A/N: OMG I've been so busy. I really shouldn't be typing up these chapters I should be doing home work but I feel bad I haven't updated in quite a bit of time so, at the expense of tomorrows paper. Here you are.

"Up here!" A small voice shouted from the top of the tent. The spot light flashed up to the high wire. Mute was standing on the platform with Twirl's staff in his hands ready to step out.

Everyone jumped to their feet.

"MUTE!" Ringer screamed. "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING UP THERE!"

They could see the boy shake slightly as he tried to balance on the thin platform.

"MUTE GET DOWN FROM THERE!" Twirl screamed. Mute made a few inaudible sounds as he slowly began to freeze up with fear.

"Someone has to do something!" Sky squeaked. The small group of teens looked to each other trying to think of an answer, all except Helena, who had her eyes fixed on the platform. It was happening again, she could feel it. Something stirred inside her. Her mind was suddenly working in over drive. Her eyes flashed from the platform to the post that held it up, across the wire to the pole in the center of the tent and then down to the ribbon that hung from the tent tops. It was held up by a single sand bag that was tied to the ribbon and hung over one of the rails. That was how Twirl was able to move up and down so fluently.

Then as if possessed she leapt from her seat and over the railing into the ring.

"Helena what are you doing?" Turnstile shouted after her. She ignored him and kept moving. She ran full force for the ribbon and tugged on it. The sand bag went dropping down like, well a bag of sand. As it dropped she swung her body up and round the pole in the center of the tent. It hit the top and unraveled as she landed on the platform around the post. She could see Mute on the other side of the tight rope. His body shook with fear as he his shaky hands held the pole.

"Helen! Get down!" Rocket shouted up at her.

"You're going to kill yourself!" AJ called up next.

"She's crazy!" Crow said to AJ as they all looked up.

Helena blocked all of them out as her body moved forward as if on its own. She felt the wire under her feet as she shifted her weight.

"HELNA!" Turnstile shouted.

"Everyone silent!" Ringer ordered. "If she's actually going to do this do you really want to break her concentration?" He said looking back up at her with his mouth wide open.

Helena steadied herself but it was like she wasn't in control. She watched as her body stepped forward every few seconds. Mute slowly got closer and closer to her.

"SHE'S GOING TO FALL!" Twirl shouted. Her words startled Helena and her body bounced on the wire.

AJ and Rocket shot her a deadly glare. She looked around innocently.

Helena took a deep breath and was able to stop the wire from bouncing. She spread her arms out wide and continued along the rope. Finally she was a few feet from the end. She bent her knees and leapt forward onto the platform next to Mute as the audience below gasped. Her heart beat fast in her chest but she held a large smile.

"Not bad eh kid?" She winked as she caught her breath. Below her she heard everyone cheering. Looking down she could see everyone clapping. To her surprise even Twirl put her hands together, even if it was unenthusiastically. Standing back up she looked to Mute.

"What do you say we climb down?" she smiled as she giggled nervously still not believing what happened. Mute took one look at the ladder attached to the post.

"Um…I would have done that in the first place but….I just realized I'm afraid of hights…" He said clinging to the post.

Helena nodded and looked around her. She spotted a small zipper door a few feet above their heads.

"What's that for?" She asked pointing at it. Mute looked up.

"It's a small door Ringer put in incase you need to access one of the wires at the top of the tent…But I don't…" Before Mute could say another word Helena took the staff in Mute's hands and popped it open. She climbed up the small opening and pulled Mute up.

"What the bloody hell is she doing?" Ringer asked gawking. They all watched as she vanished from view. Ringer started outside as the others followed. They could see two small circles emerge from the top.

Helena hoisted herself up on the roof of the tent and put the staff over the wire.

"Hang on." Helena ordered. Mute wrapped his arms around her neck.

"What are you gonna….WOAHHHH!"

Helena zip lined down the wire and rolled on to the ground. She picked herself up as Mute let go. As she stood she saw a line of people staring in awe.

