Mrs. Lipsky spotted Drakken groaning in the pile of people. “Drewbie?”
In a lightning-fast move, Wade capped the container of what seemed like red Kool-Aid and palmed it away. Then he turned around. He drew his sword, and nodded calmly at Kim. “Kim.” He repeated the nod to Shego. “Shego.”
“Shego - here.” Robin handed her the batarang sword.
“Get OFF of me!” Brother Blood yelled as he shoved Cyborg off his back so he could stand up. The heroes and the villains quickly rose out and faced each other, all in a position expecting attack - except Slade.
“Wade?” he asked. Wade nodded, producing a button from his shirt and pressing it.
Cages slammed down over the Titans, X, Ron, and the villains. “Hey!” cried Cyborg. “What the-”
“Oh, great, great - why are we in cages?” Drakken muttered, crossing his arms.
Slade pointed to Kim, Shego, and Wade. “This is between them, and them alone.”
“Hey, what about me?” Ron asked. “He killed my family too, you know! I should be out there-” Slade held up the button trigger – “Yeah, sure ‘kay, it’s between them.”
Kim, Shego and Wade begin circling each other. Kim snapped her fingers to crack her knuckles. Green plasma energy flared up from the clawed gloves. Wade snorted, barely impressed by it. He raised his sword. Shego raised the batarang sword. Kim raised her hands, the tips of the clawed gloves still sharp.
Wade charged with a yell. Kim and Shego charged with a yell.
CLASH! TANG! TING! TANG! POW! It was a blur of action as Wade dodged Kim's swipes at him with the clawed gloves, parried and blocked the batarang sword as Shego swung it at him like crazy - but then he get got socked right smack in the face by Shego, who had added the blue power to her punching fist.Yet, instead of having his head crushed in by the super strength blue power, Wade was instead launched through the air. “Dammit!” Shego growled. “How the hell did that not kill him?”
“Maybe you aimed your punch weird,” said Kim, coming up next to her.
“It still woulda crushed his throat!” Shego noted.
“Good point. HRRAAHH!” Kim lunged at Wade, slashing at him wildly like a cornered rabid dog. Wade used his short stature to advantage as he ducked, rolled between Kim's legs out of the way, and twirled out of the way of the clawed gloves gleaming with green plasma energy as they came slicing down at his head again. Shego and Kim looked at each other, nodded - then simultaneously fired blasts of green energy at Wade - who stunningly dodged every single one of those, too. Wade went on the offensive, and ran at Shego, swinging the sword at her – and she parried and blocked his attacks easily. He swung at her again - but she used the purple power to shrink herself, and Wade lost his footing with all of his forward momentum - smashing his face onto the ground, hard.
Ron, watching all this, cheered. “Booyah! Go KP and Shego!”
“Drive that traitor away from here!” Starfire added.
“Drewbie?” Mrs. Lipsky asked Drakken as the fighting continued in the background. “What you told me earlier, about being a supervillain - that's all true?”
Drakken, watching the fight, was a little annoyed by the interjection. “Yes, Mother - now if you don't mind, I'm in the middle of watching our empire rise up to the throne!”
“So why are you in a cage, too, Drewbie?”
This only annoyed Drakken more. “I don't know, ask HIM!” he said, pointing at Slade.
Meanwhile, Kim dive tackled Wade and wrestled with him on the ground - Wade using his sword to fend off the clawed gloves. They rolled around, fiercely wrestling - until Wade saw Shego swing the batarang sword down at him and shoved Kim off of him in time to roll away from the incoming batarang sword, then kicked Shego in the face - but as he did, was himself kicked in the face by Kim - who then jumped on his back. Wade quickly threw her over his shoulder - and Kim went sailing through the air. She twisted as she landed, however - and ended up landing perfectly on her feet. Facing the right direction she wanted to, she ran screaming back at Wade. But instead of going murderous Zorro on Wade's back, she instead tackled him again, driving the wind out of his lungs as he and she slammed into the ground. He spit out a few teeth, then locked Kim's chest between his legs and twisted his whole body hard, again throwing Kim off and away from his perimeter. He spun, blocking Shego's attempt once again to get him with the batarang sword. CLANG! CLING! CLINK! CLANK! Another vicious sword duel broke out again between Wade and Shego. It was another blur of metal on metal as it went on and on. Kim saw another chance and ran towards Wade again – but then Shego went to hit Wade with her blue-powered fist, but he ducked and Shego ended up punching Kim right in the gut. Kim went crashing backwards, slamming into Mrs. Lipsky's cage. Wade picked up Shego and threw her into exactly the same spot. Kim groaned in pain as Shego crashed into her side. “Um…hi.” Shego grinned at Kim.
