Revenge (Team Go Begins, Part 4)
„Thank you for the lunch“, said Washington when he got back behind the camera.
Shego answered with an askew smile: „Don’t thank me, because in about two hours the poison will start to work.“
Julian and Washington consolidated immediately and looked at Shego with their eyes wide open.
„Just kidding, your food wasn’t poisoned“, she laughed, and the two men relaxed again. „At least not mine.“
„That...was another joke, right?“
Shego sighed.
„What do you think?“
„Washington’s eyes filled with tears and he began to think about all the missed oppurtunities in his life.
„Of course it was a joke“, Shego hissed. „Can we go on now?“
„Ca...camera is rolling (Sniff).“
„Well, Shego, you and your brothers had discovered your abilities. What did you do then?“
„Three words: practise, practise, practise. It took a little while, till we finally found out how to activate, and deactivate our powers. For weeks we went straight back to the orphanage after school and locked ourselves in our room, to practise. And when we finally had the hang of it, we didn’t knew what to do with it anyway.“
„Talkshows“, Mego said.
The siblings were sitting together in their room. The door was locked up, the shutters were down, the light was turned off. The only source of light were Shego, Mego and Hego. They were sitting together on the floor and glowed alternating.
„You mean, we should go to TV-shows and show the whole world what we can do?“ Hego asked.
„Yes. That would be cool, we were superstars. The people would admire us. I think about advertising contracts, world tours, mountains of money.“
„I’d rather think about the huge crowds, chasing us with torches and pitchforks out of town, or scientists, who will put each one of us in a small roon and stab us with needles and torture us with electroshocks, till they either found out where we got our powers from and how to get it too, or killed all of us. Depends on, what happens first.“
Although one part of Mego knew that Shego was right, he just replied with: „You see things too negatively, sis. Maybe you shouldn’t have watched „E.T.“ so many times.“
„Believe it or not, but when I was young, I was mad about this film. Later it was just ticking me off and I still can’t think what I ever liked about it.“
„Shego is not completely wrong, Mego. You don’t have to be a doctor to know, that we got our power from the meteor. Because there’s nothing else left of it apart from us, they’ll put us under the microscope. Including the babies and we don’t even know if they got really superpowers. Hm...superpowers.“
„Okay, you’re right, we’ll keep it a secret.“
„We should practise more. Who knows what damage we can do with our powers.“
„I’m just shrinking. That’s harmless.“
„Superpowers...I never looked at it this way.“
„What if you shrink one day down to molecular size and split accidently an atom?“
„Do you wanna forbid us, the use of our power? This is rubbish, we got the powers and that’s why we should use them.“
„We really got...superpowers.“
„Okay, but we should, no, we must use them responsibley.“
„My eleven year old sister wants to tell me something about responsibility. That’s so typical of you. All you can do is nag, nag, nag.“
„I would do this less, if my brothers wouldn’t give me so many reasons! And I’m right at that.“
„Bla bla bla, I’m not listening, You know what? I’m going to shrink now. You know what else? Maybe I split an atom! Or two or three? Oh what am I saying, I’ll slide hundreds of them on a string!“
„You don’t know what happens, when you split an atom, do you?“
„No, but I’m sure Dr Shego, the world-famous nuclear-physician is going to tell me.“
Suddenly Hego jumped up so quick, that his siblings stopped quarrelling in shock , and said: „We...become superheroes!“
Shego and Mego stared at their big brother. Then they looked at each other, then again at Hego. Shego encapsulated finally what they thought.
„This...is the stupidest thing, that anyone could come up with right now.“
Hego sat down on the floor again.
„Why?“
„Superheroes? Us?“
„Yes!“
„We are parentless infants who have to watch their babybrothers.“
„With superpowers!“
„Nevertheless, no.“
„This idea was at this time way too absurd. We finally get our life almost right again and then we, who had absolutely no fighting experience, should suddenly go outside and fight crime in the streets of Go City. Who could know that it was our fate? At least...the fate of most of my family. And it was all Dennis‘ fault.“
Just two days later.
„Hey, what are you doing!?“ Mego shouted.
Today it was his turn to take care of the twins. He just returned from a walk with them. They lay peacefully in their buggy and he looked just for a few seconds away to tie up his shoes, as suddenly Dennis stood next to them and the babies began to cry.
„What are you doing?“ Mego repeated.
„Nothing“, Dennis answered guiltless, „I’m just standing here.“
„And what have you done to the twins?“
„Nothing! Babies just don’t like me. Dogs either. Cats and Squirrels are also not known as my best friends. Seems to be my Karma’s fault.“
Dennis went, suspiciously eyed by Mego, around the corner. When he found out, why his brothers were crying, Dennis was somewhere else. At least he was as untraceable, as someone who live in the same house as you, can be.
„Dennis actually had the nerve to steal the babies‘ soother. Can you imagine that!? I would never do something like that. Not that I couldn’t, it’s just cheap and dumb. What is the use of bothering one or more babies? Or the attraction? Everyone can do this. Sure, you could say that Dennis did this, because he was oh so evil, but seriously, if he would be really evil, he had stolen the babies and not their soothers. Usually I would stay out of the whole thing, because this soother-thievery is, and always has been, just stupid and far below my level, but this was about my brothers.“
Shego’s first reaction, when Mego told her and Hego of Dennis‘ infamous action, was, that she let the green fire in her hand burn as strong as never before.
