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Kim Possible: Dark Destiny
By LJ58
6
"Not so fast, Drakken," Kim shouted as she burst into his lab without warning. "You're done this time."
"Kim Possible," the blue man shouted indignantly. "Shego! Get her! I'm at a critical junction…..!"
"Then, by all means, let's interrupt," Ron declared, leaping from the shadows to knock him away from the consoles where he worked even as Shego lunged toward Kim.
"You," the blue man huffed. "I thought you left! Why did you come back?"
"I'll always be around to make sure you don't succeed," he growled, and drove a hard fist into a soft gut, sending him flying.
Shego, meanwhile, traded blows with Kim in a furious pace, and finally drove a hard knee into the redhead's side, just before she raised a glowing hand over her face.
Kim cringed, but rolled out of the way before the blow landed, but Shego didn't follow her.
"Kim!"
"I'm okay, Ron," she called, panting, but keeping an eye on Shego, unable to believe she was actually facing the most dangerous woman in the world.
Worlds.
"Okay, who are you, and where's my Kimmie," Shego finally fumed as she lowered her hands as her plasma faded away, staring hard at the redhead.
"Shego, what are you talking about," Drakken moaned. "That's Kim Possible! Now destroy her, and help me stop this buffoon before he can stop….."
"Stopped," Ron growled, driving a hard fist down atop Drakken's head, sending him to the floor, unconscious.
"What about the machine," Kim asked uneasily, risking a glance his way.
"It looks okay. So, you can tell," Ron pointedly asked Shego.
"Doy," she huffed. "Look, Stoppable, Kimmie and I have been dancing for years. You think I can't spot a ringer? She's good, but not as good as my Kimmie. So, where is she, and what is this…..? Not a clone?"
"Another Kim. She's an extra-dimensional copy," Ron pointed at the machine. "Drakken somehow switched them that night you last faced off."
Shego stared at him, and nodded.
"Can you bring her back," she finally asked.
"That's why we need Drakken, and the machine. Frankly, from what Wade says, it's still a crap shoot. He says it scientifically, of course, but in the end, that's what he means. Only without the original machine, Kim doesn't have any chance."
Shego stared at the Kim before her, and frowned.
"So, who are you out there? A hero, too?"
"I'm...nobody," Kim told her after a moment, looking away now.
Ron growled.
"No! Don't ever say that," he told her. "No matter what else, you are somebody special, and you always will be. In this, or any world," Ron almost shouted at her.
"I'd listen to the monkey-master, Kimmie. Or is it Kimmie-lite," she teased.
"So, can you help," Ron actually asked her.
"Ron, she's evil. Why are we even talking to…..?"
"Bup, bup, bup. Adults talking," Shego silenced her. "Call the harpy, Stoppable. I'm in. Anything to get our Kimmie back home," she said firmly. "I'm already bored with this one."
In that instant, Kim understood.
"You love her?"
Shego stared at her.
"Wow, she is naïve," Shego quipped when Ron looked her way.
Ron said nothing to that as he pulled out his Kimmunicator.
"Dr. Director. We have Drakken, and the machine. No, no Shego is helping. She spotted Kim the minute they fought. Yep, just like you said. Okay, I've shut down the defenses, and you're clear to enter. Don't worry about the Henches. Most are still running," he added.
Kim stared at Shego, and shook her head.
"What?"
"Nothing. It's just…."
"Just what," Shego glowered at her.
"You're nothing like the Shego in my world."
"Yeah? What's she like?"
"A cold-blooded killer. One that helped Drakken destroy most of our world," she told her, adding, "Starting with my dad."
Shego actually paled.
"I would never…..!"
Kim said nothing as Global Justice agents flooded into the lair just then, and Dr. Director led them as Wade joined her, walking over to the machine.
"I was afraid of this," he said after testing some of the readings.
"What is it?"
"The machine can only pierce a limited set of dimensional frequencies, which likely included the one this Kim came from. Only to be able to open a stable interface, she has to be at the same place, juxtapositionally speaking, as her counterpart to make the switch happen again."
"Like the landslide," Kim realized. "We were both probably half buried for a time, and both of us were frozen long enough to….."
"Exactly," Wade agreed. "So, to try to switch you, you have to be in the same place and time, vibrationally speaking, as your counterpart at the exact moment."
"That…..sounds tough," Ron grimaced.
"Ron, it's a trillion to one shot," Wade told him quietly.
Kim frowned at that, and looked at Shego.
"Would…..your Kim know that? Would she be able to figure it out?"
Wade started at her, then at Ron.
"She….might."
"Then….all we have to do is figure out a place where she thinks we might both be, and can both be at the same time."
"Middleton," Ron and Shego both said as one.
"It's our best option," Dr. Director finally nodded. "Where?"
