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Last time on Kim Possible:
Kim felt the blue glow course through her veins, starting from her center and shooting to her tingling fingertips as she spun-dug up the rock of Go Mountain to evil Aviarius’s lair.
“Your villainous plot ends now, Aviarius!” Kim declared woozily, still dizzy from the spinning. Next time, I’m bringing a drill.
Aviarius’s Nest was a large chamber built in a giant cavern atop Go Mountain, stalactites littering the ceiling and stalagmites growing from the floor. The chamber was lit by a series of large torches casting flickering shadows, and at the far end of chamber sat the Avian Ne’er-do-well himself, perched atop a giant throne shaped like what else, a stone bird of some sort.
The Wego twins in were chained to the wall at the foot of the throne in their matching red uniforms, next to the yellow Ugo, the orange Igo, and the pink Theygo. Seven brothers. How did Shego deal, Kim mused, before figuring that the way that Shego dealt was by… not dealing. The men all hung from shackles at their wrists, staring dejectedly at their feet until they looked up and saw Kim.
“Hey! We’re saved!” Igo cheered. Ugo, Theygo, and the Wego twins joined him in cheering.
Kim shook the dizziness from her head and puffed out her chest. “Why thank you. But it’s nothing, really.”
“He’s talking about me, Pumpkin,” Shego said dryly, flipping up the hole and landing next to Kim. She reached back down and dragged Hego and Mego out despite the purple hero’s protestations. “Them too, I guess. But really just me.”
Aviarius’s taunting clapping echoed off the walls of the cavernous chamber. “Hego and Shego,” he cackled from atop his stone throne. “The members of Team Go whose powers I have yet to collect for my own!” He waved his scepter and small portals opened around the walls of the cavern.
From those portals, legions of robotic hummingbirds sped into the chamber, the light glinting off their sharp steel beaks.
The swarm of robo-hummingbirds shot at the heroes, and Kim backflipped away from their pointed metal beaks. She backed up to a giant stalagmite before realizing duh. Super-strength! Kim summoned the blue glow into her hands and felt the increased strength sparking in her muscles. She grabbed the stalagmite behind her and broke it off from the floor. Swinging it like a club, Kim smashed the robotic hummingbirds as they flew at her, pulverizing several at once with each strong swing.
With her super-strength, Kim smashed the bonds holding the Go Bros against the wall. “Thanks for the save,” Igo said, flicking back his hair and flashing her a dazzling grin. Kim couldn’t help but blush and bat her eyes at the handsome hero.
“Enough!” Aviarius shrieked, stomping his feet. “No more Team Go!” He brandished his scepter and the jewel atop glowed in multiple colors, shining bright red, then purple, then orange.
Duplicate Aviariuses emerged from him like shadows, each grinning maniacally. They ran to the group of heroes and assailed them from all sides, even from above.
“And you, Kim Possible,” the main Aviarius declared, “you will face my greatest creation!”
Kim looked over her shoulder to see a door maybe twenty-five feet tall open, smoke billowing from the other side. The ground rumbled under her feet as something stomped up a storm. The smoke cleared, and from the darkness emerged….
“Wow! That’s gotta be the second biggest robot flamingo we’ve ever fought, KP!” Ron called.
Kim ducked under the Flamigobot’s beak as it lunged at her, avoiding anatomically incorrect metal teeth that tried to tear her apart. “What about the one in Maui?” she asked, jumping up and grabbing the flamingo’s neck to try and wrestle it to the ground before it could tear her in half or stomp her into dust.
Ron looked up from where he was tangled with two Aviarius duplicates. “Eh, the Maui one was taller, but this one seems girthier. Whatever he’s feeding it, it’s wor- hey!”
Kim had to keep from rolling her eyes as Hego and Ron got slapped around by a pair of Aviarius duplicates, and Shego slapped her forehead with her gloved hand. “I told you. These idiots are beyond useless.”
“Maybe you have a point,” Kim muttered, clinging onto the neck of the robot flamingo for dear life as it rampaged around. She tried to steer the mechanical beast away from the flailing members of Team Go, its feet narrowly missing the Wego twins. “But we’re not!”
Gritting her teeth, Kim summoned her newfound super-strength and dragged the robo-flamingo down to the ground, wrestling the screaming, raging beast into submission. Pinning the beast to the stony ground by its neck, she locked eyes with Shego from across the chamber
“Nice work, Pumpkin,” Shego shouted, her hands powering with green plasma. She flipped over one of the Aviarius duplicates and tripped another one that was running at super-speed, sending him sprawling into an invisible third one, forcing him to flicker into visibility. When she reached the flamingo, she charged her plasma energy into her hand and clawed through its metal chassis, frying its internal circuitry until it stopped moving. “Now for Aviarius,” Shego declared, turning to face the villain. “We’re too powerful for you!”
