Story: Dark Mistress - Redux (chapter 20)

Authors: fulwiz

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Chapter 20

Title: CHAPTER 20: The Secret.

Dark Mistress

Written by fulwiz

Beta by Wirenfeldt Jr


Disclaimer: I don't own Kim Possible, Disney does. The other characters come from my own twisted mind.

Warning: This story contains sexual situations, mature themes, explicit violence, death and warped philosophy.

The story is KiAnGo. (And More) If you find this offensive, please don't read further.

Important Note: This story is the sequel to “The Middleton Pact.” If you don't read that first, you will be very confused.


If loving you is wrong, I don't wanna be right.
If being right means being without you,
I'd rather live a wrong doing life.

-Luther Ingram


CHAPTER 20: The Secret.


Joss was wary of the naked ninja, even as she followed her down the corridor. The woman claimed to work for her cousin, but until she knew for sure, she was going to stay on her guard. It didn't help her nerves any that she had no idea where she was. She knew Kim had to have a new headquarters, but she hadn't expected something so big and elaborate. So far they'd walked down three different corridors and it was obvious they'd only covered a small part of the entire place.

Yori stopped outside a door. “Please to enter.”

Joss took a hesitant step forward. The door opened with a swooshing sound. Inside was what she could only think of as the ultimate mad scientist's laboratory. It made her Pa's workshop, which was one of the biggest robotic labs in the country, seem like a hog's waller. She didn't have time to be jealous on his behalf though. Seeing two of the three people who were in the lab flooded her with relief. At one of the elaborate computer consoles stood Kim, Betty, and a dark skinned woman she didn't know.

The woman was tapping on a keyboard, while Betty held her arm to some kind of device. Kim was watching the process with a smile on her face. None of them noticed her yet. On the other hand, Joss noticed something, like the ninja, they were all naked. It was just plain weird.

The woman stopped typing. “Upgrade complete. You're GTG.”

Betty pulled her arm away from the device. Joss could see a silver band on her wrist.

Kim gave a satisfied nod. “You are getting good at this Mo. I guess Wade is rubbing off on you. That the last one?”

Monique shook her head. “That's the last one...” She paused as she noticed Joss standing in the doorway. She pointed at her. “...Unless you want me to do up a spare for your cousin Joss. Who I believe has just arrived.”

Kim turned. “There you are. Dad said you'd probably be showing up soon. Give me one second.” She turned to Betty. “Take Yori and the two of you handle that little problem we discussed.” Glancing at Monique, she said. “Can you give us a bit?”

In moments, Joss and Kim were alone in the lab. Kim walked up to her cousin and looked her directly in the eyes. “I assume there's a good reason you're here instead of with Ron?”

Until that moment, Joss hadn't thought her cousin might not be happy to see her. As far as Kim knew, she was still head over heels for Ron. Their deal had been for her to provide Kim information about what was going on with him in return for the help she'd given her in getting him. Obviously Kim was irritated, at the very least, that she was not there doing her part. Rather than back down, Joss decided she'd show Kim she could be just as tough as she was.

“I got me a question fer you first. Were it you that went an gave Ron the idea me an him couldn't be together til I was eighteen?”

Kim was caught completely off guard. She didn't know why Joss was here and had been concerned there might be another snag in her plan. The question itself gave her a glimmer of insight about what was going on. Still, it didn't explain why her dad had been so cryptic when he'd told her Joss would be showing up. The implication the question posed rankled her though. “I didn't. I thought you'd know better by now, I keep my promises.”

Joss felt a tension she hadn't known she was carrying melt away. Deep down she had already known the answer. “I reckon it were somebody else then. I guess I knew it couldn't a been you. Sorry.” She looked away from her cousin's glare. “Don't much matter now. Me an him is done. Ain't no way I'm a going to love him, if'n he can't do the same fer me.”

Kim wanted to laugh and dance with joy. She'd known it was only a matter of time, and maybe with some help along the way, before Ron screwed things up with Joss. It was sooner than she expected, or even hoped for, though. She clamped down on her feeling, knowing it wouldn't be taken well at the moment, as she guided Joss to a chair and sat her down. “Tell me what happened?”

