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Kim Possible: TSOD – Wedding Elements, Chapter Eight
"Perhaps I may indulge in the honor of answering the question on Drakken-san's behalf?" Hirotaka asked, keeping his body tense in a battle stance.
He, along with his sister-in-arms, Yori, and their American allies, Doctor Drakken, Shego, and Kim Possible, stood in an old, abandoned industrial plant in North Vancouver. The plant was completely shattered and was in flames, thanks to the attack of their foe, the insane and powerful Alchemist.
Except the Alchemist was no longer the Alchemist. After the villain crashed Kim and Shego's wedding, the heroes had battled the mind-numbingly powerful villain to a stand-still until Drakken had finally played his hand. The mad scientist's Alpha Wave Gene Recombinator ray had produced unusual results when used against the Alchemist. Now, where one insanely powerful man had once stood, four impressive-looking elemental creatures now stood.
And Shego, quite understandably, had expressed concerns about the tactic.
"Feel free, ninja-boy," Shego breathed, refusing to take her eyes off of the elemental creatures in front of her.
"The Alchemist was greater than the sum of his parts," Hirotaka explained. "Together, he had the strength of not only the four elements in and of themselves, but also the strength of how they interplayed with each other. Now, they are four relatively weaker individuals who we can now divide and conquer."
"And each of them will have weaknesses we can exploit," Kim added, suddenly understanding. "Weaknesses that the Alchemist didn't have before."
"I like that," Shego agreed.
"You shall possess that advantage only for as long as it takes for us to recombine," the four elemental creatures stated in unison. "Such will take us but a moment."
With that, the four elemental creatures, one each for the elemental forces of earth, air, fire, and water, turned to each other and started to move towards each other. Just as they were about to touch each other, however, the air elemental found itself trapped in a force bubble right after a strange VOIP sound ripped through the air.
Drakken lowered the cotton candy pink colored blaster pistol in his hand and grinned. "Oh, I'm sorry. Did I accidentally get you with my bubble ray gun? I really should be more careful with where I'm pointing these things."
The earth elemental and the water elemental each began to pound at the force bubble as the air elemental began to assault it from within.
Kim paused and looked back at Hirotaka. "Okay, should we just attack these guys or let them make fools of themselves for a little bit?"
Hirotaka shook his head. "It seems important for them to free their brother so that they may recombine. That is an important fact, I would wager. Perhaps it is important for them to recombine for reasons beyond sheer power."
As Hirotaka spoke, the three elemental creatures succeeded in shattering the force bubble where the air elemental was trapped. However, as the air elemental's force bubble was shattered, the water elemental found itself trapped in another force bubble.
Drakken cackled gleefully. "This is so much fun! I can keep this up all day? Shego, why did we not do something like this when we were evil?"
"Because my Kimmie and her sidekick would have stopped us," Shego replied, smirking.
"Damn straight we would have," Kim laughed, earning her a playful glare from the ex-villainess.
As Shego and Kim spoke, the water elemental escaped its trap. However, Drakken was ready and trapped the air elemental once more.
This time, the earth and water elementals turned to Drakken. "Your insolence ends now, mortal!"
Drakken froze up and his shoulders drooped noticeably. "Uh-oh!"
The earth elemental advanced towards Drakken. But it was intercepted by Hirotaka and Yori. The two ninjas began a coordinated martial assault on the rough-hewn statue, throughing the large creature off balance as it swatted helplessly as the swift and nimble combatants. Hirotaka and Yori kept themselves in motion around the earth elemental, making sure to strike and then move before the creature could react.
The water elemental did not advance on Drakken. Instead, it rose an "arm" towards the mad scientist and blasted a bolt of icy water at Drakken.
Drakken winced in anticipation of the incoming pain. Instead, he heard a sharp sizzling sound. He opened his eyes to see that Shego had leapt in front of him and created a plasma wall in front of herself.
Before Drakken could say anything, a white and blue blur rushed by, grabbing Drakken and moving him several yards to the side. Just as the speed boot enhanced Kim Possible set Drakken down, the air elemental broke out of its force bubble.
