Prison Break

Disclaimer – I don't own Kim Possible.

A/N – This is my first attempt at a long fanfic. Please note the story starts three months after Kim's 21st birthday and details of how the current situation came about will be revealed as the story progresses. It will be Kigo in the future [and has been in the past, just not right now :-) ].

This story is an AU and diverges from canon early in the fourth season before Mad Dogs and Aliens, so there are no Lowardians in this universe and no Hana.

UPDATED VERSION - no major changes just minor spelling and grammar corrections.

Chapter 1 – Prison Break

Shego sat in her cell, bored as she was everyday. She wasn't allowed out even for exercise, given access to news stories or allowed to have visitors. Not that visitors would be able to visit her even if it was allowed since she was currently in the Ultra-Secure Wing of Global Justice's Super-Max Prison for Extraordinary Threats, the exact location of which was one of the most highly classified secrets in the world. Only the most dangerous criminals were sent there and then only if it was proven that other prisons could not hold them. Each cell was specifically designed for its occupant in order to neutralize the powers and abilities they had. Even if the cell itself could be escaped, the prisoners were still trapped in a prison carved from the living rock 200 meters underground, somewhere in the American Southwest.

She remembered how Dr. Director had taken such joy in telling her of these facts when she was first incarcerated. Betty had simply laughed at her when she vowed to escape and detailed the special construction of her cell. The entire cell was made from a ceramic-metallic composite that even her plasma could not penetrate and if the cell was breached it would trigger rock gates and doors to close, blocking any escape. While her plasma could melt the rock, the entire area was designed to funnel any resulting molten rock into the cell, killing her. She had spent the first six months of her incarceration testing her cell and planning her escape until she had finally realized the futility of her effort and simply given up.

Shego had never been one to give up but in her current situation, it was the only option. She knew that had she continued to work on trying to escape, she would have only served to drive herself crazy. Sure, when she had surrendered to Global Justice, she had planned to escape at the first opportunity but even now she didn't regret her decision. For probably the only time in the last ten years, she had made a decision with the well-being of someone else in mind. Even now, three and half years latter, it still surprised her some that she had given up her freedom to help another person, particularly as that person was her arch-enemy, Kim Possible. She took comfort in fact that she had helped Kim to avoid some of the troubles she had undergone herself on her journey from hero to villain.

She cocked her head at a faint vibration seemingly coming from down the corridor in front of her cell. After a moment she realized that in a facility carved from solid rock there should be no vibrations. She knew something serious was up when the lights flickered before finally failing and an alarm started to sound, an alarm that Betty had said was purely a bureaucratic measure since prisons must have alarms in case of escape. As the reality of the situation, an escape in a prison even she thought was escape-proof, started to sink in, a series of dull explosions could be heard, the sound muffled by the intervening rock. Moments later, sounds of a fight could be heard coming from down the corridor where, if Shego remembered what she had seen when she was first brought here, the guardroom for her cell was located.

Shego had moved to the back of her cell, ripping the sleeves from her prison uniform in preparation for using her plasma. After the sound of fighting had stopped there was silence for a minute before the sound of some sort of machinery could be heard coming from the door to her cell. As the door started to vibrate, Shego ignited her plasma, illuminating her cell with a flickering green light. The vibration of the door increased as did the sound of the machinery until the door gave way with the screeching sound of rending metal. As the machinery that had been used to force the door open pulled back a figure could be seen moving into the cell.

Shego raised a plasma covered hand as she addressed the figure. "I don't mean to seem ungrateful for you breaking me out but we need to cover some ground rules first. One, I . . . ."

Shego stood motionless, stunned speechless by the sight in front of her. Although the figure was wearing a mask, she knew the shape and movement from years of experience, as both friend and foe. As the figure stopped and removed the mask, Shego asked. "Princess, what are you doing here? You're supposed to be living your life without me."

