“Wade.”
“Yes, Master.”
“There was an unexpected incident. The Cage was breached. They all got away.”
“I apologize, Master - and I will accept the full consequences for my failure.”
“Hmm - very good. But I'm not angry at you. This was a situation even you could not have predicted would happen.”
“I see, Master.”
“I am also not as displeased with you as I should be - for but one simple reason: You foresaw something like this coming - and as such, you prepared quite an ingenious backup plan to cover for if The Cage did not hold.”
“Yes, Master.”
“For that, I am most pleased with you. Now, for the time being, let us just observe. Once we have collected enough data – the time to destroy the Teen Titans and Team Possible will be most very nigh.”
“It will be a day of honour, Master.”
The ocean. A shadow that looked to be a very small whale or a very large dolphin passed far below.
But it was neither. It was a car. Red X’s car.
Driving the car through the water, obviously, was Red X. Seated in the rest of the car were the Teen Titans - Robin, Starfire, Raven, Beast Boy, and Cyborg; and Team Possible – Kim Possible, Shego, and Ron Stoppable - and Rufus, Ron's pet naked mole rat.
Though, Kim, at the moment, didn't feel particularly too well. “Oauuh…Can we pull over for a sec?” she groaned, clutching her stomach.
“Um, yeah - we're underwater, remember?” Beast Boy reminded everyone.
“ ’s okay,” said Shego, whose eyes barely left Kim. “Kimmie’s practically a fish.”
“Yeah!” Ron added. “Shego’s right. Kim's cooked me in the pool pretty well a few times – well, all times, actually…”
“But the water pressure’s too great,” Cyborg noted. “We wouldn’t be able to open the door.”
“Oh, yeah, sure – tell us about reality…” Ron muttered.
“We're almost there,” X cut in. “Hold on a little bit longer, Honey – I just waxed here.”
“’Honey?’” Shego hissed the question.
X ignored her and pressed a button. A garage door opened out of the cliff bottom that was right in front of them, and the car drove straight into. A shark passed by as the garage door closed.
The car rose up on a platform into a - familiar - cave.
As soon as Kim got out, she ran to the edge and immediately began puking like there was no tomorrow. Shego came and kneeled by her - for which Kim was very grateful.
“Aw, dude, Kim - you okay?” asked Ron, shielding Rufus’ eyes – despite the fact Rufus still had blood on his face from when he had ripped the jugular of a henchman out in their escape from The Cage.
“I JUST KILLED LIKE 40 PEOPLE, RON! HOW THE FUCK DO YOU THINK I FEEL?” Kim shrieked. It wasn’t Ron’s fault or anything she was yelling. But she also knew Ron would understand.
“Ohh-kay, wrong question.” Ron didn't care that she had just deafened him with her screaming - he just couldn’t believe Kim was taking having killed people harder than he was taking it. It just…didn’t seem like Kim for some reason – ok, well, yeah - it did seem a lot like Kim, actually - but he’d always figured that with everything Team Possible had seen and been through, especially lately, it would’ve just really upset her. He hadn’t realised killing would’ve hit her so hard she’d be puking. Then again, Ron also remembered, the effects of that damn Attitudinator helmet probably hadn’t been reversed completely 100 percent, so that was probably the main reason why he was taking it a lot easier…
“Why does this place look familiar?” Robin muttered to himself.
Meanwhile, Red X took off his mask.
“Hah! Didn't even ruin my mousse!” Señor Senior, Jr. put the Red X mask on the hood of the car.
Kim stopped puking. She looked at Shego.