"Let's play dodgeball," Kim smirked playfully to Drakken.
"I'm game for that," Drakken laughed. "And I have the perfect balls to play with."
With that, Drakken took aim and shot the water elemental, trapping it in a force bubble. The air elemental turned and shot a vortex blast at Drakken and Kim. But Kim grabbed Drakken and sped over to the other side of the battlefield. She deposited Drakken on the ground.
"Yeah, I bet you wished there was a pretty girl who would play with your balls," Kim laughed.
"You think now that you're a married adult, you're all that with the crude sexual jokes," Drakken growled. The water elemental broke free of its prison. But Drakken was already taking aim at the air elemental and fired, trapping the air elemental in a force bubble.
The water elemental turned to attack Drakken and Kim with another icy blast, but found itself splattered apart by a fiery green plasma blast.
"Bet you forgot I was here, huh?" Shego laughed darkly, her clawed gloves still sizzling like a smoking gun.
"No!" the air elemental cried, slamming itself feebly against the confines of the force bubble within which it was trapped. "We are beginning to discorporate!"
"You're beginning to what?" Shego asked, blasting the water elemental again as it was beginning to reform itself.
"I had suspected this as well," Hirotaka explained, leaping up, somersaulting, and kicking the earth elemental in the face. "These creatures are not of this world. Without the anchor that their combined form grants them, they can no longer keep themselves tethered to our realm of existence."
"Can you explain that again in 6th Grade American English?" Shego asked, blasting the water elemental yet again.
"American English has advanced to the 6th Grade level?" Hirotaka responded in honest curiosity, dropping into a low crouch on the ground and kicking a leg out from under the earth elemental.
"Hirotaka-kun!" Yori chided her brother-in-arms, using the earth elemental's sudden unbalance to throw it to the ground.
"Um, these creature are about to be banished from our world," Hirotaka explained, tumbling across the earth elemental's body and kicking it in the chin. "They are about to go bye-bye."
"Okay, 'go bye-bye' I can follow," Shego nodded, smiling.
Shego was about to blast the water elemental yet again, but she suddenly found it trapped in a force bubble. She turned and glared at her former boss. Drakken merely shrugged.
"Can't be too careful, Shego," Drakken chided.
Shego humphed, smirked, and shook her head.
Suddenly, the air was filled with inhuman screams. The air, earth, and water elementals began to fade from existence, growing more and more transparent until finally they could be seen no more. Their inhuman screams carried on for several moments longer until finally they, too, faded away.
"Well," Kim shuddered, the chill of the screams racing up and down her spine. "That was anti-climactic."
Shego started to take in a deep breath before Yori stepped up to the group.
"I do not mean to... how do you say it in America? Rain on your parade? But... has no one else noticed that the building is no longer on fire?"
The five heroes glanced around and noticed that it was true. All of the raging fire that had previously engulfed the entire shattered industrial plant was mysteriously gone.
"Um, the Canadian fire department is all that?" Drakken offered.
"Um, guys," Kim said, looking up and away from the group. "I don't think we're out of the fire yet."
The other heroes turned and followed Kim's gaze. To everyone's horror, the fire elemental still stood before them. Not only did it stand before the heroes, it stood a grand seven stories tall before the heroes.
"INSOLENT FOOLS!" the fire elemental boomed loudly. "DID YOU NOT REALIZE THAT A FIRE ELEMENTAL IN A LARGE BURNING BUILDING WOULD BE ABLE TO FEED ITSELF TO A MAGNIFICENT PROPORTIONS?"
"The thought did cross my mind, momentarily," Drakken replied, thoughtfully. "But then your water counterpart shot some ice at me and then suddenly it didn't seem like such an important detail..."
"MY BROTHERS MAY NOW SUFFER FOR THEIR FAILURE," the fire elemental continued, "AS SHALL I SHORTLY. BUT I WILL APPEAR BEFORE THE ELEMENTAL LORDS OF POWER WITH THE NEWS OF THE DEMISE OF THE CHILD OF THE COMET AND HER LOVER!"
"Over my dead body!" Drakken growled, stepping in front of Kim and Shego.