Kim shook her hair out after removing the mask and smiled at Shego before answering. "I think it is pretty obvious that I am breaking you out of prison but I guess all this time in here has dulled your wits. Now come on, we don't have much time."

Shego simply stared at Kim, stunned for a moment before she smirked. "All right, let's go, but don't think this conversation is over."

Kim nodded her head and motioned for Shego to follow her asshe exited the cell and moved down the hall. Shego glanced at the equipment used to open her cell, recognizing several pieces of heavy hydraulic equipment typically used on bank vaults and the like and realized this had been a well planned escape with nothing left to chance, before she hurried down the corridor after Kim. They came to the guardroom that controlled the entrance to her section of the prison and Shego paused to look around at the results of the fight while Kim didn't even break stride as she stepped over the bodies littering the room and entered the hallway leading to the rest of the prison. Shego took only a moment to look over the bodies, realizing that Kim had seemed to have developed a vicious streak in the last few years if the broken bones and dislocated joint meant anything, before she exited the room and made her way down the hallway after Kim.

They made their way down the hallway until they came to an intersection where Kim turned to the left without hesitation. Shego followed in silence, her eyes constantly probing her surroundings, looking for threats in the shadows cast by the dim illumination from the emergency lights set in the walls at wide intervals. They made their way to a small room off the hallway where a ladder lead to the upper levels. Shego watched Kim climbing before her and wondered how far they had to go before they would make good their escape. She resolutely refused to think about why Kim would be here, breaking her out of prison or what this meant for their relationship.

Once they had gone up three levels, Kim stopped and moved out into another hallway with Shego trailing close behind. They swiftly moved down several more hallways before reaching a room that had once been sealed from the corridor by special high strength doors that now lay in a twisted mass on the hallway floor. The cause of damage to the doors was evident from the equipment in the room, what looked to Shego like a new version of the Hench Co. Vault-Buster 2000. The rest of the room was taken up with a variety of tools and equipment. Directly behind the room was another short hallway that lead to a safety door marked "Danger High Voltage".

Kim pushed through the safety door without breaking stride, revealing a large electrical substation obviously dedicated to providing power for the prison, and made her way to large machine in the far corner of the room that sat near a large hole in the floor. The machine was evidently some form of subterranean tunneling device that had served as Kim's means of entrance to the prison. Looking around the room, Shego was pleasantly surprised when she saw that instead of simply cutting the power to the complex as most amateurs would have done, Kim had actually shorted out the entire system by bypassing the transformer and sending the raw 4.4kV current through the system, destroying virtually every piece of equipment in the prison. This insured that even if power was restored to the prison, the authorities would still need to replace all of the destroyed equipment before they could resume normal operation. In addition, large amounts of the data stored in the system would have been destroyed by the power spike, potentially hampering any attempts at pursuit.

Shego quirked any eyebrow at Kim as she exited from the large machine pushing a motorcycle that was draped with a set of motorcycle leathers and had two helmets hanging from the handlebars. Kim made her way over to Shego and tossed the set of leathers to her.

"Hurry up and change, we need to be going soon if we want to insure there is no pursuit." Kim told her before she moved to the machine and started working on some device mounted to the side. Shego nodded and moved to a corner out of Kim's sight to change, realizing the need for haste and therefore putting off asking any of the multitude of questions she had. Once she had changed, she made her way back to the bike where she was joined by Kim who had finished whatever she had been doing to the device.

Kim straddled the motorcycle and tossed her one of the helmets as she donned her own. "Let's go. I want to get as much of a lead of Global Justice as we can before the pursuit starts."

Shego tightened the strap on her helmet and climb onto the bike behind Kim. "Why the motorcycle?"

"The tunneling machine only has a top speed of 5 miles-per-hour, which was OK for getting in here but not so good for escaping. The bike is much faster and can easily navigate the tunnels the machine left. Ready?"

