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Kim Possible: Wonder Girl

By LJ58

7

Wade cringed when his mother knocked at his door.

For over three weeks he had hidden in his room. Nothing new there. Only he wouldn't even look at the new computer his mother had bought after he explained an unexplained electrical surge had damaged his other computers.

Oddly enough, she accepted the explanation, and didn't even complain about the loss of the costlier equipment.

Still, the new computer only set in its box, not even opened as yet, and that surprised his mother.

When she knocked on his door this time, the last thing he expected was for Kim Possible to step through wearing some kind of weird costume. Ron was with her, looking as grim as he had ever seen him, but the vision behind them was beyond all his experience.

He couldn't help but gape.

"Wade, we need your….. What happened to your computers?"

"Uh, virus," he blurted. "Bad one. Haven't had time to clean up," he babbled on.

"Your Oracle seems uncertain of himself. Are you sure he is the fount of wisdom you require," Diana asked.

"What….? What did you call me," Wade asked, actually paling as he backed away, almost tripping over an old, cracked monitor still setting around.

"Wade, what's wrong," Kim asked.

"I…. I….. I can't tell you," he stammered. "You wouldn't even believe me. I wouldn't believe me. I….."

"He has met the gods," Diana guessed. "You were looking where they did not want you looking. Weren't you," Diana guessed.

"How did you….?"

"I am Diana. Princess of the Amazons of Themyscira. We need your aid, Oracle, young as you are. We must find Kimberly's Shego before the appearance of the vile god, Ares, or your world is lost."

"What she said," Kim nodded. "This is real, Wade. We need to find Shego, and fast. You've always been able to find her. I need you to do that now."

"I….."

She stared at him, pleading, and then eyed the vision looking grim, and gorgeous, and more like a centerfold than not. Then he saw that redhead on the boat, vanishing into midair, and frowned.

"Amazons? But….that's just a myth…."

"Not all myths are false, Oracle."

"Just look at me," Ron quipped.

Wade, who still had issues with monkey magic, now eyed Kim.

"And you…..were with them? Real Amazons?"

"Consider it an alternate dimension, Wade," she told him, understanding him well enough. "One that shares our world."

"Of course," his logical mind seized on the explanation. "Of course, why didn't I think of that? Extra-dimensional travel is hardly new. Or unusual. Deities could be travelers from places so different, so far advanced, that they would seem…..magical to lesser developed species. I should have guessed. I should have known," he said, and without a word, ripped open the new computer box, and pulled the machine out.

"Wade?"

"Give me fifteen minutes," she was told as the young man smiled confidently. "And if she's out there, I will find her."

"Your Oracle uses a machine to divine his knowledge?"

"Computers are not just machines," Wade smiled. "They are tools. Powerful weapons, if you know how to use them."

"Truly," Diana frowned, watching him set up the tower before he quickly plugged it into the wiring harness left behind by his old systems.

"Booting up now, and adding my own operating system," he said, sliding a flash-drive into a port. "And…..we're online," he sighed, as if lost in a bliss of his own making.

"Is he….ensorcelled," Diana whispered to Kim as Wade's nimble fingers flashed over the keyboard, his dark eyes fixed with laser-like intensity on the monitor that now divided into two screens. Then four. Then eight, and every screen scrolled data as he continued to work.

"There. She's hitting the Denver Jewelry Exchange now. I can track her hover-pod to wherever she's going next, though. So hold on," he said, and continued to work. Ten minutes later, he scribbled out a set of coordinates.

"Got her. One of Drakken's old, abandoned lairs in Montana. You better be quick. And careful. As I recall, he had a lot of bio-tech weapons up there he was experimenting on before you shut him down. A lot of them could still be there, since it's one of the labs GJ sealed, rather than emptying."

"Right," she nodded, taking the coordinates. "Thanks, Wade. You definitely still rock."

Wade smiled.

"Take this," he said before she left, turning to his desk, and opening a drawer.

She took the new Kimmunicator, and smiled.

"Thanks. I could have used this a while back," she grinned.

"I'm just glad to have you back, Kim. However you got back," he added.

"We'll talk later. For now, watch out for anything strange. And I mean strange. This god of war? He's real, Wade, and he's coming to destroy our world."

"So why chase Shego?"

"Believe it, or not," she said, turning to go. "Athena said she's the key to beating him. I believe her."

