"No." Shego whispered, staring out to the still collapsing frame of Gemini's newest lair.
Will began turning the boat around as soon as he heard the screech of stressed metal. He sped towards the falling oil platform.
"William." Dr. Director shouted over the roar of the boat. "What are you doing? We need to get this back to shore." She held up the computer recovered from Gemini's now defunct base. "Let the recovery teams take care of Miss Possible."
Shego growled, snatching the computer from Dr. Director's hands. She ripped apart the reinforced frame with plasma fueled grip, and threw the two smoldering halves of the device into the ocean.
"Wade." She said curtly, activating her kimmunicator. "Do you have her signal now?"
Instead of replying, a red dot appeared on her screen. Pausing only to take a large breath, she dove headlong into the water. She held up the screen that tracked Kim with one hand, and pulled herself through the water with the other. Around her, bits of metal ranging from screw, to bulkheads fell silently, and in slow motion.
She kept swimming, blasting the occasional bit of wreckage out of the way, rather than waste time avoiding it.
She found Kim's limp form, being pushed down by the remains of a large pipe. Her right hand was trapped in a valve, twisted at an unnatural angle. Shego gently pulled the hand free, and began pulling herself upward, though the only way she could tell was by the direction that debris was falling.
With Shego's first upward stroke, Kim's already bent wrist rotated further. The unconscious woman reflexively pulled her arm back towards her body, accidently thrusting her elbow into her rescuer's abdomen.
Completely unprepared, Shego exhaled sharply from the force of the impact.
She felt the last traces of air in her lungs flee, escaping as a silent steam of bubbles.
Shego kept moving, trying to gain as much figurative ground as possible, but it wasn't long before her muscles screamed in protest, and her vision grew dark around the edges.
Desperate, she thought to have Wade send her help, but remembered that she had dropped her only link with him to pull Kim free of the once platform's wreckage.
Then there was a bright light, and she felt something pull her backwards, down towards the murky depths below.
I'm sorry, Princess. She thought, pulling Kim's lax body closer to her. I tried.
The next thing Shego was aware of was that she could breathe. She sat up, looking wildly around her. Kim's grandfather knelt to her left, checking the pulse of an unconscious Kim. He looked up at Shego, and if he was surprised that she was awake, he didn't show it. She stared questioningly at him, and he shook his head slowly. Shego pushed him aside to lean over Kim. She checked the red head's pulse for herself.
It wasn't there.
She leaned in further, and put an ear to Kim's chest.
Nothing.
"No, no, no, no." Shego muttered, raising herself up, and placing her hands, one grasping he back of the other, on Kim's chest. "I did not go through all of that just so you could die again." Shego rasped, counting off beats. "You will not die on me Kim. That's not fair. After everything we've been through. We deserve a happy ending." She rambled, hoping some higher power would give her a break. "You. Will. Not. Die!" She shouted, punctuating each word with another push.
Kim coughed violently, splattering even more water over the drenched bulkhead. As she gasped in air, Shego found that she could breathe again as well.
"Never." Shego demanded, pulling her fiancé into an embrace just loose enough to breath in. "Do that to me again."
"I love you too." Kim's muffled voice replied.
They remained like that for half a minute, drinking in air and the euphoria of being alive.
"You know, that was easier that I thought it'd be." Shego admitted, a wide smile on her face.
"Why don't you say that again when I have the strength to beat the crazy out of you." Kim chuckled.
"I expected to go through at least two rounds of CPR, and for you to recover just when I gave up hope."
"You're just upset you didn't get to perform mouth to mouth." Kim purred.
"And what's stopping me now?"
Gen. Possible cleared his throat. "Not that I'm old fashioned ladies, but that's something no grandfather wants to see. Save it for when we get you two home."
Shego blushed, and turned back to Kim.
She closed her eyes and smiled. "Home sound good."
"Welcome back to the land of the living you two." The elder Possible clapped them both on the shoulder, and moved forward into the front room of the submarine.
"I like it here." Kim muttered absentmindedly, slipping off to sleep. "Can we stay?"