A/N: Alright guys. I will be gone on vacation and when I return... Dragko.. SOOO much more Dragko. Promise.
Villain Retreat Part 4
Drakken darted out of the bathroom as he heard a scream. He'd expected to see some sort of assailant or a poor attendant who'd acquired Shego's wrath. However, he had not expected to see Pandora on the ground and an enraged Shego standing over her. It looked like Pandora might have ducked judging by the smoking hole in the wall behind where she crouched. Shego's hand was still clutched in a fist, and her arm was reared back again. He had a few seconds of clarity that he should stop this, but the other part was he didn't want to inquire Shego's wrath nor did he blame her.
"Shego, I came here to apologize," said Pandora as she dodged Shego's punch, Pandora punched out.
"Alright, Chick fight! Right on, seriously!" Drakken looked up to see Ed, Cleopatra, and Carmella standing in the hallway, the two obviously heading to their room.
"How kind," snapped Shego as she punched again, Drakken didn't get time to react in his thoughts because there was a stream of light, "Ahk!"
"Ow!" yelled Pandora and Drakken looked to see Cleopatra holding her Scarab taser gun.
"Aw, babe..." sighed Ed as Cleopatra glared at him.
"Ladies, this is not a part of the Villainess Code," said Carmella, who ducked as a plasma blast hit the wall near her, "Really Shego..."
"This is between Pandora and I, so mind your business Candy Queen," snapped Shego, she glared at Cleopatra and her hands flared, "You too
"Eep," said Cleopatra as she ducked behind Ed, who had moved behind the door-frame.
"I'm sure whatever you two are fighting about can be discussed in private... is this really the place to start a brawl in a hallway," said Carmella, indicating down the hall, they all looked to see doors closed, "At least move it to a private room."
"Fine," growled Shego and she stormed into their room, Drakken stepped aside as Pandora hesitated to follow, there was a pause before Cleopatra and Carmella walked passed him and closed the door.
"... What just happened?" asked Drakken as he looked at the closed door and then to Ed, who shrugged.
"... We can eavesdrop through the wall or... I got the new Scuttlebrains soundtrack," said Ed, there was another pause and Drakken weighed his odds.
"Any good one's on this album, the last one had lackluster to it," said Drakken with a sigh as he walked to follow Ed into his room.
"We're going to be over there," said Carmella as Shego's hands glowed as they stepped onto the patio and closed the door as she turned to Pandora.
"Shego, about what I said... it was... I had a little too much... and," Pandora's ruffled appearance from the fight seemed to mirror the scattering of the speech she'd had prior to the scuffle.
"You said what you said to try and hurt me and there's nothing more to it," said Shego, her eyes narrowed, but she fought the urge to punch or blast her again, "But go ahead, let me hear the little speech you rehearsed."
"Shego, I'm sorry. No one knows you were connected to that story, but I was wrong to bring it up," said Pandora, her eyes were narrowed but there was sincerity behind them, it aggravated Shego.
"That's not the point. That was something I told you a long time ago because I trusted you. How many times have you had too much and told people my secrets all these years," said Shego, she ran her hand through her hair, that had only dawned on her now, "Is there a bunch of people back in Go City... or wherever you ran off too after college?"
"I ran off?" Pandora's eyes went wide but she seemed to take a mental step back, "I've never told anyone your secrets before. I still haven't. I had too much and I had been thinking about the last time I'd seen you and I got angry."
"So the brilliant idea that came to you was to use something traumatizing as a scary story because I ditched you... and look who didn't get arrested. Let me guess, you told them what I said. Wrong place, wrong time?" snapped Shego, she could feel her anger shifting and she didn't like where it was going.
"Yeah I did," said Pandora, she shook her head, "It wasn't right for me to say anything, I get that. It wasn't right for you to leave me to the authorities after I helped you, either. It was a crappy way to repay someone you know. I'm not stupid, you told me about Dollmaker and about Botox. I helped you out of a dangerous situation and you left me in the sand in payment."
"I left you because you would get out of it, with Possible, and medical attention," said Shego, her fists balled and glowed, "In payment, you used my past as a scary story for entertainment.. Something I only told you about... and I'm to believe now you've never told anyone else."
"Hermes knows," said Pandora, she looked down, "More because he figured it out yesterday... he's furious."
"Oh, so that's why your here. Your boyfriend's mad at you," scoffed Shego, she wanted to retort or make a comeback but instead it made her feel worse, "You can run back and tell him you apologized now."
