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Part 6. “A new world”

 

by Skytower

 

Going through a time/space warp was a little like jumping into a shower and jumping out again.  While you were tied up, blindfolded and gagged.  For a few brief moments that felt like an eternity nothing worked.  You couldn’t see, hear, taste or smell.  Then it all came back to you as if you had been woken up from a deep sleep.

            Kim felt reality form around her and the first concrete thought in her head was: ‘What a view!’

            The reason for that thought was that she and She-Go materialized at least a thousand feet above the ground.  Above them was the deep black of the night sky filled with clouds, bellow them was the even deeper black of the Atlantic Ocean.  There were features to be seen in both the sea and the sky, dark upon dark shapes and shades of gray.  In the distance were the dim lights of the coastline cities.  The space suits display showed their position.

            “Told ya we’d need the suits.” She-Go said, her voice coming through the comlink.

            “She-Go…” Kim said with a warning tone in her voice.  Both she and She-Go were wearing stolen Star Command space suits.  They were constructed from some sort of alloy that was stronger than iron and yet as flexible as cloth.  The suits came equipped with jet packs and a wrist laser and other gadgets.  The tech in them was centuries beyond anything that Earth had.  A few feet away She-Go smiled at her from inside the bubble helmet.

            “Don’t worry Kimmie, I won’t give it to Draken.”  Her silver suit flashed a bit in the sun.

            Kim relaxed a bit.  She-Go generally kept her word.

            “And I won’t tell anyone that you made love to space aliens.” She-Go taunted.

            “Don’t you DARE!” Kim shouted with more worry in her voice than she wanted to show.

            “Later Princess.” She-Go called out.  With a jaunty wave of her hand she flew off.

            Kim sighed.  Her experiences in that other dimension were something she’d put in the ultra-encrypted secret part of her diary.  If she ever actually wrote it all down.  Just thinking of the stuff that had happened to her made her blush scarlet.  She’d die if anyone ever knew everything that she’d been through.  She-Go could tell the world.  But She-Go had been through some bad stuff as well, just not as bad.  She’d met and made love to their counterparts.  Voluntarily!  Kim still felt her heart speed up at the thought.  Before sending them through the time/space warp Kimski had outlined what her and Shelia Blackstar’s love life was like.  Kim had listened spellbound and when Kimski described how She-Go had joined in Kim’s stomach had done flip-flops and her heart had leapt into her throat.  When Kimski was done she told Kim that she wanted them all to try it.  With Kim at her size!  That had made Kim’s mouth drop open and she had broken out in a cold sweat.

            Kim had been thankful that it had just been her and Kimski in the medical bay.  She could never have endured it if She-Go had been there.  As it was it had taken her five minutes to stumble through the reasons that a four way love making session was not going to happen.  There were a lot of reasons.  Not the least of which was that Kim liked boys.  She had always liked boys.  Never until DN-Amy’s potion had she been attracted to girls.  Or attracted to She-Go.  Also She-Go was one of her archenemies.  Or would be when they got back to Earth.

            Kimski had argued and it scared Kim that the mouse queen had almost been successful.  It was like arguing with herself and in a way it was.  Kimski and Sheila were the dimensional counterparts of Kim and She-Go.  Also Kimski and Sheila had rescued her and Kimski had played on Kim's gratitude.  They had argued for an hour and Kim had felt herself weakening; enticed by Kimski’s pleas and promises and her own curiosity.  The rules were different in that universe after all.  Who would know?  In the end only the fact that the O.S.S. Draken had arrived at the space/time warp planet of Bermuda had ended the argument.  But Kimski had promised that someday they’d meet again.  Like Kim she didn’t give up easily.  

            Kim flipped open the compartment on her right wrist and entered in the frequency Wade used for her Kim-municator.  She hoped that she was in time to get the antidote to Monique.  After that she hoped that she could go back to some sort of normal life.  Or at least normal for her.  At this point she’d welcome just foiling some supervillains scheme to take over the world.

            There was no response on the frequency and Kim sighed and flew toward Middleton.  The suit was probably too advanced for the modulation Wade used.   It was going to be hard to keep Wade from getting his hands on it but she and She-Go had agreed.  The suits-like so much from that other world-weren’t going to be shared.

            “And now I’m trusting She-Go over Wade?” Kim said shaking her head.  “Why am I doing that?”

            Because she didn’t leave me to Captain Thoe and Fluffy, Kim answered herself.  Or maybe seeing Sheila (a She-Go loyal and true to a friend) has mixed me up somehow.  Her and Kimski love each other, they were on the right side, if the wrong side of the law… but they…  Darn!

            Kim flew on and struggled hard to stop arguing with herself.

            She-Go landed next to her house and flipped the bubble on the helmet open.  Fresh pine air greeted her.  She-Go lived in supervillain lairs, she lived in jail cells, and she lived just about anyplace she could sometimes.  But when She-Go really wanted to get away from the world she lived here.  Her house paid for with her money.  Legally.  Well more or less.  A secret kept from everyone.  It was an isolated mountain house next to a lake.  The area was filled with rich people’s hideaways and everyone respected everyone else’s privacy.  She hadn’t used it too much in the past few years because Draken always had lairs and those lairs always had rooms for her.  Not that she kept much in those rooms beyond clothing.  After all Draken’s lairs tended to blow up.  For that matter most supervillain lairs tended to blow up.  Then of course there was all of the jail time.

            The house was a McMansion that She-Go had grabbed after the real-estate bust.  It had two stories with a full basement and plenty of glass windows with a great view of the lake.  She-Go had paid a supervillain construction crew to add secret underground chambers, a bunker/panic room and a few other surprises.  The place was a well defended fortress.

She-Go placed her hand against the alarm plate and concentrated.  Her Go-Team Glow was impossible to duplicate and made the perfect key.  The door opened and lights came on as she walked in.  The place was clean, She-Go paid a service to come in once a month.  It was all about as legal as she could get even if she had purchased the house under the name: ‘Nancy Drew’.  She’d furnished it over the years with various pieces of furniture combed from lairs and stolen from homes.  A couch from Dr. Dementor, a big screen TV from the Fashionistas… it was comfy.  In a secret room under the furnished basement there were various things that she had grabbed from supervillain lairs.  Stocks, racks, spinners…  She told herself that it was for ebay but the truth was that She-Go had a kinky side.  She just never got to indulge it.

There were trophies from school, high school…  Even with a burgeoning heroine career and a secret identity to protect She-Go had excelled in high school sports.  But she had never been a cheerleader.  The trophies stood on shelves on the walls.   There were even pictures from that early part of her life.  That part from her last year of high school to her early 20’s when she’d mixed heroine work with college.  She-Go paused at the picture of her and Wonder Woman.

God what an insufferable stuckup bitch that amazon had been.  She’d spent their entire adventure lecturing She-Go on what it was to be a heroine in a male dominated superhero field.

            But She-Go didn’t take down the picture.  She never did.  The dopy hero worshiping look she was giving Wonder Woman in the picture reminded her of just how dumb she used to be.  She’d eaten up the lecture and come back for more.  It had taken years for her to see beyond the heroine façade and realize just how little being good would get you.  Everyone else got happily ever after, a heroine just got rope burns and rejection.

            “I’m evil.” She-Go said to the picture as she often did.  She knew the look it that would come over Wonder Woman’s face if she ever said that in person.

            She-Go walked up the stairs to her bedroom and let her mind drift through the past few weeks.  She’d been fighting Kim Possible for nearly four years on and off.  But things had changed.

            “Things or me?” She-Go wondered.  She touched a control on the suit and it split apart leaving her in the form fitting blue under-jumpsuit.  She-Go sat on the bed as she took off her boots.  On the wall across from her was a vanity table and around it were framed family photographs and mementos.  These were her treasures.  Her secret treasures that cut through her cynicism and sarcasm.  Her high school graduation picture and then her college graduation picture showed very little difference.  She was smiling in both pictures and surrounded by family.  Another one was a Christmas shot of She-Go and her brothers’ back when they were children.  A newspaper clipping after the meteorite hit their tree house.  A shot of Team Go in front of the newly completely Go Tower.  She-Go frowned as her eyes passed over that picture.  A jagged edge was torn from it but she could still see the arm around her shoulder.

            Pinned under all of that was a small frameless 2 inch by 2 inch picture of her and Kim Possible.  The edges were singed because she’d almost burnt it.  It was when Electronique had turned She-Go into a virtual Kim-clone.  A heroine.  For a couple of days she had lived in Kim’s house, taught in her school.  The picture showed the two of them with their arms around each other’s shoulders.  It had been taken in the middle of a shopping day at the mall.  

