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Kim Possible: Morality's End - Pasts & Futures - Part 2

The word had barely left Hannah's lips when she charged forward, her hands struck outward in preparation of the battle's first strike. It was only by the briefest of seconds that she was denied that prize as, though her eyes had reddened slightly from tears and her mind still struggled to process both the sudden attack and the torrent of emotions she had been lost in., Kim managed to leap backwards away from the attack. The vaguest of familiar feelings passed briefly through Kim's mind as she took in full view of her attacker. It was as if she had seen her before and yet she in no way recognized her. She shook the feeling away and drew into a defensive stance, her voice carrying a coldness as she spoke, one that belied the emotions she had just moments ago been embroiled in.

"Who are you?"

Hannah growled mildly in frustration as she pivoted her landing and launched herself again at Kim. She had not expected to see the monster's eyes starring at her from behind a mask of freshly fallen tears but it did nothing to give her any pause in her attack. As Kim parried her strike and the two began trading quick jabs, bouncing around the room at a rapid pace, the warning she had been given oh so long ago played fresh in her mind.

"The monster will lie to you. It will try to hide behind a mask of who it once was, it may try to sway you with words or even cry crocodile tears to make to hesitate but do not falter. The monster does not feel remorse, it does not regret, it only waits for you grow lax, to lower your guard for just a moment so that it may strike." Yori said as the young Hannah hugged her knees to her chest, the glow of the campfire casting shadows across Yori's face which only served to deepen her point.

"Is that how my brother…." Hannah trailed off, not wanting to finish the sentence

Yori appeared distant, almost lost in a memory, as she spoke

"Your brother was…is a greater person then the monster ever could be, even before…"

Yori shook away whatever memory was haunting her.

"He tried to reach to something inside the monster that was no longer there. He refused to believe in it even after all he had seen it do. He thought he could save what it once was and it cost him his life and I…."

Yori stared seriously at Hannah.

"I will not let you fall for the same trick. No matter what mask it tries to wear, no matter what lies it tries to spin, never forget it is a monster."

Hannah swung her arm wide and caught the kick Kim had thrown, twisting the held leg so as to cast Kim down but Kim flipped with the turn, pulling her leg free as she back flipped away. Whoever this was, whoever it was she faced, was obviously quite angry with her and, more to the point, was matching her moves on a level she hadn't seen in years. She needed to know who she was facing, how they had managed too not only sneak into a locked base but almost get the drop on her at her most vulnerable moment. Since it appeared they weren't going to just answer her questions directly she'd have to try another path.

"Your good, I'll give you that. I haven't had to actually try in a battle, outside of Shego, in years. Your not going win though so if you have something to say you'd better say it now while your still conscious."

Hannah smirked slightly at the look of surprise on the monster's face as she was struck from behind. Kim rolled with the hit and spun as she rose, only to find herself again facing her mysterious attacker, who had somehow managed to be both in front of her and behind her at the same time.

"How…"

She was cut off as Hannah leapt forward again, a rapid series of kicks missing her only by the speed of her arm as she did her best to block each one. As she tried to grab Hannah's foot Kim again found herself struck from behind, again turning to see that somehow her attack had managed to teleport behind her in less then the blink of an eye.

"Your words are meaningless monster. You face someone who has devoted their life to only one cause, your death."

Kim grumbled in growing anger as she charged toward Hannah but was struck in the side by yet another copy of her opponent. Kim tried to understand just what was happening. One moment she was facing the person who was trying to kill her only to have that same person appear again just outside of her field of vision and by the time she recovered her original target was gone, leaving only her and the duplicate. She needed to figure out the secret behind her vanishing and reappearing act before it totally turned tide of the battle against her.

Kim ducked as Hannah's high kick passed just over her head, and tried to put more space between them.

"Teleporting. Nice trick. To bad I've fought better then you…and they had much better tricks."

Hannah gave a small laugh as she charged toward Kim.

"You are a fool monster. I do not teleport."

