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Drakken cackled with glee. This time, nothing could stop him. He eagerly looked around without seeing anything, planning ahead for what he would do with his world.
"Earth to blue dolt, come in blue dolt. Hey there, wanna share what's so funny? Or, I don't know, maybe help out a bit? Do something besides be worthless all the time? What the hell am I even looking for over here?" The sound of Shego's mocking voice grated on his ears. He didn't even understand how he could have ever liked her, let alone dated her. Not that that had lasted long; they had only gone on the one date, and she had been mercilessly mocking him about it since. He growled as he thought about some of her acidic comments. Oh yes, that bitch would need to get hers in triplicate.
Schooling himself to calmness, he speaks normally "It's the silver one with blue and orange bands. Can't you even pay enough attention to know what you're stealing or is that too much work for your highness?" He had noted that she hated being called lazy or mocked about her money or social status; he now took the chance to do so at every opportunity.
She had been getting progressively sicker of his attitude since their one disastrous date. She hadn't told him yet, but this attempted evil plan was a milestone. Her contract had options for her to leave at certain numbers of failed plans, and when this one failed she was done. She was so sick of his shit she was going to hand him straight over to Betty too, kind of as a 'I'm sorry, please don't have me arrested too present.' That should work, even if the good Director didn't want to let her go.
Drakken smiled. Shego had been so busy with getting the one part for him she hadn't notice him pocketing another part. His plans for revenge were on track.
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"-and so the induction catalyzes the crystalline matrix, the inorganic composite will-" Shego decided that was enough of this BS session of Drakken's. She doubted he knew she actually understood far more of his lectures than she let on about.
"What does it do?" At this point she doubted he even knew.
"Gives back stuff you've stolen and minds its' own business?" Came an all too familiar voice as a heating vent cover fell from the lair's roof.
Kim and Ron moved to intercept the villains, Ron going for Drakken, Kim heading for Shego. Neither was sure, but as Shego passed Ron and sprung towards Kim they both could swear they heard her say "OH THANK YOU GOD!" Apparently the moss hued woman had had enough of Drakken's meaningless lectures for the day.
They flew at each other Shego and Kim's fight quickly settling into a routine like a pair of dancers practicing for a competition. Drakken and Ron however were still trying to equalize with their new abilities. Where things just devolved into a slap fight before, Ron's Monkey powers and Drakken's flower powers added a new dimension to their fights. Holding Ron off with his vines, Drakken lined up a shot on Kim with his newest ray gun. As Ron tried to deflect the barrel a strange orange light ray shot forth, enveloping both Kim and Shego. They staggered mid fight. Ron was still trying to get the gun from Drakken. As they struggled over the gun, Shego raised on hand from her knees and blasted Drakken square in the back, forcing Drakken to release the gun and sending him flying into a large red button behind him. The gun swang back from being released and was flung full force into the wall, shattering into a trillion little pieces.
Ron looked around the room, and was stunned by the sight that greeted him. Kim and Shego were at one end of the room, laying in tumbled heaps. If it weren't for the occasional movement of their chests, he would suspect they were dead with how still they were. Drakken lay bonelessly, sprawled on the ground, blood trickling from his temple where he had struck the wall. The central display in the room ticked a glowing countdown from 60. He panicked for a second wondering how to move three living lumps when he heard a strangled groan. Seeing Shego standing up he thought great, I can't grab Kim and stop her and Drakken from getting away. He was shocked to see her strain to pick up Kim. He would yell at her about it, but there was no time. He was even more surprised when he outpaced her, despite carrying the much heavier Drakken. They still managed to get out before the lair went up. Then they were outside, looming over a smoking crater that had been a mountain.
He spun to confront Shego, still unsure he could prevent her escape. He noticed her gently setting Kim down. She collapsed bonelessly as soon as she straightened out. Ron was barely able to catch her. He didn't even think about doing it, but he was raised right, and letting anyone fall on their face was wrong. Besides she could have fallen on Kim. He felt a huge rush of relief as the he heard the helicopter coming to pick them up.
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He had won the argument in the chopper. The GJ agents had wanted to head straight to the prison, but he was worried about Kim. It had taken a bit of arguing, as well as pointing out that he had punched an alien through his starship and would have no issue doing the same to them and their chopper. So they had gone to the hospital, which appears to have been a good thing. Drakken had gotten treatment for his head wound (he had even mad a crack about getting him treatment for a defective brain while they were at it. )
Doctors had immediately began examining Kim and Shego. Shego would "wake up" every 5 to 15 minutes, do a trivial task, and then collapse into a comatose state. Kim had done the same thing once. Ron was going out of his mind worrying about his girlfriend; nothing like this had ever happened to her.