            She-Go pulled off her jumpsuit and headed into the bathroom.  She loved Kim.  There was no use denying that now.  It didn’t matter when it had started; the problem was how to deal with it.  Sure she loved Kim but she didn’t want to go back to thankless life of a heroine.  Even if she did Kim was straight.  Or had been and even if she was open to new ideas there was always the Ron factor to deal with.  Ron was male; She-Go knew that if it came to it he’d jump into bed with Kim and She-Go. But Kimmie…  No, Kim Possible would not go for that.  Not without a strong set of ropes anyway.  And while that was fun to think of it wouldn’t last and She-Go wanted something that would last.

            She-Go sighed.  Ron wasn’t the problem, Kim was.  She-Go needed a Kim that was more Kimski than Kim.  

            “But how the he… heck do I get that?” She-Go wondered allowed as she started the water running in the tub.  “Ok, ‘heck’ instead of ‘hell’, that’s a start but…” She-Go sighed and poured in some bath salts.  “How the heck do I steal her heart?  Gotta be a way.  Like Catwoman taught me there’s always a way to steal stuff.”  

            She-Go stirred the water and thought.  That was the problem really.  Back when she’d turned to villainy She-Go had thought that she could have anything she wanted by stealing it.  Anything could be stolen.  Catwoman had taught her that and more.  But she was beginning to realize that she might have been wrong.  There was no way to steal love.  Catwoman had never managed to steal Batman’s heart.  She laughed it off, but She-Go always suspected that it was a hole in the life that Catwoman had chosen.  She’d catch the older woman every now and then staring off into space.

  Now she knew what that felt like.  It didn’t feel good.  In all of the years of villainy She-Go had never felt as good or had as much fun as she had enjoyed in just a few days in space with Kim.  And turning Kim evil was a non-starter.  Someone with Kim’s abilities would be a nightmare.  She’d be a dominatrix on steroids.  She-Go eased into the water and leaned back.  Idly she ran her hands along her stomach and up to her breasts.  They responded.

            “This isn’t working.” She-Go said.  “It’s not like I don’t have ideas of what to do if I get her in here, it’s how do I get her in here?”

            She-Go sighed and tried to think harder, but she didn’t stop her fingers from playing with her nipples.  There were all sorts of mind control gadgets, hypnosis…  But none of that would be real and She-Go wanted real.

            “I’m gonna get it this time.” She-Go said as she let her fingers play with her body.  “This time I’m gonna get it.”

            Kim flew on in the night wrestling with her feelings and as the dawn broke she approached Middleton.  She was glad of the dawn.  All through the trip she’d wrestled with her feelings toward She-Go.  The other woman was older than Kim, more life-learned despite Kim’s adventures.  One of the happiest times in Kim’s life had been when She-Go turned good.  The shopping trip and fighting alongside her…  But even if Kim could have she wouldn’t use the attitudinator to change She-Go into a good person.  It had to be her own choice.  When she had been a good person, living in Kim’s house, teaching in Kim’s school Kim had felt a deep friendship blossom.  Not a romantic or sexual one.  Kim was sure of that.  Just a few-ok a lot-of hugs.

But She-Go as a good girl, a heroine had been a great partner.  But threesomes (and Kim blushed at even the idea of the word) were awkward.  Ron had felt left out during that time.  Was he jealous?  Did Ron even think that Kim and She-Go…  Kim slammed that line of thought to a stop.  Ron would never think that.

            But what now?  Was there even a chance to reform She-Go?  Maybe if Kim got her together with her brothers again.  Team Go would give She-Go an outlet for her quick temper but what would that mean?  Could Kim still be a friend or would that push Ron away again?  What about Kim’s own feelings?  Ron had felt the same way about Monique at first.  But then again Monique had never beaten him up or tried to kill him.  And she liked wrestling.  Of course so did She-Go but she…

            Stop that! Kim scolded herself.

            What had She-Go been about to say when the attitudinator changed her to evil again?  Kim had never thought that question too much until she met Sheila and Kimski.  Kimski and Sheila loved each other.  But Kim loved Ron.  But if that was the case why couldn’t she stop thinking about She-Go?  Or about what Kimski had told her about She-Go making love to her and Sheila?  Kim was straight, why the heck did that turn her on?  Why couldn’t she settle her mind down?  She was cured now wasn’t she?

            Kim stopped thinking about She-Go as the dawn reflected off of the giant transparent dome that encased the town of Middleton.  She stopped and hovered and watched as the sun came up.  Kim had flown over her hometown many times.  She had seen her house and her high school from the air many times.  But she had never seen it like this.  People stood stone still, caught in mid-motion.  Even birds in the air were stopped.

            Silently Kim landed.  A solid metal ring was set into the ground and there was some writing on it.

            “Zorpox Time Stasis Prison #1” Kim read.  

            Zorpox?  A sinking feeling that had started with the sight of Middleton under a dome now hit bottom.  Ron was Zorpox.  His evil side let loose by the attitudinator.  But how?  

            “Halt.” A quintet of mechanical voices commanded.

            Kim looked up and saw four female themed mechanical robots appear.  They didn’t appear out of thin air, they just moved very, very fast.  Six feet tall they were Bebe robots.  Bustier than Kim remembered from the last time she had faced them, the Bebes had E sized breasts now, but they still had the same blond steal woven hair and one piece black swimsuits with pink belts.  Their skin was still blue.

            “Subject: Kim Possible.” One of them said.  “Directive: Contain for Lord Zorpox.”

            “Not on your transistors!” Kim growled.  Now more than ever she was grateful for the space suit.  The robots moved but Kim flew into the air and fired her wrist laser.  One of the Bebes exploded as the beam hit her.  

            “Alert.” One of the robots said.  “Full alert.  Flying heroine.”

            Kim barely dodged as a flying Bebe appeared and dove at her.  Another appeared and then another.  Suddenly ten flying Bebe robots had surrounded her.

            Kim flew straight up and fired with her laser as she flew.  It worked taking out robot after robot, but more of them showed up.  Eye mounted lasers started to fire back at her.  Kim dodged and headed in the only clear direction.  There were too many of them and they could fly.  The suit would work against a lot but not all of them.  What had happened?  How had Ron become Zorpox again?  How had he rebuilt the robots and trapped the town?

Kim was too distracted by her worries to realize that she was flying into a trap.  A laser beam clipped her wing and the young woman started a long arc toward the ground.  Bebes were gathering to meet her.  Kim fired as she went down and took out a lot of them.  She crashed into the rest and started firing and kept firing until one of them grabbed her from behind pinning her arms to her side.  Kim pushed back and kicked at the two that were coming toward her and then triggered the suits jet pack.  It pushed her back into a tree and the Bebe was smashed.  But before she could do anything else two Bebe’s grabbed both her arms.  Kim was about to twist out of their grip when another appeared and grabbed her arm.  With one arm held in two vise-like grips and the other arm held in a single vise-like grip Kim couldn’t do much as two more Bebes grabbed her legs and lifted her off of the ground.  Writhing in their grip Kim couldn’t do a thing as one of the Bebes pressed a hand against her face.  Rose scented knock out gas filled her head and Kim blacked out.

She-Go’s hot chocolate was cold.  She didn’t realize that until she put the cup to her lips and took a sip.  She put the cup back down.  After her bath She-Go had put on a robe and sat down in front of her computer to check her email.  Her first clue that something was up came when the date and time appeared in the upper right corner of the screen.  It’d been a year since she and Kim had left the planet.  To her and Kim it had only been a week at most, but on Earth time had moved differently.  

Her next shock came when she checked her email.  She-Go got an enormous amount of spam.  Most supervillains did because of the web sights they cruised.  She didn’t use a filter because supervillain email tended to look like spam anyway.  In the nearly 1000 messages listed on her screen one subject line leapt out at her.

“Zorpox invites you to be a part of the new world order.” She-Go read aloud.  “Minions wanted, high pay, dental/medical, retirement options and low risk missions!  Be a part of the New Super Villain Life!  Zorpox has already defeated Wonder Woman and Supergirl!  They are helpless in his prison!  Come Join the Fun!”

She-Go found herself swallowing hard.  Zorpox was Ron Stoppable’s evil side.  That email was dated eight months before.  Was he in jail?  If he were evil again would that make her chance with Kim better?

She quickly skimmed through the rest of the subject listings and found more and more messages from Zorpox.  A long list was growing of the superheroes he had defeated and captured.  Interspaced with the global messages were messages to her personally.

“She-Go, are you out there?” She-Go read as she opened the message.  “Come join me, be the right hand woman for Zorpox!  Draken already works for me.  I can offer you top pay.”

She-Go whistled when she saw the amount he was offering.  Then she opened up the CNN websight for a quick look at the news.  What she saw stunned her.  

“ZNN, The Zorpox News Network?” She-Go read.  A realization came to her as she watched the news feed.  She scrolled back through the RSS newsfeeds that had been downloaded into her computer.  Zorpox had done it.  He’d conquered the world.  Or most of it anyway.  “Oh Kimmie.” She-Go exclaimed softly.  This would crush her.  A smile came to She-Go’s lips.  Kim was going to need help.  She’d be vulnerable.  Hurt.  In desperate need of a friend.  If She-Go could make sure that the attitudinator was smashed then Ron Stopable wouldn’t even be an issue anymore.    

