Chapter 7: Fever Pitch

"A fire is nourished by its own ashes."

-Proverbs

Raven caught up with Savior in the hallway, which was completely empty: as mentioned, virtually all the students were either in the cafeteria or outside. He was leaning against a locker and had just finished removing something from inside his jacket (which, due to the hologram, made it look like he was pulling it straight through his shirt) when Raven stepped out of the shadows.

"Good afternoon my dear lady." Savior said.

"It's funny how the person who insisted we craft such elaborate disguises to ensure a strong cover is so willing to make a scene in front of the entire school, whether or not the bully needed to be put in his place. If you're going to lead Noel, you have to be willing to follow your own orders."

"Maybe, but that was needed Raven. Those people are going to run our world. It might be best if they get the idea that they're just as human as the people they lord over."

"Savior, that was overdoing it."

"'The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.'" Savior replied.

"You're quoting Hitler. Ironic considering you just thrashed what would be a near picture perfect member of the so called Aryan race."

"Once you filter out the whole murdering amoral bastard and one of the most evil human beings in history stuff, he had a few good ideas. Shame all that homicidal dictator stuff got in the way." Savior said. "Besides, I didn't blow our cover. Savior didn't beat up that stupid moron, some unnamed nerd did. And he's going to become a small school legend…"

Savior's skin suddenly went from Caucasian to Oriental, as his features altered, his hair changed color, and his clothes went from Nerd Classic To Nerd Chic. He also shrank about two inches.

"Because he will never be seen again." Savior said, putting back the holopin after he had adjusted his appearance. Raven just shook her head.

"I know you're not fond of bullies, but if we have to follow Danny around for a while, try to keep this to a minimum."

"As you wish m'lady." Savior said, taking Raven's hand and kissing it. Even now, after a few years together, that made her blush slightly, though it didn't show up much on her dark false skin.

"Really Noel. It's a thin line between being righteous and being the enemy. You spoke to Danny about this, and we've had these kinds of issues before. Be careful what you choose to do…because it's funny what gets into one's blood at times." Raven said, and then she glanced around to make sure no one was around, and then she vanished into the shadows again.

Savior leaned against the wall a few more seconds, and then he looked at his hands, pondering what he had just done, for the reasons he had done it…and how it had felt deep down. A hard, if thoughtful look came over his face, as he thought about life, what it did to you, and how it could affect what you did.

"Yeah. Funny how it gets in the blood."

Savior retrieved his set of prop books and started walking down the hall, planning to make a quick circle of the school and then head back to keep an eye on Danny.

And then the girl he had helped humiliate came around the corner. Paulina, Savior believed her name was.

She didn't recognize him, for good reason, and Savior was as cool as a cucumber as he walked past her, acting just like another student then the one who had had a hand in gravely humiliating her. And it showed: intense determination was written all over her features as she walked past him. Savior walked on, wondering if he should start a…

Wait a minute…

Something didn't match. Savior stopped for a moment, pondered, and then it occurred to him.

Paulina's face was wrong. A girl of her status who had just suffered an incident like she had would be trying to hide it behind a newly applied coat of gloss, or if she was showing emotion, it would be the stormy emotional type that barely covered a screeching harpy fury that immature girls tended to resort to. She wouldn't have a look of intense determination that masked a clearly great deal of anger. No, that would be more fitting…

"………..OH SHIT." Savior said.


"All I'm saying is, if humans develop widespread teleportation technology like in Star Trek, it won't allow us to explore the cosmos, it will mean the end of the human race." Tucker was saying when Raven popped back in, after she had scouted the room from the shadows to make sure no one was looking.

"But teleportation is very useful! Friend Raven here can attest." Starfire said.

"Yeah, maybe Starfire…but think about it. What would humans do if they got their hands on a beamer?"

"Get everywhere quickly?" Cyborg rhetorically ventured.

"More like get everything quickly. If I had a beamer, I'd abuse it to the level of authoritarianism. Anything I wanted, food, cars, supermodels, palm trees, I'd beam them straight to me. If I saw an attractive woman on television, I'd beam her into my lap. If people came to stop me, I'd beam them into space. My neighbors won't be able to acquire any nice furniture, because no sooner would they take it out of the boxes when it would be beamed away. My neighbors would eventually have to use milk crates for everything, and that would only be after I was sure I had all the milk crates I would ever need." Tucker said. His tone was clearly joking though.