Without waiting for an answer Kim gunned the motorcycle, startling Shego who clutched Kim tight for safety as they sped off down the tunnel. After a moment, Shego relaxed and grinned in pleasure, some of her old love for speed and danger reawakening. She felt the depression and sense of helplessness that had settled over her when she had accepted that she was not going to be able to escape lift as if by magic as they made their way down the tunnel. Her rebellious spirit and sense of adventure grew as the distance from the prison increased until she almost felt like her old self as they came to a stop in the middle of a tunnel next to a large device Shego recognize as a Hench Co. Super Hot Foot Thermal Generator. As soon as they had stopped Kim walked the bike over to the device and started to manipulate the controls.

"I used the self destruct on the tunneling machine to seal the entrance to the tunnel. I am going to set this to activate in fifteen minutes. It will melt the rocks sealing the tunnel behind us. The tunnel slants down in the direction we are going so the molten rock will flow in that direction, filling a large section behind us."

When Shego started to protest about the danger she continued, "About five hundred yards farther down, the tunnel changes direction and starts to climb toward the surface. The lava will be trapped at that low point."

Shego shook her head in amazement at the thoroughness of Kim's planning and motioned for her to proceed once she had finished with the device. Kim didn't say a word as she gunned the motorcycle down the tunnel towards freedom. The tunnel was straight and had only a slight grade so Kim was able to increase their speed to over 50 mph without danger. Shego felt of rush of adrenaline wash over her as they barreled down the tunnel with the headlight flashing of the rock, illuminating their way. After a few minutes Shego felt the tunnel start to rise instead of fall and knew they had passed the low point in the tunnel and were on their way to the surface and freedom. Within five minutes she saw a patch of light growing ahead and realized they were almost to the surface.

As the light ahead grew rapidly in size and brightness Kim gradually slowed their speed until they burst into the sunlight as Kim skidded to a halt. They both climbed off the bike and removed their helmets, squinting in the bright sunlight as their eyes adjusted to light. Shego glanced around and saw they were in a high walled ravine that was cluttered with equipment. Over by the ravines entrance, a large flatbed truck that must have been used to transport the tunneling machine had been backed up. In the cul-de-sac opposite that there was a pile of cases that must have held the other equipment Kim had used for the prison break. While Shego had been looking around Kim had rapidly moved to several pieces of equipment sheltered under a tarp that formed her base camp.

After spending several minutes wearing headphones and listening to something coming over them she smiled and remove them. "Good news. Turns out Global Justice was caught completely unprepared for your escape and is still struggling to get into the prison."

Shego stifled a laugh. "You mean when they made it so hard escape from they also made it hard to enter?"

Kim giggled as she answered. "Yep, they installed all sorts of high tech device to control access. Everything was designed to lock down if there was an escape attempt. When I knocked out the power I also knocked out the only means they had of access the prison. From the radio traffic I intercepted they are still trying to breach the main doors. It looks like they are going to have to fly in some heavy equipment before they can gain access."

Shego burst out laughing at the thought of Global Justice being locked out of the prison by their own security measures. After a moment Kim joined her and they simply sat laughing for several moments. Once they had regained their composure, Kim moved over to another section of the sheltered area and started rummaging in the cases there.

"Would you like something to eat? I don't have much variety but at least it is nutritious."

Shego had removed her jacket, which was much too warm for the desert heat, and now stood with her hip cocked to one side in a pose that Kim had seen dozens of time. As Shego shook her head she said. "Still can't cook, Kimmie? I would have though you would have learned how by now."

Kim gave her an annoyed look that softened when she saw the smirk on her face and realized she was being teased. She tossed an MRE to her. "Here, eat this. I didn't bring anything that needed to be cooked since I was on a mission not a vacation. Once you are finished we can get on our way."

Shego opened the MRE and started to eat, surprised at how the good the normally marginal contents tasted. She realized that it wasn't the quality of the meal that was so good but the variety. In prison, she had been feed a standard diet designed to provide complete nutrition without regard to taste. After three years of the same monotonous diet, she simply had to eat something different and it tasted like ambrosia.

