Ch.08
'Fuck! Fuck!! FUCK!!!' Thought Wade as he realized that the anesthetic had truly run it's course and the pain was spiking with his every heartbeat. "So, what's our ETA?" Wade groaned out!
"Two minutes! Hang in there Wade, I can see the blue construct now." Shego replied.
When Wade heard her, he couldn't help sighing in relief. Soon, Wade felt a jolt as the aircraft landed and failed to notice the tears streaming down his face as he bit his lip to stifle a cry. Shego then stepped into his line of sight and Wade noticed the already high temperature spike once more.
"Just a little bit more, Wade!" Shego assured him and picked him up.
That's what finally pushed Wade pass his limit.
"Aaaaaaaaaah!-" Wade screamed and passed out from the agony.
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Shego knew it wasn't her fault, she truly did, but she still couldn't help blaming herself. She had to move him to bring Wade to Stoppable so he could be healed. It was the logical next step, so why did it make her feel like she was torturing the guy?
'Focus, he needs to get treated and only Stoppable can do that!' With that thought, Shego carried the now unconscious Wade out of the aircraft and towards the blue construct. The construct opened a door and let her in as she approached, weird but Shego figured that meant Stoppable knew she was here.
"Stoppable, Wade needs immediate medical help, so get your ass over here stat!" Shego yelled out for him.
Shego expected a flurry of footsteps as Stoppable ran over. That was not what happened. He just seemed to materialize at her side like he already been there. Shego startled and was about to throw out a kick in reflex, but found that she couldn't move. Not even to blink. Then, Shego felt her grip going slack and Wade was lifted off her arms, without so much as a touch from Stoppable.
'Okay, Stoppable got better control of his powers, good to know. But he better release me now or I'll burn a reminder into his fucking skin!' Shego thought, her anger flaring and with it the temperature increasing. No sooner than the thought formed, Shego was already freed. 'Is he reading my mind?'
"Stoppable, are you fucking reading my mind?" Shego yelled and was about to grab him by the collar when she noticed Yori standing to the side. "And who are you?"
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Yori had tried convincing Ron that they needed to hurry and find Shego, so that they could fix the imbalance of his Qi, but Ron simply said that if they leave and Drakken shows up it would ruin his plan.
"Stoppable-san, your humanity is at stake!" Yori finally snapped and yelled. "And Shego-san will suffer as well! You will both spiral out of control, one a soulless entity working on the echoes of their past emotions, while the other is consumed by their emotions to the point they become a risk to everything around them!!"
Ron looked at Yori and she felt he was seeing her whole being. Her thoughts, desires, fears, insecurities and the physical imperfections she always saw when she looked in a mirror, but she didn't break eye contact. Yori willed Ron to understand that the harm his actions would cause were greater than he could bear, to see reason and agree. Even as the thought of losing him to another made her want to hurl.
"Someone's outside." Ron said simply and Yori almost wept! 'Was she too late, was Ron already passed the point of no return?' "It's Shego and Wade." Ron added.
Yori quickly stood just before Shego yelled for Ron. "Stoppable, Wade needs immediate medical help, so get your ass over here stat!"
Ron disappeared at the sound and Yori moved to follow.
"Stoppable, are you fucking reading my mind? Those words barely left Shego as Yori rounded the corner. 'Could Stoppable-san have really been doing that? No, his character wouldn't let him.' Thought Yori. "And who are you?"
"I am Yori, Shego-san!" Yori introduced herself and bowed slightly. "I, too, hail from your world! Stoppable-san brought me here when he called upon his weapon." And proceeded to drop a bomb.
"Wha..t?" Shego barely managed to ask.
But Yori was on a roll. "Shego-san, it is imperative that you and Stoppable-san join your bodies as one, so that the imbalance caused to the MMP, when he healed you, may be repaired!"
"What!!!" Shego roared.
"It is imperative th-" Yori began to repeat herself but was cut off.
"I heard what you said!" Shego yelled then turned to Ron whose glowing hands where on Wade's abdomen. "So this was your plan all along, wasn't it, Stoppable?" Shego demanded, angry beyond belief and shrouded in plasma. She felt both disgusted and disappointed at what she believed she uncovered. 'I thought Stoppable was different. Shows what I know.'
Ron simply focused on Wade, seemingly unconcerned.
'Oh, no!' Yori realized she should have explained things better or at least waited before so casually speaking of the situation. "Shego-san, you misunderstand. This situation is not of Stoppable-san's design, he was simply too inexperienced with his abilities and left the Yin Qi aspect of his MMP in you when he healed you. Now, if he does not find an equally strong Yin Qi to the one he left with you, his Yang Qi will burn away his humanity. Though, while that seems not to affect you, the Yin Qi he left you with will make you so volatile that the slightest slight may cause you go on a killing rampage, assuming that you don't harm yourself first, for similar reasons. And judging by the temperature, you abilities are related to your emotions and are being supercharged by the Yin Qi."
