Chapter 21: Showdown

Shego squinted at the pain throbbing in her head. She opened her eyes fully to see pitch black all around her. The last thing she remembered walking into her bedroom and feeling a shape pain in the back of her head, then everything going totally black.

"Well this explains the pounding headache." She groaned to herself. She felt something cold and heavy around her hands and against her back. Her ankles her pressed firmly together, it was almost painful with then holding all of her weight.

"Great, I love hanging upside down for hours on end." She muttered to herself. How could she have let herself get taken down that easily? The last time she was kidnapped she at least put up a good fight first. This was just embarrassing.

She attempted to break her hands free only to discover she was getting nowhere fast. When she tried to ignite her hands she felt nothing but a familiar cold run through her body. "Having trouble with your plasma?" A voice asked behind her.

"Let me guess. You found something to disable my plasma right?" Shego asked.

The voice chuckled. "Something like that."

"Yeah seems everyone finds a way to do that." Shego said sarcastically.

"You take the fun out of everything." She felt someone push her aside, making her swing from side to side. The motion made her nauseas. "Are you at least going to ask where you are?"

The voice was familiar. "I'm going to take that shot in the dark and say, I'm blind folded and hanging in the middle of my own damn bedroom."

She felt a sharp sting across her cheek. "Shut up!" The voice snapped at her. It didn't help her aching head. "You think you know everything don't you?" The voice hissed. Shego quietly grinned. "Well?"

"I thought you told me to shut up." Shego replied. She felt another sharp sting across her face. The sound rang out in her ears. Shego chuckled to herself, despite the pain.

"Why are you laughing?" The voice commanded.

Shego smiled. "Because you still hit like a little girl Hego." She felt a heavy hand enclose around her throat and pull her forward. The blind fold was ripped from her eyes and a pair of deep blue eyes met hers.

"How did you know it was me?" Hego asked with a calm tone.

"Because I know everything." She said with a smile. Hego scowled and shoved Shego away. She swung helplessly in the air for a moment. She took the time to glance around. She wasn't in her bedroom, but the room far below the palace they used for interrogations. It was nothing more than cold cement and a florescent light.

"Well if you know everything than you know why I'm here." Hego said with a weary smile. Shego pursed her lips. It could have been any number of reasons, but she knew they all lead to one thing.

"You must be the one I've been chasing down this whole time." Hego gave a smug grin. "Yeah, you're the real Resistance leader I've been looking for. Betty was just what? A distraction? A decoy?"

Hego shrugged. "Betty had one job. She was supposed to get Kim out of the way." Shego's anger flared, she bit down on the inside of her cheek to control herself. There would be plenty of time to get away but she needed to know more.

"Why did you need Kim out of the way?"

"I needed her out of the way so I could get you back." Hego kneeled down to face his sister. "I thought if I could get you alone I could help you."

"And how is knocking me out and hanging me upside down helping me?"

Hego's cheeks reddened. "I had to take precautions. Now please hear me out. This whole world take over faze is over now. You need to come home."

Shego scoffed. "Faze? Are you kidding me? The hell is wrong with you? Global take over is not a faze. It's not like I woke up one day and said 'hey Kimmie you want to take over the world with me?' Please." It was a rough depiction of the events leading to her the two becoming rulers of the world. But Hego didn't know that.

"Come on Shego, you're a good person I know it." Hego begged. "I know if I could just get you to see…to see you're not a bad person."

"Seriously? You're really still harping on this. After all these years. What do I have to do to get it through your thick skull? I'm not a hero. I never wanted to be one! Neither did the others!"

"They came around to the idea. And you can too."

Shego closed her eyes. The blood rushing to her head was beginning to make her headache worse. Suddenly something else came to mind. "Where is Kim?"

Hego scowled at the question. "I knew you wouldn't listen to me if she was around. She has a strong hold on you. I bet she put you up to all this."

Shego gritted her teeth. "Where is she?"

Hego sighed. "By now her plane would be at the bottom of the river. But you shouldn't worry about that now. Because you don't have her to hold you down anymore. You can come back to the team. You can give this up, and we…we can be a family again."

Shego felt a sting of grief and anger deep in her chest. This wasn't real; she wasn't hearing any of this. "You…killed her." She whispered. Hego took her face in his hands.

"I did it for you Shego. Don't you see that?"

Shego felt a surge of heat run through her. She pulled her hands apart with all her strength. The sound of metal cracking and bending filled the air. A scream filled her lungs and escaped her mouth. She broke her hands free and shoved Hego away from her. As he slid across the room Shego swung up to her feet and broke the chains holding her. She fell to the ground with a thud. She lay on the ground for a moment staring at her hands. The metal that had binned them was nothing new to her. In fact this was something Wade had developed long ago, a first attempt from what she could tell. She broke off the remaining pieces. She rolled to her feet and marched toward Hego who was still climbing to his feet.

"You made two mistakes Hego." She called out to her older brother. "You shouldn't have killed Kim." She ignited her hands. "You also shouldn't have let Wade in on your little Resistance. He's been working for me since day one." She sent a ball of plasma hurtling toward her brother. The blast sent the man through the doors of the room. Shego stormed after him, scooping him up by his collar and lifting him off the ground.

"Do you have any last words brother?" Shego growled. Hego gave her a weak smile before lifting a shaking hand and pointing over her shoulder. Shego glanced behind her to see three familiar faces. Her brothers stood quietly, blankly staring back at her. The far off stare in their eyes told her everything. She knew all too well the thousand yard stare brought on by mind control device. "You've lost your mind." She said glaring back at her brother.