Go Team Go 1: Origins
(A/N: I'll put up the third chapter today as well, just because I need motivation desperately.)
Powers Rising
There was the sound of beeping. The young woman groaned painfully, but she didn't have the strength to open her eyes. "She's waking up," a voice said. It sounded far away, but she knew it was close.
"Thank goodness. We almost lost her," another strange voice she'd never heard said, but again it seemed distant. She fought to open her eyes. Ugh, she hated feeling so weak. No way was some accident going to put her down for the count. Now if she could only remember what accident it had been.
Her eyes flickered open and she grimaced at the intense brightness of the room around her. Hospital, it had to be. This was how all movies said it was. Bright lights, smell of antiseptic or something like that. Wait… her brothers! She gasped and sat up quickly. She regretted it soon after, wavering with a gasp and suddenly throwing up. Luckily a nurse was ready with a bucket. She continued throwing up until there was nothing left she could empty from her stomach. She coughed and gasped.
"B-brothers…" she stammered out.
"Easy, dear, you're all right," a nurse softly soothed.
"Where are my brothers?!" she suddenly screamed with more strength than she knew she possessed at that moment.
"Shego!" two familiar voices screamed from not too far. She'd never thought she could hear a more blessed sound! The twins!
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There was a commotion, obviously doctors trying to stop something. She knew what those something's were. The twins were escaping whatever room they'd been being treated in. In seconds they burst through the door, leaping onto her bed. "Wegos!" she exclaimed. Before she could even catch up to herself she'd pulled the two into a tight hug. They were clinging onto her for dear life, sobbing and crying.
"Sh-Shego, wh-where's mommy and daddy?" Wego One sobbed.
"Where's Hego and Mego?" Wego Two wailed. The doctors came, just then, and tried to pull them away from her. "Shego!" they screamed.
"Let them go!" Shego yelled furiously. All at once something green blasted from her hands! The doctors hit the ground in alarm and looked at her in shock. Shego could only gape in disbelief. The twins were shocked silent, looking back at the door which now sported a gaping hole.
The twins looked back at their stunned sister. Shego, still gaping, began to shake and looked down at her hands, now glowing green. "Holy crap!" she exclaimed. "Whoa, fire, fire!" she desperately tried to wave the fire like things out, but they wouldn't stop glowing! However, they weren't burning her either. The doctors tried to pour water on her hands. It wouldn't extinguish the, well, whatever it was.
"Plasma," one of the doctors said in shock and awe. "Her hands are glowing with plasma!" Shego looked sharply up in shock. All at once the glows disappeared and she gasped, turning to her hands in disbelief. Not even a burn mark.
"Shego…" the twins said in awe. She looked slowly up at them.
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All at once there was a ruckus and more yelling. "Let go! Where are my siblings? Where are they?!" a voice bellowed.
"Hego!" Shego and the twins exclaimed, leaping out of bed and running out into the hall. They gasped as suddenly a cabinet was sent flying. Shego hit the ground with the boys. It sailed overhead. They looked up, mouths dropped.
"Whoa!" Shego exclaimed. At the end of the hall was Hego, lifting two hospital beds up and looking horrified and terrified.
"Where are my siblings? What's happening to me? Why won't anyone tell me anything!?" he demanded.
"Sir, you need to calm down!" a doctor exclaimed, but the doctors and nurses in the area were avoiding Hego like the plague, terrified.
"H-how am I doing this? How can I pick these things up? What's the blue glow? Dang it, where are my brothers and sister?!" he demanded.
"Hego!" Shego called, leaping up with the twins.
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Hego gasped, looking over at them and dropping the beds. The blue glow died down. "Shego, Wegos!" he cried, racing towards them immediately. Shego couldn't stop herself from running to her brother with the twins and throwing herself into his arms. She was terrified, to say the least. And she was extremely confused.
"Hego, y-you were glowing blue!" Wego One exclaimed.
"And Shego was glowing green, are you two okay?" Wego Two demanded.
"Glowing green?" Hego asked in shock. Shego shrugged helplessly. She pointed at a wall but nothing appeared.
"Come on, come on," she willed, getting agitated and angry. All at once the plasma lit up and she shot it. It blasted a hole and she gasped, losing all control. It died again and she couldn't call it back no matter how hard she tried to summon it.
Hego gaped at her in disbelief and at the twins. "We-we have glows, Shego and I…" he numbly said.
"Thank you Mr. Obvious," Shego bit, still unsure of what to think or do. "Where are mom and dad?"
"Where's Mego?!" the twins exclaimed, and Shego and Hego paled, gasping. Mego! They hadn't found Mego!
