Standing around the now mostly rubble innards of Dr. Drakken’s “secret” hideout, Kim Possible, Ron Stoppable (with Rufus the naked mole rat on his shoulder), Cyborg, Raven, Beast Boy, Robin, and Starfire scoured for clues. Watching all this was Dr. Drakken.
Ron had a question he’d been itching to ask these new heroes – the Teen Titans, they called themselves - who’d interrupted the mission Kim and he had been on to stop Drakken – though, at the point these kids had bust in the place, the mission had kinda already been interrupted by the appearance of that one dude in the one-eyed orange-and-black mask. What was his name? Oh yeah, Slade. And they had appeared to take him down, so Ron was grateful for that. However…
“Hey, you guys ever take off the costumes?” he asked. Unfortunately, the closest Titan to him happened to be Cyborg. “What costumes?” the half-metallic teen asked him. Ron quickly realized he shouldn’t have asked. “Oh, uh, heh heh - my bad.” He turned away, mumbling to himself - and Rufus, too. “Way to meet new people, Ron…”
“Nah. Don't worry about it,” Cyborg replied. “We've been asked that question so many times, it doesn't even bother us anymore.”
Ron was a little surprised. No way anyone could’ve heard that. “Wait, you heard that?”
Cyborg pointed to the mechanical side of his face. “Cyborg. Electronic ear.”
“Oh, right – yeah…” Right now, all Ron was feeling was stupid. Though, that wasn’t exactly not normal for him…
Meanwhile, Cyborg, having finished his rubble searching, sighed. He walked over to Robin to give his report. “Not a clue.”
“Yeah,” Beast Boy yawned, appearing alongside Robin as well. “Can we go home now?”
But Robin wasn’t finished. “Hold on.”
He walked up to Kim. “Kim, is there anything else regarding Shego that you can tell us about?”
Kim knew that Robin knew she hadn’t told him everything about Shego. But…no – no, she couldn’t do that – ever… “There is one thing - but I promised her I wouldn't tell anyone.”
“Aw, c'mon,” Beast Boy griped. “She's a bad guy, ri-”
“I AM NOT BREAKING A PROMISE TO ANYONE!” Kim roared, sending Beast Boy diving for cover as the redhead whirled around furiously.
“Even if breaking that promise meant saving the life of the person you made it to?” Robin fired back. Beast Boy, re-emerging, looked away. He hadn’t really wanted to hear that question.
Kim stopped. “Um…”
Suddenly, her communicator chimed up. “Huh? Oh,” she stammered, fumbling around for the communicator. Thank you, Wade. “What's the sitch, Wade?”
“Wade?” asked Beast Boy.
“Oh, he's a 10-year old computer genius,” Kim went on. “Runs my website, makes all of my gear, and also helps me on all my missions.”
Raven raised an eyebrow. “Someone else who never leaves his room?” she asked dryly. Beast Boy looked at her flatly. “What?” Raven asked him, annoyed.
“Kim, you better check out the news:” said Wade over the communicator. His face disappeared, and the news feed popped up on the communicator screen. “-live here in Go City, where Go Tower was utterly demolished by two unknown assailants whilst Team Go was inside sleeping! It is still not known whether Team Go has survived this attack, Jon!”
Kim gasped. Team Go?
Cyborg’s electronic ear had caught everything. “Two assailants?” There was no doubt. “Sounds like-”
“-Cinderblock and Plasmus.” Even Beast Boy could figure that one out, as he finished Cyborg’s sentence.
All the Titans knew what those two names meant. “Slade…” Robin growled.
Kim was stunned. “What?” she asked the Titans. Only Ron, Wade, 2 other people, her, and Shego knew about Team Go. “But how could he-” How the hell had Slade found out?
“Who's Team Go?” Cyborg asked.
Kim stammered. “Well, um…” She couldn’t. It wasn’t right. But – no, she – She had to do it. She knew she had to do it. “There goes my promise to Shego,” she muttered. Suddenly, she didn’t feel all that great…
Starfire was perplexed. “What do you mean by that, Kim?” the Tameranean girl asked.
For some reason, Kim wanted to throw up. “Only Ron, Wade, Shego, I, and 2 other people know of her past - but now it looks like Slade's somehow found out.”
Now Beast Boy was the one perplexed. “Uh…how do you know about her past?”
Kim couldn’t answer him for a moment. But she eventually did:
“Because I've not only fought against her, I've fought alongside her, too.”
Now Starfire was just confused. “But - this Shego woman - you told us that she is evil, yes?”
Kim sighed, and looked up in the sky. “When I first met her - well, uh, not “met,” more like first interfered with her - she was evil. But -- later, almost completely by accident, I found out she didn't start that way.” Kim couldn’t help but smile as she recalled her and Shego battling as teammates against Aviarius and his Flamingo of Doom. “She started out as a superhero - kinda like that Terra girl you told me about.” Beast Boy’s reaction wiped the smile of the happy memory off her face. “I'm sorry, Beast Boy. Anyways, she was part of Team Go, who live in Go Tower in Go City –” Then it hit her. “Waitaminute…if Slade knew where Shego's family was, then he-”
She gasped fearfully.
Robin got it dead-on. “She's right - Titans, move! We have to get over to Kim's house - NOW!”
