#wegos

"What was that?" Asked Drakken, as he put down the box of machine scraps onto the table. "None of your business," Shego snapped, "what's with you?" "I should be the one asking you that," Drakken huffed, "because ever since we came back from GO-City you've acted... sombre. Do you miss your brothers after all?" He asked the latter part in a singsong manner. "I do NOT!" Shego's hand flared up, causing the scientist to back off with both hands up in defence. "Do TOO," he retorted from a distance, "otherwise you wouldn't be hiding that photo from me." His right hand pointed towards the magazine.

Shego groaned in defeat and let the green energy that surrounded her fist die down. "Fine, you're right! I feel awful. Happy now?" "No, why would I be?" Drakken took a small step in the woman's direction. Once he noticed that approaching her was safe, he made his way back to stand in front of her. "I take no pleasure in hurting you Shego. We may be villains, but that doesn't mean that we're not human; we have feelings too!" "Is this your best attempt at making me feel better? Because if it is, I'd rather go back to staring at a childhood photo in silence." She turned away from him. Drakken continued. "I err..., I know as no other that every family comes with its own set of manuals..." His mind quickly wandered off to his cousin Eddie, whom he wishes that Shego would never have the displeasure of meeting in person. "...but I meant what I said before: To me, we are family. Maybe not related by blood but-" "It's just painful." Shego interrupted Drakken's monologue. Her eyes fixated towards the magazine. "I-," she bit her lip, trying to swallow the lump in her throat. "Go on." Drakken assured her. Those words were enough for her to break the gaze from the magazine and focus on him instead. He noticed tears welling up in her eyes, but he also saw her fiery wilfulness to not let them fall.

"My brothers... This is the first time that I've seen them in, in what? Ten years? It's all the fault of-, that stupid, I-... I just." Her voice cracked slightly. Drakken reached out to carefully embrace his partner and felt her frame trembling against his. This was the first time that he had ever seen Shego in such a state of distress. "Take your time." he cooed while gently rubbing her shoulder. After a while he felt her breath steadying as she collected herself.

"When my brothers and I got our powers, all of us were pretty excited. Especially Hego; he couldn't stop raving about how he felt just like Superman. Go figure: the guy has super strength." A dry laugh escaped her lips, "We trained day in and day out for four years and finally we were 'ready to take on evil'..." "But something happened?" Drakken asked as he brushed strands of hair away from Shego's face. She nodded. "Team GO was praised for being a shining example for the youth of GO-City. The mayor would call us in, we stopped crime, appeared on local talk shows and the news, showed up at high schools; rinse and repeat. We fought Substance-man, Console-freak, DJ Lay-Z..." "Are those actual villain names?" Drakken interjected, Shego turned away. "No. They weren't even bad people. They were Global Justice agents posing as villains." "I... don't understand." "It turned out that Global Justice didn't think of us as an actual superhero team. Instead they used us as a concept to keep the citizens of GO-City in check."

Shego stepped away from Drakken. She took the photo from underneath the magazine and handed it to him. He looked at the five siblings. Each of them had a sense of innocent pride, so he thought. "It must've probably felt good to think you could change the world for the better." Drakken muttered. "It did," she answered, "until I found out about GJ's ploy. I told Hego and showed him all the evidence I gathered throughout that year. He was livid at Doctor Director Senior. "WITH OUR POWERS WE CAN ACTUALLY HELP PEOPLE! WHY DON'T THEY GIVE US A CHANCE!? WE COULD BE SAVING LIVES!" is what he said to the mayor," she crossed her arms, as if to comfort herself. "Days later, both of us got called into GJ-HQ. He had a private talk with the director. I waited outside that conference room for hours and when he came out, he looked exhausted. Hego and I decided to tell Mego, but we never told the twins the whole truth. Eventually, we decided to do superhero-work outside of GO-City, against the orders of GJ. Surprisingly enough, we actually took down two notorious crime organisations with ease. Though, we later found out that five reckless, loud mouthed rookies with meteor powers wouldn't be enough to stop a world wide criminal network."

Shego paused to quickly wipe some tears away. She took in a shaky breath and continued: "In '99, a bunch of GJ files got leaked out and sold around in the underground market. It didn't take long until actual monsters showed up in GO-City... In that fight, Mego got injured badly," she swallowed, "and we almost lost the Wegos. They were in a coma for about a month and thankfully don't remember what happened." Drakken felt cold sweat building up underneath his collar. From what he could tell, those twins were younger than Possible, so what were they back then? Nine, Ten? "GJ managed to settle everything down, but a lot of innocent civilians got caught up in our mess. Doctor Director Senior called Hego to their HQ and he stayed there for a week. When he got back to GO-Tower, he told us that the only way to 'fix what had happened' is to just do as GJ says and continue our 'usual hero duties'. I couldn't stand it." Shego slammed down her first on the table, causing Drakken to flinch. "Hego became more unbearable and controlling over time, it became suffocating. He pretended like everything was okay and that the team was 'stronger than ever'. Tension grew between us. Idiots that admired GJ's fake villains came to GO-City to make a name for themselves. In the end it just became too much for me and I couldn't tell right from wrong any more."

