“Why…” asked Shego. “Are we bringing THEM along?”
“So that your brothers can see their new nieces.” said Kim, calmly. She jiggled Kasy in her lap, since the pale-skinned red head was beginning to look bored. Sheki, sitting in Shego’s lap, just kept fiddling with the headset the stewardess had provided. Rather then trying to listed to the rather lackluster comedy movie, however, Sheki seemed to be trying to figure out where the voices were coming from.
“I don’t mean the twins.” said Shego. “I meant them.” Shego pointed, with her thumb, to the two seats behind her.
“Look… I owed Monique a favor for babysitting the twins. And it wouldn’t have been fair to leave Ron in Middleton all by himself.” said Kim. “Anyway, it’s not like you’re the one paying for the tickets.”
The airline that had provided the four first-class tickets to Kim had been one that Kim had done several favors for, including saving the CEO from certain doom at the hands of… well, Dr. Drakken and Shego. Anyway, as a result of all those favors, the airline now would carry Kim and any of her friends first class for free. Aware of how useful that could be, Kim was careful not to abuse the privilege.
Shego sat back in her seat, grouchy. “The only thing that made the idea of going to Go City worthwhile was the thought of you and me, alone, for the two weeks were there. Now I’m going to have to share you with the twins, Monique, AND Stoppable.”
“Don’t worry.” said Kim. “Look, I’m sure Ron and Monique can watch Kasy and Sheki for a while, and give us… private time.”
Shego considered the prospect. She sighed. “All right… they better. You may be providing their airplane tickets, but I’m the one paying for the hotel rooms.”
“Pretty sweet…” said Monique, looking around the first class cabin of the airplane. “I could G.U.T.T. in a hurry…”
“Gutt what?” said Ron. “Hey, think the waitress could bring me some more peanuts? Rufus ate all of mine.”
“Get Used To This.” said Monique. “They’re called flight attendants, not waitresses. Anyway, you gotta keep your mole rat sidekick there on the QT. No pets ‘lowed in the main cabin.”
“Pet?” came an upset sounding squeak from one of Ron’s pockets.
“Chill, little guy.” said Ron. “She didn’t mean it that way.”
Avarius considered his latest E-vil-Mail message carefully. This Dr. Drakken may be behind bars, but his suggestions were quite interesting… quite interesting indeed. Even if they didn’t directly involve birds.
“What do you think, my pretties?” he asked, gazing up at the large atrium. Hundreds of assorted birds, of every size and color, looked down at him. “Who would ever have expected that the only thing Shego and Hego would have in common would be they both liked girls?”
One of the birds squawked, causing Avarius to frown. “Ok, ok, so they’re brother and sister, both have super powers, and both enjoy beating up on me. But BESIDES that, the only thing they have in common is liking girls. I think. Admittedly, I’ve never seen Hego actually dating anyone, but I so hope he’s not gay because I don’t think I could handle the idea of fighting him hand-to-hand if he’s thinking about me THAT way…”
The bird squawked again, hoping the guy in the feather costume would get the hint and break out the bird seed.
Mego sat at the security station of Go Tower. Usually one of the Wegos was at this station… thanks to their duplicating powers, one of them could be on duty at all times, and two Wegos could go with the team on an assignment. Currently, though, the team was chilling at Go Tower. Avarius had escaped custody, again, but most of the villains of Go City were being quiet.
A flashing light caught Mego’s attention, indicating that somebody was outside the main doors of Team Go, requesting admission. Mego hit the controls that brought the view from the front entrance security camera up on a view screen.
“Hey, Hego! Guess who’s at the front gate?” said Mego.
“Is it the press?” asked Hego, hopefully. “Interested in my tale of daring do of stopping the Goldbrick Street Gang? Or how I single handedly brought down Baron VonBear?”
Mego rolled his eyes. “The Goldbrick Street Gang? All two of them? And HELLO? The only reason you managed to bring down Baron VonBear was because I had shrunk myself, and managed to get into the guy’s costume, and tickled him. All you did was knock him out, after I had distracted him.”
“Yes, yes, yes.” said Hego, waving a hand dismissively. “You and the Wegos helped out a bit. Now, let the press in so they can interview me… I mean, us.”
Mego pressed the ‘door open button’. “Oh, it’s not the press.” said Mego. He tapped a series of commands into the security system’s computer, and the image from the camera switched to the large, main view screen.
On the view screen were two women, standing side by side. The shorter of the two was dressed in a pink sweater and black slacks, with a black cap on her head to hold her red hair down to the sides of her head. It was the other woman who attracted attention… she was dressed in a green trench coat, the green so dark it was almost black. Her hair was jet black, contrasting with her pale, olive-green face. A face that Mego, Hego, and Wego would never forget.
“Sis is back in town.” said Mego, turning to where Hego was standing.