"All right, you're right. The beaming device will be the last thing humanity ever invents." Sam commented.

"Actually, if we're talking about inventing real life Star Trek gadgets, I think the real last thing humanity would invent would be the holodeck. I knew if I had one as realistic as they had in the show, I'd never leave my room. I'd spend all my time getting hot oil massages from Lil' Kim and her twin sister."

"Lil' Kim doesn't have…OHHHHH." Tucker said, and he and Cyborg gestured at each other in the pointing way males do when they talk about stuff like that. Sam and Raven sighed, Danny was eating, and Starfire was oblivious.

And Danny was just finishing off the orange juice in his juice box when he exhaled and that burning sensation flowed out of his mouth, complete with a small misty cloud of red, and his eyes went as wide as saucers.

"It's HER. She's HERE." Danny said, barely keeping from screaming the words.

Sam, Raven, and Cyborg didn't really need the verbal warning: they'd seen the smoke and didn't need to be told twice what that meant. The Titans were up immediately, all of them scanning the room, forming a shield around Tucker and Sam, just in case.

"Where is she?" Raven asked Danny.

"I don't know!"

"I'm not reading any extreme heat sources." Cyborg said, craning towards the table so he could conceal the fact from any prying students that he had a metal gadget sticking right out of his arm.

"She's here! I know it!" Danny said, wondering if he should risk a scene by transforming now and telling everyone to run.

He never got the chance.

As Paulina walked back into the cafeteria.

And Raven got hit with a wave of vicious anger and hate so intense it was like a sledgehammer blow to her forehead, nearly knocking her over.

And Dash Baxter, who had been waiting near the door in the hopes that Paulina would come back so he could try spinning what had just happened and at least lessen the already inflicted damage, smirked to himself and put on his repentant face as he headed towards Paulina.

"Hey Paulina! I just thought…" He began…

And stopped when he saw the look of utter, absolute vehemence in Paulina's eyes. And though Dash didn't have the brains to understand what he was looking at, his deep seated primal instincts did, as they woke up and began screaming at him to run, because he was face to face with a violent nigh-force of nature, and it had targeted him for the first thing to be stepped on.

Dash, at the least, understood that what he was looking at wasn't Paulina.

At least before Sizzle raised her arm and fired off an intense fireball, a tightly concentrated blast of heat. She wasn't taking chances like last time with the sprinkler systems: when this ball struck her target, they were going to die right then and there.

It really was an intense heat, striking Dash's body and immediately vaporizing the top layer of skin before the furious heat virtually liquefied the rest of him, the flesh and muscle flying off the blackening bones like wax, the bones expanding and then breaking apart under the incredible power of Sizzle's fire.

Or at least that WOULD have been Dash's fate, as he saw the fireball coming and realized the rumors were true, that Valerie Grey HAD been possessed by some kind of evil, and it was back, it had possessed Paulina, and he was dead as he screamed and shut his eyes and saw his life flash before them…

Man, he sure spent a lot of time treating the losers badly. He though he'd balanced his life better…

And that was when he expected the pain and the end.

Which didn't come.

Dash waited a few seconds before he blinked open his eyes.

The first thing he saw was the shield, woven of white energy, laced in front of him, the shield that had spared his life, the shield coming from the figure that was right up close to him, as he had leapt over Sizzle just before she fired and blocked the blow, a figure dressed in white, whose face was screwed up in intense concentration at blocking the powerful blast, a face that turned intense eyes on Dash. But there was no anger or hate there. This wasn't the time.

"What are you waiting for?" Savior growled. "Run! RUN! OR YOU'LL BE WELL DONE!"

And it was about that time that Raven turned off her holopin disguise as she floated up. That got the student's attention, those that hadn't already noticed or seen Dash's near end by fireball.

"RUN!" she screamed.

The students didn't need to be told twice, as they all realized that danger was coming again and they might not escape it this time, as all the students broke for the exit. Once again, though, the students risked trampling each other as many forms all tried to get out of the same small door.

It was a good thing that Cyborg had gone outside a moment ago: that way he knew there was no one around on the OUTSIDE of said small door.

So he made the door bigger, as he transformed his arm into his sonic cannon and fired off two powerful blasts, blowing out the walls and scaring the living daylights out of all the students who were outside.