"IT SHALL BE MY PLEASURE, MORTAL!"
The fire elemental rose a fiery hand and fired a stream of white hot flame down onto the gathered heroes. It kept up the stream for several minutes, steadily raising the intensity as it did so. Finally, satisfied that it had indeed done its job, the fire elemental ended the stream and gazed down on its handiwork.
The fire elemental chose not to be shocked or surprised when it saw that instead of five ashen corpses, it saw a transparent force dome with five figures within, each of them engulfed in a pale green fiery aura.
"My bubble ray gun to protect from the direct blast with Shego's plasma sheath to protect us from the intense temperature," Drakken gloated, keeping his finger on the trigger of his ray gun to keep the dome up. "Ever was the Possible the only person capable of standing against the genius and teamwork that was Team Drakken!"
"When we didn't have our heads up our asses about robot girls and omnivorous goops," Shego laughed, keeping her hands outstretched to maintain the plasma sheaths.
"If my dear, beloved mother had not released that goop, we would have succeeded in that caper," Drakken growled.
"Your dear, beloved mother also wanted the two of us to get together, Drewbie," Shego said, rolling her eyes.
"I know...," Drakken muttered, shuddering at the thought. In his mind, thinking of Shego in that way was like incest.
"YOU MAY BE ABLE TO PROTECT YOURSELVES FROM ME ON THE TEMPORARY," the fire elemental bellowed. "BUT CAN YOU TRULY DEFEAT ME?"
"We just have to survive you until you succumb to your banishment," Drakken bragged, still maintaining the dome.
To answer that gloat, the fire elemental roared mightily and then blasted another intense, continuous stream of white-hot flame down onto the heroes.
"Oh, I know!" Shego grunted, focusing intently on the plasma sheaths protecting her and her allies. "How about we find the most powerful creature known to mankind and then PISS IT THE FUCK OFF!"
"It always works for you!" Drakken shot back, undeterred as he worked hard to keep the force dome active.
Kim knelt down between Drakken and Shego, looked at her left forearm, and activated her battle suit's built-in Kimminucator unit. She was immediately greeted by the image of her beloved friend and webmaster, the boy genius Wade Load.
"Hey, Kim! You're alive!" Wade exclaimed. "We saw the explosion towards downtown and we were scared that... wait, everything's green?"
"I'll explain later!" Kim said sharply. "I need your brains, Wade. We are facing a seven story tall fire elemental who just absorbed a plant building's worth of fire. What sort of fancy science stuff can we do to stop this thing?"
"Um," Wade replied brilliantly, blinking and looking back at Kim.
"Come on, Wade!" Kim begged. "Drakken and Shego are doing everything they can to keep the rest of us alive. It won't last long. Wade, if anyone can figure this out, it's you!"
"Right, okay," Wade nodded. "I think I've got an idea. But I need one of you guys to stand right under the thing."
Yori shuffled up next to Kim and looked at Wade. "Wade-kun, why would you need something of the sort from any of us?"
"Well," Wade replied, "I think the Tweebs can recalibrate their teleportation device to disrupt energy flows, including the flames of a magical fire elemental. But we need to be able to target it. To do that, we need someone with a Kimmunicator to stand right where the creature is."
Kim's eyes went wide. "Wade, do you realize what it is you're asking?"
Wade's eyes darkened. "I also realize that it's my first idea and that you're more than likely to shoot it down."
"Damn straight I'm going to...," Kim began. But she was interrupted.
"You," Drakken suddenly bellowed. "Ninja-girl. Come here and take this ray gun. Keep your fingers pressed firmly on the trigger and keep the beam shooting straight upward."
Yori stood up and went to Drakken, doing exactly as instructed.
Kim looked at Drakken curiously as the mad scientist shrugged off his jacket. "Drew?"
Drakken turned to Kim with a deathly serious expression. "Possible. Give me your glove."
Kim's eyes went wide at that.
"Now!" Drakken snapped.
"Doc, I know what you're thinking," Shego suddenly said, looking at Drakken. "Don't do it."
Drakken turned to Shego with a softer, if no less intense expression. "I made a promise to protect you on your wedding day, Shego. I intend to keep that promise."
