Chapter 6

Friends and Death

The next room was in worse shape then the room behind them. The lights on the ceiling hung off of their cords. The soft light flickered on and off. And again, the walls were painted with the blood of dead, but this time, the victims were still there.

"I guess this is where "it" came through before escaping." Shego commented. She knelt down and examined one of the dead, almost as if to confirm something. "Guess I'm not the only one who's been bad…" she chuckled.

"What's so funny?" Kim asked.

"Kimmy, how long have we known each other?" Shego asked.

"Quite some time now, why?" Kim replied.

"Look at this guard."

"I don't want to." Kim replied.

Taking Kim by the wrist she pulled her down to her knees. "Look at this person's uniform. Tell me what his I.D. badge reads…"

At first Kim hesitated, almost unsure of what Shego hoped to accomplish, but she looked. Kim read what was on the badge out loud. "Omni Corporation - Level 10 Clearance"

"Look beneath that." Shego replied.

"Possible Research and Development" Kim fell to her butt and scooted away a little. "What does that mean?" she asked.

"It means that daddy was playing ball with this company. I hate to tell you this Kimmy, but your father knew about this."

"It's not true, it can't be, and dad would never cooperate in dangerous research…"

"Oh, but he would, did you ever stop and think for a minute that all the things that he helped research and develop for different companies wouldn't at one point be used in a different way?" Shego replied. "Any science, no matter how good the means, can be used in one form or another as a weapon."

"Lies, I don't believe any of it!" Kim shouted, before crying.

Shego pulled Kim close and hugged her tightly "I'm sure that your dad didn't know what was going on, he was most likely what some call a 'Ghost Consultant' to them."

"We're gratified that he naively helped free us" a rasping voice muttered. The two girls quickly jumped to their feet, their fists tightly clenched, and both in strong defensive poses. Shego's bright energy lit up the room, but the only thing they could see was the carnage and death all around them.

"Where are you?" She asked in a commanding voice.

"We look forward to raping your corpses" Cackled the voice.

Kim gasped as she pointed down at the corpse with the I.D. card, "it's him" she said in a horror-struck voice. Both girls looked down at the corpse as its head slowly moved up to gaze at them. The spine, of the corpse, cracked and popped from the rigor mortis that had set in.

"You sicken me!" shouted Shego as she aimed her fist at the corpse and fired a burst of green energy at it, destroying the corpse.

"Hahahaaaa... I hope you too aren't too attached to each other, because I'm gonna eviscerate you both slowly, but for now, lets give you girls a little practice." Laughed the ethereal voice. Not a second passed and the room dropped in temperature. It seemed to get darker and darker. And a heavy breathing could be heard all around them.

"Are you ready for this Kimmy?" asked Shego.

"As ready as I'll ever be…"

The lights finally gave out and everything went dark. Shego used her powers to light up the room, but something was different about this darkness, it was so black that even her energy wasn't able to light the room. The two walked back to back, blindly stumbling across the debris on the ground.

"Do you hear that?" asked Kim. The two stopped and something whisked by, a cold draft blew across them, whatever it was, it was moving fast.

"What's that smell? It smells almost like food?" whispered Shego.

Kim sniffed the air and smelled the same scent, "yeah, I smell it too, it smells like…" but before she could complete her sentence the lights came back on.

The two girls caught something black zip past the corner of their eyes, but before it could circle them again, Shego fired a blast of energy at the ground, sending debris into the air, her strategy worked, the creature stopped and materialized. Kim gasped and she almost knocked Shego down as she backed up away from the being.

"Ron?" she whimpered, her eyes welling up with tears, "what did they do to you?" she asked. Kim lowered her guard as Ron stood perfectly still. His empty eye sockets stared blindly at her. The young boys clothing was absolutely torn and ripped, his soft torso revealed deep tears into his abdomen and chest.

"I hurt Kim… Make the pain stop…" He pleaded, blood escaped from his mouth with every word uttered. The lights in the room began to flicker on and off again, dimming slowly. Ron's hallow eye sockets began to faintly glow with a dark crimson red.