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Maternal Instinct: Spotlight

Chapter 6: Shin Possible-What the Future Holds, Part 1

The town of Middleton, Colorado is generally considered to be a quite, peaceful town. Despite, of course, the occasional madman ransacking the city on his deranged quest for power, it is a place most families feel comfortable raising their kids in.

One such family lived in one of it's suburban areas in a rather unassuming red house, that matched of couple of the other houses on the block. Just like those other houses the occupants were going about their normal morning routines in a peaceful, almost practiced manner.

That is, except for one of them.

"OH CRAP!!!"

The cry could be heard throughout the house and even outside a bit. It was followed by a series of clattering sounds and a few indistinguishable words, if they could even be called such. Only a few seconds later the peace of the house and the block was shattered as the front door flew open and a pale green skinned teenager flew out of it, her black and red hair in disarray and her red tank top barely even on as she started running down the street.

"I am so screwed if I'm late again!" she cried as she threw her backpack loosely over her shoulder and tried to button her jeans.

Back inside the house, one of the women who brought up the girl stared at the still open door with a none too surprised expression on her face.

"Shin forget to set her alarm again?" Kim asked as she looked over to Shego sitting on the couch.

"Yep," Shego replied, not even bothering to look up from her paper.

"And she forgot to ask either of us to give her a ride again?"

"Yep."

"Think she'll make it on time?"

"Nope."

Kim sighed and shook her head.
Looks like I might have to start waking her up myself again, she thought with a hint of amusement.

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Shin's breaths came in ragged gasps as she closed in on her target: the entrance to Middleton High.

I'm gonna make it! I'm gonna make it! she cheered mentally as she looked down at her watch.

Almost without stopping, she pushed the door handle in as hard as she could, causing the whole frame to shake. She didn't pay it any attention though as she jogged the last couple feet into the school's hallway before coming to a complete stop and resting her hands on her knees as she caught her breath.

"Possible!" a commanding voice shouted from behind her.

Shin immediately straightened up and turned to see the rather annoyed face of:

"Principle Barkin!" she exclaimed in panic.

"You're late Possible," Barkin said matter-of-factly.

"No I'm not! See?" she replied, holding up her watch. "I still have plenty of time to-"

Her explanation was caught off by the bell that signaled the start of first period. She let out an annoyed, and exhausted groan, and felt like she could collapse right there.

"But...but...but that's not fair!" she shouted.

"Life's not fair Possible. I thought I made that perfectly clear by now," Barkin stated. "Now how many tardies is this for you at this point?"

Shin muttered something.

"I can't hear you."

"Three," she said through gritted teeth.

"Exactly. Enough to make my detention list."

"But I have practice tonight!" she begged.

"I've already talked to the coach and he agrees with me. We can't have you setting a bad example for the rest of the basketball team by letting you do whatever you want. I don't care who your moms are. Now, get to class and I'll see you after school."

Shin growled and kicked the air in defeated before walking away while mumbling something under her breath.

"What was that?" Barkin pressed.

"I...said...I need to get to class!" Shin said hastily before bolting down the hallways.

"No running in the halls!"

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Shin muttered angrily as she walked into the girl's locker room. Apparently part of the talk Principal Barkin had with the coach was to give her a rough time in gym class. Of course she couldn't prove that, but she found it very suspicious that she was the last one standing on her team in the dodge ball game. Though that could be thanks for her natural athletic talent and the training her momma gave her, but still...something about it just seemed fishy. And some of the kids were throwing those balls awfully hard.

"Uh-oh girls, better hurry and cover up, the lesbian's coming through," a snide voice rang out.

It was enough to stop Shin dead in her tracks and put her in an even worse mood than before. She clenched her hands into fists and ground her teeth together at the irritating voice rang through her ears. She knew all-too-well who it belonged to and who had made that remark without even looking up. The person's name were the three most hated words in her vocabulary.

Auska Langley Soryu.

Even the almost sing song rhythm to her name made Shin's blood boil. So it was with no surprise that when she slowly lifted her head up, she saw the little redheaded girl standing across the locker room in a yellow sundress with her usual smirk of superiority plastered all over her face. Shin's eyes narrowed as she locked onto Auska's blue ones, the hint of mischief there letting her know that another round of their verbal sparring was about to begin. And despite not being in the mood for it and knowing that this was a trap, Shin just couldn't help herself.