She listened as Joss told her. As she was doing so, she reached out with her dark power. She loved and trusted her cousin, but it was better to be sure. There was no hint of deception she could detect in anything Joss was telling her about Ron. Something else was there though. Something hidden. She got no feeling that it was harmful, just secret. Whatever it was, she pretty sure she'd find out soon enough. Right now, she needed to make sure Joss understood she cared. “I'm sorry things didn't work out.”

Joss gave her a weak smile. “I reckon I should a seen it a coming. I jus didn't want ta.”

“Well I'm glad you came to tell me. I know what it's like when it comes to Ron. I guess we both gave our hearts where they weren't really wanted.”

Joss felt her eyes widen. “Funny, that were pretty much the same thing my Pa told me.” She paused and shoved all thought of Ron aside. He was the past now, and she had to tell Kim the real reason she'd come. “Kim. There's something else...”

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The tie tack was a cross made of white metal. Inset in it's center was a sparkling red jewel. Phred Van Swaggerson's fingers brushed over it as he adjusted his tie. As always, he felt the power of God move through him as he touched the symbol of his faith. God had rewarded that faith. Made him a Shepard. Charged him with leading his flock along God's light path. The path wasn't a smooth one. It was fraught with obstacles that, in his wisdom, God challenged him to overcome.

Temptation was not the least of them. In recent years he'd seen his flock dwindle to a fraction of it's size. It still numbered in the millions, but gone were the days when it numbered in the tens of millions. It was temptation that lured his faithful away from the path. Hedonistic pleasures, greed, and worst of all, the lies of the unbelievers. Only his unwavering faith kept him from despair.

That faith guided him. Showed him, even in a time of mourning, how to lead his faithful back onto the path. Some might have called it coincidence that he would meet Ronald Stoppable at the funeral of one of his most faithful. Swaggerson knew better. He knew it was God's will. Like the cross beneath his fingers, Ron would become a symbol. A bright light to lead the faithful back to where they belonged.

Forging the boy into that symbol would not be an easy task. Like most youth, Ron needed to be guided. He'd already begun taking the steps necessary to bring Ron into the fold. Some of those steps would be easy, others would not be so. Gifting him the monies to continue his crusade against evil had been the easiest. It would serve the Lord's purpose better in his hands than it would in the pockets of even the most right thinking of politicians.

One other step had already been taken. Like God, he'd had to move in a mysterious way. Temptations of the flesh were difficult to overcome. Ever vigilant in the spotting of sin, he'd seen the temptation Ron had before him. Like Eve, she was a pawn of evil. Her body was the playground of Satan, luring Ron into the depths of depravity. Distracting him from doing God's greater good. A simple reminder of the laws of God and man was all he'd needed though. No longer would the boy be enticed by her wicked, youthful flesh.

“Excuse me. Father Phred?”

Swaggerson looked up at the elderly woman behind the desk. He smiled at her. Now would come the next step in God's plan to make Ron Stoppable a guiding light in the darkness.

The woman returned his smile. “The President will see you now.”

He stood and thanked her, gave small nods to the Secret Service guards standing on either side of the door of the inner office. As he passed through the door, he smoothed his red suit, his eyes glowed with the righteous certainty his old friend would soon aid him in his quest.

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Team Impossible had gone directly to the Tower of Ronatude when they left GS headquarters. For over an hour, both teams had been going over and over recent events. Hindsight gave them clear view of how badly they all had been deceived. Each instance they confirmed only added to the load of guilt most of them felt.

Tired of the self recrimination that seemed to exude from Ron and Will, Justine decided it was time to start being proactive. “Wallowing in self pity isn't going to get us anywhere. I suggest you ask yourselves the questions you seem to be overlooking.”

She looked around the room. Seeing the puzzlement that surrounded her, she said. “We know we were deceived. We even agree that, for the most part, it all began when Dr. Director defected to Kim's side. They did a masterful job of keeping things hidden from all of us right up to the moment they voted to end the Pact. Ask yourselves this. Why did they allow us to see what they were doing when they didn't have to? Why did they make it so easy for us to discover who was involved in the conspiracy?”