“Oh no!” said Hego, his face turning almost as pale as Shego’s. “Quick! Activate the security measures! Lock down the elevators!”
Mego rolled his eyes. “Hego… she doesn’t look pissed. Um, well, no more then she always does. Anyway…”
“SHE’S GOING TO PLASMA-WEDGIE ME!” screamed Hego, then fled for the dubious safety of the underside of his bed.
Mego sighed. Hego had been obsessed with recruiting Shego back to Team Go, after learning that Shego had left Dr. Drakken. Dr. Director, who had informed Team Go of Shego’s change of heart, had refused to tell them why Shego had reformed, except to say that it involved Kim Possible’s absence from the world-saving scene and that it was personal.
Hego’s attempts to cajole Shego into returning had finally sent Mego’s sister, never the most pacifistic of people, into a rage that had ended in Shego using plasma-enhanced strength to grab the back of Hego’s tights and actually pull them up over the super-strong Hego‘s head. Further communication… very cautious communication… had been done via electronic means.
“This is a bad idea.” muttered Shego.
“Look, the sooner we… the sooner I tell your brothers, the sooner we can get back to the hotel.” said Kim. “Ron and Monique said they were taking the twins out shopping. If I know Monique, they won’t be back for hours… So we can use that king sized water bed to good use.”
Shego smiled. “Just as long as you weren’t planning on taking a nap, princess.”
“Hi, Sis!” called the thirty-eighth Wego that Kim had seen so far.
“Hey, Wego.” said Shego, waving.
“There’s certainly a lot of Wegos…” said Kim.
“Duplicating powers, remember? The Wegos pretty much do everything in Go tower that needs doing. Cleaning, laundry…” said Shego. “Works out great for Hego, since he only has to pay them two salaries.”
“I’m not going to have to address an auditorium full of Wegos, will I?” asked Kim nervously.
“Nah.” said Shego. “Relax. Anything that any Wego A knows, all Wego A knows… and anything any Wego B knows, any Wego B knows.”
Kim blinked. “But… they could theoretically read every book in the library, at one go! They could…”
“Kim!” said Shego. “Look… just accept it. Wego A and B can multi-task, as multiple Wegos A and B, but NOT like that. They can’t learn multiple things at once.”
“Hey, sis.” said Mego. Shego’s oldest younger brother was standing slouched against the side of the elevator that had just opened.
“Hey, Mego.” said Shego.
Kim poked Shego. Shego sighed, and rolled her eyes. “Look… I’m sorry about stealing your powers, I’ve reformed, yada-yada-yada…”
Mego shrugged dismissively. “So, changed back to the light side of the Force?”
Shego nodded. “Oh yeah. Been going through a lot of changes… Which Kimmy here will be glad to explain. Right, Kimmy?”
“Right.” said Kim. “But, let’s go somewhere where we can all talk, as a f… as a group. With two of the Wegos and Hego. Where is Hego?”
“The big guy’s afraid of Shego still being upset at him.” said Mego. “I think the big lunkhead went and locked himself in his bedroom.”
“The electronic locks that you have to be able to ‘glow’ to open up?” asked Shego.
Mego nodded.
Shego lit up, her hands glowing bright green. “And I assume that my glow is still on record?” said Shego.
Mego grinned, and nodded again.
“Mego, why don’t you take Kim to the conference room.” said Shego. “Hego and I will be there momentarily.”
“Be nice, Shego.” said Kim. She still didn’t fully understand Shego’s relationship with her family. She just knew that, like with Kim and the Tweebs, that Shego felt about equal parts annoyance and desire for their safety.
Kim, Mego, and two of the Wegos (which Mego had assured Kim were representatives of Wego-A and Wego-B) set at the Go Tower’s main conference area. The video screen, at Kim’s insistence, had been firmly unplugged.
“Promise, no hurty?” came a meek, soft voice from the doorway.
“I promise, no hurting.” said Shego. “Unless your butt isn’t in a chair, in that conference room, in the next ten seconds!”
A very flustered looking Hego, wearing his trademark blue Team Go outfit, hurried into the conference room. Seeing the others, he quickly tried to project an air of suave leadership (which Mego always thought of as ‘smug git’) and took his chair.
Shego followed in, flopping down in another chair. Kim reached a hand across, under the conference table, only to find one of Shego’s hands already reaching out. As the two held hands, covered by the table, Hego spoke.
“You’re probably wondering why I’ve called you together today.” Hego said, posing with his muscular chest out-thrust.
“Actually, we’re wondering why Shego called us together.” said Mego.
“Yeah…” said Wego-A.
“What’s up, sis?” asked Wego-B.
“Oh, no no no.” said Shego. “I already told one group. Kimmy, it’s your turn.”
Kim cleared her throat, then realized that all four male members of Team Go were staring at her. “Um… Shego and I have been going through some changes in our relationship.”
