Ghoul came back and after I got dressed, he took me back to the dance room. Leading me through, all the way to the bar. "You ready for these?" The bartender said, dangling a set of keys from his finger.

Ghoul walked over and took them from him. "Thanks for keeping it safe."

He smiled. "No problem."

"Hey! You're the Droid from the apartment?"

My stomach dropped, I turned my head and saw the man who called himself 'Mr. President' I wanted to gag. I put my head down. "You must be mistaken, I'm not a Droid."

He walked over to the bar, leaning over it. He stared at me like he was picturing what he did to me. "No, I'm positive."

"How about you leave him alone? He clearly doesn't want to play with you. Desperation isn't very flattering."

I looked over at who said it, it was a guy with sunglasses and long hair in a wheelchair. I recognized his voice as the lube guy.

Mr President looked over at him and turned around, walking away. "Whatever, I never forget a face I fucked."

My chest felt like it was caving in, I was so embarrassed. I felt Ghoul's hand creep around my waist, pulling me to him. "I'm sorry Red."

"Red? You've never introduced me." The guy in the sunglasses said, giving me a smile and sipping from an orange pop.

Ghoul kissed me on the top of the head. "He thought he was a droid, but we don't think he is anymore. It's complicated D."

I looked up at the guy, he gasped. "Holy shit! Cat, you're back from the dead."

Ghoul shushed him. "If you come down to the car I can explain." Doctor D followed us, he opened a door I would have thought went to a freezer, but it was a ramp. We went down and it was a garage, motorcycles and brightly colored cars were down there.

Ghoul led us over to a padlocked garage door against a wall, he unlocked and opened it. The white car from the news was in there. "I guess you plan to get out of here for good, huh Ghoul?" Doctor D said, wheeling over to the car, putting his hand on the hood.

He looked over at him, smiling. "Yeah, it's about time. I never liked it here."

Doctor D turned to me. "So, what's your story? Why do you have Party Poison's face?"

I didn't know where to start. "I think Korse, you know him right?" He nodded. "Well, he told me he only stunned Poison the day he 'died' then he just used me as a prototype."

He nodded. "So you're the Pornodroid Bl/ind made?"

I nodded. "Well, I know it sounds far fetched, but I know what I feel. I have memories that aren't mine."

He frowned. "That's horrible, well I'm glad you're back where you belong. So what's your Killjoy name gonna be? Are you gonna take over the Poison name?"

I looked over at Ghoul. "My Killjoy name? I never thought about it. What should it be? I don't want to take Poison."

He smiled. "Well, you came back from the dead. Like a Phoenix."

I smiled at him. "Electric Phoenix."

Ghoul turned to me. "That's rad." We all nodded in agreement. "You ready to head back to your place?"

I nodded, walking over to the passenger side. "Yeah, if we wanna be out of here by sunrise we should probably go."

Ghoul turned to Doctor D. "You wanna come with us?"

He shook his head. "I'm done running for now, maybe I'll join you one of these days. I'm glad I met you Phoenix." He wheeled over to me, reaching his hand out to shake mine. I stepped forward and gave him a hug. "I'm glad I met you too D." I don't know why, I was feeling really sentimental.

He pulled away from the hug and went over to Ghoul. I got into the car and gave them some privacy. Ghoul got into the car with me, he sniffed and wiped his nose on his sleeve. Doctor D disappeared out of view and we drove out of the parking garage.

We drove for a while and he pulled the car in an alley and got out. "It's only a couple minutes walk from here."

I followed him and we didn't run into anybody, which is strange. I feel like it should be harder than this. We went into the building and took the elevator up. We went straight into my room and I went over to the dresser, getting into the top drawer. "Ghoul?" I asked, turning to him. I picked up my purse and stuffed money into it. "Can you get my espresso machine?"

He laughed. "You want to take it with us?"

I nodded. "Yes, I can't live without my coffee."

He went into the kitchen, I went over to my closet. Taking my jacket off and putting a black tank top on, slipping the jacket over it. I pulled out my pink dress and tucked it under my arm. Ghoul came back into the room. "Is that all?"

I gasped, walking over to my side table and got out my second favorite dildo. Sticking it into the waist band of my pants. "That should be it. Except for that." I walked over to my TV and grabbed the teacher porn off the floor, shoving it into my pants as well. "That's it."

He nodded. "You really think you'll need that dildo?"

I smiled. "Of course I will, I love it." We stepped out of the room, I looked over at Korse's door. I probably won't ever see him again. Good riddance.

We made it all the way back to the car safely, we didn't see anybody. I dumped my stuff in the back seat and I told him roughly where the Pornodroid was. We stopped by a vending machine. We bought 5 and it didn't put a dent in the money. We drove there and I saw her sitting on a TV playing nothing but static.

I got out of the car, Ghoul leaned on the car and watched, I handed her the purse stuffed with money and charge packs. "Here ya go. I don't really know how much it is, there's also five charge packs."

Her eyes widened. "Five? I can't accept that."

I smiled. "Of course you can, I don't need it. Tell your girlfriend I said hi."

She took the purse and put it over her shoulder. "Thank you so much. Good luck."

I pulled her into a hug, she squeezed me and I went back to the car. Me and Ghoul drove for a little while, he pulled into an alley. "Where else do you want to go? Is there anything else you need to do?"

I leaned towards him. "I want a kiss."

He pecked me on the lips, I put my hand on the side of his face and I pulled away. "What if I'm not really human at all? What if I shut down?"

He turned his head, looking down at the steering wheel. "We can't think about that. Like you said, we need to have hope."