"I didn't come to apologize because of Hermes. I came here because I shouldn't have said that..." said Pandora, Shego glared and her mind raced.
"You know, Ruby, there are things about your past that I could tell. Traumatizing things. I can use them at the next camp fire and we can call it even," said Shego, she watched as Pandora's eyes shot open, "Childhood trauma for childhood trauma?"
"You wouldn't," said Pandora, her voice sounded small, and Shego could see the fear in her eyes, the fact she had that power did nothing to make her feel better, "Please."
"Your right, I wouldn't," said Shego, she scoffed at herself, "I have more couth then to share pillow talk as a joke. Now get out."
"Shego..." Shego didn't listen to Pandora but fired a warning shot at the lamp next to her, "Fine, I'm going and I am..."
"One more word and I won't hit the lamp next time," said Shego, her hands ignited, Pandora nodded and opened the door to the patio, "Take the other two with you!"
Shego heard the three of them leave in a low whisper, whatever the other two may or may not have heard was irrelevant, she didn't much care. Her emotions were suddenly in a swirl now that she was alone. She wanted to break things, preferably someone in particulars limb. But she didn't, she wasn't going to let her emotions get the best of her, she looked at the un-chilled wine that had been brought today for them and grabbed it. Was it the best choice. Probably not.
Drakken rolled his eyes at Ed's electric guitar moves. He wasn't in the mood to listen to Skuttlebrains, nor any music really. He was worried about what was going on in his room, Shego's mental state, and if he would have to dispose of more than one body this evening. It had been a dark joking thought at first, but there was a reality to it, when Shego was running on emotions... well he'd seen what her powers could do concentrated. Drakken became suddenly aware the music had been turned off and Ed was sitting across from him with a raised brow.
"Alright cuz, what's going on?" asked Ed as he opened a beer and offered one to Drakken, who shook his head, "Seriously, we're family. Talk to me."
"Shego's dealing with old problems," said Drakken, he didn't even know what was fully going on and he wasn't going to start gossiping with Ed about it.
"When isn't she," Ed rolled his eyes and shook his head, "Nah Drew, like what's going on with you and Green? Seriously? She's your side kick, then she's not, then she's your enemy, now she's not. Last I heard she was on her own doing her thing, you were all dark and broody and not even talking to Aunt Estelle.. Next you two are here in a Honeymoon suite, for real, man. Like, what's your guy's deal?"
"Our deal?" asked Drakken, he was suddenly concerned just how much gossip pertained he and Shego in the Villain community, if even Ed was following it.
"Yeah. Are you partners... bumping uglies, give me something, Bro," said Ed with an eye roll, "I mean, seriously, she's out of your league for sure, so give me some details."
"Why do you have to be so crude about things Eddie," Drakken glared and he felt uncomfortable, "There is nothing going on between Shego and I, and even if there was, I wouldn't tell you."
"Psh, yeah you would," said Ed with an eyeroll as he took a drink, "I mean it would explain why you never get anything done, Green's hot and if you were distracted... who could blame you."
"Let me be clear again, Eddie," Drakken glared, and his felt his gut twist, not sure what feelings were triggering this, "If anything, Shego is my partner. No one is... in your crude language, Bumping Uglies."
"Ever think you'd be a little less uptight if you guys were..." said Ed, and Drakken glared as he stood up and headed to the patio, "Cuz, come on, we're just shooting the shit, seriously. Don't get all offended. Drew... Cuz... seriously."
"Night Eddie," glared Drakken, he closed the door behind him and scoffed, he felt his mind swirling with his words, the last thing he needed was having any images of that in his head.
Drakken thought about going for a walk, he wasn't sure how long Shego and the ladies might be and... he stopped as he saw the fire-pit lit over the wall on his patio. Shego saw on the cushioned seat alone, a mostly empty bottle in her hand and staring at the fire in concentration. He walked over to the wall and leaned on it, watching the back of her head. Her tensed shoulder's slumped and he knew she was aware he was there. He managed to climb over the wall and sit next to her, relieved he hadn't fallen or made a scene doing so. They sat there in silence for a few minutes and Drakken held out his hand for the remainder of the bottle, which she didn't hesitate to hand him.
"You know... maybe it's my fault. I was young and stupid. I thought that if someone cared for you, you could trust them. Even though things went sour, there was a childish part of me that thought what we had shared was sacred. She did that to hurt me, intoxicated or not... she succeeded," said Shego as she looked at the fire, Drakken felt like he needed to say something but he wasn't sure what.