"Heh….um…tada!" She laughed uncomfortably and put her arms out. Ringer silently stepped forward and took the staff from her with a snap. He had a dark look on his face.

Helena felt Mute cower behind her.

"You have got to be the stuuuupidest girl I have ever met…." He said in a dark voice. Twirl let out a light snicker. Turnstile and the others all stood perfectly still.

"However…..That was the most amazing trapeze act I have ever seen!" He cheered and picked her up swinging her around. He set her down as she stumbled into Turnstile.

"That was madly brilliant!" He said clapping his hands. Soon the others started cheering and clapping.

"How the hell did you do that?" Tosser asked patting her on the back.

"It just sorta…happened." She smiled shrugging.

"It was amazing!" Mute shouted. "We were all like whoosh,crashbang!"

Ringer turned to him.

"As for you mister….You are in quite a bit of trouble. Go to your quarters until I can think of a creative punishment for you, you little brat!" he scolded.

"But I wanna see the killjoys more before they go!" Mute pouted as tears welled up in his eyes.

"Thems ain't killjoys!" Ringer said loudly turning to Helena and the others. "They're something else." He smiled. "Something better….and they'll be spending the night so you'll get to see 'em in the mornin'!"

Mute shrugged and ran off to the sanctuary.

The crowd started to settle and disperse.

"Tosser!" Ringer called. "why don't you get the bikes together? We'll let the kids screw around til it's time for bed." He said heading out with Mama and Orgon. Tosser nodded and slinked behind the door of the tent.

Helena turned to Twirl.

"Oh, here's your stick back." She said with a smile and handed her the staff. Twirl grabbed it and stormed off.

"Wonder what her issue is?" Sky said tilting her head.

"She's just jealous!" Rocket grinned and wrapped an arm around Helena. "Our girl here's got more talent in her little finger than that chick!"

"Be nice, Roc." Helena rolled her eyes.

"Leave it to you to defend the bitch." He said putting his arm back down.

"That's not being nice…" She glared with a smile.

"How the hell did you do that?" AJ beamed. Helena just shrugged.

"I'm not sure…It just kinda…happened. I saw Mute in trouble and it was like my body took over." She brushed her fingers through her hair uncomfortably.

Don't get me wrong the girls tougher than she'll ever know Boomer's words echoed through Turnstile's head. There was something more going on with Helena than he knew, maybe more than Helena knew.

"Either way that was amazing!" He said taking himself away from his thoughts. He put out his hand for her to shake. "I must say, I'm impressed. I didn't know you had it in you." He smiled.

She tilted her head to the side with a smug grin.

"Are you trying to tell me I impressed the amazing Turnstile?" she raised her eyebrow. He rolled his eyes.

"It's not every day you see a girl zip-line off a tent." He said casually. Helena let out a sigh and shook his hand. With out warning a series of fireworks burst up into the sky. Two motor cycles revved around the group in circles. With out meaning to the group closed in tighter instinctively as if they were being attacked. Tosser wooped and hollered as he and Ringer spun around them. Helena felt something on her back. Looking up she saw Turnstile with his arm around her. He moved it back to his side as if it was nothing but she could see hints of pink in his cheeks.

After everything settled down the group pulled up a few benches and all sat together. Rocket and Sky were taking turns on the bikes as Crow and Turnstile got up to get more popcorn. AJ sat close to Helena and bounced her knees up and down excitedly.

"Soooooo…I have a confession…" She said resting her head on Helena's shoulder as she grinned like an idiot.

Helena smiled but lowered her eyebrows.

"You suddenly turned into giddy school girl?" said sarcastically. AJ nudged her and let out a heavy sight.

"No you jerk." She giggled.

"Then go for it." Helena said brushing a strand of hair out of her eyes.

"Well…." AJ bounced her knees again as she wrapped her arms around them. "I think I really really like Crow."

"I noticed you two have been a bit chatty." Helena teased. AJ let out another giggle.

"It's just…He's like an actual hard core Killjoy…or at least he's trained like one. He reminds me of all those old video blogs from the war we found on youtube."