Kim ready her parry but stumbled forward as the kick that slammed into her back struck. This time however she managed to keep her eyes on both of her attacker as she rolled into a new stance. Much to her surprise she saw a portal open just in front of the one that was still charging to where she had been standing, and with no sign of hesitation the attacker continued straight into the portal, the portal itself closing as a soon as the attacker had entered it.

Hannah dashed toward Kim, leaping into a flying kick that Kim just managed to avoid. Hannah landed and spun quickly, using her momentum to launch herself again at Kim as the pair traded more strikes. Kim grunted as one of the strikes found it's mark.

"Sure looks like teleporting to me. So is that your plan? One of you fights me hand to hand while the other keeps popping in and out to attack when they think I'm vulnerable?"

Hannah slammed her palm into Kim's shoulder and swung her leg low into a sweeping kick.

"You face only me monster, no other."

"Then how…"

"I move through time, not space."

Kim felt the blow slam into the back of her head as she feel to one knee, the sight of an opening and closing portal catching just in the corner of her eye. Hannah slammed her leg into Kim's back, sending the red head sprawling onto the floor.

A new portal opened and Hannah stepped into it as she spoke.

"The tempus simia ensures my victory. I need only picture when and where I wish to be…"

Kim saw another portal open only inches in front of her as her attacker stepped out and slammed a kick directly into her shoulder.

"And I am there."

Hannah held both her hands together and slammed them into the back of Kim's head.

"You cannot win."

Kim groaned slightly as a feeling of pain washed over her but she rose to face her opponent only to once again be struck down from behind.

"You do not win."

Kim gave a hard laugh and coughed slightly. She could feel her ribs and there was little doubt they were bruised at the least.

"Not even a sporting chance? I'm hurt."

As the newly appeared Hannah slammed her leg into Kim's side and the former Hannah disappeared into a portal, Kim found herself tumbling sideways across the room, a noticeable tail of blood marking her path.

"Yes, you are!"

Kim struggled to her feet, wounded but resolved. No matter the disadvantage she found herself at she would not yield, and if she did indeed die here in this moment she would do so taking her opponent with her.

"If your so sure you will win why not kill me now? Why drag this out?"

Hannah ignored the posed question and instead ran at Kim with a level of hate etched on her face she hadn't seen on any but her own, launching into a fast serious of blows as she drew near. For every one that Kim managed to block, another seemed to find its way through and each blow that struck washed her body in a level of pain. The blood that seeped from Kim's lips quickly stained Hannah's hands but it did not cause her to relent.

"I spent my life scared of you! Always running from the monster that had stolen my brother! I've seen you kill him thousands upon thousands of times, the smile upon your face as you killed the girl even more! Now you pay for those you have stolen from this world, you pay for all the nightmares that I've had of this day, Now…."

Hannah slammed both of her palms directly into Kim's chest as a second Hannah took out her legs, sending the former teen hero and current world ruler tumbling hard to the ground. Through the haze of pain, and slightly reddened vision due to growing internal injuries, Hannah's words echoed in Kim's head. Something so familiar, something….brother….smile…girl….the words meant something…..she knew…

'…you die!"

Kim's eyes went wide in both pain, as Hannah slammed her foot onto Kim's chest and pinned her to the ground, and realization as the identity of her attacker clicked into place. The vague sense of familiarity had been her mind's attempt to identify this girl that she had known, yet it was only now, far too late, that recognition took hold.

"I move through time…"

"I spent my life scared of you! Always running from the monster…"

To anyone else it would have seemed impossible, but Kim's life had been filled with the impossible, it was her very creed, the single phrase that had guided her life…anything is possible. Somehow this woman who so desired Kim's death, who spoke of vengeance for lives stolen, was the formerly baby sister of her once sidekick.

Kim's voice came ragged with pain as she spoke.

"Hannah…"

Hannah paused for only the briefest of moments.

"You may name me monster but it does not save you."