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Finally the doctors managed to settle the four siblings down. Currently they were all sitting in the room the twin's had been in, seeing as it was the only one not destroyed or occupied right now. "Have you calmed down?" the doctor asked.
"Where's our brother?!" Shego demanded sharply.
"Down sis," Hego insisted, pushing her back. He sent her flying with a cry of pain, though. "Shego!" he exclaimed in horror, looking at his blue glow as if it were a curse.
"Idiot!" she yelled, staggering up.
"Shego, your arm!" Wego One exclaimed. Shego looked. It was severely bleeding. She must have cut it! The doctor was about to call for assistance, as the wound needed stitching and the girl probably had a concussion, but all at once it began to heal! Her eyes widened in disbelief and horror. The doctor could only gape.
"Young lady, your head… does it hurt?" the doctor asked.
"No," Shego answered in disbelief. But how could that be? She'd cracked it against the tile floors viciously.
"Outstanding," the doctor said.
"Look, I'm fine," Shego insisted to a guilt stricken Hego.
"Where's my other brother, and our parents?" Hego demanded, turning back to the doctor. He also wondered if he had the same healing and durability as Shego now, seeing as he too possessed the eerie and unexplainable glow. The doctor was quiet, and immediately Shego and Hego stiffened, straightening up. Silence was never good.
"Wh-why won't anybody…" Wego One began.
"…say anything," Wego Two finished. The doctor sighed deeply, and this time even the twins caught on that something was wrong.
"Come with me," the doctor replied.
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They found themselves in the Intensive Care unit. Why were they in intensive care? Hego held his three siblings close to him. All of their eyes were wide in shock. They remembered the comet all too well; the glowing rainbow comet that had given the strange powers to Shego and Hego, whatever those were. "Why are we here?" Shego finally asked the doctor, voicing the question none of her brothers wanted to ask.
"It's… your brother…" the doctor said.
"Mego? What about Mego? What happened to Mego?" Hego instantly demanded, feeling chills running up and down his spine. The Wego twins began to cry, drawing close to Hego and Shego.
The doctor paused in front of a window looking in on a room. He gestured for them to peek. The four looked through the glass and paled. Their brother was lying there unmoving, hooked up to multiple tubes, deep scratches on his face. "Mego!" the twins screamed, trying to stuggle free, but Shego and Hego held them tightly. "Mego, Mego!" they shrieked again and again. All at once they began to glow red. Shego and Hego gasped and screamed, dropping the two. All at once fifteen Wegos were in the hall, all shrieking Mego's name and trying to break into the room.
"By the gods!" the doctor exclaimed.
"Wegos!" Hego screamed.
"Stop, enough!" Shego yelled.
All at once the two little boys froze, gasping. Just then they noticed themselves glowing red and paled, looking around them. There were dozens of clones now, having multiplied from fifteen to thirty and beyond. The twins gasped in panic and all at once the clones were gone. They looked up at Shego and Hego in terror. "W-we have super powers," Wego One said.
"We can make copies of ourselves," Wego Two stated in disbelief.
Hego cringed and looked at his blue glow. "I have super strength," he finally admitted to himself.
Shego stared numbly at her hands. "And I shoot plasma energy fire blast thingies with my hands," she realized. She swallowed dryly and they all looked back in at Mego. Maybe, just maybe, he had powers too. Maybe they would save him. Just then the machine began to beep frantically. The four siblings blanched.
"Doctor, we're losing him again!" a nurse cried, racing out.
The doctor cursed under his breath, muttering, "This is the eighth time." Immediately he raced inside.
"Eight…?" Shego repeated blankly, only able to watch helplessly as the medical staff worked frantically to save Mego.
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The siblings sat silently, waiting for news about their brother. The nurses left first, one saying, "It was amazing. Did you see the way those scars and scratches healed? That's not natural."
"Excuse me, ma'am's, but how is our brother?" Hego immediately asked. The nurses paused and turned, looking at the four.
After a moment one looked down, answering, "He's stable, if that's what you mean. That lucky son of a gun keeps coming back. Like the doc said, this is the eighth time he's technically passed on." Shego, Hego, and the Wegos gaped after the nurses and turned back to the room. They peered inside. It looked as if Mego, though unconscious, was scowling in annoyance.
Shego wryly chuckled, lamely joking, "He must be getting agitated that he can't get up and look at himself in a mirror. It's a major inconvenience for him." The Wego twins giggled. Hego smirked sadly, watching his brother. The last thing he had expected to happen today was, well, this.
