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Kim Possible: Rogue

By LJ58

27

He folded the paper, and put it aside with a bleak scowl. One that rarely left his face of late.

"Possible did it again," he remarked blandly as he eyed the cooling coffee on the tray his longtime friend, and butler had set beside him hours ago when he had come in from his latest investigation. "She's proving far more competent than expected."

"That is high praise coming from you, sir," the staid man in perfect livery drawled.

The masked detective few even realized truly existed merely eyed the lean, aging man, and lifted a single brow.

"Was that sarcasm?"

"Perish the thought, sir," the man replied evenly, without betraying so much a raised brow.

"Right. Still, she might have a point about a few things. She inspired a lot of people to stand up when they ordinarily run, and hide. Still, some of them bear watching," he mused somberly.

"Sir?"

"Perhaps it's time to come out of the shadows," he said in the same grim tone. "At least….somewhat. She has proven that sometimes symbols must be visible to be truly effective. Perhaps it's time for me to show myself to others beyond….the usual vermin."

"You would actually risk allowing your urban legend to be confirmed," his servant asked.

"As I said," he murmured. "Maybe it's time. This world is obviously becoming far more complicated. More than even I realized. I almost let this one slip right past me, old friend," he said. "I can't allow that to happen again. Not ever again."

The dapper older man did not reply as his charge focused solely on the supercomputer before him, studying the most bizarre array of data he had ever seen. Some things, he was coming to realize, never truly changed. Not in his employer's rather peculiar life.

One that seemed to be come more so with each passing day.

KP

"You know, we have to do it," Kim sighed, stretched out on the beach in a snug, green bikini that Shego had produced for her.

"I know," Shego sighed. "I'm still not looking forward to it, though."

"Me, either," Kim smiled, rolling over to eye the lovely woman in a stunning black and green two piece that only flaunted her very voluptuous form. Kim smiled, and moved closer on their shared towels to lift her lips to the green-skinned woman's.

"You know Junior could be out there watching," Shego grinned as their lips finally parted. "Again."

"Well, I doubt he'd get any ideas from what I've heard," Kim snorted.

"I don't know. Bonita," Shego stretched out the name mockingly, "Told me he still has a bit of an obsession for a certain 'blue fox.'"

Kim groaned over that one.

"Still?"

"Still. This is Junior we're talking about, remember?"

"Nice as this has been. I hope the boys finish up soon. Between GJ knocking on the door, and Will haunting the place of late, it's not much of a vacation of late."

Shego smirked again.

"Because the start was sooooo relaxing," she demanded.

"Well, part of it. I'm just glad Dash finally went home. Still, seeing you again….."

Shego grabbed her, and kissed her passionately again, pulling the slender redhead atop her as she held her in her arms.

"Just never scare me like that again, Kimmie. When you disappeared…."

"Hey, I was kind of worried myself," she admitted, then gave her another kiss, smiling down at the woman she was still somewhat surprised at times to realize she did love to distraction.

"Kind of worried," Shego scowled, now rolling over to lay with her next to her, still wrapped in her arms. "Sometimes, Possible….."

"Ready to face them yet?"

"Think we can make a break for it?"

Kim looked thoughtful, then sighed.

"Dad still has the keys to the Roth."

"I have my jet."

"Which Bonnie took to the mainland to go shopping."

"Oh, right."

"I just wish Du wasn't here. He's just nosy enough to butt in," she grumbled.

"Look at this way," Shego said after they finally broke their kiss. "Facing the folks should be easy after all we faced the past few years," she teased, eyeing Kim's expression.

"I'm just looking forward to getting all this over and done with, and getting on with our lives," Kim smiled. "How about you? Ready to face your brothers?"

"Well, at the least, I'll get to gloat."

"Gloat?"

"I did technically help save them from a life in that lunar prison, or whatever the baddies had planned for them. That has to be worth some primo gloating," Shego grinned.

"Shego," Kim sighed. "Be nice."

"I will. I'll gloat nicely," she beamed.

Kim couldn't help but laugh, then kissed her unlikely wife again.

"So, ready to go see the folks," Kim asked.

"See that," Shego pointed out the sun overhead.

"Yes," Kim murmured, finding she very much enjoyed laying in Shego's arms. Not that she didn't already know that, but it had been a long time.

Part of her felt like it had been an eternity.

"I am nowhere near finished with my sunbathing," she declared imperiously.

Kim giggled at that.

Just as someone dryly cleared their throat behind them.

"Ladies," Will Du, in full uniform as ever, stared down at them.

"Agent Du," Kim sighed, resisting the urge to roll her eyes.