She reached into a pocket of the special belt she wore and withdrew one of the twin knives she kept in remembrance of her sensei. It was still stained with the blood of her other former sensei, evidence of her dedication to act she would now commit. As she felt it's weight in her hand, the weight of not only the weapon itself but of the act it would commit, her own moment of recognition washed over her. This was what she had seen, this moment, standing over the beaten body of the monster, her knife held ready to plunge into it's black heart. As her future self had done before her in this moment, she cast a glance toward a shadowed corner of the room and saw her earlier self looking on. The two locked eyes for the briefest of moments before the current Hannah gave a small smile, a brief indication of her victory, and the former Hannah vanished into a portal.

Hannah returned her eyes to the monster that fought to free itself even at this moment. That she had once feared this thing seemed a distance memory, that it had stolen her brother from her was not. She found it only fitting then that the last words the monster would hear would be ones the monster herself had spoken in defiance of another.

"For your crimes, for every life that you took…"

She raised the knife as she continued.

"for every person who now feels less safe because of what you did…"

Hannah cast one last glance down. This was her moment of revenge for loss of her brother from her life, her moment of validation for life spent training. She locked eyes with the monster, not wanting to miss the dying of the light within them.

"I sentence you to death."

The green energy blast that hit her sent her flying across the room, slamming her head first into a wall. She barely heard the words that followed, as the last vestiges of consciousness slipped from her and cast her into darkness.

"Oh no you don't!"

Kim, who now freed of the weight that had been pinning her down, managed to struggle shakily to her feet and face the source of the attack that had saved her. A slightly smoking Shego, whose signature green and black uniform bore a variety of burn marks, slices and blood stained holes, looked with a mixture of anger and relief at Kim.

"How…"

Shego cut her off and pointed at the open air vent high on the wall behind her. The necessitaty for vents in the Global Justice base had been a concern for both Shego and Kim, having themselves often seen how they could act as holes in a security system but as they could not remove them, they had done their best to ensure that no one would ever be able to use them in the way Kim once had.

"The good news is the vent security devices actually work. The better news is I'm still better."

Kim spat out the blood that had been pooling in her mouth.

"Still, you look like hell."

Shego gave a amused laugh.

"Your one to talk Princess."

The re-assuring small talk dispensed with the one exchange Shego starred across the room at the unconscious figure sprawled on the floor.

"Who is she?"

Kim looked momentarily saddened but did her best to shake it off.

"She's….a mistake I never knew I made."

"Ambiguity isn't your strong suit Kimmy. She was seconds away from actually killing you, that makes her good. Our level good. So who is she and how did she get in?"

Kim crossed the room and look down at Hannah. As much as she regretted anything she had done, which was very very little, she regretted what had happened to her. She admittedly had not given even a second thought to Ron's family that night but this…she had only wanted to hurt Ron, not his baby sister Hannah.

"She's Ron's sister."

"The doofus had a sister?"

"A baby one, yes."

"Then how…"

Kim reached down to the belt Hannah had been wearing and searched through a few of the pockets before pulling out a small stone monkey.

"This I think. She called it the Tempus Simia,"

Tempus Simia. The name seemed to ring the most distant bell in Shego's mind, as if somehow she had heard that name before. She took the idol from Kim and stared at it. It didn't look familiar yet…Shego shook her head, it was like trying to grab onto mist, she just couldn't get anything concrete. She shook her head clear.

"How does this little rock let her get into a fully locked down base?"

"It's some sort of time travel device that seems to open a portal to wherever or whenever you want to go."

Kim cast a sparing, if still tinged by regret, glance back at the unconscious Hannah.

"She must have spent her whole life traveling through time, running from me."

The gravity of those words did not escape Kim.

"She said all she had to do was think of where and when she wanted to be."

Kim looked at Shego, a tinge of sadness in her voice as she spoke.

"To her I'm nothing but a monster…that's all she could call me."

"Regret for your actions Princess?"

Kim shook her head.

"Not for the choices I've made, never. But….I didn't choose this, not for her to be this way….I don't…"

Shego said nothing , she only starred ahead, as if in silent thought. As the pair turned away from the unconscious girl Kim continued.

"I don't even know what to do with her now. She made it clear she's never going to want anything but to kill me…but even considering that I don't know if I can…."

