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Ah, Go City, Chicago. The home of Team Go, and also the Mucho Grande Bueno Nacho, which managed to make history in the fast food industry.

At Go Tower, Team Go was currently lounging at their round table in the main HQ. Hego was reading some sort of magazine featuring celebrities. Mego was reading something on his phone. And the Wego twins were both playing video games.

It had been about a few weeks since they, with the help of Team Possible, put Electronique back in jail for another several years…or less, since Ron did blast her with the Reverse Polarizer and turned her “good”.

Ever since then, nothing seemed to be on Team Go’s radar. The mayor of the city had nothing to report to them, nor did the local police department. So, the team had a rare day off.

One which was about to be…getting more interesting.

The alarm for the doorway went off, and Hego’s head shot up from his magazine, craning his neck to look at their big screen. The camera outside showed Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable, Team Go’s allies, who were also known as Team Possible.

“Hey! It’s Kim..”

“And Ron!”

Mego groaned, slamming his phone on the table. “Seriously? Right when we actually have a break!”

Hego glared at Mego for his attitude, and pressed the button next to him on the table, letting them in.

“Uh..hello Ms. Possible, Ronald, didn’t expect you two to be here today.” Hego said, as Kim and Ron walked into the main room.

“Quite frankly, we didn’t either.” Kim shrugged her shoulders. “We actually came here because…we need your help with a…family emergency.”

Hego frowned at Kim, confused. “I’m sorry, Ms. Possible, but I do not see how that requires our help.”

“It’s regarding your niece, Joss.” Kim informed them, earning nothing but stunned silence. So, they really were Joss’s uncles.

“H-How do you know of her?” Hego asked her, eyes widened in shock.

Kim smiled bittersweetly at all of the Team Go members. “What kind of cousin would I be if I didn’t remember my little cousin’s name?”

Hego, Mego, and the Wegos all gaped at her. She couldn’t blame them. Until today, she wasn’t aware that Alison’s side of the family was related to the Go family, or…whatever their real names were. Wow, have the tables turned on all of them.

“Wait, wait, wait, so you’re saying that…our niece is YOUR cousin? Meaning…we’re related to a Possible?!” Mego exclaimed, clearly not happy about what was revealed.

“Yuuuuuup.” Kim smirked in amusement at Mego’s horrified look. “Though, if it’s any consolation, we’re not related. Joss is the only family member related to you…well, besides Alison.”

They all visibly cringed at the mention of their mutual family member.

“What’s going on with Joselyn, Ms. Possible?” Hego asked Kim, his voice lacing concern.

Kim sighed, crossing her arms over her chest. “Joss…found out about what happened with Alison. Who she was before she married my Uncle Slim. She understandably didn’t take it well, and shut herself out from us.

We were hoping since you guys seemed to be close to her when she was younger, that you could help her cope.”

Hego gave Kim a questioning look. “What do you mean? Alison being a hero wasn’t a family secret!”

“…What?” Kim was also now confused. “What do you mean Alison was a hero?”

Ron frowned. “Wait, are you telling us Alison was a hero, and THEN a supervillain?”

Hego and the others all stared at Kim and Ron as if they both suddenly grew another eye.

“SHE WAS A SUPERVILLAIN?” They all exclaimed.

“Hold on, are you telling me she kept that from you, or you just didn’t know?” Kim asked them, exasperated.

“We didn’t know..”

“Ago turned into a villain!”

Kim blinked at the new name the Wegos gave Alison, narrowing her eyes at Hego and Mego skeptically. “Ago?”

Mego groaned, throwing his head back in an over-exaggerating manner. “Okay, I’m confused. You said Ago was a supervillain? What was her villain name?”

“Agony.”

Hego didn’t seem to take the news as..calmly. “The infamous woman who wreaked havoc across Go City for 5 YEARS? She was Agony?!”

