has purple blood. The Wegos on the other hand have red blood. Think about it. Their color is red."

"Ooooooooooh," he said as it dawned on him. "That's so cool!"

She rolled her eyes. "Alright. Question and answer time is over. Get some rest. We're going to get moving in a couple hours."

He nodded slowly and reached into his pack, pulling out a blanket. After practically cocooning himself in the blanket he closed his eyes and was asleep in an instant.

Shego closed her eyes as well, but she only fell into a light sleep, waking up at the slightest of movements near the cave entrances. She was used to going on one or two hours a sleep a night for weeks. Of course she preferred more, but depending on her situation, it would be inconvenient to be asleep for hours and leave herself exposed.

"Shit!" Kim growled under her breath.

Monique was curled up in the far corner of her cell, staring with wide eyes towards the cell opposite of hers. Her redheaded best friend was being pulled down from the chains and dragged away. She couldn't fight what was holding her.

The chocolate-skinned woman shivered. The black blob holding her friend had been the same one that had chased them the past week. She had bad memories.

As she tried not to think about what had happened before, it only helped the horrible memories resurface.

Black slowly slithered up her legs as she stood immobilized. Kim hadn't returned from her visit to the river, and now Monique was in the cave, the black slowly enveloping her and constricting her movements. The pain would slowly intensify as it continued up her body, and at long last reaching her throat. It curled around it gently, but slowly grew tighter and tighter as it took her breath away. Even as it slowly caused her to pass out it continued up her neck and covered her eyes, making everything go black. It muffled her attempted cries for help and she felt her body crippling slightly.

Her head was throbbing. She couldn't think straight. What was going on? What was that noise? Is that light?

The blackness suddenly disappeared and light shined down on her eyes. Kim was kneeling over her, calling out, trying to find out if she was alright.

"Monique! Hey! Mo! Can you hear me?!" the hero cried, eyes watering with every second.

Finally she managed a slight nod and Kim sighed in relief.

"H-How…?" Monique managed to choke out, though her throat was still sore.

"Fire. I didn't know what to do… Before we were able to outrun it, but it seems it has a slight affliction to fire. I just wanted to get it away and so I tried to use flames and it made a weird shrieking noise before escaping," Kim said, cradling her friend gently. "Just rest ok? I'm sorry I got you into this."

Monique placed her quivering hand on Kim's and looked into her eyes. "It's not… your fault," she managed, smiling slightly in reassurance.

Kim managed to return the smile, but she faltered.

"Let go of me!" Kim snarled.

The yelling snapped Monique out of her memories. "Kim!" she shouted, surprising herself. She was terrified, but Kim had saved her before, she couldn't just act weak. "Let Kim go!" She pulled herself to her feet and ran at the bars, slamming into them angrily. There was a large groan, but the bars remained in place. "Damn it!" she cried out.

Kim tried to call back to Monique, but the black blob slowly consumed the redhead, until Mo couldn't see her friend anymore.

Monique broke down sobbing. How could she have let this happen? If only she hadn't been there. Kim would be fine. She was the reason Kim was caught.

"Come on Mo," Kim grinned, "just a bit farther. I can hear a waterfall. If I know Shego as well as I think I do, she probably stopped there to wash off all the dirt and stuff she got on her. She loves to look good and would hate to be covered in shit. Any chance she get I bet she would stop and wash off."

Mo couldn't help but smile slightly as she took her friend's hand and pulled herself over the top of the cliff and onto solid ground. Her friend really did think of Shego a lot. She snickered slightly, but Kim didn't seem to notice.

As the two continued towards the sound of water, Monique grew more and more tired. She wasn't sure why, but she was feeling sluggish, like her backpack had suddenly gained weight. Kim was a few steps ahead, and she slowly fell behind, but she didn't want to slow down the redhead's pace. She would just have to push herself to catch up, but she couldn't.

At long last Kim turned around, her eyes widened. "Mo!"

Monique seemed confused. Her friend had a horrified look on her face. She turned to see if there was something behind her, coming face to face with the mass of darkness once again, she turned to run but her bag felt heavier than before. She turned to look at it and black was oozing from it and slowly curling around her. She screamed. The last thing she saw was Kim running towards her, and then nothing.

When she woke up, she found herself in her cell.

Monique gripped the bars as she sobbed. Why was she such a fool? She continuously pulled and pushed at the bars in anguish, crying furiously. Hours passed and she continued to sob uncontrollably, taking her frustration out on the bars.

Snap.

Monique fell face first onto the dirt, broken pieces of the cell bars in her hands. She felt an uncomfortable pain in her stomach where the pieces of metal jutting from the ground jammed into her. Luckily the bars had come off none too jaggedly and it only slightly cut her skin.

With a slight gulp she managed to swallow her sobs. She didn't know where she was going, but she had to find Kim. She had to.

Crawling out of the small opening, she came up on the other side of the cell and slightly dusted herself off. As she looked towards Kim's cell, something caught her eyes, a slight bulge in the dirt. She pushed gently against the door and it creaked open.

Slipping inside she picked up the suspicious object. It looked like a tube of lipstick. One of the gadgets? An actual tube of lipstick?

She carefully twisted it and a beam shot out of it. Suppressing a yelp, Monique quickly turned it off and held it firmly. It may not be much, but it was better than nothing.

After stepping out of Kim's cell, she went off in the direction that the blob had taken Kim.

"Kim… Wait for me ok?" she whispered to herself.

Author's Note: Ok, so thanks to my buddy I finally finished the next chapter xD I hope you're excited :D I know I am! Ok, anyways, it may be a while before I can update because I have an exchange student for a week and will have to be making sure I take care of them properly and also get my hw done xD So, yeah... Hope you like this, and i'm sorry about these long delays.