Then she jumped with both feet on her bed and yelled: „Veeeeeeeeeengeaaaaaaaaaaance!!!!!“
„Yes, I hate my brothers with all my heart. Every single one of them. But back then I didn’t. And if...I had baby brothers today, and someone did them wrong, doesn’t matter how minor it would be, I would still act that way. Why are you looking at me this way? They’re babies and they just didn’t had the chance to screw up my life so much that I wish to see them never again.“
While Shego jumped with glowing hands from bed to bed, she accomplished her revenge plot.
„We got the powers and we should use them. I’ll tear him into thousands of pieces, Hego beats the daylights out of the leftovers and Mego, well, uhm...he can tie his shoestrings unseen together.“
„Hey, shrinking is maybe the coolest of all superpowers!“
When Shego tried to jump past him, Hego caught her and tried to calm her down.
„Easy, sis. Where do you got these ideas from? Tearing him apart and beating the daylights out of him? If I didn’t know that you barely watch TV, I would say, that you watch too much of it. But I like one of your ideas.“
„The tearing or the beating?“
„Neither.“
Shego jumped out of Hego’s arms and sighed disapointed.
„Great, we are going to tie his shoestrings together.“
„This is just one part of the plan. The pont is we’ll teach him a hell of a lesson.“
With his last sentence, Hego got the attention of his sister back.
„Hego’s Plan was simple. It could be out of a Disney-Film. But I have to note, that it has been perfectly justified to the mind of a mouthy 13-years-old, who thinks that the thievery of two soothers would be a criminalistic masterpiece.“
The Go-Siblings put their plan into practise that very night.
Dennis slept undeserved blissfully in his bed. He was the only kid in the orphanage with the privilege of having an single room. It wasn’t a reward for anything he did. Mr Pink just wanted to save his fosterlings from the annoyance of having a room with him. Once Dennis locked his roommate together with himself up in his room and pelted him with wine gums. Sounds relatively harmless, but since then, the poor victim had for the rest of his life an incredible fear of wine gums.
He died at the age of 65, when he tried to cure his fear and got crushed by the world largest wine gum. A tragic accident. It was cherry-flavored.
It was almost midnight and when the clock striked midnight, the scary events started.
It began with a loud scream, right into Dennis‘ ear. He got up fast as lighting and looked around. The full moon, that shined right into his room, illuminated it clear enough, but he couldn’t see anyone else.
Then a scary voice said right into his ear: „Dennis West, you’ve been a bad boy.“
Dennis opened his eyes wide with horror and turned his head slowly around. He still seemed to be alone in his room.
„It was Mego, who had shrunked as much as he never did before and sat right in Dennis‘ auditory canal. He had the lousiest job, but somebody had to do it.“
„He...hello?“ Dennis whispered subdued.
„You’ve done many bad things in your life“, Mego yelled in his ear, „but if you steal two little helpless babies’ soothers, we can’t look away anymore!“
„Who are you and how do you know about the soothers?“
Like on cue, the bed suddenly got lifted up with Dennis in it and swirled apparently uncontrolled through the room.
„This was of course Hego, who was hiding under the bed. He churned this little bugger right. Heavy enough to scare him, but not that much that he could have been hurt.“
Dennis‘ eyes got filled with the first tears, while Hego and Mego went on with their jobs.
„We come right out of hell“, Mego shouted further. „But not the cool hell, where all the rockstars go when they die, I’m talking about the bad hell, with fire and so on! We reserved a place for you, Dennis! Do you think that this is bad? It’s even more worse there! Because there is...fire...and...stuff. FIRE!!!“
Dennis became sick. He didn’t know if it was because of being whirled or because of the panic, which got up from his bones.
„I...I don’t wanna go to hell.“
„Then you have to be nice from now! Apologize to the others. Behave yourself! And above all, buy new soothers for the babies!“
This were too many needs for Dennis.
„Apologize? Behave myself? New soothers? I don’t know if I can do this!“
In this Moment the door of the closet slammed open. Something green glowing jumped out of it, landed on the bed and threatened Dennis with its scary, burning claws.
„Of course that was me. I just wore a sheet over my head and looked absolutely silly. But the glow, together with my brothers‘ excellent build-up play didn’t mess up the effect. He didn’t even realize, that there was just a sheet with legs in front of him.“
„Okay, I’ll do everything you want! Everything! Aaaaaah!!
„You’ll be nice and apologize in public, tomorrow?“
„Yes, YES!“
„Then I wish you a good night.“
Shego threw the Sheet over Dennis‘ head and jumped, together with the quick growing Mego, off the bed.. Hego pushed the bed hard, but after all careful enough, with Dennis in it into the closet and all three got silently out of the room.
Julian and Washington could really feel how much pleasure it gave Shego, to tell this.
„We could also had put the bed back on the ground, but then he could have thought that everything was just a dream. And now guess what happened then?“
„Don’t tell me, he became a nice guy“, said Julian.
„Yes, he did! At least as long as he was in the orphanage. He even apologized to everybody right at breakfast. Mr Pink jumped after this right out of the window, because he thought it was a dream and he could fly. Mercifully the window was at the ground-floor.“
„But I got one question. Didn’t anyone hear you? For me it sounds like you made a lot of noise.“
Shego sighed.
„Well, when all this noise came out of Dennis‘ room and he was calling for help, the others ignored it gladly. Only Mr Pink would have come to his help, but he is one of these people who can’t be awakened by a nuclear war, when it’s full moon. Nevertheless there was one man who caught us in the act.“