“Are you two ladies alright?” Mrs. Lipsky asked. Shego looked at her and was about to make a rude comment - when Kim pointed next to the bottom of the cage.
Where a plate of food just recently finished was sitting.
Kim gave Shego a NASTY grin, and Shego returned the sneer.
SLASH!
In less than a millisecond, Kim had sliced through Mrs. Lipsky's cage bars. She and Shego grabbed Mrs. Lipsky – Shego pressing the batarang sword against her neck, Kim almost digging her clawed gloves’ claws into the woman's neck. “DREWBIE!” Mrs. Lipsky yelled, terrified.
“MOTHER!”
Wade took a step--
“DON'T come any closer, Wade!” Kim growled.
“Whoahwhoah, KP - what the hell ya’ doin’?” Ron asked.
“Getting us some leverage!” Shego growled.
“Leverage?” asked Slade. “You forget - I hold all the leverage right here, my dear Shego.” He showed the button trigger again.
His usage of “My dear Shego” made Shego bristle with the unwanted memories that phrase brought back. She deepened her glare. “Oh, you're next, buster.”
“Yes, Slade,” Kim noted, “You have leverage – until you look at the bottom of this cage.”
Everyone immediately looked. Starfire gasped when she saw the empty tray of food lying outside the bottom of the cage.
“WHAT?” Drakken shrieked at Slade when saw the food tray. “You gave my mother the-”
Slade chuckled. Everybody froze.
“Is he okay?” asked Beast Boy.
Slade stopped laughing. “Wade, I must congratulate you.”
“Huh?” asked Cyborg.
Slade continued. “He's more cautious than I am. He was the one who gave your mother the food.”
“Here's what your options are:” said Shego:
“You give us the pure liquid Xinothium ore and halt your armies, and we'll hand Drakken's mommy back to him safely,” Kim began.
“Liquid Xinothium ore?” X asked.
“Yes, Junior.” Slade turned to him. “What do you think we found thousands of in that mansion's cave?”
Shego continued. “You do nothing to help us, and we will just gladly slash Mrs. Lispky's throat;”
“Or you press your little button – and though we'll die, SHE'LL die, too!” Kim finished.
Wade tried to move forward again-
“STAY RIGHT WHERE YOU ARE, WADE!” Shego bellowed. She dug the blade of the batarang sword closer to the neck of the utterly terrified woman held in her grasp right now. Kim pressed her clawed glove tips a bit closer towards Mrs. Lipsky's neck, too.
“Oh yes,” Kim remembered, “Did we forget to mention that Option #1 is the only one we'll accept?”
Wade put his sword down. “Master.”
“Yes, Apprentice?”
“Time's a'tickin', folks…” Shego pointed at her watch.
“I request that I be allowed to negotiate with these two in private,” said Wade.
That got everybody's attention. Kim looked up. However, she still kept the clawed glove pressed against Mrs. Lipsky's neck. Shego looked up. However, she, too, still kept the batarang sword pressed against Mrs. Lipsky's neck.
“In private?” Slade asked – but understood a half-second later. “Oh, yes, in private…” He seemed to grin under his mask. “We can't share all of our secrets with everyone in here, now - can we?” He thought for a moment. “Yes, your request is granted, Wade.”
Wade bowed. “I shall not fail you, Master.”
“From this moment on,” Slade said, “We are at a truce. Release the cages that we are in, Wade.” Wade nodded, producing the button again and pressing it. The cages lifted up. Everyone sort of ambled out of them.
“Take them to the Control Room, Wade,” Slade went on. “If anyone interferes with the negotiations-” He didn't need to finish the sentence for Wade to get the point…
Wade looked at Kim and Shego. “Follow me.”
“MOVE!” Kim bellowed at Mrs. Lipsky. Still with their weapons pressed against her neck, Kim and Shego escorted the frightened woman out of the room as they followed the path Wade took them on in guiding them out.
In the Control Room the doors opened. The Drakken henchmen at their consoles looked as Wade entered. He looked straight at all of the henchmen. “Out. All of you. NOW,” he commanded, pointing at the door. The henchmen hastily complied, and all of them exited the room.
