Chapter 13 Halloween fun
"What do you want to do for Halloween Charlie?" Kim asked her lover on a list-full afternoon as she lay across Shego's lap on the couch watching TV a few weeks before the dark and spooky holiday. Shego re-reading Enders Game for the ump-teenth time with her feet up on the coffee table while gently stroking Kim's hair with her unoccupied hand.
"Don't you and your sidekick usually go trick or treating?" Shego idly responded while not taking her attention away from her signed fist addition, or her petting of her redhead, earning herself a groan from the couch potato on her lap.
"Thankfully he has finally grown out of it. Now a days he usually helps out with the hospitals haunted house with my parents and the tweebs."
"So why don't you help out?" Shego asked, taking her hand away from Kim's locks just long enough to turn a page.
"It's our first holiday together, I was kinda hoping we could do something together now that I'm more or less healed up." Kim answered as she rolled over to face her book worm of a fiance'.
Feeling her paramour's movement on her lap, Shego set her book on the end table while looking down at the olive green eyes now looking up at her from her lap. "Like what Princess?"
"I don't know. A party or something I guess." Kim replied a very non-committal way.
"Tell you what Kimmy, If your up for a little fun I do know of one killer party we could crash." Shego remarked with a look of mischief in her eyes
"Do I dare ask?" Kim inquired, knowing that when Shego had that look on her face, there was bound to be trouble.
"Trust me it'll be fun." Shego promised, when tucking some of Kim's red hair behind her ear.
"That's what I'm afraid of." Kim sighed, knowing that unlike most of the villains she faced, Shego never revealed her plans before they unfolded.
"Call up your tech support, where going to want some toys for this one." Shego smiled evilly.
"This should be interesting." Kim said while pulling the kimmunicator out of her cargo pants pocket, handing it to Shego.
"Hey...Shego?" Wade questioned, slightly confused at the appearance of the green woman's face from Kim's kimmunicator.
"Hey nerdlinger, me and Kim are going to crash a party and we need some costumes, toys and an entourage..." Shego told the boy as she began to type in the various details to what she had in mind to keep the redhead in her lap oblivious to her plot.
Around the room stood various super villains clad in even more garish costumes then they usually wore. There were vampires, werewolves, mummies and various other classic monster costumes as well as some more contemporary superhero costumes, some of them sexy, some down right lude. There was even a Kim Possible and Shego costume represented, though they didn't do the real thing any justice. The room itself was well decorated with all the usual Halloween flare, cobwebs, tombstones, pumpkins, and numerous other sights designed to scare and bewitch the party goers.
"Welcome villains all to my annual Halloween fiesta." Señor Senior, Sr. announced from the stage in the large ball room, dressed as a finely tailored Sweeny Tod complete with hair and makeup. "Please help yourself to the refreshments and enjoy the music. Later this evening I will announce the winners of the various categories of the costume contests."
There was a bright flash and loud bang from the top of the ball rooms double stair case, intrusting the M.C.'s remaining announcements. All eyes in the room immediately turned to the source of the disturbance only to see the top of the stairs obscured in a dense curtain of gray smoke. Emerging first at the top of the stairs where four gunmen in expensive suits carrying fully loaded Tommy-guns, complete with drum magazines. As the rest of the smoke began to clear, four more figures could be seen standing in two pairs.
On the left stood a giant of a man with heavily muscled limbs dressed in a black tank top, the grotesque veins of his arms easily seen as his heart pulsed. His face was obscured by a mask with the image of a skull stitched into it, while a clear tube jutted from the side of his head filled with a strange green liquid, leading around his back, under his arm and up to a large button on his chest. Standing just in front of him was a fem fatal dressed in short pale green dress embroidered with leaves and vines in emerald, her arms covered with elbow length green satin gloves, but her legs and feet were bare. Her skin had a light green tint, her hair a light red and almost waist length, on her lips a light pink lipstick.
On the right stood a figure dressed in a custom purple three piece suit over a green shirt and a black bow tie. His face was painted white, his lips a bright red and flashing a smile that would make you cower in fear, his hair well styled in green. Hanging on to his arm was a shapely woman in a red and black harlequin costume complete with twin tasseled jesters cap. Her face painted white with a black mask extending just around her eyes, her lips painted as black as death, the smirk on her face making it apparent she was as insane as the man she accompanied.
