Star was guessing her face was splashed across the extermination posters in Battery City, right along with the Fabulous Four, but at the moment she couldn't bring herself to care. She could barely swallow because of her thirst, her head pounding with a headache that had developed over the last two days. Star had been out wandering away from Zone 6, BL/ind's backyard, for the past two weeks now and had finished off the last sip of her water yesterday. Right foot, left foot, right foot, left foot was all she was able to concentrate on at the moment. But even this only lasted for only a couple of hours before she collapsed to the ground, exhausted. The blinding blue sky fave way to dark pink as Star closed her eyes and tied her bandana around her eyes, slipping into a deep and heavy sleep.

"Looks like she went rogue...she has stars all over her." a male voice drifted through Star's mind.

"She looks half dead-"came another. Star sighed and shifted about a bit, laying still for a couple of minutes before rubbing the sleep away from her eyes. Upon opening them she saw a ceiling covered with glow in the dark stars. The second thing she noticed was that the voices she had heard were now louder because they were outside the doorway covered by a pastel orange curtain.

"Party do you know the risks of keeping a leader of BL/ind? She could be faking." Star heard on of the males hiss, the one who had said she was half dead looking. The one called Party Poison, their leader, replied in a calm but obviously annoyed tone.

"Yes Kobra Kid I do know, and if she was faking we would have had a fucking army on our hands as soon as we picked her up. Besides unless Renegade was on a suicide mission she was completely turned around, no way would BL/ind want to lose on of their bigwigs."

There was a moment of silence before the man who had noticed the stars on her body asked

"So what are we going to do with Renegade? I'm hoping you have something more elegant in mind then just dumping her back out into the Zones." To this Party Poison answered with somewhat of a scoff.

"Of course not, she'll stay here with us till she's better and than we can find a Killjoy camp to put her in."

A moment later the one named Fun Ghoul peeked in his head in and gave Star a large grin when he saw she was awake. "Little Renegade is awake!" he trilled pushing aside the curtain and coming in, followed by the others. It took Star a moment to realize Fun Ghoul meant her, it was true but how did they know she was a turncoat?

"Glad your awake we thought we'd lost you." Party Poison said giving her a small gentle smile.

"How do you know I'm a turncoat? Last time I knew my turning was only known to BL/ind." Star questioned sitting up and facing the four who were now sitting cross-legged on the floor.

"Well it's rare a bigwig from BL/ind goes on a suicide mission so we're guessing your not with them anymore." Fun Ghoul answered, amused as if she had asked a silly question.

"So your going to trust me just like that?" Star asked eyebrow raised, baffled by their trusting behavior. Killjoys were always paranoid is what she had been taught at BL/ind.

"No that's why we're holding onto your ray gun." Fun Ghoul answered brightly and it was then Star saw her ray gun at Party Poison's thigh holster. She nodded, glad that they were not as stupid as some of the Killjoys BL/ind had captured. Party interrupted her thoughts by getting to his feet and holding his hands out to her saying that though they only had Power Pup and water she was welcome to it. Star nodded, let him pull her to her feet and followed the four out to the diner's counter where there was a can of Power Pup and a water bottle. Frank hopped onto the counter, laid on his belly and rummaged upside for some more Power Pup for the others. She sat down and drained the water before devouring the food, rather glad ti was tasteless. Once they had finished eating Star was instructed to go with Fun Ghoul, who gave her a grin and a wink before leading the way outside.

As soon as the doors shut behind the two Fun immediately asked

"So Renegade what type of leader were you? What did they pay you with? Killjoy hearts? Did they feed you their pills too?" as he popped the hood and began tinkering with the car. Star hopped up onto the trunk and lightly kicked the fender as she thought over her answer.

"I was a S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W leader." At this Frank stopped fiddling with the car and gazed at her warily. Star could see he was struggling not to judge her of what she had been but it was a fierce battle. It took her only a moment to realize he must have lost loved ones because of her. The girl grimaced and looked away, brushing the sleeve of her purple sweater against her lips, a childhood habit.

"What were their names?" she whispered gazing at the reddish brown dirt.

"My wife was Jamia and my two little girls were...Cherry and Lily." he answered his voice warning her that he was close to tears. Star looked at Frank and saw him wipe his eyes before he gazed back at her, youthful face deter minded to hear the news. As Star opened her mouth, by second nature she slipped into her distant self.

"Their little bodies couldn't handle the drugs...they fell asleep and never woke, they looked...peaceful." she answered, tears pricking the edges of her eyes at the memory of those two little innocent girls' expressions of repose.

As soon as Star had said drugs Fun Ghoul had begun to shake his head and when she finished murmured.

"No...no not Cherry and Lily..their too strong." He ran his fingers through his hair in an agitated way, unbelieving that his only flesh and blood was gone.

"I'm sorry Fun-" At hearing her voice Fun Ghoul lashed out at her.

"Shut up! Just shut the fuck up! You killed my daughters you murderer! But that doesn't matter you does it? Of course not! You probably spat on their graves! That is if you even gave them ones!" Fun screamed before storming off around the diner, and tearing off a few moments later on a motorbike, dust billowing up in his wake. Star stared after the man in shock before she buried her face in her hands, shoulders trembling. Not a second later Star felt a hand rub her back soothingly.

"This isn't the way I wanted things to go but I think it's best you head out on your own again." Party Poison stated combing his fingers through her long hair, wanting to ease her hurt, his fragile heart hating to see her anguish.

"Why aren't you cussing me out if you heard the whole conversation?" she asked wiping her eyes.

"Because I know what it's like to do stuff you're not proud of. Mine was drinking and using, yours was being a commander." he answered with a shrug gazing at the horizon. Star rested her temple on his shoulder, glad that he did not shun her because of her past. The two stayed like that for a few minutes more before they hopped off the car and went into the diner.

"Kobra, Jet Renegade is going to be heading out in a minute say goodbye." Party stated to the two who were playing cards at a booth. They raised their eyebrows in question, wondering why, but did not ask. Both shook her hand goodbye, murmuring good luck to her before Party Poison led Star to the back of the diner where another motorbike stood. "It's got a full tank so you should be good for a week, there's also a weeks worth of water if you ration." he explained to which she nodded and hopped onto the bike.

"Oh Renegade? Here's your raygun." Party stated withdrawing her gun which she accepted and holstered before she embraced him tightly.

"Thank you so much Party Poison I won't forget your help." she murmured.

"It's nothing, simply one Killjoy helping out another." he answered though he hugged her just as tightly before they released each other. Star started the bike up, waved good bye to Party before zipping off towards Zone 4.