She-Go picked up her phone and dialed the number from Zorpox’s email offer.  A plan was forming in her mind and at the end of that plan the world was free, Zorpox was in jail and Kim Possible was in her arms.  She’d have to become a heroine again, but for Kim it would be worth it.

Kim woke up to a cold chill all along her body.  She opened her eyes, forgetting for a moment that robots had captured her. When ever anyone captured her Kim made it a point to listen before she opened her eyes.  But she was off balance.  The name: ’Zorpox’ would not stop running through her mind.  Her eyes opened and revealed a white drop ceiling with fluorescent lights.  The chill was because she lay nude on a metal table.  Straps at her ankles, wrists, and chest held her immobile.  Electrodes were attacked to nearly ever part of her body, including her breasts and vagina.  Kim looked around and saw a chubby woman wearing jeans and a gray sweater looking at a computer read out of her body.

“Strange, you’re cured.” DN-Amy said.  She spun her chair around and looked at Kim.  A puzzled frown was on her normally smiling face.  “How did you cure yourself?  No one else has.”

            “Where am I?” Kim demanded struggling against the straps.

“You’re in the main science lab at the Zorpox Sky Palace.” DN-Amy said.

“How…” Kim started but her voice broke off as the door to the lab was opened and a man walked in.  Kim shrieked in embarrassment over her nudity and that shriek got even louder as she recognized Brick Flagg, the Middleton High School quarterback.  But a second later her shriek was cut off by amazement.  Brick was only dressed in a black loin cloth and boots and he was carrying a pillow.  On the pillow was a pair of thrones and on the thrones were Bonnie and Monique.  They were both shrunk, but not mice.  Bonnie was wearing a red and blue off the shoulder gown, Monique was wearing a black bikini with a silver cape.  On Brick’s forehead was a little square with a light blinking on and off.  A compliance chip.

“Well?” Bonnie demanded.

“She is cured my queen.” DN-Amy said.  “But I don’t know how.”

“Bonnie?  Monique?” Kim demanded.

“Queen Bonnie.” Ron said appearing in the lab in a flash of light.  “And Queen Monique.”

Kim looked at Ron and horror filled her.  Kim had known that sooner or later Ron would see her completely nude.  She loved him, they would have sex someday she was sure of that.  Sometimes she had speculated on how she’d do it.  A slow strip on their honeymoon?  A quick reveal?  Would there be candlelight?  Music?  Would she have the same look on her face as he would have on his?

But now all that was gone and Kim felt as if a part of her heart had been stolen.  Ron looked at her nude body and Kim felt like she wanted the Earth to swallow her up.  She squeezed her eyes shut to hold back the tears and her throat felt as if she were being strangled.  There was no love in his eyes.  There wasn’t even acknowledgement of her beauty.  After a moment she opened her eyes and looked at him.  He was wearing a military style costume with black boots, black pants and a gray shirt over which he wore a black cape.  His skin was tinged blue.  On his shoulder sat Rufus.  The naked mole rat wore a costume similar to Ron’s.  A scowl was on his pink face.  Behind him She-Go gave Kim a quick look but there was no empathy in her eyes, no comradeship.  She was back in her green and black villain suit.  Kim swallowed and felt a wave of despair flood through her.

“When you didn’t return only they were worthy of being the brides of Zorpox the Conqueror!”

“BRIDES?” Kim shouted renewing her struggles against the straps.  “You married Bonnie!  You married Monique?”

“Only they were evil enough to satisfy me.” Ron said walking over to the shrunken queens.  She-Go lingered next to Kim.  “Once the attitudinator again freed me from my old self it was they saved me when Wonder Woman would have changed me back.  For that crime of course Wonder Woman has paid.  Working together we three conquered the world and will soon extend our reach to the stars!”

He broke out into an evil laugh that fueled Kim’s despair.

“I’m taking Venus while Monique takes Mars.” Bonnie said with a smile on her face that made Kim’s blood boil.

“You can’t have married them!” Kim growled wondering if she could break the table and use it to beat Bonnie to death.  “That’s bigamy!  It’s illegal!”

Ron’s laugh cut through what was left of Kim’s heart.

“I rule the world Kimberly Ann Possible!” He shouted.  “Anything I decided is legal!”

“Our wedding was the supevillain social even of the year.” Bonnie said.  She looked right at Kim and smiled.  “Zorpox gave me Bermuda as a wedding present.”  She winked.  “And the honeymoon wasn’t that bad either.”

“Not for either of us.” Monique said.  “I got France as a present.  The Fashionistas are my henchpeople.”

“And we make Zorpox a lot happier than you ever made Ron.” Bonnie said with a smile.

Kim contemplated using language that had she had never used before as she pulled harder and harder against the straps.  Controlling herself she dug down for any complaint and found one.

“At that size both of you couldn’t satisfy Rufus!” Kim snapped.

“We’re only this way three days a month Kimmie.” Bonnie said smiling.

“And that will not last forever.” Ron said.  “Where is the cure Kim Possible?  She-Go told me that you found it in the other world.”

“You told him!” Kim accused.

“Hey he offered me a job.” She-Go shrugged.  “I had to tell him about the little green guys and how you foiled Captain Thoe’s take over of their planet and how they gave us the cure… well you anyway and you gave it to me and were supposed to bring some for Monique.”

“You’re cured too?” DN-Amy asked.

“Yep.” She-Go said.  She leaned against the table and looked down at Kim.  “But they wouldn’t give me a spacesuit.” She-Go leaned over her and ran her fingers along Kim’s arm and rubbed the leather straps that held her down.  “Princess here wouldn’t let them.”

“The cure was in my suit.” Kim said squirming as She-Go leaned over her.  “It was smashed when the Bebes attacked me.”  Which wasn’t completely true but Kim wasn’t sure where it was.  She’d had it when they attacked but things were fuzzy after that.  It was too late anyway and she wouldn’t have given the cure to the queens no matter what.

“Well get the cure out of her somehow!” Bonnie shouted angry at last.  “Cut her open!”  

“I can’t.” DN-Amy said.  “The virus is completely gone.  There’s no trace.”

“Are you telling me that you have failed again?” Ron demanded.  He turned to her and Kim had never seen the icy stare in his eyes before.  She had never even imagined that something like that could come from Ron.  DN-Amy shrank back.  “Do I have to remind you what the price of failure is?”

“No!” DN-Amy pleaded.  “I’ll find the cure, I swear it!”

“Work harder!” Ron shouted slapping her face.

“You don’t have much time you know.” Ron said.

“When the royal bed is empty my patience grows thin.  I long for the true loves of my life.”

“A better love.” Bonnie said.  “Than you ever knew before.”

“Remember those drawings Kim?” Monique said.  “Well I found out that he’s better in person.”

“Much better.” Bonnie said.

“Oh yea!” Monique said and they high-fived each other.

“You never really made him happy.” Monique said.  “He told us how bad you were at kissing.”

“And how disappointed he was that time when he saw you getting out of the shower.” Bonnie said.

That’ll do it, She-Go thought as she saw the look on Kim’s face.  Now she was furious.  Kim was possessed by the kind of jealous rage that would have frightened She-Go herself.  With a roar Kim snapped the leather restraints and then started to un-strap her other wrist.  She was so fast it was a few seconds before anyone had time to react.  In those few seconds Kim had both arms free and was sitting up.

“Stop her!” Ron shouted.

“My pleasure!” She-Go replied and ignited her right hand as she drove it toward Kim’s midsection.  Kim dodged of course, bending herself double and then snapping back as She-Go missed her.  Kim flattened herself hard pinning She-Go to the table and stunning her at the same time.  That gave Kim all the time she needed to free her ankles and stand up.

In any normal situation She-Go knew that Kim would grab something to cover herself.  But not now.  With a look of fury in her eyes Kim vaulted over She-Go and dove right toward Bonnie and Monique.  She was stopped as Ron activated his force field and the bounce back sent her sailing back into She-Go’s arms.  She-Go got her in a bear hug and Kim pushed back knocking her onto the table.  She-Go held on and they both fell back over it.  For a moment they were out of sight and that was all She-Go needed.  Twisting around she grabbed Kim’s foot and pinned her to the floor.  The hold would not last long but She-Go didn’t need it too.  She took Kim’s foot in her mouth and bit down hard enough to taste blood.  Kim screamed and kicked She-Go in the stomach.  She-Go took the blow and fell back rolling out from behind the table.  Now was time for the second part of her plan and she had to do it fast.  If Ron found out that She-Go had weakened Kim’s bonds with her powers it would all be over.  Straining every muscle She-Go picked up the table Kim had been on and threw it at her.  Kim ducked and the table sailed into another table full of chemicals.  Chain reaction explosions started to rack the lab and the table started to melt.  An electrical wire fell from the ceiling and shorted out Ron’s force field.  

