Chapter 7
Stopping Stoppable
So sleep, in your only memories of me, my dearest lover… are you hiding away lost? Under the stars… perhaps you're happy without me. You will not hear me say "I'm sorry"
Ron began to growl like a feral animal at the two girls, his mouth foaming with blood. He leapt at them the second that the light flickered off. Shego fired multiple blasts at him, hitting him in the face and chest, but his seemed unaffected. Ron tackled Shego, pushing her through a door that led to the next room. She felt the wind get knocked out of her as she crashed onto the floor with a loud thud. Ron wrapped his fingers, which were gnawed to the bone, and began to tighten his grip around her throat.
"Ron! Stop it!" Kim pleaded as she jumped into the room. Realizing that Ron was gone she wiped the tears from her face and delivered a strong drop kick to the back of Ron's head. His necked whipped forward, his spine cracking loudly, and he landed a few feet away, quickly jumping back on his feet and staring the two down.
Shego gasped for air as she stood back up. She growled angrily at him and gritted her teeth "I never did like you, you were always such a lucky fool…" Shego launched countless more blasts at Ron, pushing him back an inch. Ron's flesh sizzled and bubbled, his clothing smoking, filling the air with the scent of decaying meat.
Kim darted quickly behind Shego. She jumped into the air ever so gracefully and delivered, yet another, powerful kick to Ron, only this time striking him dead in the face. Ron's jaw cracked, literally falling off of his head, and his nose breaking.
"I'm sorry Ron" Kim cried.
"Kimmy…" Ron whimpered. "Why are you hurting me?"
"Ron?" Kim dropped her guard and approached Ron as he fell to the ground.
"It's a trap!" Shego screamed.
Ron gurgled a loud horrific growl with his tongue dangling over his gaping maw. He scurried hastily across the ground and pushed Kim into Shego. Ron dug his fingers deep into Kim's shoulders and held her down as his tongue licked her face and crept down into her shirt, licking her breasts.
"You taste good, better than Roofus…" he cackled
"Get off!" shouted Shego, the young villainess lifted the two off of her and made a fist. She summoned a dark-green mass of energy and took a deep breath. Swinging with all her might, her fist tore through the air, and struck Ron square in the temple. His remaining fleshy tissue burned away and his skull cracked as it began to give under the intense amount of pressure of her blow. Ron was knocked off of Kim and he smashed into a wall.
"Are you all right?" Shego asked while massaging her bloodied knuckles.
Kim looked over at Ron, who lay slumped over, with blood oozing from his gaping maw and cranium "yeah, I am." She replied.
"I'm so sorry about Ron. Even more sorry that I probably caved his skull in." Shego reluctantly laughed.
"It's okay. I know you didn't like him, but that thing you hit… That wasn't Ron." Kim stood back up, wiping away the trails of sticky blood and saliva from her face and chest. The two dusted themselves off and continued down a long hallway. They both spotted an elevator in the distance. The hallway was full of different devices and machines scattered all over the ground. A few wires and transformers were protruding from the walls, some still alive, as they buzzed with thousands of volts of electricity. Wasting no time, they began to walk quickly, and carefully, to it, but just as things were looking up for them…
"Come back here!" shouted a hoarse, almost unintelligible voice, in the distance. Shego and Kim both turned around, Ron stood in a few feet behind them, his tongue lapping the blood dripping from his wounds.
"Crud…" Kim grumbled.
"What do you wanna do? Your call Kimmy" Shego asked.
"Ron or not, I have to keep that thing from following us." Kim replied diffidently.
"Do you want me to help you out?" Shego asked.
"No, I got this…" Kim ran past Shego, jumping into the air, ahead, Ron cracked his knuckles in preparation. Kim struck Ron dead in the face, his neck whipping back, but he didn't stagger as Kim flipped back as she recovered from the move.
"Hurt me more Kimmy" Ron gurgled. Kim sprinted at him, punching him multiple times across the face and midsection, but he remained unaffected. "I bet your flesh tastes sweet" he said mockingly. Ron swung his hand, striking Kim, and slashing her bicep, cutting four deep gashes into her. He stepped backwards and licked his fingers, wrapping his tongue around them, savoring the warm blood on them.
"I don't know how much of Ron is left inside of you, but I'm sorry…" Kim whispered to him. She leapt at him while his guard was down and kicked him in the throat, stunning him briefly, that was just enough time for her to set him up for a series of punches and kicks.
"Why are you hurting me?" Ron mumbled.
"Ron… I…" And just as Kim dropped her guard Ron rushed her, his hands grabbing her wrists, quickly restraining her. Ron looked up, as the sound of energy hummed in the air, his eyes catching Shego readying to blast him off of Kim.
"Not this time…" she smirked. "…!" Shego froze as a black shadow materialized behind her. It's heavy breathing paralyzing her in place. The soft glow from her flames hiding the uneasy fear that she was swallowing.
"Shego… why don't you join us?" asked the shadowy figure. Shego gradually turned around, becoming oblivious to Kim's pleas for help, and her eyes focusing on the figure.
"Dr.D?" she whimpered. Drakken stood in front of her, his lips completely gone, revealing his bloody teeth. His eyes pale as the moon and his coat ripped in multiple spots. Drakken grabbed her by the throat and raised her into the air, his grip very slowly tightening. Shego raised her hand, the green energy still glowing around it, and fired a blast directly into his face. Drakkens grip loosened, his body began to wobble, and he dropped Shego.
Gasping for air, and on her knees, Shego looked up at Drakken, as he felt his face with both of his hands, his flesh smoldering underneath. Drakken staggered around blindly, disappearing into the shadows. "I'm sorry…" she thought, as she stood back up. Shego's eyes widened as she soon realized that Ron was overpowering Kim. Her head turned and she watched in horror as Ron held down both of Kim's wrists down with one of his hands. His other hand grabbed the center of her chest and it clenched tightly, ripping off her shirt, revealing her breasts.
"GET OFF OF HER!" Shego shouted, she ran with incredible speed, her hands burning strongly with an intense flame. Both of her hands grabbed Ron's neck, her fingers burying themselves deep into his throat, and the heat from the flame searing his decaying flesh. Ron let out a ghostly howl as his flesh blackened under her hands. Shego took a deep breath, and time seemed to come to a stop, as she squeezed his neck.
"…" the crimson glow in Ron's eye sockets grew faint. The bones in his throat and spine began to break and give under the stress. The remaining flesh on his neck separated and tore as Shego ripped his head off of his body.
"Die" she thought quietly, as her hands pulled off the head from its body, she turned his head towards her, and looked deeply into the fading "eyes" and crushed the skull. Ron's brains burst out, sticking to Shego's hands, and she finally dropped the bits and pieces that remained.
"Shego…" Kim whimpered, concerned for her enemy and now friend.
"I'm fine." She replied, shutting her eyes tightly and softly shaking her hands. "Before we go to the bottom floor, I think we need to check out Sub-Level 2" Shego said, almost whispering.
"What's down there?" Kim asked.
"You'll find out soon enough." The two girls continued on their way, both limping slightly, and clenching their fresh wounds. The short path ahead of them seemed to span into the infinite. Behind them the shadows seemed to move, almost following them slowly.