“And I’m four powerful! Do your worst, heroes!” Aviarius brandished his staff, and the jewel atop it glowed again with red energy. More Aviarius duplicates spawned and charged the pair of heroines. Shego, a heroine? Man, this day is weird!
Kim held down two super-fast Aviariuses, stopping them in their tracks with her super strength, but an invisible third snuck up on her and grabbed her around the neck. “Argh, they’re too powerful,” Kim ground out, tossing the duplicates aside. “Shego! What do we do?”
The green woman thought for a moment. “We need to get that scepter away from him. Think you can draw his attention, Pumpkin?”
“Ron usually handles the distractions, but how hard could it be?”
Kim backflipped over a charging Aviarius duplicate, but a white beam of electric light blasted from the crystal on top of Aviarius’s staff and struck Kim straight in the chest, draining the blue meteoric power from her body like a vampire sucking her dry of blood. She watched the blue glow leave her body and flow into the crystal, charging it with a bright blue color. The drain felt like someone had sucked the life-force itself from her body, and Kim slumped to the ground in exhaustion. Wow. Being the distraction is harder than I thought.
“Ahahaha!” Aviarius cackled, waving around his staff and trailing blue sparks from his newfound power. “What do you have to say to that, Possible?”
“I’d say you fell for the oldest trick in the book,” Shego laughed, landing behind the gloating avian villain and reaching over his shoulder to grab the powered crystal gem. Her hand was powered with green plasma energy, and her razor-sharp nails pierced the gem, pulling it free from Aviarius’s staff.
The Go brothers cheered and chanted their victorious sister’s name as the Aviarius duplicates vanished and the avian villain collapsed to the ground. “Well done, Shego! Give us our powers back so we may celebrate our victory!”
Shego tossed the magic crystal up and down in her hand. “I could do that,” she mused. Her smile turned wicked. “Or… I could do this!” She charged the green plasma power in her hands and overloaded the crystal, cracks forming in the surface of the large gemstone as energy of various colors flowed into Shego.
Oh no.
“Now all the powers of Team Go are mine!” Shego crowed, throwing back her head and laughing villainously. The gemstone fell to the ground and shattered, the pieces empty of their previous luster and smoking. “You idiots fell for the second oldest trick in the book!”
“But Shego,” Hego whispered, heartbroken and utterly betrayed. “Why?”
“Why?!” Shego barked out an incredulous laugh. “Why do you think?! Why do you think I ditched you losers to work for a guy who wants to take over the world? I’m bad to the bone, baby!”
Kim grit her teeth and got up into her fighting stance. “You’re not keeping those powers, Shego!”
Shego smirked and gestured to her. “Just try and take them, Princess!”
The two of them had danced like this a hundred times before, but this fight was different. Shego was faster and stronger, capable of dodging Kim’s attacks before they started and leaving imprints in the stone walls where her punches landed. One bad move… and Shego’ll smash my head like a pumpkin!
Kim blocked a couple of punches and countered, but Shego activated her yellow-glow super-speed and dodged Kim’s kick. “This might be too much for you to handle, Kimmie!” Shego sneered, as a red power surrounded her. She split off into four different duplicate Shegos, and they surrounded Kim, running at super-speed and leaving orange speed-trails.
Uh oh, Kim thought, trying to block supersonic kicks and punches coming at her from every direction. Her efforts were futile against four super-fast, super-strong opponents, and the blows found her way past her defenses, knocking her around with all the dismissiveness of a cat batting around at toy. Ow ow ow ow….
With a shout, Ron ran into the fray to help. He was without much success, as Shego dashed in front of him and hoisted him up with her newfound super-strength. Laughing, she tossed the boy across the room with a single hand. “This is great!” Shego said happily. “Is this how you always lived, Hego? I could get used to this!”
“You’re not gonna get the chance,” Kim snarled, rushing at Shego. An invisible duplicate tackled Kim from her blind spot, holding her tightly while she squirmed helplessly.
Kim glanced over to Team Go for help, but they just looked at each other helplessly. Now’s not the time to be useless, she thought. As if in response, Hego charged and futilely engaged his sister. He punched and kicked with all his now-regular might, but Shego yawned and batted him aside with a single finger.
“What do we do?” the Wego twins asked together. “How do we stop her?”
“Shego’s unstoppable!” Mego complained. “With my shrinking powers, she’s unbeatable!”
“Hey,” Igo complained, the orange hero crossing his arms. “Super-speed is a pretty good power!”
“And flight too!” Ugo added.
Mego was unconvinced. “your powers were okay, but everyone knows I was most in-tune with the meteor’s energy”
Shego doubled over with laughter, flinging Hego over her shoulder. “You?! Mego, you didn’t even know how to use your powers?”
“What do you mean?” Mego frowned. “You get smaller and then you grow back to normal size. What’s to know?”
