Chapter 2

Rod and Jason looked at each other then to Tech. "what do you mean no men? Even a small town like this theres gotta be a few guys somewhere." Jason replied as his eyes glowed a bluish white as it gazed throughout the town. "maybe all the guys just needed a get away and the ladies the same. I mean most marriage councilors recommend that kind of thing right?" Tech responded pressing a few more keys on his holographic keyboard. Rod looked outward examining the town more. "I mean either that or weve walked into a live action version of Wickerman. Which one of us is Nicholas Cage?" he said with a dumb grin on his face causing Tech to facepalm and Jason to laugh. "well none of us are allergic to bees right?" he asked. Tech rubbed his eyes. "were all dead so what does it matter?" he asked sitting up.

"our best shot is to go down and investigate anyway. And I bet that energy im picking up is the cause of it." Tech pressed a switch on his wrist as the bottom of his shoes glowed causing him to levitate. "so we just find the source of the energy and were good to go? Bring it on then." Jason whistled loudly as his motorcycle revved and screeched in front of him as he mounted it. "but first things first Rod you owe us both a drink." Rod smiled as he flung his guitar in the air as it made a spinning motion almost like a boomerang as he jumped in midair landing on the guitar like a skateboard as he leaned on the body of it. "ok we meet back here in an hour. If anything happens you all know what to do." the two nodded as they each took off in a different part of town.

(Jason Dark)

Jason wandered quietly around the town his eyes glowing as he reached a park. "its as I thought all the men in town really are gone." he took a whiff of the air trying to determine what the spell was. "it seems like a kind of banishment spell. Though I cant tell where it couldve come from." he stopped when he heard a blow of a whistle in the background and headed in the direction of the noise. He brushed aside a few branches from the bushes as he saw what looked like a military boot camp. A woman with green hair was pushing a group of girls into pushups and obstical courses. "man flashbacks to dads army training. Though to be fair fright knight couldn't handle this kind of workout." he watched as a girl in black hair stopped trying to catch her breath. The girl in green hair blew her whistle.

"Manson who gave you orders to stop? what do you think youre doing getting ready for a nap?" she walked up to the girl who raised her hand in a salute. "no miss kitty maam. Just had to catch my breath." the girl Kitty sighed irritated. "cmon thats a mans excuse. Youre a woman stronger faster and tougher. Cmon 4 more laps lets go." Jason watched as Manson jogged off with the group. "huh guess someone shouldve joined the amazons when they could." he scratched his head. "gotta ask mom if theyre recruiting still." Kitty stomped off walking up to another girl a bigger tougher one. "oh helga. When youre done you think you can spar with Sam again? I think she could use the exersise." Helga smirked as she punched a whole right through the tree she was boxing against. Jason winced looking away. "oh crud...not good."

(Elderon tech.)

Tech wandered around town scanning person after person. "odd. So theyre all under a hypnotic spell." he said as his watch ran a few more calculations. His watch started beeping again as he read it. "seems theres someone not effected by the spell nearby." he activated his anti gravity boots as he looked around finally reaching the building of fentonworks. "huh...subtle much?" he walked up to it as at that moment his system was beeping again. "the person is in here." he knocked on the door a few times before it opened. "Hello anyone here?" he looked through the crack and saw a little girl. Her eyes were red as though she had been crying. He got down on a knee looking at her. "hello are you ok?" she looked out of the doorway and around the area as if looking for someone. "im Elderon do you have a name?" the girl looked at him and tilted her head. "can you understand me?" he asked slowly. The girl shook her head and pointed to her ears still shaking her head. "o-ohh." he said with realization. He disconnected a small circular pad from his jacket as it lit up and he started typing with his fingers. "can you read this by chance?" he handed the pad to the girl who looked at him nodding. She typed back in response before the words appeared on the lenses of techs glasses. "Im Kendra have you seen a woman in a blue jumpsuit? She tried to help me after a few ghost girls showed up." Tech read and reread the message before pressing the edge of his glasses. "cmon Jason Rod pick up. We got a problem.

