A Dangerous Dawn Chapter 2:
Deathly loved the feel of the wind through her short hair as it was blown out of her face, purple tips streaming behind her. She turned out of a corner easily and smiled to herself as she saw the deserted straight stretch of road that ran away into the horizon. Within seconds she had lent forward and opened her bike up to its full potential. The speed was incredible and she wished she could carry on down this road all the way to the horizon but her turn off was coming up.
The blacktop road continued on for as far as the eye could see but for those who knew where to look, like Deathly, they could see a small mound of odd shaped rocks by the side of the road. She continued on for 100m after the rock pile and turned onto a faint dirt track leading away to a well hidden, smaller blacktop road. Within minutes of following this road Deathly could make out the shape of a rundown building covered in spray-paint and loosely hanging wooden planks.
She parked her bike behind Dr. D's radio station and moved to one of the planks of wood nailed to the wall and knocked. As usual there was no sound from within. She pushed the plank aside and moved into the dark space inside.
It only took a few seconds for Deathly's eyes to adjust to the darkness and when they did she was greeted with the sight of a ray gun pointed right between her eyes. Deathly almost jumped out of her skin before she saw who was holding the gun.
"My god, Lady Boy! What the hell are you doing pointing that thing at me? I almost died of shock!" Deathly hissed angrily.
"Oh sorry, I thought you were a Drac." Lady Boy's voice was muffled by his helmet.
"Ah Lady Boy? You're forgetting one important thing, Dracs. Don't. Knock!"
"True!" Lady Boy looked at her curiously. Deathly could tell that he was trying hard to remember who she was. She stood there patiently waiting for it to come to him. She hadn't been back to Dr. D's for a while and Lady Boy had only seen her a few of those times.
"Deathly Dawn!" He said with his eyes lighting up in realisation.
"There yah go!" She said smiling.
"You haven't been around here in a while, what brings you back." Lady Boy said while putting his ray gun back in its holster.
"I'm out of coffee and I'm on a spare part round, I acquired a van the same make as Dr. D's a few days ago and I've come to drop off some spare parts just in case yours gets broken." She said swinging the backpack of her shoulders and dropped it on the floor with a loud clank.
"Okay I'll just grab him from the other room."
"No need. I'm already here." Dr. D said from behind him, he moved his wheel chair closer towards them from the door way. "Nice to see you again Deathly, I thought you would be running low on coffee about now. What have you been up to lately?"
"Oh you know the usual, fighting Dracs, painting, giving the B/Lind as much hell as I can."
"That's what I like to hear. So I hear you got new parts for me?" He said looking down at the bursting bag on the floor, the tip of an exhaust pipe poking out of the top.
"Shore do, the Dracs that owned the van left it by the side of the road when they went chasing after Party and the guys." Deathly said. She didn't know Party Poison and his gang personally, they had never even met but Dr. D was always mentioning them and every Killjoy knew who they were.
"Those Dracs were just begging for their ride to be stolen by the grand theft auto Killjoy. They should have known better, considering how long you've been pinching their cars." Dr. D said smiling to himself.
"You'd think they would learn, if the guys didn't ghost them then I'm pretty shore they would have had to walk back to Battery City." Deathly said giggling at the thought.
"Speaking of the Party Poison, I was just about to send you an alert on the air ways." Dr. D said looking at her.
"What about?"
"It seems the guys got into a little trouble with a grope of Dracs, their okay but their car got a bit busted in the chase. It's not running so their stranded." Dr. D said.
"No problem, do they want a lift or do they want me to go and fix their ride?" Deathly said, she didn't have plans for today, but then again there wasn't that much to do out in Zone 6 unless it had something to do with Killjoys getting into trouble with B/Lind.
"I think you should take a look at their car, they're not going to like the idea of leaving it out in the middle of zone 5, not with all the Dracs that are around out there keeping a watch on the zone 6 borders." Deathly nodded and grabbed the bit of paper Dr. D had written the coordinates down on.
"I'll swing by on my way back to base and pick up the coffee." Deathly said as she walked out the gape in the planks behind her.
"I'll have it ready for you." Deathly jumped on her bike and took of down the road, heading in the direction of zone 5. She turned on the small portable radio that was clipped to her belt lope. Dr. D's voice came on over the radio as the song ended.
"Hang tight Party Poison, Fun Ghoul, Jet Star, Kobra Kid and G-force, help is on its way in the form of the grand theft auto killjoy." Deathly smirked to herself at Dr. D's words. He made her sound like some sort of hero, to her this was just helping other Killjoys out from time to time. Then Dr. D put a heavy beat song on, the kind you just wanted to drive really fast to, and so she did.
Party Poison and the others sat in their mascle car listening to Dr. D's radio station. Jet and Kobra were sleeping in the back seat and Ghoul was trying to catch an annoying fly that continued to escape him. G-force was a few meters away poking an ant mound e=with a stick. Party sat up when Dr. D's voice came back on the air ways.
"Hang tight Party Poison, Fun Ghoul, Jet Star, Kobra Kid and G-force," Party immediately turned the volume up. "help is on its way in the form of the grand theft auto killjoy." Party and Ghoul looked at each other and Ghoul quickly turned around and hit both Jet and Kobra to wake them up.
"Wha!" Jet said as a half asleep Kobra shoved him off his shoulder.
"Dr. D's sending help." Party said looking back at them in the rear view mirror.
"Great, any one we know?" Jet said rubbing sleep out of his eye.
"The grand theft auto killjoy." Ghoul said.
"Well we don't know her but we know of her." Jet said again.
"Is she really coming to help us?" G-force looked in from the window, she'd come closer to the car when the other had started talking.
"Dr. D said she was on her way."
"Awesome, I can't wait to meet her, from what I've herd she is a pretty cool killjoy to be around. I wander if she could teach me how to hot wire a car." G-force said smiling in at the guys. They knew G-force admired the theft killjoy, they could understand why too. She looked up to her because she was another strong, independent female killjoy that had attitude problems like her, was giving B/Lind a lot of hell by pretty much taking things from right under their noses and getting away with it.
"I didn't know Dr. D knew her." Ghoul said trying to think of a time when he had seen her at Dr. D's place.
"I've heard him put a few alerts out on the radio about killjoys in motor trouble for her."
"I always wondered where he got all his spare parts from." Ghoul said.
"From what I hear about her from other killjoys, her base is deep in zone 6 and I didn't hear Dr. D put an alert out for her to come and help us so she must have been at the radio station." Jet said thoughtfully.
"And what would you have been hearing while you were snoring on Kobra's shoulder." Party said razing an eyebrow.
"Well he didn't put an alert out did he?" Jet said defensively.
"So how do we tell her where to find us?"
"I told Dr. D what road we were on so he probably told her." Party said fiddling with the radio to get better reception.
"But we aren't on the road any more are we?" Jet was right; they had rolled the car behind a large bolder to stop any passing Dracs from seeing them.
"Well them I'll go and sit on the side of the road and wait for her car to drive by." Ghoul said opening his car door.
"If she is coming from Dr. D's radio station it will take her a good two hours to even get to zone 5. I'd stay in the car if I was you or you'll be up for a long wait in the sun." Party said relaxing back into his seat.
"Good point." Ghoul said closing the door.
Kobra just looked around at all of them and grumbled about being woken up before falling back to sleep. The others rolled their eyes before settling back down for a long wait. G-force moved away and started chasing as small brown lizard around a bush, now in a much happier mood at the thought of meeting one of her idols.