Anne walked up to Ron at this point. "Hey Dr Mrs P. What's up?"
"Ron, I know you're like family, but visiting hours are over. I'm sorry dear, but you need to go home. I'll call you if anything changes."
"Mrs P--" There were times (Mrs.) Dr. Possible hated her daughter's best friend. She was busy, had a full caseload, her own daughter had unknown head trauma and he was whining at her like a spoiled little brat. She had no idea what she would do if those two tried to take their relationship seriously, but she suspected it would be legendarily bad.
"No Ron, no buts, no excuses, no exceptions. Go home." She was glad she had managed to mask her irritation and disdain.
Ron stumbled off like a crushed man. He walked home dejectedly like a boy who had to put down his puppy. I wouldn't have made any trouble, why wouldn't she let me stay. I'm her damn boyfriend, I should get to stay in the hospital and watch her.
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Anne was getting more frustrated. She had already had Ron banned from the hospital, and subsequently had to explain herself to the Stoppables, The Dean of Medicine (a bureaucratic rat of a man she and the other doctors casually despised) and had two fights with James about it. She gave a ferocious grin, one that would terrify most people, as she remembered the outcome of those fights. The first she granted reasonably that he had backed off when she had reminded him she was a professional doctor, and that this wasn't something personal this time. The second fight had been about Ron and his worthiness as a boyfriend. James had extolled his virtues. He is polite, nice, clean, and safe. She retorted that he was klutzy, possibly retarded (she regretted that one, and had really said it only in the heat of anger), and wasn't enough of a challenge for Kim. He would be her whipped and hen-pecked boy toy within a year at the rate they were going; if that were to happen, then they would eventually end up hating each other.
James hadn't liked that, but had liked sleeping on the couch less. The make-up sex that night however was phenomenal. He had asked her not to interfere with Kim's love life; he had settled for her agreement to not directly interfere.
Meanwhile, her patients had been getting stranger. Shego was continuing to get up and clean her room, or some other minor menial task, then collapse again every 5 to 15 minutes. Kim was now doing the same thing every 2 hours; the time between incidents for her had been steadily shrinking. She wracked her brain for what could be causing this odd behaviour. She looked at the readouts piled on her desk.
It was almost like they would stabilize their brain waves, advance toward recovery, then they would get up doing something physical, then relapse toward comatose. Wait, what if she could block the physical activity? It might let them finish healing. She jumped up from her desk and shouted "EUREKA". She looked around embarrassed for a moment, checking to make sure no one had seen her.
She wasted no time in putting her plan into action. First, mainly due to the fact that intervals between incidents were shorter, she tried Shego. She was worried about this, but hadn't seen many option; Shego's healing factor made trying to sedate her a chancy proposition at best. So she had put her on a moderate dose of sedatives, constantly administered through an IV drip. After a 45 minute intensive treatment she had the IV removed. So far, no incident. Shego had yet to wake up, causing Anne to become worried about potentially damaging the woman's system with the dosage; she wasted several concerned minutes wishing that more was known of the green woman and her abilities. Soon however she was left to treat her daughter. She was not looking forward to this. She wanted Shego to have recovered first, or at least some sign she might recover. She really needed to do this now though. After all, she knew the damage being comatose could do to the body and mind; she should get this over with as soon as it could be done.
Kim's shot should have been much simpler and easier. Without Shego's metabolism and strange healing powers it would only take a simple shot of mid-grade sedatives. As she was giving the shot however, things changed rapidly. She had just inserted the hypodermic when Ron opened the window and slid in. This startled Anne, who jumped forward and jabbed the plunger. She growled in frustration, hit the nurse call button, and spun to deal with Ron.
"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING YOU LITTLE CREEP?!?! You shouldn't be here now even if you hadn't been banned from hospital grounds. You're interfering with medical treatment! You could have seriously hurt her!" Anne snapped. Even as she said it, she regretted yelling at him, especially calling him a creep. If James found out she would be in serious trouble for that. But you just didn't sneak into hospital rooms. It was dangerous on many levels. She turned and gave the nurse a brief rundown of the issue, and instructed her to look at the injection site for damage. Turning her attention back to Ron she continues "I have to have you arrested now Ron, hospital policy. You were banned from hospital property and returned, that's trespassing. You interrupted a medical procedure, that could be reckless endangerment. I'll call your family and let them know..."
Ron had been listening,seething as Kim's mother barked at him. He hated it. He hated how she talked down to him, how she looked at him like some kind of slimey specimen that should be returned to the lab, and he hated her. HE was Kim's boyfriend. Everyone knew they would be married eventually, so hell the way he saw it he was her fianceè. HE had saved the world; He didn't have to put up with this shit. As his thoughts went on like this, his hands began to glow a light blue. Suddenly he snapped, and pulling his hand back, let loose. His blow struck Dr. (Mrs.) Possible directly on the right cheek.