"Shego," said Drakken, "Is there anything I can do?"
"I just need some time alone," said Shego as she stood up, Drakken did as well.
"Right," said Drakken, he watched Shego walk off the deck before he weighed the odds, "Shego by alone..."
"Just me," said Shego with a sigh as he watched her feet hit the pathway.
"Just to clarify is this a, "I stay here or I will be blasted" or a if "I don't follow you, you will plasma blast on your return" scenario. I never can read it correctly," Drakken, he watched her hand glow as she walked in the dark, "That's not an answer Shego."
Drakken yelped as a blast hit the palm tree off the dock next to him. He stared for a moment and shook his head, that still wasn't a solid answer. He chose the first of the two choices and headed back into the room. He really did want to know what had gone on, more so he wanted to know more about what Pandora had referenced too. Though judging by her words, Pandora indicating whatever she did... seemed to mean that Shego wasn't exactly going to be sharing with anyone for a while. Something about that gave him a mixture of anger and depression; anger at Pandora for causing Shego whatever turmoil she was having, anger at Shego for not talking about it with him... Depression because he felt like Shego didn't trust him. Pft, her not trust me, that's rich. He shook his head, no matter how betrayed he'd felt or enraged he'd been at her in the past, he would have never shared what secrets she'd told him. And I know ALOT. He looked out the window and sighed, there was no use waiting up for her. It wasn't even a sure thing that she wouldn't book it back to the lair. I can't really blame her either.
Shego found herself not too far from the parking garage as she sat on the peer in thought. She's been weighting the odds of just booking it, but Pandora's words kept coming back to her. It enraged her that she was more angry at Pandora, and she was turning it on herself now. You were and idiot to ever trust anyone with your past. She glared at the water sloshing in the dark, there was a dull pain ticking in her chest and her gut turned. Her mind falling back to a memory of her twenty first birthday, her first time drinking, out with someone she cared about, too many drinks, and too many memories spinning with a body not used to alcohol. She'd had tequila, and she told too much. Why she hadn't wanted to celebrate, how when people were too close to her they got hurt...and her mind fell onto Pandora's words once more. Always running. She looked at the parking lot. She could go right now... leave... go back to the lair.. Drakken wouldn't care and she wouldn't have to spend the week around people she barely tolerated. What about Friday? She groaned, the whole reason they were here. She'd convinced him to get away from his projects and go here for his birthday, she couldn't justify leaving. You don't have to justify yourself to him or anyone. This was true. She raised a brow, when had she started walking back... why was she walking back. You're not really going to ditch your best friend on his birthday...She rolled her eyes at herself, the fact that it was in his voice agitated her. She grumbled as she recalled their motel conversation weeks prior. She had half a mind to just plasma blast him when she got back to the room, in fact she stared at him a solid minute or two as he snored pondering just that. Maybe because she was on edge, perhaps because he was sound asleep while she was dealing with emotions, maybe because despite what she'd said... she had hoped he would have followed her because... because he was someone she could talk too. That's what I thought about Pandora... She stared at Drakken and sighed.
"Why do I trust you?" she muttered to herself, and she heard him shift, it was her cue to stop hovering over him.
She made her way to her bed and looked at the room, there was a broken wine bottle, some scorch marks, and a note. She looked at it and rolled her eyes, but smirked. Drakken had written a short sentence next to the itinerary. Tomorrow morning was a free participating paintball game with multiple team options. If she knew half the villains here, a majority would be involved for the sheer reason to shoot at other people without legal restraints. However, Drakken's note made it very clear, they were some of those. 'Shego, how about some revenge for breakfast. It doesn't say you can't shoot at non-participating people. Eddie says Pandora spends a lot of time by the pool.' Shego snorted and looked at the snoring man by the window.
Drakken felt hands shake him awake and he yanked his pillow over his head, why was someone waking him up, he was pretty sure he'd just fallen asleep. After an annoyed sigh, he realized it was Shego trying to wake him up and he yanked the pillow back. Expecting it to be night still, Shego to still be in a foul mood but hadn't left, yet. Instead there was light in the room, Shego was adorned in paintball gear, and there was a smell of food. He was slow processing the idea of Shego being up before him, that had only ever happened once that he could recall.
