New chapter! And so soon too! This chapter won't be as sad as the last one. Do you think that Phantom Shadow is dead? Tell me in a review or PM. Here we go.

The killjoys drove slowly towards what they called home. Korse had gotten his way. Again. The building's higher levels had been destroyed and some- most- of BL/ind's blueprints for future factories and headquarters had been burnt too. Though still, the cons outweighed the pros in this case. They didn't win. They lost. Again. And they wished they hadn't. This loss had been a little too personal. Specially to Lawbreaker.

Said killjoy looked out at the blurry desert as they passed. "Life isn't fair and death unforgiving." she said in a low, solemn voice. "True. Where did you get that?" Jet asked, clearly surprised. Lawbreaker didn't seem like the type of person to be poetic. "I did it myself, when Korse killed Tombstone and Revolution Invader." Usually loud, eccentric and over confident. Cousin dies. Shuts the hell up and doesn't want to even open her mouth. What loosing something or someone important can do to you. "When we found Phantom, she said that she owed you her life. Why?" Kobra asked out of the blue. He had actually wondered about it before, but never had the time to ask.

They arrived at the little base they lived in; just off the highway. Thunder came out and barked happily. He licked all the killjoys 'hello' and went in search for his missing owner.

"She's not coming, Thunder. Not ever." Missile informed the dog sadly, not caring if he didn't understand. Apparently, he did. His tail stopped wagging as his ears drooped in sadness. He instinctively went and stood by Lawbreaker, who started caressing his head softly. Thunder wasn't new to loss. He'd lost Desert Bandit already and he may not have been Phantom's biggest fan back then, but he knew that she was very special to his owner and stayed with her. He knew that she couldn't turn him down. With time, he learnt to like and even enjoy her being there for him and comforting him whenever needed.

Now she was gone. Thunder may just be a dog, but he was a very smart one. "It's a crazy story." Law said as she sat down on a table. "Even better then." "Fine."

-_-_-_- Lawbreaker telling the story-_-_-_-

I had been to my uncle's house and that is where I met Phantom. She was just a four, maybe even three, year old toddler. Anyway, I only saw her once and we had lots of fun that day. The real 'story' would be when we met about ten years later. She was fourteen by then and I twenty. It was bout two years ago.

We weren't very far from here actually. Five hours northeast tops; near BL/ind's main headquarters.

"You were that close to Korse back then!?" Fun Ghoul interrupted with a surprised shout. "Yes. And don't interrupt. I'm telling the story." Fun Ghoul quieted down and waved his hands, motioning for her to go ahead and continue. "I'm sorry."

As I was saying, before Fun Ghoul interrupted...

"I said I was sorry!" "Fun Ghoul, you're interrupting again." Kobra Kid commented dryly. "And you are too." Poison joined the interrupting party. "I think that we all are and that we should shut up." "Thanks Jet." "Welcome."

Anyway, again, we were really close and there were Dracs everywhere. I was doing a round check up with Tombstone and Revolution. We, well Tombstone, decided to spit up so we could cover more ground and get it over with.

I was now alone, hiding behind some crates. It was the cargo area, I think. It really doesn't matter. I was about to blow up the crates, when I saw a Drac walking around aimlessly. This one was much shorter from the others and it looked wary. Always looking around and stuff.

When the Drac gave its back to me, I noticed that it had long brown hair tied in a ponytail. Some other Draculoid noticed it and went to attack, knowing that it was an intruder. I stayed hidden until they both got on to the fight. The biggest Drac ripped the mask of the other one and I noticed that it was a girl, and my cousin's older version no less.

That is when I reacted and went to help her win the fight. I mean, a little 14 year old girl going up against a 70 pound, thirty something old man, wasn't going to end well at all. So I got out there and fought. It was rather stupid cause I had a clear shot to the man, but I didn't think of using my ray-gun. I was, as lil' Izzy put it, stupid-er back then. Guess she was rather right..."

Tears pricked at Lawbreaker's eyes, but she wiped them away quickly.

"That day, it was like a show. It was like we'd practiced it for months and that was show time. I ran over there and jumped onto the man, landing on his back and knocking him away from her. Soon that became like a wild rodeo show I'd been to in Texas a few years back! Then it got better cause that was when Phantom got up and pulled the man's hair, making him loose his balance and fall. I got up too and kicked him before taking a place next to her. We took out our ray guns and like in the old western days, we had a good showdown against the guy. It was amazing!

We then formally introduced ourselves and we found out we were cousins. I then showed her to Tombstone and Revolution. They four of us became inseparable and reckless. We had lots of fun during our time together. Blowing stuff. Mocking Dracs. Anything else really. It was good to be around some family."

A tiny smile had made its way onto Lawbreaker's face. That was her greatest and most treasured memory. Well, that, and the day that Tombstone proposed to her and the four of them had a small, but out of the roof, party. Though that's a story for some other time. Because fir now, they all went to bed with a bitter-sweet goodbye, for tomorrow, they would plan and get all the things that they would need to defeat Korse. Once and for all this tome. No mistakes.

Done! Tell me, what's on your mind?