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“So, doc, what exactly are we looking for here?” Shego asked to her boss.
“Be quiet!” Drakken, blue skinned and criminal mad scientist replied to his sidekick, “I told you! We’re looking for the plans to this secret government weapon, and we gotta be sneaky!”
“Dunno why you won’t let me handle it if that’s the case, but…?”
“How would you recognize which ones are the right ones!?”
“How about stealing all of them and problem solved?”
He nervously adjusted his lab-coat’s neckline, “Er… remind me of that next time!”
“There won’t be a next time, Drakken!” A new voice said just before the laboratory’s lights were turn on, revealing the intruders’ location and the presence of two now-college students. Drakken growled at the present of their arch-enemy.
“Kim Possible!!” He yelled at the redhead woman who in his opinion should look for a new hobby, preferably one that didn’t involve fighting crime.
“Dude, we already know you know her name!” Ron Stoppable, Kim’s sidekick and best friend, voiced out, “Now, if only you could do the same with mine…”
“And if only you could perhaps pace yourselves, I mean, seriously, it’s summer holidays! Can’t we ever get some vacations from you guys?”
“Yeah, yeah, yadda-yadda,” Shego interrupted, stepping forward for what they all knew that was coming, though she took a moment to look around before starting with what by now was tradition, “She’s not here, is she?”
Kim’s confident look suddenly changed into an irritated one, “I’m SO grounding her if she’s here!”
“Oh, good, now that that’s out of the way…”
The green woman’s hands lit up with emerald flames that were her trademark ability before she jumped at the redhead, who quickly engaged her into a fight. The blond boy quickly moved aside, letting the ladies do their things.
“You know,” Ron spoke to Drakken, “you still owe 20 bucks for our last bet.”
“Arg! She cheated!”
“Not my fault you decided to bet for Kim last time.” He replied while taking a look at the fight, “Say, I’ve always wondered…”
“What?” He replied, trying to scan the area in hopes to at least get away with the plans he was looking for.
“How come that, despite how much they fight, not to mention Shego’s freaky powers, their clothes just never get damaged like in so many Anime shows out there?”
Drakken’s lab-coat felt tight once again, “Er… why would you ask that?”
“C’mon! Wouldn’t it be awesome?”
“I heard that, Sidekick!!” Shego yelled from where she was fighting.
“Aw, crap…”
“Busted!” Rufus, the naked mole-rat, said as his head popped out from Ron’s cargo-pants’ pocket.
“I’ll just deal with things as they come,” Ron replied to his pet, then looked back at Drakken, “you really never thought of that?”
“Well, uhm… Shego’s suit is very resistant, so it’s unlikely to happen. Not sure about your girlfriend, but…”
“Er… she’s not my girlfriend.”
“She’s not?”
“For quite a while already. Man, catch up with the news!”
“Teenage drama ain’t news!” He replied in something that looked like a hissy fit, “So… why aren’t you trying to stop me?”
“‘Cause you haven’t moved from where you are. We could fight and struggle as we usually do – not as cool as them, that’s for sure – but I thought you just decided we’d save ourselves the bother this time.”
“Oh!”
“I mean, it’s up to you!”
“Yeah, that… actually sounds like a good idea.”
“That’s what I thought! So, who do you wanna bet on this time?”
On the other end of the lab, the other half of each team wasn’t getting along so well. Kim, despite her younger age, usually handled herself just fine against the world-renowned criminal, but tonight things just weren’t going her way, and this had been a trend for the last few months…
She blocked Shego’s horizontal slash and tried to counterattack, only to have herself blocked by the green woman’s elbow and then hit by her fist right between her breasts, which pushed her against the wall, from where she quickly had to roll to her side to avoid her nemesis’ next hit, which pierced through the wall.
“What’s with you lately!?”
“Well, what do you think?” She replied with a smirk, “I’m not letting you go home and brag about having beaten me!”
“Oh, I’m gonna brag about much more than that!” She said, getting up and delivering a kick Shego barely blocked, “You’re going to jail!”
“I-I’ve decided!” Drakken finally said.
“About time, dude! I was getting tired of playing Spider on the Kimmunicator!”
“I’m betting for Shego this time!”
“You sure?”
“You’re not getting this one, buffoon!”
He shrugged, “Alright, I’m confident that Kim will pull out something soon enough so-”
His words were interrupted by a female voice’s scream as its owner fell hard on the ground between the scientist and the sidekick. A distressed look filled Ron’s face as he saw Kim forcing herself to stand up… and barely managing.