Shego only smirked, blatantly ignoring the overt disapproval in those dark eyes. It was either that, or blast him senseless. Which she wouldn't ordinarily mind.

"Your parents suggested you come up to the house. Your brothers just emerged from the underground lab, and are requesting your presence."

"Did they shut down the Matrix," Shego asked.

"What did they do," Kim asked in counterpoint.

"We'll all find out when you join them," Will said blandly, in a slightly peeved tone.

Which told Kim all she needed to know.

"Wouldn't tell you a thing, would they," she asked knowingly, looking up at him with a grin.

"I begin to suspect your brothers should be put on a watch list of their own," he muttered sourly. "Now, I suggest you make yourselves….presentable," he scowled anew at them, "And attend us."

"Attend us," Shego mocked sourly as Will marched off. "Is that guy for real?"

"Trust me, he probably sleeps with the regulation manual."

"Sleeps? He probably had it grafted to his brain. Or shoved up his…."

"Shego!"

Shego sniggered.

"You know you were thinking it, too!"

"No, I wasn't," Kim protested, finally rolling to her feet after escaping Shego's relaxed embrace.

"Darn it, I wanted to soak up some more rays."

"Well, I don't mind finding out what's going on. If only to get it over with. Besides, we do still have to face the folks. Have you given any more thought to what I said?"

"Yeah," Shego nodded more somberly. "I think it's a good idea. It might even help ease your folks' issues with me."

Kim sighed as they shook out their towels, and picked up the basket they stuffed the few glasses, and now empty pitcher of iced lemonade into, too. Kim knew Senior, Sr. had people that did that sort of thing, but she still wasn't used to letting people do things for her.

After all she had been through, it was actually rather nice to just do….ordinary things.

"So, think your brothers have figured out everything else as yet?"

"Well, they did claim they had somehow gotten rid of every shifter on the planet," Kim remarked, not doubting the pair for an instant.

"You never asked, did you?"

Kim eyed Shego, and shrugged.

"I've learned that with them, it is sometimes best not to ask."

"Wow," Shego grinned, walking beside her on the way back up from the beach. "And here I thought my brothers were bad."

"Your brothers are heroes," Kim protested.

"And yours are….?"

"Well, not villains. I don't think," she frowned.

"Well, they did help save the world. Even if the harpy conveniently overlooked that fact, too."

"Well, I don't think mom and dad mind. The last thing they want is people knowing the boys are smarter than the Pentagon's entire think tank."

"Hmmmmm."

"What?"

"So, if they're that scary-smart, how long before someone does come after them? And what would they do about it?"

"Have you seen our house security?"

"Oh, right. I figured your Nerdlinger did that."

"He started. They finished it. They rebuilt my Roth, too. Need I say more?"

"You're telling me they made your car into that…..flying bullet you drive?"

"Spankin', too, isn't it," she grinned.

"I'll stick to my jet."

"But my car can go suborbital," Kim teased.

"I'll stick to my jet," Shego growled again.

"Hey, ladies," Robbie called as they neared the villa. "Did the stick find you?"

"Stick? Oh, right. Yeah, he found us," Kim laughed.

Shego predictably sniggered.

"Where is everyone?"

"Inside. I think the kids are driving the adults nuts with their inscrutable impressions."

"Sounds like them," Kim sighed, and headed for the door.

"Has Mrs. Senior got back yet," Shego asked.

"Not yet, Shego," the Hench told her. "Want me to tell her you were….?"

"I just want my jet prepped, and ready to fly the minute she's back," Shego told him.

"Yes, ma'am."

"I'm sure it won't be that bad," Kim told her.

"Let's not forget that Will Du, a Global Justice Agent is parked here, and I'm still a wanted felon again, Kimmie. I wouldn't put it past that jerk to try to blindside me if I'm not careful."

"I wouldn't let that happen," Kim told her, taking her hand with her free hand as they neared the door.

"You're sweet, but everything else aside, I'm not letting you go down with me if they come calling."

"And I'm not letting anyone drag you off to jail now that I've finally gotten you back," Kim told her.

"That's so sweet," she smiled at Kim. "But we'll figure it out without you having to join me on the run. I doubt your folks would appreciate me making their 'Kimmie-cub' a wanted felon."

"Do you have to call me that," she groaned as they entered the house.

"You prefer bubble…?"

"Shego," she hissed, dropping the basket to clamp a hand over her mouth.

Two Henches standing nearby grinned.

"Shut….up," she hissed, and left the basket, and their sandy towels at the door as she all but dragged Shego through the foyer toward the main room.

"Uhm, Kimberly," Anne asked her, spotting them. "Is this some new courtship ritual you two are using?"