Kim ignored the explosions and leapt at the queens again.  There was a fierce look on her face that She-Go had never seen before.  She-Go liked it.  But there was a plan to follow and-for now-Bonnie and Monique were off limits.  Kim was half way there when She-Go blindsided her.  

Sorry Kimmie, She-Go thought as she let loose with a vicious uppercut that dazed the young heroine.  But this has got to go down this way.

She-Go pressed her attack harder than she ever had before.  If Kim hadn’t been such an emotional wreck she could never have gotten through the cheerleaders guard like this.  She hit Kim with a series of pre-planned blows; two to the stomach, a knee into the pubis, a head butte into Kim’s forehead and finally a knee to the stomach and a massive two-handed blow to the base of the back of Kim’s skull as she bent over double.  Kim collapsed unconscious.

“Well done She-Go.” Ron said.  “Finally you have defeated Kim Possible!”

He let loose with the villainous laugh and Bonnie and Monique joined in.  She-Go smiled, but not for the reason they thought.

“Yea well it was fun.” She-Go said.  “What now?  Torture?”

“Yes!” Bonnie shouted.

“No!” Ron said.  “I have other plans.  Without the cure she is useless to us.  Throw her into the dungeons.  Let her despair of the chance that has eluded her.  The chance to be the First Bride of Zorpox!”

“My pleasure.” She-Go said smiling.

Ok, so he’s conquered the world, She-Go thought.  He’s still supervillain dumb.  I just hope Kimmie straightens her head out when she wakes up.

“Slave!” Ron shouted and the door to the lab opened and a slim Asian woman wearing a sheer black wrap walked into the room and bowed.  On her forehead was a square compliance chip.

“Yes exalted one?”

“Yori, show She-Go where the dungeons are, then return with her to her quarters and tell her how I conquered this world.”  He turned to She-Go.  “She-Go, tonight you’ll join us for dinner and I will tell you what your duties will be.”

He turned and left without another word and after a moment Brick followed him.

He’s supervillain rude anyway, She-Go thought.

“This is our main prison section.” Yuri said as the elevator door opened.

“Nice.” She-Go replied as she walked out of the elevator.  And it was.  The walls were rough stone, the bars on the cells were six inches apart and there was even an air vent running along the ceiling.  Once Kim changed there was no way she couldn’t escape.  She-Go shifted her weight and felt Kim move.  They had stopped a level up and Yori had given She-Go a faux cheerleading outfit and a collar to put on Kim.  Dressing the unconscious heroine had been fun, but it wasn’t what She-Go wanted to with Kim.  Still it gave her a chance to do more than feel Kim up.

“Should we put the vanquished one in a cell alone?”

    “Nah, let’s throw her in with some company.” She-Go said.  She had spotted a woman slumped down in one of the cells and She-Go recognized her.  “This one’ll do.” She-Go said walking over to it.

Yori placed her palm against a pad on the cell door and it opened.  The woman She-Go recognized as Dr. Director looked up at her but gone was the stern woman who had lectured She-Go so many times.  Gone was the woman who had nearly raised She-Go in the ways of a superheroines life.  Gone was the woman that sometimes haunted She-Go’s dreams and always haunted her memories.  Now she just looked at Kim and She-Go and sighed in defeat.

“You’re back.” Dr. Director said.  “And Zorpox has won again.”

“Them’s the breaks.” She-Go said dumping Kim onto the bunk.  She’d never seen Betty this low and She-Go shuddered inside as she realized how good Zorpox was at being bad.  

“I’m so disappointed in you.” Dr. Director said.

She-Go shrugged and walked out of the cell.  The woman’s tone of voice could still hurt her.  She-Go remembered that oh-so patient and tired tone of voice.  She had heard it after so many training sessions and after so many missions.  Training sessions when She-Go hadn’t held back and missions where Dr. Betty Director had judged She-Go to be a bit too harsh on the supercriminals.  She-Go had hung on every word and dreaded that tone.  She longed for that other tone, that tone that was full of love and…

She-Go put a stop to her memories and kept on walking.  Kim was her future, Dr. Director her past.  She had to remember that.

“So tell me about Zorpox.” She-Go said to Yori as they got into the elevator.  “He still like Bueno Nacho?”

“It is the only food he allows anyone to eat.” Yori replied.

Oh I’ll have to overthrow him for that alone, She-Go thought.

  

Kim woke up to a wave of crushing despair.  Her boyfriend was in love with and had married her worst enemy and her best friend.  A three way marriage and she couldn’t even let herself think of the sex.  Her world had been conquered.  Her family imprisoned in some sort of time bubble.  Tears came to her eyes even before she opened them.

“Rest easy Miss Possible.” A sad female voice said.  Kim recognized the voice and saw Dr. Betty Director, head of Global Justice bending over her.  The woman’s short brown hair had grown longer, but she still wore a black eye patch over her left eye.  She was wearing a black halter top and short skirt.  On the halter wore the words “Justice Looser #1”.  Around her neck was a black choker.  “You are safe.”

“Where am I?” Kim asked sitting up.  Looking around she saw that they were in a square cell with bars in the front and cold gray stone walls around them.  There were two bunks, a toilet and sink and a video screen.  

“At the bottom level of Prison 1.” Dr. Director said.  “In what used to be Global Justice Headquarters.  Now it is the Zorpox Sky Palace and we are in the dungeons.”

“What happened?” Kim demanded.  Looking down she realized that she was wearing the same outfit as Dr. Director.  But on Kim’s chest were the words “Worlds Biggest Looser!”

“We lost.” The other woman said slumping against the wall.  “Zorpox won.”

“How?” Kim nearly wailed.  

Dr. Director took a deep breath and seemed to gather her strength.  Kim looked at her and felt the depression deepen.  This was not the same confident woman that she had seen in the past.  She was thin with dark circles under her eyes.  The dungeon reeked of despair and defeat.

“At first Ron asked for help in finding you.” Dr. Director said.  “In the process he stumbled on Electronique who had captured Wonder Woman.  She tried to use her attitudinator on Wonder Woman and Ron got in the way.  At the time we didn’t know that Bonnie and Monique had been affected as well.  Wonder Woman defeated Electronique and used the attitudinator to change Ron back to normal.  But Bonnie and Monique captured her and used it again.  Once he was Zorpox Ron used Wonder Woman’s magic lasso to capture her, and then capture Supergirl.  Team Go rescued them, but that was just part of his plan.  He, Bonnie and Monique went into hiding until they could contact Supergirl again.  Zorpox had given her hypnotic instructions.  Under his directions Supergirl built him a lair and a Bebe robot factory.  Then she forgot about it.  In the meantime strange mutant creatures started appearing all around the globe.  DN-Amy’s work.  They kept us busy while he built his robot army.   His stasis bombs went off at the same time all over the planet, sealing off whole cities in time.  Most of the superheroes were trapped and they still don’t even know it.  Gotham, Metropolis, New York are all time prisons now.”  She started to cry and Kim leaned over and hugged her.  “He worked so fast… it was impossible to stop him.  We couldn't stop the robots.”

"None of your agents?" Kim asked.

“Our best people tried to stop him and failed.” Dr. Director said.  “He was always a step ahead of us, we had no idea how he was…  The superheroes that were free… Superheroes like Wonder Woman, Black Canary… even supervillains like Catwoman and Harley Quinn were captured and placed under his control with compliance chips.  Armies fell before him, heroes… there was nothing we could do.”

“Isn’t there any hope?” Kim asked.

“Team Go is still out there.” Dr. Director said.  “But they’ll fail just as we all did.”

Kim leaned into the woman as her mind and spirit drowned in the despair.  

“I…” She started and then stopped.  A familiar feeling was rising in her body.  Hot and cold flashes competed against each other.  Her nose burned.  Her skin crawled.  Lights flashed on and off in her eyes.  Kim felt her clothing loosen against her body and then fall away.  She gasped for air and found it impossible to breath.

Then it was all over and she was lying nude in a heap of her clothing.

“My god!” Dr. Director gasped.  “You’re like Queen Bonnie and Monique!”

“But I was cured!” Kim insisted as her head spun.  “Kimski cured me.”  She stumbled back into her cloths and felt something scrape against her back.  Kim looked behind her and saw a small note sticking out of the hem of her skirt. A note that no one but a shrunken woman could've written.  She unfolded the note and recognized She-Go’s handwriting.

“Go City, 20th and 4th streets, behind the comic book store, knock three times and then clap once.”

“She-Go?” Kim asked aloud.  Her head cleared as she remembered the fight.  That was how she had been able to break the straps.  She remembered the green glow of She-Go’s fingers on the leather, weakening it.  She had been too mad to notice.  She-Go had bit her knowing that Kim would shrink and be able to escape.  Kimski had warned Kim that she had no immunity if she were ever infected again.  But she had also warned Kim that if she were ever to become infected again there would be side effects. Unpredictable side effects.