“Excellent work!” said Hego. “I’m glad you finally managed to make our sister realize that doing wrong is just wrong! I hope she’ll be back to joining Team Go real soon…”
“Look!” snapped Shego. “I am OUT of the team! Permanently! As in, not going to come back even if Team Go was the last super-hero team on the planet!”
“We got it.” said Mego. He glanced at his older brother. “Well… the Wegos and I got it.”
“But… you’re Shego! Our sister!” said Hego.
“There’s more.” said Kim, interrupting what was rapidly de-evolving into another chapter of the battle of wills between Shego and Hego. “Shego and I… plan to get married soon.”
Mego and the Wegos stared in shock at Kim.
Hego, demonstrating all the detective skills and highly developed instincts of your average brick, said “That’s great! Who are the two lucky guys?”
Shego rolled her eyes.
Kim blushed. “Um… to each other, Hego. Shego and I are… lovers.”. Kim had to fight down the urge to blurt ‘Shagging like minks… Big time. And let me tell you, she’s a screamer’.
Hego stood up… his blue super-power aura lighting up as his chair went flying back across the room. “My sister… is GAY?”
“Oy, this brings back memories.” said Mego, snapping out of his shock.
“What do you mean?” demanded Hego, turning to face Mego.
“Um, hello?” said Mego. “’My sister… is EVIL?’.” said Mego, trying to imitate Hego’s deep voice and dramatic delivery. “’My sister… is LATE for a meeting?’. ‘My sister… ordered ANCHOVIES on a pizza?’.”
“This is serious!” snarled Hego, slamming his fists into the Team Go conference table, leaving two large dimples in the armored surface. “We’re not talking about evil or, even worse, tardiness! We’re talking about my sister defying everything that is good and decent to practice who knows what perverted practices with that…. That… Possible person!”
“Look…” said Mego. “Calm down…”. Shego was frowning now, a fact that Mego was well aware of. Mego remembered the last time Shego and Hego had a no-holds barred family squabble… the Wegos had been months repairing all the damage to Go Tower. “Let’s sit down and discuss this like calm, rational adults.”
“CALM AND RATIONAL ADULTS?” said Hego, his voice high pitched and shrill. “Our sister… our very own sister claims she prefers the company of GIRLS to her own family, and you want me to be RATIONAL?”
“Look, bozo!” snapped Shego. “I’d prefer the company of flatulent skunks to my own family! My sexual orientation…”
“Have you no shame?” demanded Hego. He pointed at the two Wego’s. “There are children here!”
“Um, sixteen…” said Wego-A.
“Yeah, close to driving and everything.” said Wego-B.
Hego stepped back. “This… this is WRONG!” said Hego, and charged to the elevator.
Mego and the Wegos sighed.
“Is… is he going to be ok?” asked Kim, pointing at the conference door that had just closed behind Hego.
“Who, Hego?” asked Mego. “Yah, he’s always that way after a big shock. He’ll go down to the bar, get drunk and asking all Angst-y questions, then come back with a big hang over.”
“He’ll accept it…” said Wego-B.
“…eventually.” said Wego-A.
“Shucks, he didn’t even stay around to hear the rest of it.” said Shego, rapidly cooling down now that Hego had left.
“The rest of it?” said Mego.
Kim glanced at Shego, not sure what Shego meant. Shego mimed rubbing a big belly in front of herself.
“Oh!” said Kim. “Um… there’s more. A little more then a year ago, Dr. Drakken… Shego’s former boss… used a retrovirus…”
While Kim was pouring out her story of how Kasy Ann and Sheki Go had came to be, Hego (the self-proclaimed leader of Team Go) was sitting at the ‘Go-Get Drunk Bar and Lounge’, his usual haunts when he was depressed.
“Where did I go wrong?” asked Hego. “Was it running around with young boys all the time in tights that made her think such morally bankrupt behavior was acceptable?”
The man sitting next to Hego, wearing what was obviously a fake beard, mustache, and glasses just nodded. “I hear you.” he said. “Makes you wish you were in control of the situation, doesn’t it?”
“Control!” said Hego. “That’s a laugh.”. Hego grabbed his drink, complete with a bright blue paper umbrella, and chugged it down. “I’ve never been able to control Shego. She wouldn’t stay out of my playhouse… she wouldn’t accept my authority as team leader… she became a villain just to spite me, you know.”
The man nodded, then looked around. The bar was mostly deserted. He sidled closer to Hego. “What you need is a way to control her… for her own good, of course.”
“Right!” said Hego. “Everything I tell her is for her own good. That’s all I care about, the safety of my family.”
The man nodded, not pointing out how many times Hego had sent Mego or Wego into a situation where a powerful super-villain could grab one of them as a hostage. “Well, my large friend, it so happens I have a little something here that can help.”. The man pulled out a metal collar, and laid it down on the bar.
