“I am quite amazed, Kim Possible.”
“At what?” Kim asked Señor Senior, Sr. – who was walking with her as she went back to her and Shego’s bedroom – or rather, the bedroom that she and Shego had claimed to be their bedroom. She was going there to finish last-minute preparations before the two of them finally took off with the Teen Titans and Red X – i.e., Senior’s son, Señor Senior, Jr. - on their mission to get Shego back the powers that had been stolen from her and her (now deceased) brothers in Team Go by Aviarius.
“That you had apparently been in a deep relationship with Shego, and your family protested not a bit about it,” Senior replied to her.
Kim waved it off. “Please. My parents cheered me on battling people like you when I was sixteen years old and you expected them to have a closed mind when it came to my relationships? Yeah, so not.”
“Mmm. You raise quite a good point.” Senior looked at the sky outside the windows of the massive mansion they were in – the sky that was so dark from the smoke in Middleton, Jump City, Go City, and Steel City that converged right over the place they were, not a single star had shined through for almost half a year. Senior sighed, trying to remember what stars looked like. He wanted long to see them again. He remembered they calmed him tremendously whenever he had looked up at them in the years before this entire nightmare had begun. He sighed. “And I think right now,” he continued to Kim, “Wherever they are - it might be Heaven, it might not be Heaven, you know what I mean – they are watching this, still proud of you. I’m even willing to bet they’d have all come along on this mission.”
Kim was slightly taken aback. “Um…thanks.” This was Senior, after all – no matter how he seemed now, he’d still tried to kill her many times in the past. But that was before this whole nightmare had gone down. It was pretty clear to Kim that he had changed. And what he had just said…
Senior tilted his head slightly at Kim’s reaction. “That was hesitance in your voice. But of course - there should be hesitance in your voice. I would've had hesitance in my voice, too, had an old enemy of mine had just given me a compliment like that.” He looked down, suddenly remembering that Kim’s family had been killed. “And I apologize for bringing up the subject of your family. It must still be painful…”
Kim had never heard such sincerity in Senior’s voice before. Unless he was one hell of a fucking good actor, that had probably been the most sincere statement he’d ever made to her. She couldn’t take it anymore. Her eyes tearing up, she couldn't help it. She hugged Senior, returning the favour - him now the hesitant one in his total and complete surprise at her action. “Thank you,” she told him, trying incredibly hard not to choke up.
“Y - you are welcome, Kim Possible…” Senior stammered.
“ATTENTION OUTER SECTOR NINE!” Dr. Drakken bellowed into the intercom microphone of the underground control room – where he was with Slade, Brother Blood, and Aviarius.
Drakken henchmen scrambled to get into defensive positions as their boss’ voice boomed over the intercom: “THE PLAN IS IN EFFECT FOR YOUR SPACE!”
Finally, everyone was set. “Everybody is in position here, Sir,” their leader told Drakken over his wristband communicator.
Drakken rubbed his hands together in his patented gleefully evil manner. “Good. Good…”
Brother Blood tossed something to him – but Drakken turned around at the last second and barely had time to even catch it awkwardly. The bo staff that the something was snapped into its full length, catching Drakken on the jaw, knocking him further enough off balance that he fell to ground. The blue-skinned mad scientist got up, looking quite annoyed. “Dammit, warn me before you do that next time, Blood! That was not funny!” He rubbed his jaw.
Slade’s voice was emotionless. “I'd say it was, actually.”
“Drgh-” Drakken decided to bite his tongue – and his brain decided to do it literally, too. “Ow!”
“When you're done being clowns here,” Slade continued, “Get to your positions. Remember: They pass through - but not – completely unharmed.”
Brother Blood and Dr. Drakken nodded at him. Drakken contracted the bo staff as he and Blood ran out of the control room’s doors. Slade watched them leave. When they were gone, he nodded to Aviarius - who sneered evilly.