"Will you wake up," sighed Shego as she gave him one more shoulder shove and walked back to the table, "Breakfast is here... you need to eat, get dressed, and we're going to take down some people. So let's move it."
"Okay," said Drakken slowly as he got up, "Are you wearing war paint?"
"Less talky, more movey.. let's go," said Shego as she stabbed at her food.
"Shego, it's a little early... but you're scaring me already," said Drakken as he slowly approached the table, "Did you want to..."
"Go shoot our friends and peers without hesitation... yes.. no let's hurry this up," said Shego she smirked, "We're the green team."
"Whose the blue team," glared Drakken.
"I don't like the blue team," grumbled Drakken and Shego smirked as Dementor, Camille, Myron, and Hench wore blue attire, "I want to destroy them."
"Alright, here's the plan. You try and not get hit, and I take out everyone, okay. We win this game," said Shego, then they were going to the pool, she smirked.
"Shego, do you think I'm going to make us loose," asked Drakken and Shego groaned and looked at him, "I have played before."
"Dr. D... It's bad enough Killigan and Adrena are our team, I don't need you trying to overstep your strengths here," said Shego with a deep sigh, she heard a scoff.
"Geesh Shego, way to rally the troops," scoffed Adrena, "I'll have you know, I am a fantastic paintballer myself. I've won competitions."
"I, one's you rigger," said Killigan with an eye roll but her glared at Shego, "You know lassie, I am no stranger to arms."
"Listen, I can only deal with one emotionally compromised person at a time, wait your turn," said Shego and she looked back at Drakken, "Fine, but don't be the reason we loose, understood."
"Well this is inspiring," said Adrena with an eyeroll, "Should have joined the Purple Team."
"You want to be with DNAmy, Anubis, Giraffe, and Summer... which I don't even know when they got here," said Shego, she indicated, "Fine. Or the Pink Team? Motor Ed, Cleopatra, Carmella, and some pour lackey they kidnapped."
"Is that one of our lackeys?" asked Drakken squinting his eyes.
"I don't... Is that Daniels?" asked Shego, she glared, "Drakken did you..."
"Forget to re-hire him... yeah," said Drakken with a groan, "I knew I forgot someone."
"You remembered Hector but forgot Daniels?" asked Shego with a sigh as she shook her head, "We will figure that out later. Here's the plan. Shoot without regard and destroy them all."
"Are there any tactics we should be following. Like evasion or..." Adrena began.
"Just... just shoot," said Shego, "And don't get hit... whose been cooking then?"
"I don't know..." said Drakken, "Lucius?"
"Should we decide which team to take out first?" asked Duff, he and Adrena shrugged.
"Blue team... and no Lucius can't cook, his spouse does all the cooking. Excellent brownies... I think Daniel's got the recipe."
"Well that doesn't help us," said Drakken with a scoff, "Hector?"
"Maybe..." said Shego, "Dinner last week was delicious whoever did cook it."
"I cooked that," said Drakken, "Remember you said you wanted salmon and we we're out... so I made Tilapia instead... this makes so much sense because Daniel's did the grocery shopping too."
"Alright, we will deal with... where's our team?" asked Shego as she looked to where Duff and Adrena had once stood.
"They defected," said Drakken with a glare, Adrena now wore Purple and a delighted Giraffe sprinted to the sidelines, while Duff wore Pink and Daniel's fled as well.
"Son of a..." Shego's words were drowned out by the sound of the siren to start, "Alright, here's the..."
"HEY!" yelled Duff as Drakken shot him point blank and then ducked behind a barrier and yanked Shego with him.
"Shoot and hide," finished Drakken, Shego raised a brow and he sighed, "Shego now may be the time to inform you that my Aunt and Uncle ran a Paintball arena... this was what Eddie and I did on weekends."
"Motor Ed I can see..." Shego raised a brow as Eddie almost got hit and ducked behind a barrel, "Or not."
"Shego," said Drakken, there was a devious smirk forming, "I made it a point not to loose to my little cousin. I'm not about to start now."
"Noted," said Shego, she felt the smirk tug onto her lips, "So what's the plan."
"Revenge and Destruction," said Drakken, there was a glint in his eyes as he shot Adrena attempting to hit someone else, "Sound good."
"Sounds fantastic," said Shego, she felt a twisting in her gut she hadn't felt since they'd stolen the necklace ages ago.