"How many times do I have to tell you, I'm not a lesbian!" she screamed, her voice echoing off the pale pink titled walls.

"'Me thinks the lady doth protest too much'," Auska shot back, her smirk growing wider. "Besides, we all know about your...moms so what else could we expect you to be but one of..them?"

"Okay first off all, shut up about my family. Second of all, just becomes someone's parents are gay doesn't make them gay. And even if I was, it's not like I'd be a leper or anything!"

"You know, you're right," Auska agreed with a slight shrug. "Honestly you being a lesbian would probably be the most normal thing about you. Especially with that freakishly pale skin and that obvious dye job."

"Hey! I'll have you know this is all natural!" Shin countered, pulling at the red tuft of hair above her forward.

"Riiight. Guess it's just as well, all it does mark you off as the ringleader of the band of freaks you call friends."

With that, Auska and the group of girls around her began to laugh cruelly. It was a short lived celebration, however, because before anyone could process what had happened, Shin shot across the room and pinned the annoying redhead to the lockers behind her using her left forearm and pressing it against Auska's throat. Shin's angry face was mere inches away from her rival's, daring her to do or say anything else. Auska's eyes looked from side-to-side in panic as she searched for help, only to find the girls who had just been standing next to her were long gone.

"Now listen," she spat venomously. "You can say whatever you want about me, that's fine. But don't you dare say anything about my friends or my family again! Are we clear?!"

Auska looked like she was about to give another smart ass remark, or even deliver a threat of her own, but it was cut off as Shin pressed her forearm further into her throat.

"Are. We. Clear?" the pale girl repeated.

The other girl just nodded as best she could.

"Good," Shin said, letting her go and taking a step back.

Auska double over in a coughing fit as air was finally returned to her lungs. She rubbed her sore spot on her throat as she glared hatefully up at black and red haired girl.

"What? Got something else you want to say?" Shin dared her.

"Actually...yeah," the redhead replied just before she took off running out of the locker room while shouted as loud as she could, "Coach!"

"What?! No! I...AAAAAHHH!!"

Shin threw her arms up as she continued to scream in anger and frustration for a few seconds longer, knowing exactly what was about to happen. Auska would tell the coach she attacked her, which she kinda did, but everyone would over look the fact that she was making fun of Shin, her friends and her family. Then that would get back to Principal Barkin who would give her even more detention and that would get back to her parents who would most likely ground her. Probably for a long time too.

After her screaming fit died down she spun around and started to bang her head against the nearest locker.

"Stupid, stupid, stupid," she muttered.

The remaining girls watched for a second longer as she continued her ritual of self deprecation then slowly began to back out of the room to get away from this crazy girl.

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"Ow, ow, ow," Shin whimpered as she poked the now sore spot on her forehead.

"Well that's what you get for being so stupid about it," her supposed best friend Kieran joked.

The pale green girl turned her heard to glare at her. Like Shin herself, Kieran had a few things that helped her stand out. The most obvious was the mane of snow white hair falling down past her shoulder blades. Most people just assumed it was a horrible bleach job, but the truth was much more fantastical. It was also directly related to the matching white patch over her left eye. Of course most attention, at least from the guys, was drawn to an area just under her chin. It was fair to say that Kieran benefitted from the onset of puberty and her tendency to wear tight shirts only highlighted the fact.

"I thought you're suppose to be on my side," Shin muttered.

"I am," Kieran reassured her, laying a hand on the other girl's arm and gently pulling her hand away from her forehead. "Which is why I don't like seeing you get so worked up over something so stupid."

"I know I shouldn't listen anything that witch Auska says but I just can't help it. It's like everything she talks it's like knives on a chalkboard. And she always acts so smug. I just hate her so much!"

"Shin, girl, dial it down, you're melting the plastic ware."

Shin blinked in confusion then glanced down to see that she had inadvertently activated her plasma powers during her rant and in doing so started to turn the plastic fork in her hand into a smoldering, misshapened lump. She let out a surprised shriek then tossed it to the other side of the table, watching it produce a cloud of black smoke as it melted further.

"Great, and now I don't have a fork," she grumbled as she powered down.

"Well that's your own fault," Kieran smirked.

"Not entirely," another, distinctly British voice spoke up. "I mean I can't say I blame her for getting so mad about the situation. My great granddad always did tell me never to trust the Krauts."

