The Japanese winter was cold and even colder since she was nothing but skin and bones. Her rags that she wore were stolen from a dumpster just outside of Tokyo, tattered and barely keeping her warm. Looking at her now it would seem that she was just a dirty female, with nothing left to lose. The crinkling of the snow beneath the feet of the more fortunate people teased her, making her want to come out of the little ball that she had been curled up in for warmth. She was on the verge of starving to death, either that or freezing.

Some of the townspeople felt sorry for her and the merchants in the district she was in now let her have their days' scraps of food and clothing. Her other personality had implored her to just kill them all and take what they needed for themselves, but her dominant personality would not be pushed around by the likes of the violent one.

However not all of the people in this town were so friendly. Now she had heard three men come close to her, their faces sexually frustrated because their wives or girlfriends had not touched them in months. They were looking at her with their eyes wide and their mouths drooling, as if she were some piece of meat to be eaten. She tried to scurry away before SHE came out, but one of the men grabbed her by the leg and cooed to her softly.

"Easy, girl. We'll be gentle as long as you don't make a fuss" said the first man.

"We wanna give you pleasure, poppet" purred the second man as he ran his hand up her inner thigh, which made her squeek.

"Looky here, boys! We got ourselves a cute little mousy!" he chuckled and he began to tear off her rags (which was not hard to do since they were worn out anyway).

The house of Doctor Kazumi was lively as ever, but there was no food that was able to be made into something good. It was Fransiose's and Geronimo's turn to go shopping when she honed in on a frightening sound. It was coming from an alley a block away, it was very faint and normal people could not hear it if they tried.

"Someone's about to be violated! In the alley about a block away!" she pointed to the direction where the sound was coming from, and 005 rushed to the aid of the poor homeless woman. When he got there, she had been kicking and punching weakly and he pulled the perverts off of her and threw them against the wall.

"Are you alright?" he asked as he easily lifted her up off the ground, her seeming weightless in his hands. Her skin was hanging off of her bones, and he could hear her stomach rumble from miles away. "Time to go" he said as he carried her to a waiting car, with a platinum blond man with blue eyes was waiting for them in the driver's seat.

"What happened to her?!" he asked as he looked back into her dirty face. It was unusual that they would pick up another person than was planned on this "family outing" but he drove back to Dr. Kazumi's estate anyway, where 003 had cleaned up the woman and gave her a set of her old clothes. She looked slightly older than 003 would have been, but she was so skinny that they fell right off of her, but 006 and his great cooking could fix that.

The men were circling around her like vultures and when they went in for the kill she could barely scream let alone kick and punch her way free. She could feel her rage beginning to boil over, and her eye color changed from her neutral brown to fire engine red. SHE was about to come out, and she could not stop that from happening. She wanted them to pay for even thinking of violating her, but nobody deserved having HER beat them to death.

She felt around for something that she could use to defend herself with and she got something cold, hard and long. A lead pipe was in her hands and SHE was out for blood, but before SHE could swing her pipe, a really tall Native American man came to her rescue. Whenever SHE overpowered the dominant personality, their body would wear itself out and they would pass out.

The next thing she could remember was being bathed by a young woman and clothed by her too. The clothes that were given to her were falling off of her skinny frame, and the younger woman had to pin them together to keep them up. She felt horrible for leeching off of these good people, but she had nowhere else to go.

About a month into her stay at the house, she had found out about everybody being cyborgs. She had put on some weight and now looked somewhat healthy, and she was getting regular exercise so that the weight she gained would not go straight to her belly. She had been introduced to everybody and they were all really nice to her. The one who had saved her, Geronimo had been the strong, silent type but he was also so gentle. She had introduced herself as Kitty, something that she liked and nobody could ever take away from her.

One day she had heard Jet and Albert having a lover's spat about nothing in particular. She knew that they were homosexuals and that they were indeed lovers, so she decided to try and break up the fight when Albert's right hand had turned into a gun and tried to shoot Jet. Then Jet's feet turned into jet boots and he was hovering a few feet above the ground.

"Why did you try to shoot me?! I didn't do anything wrong!" shouted Jet as he was hovering in the air, sweating over just being shot at by his boyfriend.

"Why didn't you tell me that you went out last night?! I was worried sick! What if Black Ghost got a hold of you and I never heard from you again?!"

"What I do in my spare time is none of your…" he had just noticed Kitty with her brown curly hair and her eyes wide in shock as the red head had landed "we have company…" he said in a silent tone to Albert, who turned and noticed his gun had was out and he covered it with his fake skin glove.

"…Bad time…?" she asked as she calmed herself down from seeing these individuals with extraordinary powers.

It had been decided that Kitty would not know about cyborgs or the Black Ghost, for her safety. It was Pyunma who had suggested it in the first place, seeing as how she was too frail at first to carry on a conversation such as that. Cyborgs were just a figment of a child's imagination as far as she was concerned. Hiding their abilities was hard at first, but it got easier as time went on. A few close calls when Chang breathed fire for food and Pyunma did not come up for air after a few minutes while swimming.

