--Chapter 9--
"I'm disappointed, Jon… I'm just simply very disappointed in you," Kim said, looking directly at her son.
"You don't seem surprised to see me here, so I'm guessing that you already got the message I left for you in Wade's systems," Jon responded boldly. "So, has he been able to restore everything yet? If so, he's better than I thought…"
Turning around, Ron exclaimed, "Jon! How dare you associate yourself with Drakken? You are sooo grounded now, mister!"
"Ah, but dear father, your words no longer mean anything to me," Jon responded with an evil grin, calmly moving towards Drakken. Pointing directly at Liz then, he continued, "You… joining yourself with my 'super-hero' mother… You've seriously disrupted my plans—and the plans of your own family now, as I wasn't hoping to go into action until Monday morning…"
"You know, I would have appreciated it, had you waited until any morning," JJ complained, rubbing his dreary eyes.
"And who are you exactly?" Jon asked.
"He's my best friend and also a hero… like me," Liz responded insolently. "Whatever you're planning, we're all here now to stop it!"
"HOW DARE YOU WANT TO BE A HERO?" Drakken exclaimed. "I thought I raised you to become a villain!"
"No dad, you and mom raised me to hate villains by being villains yourselves!" Liz responded aggressively. "I've always hated everything to do with villainy and have always dreamed of being like Kim Possible here!"
"Kim Possible is our family's enemy!" her twin brothers cried out. "If you're with her now, then you're also our family's enemy now!"
"Alright, enough of this!" Kim exclaimed at last. "What is it that you really want, Jon?"
"Me? I simply want to reduce Middleton high school to rubble," Jon responded coolly as if it was nothing big. "Absolutely nothing to do with you or dad for now. I simply asked a well-known and knowledgeable villain, Dr. Drakken here, for help in achieving my goal."
"And then what?" Kim asked. "What would you possibly hope to achieve by destroying your school?"
"Personal satisfaction, mom, only personal satisfaction," Jon responded. "…Oh, and of course, good training, if ever I would decide to help Drakken and his family to take over the world. The prospect of that seems very intriguing to me, and I know they could use my help…"
"What about the two clones of you?" Liz asked.
"Ah, those were for me!" Drakken responded. "I was personally going to use them in a ploy against my very old nemesis, Kim Possible here, but since you warned her about it now, you little miss traitor…"
"Drakken was going to use the robotic copies of me to confuse you, mom, as well as set you up in a difficult situation," Jon explained with an evil grin. "I must say, simply looking at them, they really are beautiful works of art!"
"Jon! You would deliberately want to hurt your own mother?" Ron exclaimed with dreadfulness and revulsion.
"And you too if you were in the way, dad."
"Of course we would all love to stay and chat some more, but it is almost 4 in the morning now and we all need some sleep, especially my good and faithful sons," Drakken exclaimed at last. "Lisa, I'm actually no longer mad at you for bringing Kim Possible and the buffoon and… um… whatevah his name is," Drakken pointed to JJ, "here to this location with you now, since you'll all be stuck here now together!"
"What do you mean…?" Liz said, defiantly looking at her father.
"Have a good night, my dear!" he said, turning around and marching off towards the perimeter and easily passing through the electric glowing barrier.
"Enjoy the company of your new student, mom," Jon then said before following after Drakken. "Personally, I prefer the company now of my own new teacher! By the way, don't expect to use your precious Kimmunicator here…"
"You're all doomed!" The twins called out before bouncing off in opposite directions, both easily passing through the electric barrier as if oblivious to it.
Remaining silent, Shego simply looked at Liz with a small look of regret before turning away and walking off, easily moving through the perimeter barrier herself.
"But… wait!" Liz cried out, quickly bouncing after her father.
"NO! LIZ! STOP!" Kim cried out as her young student sprung towards the glowing pink perimeter barrier herself. With a loud electric CRACK!, Liz was then shocked before being flung back towards the center of the clearing.
"Ow! Ow! Ow!" she moaned, lying back as everyone quickly came around to attend to her.
"You have to be careful," Kim said. "It appears to be an electro-magnetic barrier, and you can seriously hurt yourself if you attempt to cross it like you just did…"
"But… how did they all go through it as if it was nothing?" JJ asked in wonder.
"I don't know, Drakken must have come up with something you wear that makes you oblivious to it," Kim tried to explain.
"Can you call Wade at least?" Ron asked.
Picking up her Kimmunicator device, Kim simply shook her head. "I understand what Jon meant now, there's either an interference or jamming signal being broadcast in the area, as nothing's coming through… I've only got static again here. Drakken himself was right when he said we're all stuck here together…"
"Well… um… under… under the stone there… that's supposed to be the entrance to Mom and Dad's hide-out…" Liz said with some pain, pointing to the large boulder in the center of the clearing.
Examining it and feeling it and knocking his knuckles on it, Ron exclaimed, "You're right, although it looks like it, it sure doesn't feel like real rock… So how do you open it now?"
