Monique put her hands to the door and pushed violently, but the door wasn't budging. She pulled out the laser disguised as a tube of lipstick and twisted it, tracing the door's outline in hopes of destroying the hinges and making it possible to break.
No luck. Even after going over the door's edges multiple times she still couldn't break it. What was the damn door made of?
The chocolate skinned woman could hear her friend groaning in pain, whimpering, and crying, but she couldn't do anything about it. She was perspiring, and her muscles were aching with the effort, but the door wouldn't budge.
Ron stumbled over a rock, taking Shego down with him. The two tumbled for a few moments before coming to a halt.
Shego growled as she glared at the blonde boy. "The hell?!"
He put his hand down to steady himself before facing the green woman's wrath when the ground shifted beneath him. He began to fall backwards, but Shego's reaction time was better than his, and she managed to grab his shirt, keeping him from taking a nasty fall down the flight of stairs that appeared beneath him.
She grinned slightly as her anger dissipated, "Good job. Looks like we found one of the entrances." Then she shoved him behind her and lit her hands as a part of the black blob came shooting out of the darkness.
Ron yelped as he hid behind the green woman.
"So this is where you've been hiding you rotten bastard! Guarding the exits huh? Guess that means you got yourself something you don't want us to see and possibly help free."
The black mass was already slowly dwindling as both the sun and Shego worked away at it. It attacked her ferociously, trying to destroy her before she could destroy it. Tears appeared in her clothes, and scratches marred her clear skin, yet none of the blows landed were fatal, nor did they hurt nearly as much as when the villain faced off with the red headed hero.
She whittled away at it for half an hour, and at long last, the last traces of it disappeared.
Ron was swift to exclaim, "A Boo-yah!"
Shego rolled her eyes and shushed him, "That wasn't nearly the size it was yesterday. It was probably only a piece of it, placed here to guard one of the exits. If it knew we were here it would've multiplied itself and we would've been doomed."
He immediately grew silent.
She shrugged off his sudden silence and said, "Come on. Princess is waiting."
His face set into a serious expression and he nodded.
She lit her hand just long enough to light another torch and then the two headed into the dungeon passage ways below.
Monique crumpled to the ground with tears streaking down her face. She was worthless. She couldn't even get into the same room as her friend, all the while listening to her best friend's pained screams grow louder. Her fingers scraped across the rough door for the thousandth time, breaking the skin and allowing her blood to mingle with dirt.
She was an utter fool. She was just a hindrance to Kim all along. She should never have been there to get in the way.
"What's with the sobbing?" asked a calm voice from behind her, one she was sure shouldn't be sounding so normal.
Monique shook her head slightly as she tried to peer into the darkness. Her tears blurred her vision, but she figured it was all a hallucination.
"Mo, you ok?" came another familiar voice, belonging to a blonde boy she was sure should still be in Middleton.
Yeah, she concluded she was definitely hallucinating.
Shego knelt down beside Monique and placed a gentle hand on her shoulder, "Hey, are you ok? Where's Princess?"
"Sh-Shego? It… It's really you?" the chocolate skinned woman asked, not ready to believe her just yet, but wishing she could.
Ron was slightly taken aback. It almost sounded as if… as if they knew each other.
"Doy. Of course it's me. You think I'd let Dr. D clone me?" she grinned.
Monique didn't waste any time contemplating anymore. She wanted the villain to be real, and apparently so did her body, for she immediately threw her arms around the green skinned woman and sobbed. She curled her fingers around the black and green cloth, not caring that her fingers hurt from the pressure.
"Woah hey, shh, calm down," Shego said gently, patting the girl on the back. "I'm still not the touchy feely type you know," she grinned.
The blonde boy was rendered speechless. He decided to shut up for now though and see how things played out.
"So tell me, where's Kimmie?" Shego said softly, pulling back a little so she could look Monique in the eyes.
Raising a trembling finger, she pointed to the unmoving door behind her. "They… They are doing something to her. She was screaming until a little while ago, and then nothing. The person said he was doing things to her that he had done to you. I tried breaking in, but the laser lipstick did nothing." She pulled out the laser disguised as lipstick and displayed it with shaking hands.
Shego's eyes darkened and she took the tube. The door was probably reinforced since the last time she was there, considering the fact that she blasted a hole in it to escape.
"Hey Stoppable," she said in a stern voice.
His back stiffened and he asked, "Y-Yes?"
"Take care of Monique," she instructed, tossing her bag to him, "The first aid kit is in the top zipper. Patch her up and NEITHER of you are to look in the room, understood?"
Ron and Monique both nodded.
Shego gently handed the crying girl over to Ron and then stood up, facing the door with an increasingly eerie, calm composure.
She took a few deep breaths and then both of her arms set ablaze, the plasma flaring all the way up to her shoulders. Her hands touched the solid door and already the plasma began to work its magic and weaken the door. Then she flexed her muscles and pushed on the door for all she was worth. The creaking resounded off the walls, and she was sure that if He didn't know they were there now, He sure as hell knew now.
With one last burst of plasma the door went shooting into the room and crashing on the opposing wall. It resounded with a metallic clank. The outside may have been made to look wooden, but it was several feet of metal backing it.
She entered with arms still blazing.
A man with bright red goggles turned to face her, covering his test subject with a sheet before speaking. "Why hello there my dear. I'm surprised to see you here again, especially after what I did to you. Are you here for more, or did you really come to save your enemy?" His voice was slippery like an eel, and it disgusted her to hear. Goose bumps peppered her skin, but she didn't back down.
"Hello there Dereck. I see you're still the biggest asshole around."
"Oh come now sweetheart. You missed me, that's why you're here. You wouldn't waste your time on someone as weak as your enemy. She's not nearly as strong or resilient as you. I broke her within a few hours. You lasted two weeks."
Shego began to growl in a low voice, her fists tightening into balls, her nails digging into her flesh. "Give her to me and I won't destroy you."
"Tsk, Tsk, my dear. I have yet to complete my observations," he smiled, raising a gun. "If you take even one step towards her, I'll shoot you and then press the button that will destroy her cells from the inside out."
With a slight smirk the green skinned woman said, "Yes, that bullet may be faster than me, but I have a few tricks myself."
A red beam shot from her hand and pierced his hand, causing him to drop the gun, and before he could reach over and activate the machine to destroy the redhead, she used the laser to slice off his hand. He cried out in pain as he crumpled to the ground.
Shego dashed over to him and grabbed his bleeding stub, using her plasma to melt his flesh to seal off the wound. She wasn't going to let him die from blood loss. She wasn't done with him left. She ripped off his belt and tied him up before throwing him against a wall, causing him to pass out, the echo of his cries of pain fading.
Then she put out her plasma and moved over to Kim's side, pulling back the sheet slightly so that she could see the redhead's face.
"Kimmie," she breathed, her voice twisted with pain.