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HI! UPDATE! It's actually hard to create young Shego's character! I'm trying to not make her angsty, mostly because Shego in original canon is actually fun and upbeat character, but i made her a teen and slight angst would probably show up in time….or maybe not, who know how the character will develop in my head? J
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Chapter 3
Sharing and hiding
"You are Shena, right? I'm Monique, nice to meet you girl!"
"Nice to meet you too?" Shego was confused from sudden outburst of curly brunette.
"I heard you joined Team Possible! Congrats!" Monique continued. "Also, what was that green thingy around your hands that Kim told me about?"
"WHAT?" Shego's shout echoed through crowded school hallway. "What the hell Possible?"
"Sorry, i didn't think it was a secret." Kim felt guilty.
"I think if person's hands glow and cut through metal, it's pretty personal." she with quietly.
"I am sorry." Kim repeated again.
"Come on, don't press on her." Monique said. "It's not entirely her fault, she just can't keep secrets from me."
"Whatever, just don't blab about it, ok?"
"Girl, your secret save with me, trust me."
'Trust the person you just met, yeah right.' Shego thought.
"By the way." Monique looked around. "Where is Ron? Classes will start soon."
"I don't know." Kim shrugged her shoulders. "Though it's not the first time he is late."
"That guy seriously need an alarm clock." Monique sighed.
Ron appeared five minutes after classes started, completely out of breath. Barkin chewed him out in front of other students, and continued boring lesson. Shego sighed heavily.
'My savior.' She though sarcastically.
The lesson was so boring, that Shego's thoughts started to drift away, particular toward s yesterday's events. She met the person who apparently can help in preventing her to become evil, found out that he is a part of villain-fighting hero team, and after that joined said team. By the first impression, it was more like Hero-Sidekick team up, with Kim playing the hero part, and Ron with his pet having a Sidekick roles. Shego was interested in Kim's skills, especially in her weird fighting style. It looks like some combination of several martial arts styles and gymnastics. Shego herself mastered Dragon style kung-fu when she were 14 and kept improving herself by this day. It was interesting to test her skills against somebody who knows and practice martial arts too, mostly because her brothers didn't. She learned those from an old master that lived in Go city for some time.
She met him couple months after she acquired her powers. Her parents died from the impact of the rainbow comet, she and her brothers were bathed in cosmic glow, and absorbed it. Life was a mess. They were under custody of some rich relative who provided them with money and house to live, though they never met or see him or her. A little after that accident their powers started to show up. Hego, Mego and even 2-years old Wegos easily grasped it and kept them under control, but she wasn't that lucky. Green glow is directly connected to her emotions, the stronger the emotion is, the stronger power of the glow. And at first her powers, like she herself, were a mess. They turned on and off by the slightest change of her emotions. She was afraid to go outside her house, afraid to expose herself and her family. But it couldn't last long, Shena Go had a pride and couldn't let some cosmic glow to control her life. While her family tried to resume normal lives she was secretly sneaking out of the house by the night in order to find some way to get a grip on herself.
A 12-years old girl, wearing a simple frog mask , were running around empty alleys, shooting at cans and bottles. Times to times she stumbled on some hoodlums, they were the perfect practice dummies and stress reliefs for her. She used her power against them on several occasions, though most of the time they just ran away as soon as they saw green flow around her small hands. One night Shego found herself surrounded by those punks. One of them brought a gun and shot at her, missing. Fear overwhelmed little Shego, her glow started to spark from her hands all over the place non-stop hitting several hoodlums. The one who held a gun, pointed it at her again, Shego closed her eyes in fear. But nothing happened. While glow were spreading it sparks throughout alley, hoodlums were knocked out one by one. Shego slowly opened her eyes and saw a kind looking older asian man, standing before her. He told to her that everything is fine, and no one is going to hurt her anymore. She believed him for some reason and glow disappeared. He walked her to her home. Next day Shego decided to tell everything to her older brother. After being scolded for couple hours for constant night sneaking, and getting herself in dangerous situations Hego decided to go with her from now on. He knew that his little sister is a stubborn one, and probably will continue her nightly adventures, and that was the only way to assure her safety. Day after that, an old man came to their house, the same man that saved her in the alley. He offered her his help, and said that in order to keep such power human must be trained mentally and physically, or it could cause damage to its host or people around. He trained her for next two years in Dragon style kung-fu, while she and Hego slowly gained a Hero reputation in the city. Once Shego mastered the style old man congratulated her and soon after disappeared from the city. Shego felt joy and sadness from those memories, she hoped to meet that man again someday.
"Stoppable!" Barkin shouted. "What is the answer?"
"Uhm…X equals 7?" Ron answered with smile.
"Argh…This is history class Stoppable." Barkin growled. "Are you even listening to me?"
Shego growled internally. It puzzled her, how that guy can help her at all. Well, he helped her to found teacher's lounge, that's true, and also she was able to get into another hero team through him. But on other hand, the guy was an incompetent wimp during the fight. For her it showed how unserious Ron was about hero business. On the other hand, she knew the guy for a little more than a day and first or even second impressions often turns out to be misleading. As class was over, she packed her stuff and walked to Ron's desk.
"Hey!" she said. "Can i ask you a favor?"
"Yeah sure!" he smiled widely.
"Since i'm part of your team now, i think we should, well, get to know each other better. I mean i barely know anything about you, Kim, or that other guy in her phone-thingy."
"Oh, right. I think it's an awesome idea! Let's go ask Km about it!"
