Yellow Trout

A year after Shego and Kim part ways Shego is asked to do something she never thought she would have to do.

Chapter 1: The perfect distraction

It had been a whole year since she and Kim parted ways in the aired desert. Since then Shego had heard about a sting of high profile robberies and a few connecting to them that made no sense at all. She couldn't stop herself from thinking Kim had something to do with these thefts. Although Shego had found herself on the FBI's most wanted list after her escape and was seen as a suspect in the robberies; she merely shrugged this off and continued living her own way. But every so often she would look for Kim, not an active search, but a listless gaze in the direction of a familiar blur or the sound of her name being uttered in the softest of breaths. She always dismissed her silent hope as mere paranoia.

Every day seemed to drag on like the next; time seemed to speed along with little regard to whether or not Shego wanted it to move so quickly or not. Today, however, was different. Today moved slowly, she sat in the white sand of a beach in Tuscany. She sat in deep thought watching the water roll onto shore, a shiver rolled down her spine when she felt a presents nearing.

"Shego it's been a while." Betty Director stood over her with a pleasant smile.

"You do know I'm on an extended vacation?" Shego said calmly.

"Well now, you know you're supposed to be in prison. This doesn't look like a cell to me."

"Time is my prison and boredom is my cell. So why are you bothering me now?"

"To be honest I'm here to arrest you. We've got a special place for you and you'll have to learn to like it you'll be there for a long time."

"And what makes you think I won't run right now?"

"Because you know I have a deal for you. You can either spend the rest of your life in prison or you can help us with a special mission."

"Why would I help you?"

"If you complete the mission, you'll be granted amnesty for your previous crimes."

"That's not worth a damn thing to me and you know it. The statute of limitations has run out on most of my crimes and the only thing you have on me in a prison escape. You know as well as I do that I won't be in that cell long enough to even cop a squat on those dusty cardboard messes you call beds. So no deal."

"What if I grant you amnesty for future crimes as well?"

"Do I have to answer to you during this mission?"

"Well I'd have to know you're not laying down on the job."

"Then no deal. I had to answer to that idiot Drakken for years before I finally left. I'm not going back to that hell."

"Okay fine you can do it your way. I just need this done quickly and quietly."

"What is this mission? Can you send someone else, like that tool Will Du?"

"Because you're the only one who can do this. Now will you do it or do I have to arrest you?"

"I don't even know what I'm going to be doing how do I know this isn't a trap? You've been after me for years, now is your chance. I can see it in your eye you're so close it just hurts."

Betty leaned down so she was eye to eye with Shego. "I haven't been so close to you in my entire career. Yes the thought of reaching out and catching you right now is almost too good to be true. But right now I can't even touch you because I need your help, and it disgusts me to have to give you the deal of a lifetime, anyone would take this deal without a second thought. It would be in your best interest to take this chance. You'd be free to do whatever you want without anyone raising a finger to stop you, and you still refuse."

"I'm only refusing because I don't know what I have to do to get that much freedom. My mother always said a good deal is never made without a consequence of equal value. So a deal this sweet, has to have some bite to it."

"You'll find out what you have to do when you accept this mission. It's either complete and total freedom or a long stint in a cell isolated from the world with only the essentials for company."

"When you put it that way it's like I have no choice at all."

"Yes I guess so."

"Well you must feel very proud of yourself Betty you've managed to catch me, fine but if I so much as smell a rat in this deal I'm gone. Good luck finding me."

"I found you just fine now didn't I?"

"Don't think to highly of yourself; you only found me because I let you find me. I want this deal in writing and a copy sent to my lawyers. Now what is it I have to do?"

Betty smiled, the act seemed to make time itself stop and for the first time in a long time Shego found herself fearful of the action.