Forcing herself up with Kim's assistance, Liz then moved over to the boulder as well. "There's a switch… on the side here," she responded, feeling around near the ground. "If I remember correctly, you… uh… there you go," she said, taking a step back as the boulder automatically slid away, reviling a spiral staircase leading underground.
Taking her flashlight torch once again, Kim shone the light into the hideout. Inside was basically a very dusty and empty space with cobwebs almost everywhere. "Well, it doesn't look like Drakken or Shego have been here recently," Kim said, moving inside. "I don't see any tools that will help us get out of this clearing either…"
Liz deeply sighed, joining Kim inside. "This doesn't make much sense, I thought my parents would have at least some food or… or something in storage here," she said.
"No other way in or out?" Kim asked, shining her light in all the corners of the place.
"Not to my knowledge…" Liz responded, moving close to a dusty concrete wall. "Just a very small air vent over here that leads out into the forest. Not big enough for anyone here to fit through…"
"Um… we do in fact have someone who could…" JJ exclaimed with a small yawn, joining the girls down below. "Clevis could always fit through there…"
"So he can escape," Liz said, lightly rolling her eyes. "The rest of us will still be stuck inside the electro-barrier, so what's the point?"
"JJ, is Clevis well trained?" Kim said with a much brighter face.
"Of course, I take very good care of him," JJ responded.
"If you send him up, would he be able to deactivate the barrier from the outside? I mean, there has to be a power source and emitter somewhere close by…"
JJ immediately aroused the small creature in his pocket and gave him directions for the mission. Clevis immediately nodded, and scurried up the small open air vent.
"Let's all go back up," Kim indicated, pointing back towards the hideout's stairs.
A short while later, as everyone waited patiently close to the pink glowing fence, the powerful floodlights that brightly lit up the clearing suddenly all shut down. A few seconds later, the barrier itself disappeared. "He did it!" Liz exclaimed with some joy. "I can't believe it, your mole rat did it!"
"I never had any doubt," JJ said proudly, running over to pick up the small creature who was triumphantly coming back towards them with a couple of chewed wires in his mouth.
"Well done, JJ, and well done Clevis," Kim said, softly patting the small animal on his head. "Now, to catch up to Drakken and company!"
Kim's group didn't have to go or search far, as they quickly spotted their enemies squabbling around their green minivan.
"What do you mean, you no longer have the keys, Shego?" Drakken exclaimed to his wife.
"I was sure I had left them in the ignition!" Shego responded with some arrogance. "What ever happened to your set of keys to the van?"
"I lost those months ago!" Drakken said.
"Are you saying we're stuck here ourselves for now?" Jon said in a bored state.
"Mommy, daddy, we're scared!" the twins exclaimed.
"It's ok, my dears, we'll… we'll figure something out," She go said, moving over to comfort her sons. Glaring back at Drakken, she continued, "I mean, your father WILL figure something out right now, or else…"
Watching from a discrete location nearby, Liz embarrassedly showed Kim her mother's set of keys she had taken into her pocket. Kim quietly smiled back at her with approval.
"What are we going to do now?" JJ whispered.
"Just wait…" Kim responded as she watched Drakken give some instructions to Shego and then to her son. Jon simply nodded then and followed Drakken deeper into the dark forest, leaving Shego and the twins by the minivan.
"Ok, Liz and I am going after Drakken and Jon," Kim said. "You two… just stay here and out of sight, alright?"
"But Kim…" Ron began.
"Just do as I say for now, Ron!" Kim responded, before dashing off with Liz.
A short distance away, both girls found Drakken and Jon by the van's missing trailer, putting together some kind of device from material found inside of it. "We'll have to leave the rest here for now," Drakken said to Jon, "and we'll pick it all up at a later time…"
"What if my mom gets out and finds all your stuff here before we do?" Jon asked.
"This time, we've got her for sure, it would take a miracle for them to get passed the electro-fence without any grounder device!" Drakken responded proudly.
"I wouldn't be so sure about that, since we're already out!" Kim exclaimed, shining her light torch in their direction.
"WHAT THE…?" Drakken exclaimed.
"Your stupid system failed!" Jon exclaimed. "Now what do you expect to do, Mr. Genius?"
"Back to the van, now!" Drakken called out, dropping the device he and Jon were working on and running off.
"But my…" Jon responded in a bit of dismay, looking at the half-finished device on the ground before turning towards Kim with some anger. "Now I'm really upset, mother…" he exclaimed angrily before running after Drakken.
Kim and Liz dashed after them, finding, to their surprise, Ron and JJ both engaged with Jack and Zack as Shego was actively trying to hot-wire the van.
"THEY GOT OUT, DAD," Zack called out before easily dogging Ron who had jumped in to attack him.
"We noticed them spying on us from over there," Jack said, dogging a dead tree branch swung at him by JJ.