(Rod Rock)

Rod floated along the skies of the town looking as his eyes studied the movments of the people below. Tech was right. There were no men. No boys young teens (thank heaven on that one.) but no adult men either. "its like they all just up and vanished." he said to himself as he did a kickflip and grind on the powerlines of the wires with the neck of his guitar his eyes darting from left to right. He stopped for a moment to take a rest. He pulled out a necklace in the shape of a musical note opening it up showing a watch. "ok 10 more minutes before we head back to the meeting point." he looked at the other end of the locket seeing a girl with blonde hair with black hair tips. "miss ya Amy. Hope youre doing ok where ever you are." he put away the locket and was about to fly off to the hill when he heard a familiar sound. The riff of a guitar. "hmm music to my ears." he took off flying towards the sound as he landed in a tree using his axe to hold his balance.

He looked out to a huge crowd if women and girls dancing through the music and seemed to be having a good time. He looked out for a while more before finding the source of the music. A girl with robin blue flames of hair stood on a stage strumming her guitar to the lyrics behind her were a few other girls running the drums bass and 3 backup dancers behind her.

Hey girls
It's girls' night out (Night out, night out, night out).

Wooooaaaaaaaaah!
Come on, girls! Let's do this!
(Whoo! All right! Come on!)

Hey girls, we're a lot of fun.
(Doo wap, wap)
We'll show all of you l'il schoolboys how it's done
(Doo wap, wap)

We got the looks that you're all after
We got the moves that make you cry
(Make you cry)
If there's a chance of causing laughter
You wanna kiss, baby, don't even trrrrrry

Rod smiled tapping his foot to the music. "shes not to bad ill admit. Though….she looks familiar." he snapped a photo with the com device Tech had given him. He turned to head back until he heard a crash and bang. Looking back he saw that one of the backup singers the one with long orange hair had fallen over knocking into some of the stage equipment. One of the other dancers as well as the other girls including the one who had fallen over only started laughing. "sorry party foul." she said making them all laugh harder. A guitar riff shook the entire area nearly knocking Rod off his tree branch. Everyone looked over at the lead singer with an irritated look in her eyes.

"ya know when you said you could dance Tinkerbell I thought you meant well." she walked up to the poor girl who looked up with a smile. "im sorry miss Ember it wont happen again." Ember raised her guitar over her shoulders. "youre right it wont." Rods eyes widened and in an instant threw his guitar towards the other rocker. The guitar not only knocked the guitar out of the girls hands but pinned it down to the stage due to the blades. Ember took a moment to piece together what had just happened. She looked at the guitars then to the dancer who shrugged. "wasnt me." a flash ob black zoomed past everyone and up to the stage. Ember looked up and through a look of shock couldn't believe her eyes.

"A m-man?" she screamed as her hair flared up. Rod stood there on the steel support of the stage smiling as he bowed still holding the two guitars. "thank you thank you ladies and….well girls I guess. For my next trick I beg you all please don't put me in a giant wickerman to light me on fire. Or put a nest of bees over my face." He stopped as he dodged an ecto blast aimed at his head. He looked down seeing the rocker glaring. "hey dipstick give me back my guitar now!" she charged at him only for him to move to the side smiling as he looked over. Ember once again charged only to fly face first into her own guitar. "oh im sorry was this yours?" he smirked as both fell to the stage and snapped his fingers teleporting in a puff of black smoke next to Ember. "hey do Gene Simmons and Avril Lavigne know youre borrowing their wardrobe?"

Ember sat up swinging her guitar only for Rod to block it with his own catching it with the blades of his Axe. "I dunno dipstick do the Beatles know there's a knockoff member?" Rod broke away dodging another of Embers swings. "ouch. Hey cmon there could be a sixth beatle. I mean look at Pete Best." Ember turned a knob on her guitar. "shut up already!" she strummed her guitar having an ecto blast fist head towards the other rocker. Rod smiled as he raised his guitar. "here comes the pitch." he whacked the fist back at Embers feet causing her to be blasted back into a mud puddle. "and its good!" Rod cheered making a mock stadium cheer. Ember sat up a look of anger and fury in her eyes.

Rod bowed once again and threw his guitar in the air once again having it fly back at him as he mounted it like a skateboard. "well gotta go. Oh and remember." he looked at Ember with a smirk. "treat your backup dancers with respect. And keep practicing. Don't let the guitar do all the work. Later!" he slammed his foot on the whammy bar like a gas pedal as he vanished in a streak of white and black lightning. A few girls ran to help Ember up as she shoved them all away. "if theres a guy here we got a problem. I gotta get the other girls."

to be continued