"How'd you like your birthday present, Black Queen?" Penny's voice came over the headset, the text-to-voice making it sound only a little stilted.

"It's not my birthday, Dreamer," Sarah replied with a fond smirk.

"Late Easter present?"

Sarah chuckled as she pulled on her gloves. "You don't traditionally give presents at Easter."

"Oh, whatever it is, I don't care," Penny said.

"It's nice," Sarah said, adjusting the headset a little. "Voice to text and back? I think you just wanted someone to talk to you all the time, even while you're asleep."

"Mom said it would help to develop my psychic powers," Penny said.

Sarah climbed out up to the roof of her apartment building. "I'm glad you and your mom are getting on more."

"Dad didn't really like it at first," Penny said. "He'd rather encourage me to hang out with you, instead. Well, I'm not going to complain about that, either."

"He bought this headset, didn't he," Sarah said.

"Yup," Penny said. "So what are you doing tonight?"

Sarah took a bounding leap off the top of the building and into the night.

"Just some cleanup," Sarah said into the headset. "Some pockets of Hellions that haven't gotten the clue yet that their leader is dead and they're out of the game."

She landed in front of a warehouse on the south side of Keyes Park. There was no sign of light in the windows, and she would think that it were abandoned if she didn't have information that said otherwise.

"I can see you..." Penny said.

"What do you see?" Sarah asked.

"You're in front of a building," Penny said. "There's Hellions inside. About two dozen of them. Look like they're having a grand old party. You'd think they wouldn't have much to celebrate, right now."

"Hmm, odd," Sarah murmured. "Although, knowing some of these idiot gangs, they'll take any excuse to party, or just do it for no reason at all."

"Say, wait," Penny said. "There's one of those guys with demonic powers in there. The ones who can throw fire around. Maybe he's trying to take over as their new leader."

"Thanks for the tip-off, Dreamer. I'll put these guys out of business in short order."

"This is great," Penny said. "Now I can be your sidekick!"

Sarah just chuckled softly to herself and headed into the warehouse to get started on the Hellions. She would have objected to the girl putting herself in harm's way, but this sort of partnership, she could get behind. She certainly couldn't complain of having a psychic watching her back, and it would be good practice for Penny, too.

Sometimes, even heroes needed friends.