Chapter Four
Kim was shocked and terrified. Not only had Shego launched herself at Yori but she had even been, on some level, pleased by it. There are few things more satisfying then watching someone round house kick a girl you have come to dislike.
This moment of disturbing satisfaction had cost Kim the advantage and Ron had exploited it. The monkey kung fu master had grabbed Kim by her shoulders and flipped her into her bookshelf and Kim barely had enough time to twist and kick off the edge of the shelf. But Kim just couldn't bring herself to attack her boyfriend so she punched Yori in the gut just before the ninja could knee Shego. Naturally this intercepting drew a foul look from Shego.
"Think I can't handle some punk ninja Princess?" asked Shego as she turned and blasted Ron's feet, forcing him to jump back.
Kim didn't answer and instead leapt at the still reeling ninja, planting a drop kick square on the ninja's head.
Shego had no idea what had gotten into Kim but if it kept the red head beating up GJ hired goons instead of her Shego wasn't going to ask questions. Thoughts of attitude changes aside Shego constantly launched her plasma at the buffoon, keeping him on the defensive. Monkey kung fu may let a fighter dodge well but the thief knew enough about it to know that it had no offensive dodges that could be used in a situation like this. Given this Shego saw the buffoon's launching of a book coming a mile off and blasted it before it had a chance to make it more then two feet from the sidekick and using his distraction from the resulting explosion, brought a chunk of the ceiling down right on top of him.
Kim didn't have time to look at whatever had been damaged by the obviously plasma caused explosion because that stupid ninja was fast. A hook at her right, a kick at her center, a fist aimed at her temple, Kim could see a dozen holes in the other girl's defenses but the attacks were coming so fast Kim didn't have a chance to exploit them.
Shego however could. A sharp kick to the side of the head brought the ninja down before she even knew what hit her.
"Having a little trouble Cupcake?" asked Shego sarcastically, smirking so hard that Kim was sure that that face would stick, Kim still didn't say a word. The teen had a look on her face that Shego had never seen and it scared the thief just a little how serious the red head looked.
Several moments passed in silence as the two martial arts stared at each other. The tension was palpable and it would have likely led to violence had Ron not burst from the rubble of Kim's roof and locked Shego in grip commonly called the crippling chimp. Ron knew what it could do, Shego knew what it could do and most importantly Kim knew. It Ron applied pressure to the point of Shego's neck he had a hold of it would leave her paralyzed for life. Kim couldn't believe Ron could do such a thing but Kim had never thought that Ron would attack her either.
"I'm sorry Shego but this is the only way to stop you from hurting me or Yori." said Ron as he moved to apply that crippling grip.
He never got the chance as he caught a face full of plasma first and a flying kick from his girlfriend a moment later. The boy went down and stayed down. Kim stood in shock for more then a minute as Shego recovered. Ron stayed down. Shego searched Yori and cursed loudly and in several different languages. Ron still stayed down. Kim still stood there.
"Princess! Snap out of it you red headed idiot!" screamed Shego as she slapped Kim across the cheek, "That stupid girl activated a GJ distress beacon and this place will be swarming with agents in less then three minutes!"
Kim still just stood there.
"I will throw you over my shoulder and drag you back to Dr. D's lair if I have to Pumpkin!" and Shego did. Kim was still in a state of shock as the injured thief carried her to one of her safe houses, more then a mile away, and dropped her into the back of her spare car, a dark green mustang with black leather interior that in anyone else's possession would have spoken of compensation but in Shego's hands it was a show of wealth.
Three hours later Shego had pulled into an anonymous parking structure and passed out in the front seat as Kim still just kept staring at the ceiling of Shego's car.
Kim had no idea what had gone wrong, she had attacked a supposedly Global Justice hired mercenary, attacked her boyfriend, stopped him from apprehending a dangerous criminal and attacked left him lying in a heap in her room as she was dragged off by the most wanted woman on the planet Earth. And to top it all off that annoying schoolgirl part of her mind wouldn't shut up about a test she had tomorrow!
"Shego… we need to go back… Shego?" Kim said with a hint of concern in her voice as she looked into the front seat to see her impromptu ally passed out.
The concept of an injured Shego and potential Global Justice pursuit meant that Kim only had one option, one very annoying, blue skinned option.
The only reason that Kim could think of to actually go to the trouble of finding the only person in the world that would help her help Shego was that look Shego had given her. Kim had seen enough victims and enough scared, cornered people to know that Shego really needed help.