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For those who want to know more about Doctor Horrible, look it up on line. It's on YouTube, the full thing, as well as extras such as "Commentary, the musical.", a cometary I haven't listened to but I've been told it's better then the movie. Alternatively, find the DVD, or otherwise see this short three episode story. It's worth your time and effort.

So here it is, the final chapter of Doctor Devastation's Vlog time Party. (or deviations, for the vintage people.)

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"Tori, do you have any more pink lemonade?" Andre asked. The girl barely noticed him, staring out the window. She'd missed half a week of school. Those were excused absences given that officially her father was one of the police officers in the area when Captain Epic went on his rampage, and was subsequently injured during a rescue operation. But the school wasn't her friends, and they were determined to drop by, despite her insisting she was fine, just to comfort her. It was Friday afternoon, barley three days after the battle, and she found her home invaded by well wishing friends.

Beck, of course, had dropped by every day after the battle. He claimed it was to bring by her missed assignments and help explain what she needed to do, and he did that. However, he was also there trying just to comfort the worried girl. She welcomed it at first, but as the days past and he didn't even mention that Jade was missing, she started to get angry. So she turned all her resentment inwards. Trina had to force her to eat, often making sure her sister was okay. Her father was beside himself with worry over his daughter, often assuring her that everything was going to be fine. That assurance became much more believable after Andre visited.

Flashback

Andre had dropped by, late, the day of the battle. He had blood on his shirt, and looked worse for wear. She remembered him looking at her, like he didn't have the will to say whatever. "Tori, is Trina here?" he asked.

"Upstairs." Tori replied. "Why?"

"I needed to tell her, your fathers alive." The musician had said.

"I know," Tori said, trying to think about how to explain it. "We heard from the doctors..."

"I know who he is." Dre cut her off. "I went to Jade's place, was in her lair. I left a note..." His voice faded.

"Oh." Was all Tori could manage. Tears ran down her face as she tried to form words.

"Jade's alive." He continued. "Got her to the hospital. They said it was close. She almost didn't make it. May have died on the table, but they brought her back. Wanna know where she is?"

"No." Tori's voice was hollow. "My dad, how's he?"

"From what I can tell, he'll pop out of that device in a couple of hours, good as new." Andre said. "Then again, that thing could be a toaster and I wouldn't know the difference. But Jade said..." he ehesitated, not sure what to say next. "I just wanted to make sure Trina knew."

"She knows." Tori assured him. "Mom told her as soon as the podcast aired."

End flashback

Tori hadn't let Andre hug her. Even after, when Beck came by to comfort her, she didn't want it. Tori wanted to be angry at Jade, needed it, so she wouldn't blame herself for the goth rushing into a fight she couldn't win. It wasn't helping.

"You sure?" The musician asked. "These are made with real pink lemons."

"There are no pink lemons." Tori said absently.

"There are." Andre insisted. "looked it up and everything. Pink lemons. And this lemonade is made with," He checked the label, "Ten percent real lemon juice. And I'm sure they only used the pinkest lemons for it."

Trina had come downstairs after checking in on her father. It was a hard thing, dealing with how completely healthy he was. He did need food, and vitamins, to balance his body chemistry, but otherwise was as healthy as he'd ever been, given his age. They only made him stay home to keep[ in line with the official police storyline. This made things at the Vega household even more tence. Tori had trouble looking at him, and that added to her guilt. 'It wasn't his fault.' She reminded herself, again. 'It's mine.'

Cat had shown up just a few minutes ago, talking about her brother, and her new roommate. Apparently, she didn't feel as close as she should to her roommate, as seen by the fact that she hadn't told the girl one story about her brother. "I you know I only tell those stories cause I want you to know what's happening in my family, right?" The small girl said. It was a warm and heartfelt statement, trying to reach out to her friends after the recent tragedy.

Robbie was sitting by the TV, watching the news. "I just think it sucks that they canceled the Captain Epic movie they were doing." The puppeteer said. "I mean, Beck was going to play the hero, and now their saying it's not gonna happen."

