Chapter 4
Kim's eyes became fixed on a large wave of black creatures slowly crawling towards her and Shego. The walls and ceiling were full of creatures. They were monsters with snapping jaws and razor sharp claws or talons.
"I didn't think you'd show." Shego sarcastically laughed as she fired a few bursts of energy at the little monsters. Their thin, almost skeleton-like, bodies flung backwards upon impact.
"I didn't have much of a choice." Kim pulled Shego by the arm and quickly swung the door. The arms of multiple creatures were caught in between, their little hands slashing violently in hopes of tearing their flesh off. Shego fired a few more bursts of energy, causing the little beasts to pull away; she then concentrated her energy into a thin beam and welded the door shut.
"So what are you and Drakken up to?" Kim asked in a demanding voice. Shego dropped down, with her back to the door, and she took a deep breath.
"Drakken is dead." She replied quietly.
"What?" Kim gasped.
"He's not the only one though. Monkey Fist… Senior Sr… Dr. Dementor. They're all gone. Making a long story short, it all started when Senior Sr. received a proposal to get rid of you…"
Flashback…
"No deal! We want nothing to do with you, not with the methods you employ." shouted . A loud snarl echoed around the group of villains and they all began to look around.
"Do you fools even know what I am? Do you know what I can do?" barked the disembodied voice.
"We're not going to stand here any longer, we're leaving." Senior Sr. grabbed his son by the arm and pulled him, but the young man was very quiet and still. His arm was cold and stiff. Senior Sr. turned to face his son.
"Son?" he muttered as he looked into his sons pale face. "Why are you not moving?" he asked. Senior Sr. Junior fell to the ground. The young man had a large tear in his back. His entire spine had been torn out and no one had noticed.
"I tire of you fucking fools. I think we're done here. I'll snuff you all from this world and that child you idiots can't seem to beat."
"Let's get out of here!" The remaining villains all fanned out and went their separate ways, leaving Senior Sr. behind. The old man dropped to his knees. He carefully rolled his dead son over and shed a tear for him.
"Why did you take my son from me?" he asked. The disembodied voice laughed. "Why don't you show yourself? Face me like a man!" he commanded.
"I will. Only if you're positive that I'm the last thing you want to see." It laughed. Darkness fell upon the surrounding area and an eerie silence fell over. Senior Sr. stood up and reached into his finely woven suit and pulled out a strange device. "You've taken my son from me. No amount of money could replace my son. I'm taking you with me carbon!"
Senior Sr. pressed three buttons on the device and a female voice emanated from it. "Satellite laser uplink complete… Location locked on… Firing upon your command..." Senior Sr. stared at a shapeless black mass and shut his eyes as it engulfed him. His screams filled the air and he pressed a red button on his device a second before he felt his stomach being torn open.
"Satellite laser firing…" Senior Sr. was unable to move as the unknown being tore him apart. He smiled vengefully as the heavens became brighter and brighter by the second. "Die…" he smiled. A quiet light fell over the area and it exploded, destroying everything.
End Flashback.
Shego slowly stood back up and looked up at Kim, "Shortly after Senior Sr. died, everyone else started to drop like flies. Drakken and I came here because of information given to us by Monkey Fist before he was killed."
"What did Monkey Fist find out?" Kim asked.
"It's name. What it is and where to find it. We accidentally let it loose a while back. I'm surprised you don't recognize this place Kimmy, but this is where we had one of our battles."
"I didn't recognize it." Kim replied.
"You wouldn't. Not how it is now, but back when we fought here they were conducting secret research. After we were done fighting, one of my blasts shorted out a generator that ran down to the research facility five stories underneath us. When that happened "it" escaped. We didn't know it at the time, but we were responsible for all of this."
"I didn't know." Kim muttered.
"None of us did, but that's all it took. When Dr. Drakken and I got here, we found the place in ruins and everyone dead. Drakken was intent on finding out all he could about "it". The researchers documented everything that they could about it. They had opened a multidimensional portal. The portal was stable, but our fight caused a power surge that let "it" out. At first the researching team thought that it was friendly, but it was far from it."
"What happened after that?" Kim asked.
"I think their mistake was letting it watch television. It saw clips of the battle between us and I guess it wanted to thank us for freeing it by getting rid of you, but we didn't like the method it would've used."
"So why did you two come back? Why not just let it find me? Why not let me fight it and beat it?" Kim asked.
"Because it's not like us, it's not like any of us. We don't really even know what it really looks like. He hides in the shadows, almost like he's a part of them. And we came back because… well, we wanted to stop him. We may be villains, but this thing is a different kind of evil."
Kim looked into Shego's eyes and reassured her that everything was going to be okay. "We have to get to the secret lab. Maybe there we can find a way to trap it or send it back where it came from."
"Okay, let's go to the lab. Follow me Kimmy I know the way." Shego walked towards a dark corner and sent a small energy burst through it, temporarily shorting out the hidden circuitry. A clicking could be heard behind the concrete slab and the wall began to move, revealing a narrow door.
