Bonnie Rockwaller looked up at the Middleton High School sign as the car she was in drove up to the school’s doors:
“PROM: HERE. SATURDAY. A.K.A. TONIGHT!” it read.
From the corner of her eye, she spotted Kim’s friend Monique walking by on the sidewalk. Hmmph. Kim… Man, had she been so happy to have Kim’s boyfriend, in full view of Kim, walk up to her and ask her to the Prom. That had made her day….
“Oh, the squad's gonna love these Prom decorations I volunteered to put up!” she proclaimed to herself as she got out of the car.
Except Kim, of course…
Mr. Barkin opened the school doors. “Hurry up, Rockwaller. Prom's at 2100.” He glared at her. “You've only got 12 hours to set up these decorations - and I better like them. Otherwise, the penalties for ruining Prom are quite -- severe…”
“Yeah, yeah, Mr. Barkin. Whatever,” said Bonnie, walking right by him and into the school.
“MONIQUE!” Mr. Barkin suddenly cried upon spotting the girl.
“Huh?” said Monique.
It was almost unregisterable, how fast Barkin zipped over to her.
“You seem to have nothing better to do this fine Saturday morning.”
“Uh, well, I was going to see if Kim-”
“Negative, Miss.” Barkin yanked her back to the school. “Rockwaller's inside setting up for tonight. You're gonna cover for her.”
“Uh - yes, Sir, Mr. Barkin!” said Monique, entering the school. Barkin followed her inside.
Then a silhouette slunk past the closing double doors.
Kim Possible stared at the creature that looked it had been dropped out of a cement truck. It wasn’t that she was scared – well, she was, actually, but no more than she'd been facing a giant puppy or some other creation courtesy of Drakken’s twisted mind… It was more that it had just ripped the roof of her house off – and that Shego, in a new outfit – which Kim had to admit, did look rather nice, had just jumped down from the shoulder of the beast.
“Let me guess:” Kim said. “Cinderblock.”
“A very astute observation, Kimmie!” Shego noted.
“Ron, get Mom and Dad out of here.”
“I'm on it, KP. Mr. P? Mrs. P?” Ron herded them to him, then grabbed Drakken as well. “C'mon, Dr. D, I guess you're gonna have to come along for the ride with us.” He began to run.
At which Cinderblock stomped right in front of him.
“Whoah whoah whoah - where you goin', Stoppable?” Shego purred. “Stay here, stay here…”
Kim glared. “Let them go, Shego.”
“I'm afraid I can't do that, Kimmie…”
Out of the blue, Cinderblock roared. Ron & Rufus covered their ears.
“Okay - that was definitely loud,” noted Ron when the roar was over.
Rufus, having dove into Ron's pocket, peeked out and nervously nodding with the equivalent of “Yeah, loud, uh-huh…”
Slade sat in his chair, watching Cinderblock roar impatiently on the monitors in his lair.
“Patience, Cinderblock… have patience.” He looked at another monitor. “As much as I'm not enjoying their banter, let it play out as planned. When I give my word, you may strike - and we shall test this Kim Possible.”
Back in Kim’s house, Cyborg powered up his sonic cannon. “We've got Stony over here.”
“Why is he not attacking us?” asked Starfire. “Surely he would have done so by now, correct?”
“He wants to.” Robin glared. “But he's following his orders.”
“Shego, you may not believe this, but - I actually don't want to fight you.” Kim almost didn’t believe what she’d just said herself. But something was eating at her – something she couldn’t pin…
“Hah! Oh, really?” Shego retorted. “That's rich, Kimmie. You were pretty eager to last night…”
“Last night was different.”
“How?”
“It -- it just was, okay?” Kim stammered.
Shego stopped the green energy on one hand and put that hand to her ear as she looked off out the living room window.
Through heavy static, Slade could make out only one registerable word from his new apprentice.
“--achieved.”
“Excellent. Cinderblock?”
A roar broke the static.
“The first objective has been completed.”
He sneered under his mask. “You may proceed with your objective now: Destroy the Titans - for good.”
“Uhp - that's our cue!” said Shego.
Cinderblock roared and finally swung his huge fist at the Titans. “TITANS! GO!” Robin yelled, and they dove out of the way as Cinderblock's fist smashed the coffee table in the living room into a mess of splinters.
“Ron! Get Mom, Dad, and Drakken out of h-” Kim wasn’t able to finish the sentence because at that precise moment, Shego pounced her and tackled her, slamming her back onto a table of vases – which, of course, all shattered under the impact.
“Whoah!” Ron ducked a flying shard of vase. “You guys have a basement, right?” he asked Kim parent’s.
“Yes -- we do!” Mr. Possible answered, ducking.
“THEN WE'RE HEADIN’ DOWN THERE!”
Mr. Possible took the lead while Ron hurriedly pointed Drakken the right way - and snatched Rufus just as a shard of shattered light bulb slammed into the spot where the naked mole rat had been scared frozen a second ago. Mrs. Possible hurried after them.
Meanwhile, Robin landed a direct kick to Cinderblock's face, which spun the monster around, but didn’t fell the beast. Starfire dove in and unloaded starbolts at Cinderblock, driving the crony backwards under the barrage - backwards through the side wall of the house and into the Possible's driveway - where -- “Starfire! Redirect him! Redirect him!” Cyborg panicked, hurriedly firing his sonic cannon in an attempt to do the redirecting himself. But it was too late. Cinderblock's left foot crumpled the T-Car. Not again…” Cyborg groaned.
Robin then hurled some explosive discs at Cinderblock.
Kim was now only defending herself against Shego, and not attacking her as Shego continually punched and kicked. She wanted to fight Shego – but what felt so wrong about fighting her now?