Drakken held his gun close to him as he leaned around the corner to see where Dementor had gone, he had select people to destroy today and he was not going to waver. He saw Shego a few yards off mirroring his posture, she nodded indicating that Dementor was in her sight but not her shot. He saw movement near Shego's left and aimed, she was focused on something beyond and he wasn't about to give them away. He saw pink and shot.
"Ow! What the..." Ed held his throat as he gagged, green goo splattered him, he coughed and Shego shot him in the rear as he went to go, "Hey! I'm already out!"
"Yeah well... Drakken, down!" Drakken dropped and a shot was fired over his head just as second one flew passed his shoulder.
"Mein gahgk," came Dementor as he hit the ground, he'd been hit by Shego and judging by the Pink on his back, Carmella, who vanished behind a tree.
Shego panted as she fell against the wall, Drakken shoulder shoved against hers. They'd made their way up and down two hills, through a wooded area, and were not on the boarder of the paintball area behind a small wall. They'd officially taken out Adrena, Duff, Ed, Dementor, and Camille personally. However all that remained in play was Cleopatra, Carmella, Anubis, and DNAmy. Drakken and Shego were the only whole team left, and stakes were getting high. The two had narrowly avoided Carmella and Cleopatra's double team, and had almost ran head long into DNAmy and Anubis conspiring their demise. Shego looked over at Drakken who looked like he was scheming something and she had the sudden urge to lean towards him, which set off a series of internal alarms and her head pulled back against the wall. What was that? She swallowed hard and jumped as Drakken leaned towards her.
"Cleopatra and Carmella were conspiring against us, and DNAmy and... Shego are you okay?" asked Drakken with a raised brow.
"Fine," said Shego, she cleared her throat, "Fine, yeah DNAmy and Anubis are blind shooting. Which means Cleopatra and Carmella are the bigger threat."
"Finally, they realize it," came Cleopatra's voice and they looked up to see the two standing there, they both ducked as Pink flew at them and splattered the wall.
"Quick... oh shit," said Shego and they froze as Anubis and DNAmy stood there with their guns raised.
"We've been played into a trap," said Drakken, Shego glanced to see him grinning, "Nice."
"I don't see.." Shego readied her gun but Drakken tackled her just as shots were fired.
"What was that!" yelled Carmella as she was covered in Purple along with Cleopatra, Anubis and DNAmy saturated in pink.
"We won, that's what that was," smirked Drakken above Shego as he gloated at the four who grumbled and sculked off, "Hah, classic accidental team fire, didn't think it would work."
"Uhm hmm," said Shego as she swallowed hard, "We won... yup."
"See, Shego, I told you I know how to play," said Drakken confidently and Shego would have rolled her eyes but she instead cleared her throat.
"Games over, you two want to get... are we interrupting something here?" they both looked up to see Adrena, Duff, Anubis, and DNAmy standing there.
"We're just enjoying our victory," smirked Drakken, and Shego watched his expression change as the euphoria faded and he realized what she had already been aware of, he was still pinning her to the ground, he rolled off of her, "I mean..."
"What are you all staring at," glared Shego and the four headed off in murmurs, "Geesh Doc, you're going to get those rumors started up again."
"Well you could have said something... rumors?" asked Drakken, and Shego froze, "Like what rumors?"
"That we're... partners or something," said Shego, she felt uncomfortable now, "You know..."
"Are we are partners, Shego," sighed Drakken, and Shego raised a brow, "I mean you're not exactly my side kick are you? We never worked out a contract again... We're friends... but are we partners?"
"Are you asking me to be your partner?" asked Shego, her mind was swirling and then she glared, "Are you asking me to be your partner so you don't have to pay me anymore?"
"No..." said Drakken with a raised brow and something dawned on Shego.
"You haven't been paying me," said Shego and Drakken looked confused.
"Well, you write your own checks so... whose fault is that," said Drakken, he raised a brow, "How much money have I paid you that your not even aware you haven't been getting paid for... months."
"I mean I just use your credit card normally so..." Shego smirked at his rolling eyes.
"Gold digger," snorted Drakken and Shego laughed until she saw Drakken's face had gone serious.
"Shego, you know that I would never tell anyone your secrets, right," said Drakken, and Shego could tell he was and had been refraining his questions like she'd thought, and she looked towards the hotel quickly, she could still avoid this conversation.
"We should head in before they think we're out here canoodling or whatever gossip they're contriving," said Shego as she stood up and walked away, she didn't have to look to see his once confident look from victory fade to disappointment as he followed her.
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