"Wise of you, sister," Diana said, and followed her out.

Ron shrugged, and followed both women.

Wade frowned, and turned to the computer and began searching again.

This time, he began questing for anything and everything on Olympic gods, and Amazons. There was a surprising lot of information to be had.

KP

Kim stopped Ron when the aircraft settled, and Crash shut down the systems.

He had been about to follow them when Diana stepped out of the hatch, but she pushed him back.

"Ron, I need you to stay here, and watch for….anything. I have to face Shego alone."

"Are you sure, KP?"

"Well, Diana will have my back this time, but Shego? I have to face her alone for this sitch. It's….personal. Something that has to be settled."

"All right," he finally said. "But if you need me…..?"

"I'll call. Just keep your own eyes open," she told him, nodding at Crash who eyed them from the cockpit. "Remember, we still don't know what might be left lurking out here if Shego opened that lair back up."

"Point taken," Ron grimaced, remembering that particular mission all too well. "Just be careful."

"No big," she grinned, and jumped out of the hatch after Diana.

Ron watched them lope up the steep incline, and frowned. It felt weird to be left behind this time. It felt weird to watch her working with someone else. Even if she was…. Well, whoever she was.

"When she said something might be left lurking," the burly member of the former Team Impossible asked. "What did she mean?"

"Dr. Drakken, in one of his rare competent stages, built some cyborg monsters that were pretty tough," Ron shrugged. "Rather than try to face them all, GJ locked them all inside the lair since they didn't move unless you were in their vicinity, and were deemed hostile. Only it looks like Shego opened the place up, so…"

Crash Cranston said nothing as he climbed out of the pilot's seat, walked to the equipment locker, and pulled out an equipment belt with two large pistols he strapped on. He then pulled out a large, laser rifle.

"Want something," he asked Ron as he inspected the available explosives.

"No, I'm good," Ron said, his eyes glittering with blue flecks just then as he stared past the VTOL at the rocky terrain.

The women were already gone. Fast. Graceful. Frankly, both gorgeous. He wondered if he shouldn't have tried harder to keep Kim. To truly win her. It had been great at the start. Best friends, tentative lovers. But no matter how they tried, they just couldn't seem to ignite that special spark.

The special kind that would have bound them together. The one he had thought they had for a time.

Kim assured him it wasn't his fault. Still, he had always wondered.

Only now Diana's words kept echoing in his head.

"I only date women. Like Kimberly."

It still left him a bit…..tweaked.

KP

Shego stomped through the lair, shoving open the mangled emergency door the idiot that built the place had clearly labeled, 'Secret Exit.'

Idiot.

Flinging the heavy, canvas tote filled with costly gemstones aside, she growled as the heavy, metal reverberations of one of Dr. Dimwit's creations came stomping toward her.

"Stupid robot," she spat, and ripped off its head, before kicking it so hard the chest plate over the armored torso almost caved in on the hybrid humanoid-equestrian body that more cyborg than not. She stared at it where it lay, growled again, and turned to find a chair.

"Stupid Drew. Stupid lair. Stupid guards. Stupid…."

Her howl of outrage filled the entire chamber when the chair she found, and dusted off collapsed under her. A fit of rage had her flinging balls of green fire in all direction.

"What's wrong, Shego," a maddeningly familiar voice mocked. "Having a bad day?"

She spun around, and stared.

"Kimmie," she frowned, looking not unlike she was trying to decide if she was hallucinating, or not.

"We need to talk," Kim told her, striding forward with the same confident expression, but a seriously new look.

"Talk," Shego echoed, then scowled bleakly. "No more talk," she screamed, and flung a fireball of raw plasma right at her.

Kim's right hand flashed, and somehow her plasma-burst ricocheted to explode behind her.

"Whoa," Shego blinked. "That's new."

"I have a lot of surprises for you, Shego. That's why we really need to talk," Kim told her as she kept coming. Making no move to guard herself. She just walked right toward her as if she were…..

"No more ghosts," Shego screamed, and launched a torrent of green energy at the redhead.

Kim leapt up, somersaulting over her head, and landing behind her.

"Really, Shego? Someone is slipping. I saw that move coming a mile off."

Shego spun around.

She blinked, then looked back, and looked to Kim again.

"That was….."

She shook her head as she looked up, trying to mentally calculate the sheer distance of that leap. The strength it would have taken to launch her into the air, and let her clear that distance.

