I do not own any D.C. or Disney characters named herein, and am only using them for a story meant for entertainment purposes only.
Kim Possible: Wonder Girl
By LJ58
9
Kim groaned as Mrs. Gruber, one of their neighbors, stopped Shego to chat with her.
Or rather, with her 'mother,' since Shego did look like her just then.
To her astonishment, Shego managed a very convincing vocal impersonation, too, and brushed the woman off after a few generic comments, suggesting that she wanted more time with her daughter before she had to leave town again.
Mrs. Gruber commiserated over children, and waved 'Anne' off, and never seemed to guess she was a fake.
"I can't believe you pulled that off."
"Please," Shego smirked. "I've been pulling the wool over people's eyes for years. That old biddy was easy. Oh, you might remind your mom 'she' volunteered for some hokey bake sale next week."
"I'll let you tell her."
"And how will you explain it," Shego asked with a very Shego-like smirk.
Kim groaned.
Then turned, and realized Diana was missing.
"Where did she go?"
Shego looked around,
"I'm sure she's….."
"She's never been off her island," Shego was told. "She knows nothing about the world beyond her own home."
Shego looked around.
"Well, then. You're talking about a girl right off the proverbial farm, tossed in the middle of a shopping mall."
"Cocoa Banana," both women echoed.
Heading down the wide corridor toward where that particular clothing outlet was located, they heard a squeal as they approached, and Kim saw a brown-skinned woman who was headed for them with a wide smile.
"Friend of yours?"
"Oh, yes," Kim smiled.
"Should I be jealous," Shego asked as Monique all but plowed into Kim, the shapely, black beauty in a light brown business attire wrapping both arms around her.
"Girl, I cannot believe you're here. Everyone has been saying you were gone for good this time! YHTD, and I mean now!" Monique stepped back, eyeing Shego as she lowered her voice, and asked, "Why is your mom giving me the evil eye?"
"YHTD," the faux Anne frowned.
"You have to dish," Kim smirked. "Monique still has her own little language going at times. And, Moni, it's complicated, but when I have a few minutes, I'll catch up. Honest. Just now, I'm looking for someone. Tall, pretty, built like a….."
"I think she's inside," Monique grinned. "She was lecturing the women at the makeup counter over masking their natural beauty, and I figured I had better get her out of there before she caused a riot."
"Masking….their natural beauty," Shego sniggered, glancing around at some of the women in the mall around them.
"Okay, girlfriend, I may just be a fashion designer these days, but I'm not slow. What is up with your mom?"
Shego eyed her.
Then smiled. Knowing the woman well, Monique knew that smile did not belong on that face.
"Oh, that is so….wrong. You're not Mrs. Possible," Monique realized intuitively.
"It's part of that long story. Trust me," Kim asked as she grabbed Shego's hand, and all but dragged her into the store.
"All right," Monique sighed, "But you owe me one heck of an….."
"Why is this string considered clothing," Diana demanded of Kim just then as she walked over holding up a very teeny bikini of bright blue neon on a hangar. "You might as well wear nothing."
Shego smirked.
Monique sighed.
"Another fashion-deprived friend of yours," Monique asked the redhead.
"I happen to have very fashionable clothing back on…..my island. But this can hardly be considered clothing," Diana protested. "Better to go naked, and be honest about it, than feign garbing yourself with these strands of cloth. Even Kim did not mind going naked among our sisters once she realized it was quite normal, and natural to celebrate your own gods-granted beauty."
Monique stared from her, to Kim, and back again.
"Let me guess," she asked Kim. "Part of the long story?"
"Oh, yeah," Shego grinned.
"And who are you?"
The apparent Anne only smiled again.
Kim hissed, "Will you behave," as she tried to find something that Diana could accept without some complaint in the mall.
They looked quite a long time.
KP
Kim yawned, rolling over to find the bed empty, and the nearby cot vacant, too.
A dim glow drew her gaze to Diana, sitting at her desk, and using her computer. She had come home from the mall, less than enthused over shopping by the end, but took to the computer eagerly when she learned it could give her quite a bit of knowledge at the click of a mouse.
Although it took her a few moments to stop laughing over the idea that the computer mouse, was, in fact, called a mouse.