Along with Ron and Kim, they all ran out of the lair.
“Um, what about me? Whoah!” Drakken cried out as Kim grabbed him as she ran past. “You're coming with us,” Kim growled. She looked behind her. “C'mon, Ron!”
Once outside, they all ran to where Cyborg’s T-Car had been parked.
Seeing the car, Drakken couldn’t help it. “Oh, I like the car-”
“GET IN!” Kim bellowed as she shoved Drakken into the backseat - the blue-skinned mad scientist only able to respond with another “Whoah!”
Quickly, Drakken scooted over to the far side of the backseat while Ron & Kim sat next to him. Raven & Cyborg took the front seats, and Starfire, Robin, and Beast Boy sat in the middle.
“Uh, how come you two aren't flying?” Ron asked Raven and Starfire.
“That doesn't save us time like we need to do right now,” Raven answered.
“Oh.” Ron thought about it. “Makes sense. I guess.”
“Don't worry.” Cyborg patted the dashboard. “This baby can fly, too.” He flipped a switch, and set the T-Car into hover mode. “Seatbelts!” Kim, Ron, and Drakken fumbled to put theirs on. Then Cyborg gunned the engine, and the T-Car sped off towards Middleton.
The speed was unknown to Kim, Ron, and Drakken - but the Titans seemed fine with it.
“Maybe I should be in front, seeing as I know where we're supposed to be going?” Kim yelled as the car barreled along in the sky.
“Just gimme the coordinates!” Cyborg replied.
Kim took out her communicator. “Wade, pull up the coordinates to my house and then standby!”
“Uh, okay,” said a confused Wade. He punched half a key on his keyboard. “Coordinates up!”
“Good!” said Kim. “Now hold on and give em to Cyborg when you see his face on my side!”
Wade gave the thumbs up. “Gotcha!”
“Here, take my communicator! Wade'll give you the coordinates!” Kim tossed the communicator to Cyborg - who caught it with one hand, not even looking behind him.
“You there, Wade?” Cyborg asked. “Yep,” came Wade’s voice over the communicator. “Go here:” But Kim couldn’t hear the rest of their exchange because her ears were about ready to explode from the speed of the damned car.
Morning had arrived by the time the T-Car landed in Kim’s driveway.
“Nice house,” admired Beast Boy.
Cyborg looked around. “Doesn't look like they've hit it.”
“We can't know unless we check inside, Robin said.
Everyone got out and ran towards the front door – which Mrs. Possible opened before anyone could even touch the doorknob.
“Kimmie! Just in time for breakfast!”
“Uh - hi, Mom,” Kim stammered.
Mrs. Possible looked over her daughter’s shoulder. “And you brought some friends?”
“I'd say everything's fine here,” Raven stated the obvious.
“Yeah, but - breakfast! Food!” Beast Boy exclaimed.
Mrs. Possible just giggled. “Oh, don't worry, the Twins are with friends today, so you can eat theirs - please, all of you, come in, come in…”
“We cannot dishonour their hospitality,” Starfire proclaimed, and walked into the house. The others all shrugged and followed her in.
Inside, Mr. Possible walked in the hallway just as Drakken came into the house.
“Hold it!” Mr. Possible turned to Kim. “Kim, what is HE doing here?”
Kim took a deep breath.
“Ugh - Okay, so, we went to go stop him and Shego, but this weird dude named Slade broke in while we were there, and these people over here-” She nodded at the Titans. “-came in to fight him, and then I started fighting Shego, then this Slade guy so totally stole her right in the middle of my fight with her and now wants her to become his apprentice or something! And to top it off, Dave asked BONNIE to the Prom yesterday!” she whined.
Mrs. Possible gasped. “He didn't!”
“He DID!” Kim took another breath. “Anyways, Dad - Drakken and these guys - Mom, Dad, meet the Teen Titans - we came here because somehow Slade found out where Shego's former superhero family lived and sent his two cronies, uh – Cinderblock and Plasmus - to destroy their headquarters - and so we rushed here because we thought since Slade found out where Shego's family lived even though only Ron, Wade, her, I, and her two brothers knew about her past, then he knew where our house and had sent his cronies to destroy it, too!” The air she gulped was like diamonds to the coal that had been in her lungs. “Also, I actually need to rescue Shego.”
Beast Boy leaned over to Cyborg. “Your electronic ear get all that?” he whispered.
“Not a word.” Cyborg almost laughed.
“Oh, Kimmie…” Mrs. Possible put a hand on Kim’s knee. “He asked Bonnie?”
“Ugh, SO NOT THE DRAMA, Mom!” Kim hugged her parents. “Right now, I'm just glad you and Dad are okay.”
The hug was interrupted by a deafening CRASH as the roof of the house was torn off by a huge creature. Ron dove behind the couch – though it really helped. The Titans recognized the being that looked a walking sidewalk instantly: Cinderblock. They stood, ready to fight.
But there was someone new standing on Cinderblock’s left shoulder…
Kim stared.It couldn’t be-
“Shego?”
Shego, in her new Apprentice suit, jumped down and advanced at her.
“Hey there, Kimmie.”
She smiled and snapped her fingers in her new gloves, firing up her green energy.
“Like my new suit?”
END ACT ONE