“Shego, please!” Kim pleaded. “Yes, I want to finish my fight with you - but not like this!”
“Will you shut up about that?” Shego chortled. “A fight's a fight, Kimmie - and you know it!”
“Yes, but - this fight just -- it doesn't feel right to me -- ya’ know?”
“Nope – HRRAH!” Shego bellowed, delivering an uppercut that bowled Kim backwards, causing the redhead to fall on the couch. Shego leapt on top of her, her hands going for the choke – but Kim blocked the attempt. The two lay there for a while, both struggling against the other's strength.
Slade watched the fighting on the monitors in his lair. “Hmm…interesting.”
Beast Boy turned into a T-Rex and charged Cinderblock. He slammed into the rocky henchman and drove Cinderblock back along the main road. Cinderblock roared, and grabbed the T-Rex tail - and Robin was nearly splattered by a green T-Rex hurtling backwards at him, but which changed into Beast Boy a second or so before he crashed into Robin.
“Uh - hey, Robin.” Beast Boy grinned as the two shook off the impact’s effects.
Raven flew past the temporarily incapacitated boys and fired some dark energy blasts at Cinderblock - who seemed to roar in pain as they hit him, then stop moving.
“Hah hah! Got him!” Cyborg celebrated.
“Nice going, Raven!” added Beast Boy.
Raven wasn’t convinced. She swooped in for a closer look--
--and Cinderblock sprang back to life, almost seeming to grin as he landed a CRACKing punch to Raven's gut, knocking the wind out of her completely and sending her careening into the asphalt.
Beast Boy cringed. “Well, uh - it still looked awesome.”
Cinderblock charged forward, intending to trample.
Robin got up quickly. “Titans! We have to get him to some place around here where people aren't!” While Starfire steeled in and laid on another starbolt barrage to keep Cinderblock back while Raven slowly got up, Cyborg brought up a map on his arm monitor. “There's an abandoned gravel quarry on this map I downloaded from Kim's communicator - but it's all the way over on the other side of this town!”
Robin clenched his first. “Then we can't do any more needless destruction. We're gonna have to do this hand-to-hand from now on!”
“In other words:” Raven added, getting up, “The hard way.”
Robin took out his bo staff as Starfire retreated. Beast Boy changed into an elephant. Cyborg put away his sonic cannon. Raven puts her hood back up. Cinderblock rumbled forward.
Starfire's eyes glowed as the Titans charged.
Meanwhile, Kim was still struggling with Shego on the couch.
“Aren't you gonna use your powers?” Kim sneered. “Now, now, Kimmie - that just wouldn't be fair at the moment, would it now?” Shego responded. “Since when have you fought FAIR?” Kim snapped back as she finally went on the offensive and attacked, using the momentum of their grappling to toss Shego off of her, straight over her head. Shego quickly became not-so-good friends with the heavy bookshelves she crashed into.
Mr. Possible reached the basement. Ron swung the door open, waving everybody down the steps. “C'mon, c'mon! Everybody get in!” Mrs. Possible, Drakken, and Mr. Possible ducked down the stairs. Ron was about to hurry down them when Shego hurtled into the door, courtesy of a blistering punch from Kim. Shego, however, rebounded off the door in a weird way, and ended up falling into the basement.
Kim headed after her.
A muffled roar notified Ron of something approaching. He dove into the basement - as Cinderblock fell over the spot he had just been, defeated.
In the basement, Kim barreled towards Shego and grabbed her - only to stop dead in her tracks.
“WHAT?”
It wasn’t Shego. It was a Shego robot. – now without a face. A ROBOT. Kim now knew why she had felt so weird fighting. But then – she had just been fighting for nothing?
Then Slade appeared on the screen that was now visible to everybody in the basement, as the Titans joined all the other occupants.
“Hello, Kim Possible. Are the Titans there? I want them to hear this too.”
“Hear what?” Robin growled.
The real Shego appeared behind Slade on the screen, waving teasingly as the masked man went on. “In the time you've wasted today fighting, I've set up three miniature Supernova Death Rays - tiny, but still powerful enough to destroy two blocks.” The video feed changed as Slade went on, first to the cavern where Terra was, and then to Middleton High School. “One is pointing at dear Beast Boy's Terra; One is pointing at Middleton High School - where, as Shego's informed me, Kim's dear friends Bonnie and Monique are inside putting up Prom decorations—” He moved out of the way. Kim gasped. Behind him, her brothers Jim and Tim were tied up with Shego’s brothers from Team Go – Hego, Mego, and Wego 1 & Wego 2. A hideous creature that looked like walking purple snot – Plasmus, Kim assumed - was walking away, holding some leftover rope.
“And the last one is behind me, pointing at poor Shego and Kim's brothers.”
“TWEEBS?” Kim shrieked.
“Jimmy? TIMMY?” Mrs. Possible screamed as soon as she saw her sons on the screen.
Shego gasped upon seeing her brothers tied up in the back of Slade’s lair.
“What? You didn't say you were-” she started protesting.
“You said you didn't care for Team Go.” Slade turned around. “Are you planning to change your mind now?”
Shego said nothing.
“What do you want, Slade?” Kim growled in the dark of her house’s basement.
Had Shego just-?
“Do you really have to ask me?” the villain countered.
Kim couldn’t answer.
“The Rays will go off at 2200 tonight,” Slade went on. “I suggest you not waste any more time.”
Slade turned off the camera in the Shego robot from his place in his lair. He sat back in his chair.
“Well done, Apprentice.”
Shego looked at her and Kim's captive brothers. Then she looked at her apprentice outfit.
She clenched her fists.
END ACT TWO