I nodded, he started up the car again. "Then to the desert?"

I gave him a smile and he drove on. I opened the glove box and took my dildo from the backseat and put it in there. My eyes landed on something yellow in the back. I reached in and pulled it out. Everything went black.

I was in a sterile and blue lit room, bullets rained down like hail and I heard somebody shouting.

"Party! Watch out!"

I looked over and saw a very tall blonde man in a red jacket, I wanted very badly to hug him and protect him. I don't know why, then I felt a hand on me. I turned to see Korse was right there.

He pushed me and I hit into a wall, he pressed himself close to me. A crazed look in his eyes, he held up a pistol. He pushed it to my chin, giving me a smile. I heard the man in the red jacket yell incoherent things and I saw all my friends, a tall man with curly hair and an eye patch. Then I saw Ghoul, he was beautiful, strong, and white as snow. And with a flash everything went black.

I woke up in the passenger seat of the white car with Ghoul, my head was leaned on his shoulder. "Phoenix, you've got to quit doing that to me. I almost had a fucking heart attack and wrecked."

I lifted my head from his shoulder, my neck hurt. Then I saw the pistol in my lap. "I saw something when I held that Ghoul."

He looked over at me for a moment, his eyes landing on the pistol. "I saw that you found it, what did you see?"

I felt tears rising to my eyes. "I saw the last thing he saw. It was you." I looked over at him and he wiped away tears with his sleeve, keeping his eyes on the road. "He wasn't afraid Ghoul, death wasn't scary to him. Not like it is to me."

He nodded. "I think you should get rid of the Bl/ind pistol and keep his."

I took the white pistol out of the holster and tossed it out the window, replacing it with the yellow one. Something felt like it clicked in place, but not exactly right. I stared at the road for a while. I was surprised we weren't being chased.

When I looked back I saw a sign that said 'LEAVING BATTERY CITY. The zones are a no man's land. Turn around and have a better day'

I looked over at Ghoul, he squinted and slammed the brakes. "Fuck!"

"What?" Then I looked at what was in front of us, Korse was standing in the middle of the road.

My mouth went totally dry. "Do you want me to run him over?" Ghoul asked. I shook my head, opening my car door. "Hey, what are you doing?" He asked, reaching out to me.

"I need to talk to him." I closed the door and walked in front of the car. We were standing way closer to each other than I was comfortable with, I don't even know what I wanted to say.

His hand was covered in gauze, blood had already seaped through. "Hey baby." He smiled at me. "You made the right choice, we can go home now." He walked closer to me, I pulled the blaster out of the holster and pressed it to his neck, grabbing the collar of his shirt, I slammed him against the hood of the white car. I didn't know I had that much strength.

"For the last time Korse, I am not your baby. I am Electric Phoenix, I know this is Party Poison's body and I'm leaving with Fun Ghoul. The Killjoys are back." I smiled down at him.

He looked so sad, so broken. I pressed the pistol to his chin, just like he did to Poison two years ago. "I have his memories, I heard my brother."

He sniffed. "But, I got rid of his memories, you aren't him. You…"

I shook my head. "No, I'm not him. I'm worse than him, I'm worse because I won't die. I won't be erased, and beaten and fucked and broken. That's you Korse, you're all of those things, but you know what?"

He sniffed. "What?"

"You did it all to yourself. You could have made a fucking great Killjoy. But you're weak, and manufactured. There's a million other fucked up people in this city just like you. And they feel safe under their government, the government that oppresses and puts a gun in your hand over issues that could be talked about. I heard it on the news every day, like pigs to slaughter. That's what a S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W is, not that romantasized bullshit you gave me. Because I've seen it Korse, you can't fucking live with what you've done."

He was crying, he would have fell off the hood if I wasn't holding him down. "Just kill me. Please just kill me."

I shook my head. "No Korse, I couldn't kill you. What would be the point?"

He looked up at me. "Don't you have any mercy? Do you know what they'll do to me if they find out I let you escape?"

I shrugged. "You should have thought about that." I was silent for a couple of seconds. "You know what, I think I'll give you a choice Korse." I looked up at Ghoul, then back at him. "The choice is yours, you can go back to them, try and plead with them about how I escaped on my own. How I remembered who I was and there was nothing you could do. And hope they don't fry you or lock you up. Or you can go out into the desert, you can join the rebellion one day if I can forgive you and then you can make a difference. That's your choice Korse." I let him go, putting the pistol back in my holster.

I turned from him, he fell to the dust. I felt him grab my ankle. "Please, I can't do this."

I gave him a smile. "Yes you can. Get up and get the fuck out of the road. I talked him out of making you roadkill, don't make me change my mind."

He let me go and crawled out of the road, I got into the car and sat back down. Closing the door.

"You sure that's the right thing to do?" He asked, looking over at me, putting the car into neutral.

I nodded. "Yeah, I do."

He leaned over and kissed me on the cheek. "I trust you."

I reached for his hand, squeezing as he slammed the gas. We roared off past the sign and into the desert. I looked back at the dust trail, laughing. I looked over at Ghoul. "Thank you."

He smiled. "This is the most fun I've had in years. You can run away with me any time you want." He gave me that smile that heals invisible wounds and shatters through bulletproof hearts.

And I was free.

Authors note:

Hey guys! That's it! I hope you guys liked this story. I put a lot of myself into it and it's honestly helped me a lot, and all of your nice comments and support made this story!

And fun fact, my one shot 'In The Desert Outside of Battery City' is a prequel to this. It's what inspired me to write this story. A tiny snippet from it actually appears in one of these chapters!

I love you guys so much! ? Thank you for everything!