“Is she really on my side?” Kim wondered in a soft voice.  “Or is this just a way to trap her brothers?  Am I back to trusting her?”

A blinking light caught Kim’s attention and she saw that the inside of the choker that she had been wearing was lined with electronic circuitry.

“Moodulator technology!” Kim snapped and before Dr. Director could do anything she had scrambled up the woman’s chest to her neck.  Kim grabbed the collar and pulled with all her shrunken might.  The plastic tore apart and an electric spark threw her back.

“Ah!” Dr. Director gasped and her eyes cleared.  She fell onto the bunk in a faint and Kim was too slow to avoid being trapped underneath her.  She was stuck between the woman’s breasts and the fabric of the halter-top pressed her into the rough material of the blanket.  It took a few minutes for Kim to dig and pull her way out from under the woman.  When she finally did Kim slumped onto her stomach and took deep breaths.  As she breathed Kim realized that her senses were once more enhanced. The harsh antiseptic smell of Dr. Directors soap, the sad sweat of despair, and the slightly damp smell of the dungeon all mixed together in her nose.  

I’m small again, Kim thought.  That gives me the advantage. But I’m naked again. Is this really going to help me?  Or is this some sort of game She-Go’s playing?    

Dr. Director moaned and sat up.  

“Miss Possible.” She asked looking at Kim.  “Oh…  My head… I felt so…”

“A moodulator.” Kim said pointing to the choker that had fallen onto the bunk.  “It kept you so depressed you never even thought of trying to escape.”

Dr. Director nodded.

“Ron…”

“Not Ron!” Kim snapped interrupting her and the woman drew back a bit from the anger in Kim’s voice.  “Zorpox.  We’re fighting Zorpox.  He’s not my Ron!”

Dr. Director nodded and picked up the note.  Her eyes were clearing more and more quickly now.

“She-Go?” She asked peering at the writing.  “Can you trust her?”

“I have too.” Kim said.  “She’s all we’ve got.”

“I remember her as a heroine.” Dr. Director said.  “I remember…” her voice changed tone and as it trailed off and for a moment there was a puzzling expression on her face, but then it was gone.  “You’re right we have no choice.  You have to get out of here and contact the resistance.”

“How do I get out?” Kim asked wondering about the break in the woman’s voice.

“The obvious way for a tiny woman.” Dr. Director said.  She pointed out side of the cell and down the corridor.  Kim saw a metal vent running along the corridor.

“Air vents again.” Kim said remembering her recent sojourn through the air vents of the pirate space ship.  And she’d be nude.  Again.  Why was it so hard to keep her clothes on all of the sudden?  

“It’s either that or the sewer.” Dr. Director said pointing to a drain in the floor.

            “Air vents it is.” Kim said.  She looked at the corridor.  The stones were un-even enough so that she could climb them, once she was high enough she could jump onto the vent opening and open it.  “What about you?”

“I’ll stay here.” Dr. Director said.  She looked at the broken color and made sure it was broke and then put it back on.  “Maybe I can free others.  I might try and make contact with She-Go.”

“Be careful.” Kim said.  “We may have to trust her but I don’t know how far we can.”

“You don’t know the heroine she used to be.” Dr. Director said with an odd little smile.  “A heroine very much like you, especially where the relationship with her brothers was concerned.”

            “Like me?” Kim demanded.  “She-Go?”

            “Yes.” Dr. Director smiled.  “A bit more short tempered, but very much like you.”

            “Well I hope you’re right about trusting her.” Kim said.  “Otherwise Zorpox is really going to win.”

             

            “So that is how the exalted one defeated all and ruled the world.” Yori said.  They were in a suite of spacious rooms that looked out on a beautiful Grecian style courtyard.  

            “Oooooookkkkkkaaaaaayyyyy.” She-Go let out the word slowly.  She was in trouble.  More trouble than she had realized.  Zorpox had used it all, every little idea that Dr. Draken, Lord Monkey Fist and a few other villains had concocted over the years.  Mutant creatures. An army of bebe robots, compliance chips, moodulator tech, his own secret army of brainwashed ninjas…  The ninja’s had been the key.  They along with Bonnie and Monique had snuck into Global Justice headquarters and gotten access to all the files and the command codes.  When Zorpox’s bebe robots attacked the world Global Justice didn’t answer the phones.  Ninja’s had snuck around the world and secretly set up stasis domes to keep the superheroes dormant.  Shrunken Bonnie and Monique had snuck into heroine’s homes while they slept and put compliance chips on their foreheads.

            And I just set myself against the guy who came up with all that, She-Go thought.  Oh yea, this is why I stopped being a heroine.

            “So there’s no resistance at all apart from my brothers?” She-Go asked.

            “There is a resistance, but it is not spoken of.” Yuri said.  “It has slowed down Lord Zorpox, anticipated most of his moves and stopped him from expanding his glorious rule to the stars.  Lord Zorpox knows that it is lead by a Mr. L, but not more than that.”

            “So what’s he doing now?” She-Go asked.

            “Once any hint of rebellion is crushed he will begin his galactic empire.  He wishes you to lead his armies into battle on other worlds.”

            She-Go thought of her brief time with the space pirates and she had to admit that the thought was tempting.  But Kim would never go for it.  

            I’ve gone this far for her, She-Go said to herself, I’m not stopping now.

            “Any idea where the attitudinator is?” She-Go asked.

            “Only Queen Bonnie knows.” Yori said.

            “Zorpox doesn’t?” She-Go demanded.

            “She hides it even from him.” Yuri said.  “He believes it destroyed.”

            “How do you know then?  Why don’t you tell him?”

            “I was there when she took it.” Yuri said.  “But she commanded me never to tell him.”

            “But your chip makes him the boss.” She-Go said.

            “Yes, and if he asks I would tell him, but he has never asked.”

            “Ok.” She-Go said.  “I…”

            She-Go stopped and looked out the window.  She blinked.  Two of her were walking across the courtyard.  There were two women who looked like her right down to the black and green costume.

            “What…  Who are they?” She-Go demanded pointing at them.

            “They are two of the advanced syntho-clone harem girls for the pleasure of the exalted one’s great scientist.” Yori said looking down.

            “Harem girls?” She-Go asked feeling her anger rise.

            “Yes.”

            “Who are the scientists?” She-Go asked though she had a good idea.  Her hands started to feel warm as the anger triggered her powers.

Kim walked carefully down the vent.  Getting in had been easy enough.  Too easy.  The vent covering had been a latch-hinge design.  Ron had crawled through too many vents not to know how vulnerable they were.  No one who could take over the world was going to be dumb enough to leave vents un-guarded.

She spotted the first trap easily.  A cage set into the ceiling attached to a trip wire.  Kim nimbly stepped over it and kept going.  Even though she wasn’t in her mouse form Kim’s eyes were sharp.  So were her ears so she heard the cries for help.

“Kimski?” Kim whispered.  There was no mistaking the voice.  But how had Kimski gotten to Earth?  Why?

The cries for help changed to screams and Kim realized that questions would have to wait.  She ran toward the screams at her full speed and hoped there were no traps between her and Kimski.  The metal felt cold against her bare feet as she ran, and Kim wished more and more for a pair of sneakers.  And a bra.  She could feel the air moving around her tiny body and wondered how it would feel when she turned into a mouse again.

I've got to stop thinking of stuff like this, Kim thought to herself.

She-Go stood in the center of a ruined room and still felt anger consume her.  Her clenched fists still smoked with the power.  The room had been a Roman style bath and a small army of She-Go synthoclones had waited hand and foot on Dr. Draken, Dr. Dementor, Frugal Lucre and other villains.  They had been dancing, laughing… She-Go’s had been wrestling in the nude while the villains had called out bets…  It had taken a few minutes after she walked in before any of them had noticed her.  Then they had started to give her orders.  She’d wiped the smiles of off their faces quickly.  

“I’d forgotten how cranky you can be.” Ron said behind her.

She-Go whirled ready to fight but calmed down when she saw the look on his face.  He was smiling.  She knew then.  He’d watched and he’d enjoyed watching.  Behind her the groans and pleas for help started to come.

“Good thing you didn’t kill any of them.” Ron said.  “They are useful to me.”

“Some lines I don’t cross.” She-Go said.

“Well, not yet anyway.” Ron…  No, it was Zorpox she was facing now.  She-Go had to remember that.  Ron was an easy to handle buffoon.  Zorpox was dangerous.  “Come, dinner is almost ready and Kim Possible should be escaping soon.”

“Escaping?” She-Go asked.

“Of course.” Zorpox said.  “She is Kim Possible after all.  She will escape and make contact with the rebellion and the tracker I have placed on her will lead me right to them.”  He gave the maniacal villain laugh and this time it chilled She-Go.  She had pointed Kim straight toward her brothers.  And if Kim hadn’t destroyed her note…

“Come.” Zorpox said.  “To Dinner!”

