"Morning, mom, dad." Doreen said as she walked into the dining room, with a smile on her face, which was rare, since she was usually very tired in the morning due to her late night heroics.

"Someone must have smelled the peanut butter toast to be in such a good mood." her mother joked as she placed a plate of food down for her daughter, and Doreen took a slice of toast and took a huge bite.

"I could smell it, but I'm more happy about last night," Doreen said after she swallowed her piece of toast, and her father made a 'carry on' gesture, "I saved the police captain last night, and stopped an illegal weapons shipment, so all is good after last night." she said with a big grin on her chipper face.

"Good for you, where they going to 'The Shape?'" her mother said with a smile, and that made Doreen ponder for a minute, she had named the villain 'The Shape' since he had not revealed his name when they last meet in that multi-storied building four months ago, and she liked the name, but she honestly had no idea where these weapons where going, in all likelihood they where on their way to him, but she could be wrong, she prayed she was wrong.

"More than likely," she said after a minute of contemplation, "but we had no information on where they where headed, the tip only said the weapons shipment would be stored int hat building for the night, so your guess is as good as mine." she said as she took another piece of toast and took a huge bite. Her phone started to ring so she left the table and walked into the other room to answer it.

"Morning Squirrel Girl, hope I'm not interrupting anything." Jim said on the other end.

"For you my phone is always open Jim, what can I do for you?" she asked the police captain.

"I'd like you to comedown to the station as soon as possible and take a look at some of the weapons we apprehended last night, we've got some advanced looking stuff here." Jim informed the heroine.

"I'll be down in 20 minutes, give or take." Doreen said as she hung up her cell phone, and went back to her room, stepped into her closet, and removed the hidden wall panel that concealed her Squirrel Girl attire, as she quickly stripped off her civilian clothes, and switched into her heroine attire.

"Seems like Squirrel Girl is needed earlier than the night." she joked to herself as she snapped on her utility belt.


"I'm here to see Captain Jim." SG said as she walked up to the police stations front desk.

"Captain Kirzinger, Squirrel Girl is here to see you." the secretary said over the phone.

"Send her downstairs to the cage." Jim's voice said over the other end, and the secretary nodded, and lead the heroine downstairs to where Jim and Moss where waiting for her.

"Sorry for disrupting your downtime, SG," Jim apologized to the heroine, "but I felt this couldn't wait." Jim said as he went over to one of the confiscated weapons crates from last night and opened it with ease since he had pried it open with a crowbar before she arrived.

"You ever seen one of these?" Jim asked as he tossed her what appeared to be a laser pointer.

"Can't say that I have," SG said as she twirled it in her hand and looked it over, "should we turn it on and see what it does?" she asked the captain.

"Aim it towards a wall that's a way from us, in case something bad does happen." Jim ordered her, which caused her to nod, as she pointed it towards the fall wall and turned it on.

At first nothing happened, but suddenly a red beam came out from the end and made contact with the wall, and the stone almost seemed to be melting.

"It's cutting right through the cement, turn it off!" Jim ordered the heroine, which she instantly complied with and turned it off, and the red beam subsided.

"It was melting the damn wall, I'd hate to see what this thing would have done to us if it was used by a gang member." Moss said, and Jim and the heroine nodded their heads in agreement.

"I'll put it in the vault, where we locked up most of the other weapons." Jim said to the heroine, and that raised a question from her.

"What if 'The Shape' changes into a cop, and asks for access to the vault." SG asked him, and that caused Jim to laugh before answering.

"Only I have access to the vault, and it requires my password, so he wouldn't be able to get in, even if he tried." Jim said with a confident smile, and that caused her to smile as well.

"This time we are one step ahead of him, and he ain't getting these weapons." SG said with a confident smile, and that caused the officers to smile as well.


"Somebody care to explain to me why and or how we lost thousands of dollars in weapons and equipment last night?" Roach said as he sat at the head of the table, where he was hosting a meeting with his fellow members. After his hostile takeover of the two gangs there had been slight resistance, but that had been taken care of before to long...

"Somebody leaked the information to the police, we are trying to figure out who." another remember answered Roach's question.

"Good, keep me posted on what you find," Roach said, and that gang member nodded his head, "D-Back, when is the next shipment coming in?" he asked his weapons man, a Latino in his early twenties.

"A few hours, the decoy shipment will arrive at the harbor, while garbage trucks bring in the real shipment to this location." D-Back said in his thick accent.

"Very good, Roach said as he folded his hands, "give me the manifest for what we lost last night." he ordered his communications man, an African American in his early thirties codenamed Sitcom, who pulled up the file on his laptop and slid it over to Roach, who looked it over with ease.

"Only major thing we lost was that laser cutter, what a shame, that thing can cut through metal with ease, imagine what it could do to regular bones and flesh." Roach said with a sadistic smile, and that caused his underlings to smile as well as they thought about it.

"Now everyone out, D-Back, and Sitcom stay." he ordered his weapons man and communications expert, as everyone else left the room to prepare to receive the weapons shipment.

"Sitcom, any word on where the police are hiding the weapons they stole from us last night?" he asked the man.

"Not yet boss, I'll be working on it night and day until I find them." Sitcom assured Roach.

"D-Back, how goes progress on 'carnation?'" Roach asked his weapons man.

"It's ready boss, just waiting for your go." D-Back informed his boss.

"Excellent, I think we'll wait for a bit, let the police and that damned Squirrel Girl think they've won, but then, we will strike." Roach said with a sadistic smile as he made a hand gesture for his two men to leave him be.

"All I've got to say Squirrel Girl is, check." Roach said with a sadistic smile as he thought about his plans, and soon the whole city would be driven to glorious chaos...