Hego was always very expressive with his emotions. That was something Kim observed over the time she spent with Team Go, whether it be when they had to team up, or when she saw a live broadcast on the news about them.

His super strength flared, as he grit his teeth and looked like he was going to beat down their table.

“Uh…Hego? Maybe you should turn down the glow a few notches?” Wego 1 said, glancing around them sheepishly. “We wanna keep our tower in tact so that the mayor doesn’t kill us.”

“That…TRAITOR!” Hego roared.

“You mentioned Alison was also this..Ago? Was she a part of Team Go before Shego left?” Kim asked, raising an eyebrow at the brothers.

All 4 brothers flinched at the mention of their rogue sister, but confirmed Kim’s question with a nod.

“She was there with us the day the comet hit our house.” Mego scoffed. “Like all of us, she got her own special power. And when Hego brought up the idea of Team Go, she seemed to be on board.

After a few years, something happened, and Ago up and left. We didn’t know where she went, or what she was doing now…until you told us just now she was Agony.”

Kim frowned. The fact that Team Go didn’t know their own cousin was Agony, the woman who was hell-bent on bringing Go City to its knees, was surprising. But, since they didn’t know Shego was actually evil until Aviarius came back, she supposed it wasn’t unexpected.

“Okay, so you’re saying that Alison, your cousin, was a part of Team Go and took up the alias Ago. After a few years, she quit the team, became Agony, and tried to destroy Go City, met my Uncle Slim, and then retired from villainy after giving birth to Joss?” Kim summed up.

It was a pretty bizarre story, now that she had more information about Alison…Ago…Agony. However, what was missing, is how Alison turned to villainy. Was it for the same reasons Shego apparently left for, or was it something else?

With how Team Go seems to word it, they don’t want her to find out. And she’ll respect that…unless they decide to reveal it to her themselves.

The curiosity is still lingering, though.

“Yuuuup.”

“Yeah, that’s pretty much it.”

“Indeed.”

That’s probably going to be the only answers she’ll get out of them. “…Okay, back on track - are you in, or not?”

The boys comically leaned in and whispered to each other, trying to come up with at least one mutual agreement. Kim wondered, how did they ever manage to get anything done if they were sort of always like this?

“We’ll do it.” Hego said, stating the group’s final decision for them.

“Great, but you might want to get the Go Jet…or whatever it’s called. My car’s not big enough to fit 6 people.” Kim cringed at how hard it would’ve been to fit 6 people into a car like the Sloth. She’s more than grateful Team Go has their own equipment.

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Rage.

Joss grit her teeth, clenching her fists as she stomped up the stairs to her bedroom. She couldn’t believe it. She couldn’t believe every word that came out of her father’s mouth.

How dare he? How dare he keep this from her?! He knew she wanted to know more about her mother, he knew that she spent years in the dark. He knew she was growing up, and that she was considered old enough to know of something so…crucial to her mother’s tragic end.

“GRAH!” Joss shrieked, waving her hands around frantically as she sat on her bed.

“That…two-faced…idiot of a father I have!” Joss growled.

“He lied to me…he turned his back on me…he BETRAYED me.” Joss murmured, staring down at her lap. It wasn’t just her father who betrayed her though. Kim.

“She-She knew…ever since she started crime-fighting. She was only 13, and she knew my Mama k-killed herself?” Joss’s anger for Kim boiled, as she only grew angrier at her cousin.

“Why does SHE get to know everything and I don’t? Why am I the only person who never knew anything about Mama!?” She continued to rant to herself.

“I’m not a child anymore! I’m 13 now. And I wanna be treated like I am!”

She knew that if everyone else were here with her, they would tell her otherwise. But she doesn’t care. She doesn’t care about them anymore. Screw it. Screw them. They’re not as hurt as she is!

“Sweet Tea? Are you alright?” Slim’s voice echoed from the other side of the trapdoor.

Joss froze in her place, eyes widened. Did he…hear her? What she said about…them?