Dash was disappearing with them as Savior undid his shield and turned to face Sizzle, who had been standing there, confused, as she had no idea where that white blockade had come from but she could have sworn it looked familiar…

Until she saw Savior. Then she knew, as the hatred she had felt for Danny blazed up as she remembered.

"YOU!" she screamed.

"Hello bitch." Savior said, living so dangerously he was living safely. "Did you get me that sandwich I asked for?"

Savior wasn't an idiot: he knew the students had to be evacuated. So he wanted to focus Sizzle's attention on him. And he also wanted her so mad that she didn't try something like lighting a fire inside his heart.

It worked, as Sizzle's eyes erupted in flame, and she screamed and began firing more fireballs at Savior. The Shimmer sprang from Savior's arms, the sentient energy from his mutated nervous system ready, willing, and able to protect its host and protect anyone else the host commanded, and just in case he couldn't, Savior had worked out plans beforehand, as Raven turned towards her just about to be barraged and hopefully not incinerated boyfriend and raised her hands.

"Azarath Metrion ZINTHOS!" she chanted, and a wall of solid black energy appeared behind Savior, a wall that would make sure any fireballs he couldn't block properly didn't hit any students.

As the assault commenced, as Savior rapidly cycled through shield and deflecting forms for the Shimmer, blocking some fireballs and knocking others away from him, specifically up and away from him, as they exploded through the roof and flew off into the sky, where they dissipated after a bit, even as Sizzle screamed again and poured on the heat.


Jack Fenton was sitting at the table and sipping a coffee while watching his daughter in the guise of listening to her to make sure she wasn't developing some kind of ghost disease when the specialized beeper went off in his suit pocket and he nearly spit his coffee in his daughter's face.

"MADDIE! THAT GHOST IS THERE!" Jack yelled, leaping from his seat, the chair being knocked down and falling to the floor with a crash, but Jack could care less, because the ghost was near his son and he wasn't going to let it get away, or hurt Danny, or anything.

"I know! Let's roll!" Maddie Fenton said, leaving the dishwasher half filled as she ran from the kitchen, Jack following her as he snatched up the Fenton Ghost Finder, just in case. Jazz watched this with wide eyes, and then against her better judgment, she got up and followed.

Her parents didn't go downstairs or to the garage though: instead Jazz found one of the back doors open to the large stone backyard that was behind the Fenton building. Jazz hardly ever went out there: it was ugly and sterile, and besides her parents threw a lot of junk out there.

But apparently they had gotten rid of the junk, as the backyard was now filled with a massive form, covered with a tarp. A nearby computer platform had apparently been build right into the backyard, and her mother was typing at it as her father started grabbing the tarp. He noticed her standing in the doorway and a big grin split his face.

"Jazz, honey! I'm glad you're here, this deserves an audience! Behold, the definitive weapon in ghost hunting and catching!" He said, and he yanked the tarp off.

Jazz's eyes nearly bugged out of her head.

"WHAT?" she said.

"Yes. Behold it Jazz! The Fenton Ultimate Mobile Ballistics Logistics Equalizer!" Jack said, gesturing with both arms at his newest and greatest toy.

"What? Dad, that's a friggin' Apache helicopter! How in the heck did you get ahold of that?" Jazz said incredulously, for the device under the top was none other then what had once been an Apache helicopter, the greatest attack helicopter in the world, which was now covered with new gadgets and attachments her parents had made. It rather reminded Jazz of the way Danny would 'improve' on his old Lego toys by building what was on the box and then take spare parts and add to them to make the make-believe weapons even more deadly. Never mind that his additions would have made it impossible for the machines to fly, had they been real. And now here her father had gone and done the same with a friggin' Apache helicopter…

"Oh, don't thank me! Thank a wrongly checked box on some overworked bureaucrat's in pile!" Jack said, clearly overjoyed at his new plaything.

"Dad, those things are only supposed to be owned by the military! You can't have a military helicopter!"

"Oh but Jazz, this isn't a military helicopter! This is the Fenton Ultimate Mobile Ballistics Logistics Equalizer!"

"Well yeah but…wait…" Jazz said, as something occurred to her. "Fenton…Mobile…Logistics Equalizer……..F.U.M.B.L.E?" Jazz said in disbelief.