"Are you still up?"
"This device has a great amount of knowledge. Once you separate the tripe from the true stores of knowledge, you can learn a great deal. I see why you are so knowledgeable," Diana told her.
"I'm a novice. If you want to learn about computers, you should talk to Wade. He's the super-genius," Kim admitted, reaching for her robe.
"I have spoken with him on your…..insta-chat box. He is somewhat arrogant, but a genuine source of much wisdom. A true Oracle. I see why you conscripted him to your service."
"Actually….. Never mind," she sighed, and padded to the door. "Did Shego say where she was going?"
"Something about…..a break?"
She frowned at that, and opened her door. She padded down the hall, descended the steps, and found Shego sitting on the couch staring blanking away from the TV that droned on unnoticed as someone tried to sell some new gadget to help clean house.
"Shego," she called quietly as she approached her. "You okay?"
"Weird dreams," the green-skinned woman murmured, looking toward her for a moment, then looking off again. "Weird dreams," she echoed.
Kim boldly walked over, sat beside her, and slid an arm around her. If nothing else, her declaration of love, however inspired, had given her the courage to be more honest about her own feelings of late.
"Want to talk about them?"
Shego stiffened for a moment, then looked back at her again.
"Not really."
"It could help?"
"No. No, it couldn't. But you do," Shego told her, and slid an arm around her in turn, pulling her closer. "I have to keep reminding myself you're real. That I'm here. That….."
"He's still trying to get to you," Kim asked quietly, seeing that unnatural look on Shego's face just then.
"Weird dreams. Not the funny, weird sort. More like the…. Wake up screaming, weird kind," she said with a shiver.
"I didn't hear you scream," Kim said quietly as she eyed her.
"I learned to be quiet a long time ago," Shego murmured.
"You do know I'm here. So is Diana. The goddess Athena herself said our best chance against Ares is going to be with you at our side. That has to mean something. And it has to worry this guy. Which is probably why he's still trying to put you off your game before he pops in."
"You're probably right. I was thinking the same thing myself, actually," Shego smiled ruefully.
"So, why sit down here by yourself if you already knew that much?"
"Because I was trying to get my head back on straight before we do go up against this freak, Princess. Whatever else, I owe him for what he's tried to do to me. And you. Because I have to wonder if he wasn't behind me almost losing you all along."
Kim said nothing to that for a moment.
She looked up into Shego's somber, unnaturally concerned visage, and gave her a faint smile.
"It doesn't matter. Because, when it comes down to it, Ares already made two mistakes."
"Really," Shego asked with a faint smile.
"He crossed you. Now he's crossing me," Kim told her. "You're the toughest woman I know, and I'm the girl that can do anything. Do you really think he has a chance?"
"Woman," Shego said quietly, and looked intensely at her, eyes locked on Kim's own. "You're a woman now. And….God help me, I love you, Kim. I just…. I don't want to lose you. Not again."
"Won't happen," Kim told her, and tightened her own embrace as Shego's lips slid across her own.
"Don't make promises you can't keep," she murmured breathlessly when their lips briefly parted.
"Hey, anything is….."
Her claim was cut off when Shego deepened the kiss.
The pair were quiet for a long time after that.
At the head of the steps, looking down, Dr. Anne Possible just stared, eyes wide, and not sure what to do.
Even as she started to move down the steps, a hand touched her shoulder, and Diana caught her eye, shaking her head. She led Anne back to Kim's room, and gestured pointedly. Anne walked into the room, and watched as Diana followed, closing the door behind her.
"I understand this must surprise you," Diana said somberly as she studied Anne.
"Not…..really. Kim has always been…..different. She does things….her own way. And I suspected a long time ago that there was something between those two," the neurosurgeon admitted.
"Then what disturbs you?"
"I….. I just have a bad feeling. If Kim stays with her…. I'm afraid she'll get hurt," Anne told the Amazon. "I only just got her back….."
"She is only back because the goddess sent her back with a task. One that she needs Shego at her side to perform," Diana told her bluntly. "Has she not said as much already?"
"I know," Anne sighed. "I know, only…."
Diana slowly reached to the bed, and pulled the shimmering lasso from where it was looped around a bedpost.