The room stood silent, the four villains standing at the top of the stairs had more infamy then all the others in the room combined twice over. Not even Drakken, who had come closest to actually taking over the world with his little diablos dared utter a word for fear of being the next victim of either pair.
"So who do you have to kill to get a table around here?" The Joker laughed as he and his date began descending the elaborate staircase, the gun men falling in step behind their boss. Poison Ivy and her 'escort' doing the same.
"Mr. Joker, I am Señor Senior, Sr.. Please let me welcome you to my humble home." Señor Senior, Sr., proclaimed in a surprisingly steady tone, though the underlying hint of fear could still be made out as he quickly approached his newest quests. "To what do I owe this honor?" He asked as polity as his shaky voice would allow as he met the undeniably insane clown at the base of the stairs.
"Oh I was in the neighborhood and thought I'd drop by for a laugh." The Joker responded with his usual sick sense of humor as he eyed the room. The collective villains forcing out a laugh of fear knowing full well that if they didn't, the Joker might arrange for them to laugh themselves to their graves. "Is it to late to enter the costume contest?"
"Not at all, the festivities have only just begun. It will be quite some time until the judges make there choices and announce the winners." Señor Senior, Sr. assured him. "Please, have a seat at my table if it suits you and your guests." He told the four as he began to lead them to the front of the room.
"Oh good, I do so love a good contest." The joker responded as he allowed himself to be lead to the table of honor, Ivy and Bane behind him. His henchmen taking up potions around them.
"My I enquirer if you wish to enter as a group, couples, individuals, or all three?" Señor Senior, Sr. asked tentatively as he pulled out two seats next two himself, one for the Joker and one he gestured to Miss Ivy. Letting bane and Harley Quinn find there own.
"All of the above, I want to clean house." The clown laughed, making everyone in the room even more nervous if it were possible.
"As you wish Mr. Joker, I'll inform the judges. Please help yourself to the refreshments, I'll be back shorty." Senior suggested before going to seek out his judges, both to tell them of their new contestants and to ensure that they would win for fear of what might happen if he lost.
It took some time, but eventually the crowd returned to its former activities, though the almost sole topic of conversion was at the sudden and unexpected appearance of the Joker, Quinn, Ivy and Bane. More then a few villains speculating if everyone was going to survive the night as the Joker has been known to kill even his own henchmen on a whim. Killing a room full of second rate villains was well within the realm of possibilities.
After several minutes of conversing with his judges, Senior returned to his 'honored' guests to make sure they were content. "I trust everything is to your liking?" He asked politely while taking his seat.
"Well I detest the sight of animals needlessly slain and cooked, particularly for a decadent party such as this, the fruit and vegetable spread is quite good." Ivy told her host, while nibbling on a piece of dragon fruit.
"My apologize Ms Ivy, I am actually aware you are a devout vegetarian and animal rights activist, however not all of my guests are as forward minded as yourself. I admit that I myself do enjoy many of the delicacies that you find distasteful. Had I known you were planning to attend my little party I would have had something special prepared for you." SSS told Ivy with genuine sincerity.
"I think the spread is delish." Quinn emphatically replied while attempting to crack a lobster claw with small mallet produced from god only knows where, sending it flying part of the way across the room landing in Dr Dementors blueberry crumble. "Woops." She commented with a smile on her face as Dementor glowered at her, but dared not say anything.
"Pretty nice spread you got here Senior." Joker told him while leaning back in his chair and putting his feet up on the edge of the table. "So when's the real party get started?"
"I believe the judges will be making there decision shortly, once they do I'll make the announcements. Let me go see how their coming, shall I?" Senior went in search of his judges again, deciding it would be wiser to move up the nights main event lest the clowns notoriously short patients be tested.
A few short minutes later Señor Senior, Sr. emerged on center stage passing through the plush red velvet curtains and stepping up to the microphone to announce the winners. "Good evening and thank you for coming to my annual All Hallows Eve celebration and costume contest. Before I announce the winners, let me introduce all our contestants and which categories they had decided to enter. First in the solo category we have Dr. Drakken as one of the blue men, from the pop sensation Blue Man Group."
As Senior introduced them, each contestant stood so everyone could see there costume. Dr. Drakken was sporting black sweats and a black long sleeve shirt, a blue bald cap on his head that matched his unusual skin tone to make him appear bald. A simple costume to be sure, but it effectively replicated the look of the group.