“K-Ki-” He managed to say before he noticed a gloved hand with dangerously edgy claws right next to his neck.
“Don’t move an inch, Sidekick!”
“HA!” Drakken yelled, pointing a finger at Ron, “Now the bet’s even!”
“What the hell are you wasting time with!?” Shego questioned. To say she looked unhappy would be a bit of an understatement. “Go get what we came for already!”
“O-on it!” He replied before getting away from the scene.
“S-Shego…” Kim growled, looking crossly at the green-skinned woman.
“I don’t think it’s in your sidekick’s advantage to do anything, Kimmie.”
She actually let out a small laugh, “Ron?”
“In a moment, KP!” He replied eagerly.
“What? What can you possibly do in your sit-” She was saying before she suddenly felt an intense piercing pain right over her shoulder, whose source she got a hold off and threw away, “AGH! Goddamn moler-!”
Again, that’s as far as she got to say before the underestimated sidekick, no longer held at point-blank, performed a quick, slicing kick that threw Shego off her feet before quickly jumping away and catching his pet and best buddy in the world midair.
“Good work, buddy!” He said, clashing his index finger with Rufus’s pawn in their personal high-five.
“You two-!”
“Ron!” Kim claimed, quickly stepping between him and Shego, “Hurry up and catch Drakken!”
“But KP, you-!”
“Just GO!”
Against his best judgment, he obeyed, alas…
“Shego, I found it!” Drakken claimed, showing up and holding the scrolled plans high in his hand.
“Alright!” She said, lighting up both hands now, “Let’s wrap this up, shall we?!”
Knowing what was to come, Kim got ready to avoid the blast. Not taking his chances, though, Ron quickly dashed forward, hugged Kim and covered her, and took Shego’s blast right between his shoulderblades. As they were both blasted away, Ron rolled around to take the fall as well.
“Ron!!!” Kim yelled, seeing his friend’s borderline unconscious on the ground, but not lethally wounded. She then heard – and subsequently watched – Drakken and Shego getting away.
“Wait here, Ron…”
Ron nodded, forcing a smile, enough to let her know he’d be okay.
‘Those two must have actually forgotten who I am…’ She thought as she hurried outside.
The laboratory was located at the outskirts of the city, a place isolated enough to safely hide something in the bushes. That was where Drakken had left their usual hover-pod. They already had it floating a good 30 feet over the ground by the time Kim arrived. Seeing victory at hand, Drakken couldn’t help but to brag.
“You think you’re all that, Kim Possible, but tonight we have proven you’re-!”
But as interruptions were the latest fashion tonight, his happened when Kim’s grappling-hook shook the hover-pod, and the next thing he knew, the redhead was crouching right in front of them, not looking happy…
“I’m Kim Possible…”
Shego, green burning plasma in her hands, tried to attack, only to have her arm blocked by Kim’s kick, who – having stepped forward in her attack – now stood right next to Drakken, the grappling-hook’s rope – in her grip – already surrounding the doctor as her free hand took the plans and blueprints away from him. The rope got also tied around one of the flying vehicle’s levels before she jumped out, her weight pulling the rope and simultaneously capturing Drakken tightly and pulling the level, setting the pod at full speed and thus sending it flying away just in time as she cut free from grappling gun and its rope.
“And I! Can!! Do!!! ANYTHING!!!” The whole thing had taken just as much as it took her to say that.
After she landed and got back up, her enemies’ scared screams were already disappearing the distance. She was confident in that they wouldn’t try to return now. She’d have to safeguard the blueprints ‘til tomorrow, anyway, and she knew Shego and Drakken would never attack her at her home.
“KP!” She heard Ron calling out. She then saw him quickly clearing the distance between them. “You made it?”
“No big!” She said, proudly holding the blueprints in her hand. “What about you, Ron? That was a hard hit…”
“Meh, nothing a couple of painkiller won’t solve,” he replied, stretching his back a bit, “got any of those in the Sloth?”
“Yeah… I’ll need to take a couple as well,” she said as she rubbed her shoulder. Next she took out her Kimmunicator and contacted their tech-expert, “Wade? You can inform the authorities that Drakken’s plans were foiled. We’ll be safeguarding what they tried to steal ‘til tomorrow to keep it safe.”