            Kim rounded a corner and skidded to a stop as her mind took a moment to take in the scene.  Kimski was there.  She was wearing a purple jumpsuit and fighting with two… Rufus’s?  Rufii?  What was the plural for Rufus?  Kimski was down on her back and one of the mole rats was holding her arms while the other was holding a cloth against her face.  Kim could see that they weren’t really Rufus.  They had black Mohawks on their heads and wore short black jackets.  Punk naked mole rats?  From the 80’s?  Rufus was too much a fashion queen to look like that.  

            It took Kim all of one second to realize that and she used up another second planning her assault.  Or almost a second.  By the end of the mid point of that second Kim was already charging.  She kicked the rufus that was holding Kimski’s arms away and followed him trusting Kimski to handle the other one.  

            Kim’s rufus rolled away and hit hard against the wall but shook it off and came toward her.  Kim dodged his blow but it had been a feint and he grabbed her arm and threw Kim over his shoulder and into the wall.

            Tai Sheng Pek Kwar, Kim thought slamming upside down into the wall.  Monkey Kung Foo.  

            The mole rat came at her and Kim rolled to one side and struck out with her foot catching it in the stomach.  He doubled over and Kim twisted around and chopped the back of his arm.  Out of the corner of her eye Kim saw Kimski slump down stunned.  The rufus was reaching into his pocket for something.  Kim had to dodge another blow but she kept an eye on him.  It was a radio of some sort.

            Kim grabbed her opponent and threw him into the other rufus before he could call for help.  They went down in a tangle of pink arms and legs and Kim took another moment to look around.  She might be able to take both of them, but not in a hurry and if they called for help it was all over.  She spotted the cloth by Kimski’s face and rolled over to it.  Chloroform worked both ways if she could be quick enough.

            Kim continued her roll and kicked one rufus in the stomach but the other was waiting for her.  His tail slapped into Kim’s stomach and he spun around and hit her again in the face.  Kim staggered back and the rufus grabbed her arm and twisted it up to her face.  The smell of the chloroform even at a distance made Kim dizzy.  Desperately she brought her leg up and caught him in the jaw.  He dropped back and Kim fell on her back and tried to clear her head.  The other one was on her before she could and Kim was too weak to throw him off.  Kim could see the first rufus coming toward her with the cloth and she surged up in desperation.  The move might or it might not have worked but it didn’t have too.  There was a popping sound and suddenly the entire vent was filling with smoke and noise.

            “Come on!” Kimski said grabbing Kim’s hand and pulling her.

            Kim staggered to her feet and followed through the smoke as the mouse girl half dragged/half led her down the vent.  Kim guessed that they had gone a few feet down the vent when it gave way beneath them and another popping sound was heard.  They fell and Kim smacked her head against something before landing in a pool of foul-smelling skin-burning chemicals.

            Her head growing more and more fuzzy Kim was vaguely aware of being dragged out of the pool before she blacked out.

            Kim couldn’t wake up.  As much as she knew that she needed to she just couldn’t make it all the way to the waking world.  Kim was vaguely aware of what was happening, but only in flashes.  She was being carried down a corridor, through a doorway, and then put into a shower.  Kimski was in the shower with her, her hands and tail all over Kim’s body.   Then they were in a tub full of hot soapy water.  Again Kimski’s hands were all over her.  Kim was too far gone to protest beyond a moan.  Kimski was talking but Kim’s head was too muddled to understand the words.  Kim let her body respond and was puzzled when the kisses and caresses didn’t come.  Maybe Kimski was being polite?  Restrained?  

            Oh heck, Kim thought drowsily and reached out to the other tiny woman, grabbing her breast.  Why fight it?  I’m tired of fighting it and it feels good anyway.

            Kim heard a soft squeal of surprise and her wrist was caught and held.  After that more of her strength seemed to fail.  She felt herself being carried.  Kim was laid on a table and dried but even though the room felt cool she felt hot.  Breathing was hard.  Suddenly Kim became very cold.  She started to shiver.  

Kim felt a soft mattress beneath her, a warm sheet on top her and a warm comforting Kimski beside her.  That was all that Kim needed to stop struggling and embrace the peaceful oblivion of sleep.  But standing between her and that peace was a hot sea of her old foes.  Distorted and demonic they grabbed at her, tearing at her mind.  Kim fought through them and into darkness.

She-Go didn’t mind faux Mexican food, but she couldn’t imagine eating it every night.  But Ron was still a part of Zorpox.  She-Go could tell that when she walked into the dining room and realized it was modeled after a Bueno Nacho resteraunt.  On a grander scale.  The floors were marble, the tables gold, the chairs a highly polished chrome.  They were served by former members of the Middleton High School football team, all of them wearing compliance chips.  Ron sat at the head of the table and beside him on the table sat Bonnie and Monique.  They were still small, but human.  That meant Kim was probably small by now too.  It was hard to tell time on the floating palace.  They were each wearing golden off the shoulder gowns that accentuated their beauty.  

“So you knew Kimmie would break out?” She-Go asked biting into her nacho sandwich.

“I expect it tonight or tomorrow.” Zorpox said.  “Even with the moodulator collar.”

“The collar was a moodulator?” She-Go asked.

“Yes, it’s how I keep prisoners docile.” Zorpox said.  “Much more economical than torture and just as fun!”

He broke out into the villain laugh that She-Go was really beginning to hate.  She ate while he went on for a few minutes.

“You don’t have a problem with your brothers being captured do you?” Monique asked.

“We parted ways a long time ago.” She-Go said.  “They just weren’t into the whole supervillain thing.”

“I told you she wouldn’t.” Bonnie said.  “I loved the sight of my sisters being dragged off to dig diamonds out of our mines.”

“That gonna be for my brothers?” She-Go asked.  

“No.” Zorpox said.  “Once they are fitted with compliance chips they will be perfect soldiers!” He laughed again.  “And once Kim breaks out the tracker I have installed into her clothes will lead me right too them!”

She-Go bit into her nacho to hide her smile.  By now Kim was shrunk and nude.  Zorpox didn’t realize that Kim had become a lot less concerned about nudity than she had been.  

            Kim woke up with a strange feeling.  It was a familiar feeling but it seemed so long since she had felt it that it took a moment to identify the emotion.  She felt well.  Rested and with no lingering aches or pains.

            But her wrists were tied above her head and there was a piece of tape over her mouth.  And she was nude again.  Sadly that was beginning to feel pretty normal to.  Kim usually slept in a T-shirt and shorts but after this she promised herself nightgowns.

            Oh well, Kim thought as she opened her mind to her senses.  At least I’m not a mouse.  And this is the last time I wake up like this!  

            It was a useless promise to herself but it made Kim feel better.  For a few minutes she kept her eyes closed and did something she hadn’t been able to do for what felt like forever.  She thought.  Through Kim’s mind ran plan after plan and she went through them all until she found one she liked.  Then she opened her eyes.

            The room that greeted her was far too friendly to be a prison.  The walls were light blue and covered with technical drawings.  In a recess in the far wall were a bunch of purple jumpsuits on hangers.  A few pictures were on the wall, but they were not photographs but computer print outs with the enormous font sizes.  They looked familiar but Kim didn’t study them too closely.  She didn’t have time as a curtain parted and Kimski walked into the room.  But it wasn’t Kimski.  Kimski had green eyes, the mouse girl in the sheer nightgown had blue eyes.  The nightgown revealed that she had the same features as Kim and Kimski; pert breasts and soft fur, but there was no way this was Kimski.

            “Good morning.” The mouse creature said.  “How you feeling?”

            “Bounped.” Kim said casting her eyes upward and giving her arms a tug.

            “Oh yea, sorry about that.” She walked over and put the tray down next to Kim and then pulled the tape off of her mouth.  “But you were really loud last night.”

            “I was?” Kim asked tugging her arms again.

            “And grabby.” The mouse creature said reaching for Kim’s wrists.  She stopped and looked at Kim warily.  “You’re not still horny are you?  We only just met and I don’t even know your name?”

            “It's Kim Possible.” Kim said.  “And no…” she blushed “I’m not… not that way right now.”

            “Golly you’re Kim Possible?” The mouse creature nearly squealed as she untied Kim’s wrists.  “Wow, this is great, I’ve always wanted to meet you, we’re like sisters.”

            “Excuse me?” Kim asked rubbing her wrists.

            “I’m Gadget.” Gadget said taking Kim’s hand and pumping it up and down.  “Gadget Hackwrench.”

            Kim’s mouth dropped open as memories of cartoons filed her mind.

            “You’re…  From the show?”

            “Uh-huh.” Gadget said.  “Zorpox wanted monsters but he couldn’t stop DN-Amy from trying to make them cute, so he let her make cute cuddle bunnies like me and ugly monsters for him.  And a lot of other stuff too.  I don’t think he’s ever seen a cartoon he didn’t want something from.”