The night before, Jet had gone out without telling anybody to clear his head. He had gone out flying in the crisp winter air to think about things. He felt like he was being suffocated being indoors all the time and he just wanted to get out for a few hours. He had a great flight, but Albert was mad when he finally got home. He did not feel like fighting with the older man tonight so he just went to bed angry with himself.

The next day however, Albert confronted him about it with "Where did you go last night, Sweetheart?" he did not want to sound angry at his young man, but he was just curious. He was still angry with him, but he did not want to start an unnecessary fight again. That was happening more often now that Jet came out to his friends. Perhaps he was having a hard time coming to terms with his homosexuality.

"I just went out for a midnight flight" he told his boyfriend as he looked around for Kitty, wanting to keep their secret just that. "That's all."

"Oh…okay. You didn't see the need to inform anybody about where you are going?" said Albert as he was folding the clothes.

Getting annoyed, Jet shot back "What I do in my spare time is nobody else's business than my own!"

"Look, we almost lost you and Joe once when you followed him into space to bring him home. I could not tell you my feelings then, but we are damn lucky Doctor Gilmore and Doctor Kazumi were able to repair you both. Now that I have you all to myself…" he came in close to Jet's face to kiss him "I want to make the most of my time with you…" he leaned in to kiss his younger man, but Jet pushed him away. "What?!"

"Don't 'what' me!" he yelled at his man "I am not in the mood for romance!"

"Okay, you don't have to yell at me!"

"The only reason I'm yelling is that I don't wanna be cooped up in the house forever!"

"Then why not make an evening of it?! We could have gone to a restaurant or have a picnic on the beach, but no you had to go off on your own, just like you always do!"

"I'd rather be alone than with you, ya damned Nazi!" he regretted saying that, he knew that Albert was in no way a Nazi or a supporter of the Nazi party and he said "Oh my gosh, Albert I'm…" a round of bullets came his way and he used his jet legs to move out of the way in time.

The Nazi comment was like a stab wound to the heart, and he instinctively shot at Jet. Damn his reflexes! He wouldn't have done that if he wasn't so paranoid all the time. Black Ghost was over with, defeated finally. He had to get used to this civilian life now, things were almost always calm and quiet. "Sorry, Sweetheart! It was a reflex!" Then Jet started yelling again.

"Why did you try to shoot me?! I didn't do anything!"

"Why didn't you tell me that you were going out last night?! I was worried sick! What if Black Ghost got a hold of you and I never heard from you again?!"

"What I do in my spare time is none of your…" he then saw Kitty and landed on the ground below him and said to Albert "…we have company…" Albert had looked down to his metal gun hand and covered it up with his skin glove again and they both started blushing.

Kitty could not stop staring at them when she said "…bad time…?" The truth had come out that they were all cyborgs, putting Kitty in a place where she felt like she had to inform the rest of her friends about her "condition". She was not sure that they would believe her, but it would not be her fault if her other personality did something to any of them.

"I have an alternate personality. Her name is Samantha, she is very violent and comes out when I am in very stressful situations." The rest of them raised their eyebrows and they looked like they thought she was lying. "What?! You guys can be robotically enhanced humans but I can't have an alternate personality?"

Jet quickly got annoyed and said "Look, it's not like we asked for these abilities! We were kidnapped and our bodies were altered without our permission!"

"I didn't ask for Samantha either! She just came about when I was a child being beaten by my father on a daily basis!" she started to gag on her own saliva when her eyes started to flutter about under her eyelids. Everybody was getting worried, but Ivan had to tell them all to stay back.

"Get back! She's telling the truth!" Ivan had to psychically calm Kitty down until she was asleep in Geronimo's arms. "When she wakes up, leave her alone, unless you want to have furniture thrown at you. Samantha manifested when Kitty needed her to protect herself, Samantha is responsible for the murder of her father and the maiming of many others" Geronimo had put her in his big bed and cuddled next to her. He could teach her how to suppress Samantha herself and live a normal life, trying to listen to her heart. It was sort of weird, her heart was on the right side of her chest instead of her left and it was slowing down considerably.

This woman was attractive, and she had been taking an interest into what he was doing outside quietly. She had been observing him from a distance until one day the previous week he had spoken to her "Can I help you with something, Kitty?"
She yelped and stammered "I…I was just wondering what you are doing sitting like that all day…" he smiled to her.

"I am listening to nature, the earth, the sea the rocks, the trees and so on. It is like reading everything around you to determine the state of things" he had noticed that she had come closer to him and sat like him.

"Do you mind if I join you?" she asked him shyly.

He was unprepared for her to ask him, and a slight blush came across his copper skinned cheeks "Ummm…sure" normally, his tall stature had intimidated men and women alike but it seemed that she was…turned on by it. Her personality was sweet and shy, two things he found cute in a woman. He did however sense something more…sinister in her. Not that she herself was evil, but a different side of her that he sensed wanted to hurt everybody. He would have to watch her closely and make sure she wasn't going to kill anyone.