"Aren't we in a hurry to get away? So far we have been moving like a bat out of hell." She mumbled around a mouthful of food, remembering with pleasure their high speed adrenaline filled motorcycle ride through the tunnel.

Kim nodded to her as she sat on a case near by and started to eat her own MRE. "That was when I was worried about immediate pursuit. Since we know GJ hasn't gotten into the prison and probably won't for several hours more, that means they have no idea who has escaped, if they had outside help or what direction they went."

Shego nodded and took a drink from a water bottle Kim had passed her along with her MRE. "I see your point. Do you mind telling me about how you pulled this off? First where did you get the equipment?"

Kim looked searchingly at her for a moment, glad she had kept her questions to immediate concerns, before answering. "Most of the equipment I got from a Hench Co. warehouse. I stopped by late one night and did a little after hours shopping. The tunneling machine was originally built by Dementor but he sold it to the Seniors after he made a navigation error during its testing and surfaced in the middle of the Baltic instead of the main vault of the National Commerce Bank of Switzerland."

Shego gave a short laugh at the idea of Dementor almost drowning when he surfaced in the middle of the Baltic Sea. She finished her MRE and tossed the trash into a can near by. "So what did the Seniors do with it?"

Kim finished her meal and tossed her trash away as she rose and motioned for Shego to follow. "The old man was going to use it to break into Fort Knox and steal all the gold in the depository but before he could Junior took it to use as a party bus. He got about ten miles before he tried to tunnel through a cavern and flipped it, leaving him stranded. Once his father found out, he grounded Junior and took away his credit cards for a week. The tunneling machine he sold to Gemini, who was planning on using it to destroy Global Justice's network of transport tubes."

Kim paused as they reached a pile of duffel bags and started to go through them, searching for something. After a minute she pulled out several items of clothing and passed them to Shego. "Here, I think these will fit. We can't have you running around in an orange prison jumpsuit and those leathers are way too hot to wear for long in this heat."

Shego took the clothes and looked them over. She took a pair of dark green pants and a black button down shirt and passed the rest back to Kim. She looked around for a place to change before giving a mental shrug and pulling off the rest of motorcycle leathers and the prison jumpsuit. She glanced at Kim to gauge her reaction to seeing her in her grey prison undergarments. She felt mildly disappointed that Kim's face and actions betrayed no hint of embarrassment or interest. She pushed her curiosity down and added this to her list of item to ask about once they were safe.

"So what happened with Gemini's attempt to take out GJ's transport tubes? Let me guess, he accidentally put in reverse and took out his own base."

Kim gave a chuckle and replied with a smile. "Close. He discovered that the tunnels it made were so large that in taking out GJ's tube system he destroyed most of his own in the process. It set his efforts back so much he tried to sell the tunneling machine to raise money. By then the thing had such a bad reputation that no one, even Drakken, would touch it no matter what the price. Gemini had no choice but to put it in storage, where I found it and liberated it."

Shego had finished dressing and followed Kim as she went to a control panel nearby. Kim flipped several switches and then led Shego around the flatbed to where she has a car waiting. She motioned Shego to get in as she climbed behind the steering wheel. Shego took a moment to admire the car, a late model luxury sedan with tinted windows and a souped up engine if the sound it made when Kim turned it over was any indication. She climbed into the passenger seat and sighed at the comfort of the leather seat.

"This is wonderful. I have been sitting on a hard metal chair for the last three years. This feels heavenly." She leaned back in the seat and relaxed, closing her eyes as she let out a contented sigh.

Kim shook her head in amusement as she put the car in gear and drove out of the ravine and into the surround desert. She turned the car to the east and headed for the highway. It was not the shortest way but it kept them close to the bluffs which would help shield them from observation by satellite and aerial surveillance. They drove in silence for several minute before Shego opened her eyes as she sat up in the seat.

She turned to Kim and looked at her for a moment before she asked. "Aren't you afraid GJ will find the equipment and use it to track you? So far you haven't left a single clue for them to find."