Ron grunted. “They wanted to rub our noses in it, that's why. They got what they wanted, and being evil, they had to gloat now that it was all over.”

Will nodded. “Now that they can't be held accountable for their past actions, they knew we couldn't do anything about it.”

Justine rubbed her temples. “Both of those are reasonable suggestions on the surface. You are missing the point though. It's not over. What they have done so far wasn't an end unto itself. There must have been a reason for them to do the things they did. I don't believe we have seen what they are really up to yet.”

Crash bit his lip in thought. “How can they be up to something more? Everything is out in the open now. If they try to do anything evil, break the law in any way, we can go after them.”

To everyone's surprise, Junior asked. “Maybe all is not as out in the open as it is seeming to be? Perhaps we are only being led to be believing that they have ended their deception?”

Burn gave the ex-villain's words some consideration. “So what you're saying is, they want us to believe they have nothing more to hide in order to hide something else? I don't know about the rest of you, but that sounds like a trap to me.”

Ron swallowed the lump of fear that formed in his throat. “I get it now. We know what we know for a fact. That means they want us to know it. If that's true, they know we know that they want us to know. It's not a trap. It's something much worse. It's a trap trap.”

Rufus grabbed the sides of his head. “Headache!”

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Kim stared at her cousin. “K, let me see if I got this right. Uncle Slim and aunt June are lovers and have been screwing each other since they were teenagers?”

Joss nodded. “Yep.”

“Then they had an accident. A broken condom. And June got pregnant with cousin Larry?”

“Yep.”

“And because they didn't want anyone to find out the truth, Slim moved away to Montana and June claimed it was because of a one night stand with a guy who she never saw again?”

“Yep.”

“Then, years later, she couldn't stand being away from him anymore. So she went to visit him on the sly. During which time they had another oopsy and you were conceived?”

“Yeppers. An like I was a telling ya, they went an made up a story about me having a mom named Sally Mustang, who went and died giving birth to me. That were why they told everyone at the time that my real Ma came to visit and help out with me fer a whole year. Course that meant they had to be a lying about when I was born. I jus found out, I'm really only fourteen years old.”

Kim shook her head once again at the convoluted story. “I get that I guess. But why didn't they just say you were June's? That would have been a lot easier.”

“Cause Ma was a worried about what Nana would say if'n she said she went an got knocked up by some stranger again.”

“Yeah. I can see that. It's hard to believe they kept it so secret for all these years. Must have been really hard for them.”

“So yer not mad?”

“Mad? Oh! Because they were fooling around and forgot they were supposed to walk my dad home that day? No. It wasn't their fault. It was Nana's.”

Joss sighed with relief. She'd had no idea how Kim would take the news. “So now that ya is a knowing. I reckon it's time I was a tellin ya why I had ter come and tell ya in person. Ya see, what all they done gone through. All the guilt an hiding. That got me ta thinking. Pa decided it were time to be a telling me and Larry cause a what all uncle James told him about what you was up to. How ya is a wanting to make the world all better for folks that don't want ter have to hide how they really is.”

She looked at Kim with hope in her eyes. “That's right ain't it? I didn't understand it all before when you was a telling me about it. Please tell me that's really what y'all is planning to do?”

Kim smiled at her. “Yes it is. We are going to change the world. Fix the wrongs that people think are right. Show them that just because someone tells them something is wrong, it isn't always so.”

Joss closed her eyes for a moment. When she opened them, they gleamed with purpose. “I want ter help! I just got me a Ma, where I was a thinking I'd never have one. Got me a big brother too. I want a world where we can all be a family together and not have to be a hiding it.”

Kim didn't know what to think about this turn of events. She understood the reasons her cousin gave though. She thought about her own relationships. She was legally wed to Shego. But she knew most of the world still looked upon such marriages askance. Worse, in the world's eyes, was her marriage of the heart with her own mother. Yes, she could understand what Joss wanted. It was what Joss was asking that gave her pause.