"Rob, it's okay." The actor assured his friend. "I wouldn't want to play someone who had a temper tantrum and killed over three hundred people."

"But it was your big break." Cat added.

"It wasn't supposed to happen." Beck said. "Some things just aren't supposed to happen."

"Where's Jade?" Cat asked.

"Yea, I haven't seen her around lately either." Robbie added.

"Hospital." Andre informed them. "She was in the area when Epic went nuts."

"And she got hurt?" Beck asked, suddenly aware that someone he had cared for wasn't there.

"Along with over two thousand others." Trina shot back. "This was the worst disaster to hit this city in years. Bad Horse even commented on it."

"Super Hero go's on a rampage, gets stopped by the villain. Whats to comment on?" Beck said, sounding bitter. "So, which hospital is Jade at?"

"County memorial." Andre said. "But now that everyone is here, there's something I feel we need to talk about. I've discussed this with Trina, and Mister Vega, and they both agree it's something you have the right to know. Just understand that what we're going to talk about cannot leave this room. Got that?"

Tori didn't say anything, but watched as Beck, Robbie and Cat all swore not to tall anyone what they were about to hear. 'I'll bet Cat tells at least three people by the end of the day.' She thought.

"Jade got injured in the battle, because she was Doctor Devastation." Andre said. "I found her after she recorded that vlog, and got her to an ambulance in time. I'm only telling you this because there's going to be tension between Tor here and her, and I want your support in getting us through that."

"Wait, I'm HG?" Beck asked. "I have no idea what HG could stand for."

"Hair Guy." Andre said. "Don't ask. Thing is, there's been damage to their budding relationship, and we're gonna help fix it, starting by dragging Tori here to visit Jade."

"What?" Tori asked, suddenly paying attention. "Who? Where?"

"The question is when." Andre said. "And when is now. Get her."

Twenty minutes later, they arrived at the hospital, practically carrying Tori, to find the doctors huddled around the now comatose Jade. Tori was dragged out of the elevator by an equally shocked Beck, only to break free and rush to Jade's side when she saw the huddled doctors.

"Oh my god, Jade!" Tori said, feeling desperate. "Jade, please, come back. They said you were healing, getting better." She promptly let go of her girlfriend, and focused on the doctors. "Tell me whats happening. Tell me!"

"From what we can guess, she's in some kind of healing sleep." A doctor standing by the machines said. He was monitoring the readouts. Another was recording the healing of Jade's wounds. "We can't wake her, but so far her body is regenerating damage done at an astonishing rate. I'd guess she's healing about two to three days per minute, except her body is erasing scars, regenerating. I've never seen anything like this before.."

"And you'll probably never see anything like it again." A voice cuts in from outside the door. "The healing was keyed to her body. Without the precise expertise used, I doubt anyone else could benefit from it." All eyes turned to see Doctor Horrible standing there in the hall. "What, I needed a test subject, and she seemed to have the exact right conditions to overcome. Now, I depart." He then pressed Jade's "panic button", activated her transporter and vanished out the phone lines.

'Nice cover.' Andre thought. "Hay dock, assuming she continues to heal like this, how long until she's up and active?"

"Maybe another five hours." The physician said. "Then there would be tests. Assuming everything is like we think it will be, maybe you can see her tomorrow."

"Tori here is staying." Trina said.

"But visiting hours end at..." A nurse tried to say.

"AND Jade was used to test some villains heeling ray, or whatever, so her girlfriend should stay with her until she's up and moving." Trina cut in.

"Look, it's the right thing to do." Andre added. "Tori here was gonna visit her anyway. Let them talk, please."

"Okay, but after visiting hours are over, you don't wander out of this room." The doctor told Tori. The stunned Latina just nodded.

Andre and Trina decided they wouldn't need to hand cuff Tori to Jade's bad just to get them to talk, and so they left her, with one of them standing by to make sure tori was okay. Also, so she wouldn't leave. Robbie went with beck to make sure the handsome actor was okay with this tun of events as well.