"What's in a name?" Jack said, as he clapped his hand on the side. "This baby is the ultimate in ghost catching! It had the greatest offensive weapons and defensive capabilities in the entire world! When we're done with that fire ghost, she won't want to step foot on this plane of existence for the next aeon!"

"And we're ready to go!" Maddie said, as she finished typing at her computer. The helicopter, oh sorry, the F.U.M.B.L.E blades' started to twirl, and a new question occurred to Jazz.

"DAD!" she yelled. "When did you learn to fly a helicopter?"

"Never did!" Jack yelled as he got in. Jazz's eyes bugged out again: her optic nerves were probably going to be stretched another inch by the time this was done.

"WHAT?"

"I did honey!" Maddie said as Jack slid over to the co-pilot's seat to let his wife sit in the pilot's seat, even as she started flipping switches. By now the downdraft from the twirling blades was forcing Jazz to cover her eyes before the wind dried them out and made them water.

"When did you learn to fly a helicopter mom?" She yelled.

"Oh, I did a lot of things while I was pregnant with you honey! You were a very heavy baby!" Maddie said in the way mothers do. "Now stay inside and make sure you drink your fluids!"

And Maddie closed the door, and the heli, er, Fenton Ultimate, ah, THE FLYING MACHINE started going up, the wind starting to push Jazz back as she craned her head up and watched her parents fly up and away, off to whatever fate awaited them.

"………..Godspeed mom, dad." Was all she could say. "And same to you Danny."


Mr. Lancer was taking a bite of his swiss cheese and ketchup sandwich and wondering about both what had happened earlier and how much he could bother the mayor for rebuilding funds when the side of the cafeteria exploded.

"GRUH! CLUGHAH!" Lancer gasped, as some of the sandwich went down the wrong tube due to his shock. He stood up and looked in horror at the fleeing students. "MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN! WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON IN THIS SCHOOL!"

"Sir!"

And then Starfire dropped from the sky, and if Lancer had had any food still stuck in his throat, his heart leaping up it would have cleared it out nicely.

"AHHHHHHHHHH!" he and some of the other teachers he was sitting with screamed.

"Do not be alarmed! I am here to help! You must evacuate all the students, quickly, this area is about to become a battle zone!"

"WHAT? NOT AGAIN!" Mr. Lancer cursed. "Why can't you freaks go and fight somewhere else besides my school!"

"Believe me sir, if I had an answer…"

And the fireballs began exploding from the roof of the cafeteria, due to Savior's efforts to defend himself. The destruction caught Lancer's eye, and then he groaned again.

"Naked Lunch! Why ME?" he groaned.

"Agonize later! Get all these students out of here before they start killing themselves in their own attempts to escape!" Starfire said, and then she flew away.

"Day of the Locust! What did I ever do?" Lancer groaned, and then he was all business as he grabbed the bullhorn and began yelling at the students. At least most of them were outside and able to escape easily this time, and this time they didn't hang around: they got the hell away from the school. Some got the hell out of Amity Park, and those escapes were probably great, adventurous tales…but I'm telling this one, so someone ELSE can handle the reins of those.

Starfire and Cyborg flew back to the newly enlarged door of the cafeteria, where they were making sure nothing happened to the fleeing students, while Savior and Raven kept Sizzle under wraps, at least until she got so mad she just blew the whole school up…

But Savior wasn't planning on letting her do that, as the Shimmer strand he had sent out of his heel, that had drilled through the floor under Sizzle, ripped up from the ground beneath her, grabbed her shoulder, and yanked her back, interrupting her concentration and her fireball barrage.

"NOW PHANTOM!" Savior yelled, where Danny was standing off to the side, not sure what to do: he was used to acting on his own and got confused when he was supposed to be working with a group. But he didn't need to be told twice, as he concentrated and the circles of power flashed over his being, and then Danny Phantom flew towards Raven's shield, the shield Raven dropped as Sizzle recovered, and then he went intangible and flew into Paulina's body.

"All right…" Savior said, as he pulled out the Fenton Special Thermos. Danny had given it to Raven, who had given it to Savior with the currently being carried out plan: Danny got Sizzle out and one of them sucked Sizzle up…

Except that plan never came about, as with a scream of surprise Danny was suddenly ejected from Paulina's body, as Sizzle's eyes glowed in insane contentment.