The girls turned their heads to the owner of the heavily accent voice to find their friend Blake leaning causally back in his chair with his engineer booted feet resting up on a chair he had borrowed from another table. As indicated by his voice, he was an exchange student from England which automatically made him "an outsider". So it was to no one's surprise that he quickly made friends with the two girls who everyone else considered outsiders as well. He even matched their weird hair colors by having dyed one of his bright red bangs half yellow so it resembled a flame. It was the only part of his short hair to have a color change, but it was enough for the rest of the popular crowd to lump him together with Shin and Kieran. Not that he really minded though, he found them the most interesting of the bunch.

Kieran scowled and slightly narrowed her remaining blue eye at him for his remark.

"Well that's very enlightened," she growled. "He does know that people stopped call them 'Grouts' a long time ago, right?"

"Yeah but he doesn't care. Probably still holding a grudge from when a couple thousand of them were shooting at him," Blake replied with a shrug, his black leather jacket crinkling as he did so.

"That doesn't mean you have to judge them all based just on Auska's behavior."

"She doesn't help," Shin spoke up.

"Still no reason to make a generalization."

"Yes because no one ever makes generalizations about people from other countries," Blake retorted sardonically. "It's not like I haven't had a whole crap load of people asking me if I wanted 'a spot of tea', in their stereotypical accents."

"Not to mention all the people who keep asking me I'm going to burst into flames for going out in the sun," Shin added.

"OK, OK! I give up!" Kieran announced, throwing her arms into the air. "People are just ignorant lumps who judge each other at the first glance and will never, ever change. Is that what you want to hear?"

"Yes," they both answered.

The white haired girl sighed and laid her head on the table in defeat.

"So then...we're saying all people are bad?" a fourth voice finally spoke up.

Kieran tilted her head so her good eye could look out over her arms while Shin and Blake simple stared at the final member of their little group. Like the other three, Chris was widely considered to be an outcast among high school society and feel in with the other three during the course of their freshmen year. While he was a good natured person, he was also the kind that made everyone wonder just how he got so far in the school system. Many believed it was because the teachers got so tired of him they moved him up a grade so they wouldn't have to deal with him again. That's not to say he was completely stupid it just...took awhile for him to catch on. Most thought it was just him living up to the classic "dumb blonde" idea.

"Yes, Chris we're saying all people are bad," Blake repeated for him.

"Well not all people, just the popular ones," Shin corrected.

"Which isn't necessarily true," Kieran tried to point out.

"Actually I kind of agree with Kieran," Chris remarked, pointing to the girl with his fork.

"Thank you," she nodded with a pleaded grin.

"Here's going to be a great explanation," Blake muttered then said more clearly, "Why do you think that?"

"Well...for one the popular girls are all hot," he started.

The statement was followed by three heads hitting the table this time.

"Anything else?" Shin asked, without even looking up.

"Well I've never really had any trouble with 'em. Like one time they even invited me to a rave out on this old farm."

"They did?" Blake asked septically.

"Yeah. I must have gotten lost or read the map wrong though cause by the time I got out there everyone was gone."

"And you don't think that maybe they gave you the wrong directions?" Shin offered.

"Why would they do that?"

The three shared glances between them.

"Can't imagine," Blake remarked.

"Well whatever it was still fun. I got to see how they milk a cow," Chris said proudly.

Again the other three were speechless and simply stared at each other.

"Moving on," Kieran spoke up as she focused on Shin again, "you can't tell me that Auska's not the only thing bugging you."

"Well..." she started uneasily.

"Yeeees?"

"It's just that the same argument between me and my parents came up again."

"What? The one about you running around saving the world and all that?" Blake asked.

"Yep, that's the one. I just think it's so unfair that they get to do it and I can't. Especially since my mom was younger than me when she started."

"Yeah parents never let you have any fun," Chris piped in. "Like last winter when I wanted to ride down this really steep hill on a trash can lid they're all, like, 'You need to wear a helmet'!" Pffft! Whatever."

An astounded silence over came the other three.

"Moving on..." Kieran spoke, trying to get the conversation back on track. "Why is this such a big deal to you anyway?"

"I don't know," Shin admitted, laying her head in her hand thoughtfully. "Maybe it's just because it's something they don't want me to do? Or just that they keep telling me I should help people, like around school and stuff but when it comes to me doing something that can actually help people they're against it. Maybe they're afraid I'll get hurt on my own. I can understand that, but it's not like I'd be alone. They'd be there and if not...well maybe I can find a sidekick."

