Welcome to part three of The Long Road Ahead series. Things are heating up to the end game of this. I know there are lots of questions, some might be answered, while others won't. I hope you enjoy this as much as I enjoy writing it. I am hoping to finish this part by the end of this year and then completing the series by the end of 2021.

The major part of this section is the So the Drama movie. I will be developing more of Ron and Monique, as well as integrating Bonnie into the friend group. We will also get to see a more hostile side of Shego as well as seeing how her powers work more. Think of Shego as a fusion reactor with how she can conduct the plasma and heat.

Height wise is this: Kim and Bonnie are 5'3 and Shego is 5'9 (This is from the official character models)

5 Months Before Little Diablo Incident(February)

The cold January air whipped against Kim's face as she ran through the snow covered streets of Middleton. She had taken up doing morning jogs since her break up with Shego, if she could really call it that. After she had left the waterfall that fateful day a month ago, Kim hadn't heard a word from Shego. There had been no missions to go deal with Drakken. It appeared the man didn't think it would be fun to try to take over the world in the sudden blizzard that had consumed the city in the past weeks. Kim had almost reached out to Shego, but the woman's phone number was nowhere to be found, almost as if it was erased from existence. Kim hadn't been able to find the contact in her phone anymore, which upset her. Apparently, Shego could sneak into her room at any time without her waking.

As she ran, Kim tried to think of other things and not the memories that she had reacquired. Sometimes, she would wistfully think back to one of the futures before she had the stark image of red dripping off her alters' arm smacked her in the face. That in turn devolved into the fight before the Time Monkey broke. Everything meshing in Kim's mind made her sick to her stomach, so she resorted to listening to music to keep the thoughts at bay. For the first few weeks, it was sad songs that had her wandering the streets of Middleton in the early morning, hoping to find some solace. That stopped real quick when Monique caught Kim sulking at school with headphones in and eyes starting to water.

Kim's run had turned into a walk as she headed back home. She was feeling the heat her body was producing through her thick sweater. She was deep in thought as music played through her headphones, this time is was more upbeat to keep her moving through her run. With her head lowered and her eyes glued to the snowy sidewalk, Kim almost ran into Bonnie. She felt a small splash of warm liquid hit her chest, but didn't get burned by it. Looking up, Kim was shocked to see Bonnie standing in her way, dressed in a robe, pajamas, and some boots. The brunette was holding a mug of coffee out to her, cheeks red from either the cold or embarrassment.

"B-Bonnie," Kim stuttered, "S-sorry."

"I didn't think it was possible to sneak up on you," Bonnie said with a smile. She placed the mug into Kim's hands. "Figured you could use some warmth on your way home."

Kim stared at the brown liquid, gingerly taking a sip of it. "Thanks," she hummed as the fluid warmed her body. "How did you know I was going to be walking past your place?"

"Fastest route to your place," Bonnie said with a shrug. She didn't want to tell Kim that she had noticed the girl doing extreme runs in the cold a week ago.

"Oh..." Kim nodded as she took another sip. She looked at Bonnie, noticing the brunette was shivering slightly. Although the coffee was still hot, Kim finished the rest of it in two gulps. She let out a hiss of pain as the warmth hit her tongue, throat, and stomach. She shuddered at the feeling.

"Thank you," Kim said as she pressed the mug into Bonnie's hands. "I'll see you at school..."

"You're welcome," Bonnie said through chattering teeth. She smiled softly at Kim before the redhead ran off towards her home. She watched until Kim ran around the corner before heading inside to get ready for school.

Kim was staring at the computer in her locker, hoping for Wade to pop up on the screen with a mission. It was lunchtime and she hadn't been very hungry, avoiding Monique and Ron when the bell had rung after English. Again, music filtered into her ears. This time it was something on the heavier side, since she had burned through the Oh Boyz discography the past few days. Their music was more love songs that she cared to listen to. She had stumbled into the alt metal genre while trying to find something to replace the boy band. The only downside is it fueled the angry part of her that was hyper focused on Shego using time travel to break up her and Ron's world saving dynamic.