Kim stopped short as a familiar portal open in front of them. Kim was quick to strike a prepared stance but when nothing came out she cast a quizzical glance at Shego.

"What did you…"

Shego didn't match her gaze, she only kept staring at the portal.

"I heard everything, every word your mom said. I know what she thinks of you Kim, how she doesn't see her daughter in you anymore. And now that girl…"

"Shego I…"

"Shut up until I've finished. Look, you never shied away from making the hard choices. That world outside? That's a world you've built and your mom might not want to see it but it is a better one. But it's worthless…it's all worthless if you can't live in it, so here's the last hard choice I'm ever going to give you. That portal will take you back to that night in the warehouse, when I intentionally tripped that alarm and we had that talk. You can go back there right now and change things, stop yourself from doing any of this. You can make your parents love you again, even make it so that worthless doofus never died and this girl who hates you so much never has to grow up to be what she is now. It can all be undone. All you have to do is walk into that portal."

Kim found herself speechless. What Shego was offering her…the willingness of the sacrifice did not escape her. Everything they had between them would be lost if she stepped into that portal, yet Shego had still given her the chance to change it all back. What would happen to this world? To everyone that lived in it? To Shego if she choose too? The pain of the words that her mom her said to her, of the severe wounds, both physical and emotional, that Hannah had inflicted on her still rung fresh in her. All that pain could vanish in an instant all she had to do was trade it all away for the way things had been before. Kim took a steadying breath and looked at Shego, who still kept her eyes locked on the portal.

"Shego I…"

Kim placed one hand on Shego's arm.

"I will always choose you."

Shego turned to face Kim, her own face a mask to effects of Kim's words. Her response however would end in both a bang and a whimper as a shot echoed through the room and a rapidly spreading redness began grow from Shego's chest. Shego gave the barest of whimpers in both shock and pain as she fell to her knees. The tempus simia fell from her suddenly slack hands and tumbled the short distance into the portal which, without a guiding mind, had begun to erratically fluctuate. As the stone idol crossed into the portal, the portal closed, it's destination now unknown. The mystic artifact which had allowed one girl a chance at revenge and another at redemption was now lost in time itself.

Kim did her best to catch Shego as she dropped down, the sudden influx of weight causing her own body to drop to it's knees as she spoke frantically.

"Oh god! Shego! Shego talk to me! Please, hang on. I'll get the doctor, I'll get…"

The rate at which her suit was becoming wet and red made it clear that there wasn't going to be any hanging on. Shego, already quite clear on her fate, gave only a disbelieving look at her situation.

Rapidly welling tears filled Kim's eyes as she spoke, her voice a wild flux of emotion.

"Shego don't leave me. You can't. I chose you damn it. Your supposed to help me make this world better. Your not supposed to die. I order you not to die, I'm the leader of the world damn it, don't die"

Shego gave only a cold laugh at Kim's state. Whether she found it truly funny or was simply laughing so she didn't have to cry out in pain Kim didn't know.

Her words came with rasp and no small amount of blood.

"A bullet. A god damn bullet. Everything we've been through and this is how it fucking end? God damn irony."

Kim shook her head.

"Your not dieing. I won't let you."

"Princess grow the fuck up, you know damn well I'm not going to be lasting much longer so don't waste the time whining."

Shego coughed up what appeared to be a unfortunately large amount of blood.

"I…"

Before she could continue Kim was knocked away by Hannah who tossed away the smoking gun. Kim's previous injuries surged anew within her but she flipped up into a standing position in defiance of them. She realized only now how stupid she had been to turn her back on Hannah, even when she was unconscious. She herself had seen that same mistake made by villains she faced time and again, and much as Hannah had, had used the moment to her advantage. Her mental anger at herself was made all the worse by the fact that Shego was dying by gun shot, the one weapon even Kim had abhorred. It was a wrong thing, an item that shouldn't even have existed in her world. Though the people she ruled over were allowed them, she had never allowed anyone in Global Justice to carry them. They were to easy to misuse, to impersonal a thing to inflict. The power they represented was an illusion that no one should have been allowed to labor under.

