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“Are you… Insane!”
“What? No! I’m not insane; I’m perfectly sound of mind.” Kimberly Anne Possible lifted the binoculars back up to her eyes and adjusted the focus. “Well, kind of… I think.” She shrugged as Ron Stoppable skewed his eyes at her.
“I knew you shouldn’t have been let back onto missions again so soon after the confusion-o-ray hit you.”
“Pfft such a stupid name for a ray gun, Ron-o-ray, but hey don’t worry Ron, it’s no big Ron. So not the Drama Ron.”
“You just said my name, like four times and did you just call the confusion-o-ray the Ron-o-ray? I think you need to go ho-”
“Shhhhush! I see Shego! She’s on the roof using her green to get in.”
“OMG, we’re going to die today. Please let’s just leave now Kim, I don’t think Wade was thinking to clearly when he let you back in the field. Please!”
“Ron.” Kim stood up, placed the binoculars into his pleading hands and squared her shoulders. “My wordy skills are mixed up and maybe I am a little jumbled in the brain when I need to, you know remember names of things, but my field test was totally ace, I even beat my old record for dummy punching and disarming the boom-boom sticks.”
“The boom-boom sticks? You mean guns?”
“Rufus gets it, don’t you Tofu?” Kim looked at the hairless rodent for agreement, who for once seemed to hold no faith in the mighty Kim Possible that stood before them.
He shook his head violently and pointed away from Shego and Kims’ spur of the moment plan, mimicking Ron the best he could for them to go home.
“See even Rufus thinks this is a bad idea and he’s braver than me.”
“Urgh whatever Stoppable, I’m going.” Kim pulled out her new-snap-on-pull-back-action-wrist watch and fired a thin steel cord across the divide, cleanly hooking it onto a menacing looking gargoyle.
“Look, so far so good.” With that the steel cord on their side dug into the edge of the building they now occupied, Allowing Kim to leap off the side, hook onto the cord with some gizmo she couldn’t remember the name of and zipped effortlessly across.
“Kim! Kim!” Ron stood motionless for a few seconds as he watched Kim face danger head on once again. “Great, I wanted to eat tacos tonight, but no, there had to be a Shego, some danger and a craze Kim.” Kim reached the other side successfully. “Let’s go Rufus. Don’t want her to get into any more trouble now do we.”
Kim slunk carefully in the shadows cast by the overly large air vents, with years of practised eyes and ears checking for any hidden armed men or traps. She came to the conclusion Shego was on a solo mission tonight as there were none of these things.
The emergency door had been spotlessly cut in all the right places, and the faintest glow of green made Kim smile. She’d been itching to get back into the action for weeks now and had gone above and beyond in order to prove herself ready, and aside from the occasional laps in correct wording she’d been doing great, except for every so often when she’d smack herself in the face when trying to throw a punch or tripped when walking. But she’d gotten the hang of controlling her limbs and she could now tell if something was going to go wrong, so she’d managed to get past all the tests without anyone noticing her blunders.
Maybe she should’ve said something, maybe she shouldn’t have taken up missions again and maybe Ron was right. But she couldn’t handle being cooped up at home any longer, she felt like she was being driven slowly insane by her family, Ron and tacos. So when she had past her test and still had to wait to see action due to lack of criminal activity, she was thrilled and could’ve hugged the green bandit for interrupting another dreary evening.
She noticed movement out of the corner of her eye, Ron was making his way across at a less than snail pace across the zip line, she considered waiting for him but decided against it and slipped inside a little less gracefully than typical. The stairs were barely lit as she sped tiptoed down, stopping to look for where Shego may have gone, three floors down she noticed one emergency door propped open on it hinges, the alarm dismantled. It seems Shego was taking her time on this heist.
The passage way on the eighteenth floor was marbled and recently cleaned, and aside from a few obscure signs marking a door way or two, there was little to tell Kim what exactly was about to be stolen. About the tenth door down, which was open, she noticed a familiar green and black silhouette standing over a hugely cluttered desk, typing away at a keyboard, she gave no signs that she had heard Kim enter. Kim stood for a moment eyeing this evil villain; silently thanking her in her mind like a prayer, she softly cleared her throat. Shego jumped slightly but not too much, then spun around and smiled her smile, the kind only Shego could pull off.
“Why hello there Princess, fancy meeting you here but, I thought you were taking some me time, or was I mistaken?”
“I took as much me-self time as I can mutter.” Shego raised her eyebrows at Kims’ remark.
“Riiight, ok? Is that bozo the clown and fearless rat friend with you or are you solo tonight?”
Right on cue, as if staged, Ron ran past the door way, paused then backwards jogged and stopped out of breath in the threshold.
“Hey KP…. I see… you…. Found… her….” he pointed loosely at Shego. He then bent forward and began inhaling loudly.
“Uh… yes. Tom Moppable is here.” Kim paused and thought about her sentence then shrugged believing it was close enough.
“Moppable? I like that makes me think of a sad janitor always making a mess instead of cleaning it up.” Shego stretched her black gloved hands to the side and ignited her green flames. “Hope you’re ready Kimmie, I’m about to whip that vacation time out of you.”
“I can’t wait!” Kim hunkered down in preparation, forcing Ron to step back out into the passage way. “Bring it Shingles….”
Shego raised her eyebrows. “Trash talking so early? How nice.” With that the green and black clad woman launched forward, tumbling into Kim and bringing her into the passage way, where Ron seemed to be finding a safe place to hide.
Kim rolled and stood up, redefined her stance and swept forward to begin their fight in earnest. Blows where exchanged as Kim grinned from ear to ear, happy to be doing something she loved with someone who seemed to love it just as much. Shego to, found herself smiling happily as she missed a feint and got hit in the chest by one of Kimmies better moves. The two women danced with pleasure as they each landed a blow upon the other. After a few minutes they separated for the traditional breath catcher and or insult swapping segment of their routine.
“I really missed you Shego… I mean this… I missed Shego… this…. Dammit.” Kim stumbled over her words again much to Shegos’ bemusement and Rons annoyance and belief tonight would end in disaster.
“That’s sweet princess, I missed you too.” Shego winked and Kim blushed.
“Shut left, I mean up, shut up.” Kim grimaced at her inability to be witty and threw herself once again into the fight. Feints, punches, kicks, plasma blasts and back flips flooded the tiled floor, pushing Ron further and further back in order not to get in their way. Unfortunately it wasn’t Ron that had to be careful, but Kim, who besides her best efforts to keep control of her limbs, felt the familiar numbness spread from the tip of her toes upwards at an alarming rate and as luck would have it, just as Shego threw a plasma punch towards her.
Kim fell forward and connected with Shego’s fist. The burning sensation on Kims face lasted for a split second before Shego turned from aggressor to saviour.
Kind of.
She stepped in, pulled her fist back and caught her in an awkward flip around move that could have been mistaken as a last twist in an actual Tango dance.
Shego held on for a second too long for comfort as Kim blushed profusely then was dropped with a thud on to her posterior.
“Well….” A beep was heard from Shegos’ wrist watch. “That was fun, but its time I left seeing as my jobs done.” She winked again at the flustered Kim and ran back the way she came.
“You ok KP?”
“Shut up Tom.” Kim watched the green clad woman disappear knowing full well her chance to catch her was gone.
“Yeah ok we’re going back to headquarters and you’re going to get a full medical again, KP. And I don’t care if you hate me.”