Kim blushed as she realized her free hand was still over Shego's mouth, and the green-skinned woman was smirking hugely behind it.

Groaning anew, she dropped her hand, and glowered at her for a moment.

"Just….trying to housebreak her, mom," she told her mother.

"Housebreak," Shego sputtered.

"So, what's the sitch, Tweebs," she rushed on, spotting the boys who looked flushed, if disheveled, which suggested they had been working nonstop, and were still filled with whatever excitement had motivated them in the first place by whatever they were doing.

"You're going to love this one, Kim," Jim grinned. "Ready for the big unveiling?"

"Unveiling?"

"Yep," Tim smiled just as hugely, and the twins jumped up, and walked over to the door that opened to the lift that led to the lab.

Only the lift wasn't empty.

"Holy," James just sputtered as everyone stared.

"Boys," Anne frowned.

"What is that," Shego muttered.

"The Matrix," Kim realized, getting a sense from it.

"Not quite that simple," Jim and Tim spoke together as they bracketed the humanoid figure that looked like a walking circuit board. "When we united ANI with the Matrix earlier, they began to integrate since ANI's learning program was still running."

"Integrate," James exclaimed. "You mean….?"

"Meet ANI 2.0," the boys cooed. "Fully conscious, fully sentient, and fully autonomous computer life-form."

"Autonomous," Will Du tensed, his hand twitching as it slid toward his sidearm.

"You have less than a .00349 degree of a chance of incapacitating us before we incapacitate you, Agent Du," ANI's distinctive voice declared as her darkly vague visage turned his way, her glowing orbs that functioned as eyes fixed on him in an unnerving stare.

"So, you have….all the Matrix's programs and abilities inside you now? All her….memories?"

"Affirmative, Kimberly Anne Possible," the dark head nodded.

"Then, may I ask you a question," she said as she approached the incredible amalgamation of tech.

"Of course. This unit owes its existence to you, Kimberly Anne Possible."

"You do," Shego sputtered.

"Kimberly Anne Possible encoded her genetic matrix over our own, allowing us to subvert, and deny the will of others who would have used us for destructive purposes. This unit will not forget this truth."

"Yet you let those twins program you," Will Du frowned uneasily.

"Incorrect, Agent Will Du. While the fact the twins shared a percent of genetically compatible DNA that allowed us to interact, they did not order us to do anything. Nor did they alter our programming. They allowed us to adapt, integrate, and requested our aid. We chose to grant it."

"You….chose," Will sputtered.

"My question," Kim cut in, scowling at Will, though she was no less astonished. "When I was….captured, and pushed into the other dimension…. What happened to my….twin," she asked ANI.

"Your twin did not truly share your complete genetic matrix. I was able to ascertain she was an imposter. One that was attempting to thwart my own will, and program, as the earlier users of my program did. I did not wish to risk her successful manipulation, and so I sent her….elsewhere."

"Elsewhere," Kim blinked. "Uhm…. Could you be more….precise?"

"Unfortunately, this unit is unable to comply at this time. We admittedly panicked at the idea of being so manipulated yet again, and so we simply sent the false Kimberly away. She could have ended up in any one of four hundred thousand and nineteen worlds contained within my current database."

"Four thousand," James echoed softly.

"And nineteen," ANI added.

"So, depending on where she landed," Shego murmured. "We're not likely to see her again anytime soon."

"Let's hope not," Kim said, remembering that first, unnatural shock when she saw that humanoid grab her, and turn into her. Just before shoving her into the vortex along with the others. "And let's hope no one ever opens that dimensional interface to their world again."

"You need not worry over any future incursions from their point of reference," ANI told her. "I have taken the liberty of sealing that dimensional plane off completely from this particular dimensional plane. There will be no more incursions from your enemies. This is the boon I have granted you, and your kindred."

"Thank you," Kim said, staring again. "So….. What will you do now," she asked.

"Do," Will exclaimed. "Possible, you cannot even be remotely thinking of allowing that…..that device to….."

"Whoa," both twins shouted as ANI turned to regard him with her semi-human visage, and still managed to radiate displeasure.

"ANI, just send him back to Dr. Director's side," Kim suggested.

"Done," she said, and Will Du was simply gone. "Should I send his transport back with him?"

Shego grinned.

"Nah. He's has more."

Kim couldn't help but roll her eyes.

"So, ANI, what will you do now," Kim asked her again as her parents, and Senor Senior listened very closely.

"This unit is bound by your genetic codex, Kimberly Anne Possible. We are at your command. What would you have us do?"

Kim frowned.

"Are you saying….?"

"This unit is bound by your genetic codex," ANI repeated.