She closed her eyes in thought after that last sentence, but they quickly popped back open and shined brightly as she hit upon the perfect idea.

"Hey!" she declared excitedly.

"Uh oh. She's got that look in her eye," Blake muttered fearfully.

Shin ignored him and focused her attention on her white haired friend sitting to her right.

"So...Kieran old buddy, old pal," she started, wrapping an arm around the girl's shoulder. "You're into that whole wiccan, witchy, magical thing right? How about using that knowledge to help your old friend Shin save the world from time-to-time, huh?"

"I don't think so," Kieran replied as she gently pulled back Shin's arm.

"Awww, why not?"

"Well for one I'm not well versed enough in all that 'magic stuff', as you put it, to be of any real help."

"Think of it as 'on the job training'. I mean, what's the worst than can happen?"

"Well..." the girl muttered, brunching a strand of her snow white hair away from the white patch over her left eye.

Shin's own eyes widened a bit as her mouth hung open at how utterly thoughtless and stupid she could be.

"Oh God!" she screamed in embarrassment. "I'm so sorry! I didn't mean...I just...I totally forgot about..."

"It's okay," Kieran reassured her with a wave. "Actually I'm kinda glad you forgot about it. Makes me feel a bit normal again."

"Yeah like the world 'normal' applies to anyone in this group," Blake scoffed.

The remarked earned him a rather hard punch in the arm from Shin. He let out a yelp of pain and glared at her as he rubbed the now sore spot.

"Anyway," Shin remarked, turning back to Kieran. "It's good to see you're not letting that get you down."

"What and really live up to the whole depressed, goth, witch girl stereotype?"

"Yeah and all the black clothes and your penchant for fishnets really helps to stop that," the pale green girl remarked as she glanced down at the fishnet stalking peaking out from her friend's miniskirt.

"Look, I just happen to like them, OK?" Kieran replied defensively.

"I'm not saying there's anything wrong with it," Shin replied.

"That's cause there's not! In fact I think they look hot. Whoa, I rhymed," Chris said, sounding amazed with himself.

"Riiight. Anyway," Shin spoked up again, "forget the magic thing for now. You still have that sword training, right?'

"Again, no where near good enough to actually be of any use. Especially against weirdos with who knows what kind of weapons," the white haired girl countered.

Shin growled in annoyance but quickly let it go as she turned towards Blake, giving him a devious look.

"Say Blake, how would you like to join me out there?" she asked with faked sweetness.

"What, and be your wisecracking Brit sidekick? No bloody thank you," the red haired boy remarked.

The pale green girl let out another annoyance groan as she laid her head down on the table in defeat.

"Oh! What about me?!" Chris asked excitedly.

Shin picked her head up to cast a doubtful look at him then looked back between her other two friends for some kind of support in thinking of a way to gently let the boy down.

"I...really don't think you'd be able to handle it," she said delicately.

"Why not?"

"Because...you're...well..."

"You got tricked by a squirrel!" Blake shouted, to which Shin could only point to him in a "He's got it" motion.

Chris look at them with a disbelieving expression.

"Have you ever gone up against a squirrel? They're devious," he explained in a cautious tone.

"You got stuck up in a tree!" Shin exclaimed.

"I just told you're they're devious. Besides, I eventually go down."

"You fell out of the tree!"

"Yeah, but I landed on my head," the blonde boy replied as he pointed to his head then placed his arms behind it and leaned back with a smug look like he had just presented an award winning rebuttal.

Again, the other three fell into astonished silence.

"That you did mate, that you did," Blake retorted.

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After a long day of classes, and even longer stay in detention, Shin was finally picked up from school by her two, quite annoyed mothers. Like the other times when Shin got into trouble, none of them spoke right away. Instead, they let a tense, palpable silence hang in the air. It conveyed a mood of anger and disappoint from the parents while the child was left to wallow in guilt and shame. It was uncomfortable, it was overwhelming, and most importantly it could be broken and turned into angered shouting very easily. All it took was for one of them to say the wrong thing.

"I can't believe you're fighting," Kim muttered, just loud enough for Shin to hear from her seat in the back.

"I wasn't fighting!" Shin screamed, glaring at the back of her younger mother's seat.

"You pushed a girl into a locker!" the redhead screamed back, turning around to face her daughter.