"Our bedroom," Kim said. It's the one thing I immediately noticed was virtually the exact same when I first crossed over. It's why I almost didn't notice I was in another world at first."
"Seriously? You have the exact same bedroom as Princess," Shego grinned now.
Kim blushed, asking, "What do you know about my bedroom?"
"I've been in it more than once," Shego teased, making Kim gape.
"Behave," Dr. Director growled. "Wade, get this machine transferred to Middleton now. And someone make sure Drakken doesn't slip away again," she said when she noted him coming around. "He may know things we still need."
"Just look in his notebook," Shego pointed helpfully. "He's been getting forgetful lately, and started writing everything down. Seriously, everything," she said, rolling her eyes.
"Okay, people," Dr. Director said as she scooped up the notebook herself, and flipped through the pages. "Let's move. We don't know what kind of window we're going to need."
KP
"You okay," Shego asked her quietly as she came up behind Kim, who sat in the now empty throne room after all the media came by and reported the abrupt change in power before rushing off to whatever else occupied them in this world.
In a surprise coupe, Kim Possible, with Shego and Chancellor Demenz' aid, deposed Drakken before he could literally crack the globe this time, and for once, people were actually cheering when Shego showed herself in public.
It was….a surprisingly heady feeling to a woman used to being hated, or feared.
Almost as heady as seeing the look on Drakken's face when he woke up after surgery to find his nuclear fail-safe defused, and his throne usurped by the otherworldly invader, as he tried to decry her. People were too busy cheering to listen to his rants as he was dragged away for the first real trial in years.
Meanwhile, Kim announced the new democratic changes to come would be invoked following new elections to reclaim, and restore their nation; as all researchers, and scientists were now asked to cease weapons' building, and turn their attention to saving their world.
She was shocked to find some were disappointed over that mandate.
She had them locked up several of the worst just to prevent malcontents from starting new wars, just in case. The others she gave all available resources to help them start rebuilding the nation, and the world. It didn't hurt to find out that there were already a lot of smart people in a growing underground in, and out of the alleged Wasteland that had been working on just that all along.
Her apparent victory over Drakken brought them into the open after a few tentative contacts to sound her out, and when Shego didn't kill anyone, or turn them over to Enforcers, or Executioners, they had little problem with siding with the redhead on the throne.
"I've been studying his machine."
Shego knew what she meant.
"So, you're going home," she finally asked.
"I don't know. It's more complicated than I initially thought."
"His crap usually is," Shego admitted.
"Yeah. To be able to change places again, we have to repeat the same conditions."
"You mean, like the landslide?"
"No. No, we have to be in the same exact time and place when we power up, or we can't….switch. It's a vibrational frequency that has to be…..well, perfectly synced. If we're not in the same place, at the very same time….. We're both stuck."
"Your friends you mentioned would likely have figured that out by now, too. Right," Shego asked, having talked with Kim a lot about her world, and her life.
"Yeah. Wade is pretty smart."
"So, he would likely know this limitation, and plan around it. So, where would he go? Where would he think you might go?"
Kim sat staring blankly for a time.
"I don't know."
"I think you do. The question is, do you want to go?"
Kim smiled bitterly.
"That's not exactly an easy question lately. I'm going to miss you," Kim admitted.
"I'm going to miss you. But you've taught me…..doing right isn't always easy, but it is…..best. I understand that bit about sacrifice now. Only we both know, you're not about doing the easy thing. Are you?"
Kim stood up, and hugged her. Fiercely. Clinging to her.
"If this works, promise to help...me change things. For the better."
"You have my word," Shego told her. "I just don't know if I will love her like I do….."
"Anything is possible," she said quietly.
Shego gave a shuddering sniff as she let her go, and just stared.
"Where do we need to go?"
"My house," Kim finally told her. "My room. It's the one place I noticed was exactly the same when I woke up that first day."
Shego nodded. "I'll get our best techs to work moving the machine. With luck….."
Kim smiled now.
"I've always made my own luck."
"Well, let's hope you still can, Princess," Shego smiled.
"Whatever happens, I'll never forget you, Shego."
"Sure you will, Kimmie," she said quietly. "You'll find someone else to love, and…."
Kim hugged her again.
"No. I'll always remember you. I've never loved anyone else the way I loved you here, and now. I've never felt loved back half so much, and the way you treat me….. I'll never forget you."
Shego smiled, her eyes overly bright, and she asked, "Should I go with you? To Middleton, I mean?"
"I'd like that. After all, your new leader is going to need you...when she gets back."
Shego sighed.
"I hope she has your head."
"She's a Possible," Kim smiled. "She'll figure it out."
"I hope you're right, Princess," and turned to walk away, adding, "I'll go give the orders to move now."
"Shego," Kim sighed, and stared after her, wondering if it were wrong to hope things failed. To hope she ended up staying.
To Be Continued…