That seemed to floor Shego, as she momentarily seemed to forget she was angry. Then, out of nowhere, Ron's Lotus Blade appeared in his hand, in the form of a dagger and he sliced a cut into Wade's abdomen.
"What the hell are you doing, Stoppable?" Shego yelled when she saw it. "He needs healing, not to be cut open like a science experiment!"
Still, Ron had not answered, but then a metal bullet popped out of the wound. Shego and Yori both realized the reason for Ron cutting Wade and then the wound started healing with a speed visible to the naked eye. In moments, there was no sign of the wound or the plasma burn that Shego used to seal the wound on Wade's stomach.
Even while unconscious, Wade sighed with relief when the wounds disappeared. 'Great, he's going to be okay!' Shego thought upon seeing this.
That's when Yori struck again. "Now, Shego-san, what is your decision towards helping Ron-san balance his Yin and Yang Qi?"
The temperature that started going down started to fluctuate erratically when Shego heard those words.
"... is there really no other way?" Shego finally asked after a long silence. She was aware of the increase in energy since she recieved Ron's Yin Qi. The worst part, the energy inside her kept building and it worried her that her power would turn her into a second sun. And worst still, her reasoning might already be compromised.
"No." Yori said, even as her heart clenched at admitting it.
Another long silence.
Then, Ron decided to put his foot in his mouth and spoke. "Yori, I understand the problem, but we are likely unable to do anything at this point since the condition for this to work is for both participants to be virgins and I'm sure Shego is experienced."
The fluctuations in temperature went straight towards blazing with Ron's words. Shego's emotions were building into a rage at Ron's assumption but before she could speak Yori said. "Unless Shego-san has had sex since the last time you saw each other, she is, for that is the only way your MMP's Yin Qi would have accepted her as a vessel."
Shego was intantly trapped between rage and embarrassment at what she heard. On one hand, Ron seemed to think Shego was some kind of slut and on the other, Yori nonchalantly revealed she is pure.
Ron finally looked at Shego, who had her head down and said the only thing that came to mind. "But, what men is crazy enough to deny Shego?"
"So what, you think I would force myself on someone or worse, go around spreading my legs for every man I meet just because I'm a villain?" Shego roared in anger at what she assumed Ron thought of her. Her powers blazing around her, in a green and black glow, Shego looked up into Ron's eyes.
Before Ron could try to explain himself, Shego's plasma intensified so fast that Ron was forced to coat Wade, Yori and himself in Qi to avoid them getting burned. Not a second too soon it seemed as the glow of Shego's power started to surround all of them.
Ron felt helpless at what he frankly thought was an overreaction until he remembered that he casually assumed Shego had sexual experience and her emotions were increasingly volatile due to the Yin Qi. 'Since when do I make assumptions about people?' Ron asked himself. It was unlike him to judge by appearances or such things, yet he had done so simply because of Shego's beauty and career choices. 'And thinking Shego over reacted is like asking why did I defend myself when attacked?'
All these things, from Shego's powers flaring to Ron thinking happened in a split second after his and Shego's own questions in response. Then Ron did something that he frankly knew was stupid. He exposed his left hand up to the elbow to Shego's power's and raised it before her face.
Both Yori and Shego gasped at seeing his hand up to the elbow start to burn and though the process hurt like crazy, Ron simply clenched his jaw and waited. 'The damage is happening alot slower then it should be!' Ron noted the observation and began to speak before either stunned woman could.
"Shego, I apologize for assuming you already were sexually experienced. As for my statement about 'what man was crazy enough to deny you?'. It was not to imply you'd force yourself on someone or go around spreading your legs to everyone you met, but that any man who gained your attention would consider themselves blessed."
While Ron held eye contact with Shego, Yori finally snapped out of shock and shouted. "Stoppable-san, protect your arm before the damage becomes irreparable!"
Ron ignored it and used his Qi to hold her in place when he saw her minute actions towards doing it herself. As for Shego her breathing had become irregular but the temperature had stopped increasing. Her anger was still on her face but Ron could see the struggle she was going through after his apology and actions. Thus, Ron simply waited.
When Yori realized Ron was holding her in place while refusing to protect the arm tried to extend her own Qi to protect his arm but it was burned out as soon as it came into contact with Shego's power's.
"Stoppable-san, please, protect yourself." With no other choice Yori began to plead with then Shego. "Shego-san, you must attempt to control your power's before Stoppable-san has no to protect!"
Ron's arms was beginning to turn into charred flesh and even his fingertips started to show exposed bone.