Hannah charged at Kim, whose rage and anger focused in on the incoming attacker like never before. All thoughts of who the girl had been, of how she had come to this place were lost, replaced only by the single minded focus that she had killed Shego, she was going to die.

As the pair traded increasingly rough blows Shego felt her head growing fuzzy and her vision began to dim. She had little time left so screw subtly or waiting. She belted out her final words with all her remaining strength, the final words that Kim would have to remember her bye. Not a declaration of love, not of reassurance or encouragement but of reminder.

"Kim, never forget."

Shego groaned as her body felt like it was being pressed down upon by a huge weight.

"Never forget how much it hurts."

Kim, who felt herself pushed back by the last strike, could only watch helplessly as Shego's head dropped to the floor and her body, which had been writhing slightly, finally ceased moving. Kim gave an enraged howl of anger and slammed her whole body into Hannah, knocking her backwards.

"WHY?"

Kim launched at her with a savage ferocity, the rage and fire in her body in full blaze.

"WHY HER? SHE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING TO YOU. YOU HATE ME NOT HER!"

Hannah only gave a cold laugh even as Kim's punches found their marks.

"Maybe I knew it would hurt you more. Maybe I wanted you to see what it feels like to lose someone you truly love. Maybe I just wanted to see you get really angry and lose control. Take your pick, they're all true."

Hannah snapped open a familiar side pouch on her belt as Kim charged at her and withdrew the knives she had found herself so often using recently. As Kim drew within range she sliced at Kim's arm, a fresh line of blood blooming behind the blade's path. If she felt it she did not show it as Kim pushed her way through the knives range and began slamming her fists along Hannah's arms.

"You killed her. Your not the good guy here, your not an avenger of your brother!"

Hannah grunted with each impact but drove a knife into Kim's shoulder which only seemed to enrage the red head further. At Kim's words the memory of Monkey Fist's laugh as she plunged her knife into his body played fresh in her mind and a realization overtook her. She hadn't known his true gift till just this moment.

"No…I'm not."

Hannah swung her knives down across Kim's chest drawing more blood and causing Kim to stumble slightly.

"I'm the only thing that can truly beat a monster."

She slammed a knife into Kim's leg while using the other to slice Kim's exposed side.

"Another monster."

Hannah stabbed her free knife forward toward Kim's gut but despite her injuries Kim manage to slam her own arm down against Hannah's causing the knife to miss it's target. Without so much as a minor recognition to the pain that she was in, Kim pulled the knife free from her leg.

"No. The only thing you are is dead."

Hannah rotated the knife in her hand and slammed it's base into the open wound in Kim's shoulder but Kim did not relent. She pushed herself forward, fueled only by rage and anger, and grabbed Hannah's neck.

Perhaps due to the amount of adrenaline surging through her body, or perhaps in testament to her true strength even when clouded by rage and anger, Kim managed to lift the struggling Hannah off the floor and slam her down on the ground, eliciting a hard groan from her opponent as all the air left Hannah's lungs.

Kim tore the remaining knife from Hannah's hand and slammed each blade into her shoulder's, pinning the girl to the ground like so much a specimen. Kim dropped several kicks onto Hannah's midsection before hovering her foot just above Hannah's throat.

*beep beep beep beep*

It was a familiar four chord chime that stayed Kim's foot and caused a cold wave to wash over her entire body.

"no…."

The word escaped her lips more in disbelief then in an intent to speak.

*beep beep beep beep*

The sound played again. Kim knew that sound, she had lived by that sound for years. As Hannah twisted and turn her body as best she could to try and push the knives that held to the floor out of her body, Kim followed the familiar tune to a pocket on Hannah's belt. Reaching within it she withdrew familiar communication device, whose screen suddenly sprung to life. A slightly older, and much more frantic looking, Wade then the one Kim had last seen filled the screen.

"Kim, don't do it!"

Kim still found herself aghast at this revelation. Wade, her last true friend, who had simply vanished one day, was now on the screen of an all too familiar device which in turn was being carried by the former baby sister of her ex-sidekick.

