Hello

Martin laid a sleeping Diana on her bed. Standing from a stooping position, he looked down at her. She was prettiest in sleep. Her face was relaxed and a slight smile played across her face. She was not stressed with worrying about missions or homework, or angry with him about something. Leaving the room, he looked back at her and smiled softly.

After he left the room, the slight brunette coughed in her sleep. No one would notice the blood stains on the sheets until days later.

M-M-M

"Martin, Diana. Center calling!" Java said to them, hurrying them towards the fountain where a portal waited. They stepped through it and waited for Java to come through behind them.

"Jav?" Martin asked.

"Java not coming. Java got date!" The caveman beamed, whisking flowers out from behind his back and hurrying away from the portal. Martin and Diana blinked, processing this information and then wondering who would ask Java out, before deciding that was a subject better let lie.

They scanned themselves into the computer and were granted access. Strolling through the hubbub of the Center, Billy zoomed up beside them. "Hi guys! Where's Java?" The little green alien piped.

"Jav's got a date." Martin answered.

"Ooh, a date huh? I wonder who the lovely lady who asked him out is!" Billy buzzed excitedly. Both Martin and Diana rolled their eyes as they stepped into M.O.M's office.

"Hello agents." M.O.M spoke from behind her desk. "This one should be easy. Reports of paranormal activity in some old abandoned fairgrounds - mainly one of those creepy funhouses - in Nevada. I know where Java is, so I'm sending someone else with you. Martin, Diana, meet Jake." A male ghost floated through the floor and, well, floated beside M.O.M. "He's a ghost with telekinetic abilities. Billy, the gate."

Bily tapped his keyboard and brought up a portal. "See you!" Diana called back to M.O.M cheerily as they walked - and floated - through the portal.

M-M-M

"Everything here seems pretty normal." Diana said, poking an abandoned swim floatie. "Well, aside from various disturbing rodents." She added as a rat ran across her path.

"Yeah. But we need to check out that funhouse M.O.M mentioned." Martin muttered, stepping over a rather dirty and disgusting discarded cotton candy maker.

"Right on." Jake spoke for the first time in a surfer voice. "That there looks like it." He said, pointing to a house with a fanged clown on the front. H shivered as his faded red hair blew in the wind.

"And in we go..." Martin said, walking into the large, empty house.

The three stepped carefully through the house, Diana 'yeep'-ing whenever a rat would run across her path or when some long forgotten balloon would pop out at her. They reached a point where a frail railing just barely guarding the people walking on the thin path from falling into an abyss.

"Whoa, that's deep." Diana said, looking over the edge.

"No duh, Di-" Martin started. Diana started coughing. Hard. "Diana!"

She leaned against the railing, trying to stop. Closing her eyes, she breathed in deeply and the coughing ceased for a moment. She stood shakily and smiled before her eyes widened and she lurched forward, hands curling over her stomach. She screeched and curled up into a ball, holding her stomach in pain, tears streaming down her cheeks.

"DI!" Martin yelped, reaching for her as her eyes closed and her grip relaxed. She had passed out. Her body rested on the thin, frail railing...which gave way. Her limp form fell into the dark abyss, tears still streaming from her closed eyes.

"DDDIIIIIAAANNNAAAAAAAA!" Martin screamed, throwing himself halfway over the edge trying to reach her. Tears slipped from his eyes as he stretched his hand out towards the limply falling girl.

She disappeared into the darkness of the abyss. Martin heard a grunt come from Jake. Pulling himself up he glanced at him to find the ghost with his hands on his head and concentrating hard. Something caught Martin's attention from the corner of his eyes. He turned his head swiftly. It was...Diana?

She was floating up from the abyss, ghostly blue glow surrounding her. "...Diana?"

Jake spoke. "Oy'm using my telekinesis to pull 'er up outta there."

As Diana reached his level he sat up and pulled the limp girl into his arms. He stood and walked carefully down the stairs toward the exit. "Come on Jake, I don't care if there are other ghosts in here, we need to get back to the Center and make sure Diana's all right."

The exhausted ghost shrugged and floated after the suddenly serious blond boy.

M-M-M

Martin leaned his head against the glass of the med ward, watching as various people poked and prodded Diana. An intern tugged him away from the window and made him sit down. He alternated between pacing the small room and clicking his nails on each other. After what seemed to be days, yet was really only an hour at the most, Billy came to get him.

Martin followed the small green alien, wondering why Billy kept rubbing at his reddened eyes with a small green hand.

Coming to M.O.M's office, they entered. M.O.M turned from the window, looking down at the floor instead of at him. "Martin..." She started in a shuddering voice.

"What? Why did Diana pass out?" He asked. Silence met his inquiries. After a moment, he backed up a little bit. "Wh-why won't you say anything? It's Diana, isn't it? Something's wrong with her."

"Martin." M.O.M stopped his rant. "Diana's...Diana's dying."

M-M-M

"No..." Martin whispered. "No...you're lying! Diana's fine!" He yelled, turning and trying to run out of the room.

"I'm afraid not." M.O.M said, raising her head and looking him in the eye. Her eyes were red and puffy, tears trickling from the corners of them. "I wish I was lying..." She sighed and dabbed at her eyes with a soaked tissue. "Diana has caught some disease. It eats away at her from inside, killing her slowly and painfully. We don't know how long she's had it. The most we can do for her is give her sedatives and pain killers or put her to sleep. We have no cure."

"Come on, Martin." Billy finally spoke, in a trembly weeping whisper. "You..you need to go tell your parents." He opened up a portal. Martin walked through mechanically, in shock. As he walked towards home, rain clouds gathered and dropped rain heavily, as if they, too, mourned for Diana.

He passed by the playground, where the heavy rain caused the swings and balls to move about, like ghosts of yesterday played there.

rainclouds come to play again

M-M-M

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