            “Ron hasn’t.” Kim said.  Suddenly it all made sense to her.  “Let me guess, there’re real monsters in Japan aren’t there?”

            "There are monsters everywhere now." Gadget nodded.  

            “And are there more Rescue Rangers?” Kim asked.

            “No.” Gadget said and there was a little sadness in her voice.  “There were going to be, but after me the lab sort of blew up.”

            “Sort of?” Kim asked.

            “Well ok, I blew it up.” Gadget said blushing slightly.  “But I couldn’t stand the idea of that woman getting hold of Chip or Dale or Monty.” She shuddered.  “She’s just…”

            “I know.” Kim said.  “I’ve been there.”

            “I know, that’s why I said we’re sisters.” Gadget said.  “She used your DNA as a base for me.”

            Kim looked at her and there must've been something in that looked because Gadget backed up.

            "I never knew you were gay.  I’m really not sure if I…"

            "I'm not!" Kim said, pulling the sheets up to her neck. "But when I'm like this, I mean, I... I just don't Gadget."

            "Are you sure?"

            "Right now I am." Kim said.

            “Well sorry I had to tie you up.”

            “That’s ok, that happens too sometimes.” Kim said.  A thought suddenly occurred to her.  "Those explosions last night...  Was that you?"

            "Yeah," gadget said "I try to do things like that as much as I can." She shrugged. "It's about all I can do.  I don’t really have a lot of tools that I can work with, so blowing stuff up is the best I can do.  It disrupts his internal security scanners."

            "Well it's a start." Kim said.

            “It’s getting harder with the rufoids hunting me now.” Gadget said.  “Their tough.”

            “How many are there?” Kim asked.

            “A lot, but I don’t know how many.” Gadget said.  “Zorpox uses them as part of his secret police.”

            “Great.” Kim said.  Sneaking around would be a lot harder now.

            “Hungry?” Gadget asked picking up a plate and offering it to her.

            “Very.” Kim said suddenly realizing she was.  The plate held a piece of what looked like meatloaf.  “What is it?”

            “Mouse treats.  Before her lab blew up I swiped a bunch of them from DN Amy.” Gadget replied biting into one.  She jumped off of the bed.  “Hold on, I forgot the milk.”

            “Mouse treats.” Kim repeated.  She sighed and started to eat.  It tasted good.  Kim wondered if it would taste better when she became a mouse again.  

            Gadget came in a few minutes later with 2 cups of chocolate milk.

            "Chocolate?"

            "Yeah," gadget said. "It's all Zorpox lets anyone drink now."

            "Ron always loves chocolate milk." Kim said drinking the milk. It tasted good anyway.  She noticed that gadget was watching her closely as they ate.

            "What is it?” Kim asked.

            "It's just strange to see you like this.”  Gadget said.  "Human I mean."

            "Human?" Kim asked.

            "Yeah, human. I mean I've helped Kat-Kim get away, and She-Cat and I were good friends. You remind me of her."

            "Who is Cat Kim?” Kim asked.

            “Kim Kat.” Gadget corrected her.  “My… Our sort of sister."  Before I stopped her by blowing up her lab DN-Amy was planning on a whole line of Kims.”

            "Thanks for blowing it up." Kim said.  She wasn't sure if she should be relieved or angry. She put the feelings aside they weren't going to do her any good now.  A thought occurred to her.  “And She-Cat?”

            "A cat cuddle bunny based on She-Go’s DNA.” Gadget said.

            "She is not going to like that." Kim said.

            "Well she's working for Zorpox right now." Gadget said with a shrug. "She can't be too mad about it.  Besides isn't she evil?"

            Kim thought about that for a moment, She-Go would do a lot for money and power, but she drew the line at a few places. Cloning was one of those places.  Kim was sure that cute She-Go clones crossed that line.  But what else did?

            "I don't know what she is anymore.”  Kim said. "But she's been helping me ever since I woke up. I think I can trust her. She gave me the link to the resistance. But it's in Go city."

            "I can get you there." Gadget said. “We’re right over it and my plane can handle both of us."

            "You have a plane?"

            "I've built one." Gadget said. "But I didn't want to go alone.  Not with the monsters and air pirates out there.  And the global justice guys just weren’t any help.  You know for go-getter secret agents they really aren’t that go getting."

            “They are all wearing modulator colars.” Kim said.  “I found that out when I freed Dr. Director from hers.”

            "Oh I never even thought of that." Gadget said.

            "Don't feel bad." Kim said. "Tell me about your plane."

            "I've been building it from spare parts for a while now." Gadget said. "But I had no place to go. And it's scary out there when you this small."

            "Tell me about it.” Kim said. "I've been stuck in outer space with She-Go and space pirates.

            "At least you had someone." Gadget replied in a sad voice.  “I was supposed to be part of a team.”

            You aren’t the only one who's had a hard time. Kim felt very disappointed with herself. She’d had a rough time lately but Gadget had gone through a tough life period.  What was it like to be born, and realize that you are just grown from a test tube?  That your only reason for being was to be someone’s pet?  Kim resolved to help gadget as much as she could.

            "We have a place to go now." Kim said.  “I know where the resistance is.”

            "That’s great!" Gadget exclaimed. She stood up and walked over to the closet.  Pulling off her nightgown the mouse put it on a hanger and reached for one of the jumpsuits.

            "Do you think that would fit me?" Kim asked hopefully.  She was tired of running around naked.  She was also trying to distract himself from the feelings that seeing gadget naked was stirring within her.  Kimski’s words floated across the back of her mind and her body was responding.

            "Sure." Gadget said throwing it to her.

            Kim struggled into it.  It fit well enough, but the hole in the back for the tail was just at the base of her spine and Kim felt the lack of material acutely.

            “Gadget how long have I been out?” Kim asked as a thought came to her.

            “All night.” Gadget said.

            “Then it’s daylight outside?”

            “Yes.” Gadget said.

            Kim felt her stomach sink but she felt relief at the same time.  If she had grown in here…  But it was obvious the growing/shrinking/mousing cycle had been changed.  But how much?  What would trigger the change now?  When would it happen?

            “Ready?” Gadget asked.

            “Yep.”  Kim said tightening the belt.  She wasn’t going to wait around for it, no matter what happened.  There was a world that needed fixing and Kim was going to fix it.

            At least I hope I am, she thought to herself.

            Hours later Kim realized that she was ready.  She’d been following Gadget through the jungle of cables, conduits and between deck spaces of the sky palace.  It felt normal and Kim had realized that she wasn’t scared, she wasn’t being crushed by despair; she was being faced with a problem and she was dealing with it.

            But that didn’t mean that she was happy either.  This wasn’t one of her missions.  When she and Gadget stopped to rest or hide from the rufoids they talked and Kim became aware of the world Zorpox had built.  A world born of Ron’s dreams but twisted into Kim’s nightmares by Zorpox.  He had set DN-Amy loose and she hadn’t always gotten it right. But Ron (Zorpox!  Kim shouted at herself) Zorpox never really bothered to clean up after her.  The result was a world filled with cartoon monsters and other creatures.

            They stopped by a vent and Kim could see the dark sky and stars through the heavy metal mesh. Fresh air caressed her face.  Ahead of her Gadget sniffed the air.

            “It’s ok.” She said walking over to the vent.  She took hold of two of the wires that made up the mesh.  A section of the mesh just big enough for a mouse opened up.  Gadget put the wires to one side and stuck her head out. Then she pulled it back in.

            “Take a look.” She invited.

            Kim stuck her head out of the vent and saw the sloping surface of the sky palace.  The underside was a vast upside down dome.  Light from targeting sensors turned the dome into a dark lunar landscape.  The first thing she noticed was the number and variety of gun emplacements.  It was chilling to see the cold blue steel rods and know that they stood ready to shoot at Zorpox’s command.  The large and extra large ones were bad enough, but the smaller ones were even worse.  Kim saw Gadget’s plane and realized that the small guns were the right size to target and shoot targets of that size.

            “What about the guns?” Kim asked.

            “I built it out of plastic.” Gadget said.  “They only shoot at metal.”

            Kim looked more closely at the plane.  It looked like Gadget had taken a bunch five gallon paint cans and put them together with duct tape, then stuck four plates to the front and the back.

            “That’ll fly?” Kim whispered.

            “I’m pretty sure.” Gadget said. “Well glide really, but once the balloons deploy it should stay in the air and we can peddle to move forward.”

            Kim wasn’t sure but there wasn’t anything to do but try it.

            “How do we get to it?” Kim asked pulling back in.

            “Follow me.” Gadget said climbing past her.

            Kim followed her and even though she was used to climbing and skydiving her stomach turned over a little.  The surface of the sky palace was a collection of guns, vents and (at least they looked like) bullet holes; all of them on glass-smooth shiny metal.  Kim suspected that the place shined in the sun.  She followed Gadget and held on to what Gadget held on to, but Kim had only human hands and feet. Gadget had mouse feet.  And a tail.  Kim was really beginning to miss her tail.  The wind tore at Kim’s grip and whipped her red hair around her face.