"Next, we have Dr. Dementor dressed as Darth Vader." Dementor stood, showing off his rather accurate replica of Darth Vader, most likely bought or stolen from a cos-play warehouse. When he arrived and saw what some of the other costumes where, he quickly became confident of an assured victory.
"Frugal Lucre as a pirate." Frugal stood, showing off his rather cheap pirate costume. Obviously bought at Smarty Mart.
"Electronique dressed or would it be painted as Mystique." Everyone laughed as she stood, the near perfect replica of the infamous villain could only be painted on, her natural light blue complexion needing little more then highlights and a red wig to complete the look, along with a little carefully placed latex to make the costume just modest enough to not be x-rated.
"Finally we have the Joker, Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy and Bane as themselves." The clown didn't bother to stand, simply waved to the crowd for his little band of villains.
"In the couples category, we have Lord Monkey Fist and DnAmy as Sweeny Todd and Mrs. Nellie Lovett." They couple stood, Monkey Fist in a well cut dark colored Victorian suit minus the jacket and a little face paint to lighting his complexion. A leather belt with holsters complete with silver handled straight razors completing the look. DnAmy in a striped black and white Victorian dress that on Amy looked more like a circus tent.
"We also have the Joker and Harley Quin as themselves, and Poison Ivy and Bane as themselves. Sorry to say as usual we have few entrants in this category. Finally in the groups category we have Adrena Lynn, Camille Léon and Jack Hench as a trio of rather gruesome zombies." The three stood, all covered in tattered clothes, blood, guts, and gore with the pale bluish white flesh tone of the walking dead. Though in Camille's case, the skin tone was probably as real as any of the others villains unusual skin tones thanks to her radical surgeries turning her into a shape shifter.
"Finally we also have the Joker party as themselves." Again they simply sat at their table, the Joker still leaning back in his chair, drinking a bottle of wine.
Everyone could sense where this was going, but few noticed the fact that the jokers men had been slowly spreading themselves out around the room and now where interspersed throughout.
"The winner of the single category, the Joker." He announced, the crowd applauding doing there best to sound sincere, knowing that the contest was more then likely fixed.
"In the couples category we have, Joker and Quinn." More forced applause from the crowd, finally noticing the gunmen spaced around the room as Bane moved from next to Ivy to the near center of the room.
"Lastly in the group category, the Joker and his guests." Again more forced applause, though this time was noticeably less enthusiastic as the tension in the room quickly rose.
"Ladies, would you go and collect our prizes?" The clown asked Quinn and Ivy with a sick smile on his face, the two deadly women rising from there seats and making there way on stage, positioning themselves on either side of Señor Senior, Sr..
"Senior, we'd like to thank you for your hospitality." Quinn began in a very familiar but UN Harley Quinn like voice, as she reached into a hidden pocket of her suit, pulling out a sinister looking remote causing everyone in the room to gasp in fear and prepare for a fight for their very lives.
"We'd also like to thank you for all the fun we've had. But now it's time for us to go as the witching hour approaches." Ivy continued in another familiar but also UN Ivy like voice that no one could place as Quinn pushed the button on the remote now pointed at the crowd.
There where several small pops as the room and all of it's occupants where covered in a green goo emanating from the Joker, Bane, and his henchmen as they apparently exploded in a rain of the strange substance that quickly hardened into a rubber like material, trapping everyone in the room, save Senior and the women on either side of him.
"There's just one more thing we'd like to say before we leave." Quinn said as she reached up and pulled down the jesters cap revealing her long black hair as 'Ivy' took out a wet nap and washed off the makeup on her face, revealing them to be in fact Shego and Kim Possible.
"Trick or treat." They said in unison to the stunned crowd of villains and one very impressed Señor Senior, Sr..
"Ladies I must say that was quite a Halloween trick. I applaud you for your cunning." Senior chuckled. "I see my little contest was not quite as rigged as I thought it to be. You two are indeed deserving of your prize as you managed to fool us all. Though before I present it to you, I must ask how you pulled off such a spectacular ruse."
"I had Kmmy's tech geek whip up some custom synthodrones filled with an elasto-palomer." Shego gloated.
"The rest was basic movie magic." Kim told him, "Some makeup, good costumes and voice modulators, no big."
"Very good ladies. Now for your prize. An all expense paid vacation to the destination of your choice." Senior told them while handing him a rather plain looking cell phone. "Simply call when you are ready to travel and I will make the arrangements."
"Thank you Mr. Senior." Kim responded while taking the offered device before the two woman strutted of stage to make their exit.