"Ok, let's…WOAH!"
He swiftly grab Shena's wrist and ran out of the class with her. She was in a little shock, who would think that such dufus has enough guts to take girl's hand and drag her through the hallway? Ron finally stopped near his best friend's locker, where Kim and Monique stood with looking in confusion at him.
"Hey Kim! Shena got an awesome idea!" he smiled to them. "We should all hang out today, to get to know each other better, get along, you know."
"It seems you are getting along just fine." Kim's brow twitched.
Shena smiled innocently and pointed to him at her wrist, that Ron still held.
"Oh, sorry." he released her wrist.
"As for an idea…" Kim continued. "I can't today, i have cheerleader practice after school and tons of homework after that."
"And i need to go to the work. How about this weekend?" Monique looked at Shego. "Me and Kim will take you to the mall, show you best spots."
"Sounds fun." Shena smiled to her.
"One problem." Kim sighed. "Ron hates going to the mall with us."
"Well, he is a guy, that's understandable." Monique shrugged her shoulder.
"No problem, i'll just hang out with him today instead."
"Booyah!" Ron exclaimed.
"Booyah?" Shena looked at him with confusion. "What does it mean?"
"I don't know." he answered. "It's just fun to yell it."
"Ow. By the way next class is arts, can somebody show me where to go?"
"It's funny. Looks like we have same classes. Let's go!"
Kim watched as those two disappeared around the corner.
"Somebody is jelling!" Monique looked at her friend.
"Who? Me? I'm not jelling." Kim answered stubbornly.
"Aw come on girl! I know that you are dancing around for some time. You have hots for our Ronnie, just admit it already!"
"I have nothing to admit Monique! And i'm not jelling over Ron!"
"Ow really?" Monique raised her brow. "And you'll be totally fine if Ron will 'get along' with Shena?"
"Of course… maybe… i don't know." Kim sighed.
"One is dense as a rock, the other stubborn as a mule. You guys are driving me crazy!"
"Shut up." Kim murmured and went toward her class.
Several hours later Shego and Ron walked out school building. They decided to just walk around the town, so she could orient herself better in it.
"So." Shego started. "What's your story?"
"My story?" he used at her with confusion.
"Yeah, like what can you tell about yourself?"
"Hm…well, i was born in Middleton, i'm Jewish, i have a cute little sister Hana and a pet Rufus…
"Hello!" Rufus popped out Ron's pants pocket for couple seconds, and disappeared in it again.
"I'm part of Team Possible since me and Kim were twelve." Ron continued. "I hate monkeys and camps, my arch-enemy is mad english monkey-man, you'll probably meet him on one of the mission, i also unintentionally helped and inspired one rich guy and his son to become a villains, oh, and i was a villain once! Also i LOVE Bueno Nac…"
"Wait a second!" Shego interrupted him. "YOU were a Villain?"
"Yep!" he nodded. "But only for a several hours actually, though i almost managed to conquer the world. It seems i had natural talent to this. I was called Zorpox the Conquerer. That was one hell of a day. Thankfully that Attudinator gizmo flopped in the market."
"Attudinator?"
"Yep, a machine that divide good and evil essence of the human, so basically can make villains 100% baddies. You see, there is a guy called Jack Hench who basically provides villains with lairs, henchmen and different other goods, and Attitunator was one of this goods, but evilized villains don't buy stuff, they steal it, which means no profit for Hench. I heard from Wade that all units were destroyed along with schemes to build it."
"You said that you have natural talent to villainy, right?" she asked him. "So why are you still on a good guy's side?"
"Well, i don't like to be a villain, Zorpox does, but i don't. Me and Kim are long-time friends, and i'll never going to betray her like that. Also even if i will conquer the world, i probably won't know what to do with it." he shrugged his shoulder.
Shego actually found that funny and snickered slightly.
"So." Ron said. "What about you? What's your story?"
"A comet fell into a tree house, killing our parents and giving me and my brothers colored special powers, and four year after it i was thrown into the future, lucky me." Shego looked at Ron and rolled her eyes. "Please don't give me that pity look, or i will punch you."
"I…I'm sorry i just…"
"Just don't think about it hard, let it go. I did."
"Yeah, you right, i think."
"Of course i am!" she punched his arm slightly.
They kept walking around the town and talking about themselves. Simple topics, like tastes in music or movies, or stories about villains they fought in a past. Ron told her how he and Kim went onto a hero gig. The whole ridiculousness of the situation, misprinted site name, cheerleader jumping through lasers and especially how requests on their site become more dangerous and adventurous just made Shego laugh out loud. They didn't have any tragic pasts or special training, they were just teens who got caught up in helping people situation to extend of saving the and the world. If it wasn't for Comet's powers, she would probably never become a hero, not to mention a villain. And here it is, a guy with no skill to do this kind of work, on her opinion, just walking next to her and telling about different missions he went with his best friend.
"…and that's how i saved everyone at camp…second time."
"Seriously?" Shena was smiling. "A mutated beaver-man?"
"Yeah, and i tell you: having a tail is really uncomfortable."
She felt strangely comfortable with Ron. The guy can be weird or a little annoying sometimes, but there is also some strange kind of expectance in him too. He met her only yesterday but already treated her as a friend, and it felt genuine.
'Maybe that was the reason why Older me sent me to the future. To meet the guy earlier in her life, to have a friend by my side.' Shena thought. 'But…can i trust him?'