"You can't be Kimmie," she hissed, her hands starting to glow again.

Kim moved again, grabbing her wrists, and holding them.

"Look at me, Shego. I'm not sure why you're acting nuts, but I'm Kim. It's me. I'm back."

"She has been touched by Ares' taint, sister," another voice broke in just then as Shego just glared at Kim.

They both turned to look at the newcomer who had appeared in the wreck of a lab.

"Who the heck is the bimbo," Shego huffed. "And how did she get past….?"

Diana stepped forward, dragging what was left of a huge, bovine cyborg in one hand. "Your defenses were pitiful. Your habitation squalid. I begin to question my sister's fondness for you, star-woman."

"Star-woman," Shego sputtered. "I'm Shego, you underdressed wannabe," she spat, jerking her hands free. "Let me show you what that means!"

She flung three balls of roiling jade energy at the woman coming toward her, and gaped anew as the woman deflected all three with ease with the bands on her wrists.

Something clicked in her mind, and she spun around to eye Kim's arms. Her wrists, she noted, had the same bands on her own limbs.

"Shego, calm down. You have to listen….."

"Listen to this," she spat, and backhanded Kim, driving her back several feet.

"She will not listen as she is, Kimberly. Ares' has clouded her mind with his taint. Perhaps I can help, though."

An instant later, and the golden lasso Diana carried at her side sailed out to land around Shego, pinning her arms to her sides. Shego looked down, and laughed.

"You think your weird, glowy rope can hold…..me," she huffed, and tried to break free.

Plasma roiled from her hands, up her arms, and she strained mightily. Yet she still couldn't break free.

"What is this? Some kind of trick? You're still not taking me in! I'll rip you, and your fancy rope into confetti," she threatened as Diana came closer, coiling the lasso until she held the end closest to Shego.

"Be still. Calm yourself," Diana ordered firmly, and the rage seemed to just bleed from Shego as if turned off with a switch.

"How did you….?"

"The lasso of Truth is more than it appears," Diana told Kim. "It is woven from Antiope's girdle by Hephaestus himself. It is charged with magic, and compels Truth from any in its grasp, so long as she who holds it is the rightful bearer, and worthy of it."

"Antiope?"

"Mother's sister. First ruler of the Amazons," Diana told her. "She passed it to me, with my armor. That enables me to command her. And purge her of Ares' corrupting touch. Speak now, sister. Ask your questions."

Kim just stared.

"She will answer. Trust me."

Shego was just staring. Her green eyes, usually cold, and hard, ever distant, now looked overly bright, and shimmering. They were still locked on Kim, too.

"Shego, are you all right?"

"No," she blurted. "You died. Everyone said you died. Are you….really back," she choked in an emotional tone.

Kim frowned.

"Were you….mourning me?"

"I loved you, you stupid woman," Shego all but hissed, though the magic lasso kept her calm.

"You did," Kim blurted.

"For Hera's sake," Diana sighed. "You are stubborn as she. This gets us nowhere," she complained, and moved before Kim could react.

Kim yelped as Diana swung the length of the lasso still in her hand, and pulled it back after it looped around her. It slammed Kim into Shego, left her facing the slightly taller woman, and kept her there as Diana tightened the noose.

"Why did you….?"

"You are both stubborn, and foolish. Kimberly, look at your Shego. Confess your true feelings to her," Diana ordered.

Kim's green eyes rounded slightly, but her lips were already parting.

"She is an infuriating, irritating, and completely insane woman that drives me mad at times," she blurted, and Shego's partially blank expression paled. Until Kim added, "And, God knows why, but I love her like no one else in the world."

Shego just stared at her, her eyes brighter than ever.

"Shego," Diana snapped. "Tell Kimberly the truth of your heart."

"I have always….admired you," she told her. "Respected you. Even when you frustrated, or angered me. I liked you, and then…. Then I came to realize, I loved you. I loved you so much. But I couldn't say anything, and then…. Then I thought you were gone," Shego started to cry.

Diana shook the lasso free, and returned it to her side.

"Now, you may talk freely," Diana said smugly.

Even as she did, a reptilian cyborg that had slithered into the lab rose up behind her, and Kim and Shego both gasped, about to cry a warning.

Just as Diana's backhand flashed up, and smashed into the robotic killer's maw, driving it halfway across the ruined lab where it collapsed in a heap.