“This!” Shego grinned, purple energy surrounding her, and grew bigger and bigger until she was four or five times her usual size. She cackled loudly, her booming voice echoing around the chamber. Taller than a giraffe, she held Kim up in a giant fist high up in the air.
“You can do that?!” Mego exclaimed from below.
Theygo shrugged. “Honestly, we thought you knew.”
“Yeah, we all wondered why you didn’t. It would’ve been helpful,” one of the Wego twins added.
“Oh yeah? Well, I didn’t!”
So not the time! Kim activated a wrist laser, searing Shego’s palm until she let out a pained yelp and opened her burned hand. As she fell to the ground, Kim pulled her grappling gun and fired into the rocky cavern ceiling above Shego. Swinging around the giant Shego, Kim landed on her forearm and activated a flash function on her watch, pointing the watch face right in Shego’s eyes.
“Argh!” Shego shouted, temporarily blinded by the bright flash of light. While Shego was distracted, Kim dropped to the ground, rolling to break her fall, and shot her back-up grappling hook between Shego’s feet, tripping the giant woman.
Shego tumbled to the ground with a earthquaking thud, the impact jarring her and shrinking her back to normal size.
“Had enough?” Kim asked, arms crossed as she stood over her fallen foe. “Ready to give back those stolen powers?”
Shego smirked. “Not even close, Princess.” Like an orange bolt of lightning, she sprung to her feet and grabbed Kim by the shirt and pulled her high up into the air with Ugo’s yellow powers of flight. “End of the line!” With Hego’s super strength, Shego’s grip was far too tight for Kim to break free, and her other hand glowed bright green with her plasma energy her razor-sharp fingernails so close to Kim’s face that the heat radiating from them was scalding.
“Don’t do it, Shego!” Hego’s heroic voice called out. The burly blue hero ran over to them and reached up for Shego. “Shego, you’re a hero! Not a villain!”
Shego sneered down at her brother. “I’m not a hero.”
“Yes you are,” Hego pleaded earnestly. “But more than that… you’re family.”
Family. In spite herself, Shego couldn’t pretend as if she was unaffected by Hego’s emotional appeal. Her shoulders sagged in resignation and she opened her hand to let Kim go. To Kim’s utter disbelief, Shego turned to give Hego and the rest of her brothers a soft smile. “Family?” she asked quietly. “Even after all I’ve done?”
Hego nodded with a blinding grin. “Family,” he affirmed, taking Shego’s hands in his own. “We’re family forever.”
Wow… I don’t believe it, Kim thought… like a rube.
With a wicked grin, Shego flipped Hego over her shoulder, throwing him painfully against the stone wall. “You guys are suckers forever. I’ll give you that!” she laughed, charging with blue and yellow energy before flying through the stone wall of the cavern and into the evening air.
With stunned, heavy hearts, Kim, Ron, and Team Go watched her disappear over the horizon with all of the Go powers. The seven Go men couldn’t help but stand there powerlessly, their hopes for heroism dashed in an instant. Never mind. I totally believe it, Kim thought, not wanting to break the awkward, defeated silence that hung over all of them.
“Man, what a bummer,” Ron said at last, shoving his hands in his pockets as he watched her fly off into the distance. “Right, Rufus?” Rufus stuck his head out of the pocket of Ron’s cargo pants and chattered in agreement.
“Even after all this time, Shego couldn’t shake the evil clouds that ensnare her,” Hego mourned.
“So, now what?” Igo turned to ask Theygo.
“I don’t know. Bueno Nacho?”
Hego struck a dramatic, heroic pose. “We must hand Aviarius to the authorities and return to Go Tower to regroup. Evil may still be afoot, and Go City needs Team Go to defend her!”
Mego rolled his eyes. “We lost our powers! You’re delusional, Hego.”
“Don’t you get it, brothers,” Hego insisted. “Even without the meteor’s powers, we still saved Go City!” Seeing that he was beginning to convince his brothers, he continued. “We were so caught up in our individual powers, that we forgot our greatest power! Teamwork!” Ugo, Theygo, and the Wego twins nodded sagely, seeing wisdom in their oldest brother’s words
“Actually, Kim saved the-” Ron tried to say, before Kim cut him off with a hand over his mouth.
“Yeah, you guys totally saved the day! Who needs that magic rainbow meteor? You’re all still heroes!” Kim said enthusiastically. She elbowed Ron harshly and whispered, “I am not staying here and joining Team Go. No chance!”
“Kim Possible is right!” Hego declared. “Powers or no powers, Team Go will never balk in the face of villainy! We shall fight the forces of evil… together!”
“Hear hear!” Igo and Theygo cheered, hoisting the squawking Aviarius onto their shoulders. They joined their brothers in chanting “Team Go! Team Go! Team Go!”
“I guess if you all are going to reform Team Go…” Mego said hesitantly.
Ron gave him a harsh shove into his brothers. “Just get in there so we can leave,” he said impatiently.