"Not this time, you little shithead." She half gloated/half hissed. "You think I learned nothing from my last body? The only way you're getting me out of this one is when I'M DONE PICKING ITS TEETH WITH YOUR BLACKENED BONES!"

And Sizzle thrust out her hands and fired off a volley of fireballs, sending explosions and flying tables, chairs, and other shrapnel flying through the cafeteria. Cyborg had to arm his sonic cannon again and blast a few large chunks away from the few remaining students who were still running, one of whom was in a wheelchair that was being carried off in the distance by Starfire so he didn't get tripped up by the messed up ground. Savior yelled as one detonated right in front of him and sent the Thermos flying right out of his hand before he crashed into the kitchen, a second before a follow up fireball ignited the ovens and caused the whole room to violently detonate.

"Ack!" Danny yelled, as he deflected a flying chair with an ectoplasmic shield from the kneeling position he was still in after his failed attempt to dispossess Paulina, even as Raven tried to deflect her own projectiles, and then the Halfa was suddenly aware of arms on his shoulder, and he turned to see that Sam was trying to help him up.

"Sam! Get out of here!"

"No! Tucker's not safe, but at least I…" Sam began.

And then the part of the table slammed into her chest; Sam should have been glad it was slammed broadside instead of edge-first, or else she'd have a new, very large, and very fatal piercing, but that was little comfort to Sam as the savage impact shoved her backwards even as she stumbled…which caused her to slam the back of her head into the wall with a sickening crack. She pitched forward onto the floor, not moving.

Danny's jaw dropped in shock at this sudden event.

"Sam." He said disbelievingly.

"Ha ha ha ha ha…"

Danny heard the laughter, and he turned to look at Sizzle as she floated Paulina's body up, the girl he admired from afar's body encased in a shimmering red heat haze, as she gazed down on her handiwork.

"Traitorous bitch deserved it."

"……..SAM!" Danny said, as his own anger awoke and roared through him. "That's it! OUTSIDE!"

And Danny blitzed through the air and slammed his shoulder into Sizzle, smashing them both through the cafeteria ceiling (which was fortunately weakened by the previous fireballs that had gone through it, or it might have been bad news for Paulina, Sizzle's current host).

"Is she all right?" Starfire said, as she flew over to Sam's prone form. Raven had made her way over first, and she leaned down to feel Sam's head.

"That was a nasty blow…definite concussion…" Raven said, and concentrated. As an empath, she had many abilities, but perhaps none was more useful then this: she could take the pain of another being into her own body, and in the process heal that being's wounds. And if there was little pain, like the kind an unconscious person had, it was easier, as Raven fixed Sam's cracked ribs and the several trace hairline fractures in her skull.

"She'll be ok now, but we'll have to pick her up later. I'm going to find Noel, you go help Danny!" Raven ordered, and then she vanished into the shadows.

"You heard the woman." Cyborg said, and he and Cyborg turned and ran for the opening that had made in the cafeteria wall.

They had made it two steps outside when the blast of power drove them back. And this wasn't a flame blast.

"What the…" Cyborg cursed.

"Going to help the Halfa, sorry children, but I can't allow that at the moment."

And then the form floated down, a blue skinned man with crazy hair that formed a crescent moon shape, dressed in a white outfit with cape.

"Oh now what? Who the FUCK are you?" Cyborg cursed: he hated when problems got more complicated out of the blue.

"Watch your tongue child, you address great power." Vlad Plasmius said. "I am Vlad Plasmius, your soon to be lord and master. You will give me respect."

"If you do not get out of our way, we will give you something, but it will not be respect." Starfire said, as her eyes and right fist glowed green. Plasmius clucked his tongue.

"You would think that such respected superheroes would have better manners." He commented. "But nevertheless, I can't have you interfere. I hate setbacks, they're bad business."

"Ok then man, bring it. We'll wrap your golden parachute around your neck and choke you with it." Cyborg said.

"Oh, trying to make a business metaphor? Well, nice TRY anyway." Vlad said. "Children, if you want to understand business, you should know that sometimes you do the work yourself, and sometimes you subcontract. And considering who I am, I have more then a few willing associates." Vlad said, and snapped his fingers.

And Skulker, Nikolai Technus, and Ember dropped down in front of the floating Halfa.