"Drew," Shego breathed, her body shuddering both from the strain of projecting her plasma sheaths and from the strain in her heart as she considered what Drakken was considering doing. "No. You don't have to do this. I'm sorry I got mad at you. It's not worth your life. Please don't do this."
Drakken stepped up to Shego, smiled softly, kissed her gently on each cheek, then stepped back. "Whatever happens, Shego, I just want you to know. I'm very proud of who you've become and the minor role I played in you becoming that person."
"God damn it, Drew, NO!" Shego screamed, tears now flowing down her cheeks.
Drakken didn't respond to Shego's scream. Instead, his face turned serious again as he turned to Kim. "The glove, Possible. Now."
Kim looked at Shego for a moment, then back at Drakken. "You understand, Drew, that I'm doing this for the greater good of the world. If Shego never forgives me, I'll never forgive you."
With that, Kim stood up, slipped her left glove off of her hand, and handed it to Drakken.
Drakken nodded grimly to Kim, accepted the glove, and slipped it onto his left hand. He then brought up the Kimmunicator.
"Okay, Computer Boy," Drakken said flatly. "How long until the teleportation device is recalibrated?"
"It's recalibrated," Wade replied. "The Tweebs are ready to fire. We just need to target it. Doctor, are you sure you want to do this?"
"For Shego," Drakken said, glancing back up at the ex-villainess. "I would do anything."
"Don't you dare fucking die, you asshole," Shego growled angrily.
Drakken smiled. "What? And deny myself the pleasure of your temper tantrums? Never!"
Shego only growled in return.
Drakken then turned towards the fire elemental. "Wish me luck, boys and girls."
"Suck my dick, egghead," Shego growled. "You get in and you get out. You fucking got it?"
"Good luck, Drew," Kim said, more softly. "And what Shego said, only with more passion."
"Best of fortunes in your endeavor, Drakken-san," Hirotaka added, bowing. "It is an honor to fight alongside a warrior such as yourself."
"Good luck, Drakken-san," Yori said as well, still concentrating on her task of maintaining the force dome. "It shall be an honor to watch you send that creature back to the hell from which it came."
"Ready when you are, Doctor," Wade said finally, nodding grimly at Drakken through the holographic comm link in the Kimmunicator.
"Then let's do this!" Drakken said, dashing forward. As he burst from the force dome, he drew a ray gun from his belt holster and dove for the monster.
As Drakken dove under the fire elemental, the fire elemental noticed Drakken and redirected it's fire stream away from the force dome and towards the scrambling mad scientist.
Suddenly, Wade's voice chirped from Shego's Kimmunicator. "We have a lock on the creature! Firing the teleportation device now!"
Just as the fire elemental engulfed the ground at its feet in a fiery inferno, a crack of thunder ripped through the air and a beam of light descended from the sky. The light engulfed the fire elemental. The fire elemental screamed so loudly as to momentarily deafen all of the heroes present.
"YOU CANNOT DEFEAT ME SO EASILY!" the fire elemental screamed. "YOU CANNOT... CANNOT... NOOOOOOOO!"
In almost an instant, the fire elemental disintegrated and was no more.
Yori dropped the force dome and Shego dropped her plasma sheathes. Exhausted, Shego slumped down to her knees. Kim was immediately by Shego's side, ready to comfort her wife.
"NO!" Shego screamed, pushing Kim away. "DON'T TOUCH ME!"
"Sheila?" Kim gasped, tears welling up in her eyes.
"How could you?" Shego gasped, finally giving in to the sorrow and anger inside of you. "How could you fucking let him do that so easily, Kimmie? He was... he was like my fucking father, God damn it! How could you?"
Kim bit her lower lip and looked at her wife in pain, frustration, sorrow, and sympathy. The Alchemist was finally defeated. But at what cost? He had stolen almost everything that Shego had loved in life. And Kim had essentially enabled Drakken to be the final sacrifice.
Hirotaka and Yori stood nearby. Instead of paying attention to Kim and Shego, they carefully studied the flames that engulfed the area nearby.