“Yeah, Daddy, I’m okay!” Joss called back to him. “Just talkin’ to Sarah!”

Sarah was her best friend at her school. She was actually one of the first people besides their mutual friend, Jessica, who didn’t seem to treat Joss like the best thing in the world because she was related to THE Kim Possible.

Sarah was…also someone who made Joss feel a certain way she couldn’t describe. It was like something in her chest was burning whenever Sarah was around her, whenever they talked, whenever Sarah laughed at the jokes she made during class…

She felt strange. That was it..sort of.

Thinking of Sarah seemed to have made her anger simmer down, but not entirely. She was still mad at Kim, and her Daddy, and everyone else who knew of her Mama’s death before her.

“Okay, Sweet Tea. Just checkin’!”

Joss sighed in relief, hearing her Daddy’s footsteps fade away.

Despite how all the family drama took a toll on her appetite earlier, Joss was feeling a bit hungry now. She groaned, jolting up from where she laid on her bed, and making her way to the trapdoor, walking like she was a practically a zombie.

When Joss made it to the bottom of the steps, Slim was sitting at the kitchen table, sipping from a steaming cup of tea.

Slim perked up when he saw Joss standing a few meters away from him, and smiled at his daughter. “Oh, hey, Sweet Tea. Ya hungry?”

“How’d you know?”

“Father’s instinct.” He partly joked. “C’mere, kiddo. I’ll get ya some food.”

Joss gladly obliged, sitting down across from her where her Dad sat, as he got up and prepared a plate for her. She sighed, propping her head up with her palm, and staring down into the hard mahogany table.

“Here ya go, Sweet Tea!” Slim announced, setting the plate down in front of her. It was a simple dinner - steak, with fresh corn, and a portion of rice pilaf.

“Thanks, Daddy.” She murmured.

Slim, sensing how dejected his daughter looked, frowned. “Are you alright, Sweet Tea?”

“I’m fine, Dad.” Joss claimed, rolling her eyes at him.

“Joselyn-“

“I said I’m fine!” Joss snapped, taking Slim aback. Joss has never yelled at him before…well, she did. But, it was never this aggressive.

“…Now, listen here, young lady.” Slim said sternly. “I know you’re still upset about what happened earlier, but that does not mean you can start actin’ fresh with me!”

Joss growled, slamming her fist against the table. “Well, maybe if ya just told me the truth before, I wouldn’t be!”

Slim had it. He couldn’t keep his temper under control, not when his daughter needs a taste of reality.

“See this right here? This is why I told everyone to not tell ya.” Slim pointed out. “You are a child, and you act like a child. I knew you weren’t old enough to handle this without blaming everyone who kept it a secret from you!”

Joss shot him a death glare, stabbing her fork into her steak. “I AM NOT A CHILD ANYMORE, Daddy! I’m 13, not 3. And I deserved to know as the daughter of the woman who’s DEAD!”

“You do not deserve to know anythin’ unless I want ya to!” Slim shot back.

“I spent most of my early childhood not knowing how Mama died, and you tell me ONLY because Kim told you to! You were planning on keeping it secret until I was 30!” Joss pointed out, growling at her father.

“No, I was not!”

“You were too! Kim told you that I was gonna have to find out someday, she didn’t mean TODAY, but you still decided to tell me!” Joss sniffled, her facade slowly crumbling, and the walls she built up ever since the huge revelation, began to fall apart.

She was crying, no, sobbing, in front of her father now. The little girl Slim raised, instead of the shell of herself she became due to her grief, came back in that moment.

“Why…Why did you do this?” She cried to him. “Please…just tell me already!”

Slim sighed, sympathetically gazing down at his daughter…his only daughter.

“…Sweet Tea, your mother…was my everything. And, while she did…make a lot of mistakes, she made up for it by being who she was before her death. I didn’t tell ya nothin’ bout her because I didn’t wanna crush your spirit.”

