"Gee Will, it's a good thing that you brought all of that backup." Shego taunted as she, along with the rest of team Possible walked with the new director of global justice through the empty corridors of Gemini's base. He ignored her, barking orders to his wrist communicator.
His best agents were busy securing the lower level, but they encountered the same resistance our heroes had. That is to say not all. It looked, to their combined expert opinion, that the base had been deserted for some time.
"I mean," Shego continued. "This is really dangerous work. They could pull a muscle, or chip a nail, or go insane from sheer boredom."
Will shot Kim a look that asked, "how do you put up with this?"
"Give them a break Shego." Kim grinned. "It's not like they're up for much more, I mean Killigan is out of their league."
Shego snickered, and will sighed.
Their fun was interrupted when Ron called out from somewhere ahead of them. "Now that's a door!"
The rest of them rounded the corner to find a twenty foot tall ten foot wide, solid metal double door.
"Allow me." Ron said with a mock bow. He stepped forward, put a hand on each door, and pushed. It didn't budge. "Well," Ron shrugged. "I tried."
"I got it." Shego side, stepping forward. She pressed in year 21 door, and moved along at slightly. She stopped, raised a hand, and knocked softly.
The door groaned, and began to creep open.
Will Du and Dr. Director stared at Shego, open mouthed.
Shego bowed, motioning for the others to move through first.
Kim held back to walk with her and the next room.
"How did you know that would work?" Kim whispered.
"I didn't." Shego replied. "I was trying to find the lock."
Kim chortled softly before taking in her ceramics.
It was a tall, cylindrical room. The ground floor had dozens of computer stations lining the walls. In the center, held up by a series of support braces and metal stilts, a command platforms stood, with a small winding ramp leading up to it.
They could see, on the platform, a large figure with its back to them, rummaging for something.
The figure turned when he heard them enter.
"So!" He bellowed. "It seems my sister is finally found me. Too soon, I must admit. But that can be corrected."
He raised up his artificial hand. The index finger opened up and the other three grew fins.
He laughed, a booming, melodramatic chuckle, right before Yori appeared behind him and brought her elbow crashing into the back of his skull.
He crumpled to the floor.
"Worst boss battle ever." Shego muttered to herself.
Gemini hadn't hit the ground before Dr. Director was running up the ramp.
Shego, Kim, Ron, and Will followed at a much slower pace.
When they reached the top, they found Dr. Director huddled over a small cupboard under the main terminal instead of the main terminal itself.
"Yes!" She cried, and withdrew a laptop that looked at least a decade old, red, with a yellow lightning bolt on the back of the monitor.
"That?" Shego growled, suddenly furious. "We came all this way for that?"
"Do you know what this is?" Dr. Director asked, not bothering to turn back the Shego.
"Yes." Kim spoke up. "It's an terminal. The only way to access the private network villains use."
"And the main reason most villains include a self-destruct button in their lairs. So that we can never get our hands on one of these."
"You know if you wanted one, all you had to do was ask." Shego drawled.
"And you just hand me yours?" Dr. Director snapped.
"Sure. Between Kimmie and I, we have three of those things. More stylish, of course."
"How do you get your hands on three?" Will asked, incredulous.
"Duh. One for me, two for the thieves you tried to bomb away."
Dr. Director's retort was cut off by a sudden alarm klaxon. Wills communicator beeped, and Kim's grandfather's voice began to speak. "We found some HenchCo. goons in here that hadn't quite pulled out yet. One of the idiots hit the self-destruct activation before we could stun them all. I'm ordering a full evacuation right now!"
"You heard him." Will shouted. "Let's go!"
"Wait!" Kim activated her kimmunicator. "Wade, what kind of power source does this lair have?"
"It's powered by the oil it pumps up from the ocean floor. It runs through a refinery and goes right to their generators. Why?" His eyes widened. "Did someone hit the self destruct?"
"Wade," Shego asked, her voice completely serious. "How bad of a spill are we looking at?"
Wade began typing furiously on his computer. "With the lair's position, we're looking at three, maybe four ecological zones affected."
"Where's the pump controls?" Kim demanded. Do I have time to shut it down before this place goes up in flames?"
"Wait a minute, Princess. If anyone's going down there, it's going to be me."
Kim shook her head adamantly. "No. I'm going. I've stopped ecological disasters before. This shouldn't be any different."
"Then I'm going with you."
"It doesn't make sense for us to both risk our lives. Get out while you can."
"I'm not leaving you!" Shego shouted.
"You don't have a choice." A voice replied mournfully from behind her.
A shot rand out, Shego convulsed briefly, and fell unconscious to the ground. Will caught her in his free hand. His other clasped his stun pistol.
"Go Kim, you have the best chance of stopping this. I'll get her out safely."
"Thank you Will." Kim said, before dashing off toward the nearest elevator."
Will turned to Ron and Yori. "Go down to the Chairman's position, help him get those prisoners to transports. We have a submarine docked on the lowest levels. Use that to escape."
In unison, they nodded, and took off.
Shego woke to a blurry field of blue, and a large buzzing. She shook her head several times, trying to clear the fog from her mind. She sat up, looking around her. She was on a speedboat, piloted by Will Du, rocketing away from the doomed oil platform. Gemini lay in the boat next to her, still unconscious, and now bound.
"Where….where's Kim" She asked, though her voice was so thick that it was almost unintelligible.
"She just managed reach the shut off to the pump. I sent a recovery team to get her out." Will shouted back over the roar of the sea and the motor.
Shego's kimmunicator vibrated, she couldn't hear the beeps, and she activated it.
"Go, Nerdlinger."
"Shego." Wade spoke in a soft monotone, his eyes wide with horror. "I tried to slow down the self destruct countdown, and I found out it wasn't a countdown. It was signal activated."
"What's the activation then?" Shego asked, not understanding, but unnerved by his attitude.
"It's a kill switch. The self destruct activates when the main pump is closed."
Shego's eyes went wide too. "Did you tell Kim?"
He shook his head. "Something's jamming my signal. I can't reach her!" He cried, helplessly.
"No…" Shego whispered. She turned to the oil rig just in time to see it collapse in upon itself, and fold into the ocean.