"..." He tried to speak, but words didn't come. Unsure if he was going to apologise or something else the opportunity passes. Suddenly, a pale green figure in a ridiculously small hospital issue dressing gown was in front of him.
"Easy way or hard way buffoon? We both know you aren't beating me, so lower your fists and powers or suffer the consequences." Shego stated strongly, with a broad smirk spread across her face. Ron raised his hand, mouth opening and closing again with no noise issuing forth. Shego laughed. "Hard way. Good choice. Well, for me, bad choice for you."
They began to fight and she noticed he was surprisingly adept at guessing and blocking her moves, but was having a hard time landing one of his own. The sedatives in her system was giving him an advantage, and while she would work them out (even faster than normal now with the adrenaline surge of combat), she needed to end this fast; preferably before he landed a blow that knocked her into orbit. She knew he had been watching her fights with Kimmie, but the Magical Baboon whatever he had now was letting him adapt quicker than she liked.
Suddenly an idea struck her. She giggled with strange glee as she quickly put it into motion. He swung for her chest, and she dodged back, falling almost completely to the ground in a very awkward looking way. Ron was more concerned with the foot in his armpit than her stance though. That blow had a lot of power, and hurt. He swung down with both fists, but Shego kicked off his ribs pushing him away and propelling her upward. He roared and charged. She spun, her hands held open and in a circle like they were full with imaginary packages. As she spun away, her rounded arms struck the small of his back, sending him tumbling.
Ron leapt up and at her in a flying charge. She smiled, swinging down like a drunk person trying to pick up their car keys as she did so her left elbow extended; just in time to catch Ron in the right eye and sending him flying back. She rolled forward from the force, bounced her feet into the wall and rebounded towards Ron her had swinging forward to slap him in the center of the forehead. As her hand connected, a green flare burst from it and he slumped into unconsciousness.
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Kim opened her eyes in time to see a crowd of nurses surrounding her mother. None of them could spare the time to explain what had happened. She staggered out of bed, looking for answers. When she stumbled into the hall, she saw several Global Justice agents there. She stopped and asked "What's the sitch?" three times. The first one didn't answer, the second one responded with a gruff "Get lost kid!"
The third agent answered her. "Don't really know ma'am. Doctor Director is interviewing a suspect in that room over there and we were all ordered to secure the floor. You look like you should go back to bed and rest though." She was about to reply when she saw her mother being rushed past her towards the elevator.
As the team of doctors rushed past she could hear snippets of conversation. "Definite damage to the zygomatic bone. We need to X-ray to see if it is fractured.""Possible damage to the Ocular shelf, be careful around the eye."
Kim didn't understand any of the terminology, but she did understand that her mother was badly hurt.
She lunged into the room where Dr. Director was questioning a suspect, shocked to see her sipping coffee and chit-chatting with the woman who had hurt her mother. Both Dr. Director and Shego looked shocked at the intrusion. "This time I will end you Shego! How dare you hurt my mother?" And with that over dramatic statement she flew into the room, lunging at her hated foe.
And came face to face with a chair. She looked up and saw Shego standing with one leg extended her other leg holding her weight in a modified horse stance. Her chair lay on the ground next to Kim. She sat there looking shocked for a moment. she hadn't even see Shego move. A sneer stain the pale woman's face. "Careful there Cupcake, don't want to hurt yourself." Kim moved to stand, but stopped as she saw Dr. Director.
"Shego, stow it. Kim, get in that chair." As the redhead rushed to comply and the moss hued woman pulled up another chair from the table Betty glanced from one to the other. She held her carefully crafted blank expression as she mentally processed the looks on both womens faces. Shego's glare barely concealed a wounded expression, while the younger woman's face looked betrayed that she would go after her family. Wow, and she thought her love life was rough. She made a mental note to review the tapes of the women's previous encounters for evidence of her new suspicion.
Returning to the task at hand, the brunette started by trying to allay some of the redhead's concerns. "Shego didn't hurt your mother, we have that suspect in custody at a supermax facility. Due to his strength, he is being kept sedated additionally. I am negotiating with Shego here for testimony versus Dr. Lipsky."
"Dammit Bets, I told you I am done. I am coming in from the cold, either with GJ, or publicly. Truth is Princess," She said turning to the younger woman " I'm with Global Justice. Have been for years. I'm an undercover operative."
"WHAT?!?!?" Kim couldn't have been more shocked if a new moon had appeared in the sky.