Kim felt a hand shake her shoulder, and for the second time that day, was startled by Bonnie appearing before her. Bonnie giggled at the surprised look on Kim's face. She tapped her ear to get Kim to remove the headphones that seemed to be glued to her in the recent weeks. Kim pulled the buds out, giving Bonnie a puzzled look.

"Your dorky friends said that you've been moping," Bonnie started with, wanting to gauge Kim's reaction. She received a flash of pain before olive eyes went neutral. "Mhm. Well, I might be the last person you would want to talk about in regards to her, but I am here if you'd like."

Kim tensed slightly when she Bonnie got closer and gave her a hug. It felt weird for a moment, not only because of the past animosity, but their height. Bonnie was roughly the same height as Kim, while Shego had been half a foot taller. Kim relaxed after a moment, accepting the hug. The other thing that was weird was the lack of consistent warmth that accompanied a hug from Shego. When she felt Bonnie's embrace loosen, Kim wiggled out of the hug. She felt bad comparing a friendly hug to Shego. She had been doing that a lot lately.

"Thanks..." Kim said with a small smile. Before she could say more the bell for class rang loudly in the hall.

"No problem, Kim," Bonnie returned with a shrug before heading down the hall.

Kim let out a sigh when she saw Monique and Ron round the corner, both lighting up when they saw their friend. Monique marched up to her, leaving Ron to jog towards them through the crowd of students milling about the hall. "You better not having been pouting out here the entire lunch period," Monique scolded when she made it to Kim. Kim blushed with embarrassment.

"No… Bonnie came to briefly talk to me near the end," Kim mumbled. "So I wasn't moping the whole period."

Monique hummed with minor disappointment, causing Kim to look down and blush more. She still wasn't used to Monique's style of friendship. Ron had been supportive since Kim had broken it off with Shego. Although he sounded far more pleased than Kim would have liked when she told him what happened. Ron wrapped his arm around Kim in that moment, laughing a little bit.

"C'mon, KP. Life is good, we're getting closer to senior year and being able to get out into the world!"

"We already get out into the world, Ron," Kim laughed. "We save it weekly, sometimes daily."

"But that's like work," Ron whined, eliciting a giggle from Monique. He gave her a goofy smile.

"You'd think being the sidekick was hard," Monique said to Kim.

Kim grinned a bit, closing her locker to head to class before the final bell rung. Things were starting to feel normal again, but she doubted it would last for long.

KP+KP+KP

The amount of syntho-plasma that was sticking to every surface of the training room terrified whatever henchmen were sitting and watching Shego blast through dummies filled with the stuff. They thought she was rough on them, now realizing she had been going easy on them over the years. Shego was in the center of the large room, panting, and letting her plasma get to its breaking point. Drakken was grinning ear to ear, remote in his hand. He pressed the button to release more synthodrones, as he had deemed them. He watched as more landed in the room from a hatch in the ceiling, analyzing the way they reacted to the recoil of the land.

Shego tensed up, stepping back a bit as the new drones tried to circle around her. She had a control on her powers at the moment, not letting them get to the point she exploded with heat. It had taken a few dozen fights with things Drakken was testing to get her emotions in check. She pictured them as Kim, the Time Monkey, Ron, and her parents, making sure to get whatever emotion was built up in her out. She threw plasma at the advancing drones, using the push back to slide around them. Unfortunately, one was able to sneak up behind her and jump on her back. Grunting, Shego slammed backwards at the wall to try and knock the thing off of her.

The other drones that had been distracted turned their attention to Shego. Growling now, Shego twisted her hand around and ripped a hole in the drone's side. Viscous fluid leaked out of the husk, removing the weight from Shego's back so she could move better. She shook off the husk as she swung her leg up and into another drone. She saw a spark of plasma at the end of her foot ignite before extinguishing. Stunned, Shego missed the time to dodge another drone coming at her. She was exhausted at this point having taken down over fifty of the synthodrones in the past hour and a half. It was enough for her body to go into a defense, setting off a heat wave that send the drones back in fear of being liquefied.