“Great job, KP!” The Afro-American teenager congratulated from his room, “Sorry this had to come up tonight. I know you’ve been stressed lately with the moving and… other things…”
“It’s okay, Wade. None of this is your fault.”
“Speaking of which… she already guessed you went on a mission without her.”
“You told her?”
“I denied it… but she didn’t believe me.”
Kim sighed, “Anyway, we better head back already. It’s late and you’ve got to help me tomorrow.”
“Aw, man. Did you have to remind me of that?” Ron asked as Kim turned off her Kimmunicator and began walking toward her car.
“Come on, I’ll drive you home.”
“Are you sure? Wouldn’t that be a big delay?”
“Hey, the later I arrive home, the better as far as I’m concerned.”
“Why’s that? I mean, the problems are over and-”
“Speak for yourself!” She interrupted for the last time of that mission, “For me, this was the easy part!”
After leaving Ron at his place and driving nearly a mile more, Kim reached the residence she currently considered home. It was a small apparent that was… well, if she had to be sincere, below average. Even though there were only two people living there, they barely had enough space. Especially with all the boxes piled around that still needed to be unpacked, and neither the bathroom nor the kitchen were worth writing home about. They had separate rooms, but that only limited the amount of free space. Sharing the room and using the other one for storage would have helped the situation, but…
‘Just… not gonna happen…’
At least the place was clean and renovated thanks to the help of her friends and some of the people that owed Kim a favor – including a certain villainess – and was, all things considered, decent and comfortable for what it was worth. The landlady was a pain in the ass (though god forbid that was spoken out loud), but the neighbors were nice. It was bit crowded, but they’ll would soon have everything they needed.
Now, if only she could look forward to arriving home…
“KIM!!!” The person living with her yelled the very moment she stepped into the apartment. Kim simply rested against the closed door.
Seconds later, a slightly petite, thin and – most notably – pale-green skinned thirteen years old girl with dark, shoulder-length hair walked up to her, wearing nothing but a black long shirt, slippers and presumably panties below the shirt. Not that Kim could tell, though.
“You went on a mission without me, didn’t you!?”
Kim sighed and repeated the phrase that nowadays felt even more overused than her motto.
“Agni, you’re not allowed to go into missions!”
“Says Miss-Law-and-Order!” She replied, kicking the floor.
“Says your mother and I! You already caused Shego enough troubles last time!”
“You went and fought my mom and didn’t take me?!”
“What did you want to be there for!? Cheerleading for her while we fought?!” The redhead questioned, already exasperated.
“Cheerlead!? You think I’m gonna fall as low as to follow your footstep?!”
“You’re talking to the woman who beat your oh-so idealized mom tonight, kid.”
“Yeah?” She questioned, looking at her up and down, “the bruises in your body tell me otherwise!”
“Oh, for crying out loud!” She yelled as she walked past the little girl, finally throwing herself on their couch, “why in the world did I agree to taking care of an ungrateful brat like you!?”
“Because, like my mom puts it, you’re a goody-two-shoes with a Messiah Complex that just can’t ever say No to people.” Agni replied, “Admit it; my mother kicked your ass!”
“It was a draw!” She replied, turning around the couch and facing up. “She got the upper hand on the battle, but I foiled their plan in the end.”
“You haven’t been on your best lately…” Agni commented, not in a mocking tone, but more like actually stating a fact.
“I know…” The redhead admitted, her arm resting over her forehead, “I’m just… not getting enough rest, and getting too tired during the days…”
“Get a shower and go to sleep. Still early enough for you to get some rest and I can watch whatever I want on the TV.”
“I was actually planning that much,” Kim agreed, slowly getting up from the couch, “that is, after I make us dinner.”
“YOU want to make dinner?!”
“C’mon, even I can manage a simple meal for two people.”
As soon as Kim entered the kitchen, Agni ran to pick up something from her room.
“Oh, for Christ’s sake!” the redhead cried as she fought to put down the fire with a towel. When suddenly a loudly noise clamored out accompanied by a thick white cloud that covered everything. The next moment everything was silent. Her eyes throbbed as she rubbed her hand across them to clear her vision. She turned to find her roommate at the kitchen’s entrance with a particular “weapon of choice”.
“Where did you get that extinguisher!?”
“Brought it last time we went to your ‘rents’ place, hidden in one of my boxes,” she said as she put it aside, “Ain’t you glad I did, Rachael Ray?”
