Disclaimer: This story is based upon characters created by Bob Schooley and Mark McCorkle for Disney.
Dawn looked about at her surroundings. She was on a city street as expected. Ominous gray clouds overcast the sky. A light rain was coming down. Ahead of Dawn, was a huge, somewhat damaged, robot warrior.
Young Nana was wearing her battle suit and climbing into the robot.
Dawn ran up behind Nana, "Stop!"
"Huh?" cried Nana.
"Get away from there!" cried Dawn.
As Nana stared at Dawn, she was blasted by green energy from within the cockpit. She was knocked back into the air, where she backflipped to land in a standing position.
Young Gran then undid her straps and abandoned the open cockpit.
Once she was on the ground, her hands began to glow.
"You stop fighting now!" yelled Dawn.
Gran laughed. She turned off her glow and laughed long.
Nana said to Dawn, "You have to get out of here! It's dangerous!"
"I know," said Dawn. "I came to stop your fight."
Gran managed to stop laughing. "Okay, kid. You've got spunk." Her hands glowed higher than before, "Now go home and let me do my job!"
"No!" Dawn said sternly. "You don't scare me, G- Shego."
"Look out!" Nana ran up and jumped at Dawn. Gran's blast and Nana herself both passed through Dawn's glowing body.
"Thanks," said Dawn. "But I can handle myself."
"Wow!" said Gran. "Cool power, kid."
Nana stood up, "Which you didn't know about when you attacked a little girl!" She sneered at Shego.
"Tweak much, Kimmie?" said Gran as she stepped into a fighting stance.
"No!" Dawn jumped on Nana, grabbing her elbows and pulling them behind her.
"Hey!" cried Nana. "She's the evil one!"
"That doesn't give you the right to kill her."
"She killed Ron!" Nana screamed.
"No," said Dawn. "She didn't. He'll be fine."
"How do you know?"
"I just know." Dawn was having trouble holding Nana, "Please, trust me."
"Thanks, kid." Gran held up her glowing hands, "a little to the left."
Thunder clapped as Gran tossed green energy. Nana jumped into a flip, knocking Dawn off her back and into the air. Nana landed on her feet on the other side of Gran, near the discarded robot head.
Dawn managed to land on top of the head.
Dawn then jumped down onto Nana as the redheaded woman charged at Gran. Nana was knocked down. Dawn yelled, "Run, Shego!"
"What for?" Gran laughed. "It's fun watching Kimmie get beat by a kid!"
Nana growled loudly and tossed Dawn off.
"We don't have time to argue, Gran!" Dawn yelled as she stood up.
Nana was already attacking Gran.
Gran blocked Nana's repeateded attacks, "Just 'cause you're a kid does not mean you can call me, 'Grandma'!"
Dawn watched as Gran blocked each of Nana's punches and kicks quickly, again and again.
She'd called Shego 'Gran'. She was not supposed to do that!
Nana finally punched Gran's upper body.
Gran was knocked back through the air to impact with the wall of the building. She then slid limp onto the sidewalk.
Nana ran up to Gran's fallen form.
"Nana, No!" Dawn ran after her. "Stop!"
Nana reached Gran first and began pummeling her.
"Stop! Stop! Sto-op!" Dawn cried as she jumped yet again onto Nana's back. This time she extended her glow over both of them.
Nana's punches no longer connected, passing through Gran's bruised and broken body instead. "What are you doing?" she yelled.
"Preventing a murder!" Dawn yelled back.
"She's evil!" Nana clawed back at Dawn. "Why do you protect her?" she bellowed.
"I have to, Nana," Dawn knew she was blowing this mission. She was failing at not calling them by their nicknames. She was failing to keep Nana from hurting Gran.
"Look, I'm not your Nana, uhh."
"Dawn. and, yes, you are."
"You need to go home, Dawn!" Nana yelled. "At least let me deal with her before she wakes up!"
Dawn didn't care anymore. If she was going to cease to exist, she may as well tell the truth. "Please! Don't kill us."
"I'm not going to hurt you if just let me do this!"
"But you'll kill her."
"Then she'll never hurt anyone again!"
"And I won't be born," Dawn said softly.
"What are you talking about?" Nana yelled angrily. She had finally stopped trying to beat Gran.
"I'm her granddaughter. I came back in time to stop you from killing her." Tears ran down Dawn's face. "Your suit is making you angry. It's flawed. You told me so yourself."
"Why should I believe you?"
"Because you are the good grandma, you never went bad like Gran did. You never wanted to kill anybody." Dawn shifted around and put her feet down on the ground. She looked into Nana's eyes, the green eyes so much like her own. "Until now."
Nana was quiet. Dawn didn't know what to do. She didn't want to let go. She couldn't let this wild, angry woman free. "If you kill her, she won't have my Mom." Dawn sobbed loudly, "Please, Nana. I want to be born!"