"Because she was making fun of you and momma and my friends! Are you the one that's always telling me I should stick up for those things?!"

"She has a point Kimmie," Shego remarked from the driver's seat.

Unfortunately, that just put her in Kim's sights as she whipped her head back towards her wife and gave her the same glare she had just given their daughter.

"Don't you start too!" she wanted. "This is partly your fault anyway."

"How is this my fault?!" Shego demanded.

"'Come on Kimmie, just let me show her some moves, what could go wrong'," Kim replied in a mocking tone.

"And I still say that's a good idea, because now she'll be able to defend herself if any of the crazies we fight come after her. How was I suppose to know she'd use it to beat up one of her classmates."

"I didn't beat anybody up!" Shin exclaimed. "I just pushed her into the lockers and told her to lay off teasing the people I care about!"

"You choked her!" Kim replied, turning back around.

"She deserved it! She's a bitch!"

"Watch you language young lady! You don't want to make this harder on yourself, do you?"

"Whatever," the pale girl muttered as she crossed her arms over her chest and stared out the window.

Kim let out an irritated sigh before she turned around to face the front again.

"Just be glad we have a mission tonight so we don't have time to give you a proper talking to," she said.

At that, Shin turned her head towards the back of the front passenger's seat again, a slight sparkle in her eyes.

"Cool. Where are we going?" she asked.

"We," Kim stressed, pointing to herself and Shego, "are going to New York City tonight and you are going to stay home and think about what you've done."

"Oh come on! I can help you out!"

"We are not having this conversation again! Especially right now. I'm in no mood for it."

"You know I can help! I've got the skills and Momma's powers and I'm getting good at using them! So why can't I come along?"

"You're too young."

"But Kara and Sara-"

"I don't care what your cousins do!" Kim shouted then sighed and looked over at Shego. "Little help here?"

"You're mother's right Shin, you're too young to come along," Shego droned out in a monotone voice.

Kim rolled her eyes and shook her head. "Great, thanks. Big help there."

"Well what do you expect me to say, Princess? You know my feelings on the subject."

"See? Momma agrees with me," Shin pointed out.

"I didn't say that," Shego corrected. "I think you can help us out on missions, but you still need a little more training first. Like say...two more years?"

"When I'm eighteen, of course," the teenager remarked, folding her arms again and slumping in the seat. "Should have seen that one coming."

The tense silence returned and stayed for the rest of their drive home. When the SUV did come to a stop in their driveway, the three women piled out with Shin feeling much like a prisoner being escorted to her cell. Her mothers did little to dissuade the feeling as they walked silently along either side of her. She was just thankful they had to go on a mission and didn't have time to really yell at her. Although she still wanted to go with them. She knew she could be helpful to them, she just knew it. She just had to convince them of that fact. Of course now was not the best time to press the issue and she knew that, which is why it surprised her so much when she stopped in the middle of the living room and turned around to face her mothers and give it another try.

"Can't I come with you just this one time? Please?" she asked, a bit surprised of herself, but she decided to run with it.

Kim sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose as she felt a headache coming on.

"What part of 'no' don't you understand?" she asked irritably.

"The 'no' part," Shin replied with a wise ass smirk.

"Don't get cute!"

Shin looked like she was about to give another sarcastic remark but a quick shake of the head from Shego stopped her. Instead she refocused on being serious.

"OK, I admit I don't have the experience or training that you two have," she started.

"Thank you," Kim interjected.

"But that's why you two need to train me. Help me learn! I can be a great hero, I know it!"

"And why exactly are you so sure of that?"

"Because then what's the point of this?!" Shin demanded as she ignited both her hands in the familiar green and black plasma. "There has to be some reason I can do this!"

"Pretty sure you get that from my side of the family," Shego quipped as she lit up her right hand with her own plasma powers.

"And you used them to be a hero, so why shouldn't I? If I have the power to make a difference I should put it good use!"

Shego snorted at that remark. "And what comic book did you pull that line out of?"

Shin lowered her head and muttered something as she dug her toes into the carpet.

"What was that?"

"An...anime."

Shego sighed and shook her head. "You've been spending too much time with your Aunt Jen."

"Just cause I took it from some anime doesn't make it any less true!" Shin exclaimed, jabbing a finger at her two mothers.

"Oh you did not just point your finger at us young lady!" Kim stated angrily.