"Did you see what I saw, Yori-san?" Hirotaka asked.
"I certainly did, Kirotaka-san," Yori agreed, nodding. "The color of the ray gun that Drakken-san drew just as he dove under the fire elemental... was purple."
"WHAT'S THAT FUCKING GOT TO DO WITH ANYTHING?" Shego screamed, flailing madly as Kim forcibly took hold of her wife and drew her in to a firm embrace. Shego tried to fight it, but quickly caved in to Kim's concern and began to weep openly onto Kim's shoulder.
Suddenly, Shego's Kimmunicator began to cackle. After a brief moment, a familiar voice rang through.
"Shego?"
Shego stopped crying, leaned back, and looked at Kim incredulously. Had she heard what she thought she just heard?
"Shego? I know you have one of these communicator thingies. Answer me!"
As Kim watched, Shego tentatively lifted up her left glove and turned on the holographic display on her Kimmunicator.
"Doc?" Shego stammered weakly.
"Shego, you've been dealing with your powers since you were ten," Drakken's voice said. No display was coming over the comm link, but his voice was loud and clear. "So, you're probably the best person for me to talk to right now."
"Doc," Shego said, looking at her Kimmunicator and shaking violently. "Where... where are you?"
"Well, considering at the formation of the stars and the smell of the atmosphere," Drakken responded, "I would wager that I'm on one of the moons of Jupiter. Ganymede, perhaps. The young Possibles must have teleported me here. But that's not important. What's important is that I have a very real concern that only you may be able to handle."
"What... what is that, Drew?" Shego asked carefully. What the fuck sort of problem would be more important than being stranded on a moon over 600 million kilometers away?
"Um," Drew's voice mumbled softly before he finally asked the question. "How do you turn your flames OFF?"
Shego's eyes went wide at that. "Drew? Why the fuck do you want to know that at a time when you're stranded on another planet's moon?"
"Perhaps a better question," Kim added carefully, "is how are you surviving on Ganymede? It's atmosphere should be too thin and too cold for you to breath."
"Um, probably for the same reason I survived the fire elemental's attack," Drakken's voice replied.
"Which is...?" Shego asked. She was now looking at her wife queerly. Kim simply shrugged.
"I used the Alpha Wave Gene Recombinator to fuse myself with a portion of the fire elemental," Drakken's voice said. "I've got freaky glowing hands now, too. But mine are blue. Or maybe that's just an effect of the atmosphere here. I don't know. That warrants some investigation. But, yes, you're no longer the only fire shooting megavillain on the block, Shego. Beware of Doctor Drakken, the Flaming Blue Mad Scientist!"
Both Kim and Shego smiled mirthfully at that. "Um, Doc, let's submit ourselves to a PR specialist before you go around using that title, shall we?"
With that, both Kim and Shego began laughing.
A couple of weeks passed. The Tweebs were able to lock back onto Drakken via Kim's Kimmunicator and teleport him back to Earth. North Vancouver began the task of rebuilding the damage inflicted by the Alchemist during his battle against Team Possible.
The Seniors donated handsomely to the reconstruction of the church in which the wedding had been held. Special Agent Hector Delgado, Motor Ed, and Camille Leon survived their injuries, although each of them had to come to terms with the fact that it would take months to recover from their injuries. Adrena Lynn took Camille Leon back home to Leon's penthouse suite in New York City, where the best in home nursing care was hired to help Leon with her injuries.
Dr. Betty Director declared a moratorium on the pursuit of Professor Dementor, Motor Ed, Duff Killigan, Camille Leon, and Adrena Lynn for the duration of the recover of their injuries. In addition, each of them were invited to Kim and Shego's wedding reception, which was rescheduled and relocated to the Senior island estates off of the southern coast of Spain. In an unprecedented move, Global Justice and HenchCo cooperated in holding a service in honor of Summer Gale, who had died at the hands of the Alchemist. Heroes and villains alike attended the service.
During those weeks, Drakken practiced the use of his new flame powers under the guidance of both Kim and Shego. He learned the basics of making his hands glow and shooting balls of pale blue flame. Most importantly, he learned how to keep the flames turned off until he absolutely needed them.