Joss sniffled, refusing to meet Slim’s sorrowful eyes. “C-Crush..my spirit?”

Slim chuckled. His daughter just didn’t understand how much power she held inside, huh? Her mother was definitely no different. A real powerhouse, she was. And she seemed to pass that on to their daughter.

“You’re special, Joselyn. The same way your Mama was. You have her spirit. And boy, ain’t it a strong one. When you said ya wanted to be just like your cousin, and tried so hard to copy her stunts, I knew that someday your Mama’s inner fighter attitude would reflect onto you.”

Well, if he’s going to be honest with her about Alison for now on, there is something else he should possibly tell her.

“Joss…there’s another thing ‘bout yer Mom I shoulda mentioned.” Joss peeled up, and even if she was a mess, she couldn’t help but be intrigued. Especially when it’s more information on her Mama.

“Yer mother..she was on this hero team, way before her days as Agony began. She was hit by this strange comet that hit her and her cousins’ house one day, and since the accident, she’s had this uncanny ability.” He cringed internally at how said ability affected her life with him. She was something else when she was giving birth to Joss.

“Comet that gives people powers?” Joss murmured. “Where did I hear that?”

She did recall this one time she was reading on a website about how these 5 siblings (4 boys, 1 girl) all got hit by this rainbow colored comet that granted them special powers. Super strength, shrinking, duplication, and…plasma.

There was only one person Joss knew who had the ability to produce plasma. Shego.

Wait…if Shego got one of the abilities those 5 kids were given does that mean..?

It finally clicked. She gasped, her jaw practically falling down to the ground at what she just figured out.

“Mama..was a superhero? On…On Team Go?!” Joss exclaimed in disbelief. “Which means…”

“Yes, you may have comet powers-“

“Shego is is my AUNT!?”

They both stared at each other for a split second, not expecting what came out of the other’s mouth.

“Yes, Shego is yer aunt. But that’s not the point here, Sweet Tea. Your mother had this ability, and when you were born…we theorized that maybe..you have it too.”

Joss swallowed a lump in her throat, and nodded. “Okay…so…what was her power? How do we find out I have it?”

“Reflection. She could reflect other powers in use and use them to her own ability. But, if she uses them all at once, then she starts sucking energy out of the original holders.” Slim explained, knowing there was a chance his daughter would automatically want to try and activate the power.

“So I can use their powers, but if I use them all at once like how Shego did with Aviarius’s staff..”

Slim nodded. “Then you’ll start to drain their energy from them.”

“Quite right, Mr. Possible.” Slim and Joss both whipped their heads around to notice Kim, Ron and Team Go were standing a few meters away from them.

“Oh…hey Kim, I didn’t know ya left - wait…is that..?”

Kim smiled at her little cousin, nodding to confirm Joss’s suspicion. “Yup, they’re your uncles, Team Go.”

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They say that you should stay true to yourself, and do whatever you think is best for you. Not just other people.

For me, well…I stayed true to myself by going to where I can find answers. Find out the secrets my family kept from me for the 13 years of my life, ever since I was brought into this world.

I can never blame my family. As much as I wanted to, I know they were trying to do what I am doing - what’s best for themselves, and also what they thought was best for me as I grew older. I cant blame Daddy, who took Mama’s death the hardest out of the two of us. I cant blame Kim, as she didn’t want to put too much pressure on me when I’m barely as old as she was when she began to be a crime fighter. I cant blame Uncle James, or Aunt Ann.

But there is someone else who I CAN blame - myself. Even if I can’t bring it in to blame myself for Mama’s death. I just can’t. But it doesn’t mean that same self-destructing feeling’s still there. Stuck in my head. Haunting me at every corner I turn.

I cant turn back. I NEED to find answers.

Joss sighed, as she stared out the window of the plane seat. Through the glass pane, she saw the beautiful scene below. Go City, Illinois.

No turning back.