She could only bring herself to utter his name so surprised was she.

"Wade…"

"Kim please, you have to listen to me. This wasn't how it was supposed to happen. She was supposed to stop you, not try and kill you."

The countless reports of strange glitches in the computer systems, of strange hackers that always seemed to get away before they could be traced suddenly made sense to Kim.

"The security lockdown…it was you!"

Wade nodded.

"I've been in and out of your system for years now. I can even see you now through the security camera in the corner of the room."

Kim shot a glance at the camera, she had gotten so used to seeing them she rarely even recalled they existed most days.

"I know what happened Kim. I saw it all. Please, you have to believe that I never wanted this. Everyone else…everyone else wanted you dead but they never saw you at your best, not like I did. You saved me Kim, I've only been trying to do the same for you. Everything you've done, what happened to Ron, to Bonnie, to Betty and to everyone else I never even knew….you needed to be saved from yourself Kim. That's what no one else could ever understand. I still want to help you, I've never stopped."

The room suddenly filled with a heavy clanking noise and the emergency lockdown ended and the barriers that had been blocking the room's exits receded back into the ceiling. Wade waited for the noise to die down before continuing.

"I'm sorry about what happened to Shego. No matter what I thought about her no one deserves having to suffer the pain of losing the person they love. But if you kill Hannah in revenge….If you kill her now I won't be able to save you Kim. Please, I'm not like everyone else, I know why you did what you did, even though part of me hates you for it. I still see the real you when I look at you, when I watched you defeat Warmonga, and I can see the better world you've been making but you can't keep doing it this way, building on blood and dead bodies. No matter how good your intentions the means don't justify the end. Let me save you for once."

Wade grew silent, as if awaiting some sign from Kim that he had reached her.

"Never forget how much it hurts."

Shego's final words echoed in Kim's mind as memories of all she had done flashed across her mind, the people that cheered her, the people that decried her, everyone she had helped, everyone she had hurt, a hurricane mixture of everything that had led to this point swirled and weighed on both her heart and mind.

"I'll never forget"

Kim spoke softly, barely above a whisper, as the conflicting forces in her mind and heart died down.

"What?"

Kim took a deep breathe as if to reinforce her decision and spoke in clear and audible tone.

"Run. Shego is dead because of you so run, run far and run fast, because when I find you, and I will, you won't ever get to do anything else again."

Kim's icy stare served only to underline her words as her tone grew more deadly.

"I don't need saving, but your going to."

Kim slammed the communicator to the ground, watching in minor satisfaction as it shattered. She then turned her attention back to Hannah., who had come no closer to freeing herself but whose face now bore a new hostility.

"You had better kill me now because I swear to you I will never stop. For the soul of my brother and for the protection of Wade I will hunt you until my dying breath, I will never hesitate and I will never tire. Show me you're the monster I know you to be and kill me now because you will never get this chance again."

Kim just looked mildly amused by the speech, as if resigned to the fact of her words.

"For what you stole from me I will kill you…but it will in pieces, one for each day I no longer have to share with the woman I loved. Only on the day I die will I grant you the same, so make your speeches and cry your valiant words because I know them all, I've said them all, and none them will help you."

Kim slammed her foot into Hannah's head with just enough strength to knock the girl out yet again. Soon she would take her to facility only Kim new about, but for now, in this moment, Kim simply moved to the Shego's slowly cooling body and sat down beside it. She had lost her family, her friends, she had even lost the woman she loved, all in the name of created a better world. All the hard choices she made, all the lines she had so willingly crossed, it had all somehow led to this room, too this ending, to this truth. The weight of what had been done would kill her if she looked back at it, the hardest truth it's gun, so she couldn't…and she could not look back then she would only look forward to the future. One without hard choices, without lines to cross, built by the only companion she had left…her rage and her anger.

And as she resigned herself to that fact, this once world hero and her corpse could only smile in bitter irony as the music that just so previously been using to distract herself played on.

You've crossed the finish line, won the race but lost your mind. Was it worth it after all?