"Sic' em."


Danny and Sizzle flew up into the sky in a twisting, clawing mess, finally breaking apart when they were a few hundred feet above the school.

"You touched me. AGAIN!" Sizzle screamed.

"OH SHUT UP YOU NUTCASE!" Danny yelled as he fired a twin handed EE blast at Sizzle.

Danny never saw her dodge. Indeed, all he saw was a long line that was made by Sizzle's heat haze as she zipped to the side so quickly she left an extended red trail after her, out of Danny's sight before he even realized she was gone.

The Titans' theorizing had been correct: Sizzle's greatly enhanced power as a spirit was due to her incredible anger. However, that was only half the story. The other half came about when Sizzle entered her host and found whatever secret or not so secret rages they concealed within them, linking up to them and using them as an even further power booster. With Jazz, she had tapped into her resentment towards her family, how her father seemed to be continually duncifying her mother, and with Valerie, it had been her anger at her fallen social status, the way her friends had abandoned her, and her growing vehemence against ghosts. And with Paulina, her intense rage at the way she had been humiliated, and while said rage may have been a mile wide but an inch deep, Sizzle was abusing the hell out of the mile wide part, as she zapped to the side, not even bothering to change her vertical pose, leaving three long trails behind her as she zipped around Danny in the space of a second.

Danny managed to turn around for it.

As Sizzle flew in, fire exploding on her hand, as she slammed her open palm into Danny's chest and detonated the fireball. Danny screamed as the point blank blast both struck and burned him, as he was sent backwards into an uncontrollable spin.

Sizzle zapped to the side again, her body leaving the trail as she used her new insane speed to move around, even as fire exploded on her foot, and just as Danny managed to right himself she zipped in and lashed out, both savagely kicking and exploding another blast across Danny's face. Danny couldn't scream that time: the pain was too great as the force wave of the blast again sent him into another uncontrollable spin.

Sizzle blurred away again, moving around Danny within a second even though she wasn't flying in a circular motion but a series of completely straight ones, as she clenched her right fist, fire exploding on it.

Danny righted himself.

And Sizzle punched him right in the face.

The explosion sent him spinning back so fast that his form blurred, as Sizzle laughed.

And then she spied something on the ground, and she got an idea.

Danny was trying to figure out which way was up when Sizzle zipped up above him and then flew down at terminal velocity, grabbing Danny on the way down and dive bombing with him towards the ground. Casper High was the current high school of Amity Park, but it had once been the school for the lower grades, and there had been a playground in one corner of the school. It had been dismantled, but one part still remained.

The sandbox.

Which, due to the fact that it had rained EXTREMELY heavily in the early morning hours of this day, was still soaked through, filled with wet, loose sand.

That Sizzle drove Danny straight into, headfirst, burying him up to his knees in the grainy rock, the impact ramming right through his body…and despite inwardly screaming not to do it, his body overrode his mind as Danny lost his concentration and slipped back to his normal form.

That was bad enough.

Until Sizzle, her eyes like hell and her smile like the gates to it, shoved her hand into the sand, and with a bright flash of intense heat, Sizzle converted the entire small pit of sand into dirty glass.

In such a way that the heat flash didn't kill Danny.

So instead, he found himself locked in the glass block, upside down, and with no air whatsoever…and without air, Danny's brain couldn't form a coherent thought like, Turn back and phase through the glass.

Sizzle laughed delightedly at Danny Phantom's final fate: a slow suffocation under intense pressure. Much like she had felt when her father…and all the others…

The rage came back. Danny Fenton was finished, but there was still a whole world of males left to burn. With a scream, Sizzle launched herself into the air, leaving Danny's legs sticking, almost comically, in her self-made coffin for him. Danny didn't find it so funny though: his mouth was full of thick glass and his lungs were screaming for air.

"DANNY!"

And Tucker arrived at the glass block, having fled at Sam's insistence, but he had seen the fight from above, and he had seen what Sizzle had done, as he threw himself down on the block of glass and hammered on it, though he might have well tried to stop a tank with a pillow.

"DANNY! TURN BACK! TURN BACK! DANNY!" Tucker screamed.

But from the look of utter horror Tucker could see through the distorted glass, it was clear Danny wasn't going to be doing anything.

Except die, of course.