"Will you let me help you," Diana asked, staring at the woman, and seeing something she doubted the woman would believe without evidence.
"H-How," Anne asked, eyeing the lasso Diana held up.
"My lasso is enchanted. It can bring out Truth. Or dispel illusions. Such as the dreams I suspect are plaguing you just now. Isn't that what woke you?"
"How….?"
"I do have the wisdom of my benefactor," Diana smiled solemnly. "The very goddess of wisdom herself. Shego was already plagued by Ares mind-tricks. It only stands to reason that those closest to Kim would also be similarly afflicted."
"Then….Kim….?"
"Kimberly seems to be sufficiently strong of will to dispel the shadows that Ares employs. I can vouch for how cleverly he can use your own doubts and concerns against you, though. Let me aid you, mother of Kim," she said, and gently lowered the lasso around her shoulders.
"But how will….?"
"See," Diana commanded. "See the Truth of your fears," she demanded of her.
The woman almost fell as she took several steps back, held up only by the sudden tautness in the rope around her upper body. Her eyes rounded, and she stared at Diana as she felt a mist seemingly shrouding her suddenly dispelled like a soap bubble popping.
"My heavens," the redhead exclaimed. "Was that….? How could that….? I don't understand," she exclaimed.
"I have already learned that your world does not readily accept magic any longer. What I have given you is just that, though. Keep your heart strong, and your mind clear, and you can withstand Ares' shadows does he return."
"But I thought the boys' would be able to protect us," she frowned. "They seemed sure…."
"There are more than just physical assaults in Ares' arsenal. Look," Diana gestured to the still active computer monitor showing headlines from around the globe. "As we expected, Ares' taint is growing stronger by the hour. I believe he will move very soon, for there is more than enough hate and prejudice around us to fuel his madness," Diana told her grimly.
"If this Ares…..really is a god…..?"
"He is," Diana nodded.
"Then how can Kim stop him? How can any of you stop him?"
"My mother, and my sisters have bested him more than once. I have faced him in battle twice. He is a god, but he is not invincible. And Kimberly, as I, are blessed by the gods. Just, I believe, as is Shego."
Anne said nothing to that.
"Return to your rest," Diana told her. "I will keep watch. Between Kim's Oracle, and my own watchfulness, nothing will surprise us."
"Thank you," Anne told her. "For everything," she smiled as she started to turn for the door after Diana deftly pulled the lasso from her shoulders. "But especially for bringing my daughter home."
Diana smiled now.
"Actually, she brought me back with her on her way home," she told the neurosurgeon.
"Still, you obviously helped her. Thank you, for that. Just…. Please, help her get through this. I know she's a grown woman now, but….. More than ever, I still worry."
Diana nodded soberly.
"As does my own mother," she said, careful of her own heavy thoughts, just in case Ares might see a door into her own heart.
He was deviously clever in that respect.
KP
"Ethereal energy disruption is definitely growing," Jim told his brother as they worked over the nearly arcane machinery around them in the basement beneath the Possible house that was not only any house plans filed with the local courthouse.
"Something big is obviously coming. And Kim was right, it's coming this way."
"What is it about this town that draws all the crazies," Jim complained as he paused in adjusting something he was working on.
"You ever think it's just Kim?"
The brothers eyed one another, shrugged, and said as one, "He's still going down."
"Hicka-bicka-boo," Tim asked after stepping back from the rectangular housing he had just sealed.
"Hoo-sha," Jim grinned, and turned to plug in the command codes as lights on the sides of the housing began to flicker, and a long, sloped barrel began to hum as it emerged from the housing on one end of the rectangular box.
"This is so cooler than a rocket," Tim chortled.
"Just remember, this is a plasma pulse cannon. We have to aim carefully, or anything it hits will be…..
"Ash," Tim grinned.
"Not even that," Jim said, his eyes just a little bright with eagerness as he envisioned using their new weapon. "Let's get it to the lift shaft, and lock it into the swivel. If those readings are anywhere near correct…"
"And we know they are," Tim nodded.
"Right. So this guy is obviously on his way," he concluded.
Just as the entire house shuddered overhead.
To Be Continued…..