Sparkling Fire and Smokey Sighs (READ DISCLAIMER)

1: And Here Choose I

Kim leaned back into her car seat and took a deep breath. The air was still tinged with the smell of smoke and torn earth, but as the car climbed higher, the breeze washed away more of the scent of battle.

"Sooo," Ron said, "Bueno Nacho?"

"Ron," Kim said, "the Bueno Nacho was destroyed? And didn't you just eat at the beach party?"

Beside her, Ron sniffled and spoke in a quiet, squeaky whisper. "Please don't say such horrible things. Three times in less than a year! Do supervillains have no decency?!"

"Riiiight." Kim rolled her eyes, smirked, and propped an arm on the door. A tilt of the wheel, and the car leaned left, giving her a clear view of the earth speeding below them. The ground was littered with patches of fire, smoking craters and still sparking war drones. Many of the enormous four-legged drones had military salvage crews around them, or were taped off by the local police.

"I think trying to find an intact and open Bueno Nacho on post-invasion Earth might be just a bit tricky." Kim looked back to Ron. "But anything is possible for a Possible."

"Alright!" Ron said. "That's the positive attitude I love! Victory nacos all around!"

Kim smirked and gave a little roll of her eyes. She had left the beach party to be with Ron alone in private, but Ron did just singlehandedly defeat an alien invasion. From Ron's pocket, Rufus poked his head out and squeaked excitedly. Over the years, Kim had come to understand this as Rufus' "naco" dance.

It had been just that morning that the Lowardians were defeated, and she still hadn't come down completely from her chemical high. Add in the rushed graduation, the world leaders meet that Drakken attended - that she had politely declined - and then a massive beach party that Ron and her had been shoved into and had escaped not 10 minutes ago; did anyone just stop to breathe before kicking it into overdrive?

She was about to ask Ron if they could just sit and relax for a minute when Wade popped up on her screen.

Kim inwardly groaned, but decided to play coy. "How's the party, Wade?"

"What?" Wade looked confused for a moment, then looked back to the beach behind him. "Oh, it's fine, but that's not why I'm calling."

Ron thunked his head into the dashboard. "Oh, don't supervillains take a day off when the world is saved from an alien invasion by a couple teenagers?!" From the dashboard, Rufus seemed to heartily agree.

Kim sighed, then covered her face in a mask of confidence. "What's the sitch, Wade?"

"You remember that world leader conference in Upperton?" Wade said. "Well, it's about Shego."

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"What do you mean, 'I'm not allowed in'?" Kim said. "Okay. I usually don't play this card, but do you know who I am?"

"Sorry," the US military guard said. "No one's allowed in to see the prisoner."

"But Shego didn't do anything!" Kim said. "She was with me the entire time. She helped stop the Lowardians!"

"Not my job to question orders, ma'am."

"But-!"

The door behind the guard open with a hiss. An extremely bulky man stepped out and put a hand on the guard's shoulder. "That's quite enough, Jake."

"Lieutenant general," Kim said without preamble, eying the stars on the bulky man's shoulders, "you've got the wrong woman."

The general gestured to the hall behind him. "Why don't we discuss this inside?"