Memories (mini fanfic, bit angsty)
Years fly by before you know it.
Shego snapped out of her thoughts the moment she heard the sound of metal bits and pieces hitting the marble floor behind her, this meant one thing; Drakken had finally finished his work in the lab. She hurriedly hid the source of her troubles underneath one of her magazines.
"What was that?" Asked Drakken, as he put down the box of machine scraps onto the table. "None of your business," Shego snapped, "what's with you?" "I should be the one asking you that," Drakken huffed, "because ever since we came back from GO-City you've acted... sombre. Do you miss your brothers after all?" He asked the latter part in a singsong manner. "I do NOT!" Shego's hand flared up, causing the scientist to back off with both hands up in defence. "Do TOO," he retorted from a distance, "otherwise you wouldn't be hiding that photo from me." His right hand pointed towards the magazine.
Shego groaned in defeat and let the green energy that surrounded her fist die down. "Fine, you're right! I feel awful. Happy now?" "No, why would I be?" Drakken took a small step in the woman's direction. Once he noticed that approaching her was safe, he made his way back to stand in front of her. "I take no pleasure in hurting you Shego. We may be villains, but that doesn't mean that we're not human; we have feelings too!" "Is this your best attempt at making me feel better? Because if it is, I'd rather go back to staring at a childhood photo in silence." She turned away from him. Drakken continued. "I err..., I know as no other that every family comes with its own set of manuals..." His mind quickly wandered off to his cousin Eddie, whom he wishes that Shego would never have the displeasure of meeting in person. "...but I meant what I said before: To me, we are family. Maybe not related by blood but-" "It's just painful." Shego interrupted Drakken's monologue. Her eyes fixated towards the magazine. "I-," she bit her lip, trying to swallow the lump in her throat. "Go on." Drakken assured her. Those words were enough for her to break the gaze from the magazine and focus on him instead. He noticed tears welling up in her eyes, but he also saw her fiery wilfulness to not let them fall.
"My brothers... This is the first time that I've seen them in, in what? Ten years? It's all the fault of-, that stupid, I-... I just." Her voice cracked slightly. Drakken reached out to carefully embrace his partner and felt her frame trembling against his. This was the first time that he had ever seen Shego in such a state of distress. "Take your time." he cooed while gently rubbing her shoulder. After a while he felt her breath steadying as she collected herself.
"When my brothers and I got our powers, all of us were pretty excited. Especially Hego; he couldn't stop raving about how he felt just like Superman. Go figure: the guy has super strength." A dry laugh escaped her lips, "We trained day in and day out for four years and finally we were 'ready to take on evil'..." "But something happened?" Drakken asked as he brushed strands of hair away from Shego's face. She nodded. "Team GO was praised for being a shining example for the youth of GO-City. The mayor would call us in, we stopped crime, appeared on local talk shows and the news, showed up at high schools; rinse and repeat. We fought Substance-man, Console-freak, DJ Lay-Z..." "Are those actual villain names?" Drakken interjected, Shego turned away. "No. They weren't even bad people. They were Global Justice agents posing as villains." "I... don't understand." "It turned out that Global Justice didn't think of us as an actual superhero team. Instead they used us as a concept to keep the citizens of GO-City in check."
Shego stepped away from Drakken. She took the photo from underneath the magazine and handed it to him. He looked at the five siblings. Each of them had a sense of innocent pride, so he thought. "It must've probably felt good to think you could change the world for the better." Drakken muttered. "It did," she answered, "until I found out about GJ's ploy. I told Hego and showed him all the evidence I gathered throughout that year. He was livid at Doctor Director Senior. "WITH OUR POWERS WE CAN ACTUALLY HELP PEOPLE! WHY DON'T THEY GIVE US A CHANCE!? WE COULD BE SAVING LIVES!" is what he said to the mayor," she crossed her arms, as if to comfort herself. "Days later, both of us got called into GJ-HQ. He had a private talk with the director. I waited outside that conference room for hours and when he came out, he looked exhausted. Hego and I decided to tell Mego, but we never told the twins the whole truth. Eventually, we decided to do superhero-work outside of GO-City, against the orders of GJ. Surprisingly enough, we actually took down two notorious crime organisations with ease. Though, we later found out that five reckless, loud mouthed rookies with meteor powers wouldn't be enough to stop a world wide criminal network."
Shego paused to quickly wipe some tears away. She took in a shaky breath and continued: "In '99, a bunch of GJ files got leaked out and sold around in the underground market. It didn't take long until actual monsters showed up in GO-City... In that fight, Mego got injured badly," she swallowed, "and we almost lost the Wegos. They were in a coma for about a month and thankfully don't remember what happened." Drakken felt cold sweat building up underneath his collar. From what he could tell, those twins were younger than Possible, so what were they back then? Nine, Ten? "GJ managed to settle everything down, but a lot of innocent civilians got caught up in our mess. Doctor Director Senior called Hego to their HQ and he stayed there for a week. When he got back to GO-Tower, he told us that the only way to 'fix what had happened' is to just do as GJ says and continue our 'usual hero duties'. I couldn't stand it." Shego slammed down her first on the table, causing Drakken to flinch. "Hego became more unbearable and controlling over time, it became suffocating. He pretended like everything was okay and that the team was 'stronger than ever'. Tension grew between us. Idiots that admired GJ's fake villains came to GO-City to make a name for themselves. In the end it just became too much for me and I couldn't tell right from wrong any more."
"So you left your brothers and became a true villain to escape all of it." Drakken looked surprised by the sudden laugh coming from the woman in front of him. Something in him felt at ease, as she seemingly had shed some of the emotional weight off her shoulders.
"There's waaay more to it than just that, Dr. D; But yeah, this was a big factor."
"Hmmm... The real reason is that you saw my wanted poster, got charmed and thought: "I totally need to work for this dashing ingenious mastermind!!", am I right?" A slight sense of annoyance came over him, seeing her entire body cringe at his remark. He laid it a bit thick on, but it wasn't all that far from reality, right? After all, he took quite some time to get the perfect angles for his mugshot (to the chagrin of the cops).
"It was okay to see them again." Shego broke the silence, "The twins seemed to be doing okay. They've become a bit more mature, if you can believe it. Mego is as self-absorbed as always and Hego..., well, to this day I still hate his hero act, but I guess looking back on it, he probably needs it to deal with his own problems." She took the family photo from his hands and grabbed her magazines.
Drakken smiled, feeling a slight sense of pride for easing his partner's troubles. "So, shall I invite your brothers over for Thanksgivi-- ARGH! SHEGO!! AT LEAST LOOK WHERE YOU'RE AIMING THOSE ENERGY BLASTS!! YOU ALMOST BURNED OFF MY PONYTAIL!!"
"If you even think of giving them a call, you'll need to worry about much more than just that rattail of yours, Dr. D." Shego mocked him and with those words, she headed back to her quarters.
