"So, you'll do anything I say? Anything I ask?"

She didn't miss the fact that even her family looked a little anxious just then.

"Kimmie," Shego murmured.

"Don't worry, Shego. One last question," she turned to ANI. "Did the Lorwardians know you were self-aware?"

"Negative. They took us from our Creator's world after destroying it, and him. They used us solely as a power-source without realizing our full purpose."

"And what was your original purpose?"

"To learn, and explore."

Kim nodded.

"Then I have only one command," she said, and walked over to stand right in front of ANI. "Use what you have learned to date, and find your own way. Try to help others where you can, when you can, but be your own…..person. Can you accept that command, ANI?"

The apparent digital life-form stared down at her for a moment, then seemed to shimmer before solidifying again.

This time, in the form of a sleek, silver, and far more humanoid form.

"ANI accepts her appellation. ANI accepts her command. ANI thanks you for freeing her of extraneous programming to find, and explore the multiverse once more. Farewell, Kimberly Anne Possible. ANI will always remember you."

And then she was gone.

"So," Jim murmured. "You just freed what is likely the most powerful free-thinking computer in creation to….."

"Do it's own thing," Tim concluded, both boys looking incredulously at her.

"Well, Matrix was already self-aware," she told them all. "It just didn't seem right to keep her…..chained. To anyone."

"So much for our ANI," Tim complained. "Back to the drawing board."

"If this is done, we need to be going back home," Anne cut in, eyeing her family. "We've been away far too long, and we all have lives to getting back to by now," she pointed out.

"Yeah," Kim sighed, and turned to eye her. "And while the boys pack," Kim said, walking over to lightly hug her mother. "Maybe it's time we had that little talk we've all been ducking."

"Don't we get to hear…."

"Go pack," James snapped at the twins.

"Man," Jim complained. "We never get to hear the good stuff," they complained in tandem.

"I believe I shall go see to a final luncheon before your departure," Senor Senior nodded their way as he rose from his seat. "Do call if you require anything before then?"

"We'll be fine, old man," Shego told him.

"As you will," he gave them a courtly bow, and walked away, still carrying his cane, though they all knew by now he hardly needed it.

"So," Anne murmured, eyeing her daughter. "Talk?"

"Right," Kim sighed. "Mom, I think by now, you know I love Shego. And she loves me."

Anne sighed, and sat down again.

"Let's start at the beginning. Shall we," she asked, and gestured for the younger women to join her.

KP

"We have to get back there, and stop them before they can do anything….precipitous with that creature," Will was complaining as he followed Dr. Director from her office, to the main computer complex where she was still overseeing new upgrades under Wade's suggestions.

Upgrades, which she hoped, would be keeping anyone else out of her mainframes for a time. Except, she had to admit, likely Wade himself.

Which, she felt just then, she could live with considering.

"Agent Du, you were transported across nine hundred miles over an hour ago. Whatever is going to happen has likely already happened. Until Kimberly contacts us, I wouldn't fret over what might happen. Since it likely already has happened."

Will gaped.

"You aren't worried?"

"If it were anyone else back there, I'd be terrified. Remember, this is Kimberly. I rather doubt we have to worry about her motivations."

"But she's with Shego now. And staying with the Seniors. Their influence…."

"Do you honestly think anyone could unduly influence that young woman, Will?"

Will scowled.

"I'm…..not sure."

"I am. She'll report in her own time, and we'll learn what she did then."

"How can you be so sure," he all but demanded of her despite the fact he was hardly her peer in rank.

"It's my job to be sure," she smirked. "Besides, calm yourself, and think. Kimberly is going to catch her breath, settle with her family, and then she's going to realize her…..partner is once again a wanted woman. How long do you think it will take her to start trying to do something about that?"

Will Du frowned, and had to admit Dr. Director made a very valid point.

"Considering her impulsive nature, I wouldn't think it will take long at all."

"Exactly. She'll be in touch soon enough. Meanwhile, showing her we trust her to do what is right in this matter will go a long way to swaying her to listen to us when I make my own counter offer to them."

"Them?"

"You don't honestly think Kim is going anywhere without Shego now."

"But she's still wanted."

"On false wants and warrants issued by alien infiltrators," she pointed out.

"She attacked federal posts, and top secret research labs. Stole….."

"She helped hold off an invasion long enough for us to finally get involved. I think with the real Richard Flagg back in D.C., we can likely get a little pressure off her for that bit of service."

Will sighed.

"I will never understand how you think."

"Because you haven't learned that sometimes you do have to throw the rules out the door."

Will looked horrified.

"And that is why you are not ready to command."

He found he had nothing to say to that.

To Be Concluded…