Kim slammed Mrs. Lipsky's back up against the wall. “Now listen here, you little bitch - if you so much as MOVE while we're doing this - and these claws will strike before you can ever reach the door.” Mrs. Lipsky FURIOUSLY nodded, her eyes locked in state of total terror.
Kim and Shego sat at the table.
Wade took out the vial of what seemed to be red Kool-Aid. “Pure liquid Xinothium ore. I understand you two need 4 teaspoons of it. Well, here's my proposal for what we do:”
The Titans, Ron, Rufus, Red X, Blood, Drakken, and Slade awaited when Wade, Kim, Shego, and Mrs. Lipsky came back in the room.
“We've reached a settlement,” said Wade.
“Oh?” asked Slade.
Shego stepped forward “Yes. The world will now be-” As she was talking, Wade handed an object behind his back to Kim. No one watching caught the action. Kim brought it into view. It was a button trigger with a button large enough for two thumbs to fit on it. Shego grabbed the other side of the button trigger.
Kim gave theevilest grin she’d ever given. “Ours.”
Before anyone could fully realise what the deal was - Shego and Kim pressed the button at EXACTLY the same time.
EVERYONE - except Kim, Wade, and Shego – instantly grabbed for their neck at the rapid cancerous tumors sprang up in their throats, quickly bloating their necks out with purple bumps. Ron fell to his knees, choking. “K-Kim! What?” he gagged. Rufus fell out of his open pocket, having found out through the worst lesson as to why pet owners were discouraged in giving their pets scraps from the table.
“Back while we were at the mansion, we made a promise to each other that we'd never let the other turn evil again.” Kim grinned at Shego. “But neither of us said anything about doing it together…”
Slade doubled over, choking. “WHAT? How did-”
Wade laughed. “I prepared the meals for you guys, plus them. You think I liked being second fiddle? We're a team again - minus Ron, of course. You now live in KimShegoton.”
“Azarath…M - Metrion - Z…Zin…Zintho-” Raven threw her hand out at Kim and Shego, but was unable to complete her chant as the tumors swelled over the last free passageway in her body that air could reach her lungs.
Kim, Shego, and Wade watched, as everyone else along with her collapsed onto the ground, their throats looking hideous as they all died. Well, they weren't dead yet, but they were going to be in a few minutes when their brains shut down forever. There wasn't going to be anyone to revive them. And that was enough for Kim and Shego. The people who had helped in killing their families would die in agony and suffering - just the way they had tried to kill them off. Fuck if there was a bit of collateral damage, the end result was satisfying enough.
But still - Kim and Shego couldn't help but cringe at the hideous bloating of their necks.
“That is definitely not the prettiest way to go out,” Kim added after the cringing.
Shego sighed. “No, it is not.”
“So, why are you keeping me alive?” Wade turned and asked the women.
Shego looked at him like he'd just farted in the middle of a bunch of Mexicans. “You're the only one who can coordinate this army that's so spread out, Wade.”
Kim agreed. “Plus, Shego and I are now the only two people in our whole families left. We need a sperm donor. Course, it'll be in like eight to ten years from now, but it doesn't really matter at the moment.” She looked down at the dead Slade. Something wasn’t right… “Wade? Tech scan Slade's body - please?” she asked him.
“Uh, sure thing.” Wade scanned the body – and had it not been Slade, his jaw would’ve dropped. “Whoah – Kim? Shego? That's a clone. It's not Slade.”
“WHAT?” Shego raged.
Kim looked up, clenching her fist.
“They always get away…”
Nine years later, it was a nice sunny day outside Kim Possible’s house.
Inside, Kim – her disguise as Shego long since worn off, rose from bed as the sunlight hit her face. She was older now, the white streak in her hair a testament to that. She got up and put on her clothes - a green-and-black jumpsuit, with a matching cape that was green on the outer side and black on the inner side.
Kim walked into the TV room as Shego - wearing the same outfit and also sporting a white streak in her hair - came in the front door, carrying a giggling little baby swaddled in green-and-black cloths. The baby swatted at her nose as Shego smiled.
The TV reporter summed everything up beautifully. “Citizens across the world have all gathered to congratulate The Supreme Ones on the birth of their first child, Usgo On Possible, just a few days ago…”
Kim took their baby in her arms. Usgo smiled at her.
Kim smiled back - then she looked up and kissed Shego deeply.
THE END