Shin stared down at her finger in surprise then nervously laughed as she placed both her hands behind her back.

"Go to your room," Kim ordered.

"Oh come on! I didn't mean to do that!"

"It seems you're doing a lot of things you didn't mean to do today. When we get back, we're definitely going to have a long talk."

"That's...that's just not fair!"

"Life isn't fair kiddo," Shego piped in.

Shin growled then turned to start walking back towards her room but suddenly stopped and turned back around, her face a dark green color as she flushed with anger.

"You know this really stinks! The whole 'pushing Auska' thing aside, I just can't believe how hypocritical you're being about this whole situation," she remarked then looked at Kim. "You were going on missions when you're younger than me."

"That's not the point," Kim retorted.

"Then what is the point?!"

"The point is we're the parents so we can be as hypocritical as we want," Shego broke in. "Now go to your room and wait for us to get back. And no using the computer, cell phone, or watching TV. And you know your Uncle Wade can track all this stuff so we'll know if you break any of those rules."

Shin stared in complete shock that her usually "cool mom" would lay down the law so swiftly and casually. She tried to think of a come back or a plea for leniency or something but her mouth just didn't seem to want to form words at the moment. Instead she just let out a loud scream as she stomped her foot down in anger then turned and marched off to her room. The sound of a door slammed loudly a few seconds later told the two mothers that their daughter was indeed inside her room. There was a moment of silence as they took time to compose themselves.

"'We're the parents so we can be as hypocritical as we want'?" Kim asked, giving Shego an uncertain look.

"What?" Shego shrugged. "It's true."

"Yeah but we're not suppose to tell her that."

"And why not? Think about it Kimmie, how many times did your parents tell you not to do something you know they did, but they wouldn't give you a straight answer?"

Kim thought about it for a second. "OK, yeah I can see that, but still flat out telling her we're being hypocritical?"

"All part of the trust between parent and child," Shego said, holding up a finger in a very teacher like manner. "She may not agree with the fact that we're being hypocritical, but at least she can respect us for being honest about it."

The redhead stared at her again. "You're making this up."

"Hey, who's the one with the degree in child development?"

"Lot of good it's done us so far."

"Actually," Shego mused, placing a hand on her chin, "this is all pretty normal. Especially given our circumstances."

"I guess," the younger woman sighed. "It's just really confusing."

"No one said rising a child would be easy."

"I don't mind rising a child, it's the teenager part I'm not liking."

"Like you were any different," the pale woman scoffed.

"I was!" Kim protested.

"Sure you were," Shego teased as she turned around and began walking towards the door.

"I'm telling you I was," the redhead tried again as she followed behind her.

"Whatever you say Cupcake."

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Shin laid on her bed with her arms folded behind her head and stared up at the ceiling. It was about the only thing she could do. Well...she supposed she could do her school work, but she was in no mood for that crap. So instead she just had to lay there and think of something to do or hope she'd fall asleep soon so the time would go faster.

She turned her head to the right to glance over at her computer sitting dormant on its desk. Any other kid in America, or hell anywhere in the world for that matter, could probably get away with doing a quick check of their e-mail or favorite websites while they're parents were away, but not her. No, one of the people she considered to be a close uncle just happened to be the top hacker in the world and could spot anyone's computer use in a second. Not to mention the fact that he had her computer specially wired on order from her parents to keep her away from "the wrong websites". So if she so much as tried to even turn it on, he'd know and tell them about it and she'd get into even more trouble.

"Gah, my life stinks," she muttered as she rolled over onto her right side. "I just wanted to go out and try to help people, what's so wrong about that? They should be thankful that I don't want to try booze or drugs or sex like every other teenager out there. But noooo, it's all 'you're too young to go help us'! Please. What a lame excuse."

She closed her eyes with a huff and soon began to relax. It might have been the adrenalin of her anger finally wearing off or just exhaustion over the whole ordeal, but whatever the reason she found herself slowly slipping away to a peaceful slumber that would take her away from all of her problems for just a few hours.

A peaceful slumber that was almost immediately disturbed by the musical chime of her own Kimmunicator. She let out a groan of annoyance as she lazily reached out towards her night stand. A few clumsy misses later, she finally snagged the watch like communications device and held it over her face as she rolled over and turned it own.

"Yeah what?" she muttered sleepily.

"Oh sorry, Shin, didn't know you're sleeping," came the slightly deep voice of her "Uncle" Wade.

