"I hate night duty," groaned Danny through his comm. set, "It's always the same old thing lately with the long nights, crappy ghosts and bad 24-hr restaurants."
"Well look at it this way," replied Sam, "at least you're not stuck with your lame parents on a month-long cruise with no one to talk to but your grandma who just suped up her power chair." Sam laughed. "The people on our ship level are getting a petition together to have it dismantled."
Danny laughed. Sam had a way of making him do that.
"Where's Tucker?"
"Oh, I sent him to the other side of town in the spectre speeder so that we could cover more ground."
Danny flew over Amity Park square giving it a quick once-over before deciding to call it a night.
"Hey Sam? It's pretty dull out here tonight. How about I head home and we finish our chat later? This is getting boring."
"What? Talking to me, or the night duty?" she asked, a slight warning tone underlying her voice. Danny caught on and fixed his mistake.
"The night duty. I gotta go. Later."
Awkward.
Danny switched the comm. set off and flew home leisurely, wandering if he could catch a bite at the Nasty Burger before heading home.
Just then his ghost sense went off.
The cord that whipped at him caught him off guard and sent him crashing down to earth.
"Great," mumbled Danny, rubbing his shoulder as he got himself up, "I get to work tonight." He looked around to find the source of the problem. A flash of pink and green light told him that it wasn't very far.
Young Rose was having a hard time with this technology freak. That robo-suit he made out of junkyard parts was surprisingly giving her a real workout. The one time she managed to form the whip to get an advantage, it had snagged on something and her opportunity just flew by. She sighed.
There goes her quiet night.
"My power is unmatched child!!!" yelled Technus, whipping the computer cables around in a heated frenzy as he propelled them at her.
She launched herself at them, and used the cables for momentum and leapt off them to a roof higher up. She took the time to pull out her iPod and switch songs.
"Let's see…Silverspun Pickups. Panic Switch. There we go," she said, as the guitars opened up in her ears.
"Ok, hotshot, I'm going to…."
"Hey!"
The voice caught their attention. The green blast that ensued knocked Technus clean of his feet and sent him crashing into a wall.
Young Rose looked up to where the blast came from. There stood one of the weirdest kids she'd ever seen, arms crossed, floating in mid air.
"How about I kick your butts first, and ask questions later?"
"Great, another freak…" Danny heard the girl groan.
"Freak? You and that costume are a side show all your own sister," Danny commented, finally taking a good look at the new-comer.
She wore a rose-petal floral print blouse with sleeves that tapered off into gloves on her hands, a short black miniskirt with the letters "YR" printed on a laced double belt that hung about her waist. Top that off with a pair of pink snakeskin punk rocker boots and a mask that had almost glass-like features. He couldn't see her face (he guessed it was a one way), but that pink glow coming from where her eyes should have been told him that she could see just fine. The iPod earphones jammed into her ears was an odd touch. Normally you'd want to be fully aware of a fight like this.
By this time, Technus had recovered enough to start weighing his options. He decided that these were not odds he liked, so he decided to beat a hasty retreat.
Both of them caught him fleeing too late. But Danny decided to leave him until later. Right now he'd see to this new girl-about-town.
"Hey. Who are you?"
She scoffed.
"Wouldn't you like to know?"
She made a bolt for the edge of the building. Danny's plasma blast hitting just in front of her gave her second thoughts.
"Look kid," she said, picking up her whip, "I'd love to stay and chat, but I'm running late. Tell you what, if you can catch me, I'll tell you anything you want to know."
By now she had walked over to the edge of the building again.
"Catch me if you can," she said, as she hopped off the building to the world below.