            If I have to keep changing why can’t I change all the way, Kim complained to her self.  The only comfort was that if she was blown off Kim was sure that her very small form and low body weight would give her a chance to land safely.  It was a wild hope that Kim hoped she didn’t have to test.

            Gadget reached the plane and opened a hatch at the rear.  As soon as she did rufoids appeared around them.  They were all wearing little backpacks but none were carrying any weapons that Kim could see.  They climbed out of gun barrels and bullet holes like snakes coming out of their holes.  She tried to shout a warning but the wind carried her words away.  Two of them tackled Gadget from behind and their attack combined with her struggles to make them all tumble into the plane.

            Kim had her own problems.  A rufoid grabbed her from behind, his clammy skin rubbing against Kim’s as he snaked an arm around her throat.  Close up Kim could smell the cedar on the things skin and the sour Beuna Nacho cheese on his breath.  Another one grabbed between her legs and tried to lift her up.  Out of the corner of her eye Kim could see another rufoid coming toward her.

            Battle instincts took over and Kim slammed her head back and that loosened the grip around her throat.  Kim dropped down out of the slackened grip and dropped her elbow onto the head of the one who had a grip on her ankle.  She followed that with a roundhouse smack on the nose and he fell back into the one who was coming toward them.  They both nearly lost their grip on the surface of the sky palace and hugged each other in fright.  

            Kim looked for her first attacker and briefly saw him flying away as he lost his grip.  The pack on his back opened and a little parachute appeared.  Wishing for one Kim looked back at the two who had been hugging each other.  Now they were coming toward her with dark looks on their faces.  Grimly but as quickly as she could Kim climbed over to the plane and looked into the plane.

            Gadget was in trouble.  One of the rufoids was holding her down while the other was slapping her face hard.  She looked dazed from the blows.  Kim dove into the plane and landed with both feet on the slapper’s tail. He squealed in pain and spun around to attack.  Kim punched him in the nose and he fell back over Gadget and into the other rufoid.  They fell into what looked like a bottle cap and suddenly the plane lurched.  Gadget and Kim were thrown into the rufoids and then they were all tossed around as the plane lurched again.  Kim managed to reach out and grab a support bar as the plane turned upside down but Gadget and the rufoids weren’t so lucky.  They tumbled end over end to the hatch and Gadget managed to get a grip on the edge of it as the other two toppled out.  But one of the rufoids managed to grab onto her tail and hang on tight.  Kim was reaching for her when Gadget’s grip failed and she sailed out of the plane with a scream.  

            The plane lurched again and with a snapping sound that echoed through the plastic craft it came away from the sky palace.  Caught in a wild downward spin Kim desperately searched for the controls and tried to get her footing.  But there was no footing to be had and the controls were a collection of pop-bottle tops, paperclips and other office supplies.  It was like being stuck in an Office Max store.  An Office Max store that was plummeting to the ground with ever increasing speed!  

            She-Go slept lightly.  Especially when she was in a new place. Even more so when she was in a new place with a new super villain.  So she was awake long before the alarm went off.  Laying in bed with the lights on staring at the ceiling.

            What side am I on, She-Go asked herself again. I go along with Zorpox I loose Kim, but I gain a he… heck of a lot.  He took over the world!  And there are a lot of other worlds out there, a lot of stuff I can steal.  Is she really worth it?  I got a palace, I can get…  Everything but her.

            She-Go got out of bed and walked into the bathroom.  She had learned long ago that she did her best thinking in a bath or shower.  She stepped into the shower and turned the water on hot.  The water felt good against her skin and she reached for the soap.  She wanted Kim there, now.  She-Go imagined Kim’s soapy hands running over her body and sighed.  

Yea, Kim was worth it.  But how much of a chance did they stand? By now Kim should have escaped.  But what then?  Who was Mr. L and could he really make a difference?

Realizing that she was letting her mind run away from her and that her hands had become far too friendly She-Go rinsed off.  Now was not the time for that sort of thing.  Stepping out of the shower She-Go roughly dried herself off.

            "Come in." She-Go called out as there was a knock on the door.  If it was Zorpox She-Go wanted to know his reaction to her nudity.  Ron would have blushed and covered his eyes.  If Zorpox did the same thing then later She-Go might be able to have a few seconds advantage.

            The door opened and Yuri came in.

            "Lord Zorpox wishes to see you immediately." Yuri said.

            "Why?" She-Go asked.

            “He did not say.”

            Alarm bells started to ring in She-Go’s mind as she reached for her clothes.

            The prison cell was about the same as She-Go remembered it.  But Dr. Director wasn’t slumped down on her cot.  She was hanging from the ceiling.  A black leather harness with thick straps kept her arms above her head and firmly encased with multiple straps.  The harness stretched under her shoulders and around her breasts acting as a bra.  Her clothing hung from her in shreds and whip marks were criss-crossed all over her body.  A ball gag was stuffed into her mouth.  She looked in pain but alert and her good eye looked desperately at She-Go.  Bonnie stood by Zorpox’s side, the whip in her hand and a smile on her face.

            A thousand things ran through She-Go’s mind but overriding them all was anger.  The sight of Dr. Director hanging in the air sliced through years of pain and resentment and it took all She-Go had not to ignite her powers and go after Bonnie.

            “So Kimmie escaped?” She-Go asked casually looking around.

            “Of course.” Zorpox said.  “But the how is interesting.  He walked over to the cot and picked up Kim’s clothing.  “I don’t remember Kim being so casual about nudity.”

            “News to me.” She-Go said.  “Maybe she’s disguised as one of your guards?”  

            “And this?” Zorpox asked holding up a piece of paper.  She-Go shrugged and he tossed it aside.  “Not the actual paper.  Dr. Director ate the real one before we could read it.”

            “So you got spies.” She-Go said.  “Yuri told me about Mr. L.”

            “Do not mention that name!” Zorpox shouted.  “He is nothing!  A speck!  An ant!”

            “Whoah, ok there pal.” She-Go said.  “So what now, you want me to find Kimmie?”

            “I want you to help.” Zorpox said.  He nodded and Bonnie walked over and handed She-Go the whip.  “You know Dr. Director, you know how to use a whip.  Whip her until she talks.”

            “Why not use the modulator or the compliance chip on her?” She-Go said flexing the whip in her hands.  She could see the trap that was being set for her, but there was no way to escape it.

            “They won’t work twice.” Zorpox said.  “Otherwise I’d use one on you.”  He pressed a button on his belt.  “Instead of doing this.”

            The whip came alive in She-Go’s hands and wrapped itself around her wrists.  She-Go immediately ignited her powers and was rewarded with a fantastic surge of pain.  She screamed and fell to her knees.

            “She did eat the note.” Zorpox said smiling.  “Buy there is only one way that note could have gotten there.  No one else dressed Kim.”

            She-Go moved backward and came up to leap and do a backward summersault.  The move landed her right behind Bonnie and She-Go threw her bound arms around Bonnie’s neck.

            “Ok, I guess this is my resignation.” She-Go said.  “So either you let me take queenie out of here or you got yourself a fried queen.”

            “I have two wives.” Zorpox said shrugging.  “But…”

            She-Go never saw the blow that hit her in the back of the head.  She fell forward against Bonnie and instinctively managed to kick back but her foot might as well have hit a wall.  Hands grabbed her arms and forced them up, releasing Bonnie.  At the same time more hands grabbed her legs and lifted.  She-Go found herself hanging in mid-air and she recognized four Bebe robots as her captors.  She fought and twisted and bent and writhed with every bit of strength she had in her body but there was no way to break the mechanical grip.

            “Position X-2.” Zorpox commanded.  “Option S.N.”

            “I want position V!” Bonnie screamed getting up from the floor.

            “Oh, someone is cranky.” Zorpox smiled.  “Position V it is!”

            A pair of chains with long cuffs dropped from the ceiling and the Bebe robots tore She-Go’s boots off of her.  Three of them held her upside-down and helpless as one of them strapped her ankles in.  Once she was secured the chains retracted and spread apart.  

            The whip loosened and She-Go tried to lash out but the Bebe’s must have had the same kind of trap.  Two of them took hold of either of her wrist and a surge of pain flowed from their grips.  She-Go was too stunned to fight back as they crossed her arms behind her back and locked them securely with some sort of metal tube.  She-Go recovered just enough to try a little power and was rewarded with a massive swell of pain.

            Three of the Bebes retreated but one took hold of She-Go’ pants and ripped them off of her.  Then it took hold of her shirt and ripped it off and finally pulled her bra and panties away from her helpless body.

            Oh yea, She-Go thought.  Now I remember THIS is why I stopped being a heroine.  

Bonnie picked up the whip and smiled at her.

Kimmie you better be getting somewhere near the resistance, She-Go thought as the whip sailed toward her pussy.  You better be worth this!

 

…To be continued.

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