"No it's fine," she mumbled, sounding a bit more coherent. "I was just bored so I started to fall asleep."

"That's what I heard. Grounded again, huh?"

"It's not my fault!" Shin protested. "I was just-"

"Whoa, whoa, okay girl, calm down," Wade said, waving his hands defensively. "Didn't mean to rile you up, I was just checking in on you."

"Orders from the parental units?" she scoffed.

"Well...yeah."

"You can tell them I'm bored out of my mind cause I'm staying in my room and not doing anything just like they asked."

"Alright, I'll be sure to pass along the message."

"Please and thank you," she said, adding a sarcastic tone to her Mom's usually polite saying.

Wade nodded and looked away from the screen for a bit. After a second or so of uncomfortable silence he looked up again with a mischievous twinkle in his eye that Shin had never seen before.

"So you're really that bored, huh?" he asked.

"Yes!" Shin practically screamed.

"Well, would you like to see something interesting?"

"Like what?" she asked, sitting up now that her curiosity was pique.

"It's a little present for you I've been working on. Was gonna wait til your parents were a little more cool with you wanting to do the whole superhero thing...but if you're really that bummed out maybe a quick sneak peek of it would cheer you up."

"Well you definitely got me interested with that kind of build up. What is it?"

"You'll have to come here to find out."

"Can't really do that, I'm grounded remember? And if I try to leave all the weird sensors in this house will go off and let my mothers know."

"Shin, who do you think put all those sensors there?" Wade asked with a proud look.

The pale green girl's eyes widened a bit at the implication of his statement.

"You mean...?" she whispered.

"Yep. I can get you in and out of that house without your parents ever knowing."

"Oh sweet!" she cheered, bouncing up and down on the bed. "So you can tell me when to go and I'll take the quickest bus down there that I can."

"Actually I think I can set you up for a ride so you won't have to worry about anyone you or your parents know seeing you outside."

"Double sweet! You're the best Uncle Wade!"

"Yeah I know. Just make sure you moms don't find out about it or we'll both in trouble."

"I swear, I'll be as careful as I can be."

"Cool. Then I'll set up the ride and see you in a little bit."

A ecstatic smile crossed Shin's face at the idea of being able to get out of the house without her parents knowing. It increased when she tried to think of what her Uncle Wade might have made for her to help her with her as yet nonexistent crime fighting career. If it was something really good, like she knew it would be, then it just might be the one thing she needed to help convince her mothers that she was ready to help them. As all these thoughts swirled through her head, she could only think of one word to properly proclaim how she was feeling.

"Spankin'," she said with a large grin.

To Be Concluded...

Author's Notes: Alright, I know it seems like it's a little early to do a fic with the teenage Shin considering I just finished getting done with all the major set up for the "MI" universe, but honestly that first scene's been rattling around in my head so much that I just had to write it down. Then, of course, once that was done the rest of the story started to flow and...well here we are. Originally I was going to have this be just one very loooong Spotlight chapter, but I decided that last scene seemed like a perfect chapter ending and I didn't want to overwhelm you guys with a huge chapter and...well honestly I just wanted to post something. So here it is, the first two part Spotlight story. I'll try not to make a habit of this as I do like for all of the Spotlight chapter to be one shots, but I do have an idea for a story with Ren that's probably going to need two chapters. We'll see how that goes.

Now, before someone you ask, yes the Auska that's tormenting poor Shin is the same one from Neon Genesis Evangelion. Originally it was just going to be a character based on her, but then I thought, "What the hell, this is the 'MI' universe that's already full of cameos, so what's one more'?" And that's how the redheaded Eva pilot made it into the story. Some of you might be thinking I made her too much of a bitch but let's be honest here she really was kind of a bitch throughout the whole series. So it's not THAT far from the truth and it's her without the influence of the other children at NERV. At least that's how I see her turning out if she just lived a normal life. Maybe I'm wrong. I do have a legitimate reason for why she singles out Shin though. One that actually works with the Auska's background from the show. If I continue on with Shin's adventures I'll make sure to work it in.

And as I'm running out of things to say here, let me just mention that I'll try to do my best to get the next part up as soon as possible. It'll be the action half of this story and show Shin breaking into the family business whether her parents like it or not. See what kind of villains she'll have to face and perhaps some new friends and/or rivals in the hero business. All of this in the next chapter.

See ya then!