Jade came too a little after nine that evening, just as Tori was finishing her homework. Jade's eyes shot open, and she let out a blood curtailing scream as the pain from the shifting of her body rocked her. Nurses and doctors raced to check on her, finding the goth slowly coming down as the pain quickly faded.

"What happened?" Tori asked. One of the doctors was looking at the readouts from the various machines, and answered.

"Best guess, all her nerves fired off their pain receptors at once. Horrible way to wake up." He said as they checked on the now shivering girl. Jade was recovering quickly, but it was obvious that movement would hurt for a while. Still, the sooner she did, the sooner she'd get past it and back to normal.

"Jade, calm down." Tori told the girl. "Let them help you."

"It's never been this bad before." Jade wimpered to her girlfriend. "It hurts so much."

Jade's body had finished adjusting by ten thirty, and she was moving relatively pain free. Tori allowed the doctors, the same one's who'd been insisting on some serious pain relief, to examine the now pain free Jade. "Interesting. Jade, were you sexually active?" The doctor asked.

"I'm not having someone push their fingers up there to check." Jade replied.

"Suit yourself." The doctor replied. "But we do need to run a battery of tests. For now, get some rest"

Tori held her hand as they both drifted off too sleep. Sleep Jade now badly needed. They'd wake to the sounds of hospital staff coming to get Jade and run their tests.

Tori would talk to Jade early the next day, as they were getting ready to discharge Jade. "I really wish you'd stay a few more days, let us observe you." One of the doctors was saying.

"And I just want to put as much distance as I can between this place and me." Jade replied.

"So, you're all right?" Tori asked, once they were alone and waiting for the discharge papers. She was showing a great deal of concern.

"Yea." Jade agreed.

Tori slapped her, hard. "What the hell were you thinking? Going Into battle with what I now know were untested weapons? And then.." Tori broke down. "I was so angry that my dad was getting hurt, that Trina was going to get hurt, that I took it out on you. I sent you in to die." Tori descended into a quivering mass of tears and guilt as she gave in and let out all her fear and self hate.

Jade held her girlfriend, whispering how she was okay, and everything would be all right. "Doctor Devastation is dead, just like you wanted." Jade said. "But I'm here. And I won't leave you. Never again."

The rest of that day was dedicated to Tori getting past her fears, and Jade letting her in. it was the first real step in them reconnecting after the tragedy of Epic's fall. But it was also the beginning of them really talking.

It took some time, several days, but they talked out most of their issues. Jade agreed to let that incarnation of herself die, while Tori agreed that Jade needed to invent. There were a lot of issues to be dealt with, but now they were on track towards being a couple.

"Just one question." Tori said as they finished their third day of what was functionally negotiation. "What are you going to do with all your gear?"

"I'm placing it in storage." Jade replied. "I'm just going to be Jade West, aspiring movie star. That is, unless something major threatens the people I love. Then, I've got the armored costume, and lots of weapons." She smirked at her girlfriend.

"No problem." Tori said. "As long as you make me some too." Tori smiled triumphantly, having led Jade into her own trap. "From now on, I face the same dangers as you. That way, I know you won't foolishly rush off to die."

They argued for a while, but Jade had already lost. Tori wasn't a great candidate for the process that made gave her sister powers, but she could take advantage of whatever Jade invented for her. Jade, for her part, was able to give Tori a selection of powers to compliment her own gadgeteering.

With that, Jade would enter her new life as Black Shield, part of the LA Shields, the reservist backup for Golden Shield and his partner Silver Shield, Trina's new codename. Tori would be the last member as Bronze Shield. But that, as they say, is another story.

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Okay, I know you hated the ending, but it's the one I came up with. Jade needs to invent. So I gave her an outlet. Tori is from a family of heros, so part time heroing works for her. Besides, the family that fights together, stays together.

Leave your comments, thoughts and general praise and/or outrage in the reviews. Then go online and find whatever version you can of Doctor horrible. Watch it, and whatever extras there are. There is also a great analysis of Doctor horrible on YouTube. Watch that.

You know you want to.