"You used to spend hours looking at those." Helena smiled.

"It's hard not to!" AJ piped with a wink. "They were all so….bad ass! And he's just….mmph." She bit her lip and looked to the popcorn machine where Crow and Turnstile were standing. Crow looked over and waved with a dorky smile. AJ waved back blushing.

"Seems like he likes you too." Helena said with a smile but her voice was dull. AJ nudged her.

" So what about you and Boy Wonder over there? Hmm?"

Helena looked over at the popcorn stand.

"Tough guys aren't usually my type…" Her eyes drifted to Twirl who was serving the popcorn. She had already changed her outfit again to an even lower top. She was playing with her hair as Turnstile talked to her and was obnoxiously laughing at everything he said.

"Besides, I think his mind is on…other things." Helena said looking back.

"What is that bitch's problem?" AJ asked glaring towards Twirl.

Helena shrugged.

"I can sorta understand her attitude. You life in the dessert with the same people for years and all of a sudden a new boy breezes into your life and suddenly he's the most interesting thing in Battery City. Except that he's a pompous ass who thinks he's god's gift to the world…" Helena had to stop herself.

"Something tells me we're not talking about Twirl's perspective entirely…." AJ raised an eyebrow. Helena cleared her throat.

"Either way I can see what you mean." AJ continued. "It's always been the four of us. Even in school we always just stay in our little group. Something new and different is always exciting…..and cute the way he holds his popcorn with his left hand and just pops it into his mouth with those cute little fingers. And you watch those perfect lips you just wanna-"

"AJ!" Helena clapped. "Earth to AJ!"

She blinked and licked her lips as the boys headed back over.

"I brough' you shome popcorn." Crow said with a mouth full. AJ giggled in a weird voice and took it.

"Thanks…." She smiled taking the bag. He wrapped his arm around her as they watched the fireworks.

Rocket and Sky parked the bikes beside the benches and sat down panting.

"Who know that would be so much fun!" Sky laughed as she sat down.

"I know! And with the fireworks!" Rocket grinned leaning on the table

"It looked so cool!" They said together. They started giggling.

"Twirl says they've had the fireworks stock piled up for years." Turnstile said popping a piece of popcorn into his mouth.

"It's beautiful." Sky said as red and blue fire lit the sky turning all of their faces purple.

They were silent for a while as they admired the light show.

"Do you think Ringer was right?" Rocket asked breaking the silence. They all turned to look at him. "When he said we're not Killjoys? Do you think we're something else?"

"We are kinda fighting for a different cause." Crow said looking at Rocket. "The Killjoys before us were all fighting to end the war….it feels like we're fighting to keep it buried…We fight to keep the peace."

"We're the next generation." AJ said with a light smile as she looked down thoughtfully.

"We're the Kids From Yesterday." Turnstile said in a serious voice. They all looked over.

"It's got a nice ring to it." Sky chuckled. They all nodded.

"So I guess that's it then…." Crow put out his lower lip. "We're the Kids From Yesterday."

"We're a team." Helena said looking at Turnstile with a light smile.

"I guess its official." Rocket said. As his sentence ended the firework display exploded with the finally. They sat in silence as the team watched the sky illuminate with brilliant colors and shapes.

Rocket felt something brush his hand. Looking down he saw Sky's small pale hand next to his. He linked his first two fingers into hers. Looking over she saw him smile and quickly his eyes fell to his shoes. She squeezed it lightly and gave him a wink.

AJ leaned her head on Crow's shoulder as she breathed in the smell of his jacket and body spray. She couldn't help but smile.

Helena looked at the two couples and then over to Turnstile. She couldn't help herself to not look, it wasn't like before. She was in control of her body she just didn't want to look away. He already had his eyes on her. They chuckled lightly as he glanced at the two couples and rolled his eyes as if to say 'canyoubelievethem?' Helena nodded and bit her lip. She looked up shyly. He leaned in closer to her. She could feel the heat from him in the cool night air. They closed their eyes and leaned in closer…..