“Yeah, yeah, very funny!” she said, removing some of the foam from herself, then eyeing the clock in the wall, “Alright, it’s still early enough to go to Bueno Nacho, I guess. We’ll just have to make it shower first and then dinner.”
“Bueno Nacho?” She repeated, “Great, this is like living with my uncle after all! Glad to see you’re doing your part to fight the national obesity problem.”
“There is healthy food at Bueno Nacho, you don’t have to follow Ron’s example. Now come on, let’s hit the shower.”
“Wait, you want us to shower together?”
“You’re not wasting all the hot water again!”
“But-!”
“Oh, wait, you’re a prude?”
“HELLS NO!!!”
Kim knew that would get her.
“Oh-My-God! You’re a true redhead!!”
The redhead banged her head against the shower’s wall.
Not long after that, the girls were at the neighborhood’s favorite restaurant. Or at least, most of the neighborhood’s favorite restaurant.
“When you spend your whole life in one crappy city, it’s normal to hope the menus at other branches might be different. So imagine my overwhelming joy to be proven right by the single most disgusting edible heart-attack in history,” the pre-teen said as Kim set their food on the table, consisting of a big salad to share and some toasted cheese-and-ham sandwiches.
“Honestly, you should track down and send to jail whoever’s the evil mind behind the Naco…”
Kim had to suppress a laugh about that. Instead focusing on how annoying the little brat could be.
“Can’t we have one dinner in peace?”
Agni grinned, “With one condition!”
Kim already didn’t like where this was going.
“Next time you’re fighting my mom, take me with you. That way, ya can’t bullshit anything to me when she kicks your ass.”
In a certain redhead’s opinion, the younger girl was an expert at ruining every moment of peace she could have.
“I already told you, Agni-”
“It’s dangerous business!” she said along the redhead, rubbing on her face in annoyance at how tried and tired that line was.
Kim was already giving up the idea of a peaceful dinner.
“I know what could solve that problem,” the green girl said with an impish smile.
This time, it was Kim’s turn to feel that she heard Agni’s coming suggestion far too many times for one lifetime.
“You already know my answer.”
But then the mischievous smile died, replaced by one of anger as Agni hit the table violently.
“Why won’t you train me already!?” she demanded, “You agreed to that when I agreed to live with you, but you keep delaying it or making excuses for it!”
“Summer vacation is almost over, Agni.” the redhead said with a strict and parental tone of voice, “We still have to finish moving. You’re starting on Middletown High School in three weeks, and I’m starting college in less than that. We both got more important things to focus on.”
“This is important!” the younger girl insisted, “You’re just making excuses.”
Kim sighed. In her mind, she had to admit to herself that Agni was completely right about that. But at the same time, she knew that she couldn’t admit it out loud. She just… couldn’t… neither admit it, nor give in to her request.
It wasn’t that Kim didn’t think that Agni could take the training, or even that she couldn’t make time for her. No, the problem was another, and it carried with it one of Kim’s greatest fears: That she had no solution in sight for it, despite being the so called girl that could do anything.
“I’ll try to make some time for the day after tomorrow,” she lied, already making plans for escaping the deal.
“I’ll hold you to it.” her roommate replied with a frown, which only reinforced the reason Kim kept trying to avoid training Agni.
Said reason being a fear that surpassed everything she knew before, a fear fueled by Agni’s abrasiveness, reinforced by the kid’s attitude towards her, despite the fact that Kim saved her life in the past. Such ungratefulness she could simply dismiss, but to teach everything she knew about combat to someone like her?
If Kim had at least the slightest suspicion that Agni held some intention of following her footsteps, she would probably concede her wish, pass on her capabilities to a worthy successor, but as appealing as the idea was, Kim could only see it as foolish. She knew very well that she wasn’t Agni’s role model.
No, someone else was…
“Let’s just eat and go home, please…” she said, doing her best to hide the sadness in her voice, “I really need some rest…”
When they finally finished and went back to the Sloth for the ride back to their apartment, it didn’t escape Agni that it took Kim half a minute more than her to step into the car.
“What was that?” she asked, but then noticed she was holding her Kimmunicator, so Kim’s answer was pretty predictable.
“Just a message from Wade.”
As she started the car, Kim couldn’t help but to reflect on how Agni’s pestering or attitude was actually far from the worst of her new lifestyle. Frustrating, hell yeah, but far from the worst.
No, the worst was… well, she really never expected that raising a child would require so much lying. She also hated that she was getting good at it…