Mego suddenly began groaning and tossing and turning. The doctors were looking at him in shock. No one who had just 'died' for the eighth time should have even been able to move so liberally. The 18 year olds eyes opened suddenly, though, and he started, panic coming to his features. Instantly he sat up, prying tubes off of him in terror before the doctors could leap to monitor him. Before they could seize him he was off the bed and looking into a reflective surface, obviously terrified something had happened to his oh so precious face. He screamed on seeing his skin tinted purple! Of course, in the midst of looking at himself and panicking about, well, him, he suddenly seemed to remember another detail. He had siblings!
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Mego dropped the reflective surface gasping, panic in his eyes as he suddenly went white, forgetting all about his purple tinge. "Shego, Hego, Wegos!" he suddenly screamed, whirling and running for the door. He couldn't see them through the window. He burst out of the room, sliding into the hallway. "Shego, Hego, Wegos!"
"Mego, Mego, it's okay, we're okay!" Hego instantly exclaimed. Mego gasped and turned.
"You're alive!" Mego exclaimed, suddenly leaping towards his siblings and grabbing them into a tight and desperate hug. He pulled back, looked confused, then added in a panic, "And you're colorful! Why is Hego blue, why's Shego green, why are the twins red, why am I purple, and what are we doing here? What happened? Where's mom and dad?"
"You're walking!" Shego exclaimed. "But-but you just died for the eighth time!"
"I what?!" he demanded in shocked terror.
"Mego, Mego, we have super powers!" the twins exclaimed.
Mego blinked blankly at them. After a moment he asked, "What?"
"We're super heroes!" Wego One repeated.
"We can multiply ourselves!" Wego Two added.
"I have super strength!" Hego exclaimed.
"And somehow I can shoot plasma energy blasts from my hands!" Shego stated.
"Not to mention we probably all have the increased durability and injury recovery that you and Shego do," Hego added.
"What?" Mego asked again.
"Before you woke up…" Wego One began.
"… your face was covered in scars and scratches," Wego Two finished.
"Oh this isn't happening. I'm in a dream and this isn't really happening. Any second I'll wake up in my bed, nice and warm and safe," Mego said. All at once he started glowing purple and gasped. "What? What's happening?" he demanded. All at once he shrank down to Shego's height! He screamed. "I'm disappearing!" he exclaimed.
"Shrinking!" Hego corrected.
"Why am I shrinking? Oh gods I'm going to shrink out of existence!" Mego exclaimed. He shrank again.
"Mego, think positively. You aren't going to shrink, you're going to grow," Hego said.
"This is no time for your happy optimist crap, Hego!" Mego screamed, dropping to the twins' height. They looked terrified. Mego gasped. Hmm, maybe thinking grow would be worth a shot. He desperately willed himself to grow. He gasped when he began to gain height again. Feeling more relaxed, he exclaimed, "I-I'm doing it! I'm growing!" Soon he was back to normal, still glowing purple. He tried to go taller but he couldn't. He blinked, frowned, then exclaimed, "Oh come on! I can only shrink?! I'm just a shrinker! This sucks!" He began shrinking again and gasped. Immediately he willed himself to grow. Hmm, apparently anytime he wished he could shrink out of existence, he began to do just that.
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All at once the siblings were aware of all the eyes on them, doctors and researchers looking flabbergasted and terrified. They stiffened. After a long moment, Hego said, "Uh, we mean you no harm?" Mego blinked and face palmed, shaking his head hopelessly. Shego shot an ugly scowl at her eldest brother. "What?" he defended. "They're terrified."
"This is just like in the movies," Wego One said, grinning.
"Right, when mutants and supers are taken to secret labs and experimented on!" Wego Two backed.
"Oh for the love of… You've been letting them watch those movies again, haven't you?!" Shego accused Mego.
"Uh…" he began.
"Don't deny it!" she shouted, and her hands lit up. She gasped, anger giving way to fear, and the glow died. She blinked blankly. Mego gaped in disbelief.
"Interesting. It appears that Shego's glow comes out when she's angry, Mego's when he wishes he could disappear, the Wego Twins when they're desperate, and mine when I get protective," Hego mused. "At least we have a baseline."
"For what? They're probably just a few side effects. They'll wear off," Shego argued.
"What if they don't?" the Wego Twins asked. Shego stiffened and blinked. She cringed, looking uncertainly at her hands. If they didn't, they'd have to start, ugh, working on ways to control them just like in those stupid movies her brothers loved. On the other hand… this fire, plasma, whatever, could be put to good use if she could control it.
"Before we do anything, where are mom and dad?" Mego asked. The others stiffened, looking at him in shock. They'd forgotten about their parents!