"So you left your brothers and became a true villain to escape all of it." Drakken looked surprised by the sudden laugh coming from the woman in front of him. Something in him felt at ease, as she seemingly had shed some of the emotional weight off her shoulders.

"There's waaay more to it than just that, Dr. D; But yeah, this was a big factor."

"Hmmm... The real reason is that you saw my wanted poster, got charmed and thought: "I totally need to work for this dashing ingenious mastermind!!", am I right?" A slight sense of annoyance came over him, seeing her entire body cringe at his remark. He laid it a bit thick on, but it wasn't all that far from reality, right? After all, he took quite some time to get the perfect angles for his mugshot (to the chagrin of the cops).

"It was okay to see them again." Shego broke the silence, "The twins seemed to be doing okay. They've become a bit more mature, if you can believe it. Mego is as self-absorbed as always and Hego..., well, to this day I still hate his hero act, but I guess looking back on it, he probably needs it to deal with his own problems." She took the family photo from his hands and grabbed her magazines.

Drakken smiled, feeling a slight sense of pride for easing his partner's troubles. "So, shall I invite your brothers over for Thanksgivi-- ARGH! SHEGO!! AT LEAST LOOK WHERE YOU'RE AIMING THOSE ENERGY BLASTS!! YOU ALMOST BURNED OFF MY PONYTAIL!!"

So I suppose after the episode, the next best meeting could be during a family orientated holiday (Thanksgiving or Christmas). It would be very likely that Hego, after finding out where Drakken's Lair is located, would send an invitation for them to visit during the holiday; no hero activities, no villain activities just family stuff + Drakken. Drakken is a sucker for family orientated outings (See the yearly evil family picnic that he organises for his henchmen and the time he celebrated Christmas with first only Ron and then with the Possibles and Shego).

If Drakken gets his hands on the invitation first: Drakken might keep it a secret from Shego and makes her come along with him to GoCity under the guise of "We're going there for evil shopping" or anything and 'coincidentally' bumping into Hego.

If Shego gets get hands on the invitation: Shego will probably burn it and toss it away. However, she won't wait for it to burn out (like the photo strip of her and Kim in 'Stop team Go'). So Drakken might see it and stomp it out, see the address and could potentially read that it's an invite and then do the same as the previous part, go to Go-city.

Alternative: Drakken invites team Go to the lair for a family reunion.

Drakken and Hego would formally introduce themselves to each other and Shego would try and go away but gets stopped by the Wegos who surround her with hugs. Eventually she just gives up and everyone goes to GoTower or Lair.

Drakken + the Go brothers impressions:

Wegos & Drakken: The twins would probably be neutral over Drakken. He looks a tad boring to them compared to the Go villains. They are mischievous though and first pretend to be 1 sibling, making Drakken confused because he thought they were twins, then triplets??? Quintuplets?!? "Oh, just twins with multiplication powers, haha of course--." Drakken would also think they're around the age of Kim's brothers so he got them a pranksters' science kit as present. "How to build an atomic whoopy cushion? Neat!". Drakken is okay in their book.

Mego & Drakken: A looooooooooong silence between them. Mego and Drakken would probably start with having the least common interests, but something they both like to talk about is themselves. One would start talking about some anecdotes connecting to their line of work, then in turns they interrupt each other to tell another 'funny story that I just remembered cause of this story'. The conversation then turns into talking about Shego. Both of them then bond over getting onto Shego's nerves.. until Shego interrupts them "Hahaha, oh that's funny-- hey don't stop talking about me now, you guys seemed to have so much fun!" "Yes, uh, well, we're just--" "Boy! All that socialising sure dried up my throat. I'll get myself a water, would you like some too, Doctor Drakken?" "Why, yes Mego, here let me help you!!" And both of them hurry away into the kitchen before Shego can say anything. They also compliment each other's hairdo but secretly think it looks lame and theirs looks better.

Hego & Drakken: I feel like this is a double edged sword. They both like the Oh Boyz and probably would sing Karaoke during the party (making Shego and Mego cringe in their seats). They could talk about the fastfood industry/horeca in general and maybe Hego likes Snowman Hank as well.

Now the negative aspect. I think at one point during the party, Drakken might ask Hego something along the lines of "So, you are okay with your sister being evil? Running from the law? A super Villain's sidekick?" and Hego laughs it off, replying "Oh, yeah well, I'm not that worried. You see, if she's paired up with the likes of you, it'll be ok." At first Drakken might be flattered but then, "What do you mean, "paired up with the likes of me"?"

Hego explains that he knows that Drakken is no 'real villain'. After first seeing him, he looked up everything about Drakken in a villain database and concluded that Drakken is no real threat, at least not like the true villains that terrorise GoCity (according to him). Shego probably is the safest with Drakken cause she'll never be in real danger because of his shenanigans. Drakken will get fired up because this definetely hurts his ego. He will start getting real angry and tries picking a fight with Hego, telling him he's probably the reason that Shego left for villainy, because he's such a goodie two shoes that controls everyone like they're tools to get him in the best light and adoration of the city. Hego and Drakken will eventually get closer to actual fighting but Shego steps in, scolding both of them hard. "This is exactly why I didn't want to come." Shego grabs Drakken by his collar and heads out.