Catalina laid on the hard ground looking up at the twinkling stars. She was glad to be out of the tunnels away from the others; it was nice not to have to pretend to be okay and that guilt wasn't eating away at your insides. Catalina traced the constellations that Danny had once pointed out a long time ago. "It alright, Cat. You'll get both of them back," she whispered to herself, "and things will be back to the way they were before. Even better now because we have even more halfas." She smiled to herself as she thought about it.

"Oh, I didn't know anyone is out here," Thalen's voice said oddly soft. Catalina sat up to look at the teen who normally was very loud.

"Don't worry about it. You can stay out here," Catalina said patting the ground beside her. The teen looked back once at the shed that disguised their hideout before sitting beside the woman.

The two halfas were silent. "Thalen, is everything alright?" Catalina asked now concerned about the silent halfa. Thalen shrugged. "Somber got to you didn't he?" she asked softly feeling slightly like a hypocrite.

"Yea, I mean, it shouldn't have bothered me. It was just a memory," Thalen said.

Catalina thought about it. "But that doesn't make it less painful," she muttered. She could feel the other halfas eyes on her. "If you don't mind, what was it?" Catalina asked. The teen looked at her conflict clearly written on his face; he wasn't going to tell her. "I have nightmares sometimes about that day in the lab. Sometimes I'm too late and Dan kills both," Catalina said trying to coax the younger halfa to talk to her. She became quiet and waited.

"I sometimes have dreams that I'm back in that lab that experimented on me," Thalen said softly. Catalina could taste the sweet misery that seeped of the younger halfa. She made herself scoot away from him to prevent herself from trying to consume the negative emotion.

"You don't have to worry about the lab," Catalina said, "They can't get to you. I won't let them." She looked to the younger halfa, glad to have someone else's problem to focus on. The younger halfa gave a slight smile, but didn't say anything else.

"Then don't worry about Dan; we'll separate him and Plasmius," Thalen said. Catalina smiled feeling oddly comforted.

DP~DP~DP~

Sylvia flew as quickly as she could around the football stadium. "Great job guys, keep moving," Catalina's voice came from below. The young artist smiled at the encouragement; she was glad that the woman was always so encouraging. Although she was getting tired of the laps that the woman had them flying; she was willing to fly more to show the older halfa her abilities.

She looked at the others who were keeping pace with her. "Okay, I think that's enough. Go ahead and come down," Catalina called from the ground. Sylvia dropped herself to the turf slowing slightly as she landed so she didn't injure herself.

"I was totally winning that race," Thalen boasted, "you slow pokes were nowhere close to me."

"You must be blind, Thalen. I was ahead," Alex voiced crossing his arms. "Right Sylvia."

"Uh, yes. You were faster than Thalen," Sylvia said stuttering a little from being put on the spot. Alex gave Thalen a smug grin; Thalen grimaced.

"Okay you two, both are you were great. Can we get back to the lesson?" Abigail asked giving both boys a glare of annoyance; she clearly didn't enjoy the numerous laps. The boys backed away from their glaring contest to look to Catalina who was stifling chuckles.

Seeing all the eyes on her, the oldest halfa straightened removing her hand from her mouth. "Okay, so. All of you have been doing well on using your cold or hot cores. So I'm moving on to the next lesson in my plans…"

"Teleportation," Thalen interrupted clearly excited. Sylvia also perked up thinking about all the beautiful landscapes she could see and paint.

"Not exactly," Catalina said her smile not faltering. "Duplication. Of course, if you don't want to learn that we can just fly more laps."

"No," all four teens shouted which caused the woman to chuckle.

"Okay. The first thing you need to know about duplication is that your duplicate will only do what you 'program' it to do," Catalina said. "For example, if you made the duplicate with the intention to invisibly spy on someone, the duplicate will only have the ability to fly and turn invisible and intangible. But it'll lack the ability to attack."

"Then why won't you just 'program' it to do everything you can do?" Thalen asked, "Seems kinda stupid to limit a duplicate."

"That's a very good question. And the answer is that it'll require more energy to create said duplicate. While you can regain whatever energy that the duplicate didn't use if it remerges. If the duplicate is destroyed the energy is released into the air."

"So what do we do first?" Alex asked. After some direction from Catalina the four teen halfas begun trying to duplicate.

"Good job, Sylvia. You're getting it," Catalina said from over the artist's right shoulder. Sylvia grinned even though she didn't feel successful. The woman stiffened and glared into the sky. "I'll be right back," she said.

The woman launched herself off of the ground and flew away. Sylvia watched as she disappeared from her view. The girl could feel her stomach clench, something wasn't right.

DP~DP~DP

Catalina landed far away from the football field. She searched for the source of the ghost signature she had sensed. She didn't recognize it and it was so faint as if the ghost was trying to hide from her. A slight thud alerted the woman who spun to face the sound to be met with a fist filled with bright green energy.

The woman tumbled to the ground rolling several feet away. She held her head in pain from the blow, her head spinning. "That's for destroying my portal," a blue-haired ghost said his fist still up. Catalina looked up at the ghost wobbling to her feet as she tried to remember where she saw the ghost. The memory wasn't coming to her, but she didn't have much time to think as the ghost charged at her.

He swung his fist and Catalina was slow to dodge earning a nice blow to her side which caused her to tumble once again. The woman tried to shake the fog that was gathering in her mind. The ghost was talking to her, but she couldn't hear it.

The ghost came flying at her another fist coming; Catalina created a dome of ecto-energy which blocked the first attack. The ghost's left fist broke through and Catalina caught it in her hand. She bit back a scream when the ghost's fist collided with the bones in her hand and sent an electric shock to her enemy.

The ghost swung his leg kicking the female halfa's already sensitive ribs causing the woman to release her hold and fall to the ground. Catalina looked up at the ghost who was starting to become blurry. The ghost stood over her with a smug grin. He struck downward and the woman spun out of the way in the nick of time getting to her feet in a smooth motion before her ribs flared angrily in pain. She fell back to her knees as another blow came her way.

Four green knives of ecto-energy landed in a thud in front of the woman blocking the other ghost. The blade dissolved into bubbling energy. "Did anyone teach you not to hit old ladies?" Catalina heard over the ringing in her ears.

Thalen landed between Catalina and the other ghost; Alex was seconds behind him also putting himself between the two combatant ghosts. The woman looked at the two teens and couldn't help the proud smile that spread across her face.