"Honestly, Hephaestus himself does not live is such squalor," the Amazon complained.

"Whoa," Shego muttered, gaping. "Love the new sidekick, Princess."

"She calls you princess, too," Diana smiled at Kim. "You didn't mention that."

Shego turned back to Kim, just staring at her.

"How….? Where have you been," she demanded, a single tear spilling from her left eye.

"I got lost. But I'm back, and we're all in trouble. We need your help, and….honestly, I'm here to help you, too."

"Me? I'm….. Well, not fine," she sighed, and looked around for a chair in vain. "Just spill it," she sighed, her expression sobering as she started to look a bit more like herself.

"It's a long story, but right now, the short version is, we need your help to stop a mad Olympian god who's out to destroy the world," Kim told her.

"If anyone else but you had told me that," Shego groaned.

"I'm serious. Ares is coming here. He wants nothing more than our total destruction. Athena feels you are the key to our victory. But you have to redeem yourself. If you don't…."

"We lose," Shego asked sardonically.

"You lose," Kim told her quietly, daringly putting her hands on her shoulders. "I'm not kidding. She told me if you are not redeemed, that you are facing damnation in Hades. You'll be dragged, body and soul, into hell, where you're going to suffer forever. Oh, and Ares likely wins, too."

Shego just stared.

"I really, really wish I didn't think you were serious."

"I am. The things I've seen lately, Shego….. The miracles," she murmured.

Shego drew a deep breath, held it, and looked at her as she slowly let it slide between her full lips.

"Kim, I don't care. I don't care about redemption, or hell, or whatever. If you need me, I'm there. Whatever you need. I'll stand with you. You have my word," Shego told her earnestly.

"No more stealing," Kim asked with a faint smile.

They both looked around the lair, and saw the carelessly heaped bags of jewels, cash, and other valuables she had been plundering of late. None of it looked to have been touched. It was just brought in, and dropped.

Shego looked mulish for a moment, and then looked back into her face, and smiled.

"For you, anything. I'm just so glad you're not dead. But you have to tell me how you did that wrist trick. That was so wild," she grinned.

"Kimberly is an Amazon," Diana told her when Kim stayed silent, obviously trying to figure out what to say. "Blessed by the gods."

"Uh, right. Because that makes so much sense to me right now," Shego snorted.

"It would if you had been with me," Kim smiled, and started to lower her hands.

"Just never leave me again," Shego demanded, and impulse pulled her into a powerful embrace. She didn't try more. She just held her, holding her as if fearful of letting her go.

"You said….you saw ghosts," Diana asked.

"I did. Or was. I saw….images of Kim. Mocking me. Damning me. Blaming me for not saving her," Shego told the shapely woman.

"Ares' trickery," Diana spat in disgust.

"Obviously. Because I would never blame you for anything, Shego," Kim told her, looking up at her as Shego stood back now. "You have to know that."

"I should have known. Just tell me one thing."

"Sure," Kim smiled.

"Who is the weird stripper-chick," she demanded haughtily.

"Stripper-chick," Diana frowned in confusion as she stared at Shego.

"Shego, Princess Diana. Champion of the Amazons. You might want to go easy on the insults. She's stronger than Hego."

"Stronger….than Hego," Shego exclaimed, staring at her.

Diana said nothing.

"We should go. We must prepare for the coming battle," Diana declared.

"Agreed," Kim nodded. "And Shego needs to hear the rest, so she'll be ready. Let's go."

"Uh, where?"

They both looked at Shego.

"For now, my house. I'm not quite sure I can completely trust Dr. Director in this one."

"First smart thing you've ever said," Shego declared.

Kim eyed her.

"Fine. Fine. Let me guess? You want me to give up sarcasm, too?"

"No. I was thinking you could call in the tip to let the authorities know about all this unlawfully gained loot," Kim told her as she glanced around the ruined lair. "It would have to go a long ways toward your eventual redemption."

Diana eyed her as Shego looked around at the mountain of wealth she had carelessly accumulated.

"Why not. I'm not doing anything with it."

"Then why take it?"

Shego eyed Diana, and shrugged. "I had nothing else to do?"

Diana eyed Kim, and shook her head.

"You are right, sister. She can be infuriating."

"Huh," was all Shego said as they led her outside.

To Be Continued…..