Kim glanced at her out of the corner of her eye a slight smile playing at her lips. "Nice to see you have lost your sense of professionalism or your survival instincts. The entire area was mined with explosives and thermite, all hooked to timers. If you remember, just before we left I flipped several switches on that control panel?"

At Shego's nod, she continued, "That activated the timers. In about twenty minutes the entire site will be destroyed."

Nodding her head Shego settled back in her seat and asked. "How did you find the prison in the first place? And how did you get information on the exact layout of the prison and where I was held?"

Kim's face was hard as she kept her eyes on the road and said nothing. Shego though she wasn't going to answer when Kim suddenly started to speak, her voice low and dangerous. "I . . . contacted several Global Justice agents and . . . persuaded them to tell me what they knew."

Shego shivered slightly in her seat. Normally Kim was a goody-goody who would never break the rules but she knew from experience that if pushed she could be the hardest hard case of all. A memory flashed through her mind, of a clearing in the jungle with a military officer tied between two trees and Kim using pressure points and joint manipulations to break the man without leaving a mark on him. Shego had interrogated him for over an hour by conventional means without results but Kim had broken him in ten minutes.

It had been Shego's first encounter with Kim's dark side and it had frightened her more than she was comfortable admitting, even to herself. After that she knew that if Kim embraced her dark side she would be a far more terrifying figure than Drakken or any of the other villains she knew. That had been when she decided to do what ever it took to keep Kim from joining her and becoming a villain. She vowed to have a real talk with Kim about what had caused her to stage the rescue just a soon as they reached a safe place.

Kim continued talking, unaware of the turmoil in Shego's mind. "I didn't need them to tell me about the specifics of your cell since Dr. Director did that herself." She looked at Shego gave her a smirk. "When I said you would easily escape from whatever prison they put you in, she went into great detail about the construction of your cell to prove to me you weren't going to be escaping anytime soon."

Shego nodded at her a lapsed into silence for the rest of the trip. The traveled down the highway for a little over an hour before Kim pulled off the highway and entered a small town. She made her way to an isolated house on the outskirts and pulled the car into the garage. Once they were stopped, Kim reached under the dash and pushed a button. The door to the garage closed and once it was closed the floor started to sink into the ground. After they had dropped ten feet, a concrete slab slid into place replacing the floor of the garage. They sank fifty feet before coming to a stop in a large room, whose lights came on automatically. Kim climbed out of the car and looked at Shego.

"Are you coming?"

"Yea, yea, I'm coming. Don't get your panties in a bunch." Shego groused as she climbed from the car. "What is this place anyway?"

Kim headed down a short hallway towards another room. "It was a safe house used by a minor villain called the Dessert Fox. After he was captured it was abandoned since no one knew of its existence. I appropriated it about two months ago when I found out I would need a safe house in this area."

"The Desert Fox, never heard of him. What was he, some fan of Erwin Rommel?"

Kim laughed, "Not Desert Fox, Dessert Fox, a crazed baker named Pat Iseray, who staged pastry themed crimes." She gave another laugh at the look of bafflement on Shego's face. "I know how you feel. I had Wade looking for some hidden plan for weeks after he was captured but we never found a hint that he was anything more than what he seemed."

They had reached the main room of the lair where Kim flopped down in a large chair. She pointed to the left and then the right. "The kitchen is through there if you are hungry, the bedrooms and bathrooms are through there if you want to freshen up, I even have some more clothes for you."

Kim stopped speaking as she saw the look on Shego's face. She sighed, knowing that Shego would want answers about why she was there and she couldn't stall anymore. She motioned to the seat across from her. "Sit down, this is going to take a while to explain." Shego looked into Kim's eyes for a moment before she sank into the indicated chair and regarded Kim.

"Why are you here, Kim? The last time I saw you, you were on the way back to your home in Middleton, all ready to resume your perfect life."

Kim gave a short bitter laugh. "That's what I though too."