Finally, the day arrived for Kim and Shego's wedding reception. Mego gave a warm toast in honor of his sister and her wife, telling a rousing story of how he had met Kim for the first time and how he could immediately tell the connection between the hero and his sister. The first dance turned out to be Syn-Tonic's recording of the song, Self Control. According to Shego, it was a song beloved to her because it was the first song that Kim had ever sang to her. When the garter was thrown, Hego smirked and tripped Will Du, causing the special agent to stumble forward and accidentally catch the garter. When the bouquet was thrown, Yori put extra effort in making sure she caught it.
During the reception, Drakken sat and watched, admiring not only the splendor that the Seniors had brought to bear to the décor, but also the warmth and love that he could feel pouring between Kim and Shego. He took special pride in knowing that he had a hand in bringing the two women together and keeping them alive, in spite of everything.
Late in the evening, Kim and Shego skipped over and sat down on opposite sides of Drakken. Kim was dressed in her lady's tuxedo while Shego was dressed in her wedding gown. The two women were absolutely gorgeous in their wedding attire and Drakken felt incredibly underdressed compared to them.
"You've been awfully quiet all evening, Drew," Kim said, looking softly at the mad scientist. "Is everything okay?"
"Yes, Possible, it is," Drakken smiled.
"Which Possible are you talking to, Doc?" Shego smirked playfully, resting two hands and her chin on Drakken's shoulder.
"Heh," Drakken laughed. "Yes, I do suppose you're a Possible now, Shego. But to me, you will always be simply Shego and your wife will always be The Possible. Those days are too important to me for me to let go easily."
"Understandable," Kim laughed.
"I'm just," Drakken began. But he paused.
"Just what, Doc?" Shego asked, lifting her head back up slightly.
"I almost got you killed," Drakken sighed. "I've been thinking about that as of late. Few people realize that I brought the Alchemist down on your wedding and that it was only because of the combined effort of your team that we were able to defeat the Alchemist. I don't think I will ever be able to forgive myself for that."
"One thing, Drew," Kim said to that, looking at Drakken intently.
"What is that?" Drakken asked, turning to look at Kim.
"You may have put a lot of people's lives in danger at our wedding," Shego replied, catching Drakken's attention. "But you also ended a nightmare that I've been fighting for the last twelve years."
Drakken blinked twice, considering Shego wordlessly.
"Doc," Shego added. "Until I started sleeping with Kimmie, I never had a decent night's sleep because the Alchemist haunted my nightmares every single night. Even the comfort that Kimmie gave me was more of a distraction than a solution. A much needed distraction, but a distraction nonetheless."
Shego then paused, took a deep breath, and looked at Drakken deep in his eyes. "Drew, because of you, I don't have those nightmares anymore. We defeated the Alchemist. Well and fucking good. He isn't coming back. And you did that. You and your ray guns. That's a gift that I'll never be able to repay you for... not for what it's worth to me."
Shego then leaned in and kissed Drakken gently on the cheek. "For as much of a fucking idiot as you can be, you did something no one has ever done for me. Not even Kimmie, though not from her lack of trying. You've given me a peace of mind that I can carry with me for the rest of my life. And that life can be a happy one, now that I can spend it with Kimmie and know that Gloria's death was not in vain."
Drakken couldn't find words to respond to what Shego was saying. Maybe words would ruin the moment.
"In short, Drew," Kim added, punching Drakken's shoulder playfully, "you done good, sir."
Finally, Drakken shook his head and smiled, chuckling softly.
"What is it, Drew?" Kim asked, curious.
Drakken looked up, first at Shego, then at Kim. "Yet again, I succeed spectacularly as a hero. Why could I never be this successful as a villain?"
"Because you have my Kimmie as a friend," Shego laughed. "Not as an enemy."
"Anything is possible for a Possible," Kim added. "And you just became the father-figure of a Possible."
Drakken rolled his eyes to that. "Well, I suppose then I can admit that we can all be all-that now, huh?"
Kim, Shego, and Drakken laughed merrily to that.
Life was good. And now it could get even better.
[END CHAPTER EIGHT]