Valerie Gray: Tell Me Lies
by Futuramakid
(Thanks to Anthiena for beta-ing)
DISCLAIMER: I own nothing.
I never believed that there was a rainbow, with a pot of gold at the end.
I'm much too smart for fairy tales like that, but here I am again...
The night was dark, and cool, and it hid one Valerie Gray, who streaked through the Elmerton skies, scanning for ghosts. It had been only a tad over a month since she'd learned that her worst rival, Danny Phantom, and her ex-boyfriend, Danny Fenton, were one and the same. It hurt. She'd doubled her patrols, just to keep her mind off it.
"ECTO SIGNATURE DETECTED", her helmet's HUD read.
Good, she thought, I could use something to beat the crap out of. Help take my mind off things.
She followed the signal. However, it wasn't quite what she was looking for- a poor girl stood, backed into an alley by a couple street punks. She lowered in closer, and could scarcely believe it. She knew that girl. It was that ghost-girl Vlad had had her track down those months ago...
"Hey, pick on someone your own size, you slime," she called, descending to ground level, and hopping off her rocket sled between the girl and the punks. They were even uglier up close, one was a beefy bald man, with tattoos on his arm and a rather nasty grimace, the other was smaller, with long greasy hair, and a few too many facial piercings...
"That an invitation, lady?" the small one said, pulling a gun from his jacket.
"Hey now, easy," she said, putting her hands up, "let's not be rash..."
Out from the back of her gloves, out of the view of the muggers, her blasters charged.
"That's a good girl," the gunman replied, "maybe we won't hurt you so much as we were gonna hurt you. Now, here's how things're gonna go. You two girls stay still while my friend here takes the valuables..."
Valerie waited until the big guy approached her to make her move. She swung onto the big guy's neck, blasting him in the back of the head with one hand, and aiming at the other with her free hand.
"Now, here's how things're gonna go," she said, "You're gonna drop the gun, and I'm gonna leave you and your friend to the cops.
The man paused a moment in indecision.
"That wasn't a choice," she said, blasting him. She pushed the two unconscious bodies onto the sidewalk, and got back on her rocket sled.
"Come on, ghost-girl," she said to Dani, "Follow me, you don't wanna be here when those guys wake up."
She ascended a bit.
"Valerie?" Dani said, tentatively.
"Yeah?" Valerie replied.
"...I can't fly anymore."