Slumping against the wall, Shego stared at the drones that had moved away. They didn't advance on her again, as they had gone stock still. Drakken made his way through the carnage to stand in front of the exhausted woman. "How did you do that?!" He squealed with excitement. He put his hand out to help Shego up.

"Still haven't figured that out," Shego replied, ignoring Drakken's offered hand and remaining against the wall. She felt drained.

"This means that there is more to your powers than we previously thought! We need to tes-" Drakken was cut off by a sudden glowing hand grabbing his front collar.

"If that last word was 'test', I will not hesitate to incinerate you," Shego snarled, letting the heat in her glow rise enough to make Drakken sweat. The man shook his head, looking like he was going to knock it off his neck. Shego glared at him, tossing him out of her way as she stormed off. She needed to get the fuck out of there and clear her mind.

Shego left the lair and aimlessly drove around. She didn't have a destination in mind, anywhere that wasn't Middleton or the surrounding. Even the waterfall wasn't far enough to get away from her worries. The moments she had shared with Kim still clung to the place, even after she destroyed most of the vegetation a month ago. So, she drove out of Upperton, through Middleton, and towards Go City. Although Go City was one of the places she avoided like the plague because of her brothers, it was better than being in a city where she would run into Kim.

After their break up, Shego had done her best to erase herself from Kim's life. They were too connected to not float back to the other like magnets. Shego thought she would be the first one to cave, getting belligerently drunk was a good way for Shego to forget her inhibitions. Thankfully, she had just ended up staying in her room and sulking. Any remnants she had of research involving the Time Monkey had been burnt to ash and thrown in the trash. She wanted to forget again and have everything back to normal. If only wishes came true.

Shego had blown through Go City without realizing it, driving until she couldn't keep her eyes open. It was pitch black when she pulled into a local park of some small town. Getting out of her car, she leaned against the hood of it, lighting her hand up to see some of the immediate area. There didn't seem to be any threat of cops coming around either. Shego let out a huff as she looked up at the stars.

"I was probably too harsh to Drakken," Shego thought aloud.

Shego knew the man was curious about her abilities. Hell, she was curious about how they worked. When she and her brothers had been hit by the comet, their father did some small experiments on them before whisking them away to fight crime. Her brothers' glows seemed to function like superpowers from comics, not much science to explain away the logic of it, while she was cursed with something that could be explained. It made her more valuable to her father, even if he didn't want a daughter. Scowling at the thought, Shego looked down at her foot that had almost ignited.

Over the years, she had learned that she was a walking fusion reactor. Her ability to throw plasma meant she had her own magnet field to keep the plasma contained. She had been mortified when she found out, in theory, that she could reach temperatures of one million degrees Celsius. The most she had tried to conduct safely was 1668*C, which allowed her to cut through titanium. Shego had felt drained when she tried that. She had wanted to try to cut through tungsten, but didn't want to risk burning herself. As it was, extreme heat took a toll on her body. Learning that she could use the heat as a barrier or go 'supernova', as she deemed it, was interesting. Yet, any time she tried to focus on the heat radiation, her energy sapped immediately. She also learned that after she expelled the pressure, she needed to cool down immediately. Looking into fusion reactors after finishing college, Shego was surprised could even function. Something in her biology allowed her to cool down naturally to allow her to survive. That brought her back to her foot.

Shego focused on the appendage, trying to manipulate her plasma there. Her hands lit up instead. She growled in frustration after a few more attempts. If her powers were developing, it be better for her to learn now than in the middle of a fight with someone. It was like when she went supernova the first time and melted the small front yard of the lair. Shego frowned as she put out her hands. She got back into her car, sighing in resignation when she looked at her phone. There was a series of calls from Drakken needing her for a heist. She prayed that it didn't involve Kim getting involved.