Hego stared at it, through an alcoholic haze.
“It’s called a NICE collar.” said the man. “Let me tell you what it can do for your sister… and you…”
The next day
Shego paced arround the living room of the large suite that she had rented for Kim, Sheki, Kasy, and herself. “Ooh… talk about arrogant, conceited, stuck up, super powered jerks…”
Ron looked up from where he was sitting, playing with Sheki. The young girl was eagerly petting a smiling Rufus. “Um, are you talking about Hego or yourself?”
Before Shego could let out her stress by blasting Hego, Kim chimed in “Hego, Ron. He did NOT take the news well.”
Monique shrugged. “Don’t let it worry you, girlfriend.” she advised Shego. “So one of your brothers is an idiot. It’s no big… you knew that before yesterday.”
Shego nodded. “True.”
Kim turned to face Kasy. The one year old red-head was standing unsteadily upright, with Monique ready to grab her in case she fell, again. Kim held out her hands. “Ok, Kasy… walk to mommy…”
The phone rang, startling the group and causing Kasy to fall back down on her diapered bottom.
Shego picked up the phone.
“Hello, Shego?” came Hego’s voice, over the phone. “I… wanted to apologize for how I acted, yesterday. Mego and the Wego’s told me what I missed and… we’d really like to come over and see the newest members of the Go family.”
Shego frowned, then gestured to Kim. “What’s the sitch?” asked Kim.
Shego covered the mouth piece of the phone. “It’s Hego. He’s apologizing… and wants to bring Mego and Wegos over to meet the twins.”
“Team Go? Coming here?” said Monique. “Great, I’ve got some sketches I want to show them… Have some phat ideas for new costumes.”
“Invite them over.” said Kim. “Come on… when they get to see Kasy and Sheki, they’ll love them. Guaranteed.”
Shego muttered “This is a bad idea” but uncovered the mouth piece of the phone, issuing the invitation.
Kasy looked up in confusion at the two Wegos.
“Hello…” said Wego-A.
“…There.” said Wego-B.
“Tweebs?” asked Kasy, confused.
Shego snorted, recognizing Kim’s word for her twin / younger brothers. “Twins, like you and Sheki.” Shego said.
Sheki, in the mean time, was delighted by Mego. Mego had responded to meeting the two infants by shrinking himself down to Sheki’s size. “Hello there… I’m your uncle Mego.” said Mego.
“M’go!” said Sheki, trying to repeat the strange name.
A complex looking watch on Hego’s wrist began to beep. He looked at it. “The Team Go alarm!” he said. “There’s a bank robbery at the Go City Big Bank!”
Mego immediately returned to his full height. “Now? But we were just getting to know our nieces.”
“Team Go is needed.” said Hego. He turned to Kim. “Kim, would you like to tag along, to help out?”
Kim nodded… feeling a thrill she hadn’t felt in a long while, the chance to go out and do some good.
“Hold on.” said Shego. “Princess isn’t going anywhere without me.”
“Actually, sis, there was one thing I did want to discuss with you first, in private.”. Hego glanced around. “Mego, you can take Kim, the Wegos, and…”. Hego frowned, and pointed at Ron.
“Ron Stoppable and Rufus.” supplied Ron. “The power of imagination, remember?”
“Right.” nodded Hego. “Mego, you take them all to the bank robbery, while I take just a moment to talk with Shego.”
“I’ll take the twins to the nursery.” volunteered Monique.
Shego opened her mouth to object, but Kim, Ron, Mego, and the Wegos were already heading out the door. Monique picked up Kasy and Sheki to take them into the bedroom with a fireproof playpen set up inside it.
Shego turned to look at Hego. “This better be important.” she said.
Hego moved to the couch Shego was sitting at, and placed one hand on Shego’s shoulder. “Believe me, sis, this is important… and for your own good.”
“Wha…” Shego had time to blurt out, seeing a flash of metal in Hego’s hand, and then the NICE collar was secured around Shego’s neck.
“Shego… you’re going to obey me, as team leader.” said Hego. “And you’ll tell Kim that you’ve changed your mind about her, and want to come back to Team Go.”
“Yes.” said Shego, flatly, even as her mind screamed ‘No!’.
Hego smiled nervously. ‘Remember, this is for her own good.’ he told himself.
A pigeon sat on the balcony of the apartment, peering in. Covered in dirty gray feathers, its eyes shined with a metallic luster.
Deep in his lair, Avarius watched the video feed from his spy-bird in delight. “Excellent!” he cried. “Little does Hego realize that I have the microphone override for that collar! My brilliant plan is going exactly brilliantly according to plan! Once my latest egg of evil will hatch, the entire Go-City shall be my nest! Bwa-ha-ha! Bwa-ha-ha-ha-snort-cough-cough-cough… man, I need to work on my evil/triumphant laughter.”