"Kim! I'm sorry, but they saw us first!" Ron attempted to explain, this time him going on the defensive from an attack by one of the twins.
"Everyone, into the van, NOW!" Shego cried out in a commanding tone at last as the engine finally started.
"Wherever you go, we will find you again!" Kim called out.
"Shego, get the twins out of here," Drakken said, "we'll take care of Kim Possible… and her new associate!"
"NO YOU WON'T," Shego responded strongly. "BOTH OF YOU, GET IN THE VAN NOW WITH JACK AND ZACK AND TAKE OFF WITHOUT ME FOR NOW." Turning to face Ron and JJ, she then exclaimed, "You two, get lost as well, I want to have a PRIVATE talk with both the princess… AND MY DAUGHTER."
"Shego, I thought we agreed she would no longer be considered our daughter now!" Drakken called out.
"Unless you want me to seriously hurt YOU now, Drew, you will do as I say and get out of here NOW," Shego responded, facing her husband and powering up a ball of green plasma energy in her right hand.
With a small grumble, Drakken got into the van's driver's seat and backed the vehicle away.
"You had better get out of here as well as Shego said," Kim said to both Ron and JJ who both watched the scene unfolding with some stupor. "Head back for the hideout, and wait for us there."
As soon as they were alone, Liz took a defiant stance in front of her mother, powering up her hand with green plasma itself.
Rolling her eyes, Shego deeply sighed at last, calmly crossing her arms. "I really don't want to fight anymore, girls, since I really don't want anyone to get hurt," she said. "All I want to do is talk for a bit."
Although Liz cautiously powered down, keeping a distrustful glare on her mother, Kim herself relaxed quite a bit, crossing her arms as well. "Since becoming a mother yourself, I suppose you're no longer interested in epic clashes and battles anymore," she said with a small smile.
"Exactly, princess," Shego said. "One thing I don't understand, though, is the choices our children make. But if they believe in their choices, I believe we should respect that. Lisa, if you want to be a hero, then be a hero—be the best hero there can be. Be a hero to your full potential, be a hero like Kim—in fact, be even better than Kim if you can. Although I won't ever be there to support you, I know that she will be there, so please trust in her and support her as well, understood?" Turning then to Kim, she continued, "Princess, as I just said, I'm trusting you now to take care of my little girl, whom I still love very much. I trust you to give her a good education, and to give her a welcoming place within your family. Please promise me you'll do that, and I give you my personal promise that I will personally take very good care of your son, and look after him in the same way and to the same degree as I look after my own two sons."
"Shego…" Kim began slowly with lots of emotion, "I… I do trust you implicitly with Jon. I know you will take good care of him, just as I promise you as well that I will take care of Liz as if she were my own daughter. Please tell my son though, no matter what, I still love him as well…"
"I will," Shego responded before looking at Liz once again with deep feeling. "Lisa, mommy loves you… and will always love you…"
"I'll always love you too, mom…" Liz cried out, tears forming in her eyes as she ran up to strongly hug her mother.
"Be good now," Shego exclaimed at last with a sly grin, disengaging from her daughter. "Bye-bye Princess, 'till next time we meet again!" She then turned and dashed down the path, quickly disappearing between the trees and leaving Kim and Liz standing all alone.
A day and a half later, Liz was shaking out two of her cheerleading outfits, hanging one with other clothes in her closet and leaving the second one hanging over the desk chair in plain view. Kim and Ron had given her Jon's old room, and she had been actively customizing it to her own liking, leaving her Hero's Digest magazines hanging around in the open on the floor. On one of the walls was now a large poster with most of the world's greatest heroes and superheroes. On one side were her own uncles from Team Go, and in front towards the bottom were Ron and Kim posing together. Liz warmly smiled at it, as Kim had assured her that there would soon be another hero's meet where they would surely make an updated version of the poster, with her and JJ included this time.
Coming downstairs, she saw Kim at the table simply taking notes, while Ron, JJ and Clevis were all together in the kitchen.
"Hey Liz," Kim said with a smile, noticing her, "we're having dinner in a few minutes, so now would be a good time to wash your hands!"
"Smells good…" Liz said, moving over to the kitchen sink.
"We're making chicken cutlets from a special recipe," JJ responded proudly. "Just wait until you taste this!"
Just as everyone was about to sit down to eat together, a familiar Beep-Beep-Be-Beep! sounded in Kim's pocket.
Taking the Kimmunicator into her hands, Kim exclaimed to it, "Alright, what's the stitch?"
"Kim! Sorry to bother you, but there's some activity happening on a small island just off the coast in the Mediterranean involving Dr. Dementor!" Wade responded.
"Alright, we're on it," Kim said. Turning to everyone in the room, she continued, "Dinner will have to wait a little, guys… and Liz, I hope your ready to go on a small trip with me now!"
"Right after you!" Liz exclaimed with a grin.
THE END! AT LAST!