All along, she'd been working to bring Joss to her side. She'd figured on it taking much longer. Her plan had been to take many slow and measured steps in corrupting Joss to evil. Now here she was, desperate to aid her family. If Kim allowed her to help now, she'd be throwing the girl into the deep end of the pool without any floaties to aid the transition. There would be no way to hide the evil things she did from the girl. Could Joss handle it? There was only one way to find out. If she couldn't, well, there were always alternatives.

Kim put her hand out and laid it on her cousin's shoulder. “Before I agree to let you help, there are some things you are going to need to know and understand.”

Joss nodded, then looked Kim in the eye. “Would one of them things be how come y'all is running round butt nekked?”

Almost choking in the effort to hold her laughter in, Kim nodded. “That's a good place to start.” She stepped over to the console and picked up one of the spare silver bracelets. “Take off your clothes.”

The freckles on the younger girl's face almost disappeared in the red glow that suffused her cheeks. “Umm. Kim. Now I am a knowing how ya is all in ta girls and all, but I...”

This time, when Kim laughed, she didn't try to hold it in. While she was doing so, she sent a thought to her nanosuit. It began to reform, taking on the appearance of her old mission outfit. “This isn't about sex.” Not at the moment at least, came the lecherous thought. “It's about dressing for success. This is the new and improved version of the battle suit. It can't be worn over clothes.”

Feeling embarrassed, and slightly guilty for thinking Kim was wanting to have sex with her, Joss began to undress. As soon as she was nude, Kim placed the silver band on her wrist. She then led Joss over to the console and placed her arm in the same slot she'd seen in use when she arrived.

Kim, remembering how Mo had done it, began the upgrade process. While it was working, she explained how the nanosuit worked. It's clothing mimicking properties, which Joss immediately put to use to cover herself. The built in Kimmunicator, teleporter initiation system, and all the rest. Once the panel signaled it's job was done, she explained the newest upgrade. “Wade just came up with these features. One is a translator function. It allows you to understand what someone is saying in another language. It can prompt you on how to say things back, but you have to take care of the pronunciation yourself. The other is a security feature. It takes a DNA sample and brain scan which it uses to customize itself to you. Now, even if you take it off. Nobody else can ever make it function.”

For the next few minutes they played with the suits features. At first it felt odd to Joss, having the suit form a speaker right inside her ear when she used the Kimmunicator or translator. After trying a few phrases in various languages, she noticed that Kim had gone quiet. “Kim?”

For a couple seconds, Kim didn't respond. Then with a smile she said. “Sorry about that. Thinking too hard.”

Puzzled, Joss asked. “What about?”

Kim let her nanosuit fade out. Once again she appeared nude. “About whether or not you are ready for the other things I have to explain to you.”

Joss looked at her, once again, nude cousin. “Maybe you could answer my first question first? Seeing how y'all has these here nifty suits, why is y'all running round nekked?”

Kim let out her, well practiced, evil giggle. “Not all of us do. Most of the men wear loincloths or regular clothes. Some of the women wear clothes too. But anyone who wants to can go nude. You see, it's all part of the whole changing the world thing. Letting people make up their own minds about how they want to dress, or not dress, if that is what they want.”

“So I don't gotta go nekked if'n I don't want?”

Kim nodded. “No you don't. When it comes to things like that, it's your choice. Most of us, however, find going nude to be quite liberating.”

“Uh-huh. I reckon I get that.”

Kim smiled. “Now. Let's go somewhere more comfortable and I'll tell you what else you need to know.”

Joss followed Kim out of the lab. Down more corridors. They didn't meet anyone on their way, which wasn't surprising to Kim. Most everyone was busy with the preparations for the next days planned revolution. At the end of their short journey, they arrived at the dining hall.

Once they were inside, Kim asked. “Hungry?”

Joss nodded.

Soon they were both busy polishing off sandwiches and soup.

When they'd finished, Joss burped. “That were mighty good.”

Kim nodded. “It was. So now... Let's talk about the nature of evil.”

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