Nana stared at her. Her eyes seemed to change "You ..." Nana started crying. She fell to her knees and cried intensely. "What am I doing?" she yelled.
Dawn realized now that they weren't glowing anymore. She wasn't sure when she stopped. "It's okay, Nana." Dawn reached into her backpack. "It's the suit. I brought you some mission clothes." She set them down in front of Nana.
"I was going to kill her," Nana said softly as she leaned over on her hands.
"I know." Dawn started to remove the suit's top. "It will be all right soon."
"I really wanted to-"
"Yes," Dawn stopped to hug her closely. "Let's get you changed. Okay?"
"Okay."
Nana was almost completely changed when Gran started moaning. "Oh, my aching aches."
Dawn rushed over to her. "Don't move too much. You're badly hurt."
"So I see," Gran said carefully. "Who are you, kid?"
Dawn thought that over, "I've said way too much already."
"But that glow," Gran said weakly.
"It runs in my family," Dawn admitted.
Nana walked over and sat next to Gran. "Shego, I -"
"Shut your yap, Kimmie." She looked over at her. "You gonna turn around and save me now?"
"Your granddaughter already did that," said Nana.
Gran looked over at Dawn, "And I'm a monkey's aunt."
"Actually," smiled Dawn. "There's one thing I should mention." Dawn leaned in as close as she could to Gran's ear. She spoke as softly as she could.
"Holy meteorite!" cried Gran.
"What?" asked Nana.
Gran stared at Dawn a moment, looking worried. "Who told you that?" she asked softly.
Dawn grinned, "You made me promise never to tell anybody but you."
Shego turned to Kim, "She has to be who she says."
"All right," said Nana. "What now, Dawn?"
"I have to go," Dawn told them. "Can you get Gran to a hospital?"
"Absolutely."
"Then I'll see you ladies in forty years." Dawn stood up and activated her wrist device. A portal opened in front of her. "I love you both very much." She stepped through.
Kim looked over Shego's injuries. "Do you think it's safe to transport you?"
"I might be able to move," Shego coughed.
"No!" Kim shouted. "Don't you dare try." She looked about. The rain was letting up now. "I'll find a phone. Then I'll check on Ron and come back for you."
"Don't bother, Kimmie. He's-"
"Dawn said he'd be fine!" Kim protested.
"Whatever."
Kim ran down the street until she found a phone. Then she dialed 911. After explaining the sitch, she ran back. She glanced at Shego before she took her hair dryer and pulled herself up onto the building. As she rode it up, she realized that she had not brought her hair dryer. Thanks to Dawn, it seemed she now had a spare.
Kim started rummaging through the debris where she had last seen Ron. She removed some bricks from around something that jut up out of the roof. It turned out to be an air vent.
"Hey, KP. What took so long?" Ron said when his face became visible inside the vent. "I was getting a cramp!"
"Mr. dumb luck wins again," Kim smiled.
"Dumb skill," Ron corrected as he awkwardly crawled out of the vent. "Aw, man!" Once Ron was completely out, he had to reach back in to get his pants.
"There's an ambulance coming for Shego." Kim told him, glad he was safe. "I should get back to her."
"Shego?" echoed Ron. "Are you okay, KP?"
Kim attached her zip line and started to repel down. "Yes, Ron. I'm a heck of a lot better now."
Kim lowered herself to the sidewalk and walked back to Shego. She had not moved. "Shego?"
"Present," she moaned.
"I am sorry," said Kim.
"C'mon, Kimmie," she said curtly. "I would have done the same to you and you know it."
"Thanks, Shego." But I'm the good guy, I shouldn't have done it.
Kim was still sitting there when Ron arrived.
"Whoa. Shego," Ron sat down beside her, opposite Kim. "You're robot go kablooey?"
"Naw," said Shego. "I got your girlfriend mad."
Kim tried to smile at Shego's joke, but could only hang her head.
Dawn arrived back in the lab to find her family cheering. Dad walked up and gave her a bear hug. Gran and Nana came up next.
They hugged her between them.
"Did I do okay?" Dawn asked.
"You were wonderful, kid," said Gran.
"I kinda broke a few of the rules you gave me," Dawn said sadly.
"We remembered that when we told you the rules, silly girl," Nana tussled Dawn's wet hair.
"Oh," said Dawn. "Yeah." Dawn started to smile," So I did right?"
Nana smiled wider, "You did exactly what had to be done."
"It's party time!" called Mom.
Pappy and Aunt Anne brought in a tray of cake and ice cream big enough for everyone.
"Wow!" Dawn's eyes went wide.
"Let's get you cleaned up first," said Gran.
"Oh, you're just being evil, Gran!" Dawn whined.
"Yup," said Gran as she led Dawn into another room. "It's my job."
FIN