"Okay so let me get this straight. You just woke up, in a white coffin, freezer thing. Then accidentally knocked someone out, then got chased around by a draculoid who was shooting at you. Then you escaped, all the while bleeding and having absolutely no idea about anything that was going on? That what your saying happened?"

I was sitting on a table at what the people called their base while Party Poison sat on a chair in front of me with a smirk that said he thought I was lying even though what I said was the complete and utter truth.

"Yes." I nodded and picked at my fingernails while waiting for a response from him.

"I call bullshit." He said, sitting back in his chair and crossing his arms over his chest. I instantly scowled, I might be a liar but I didn't like it when people thought I was one or pointed it out.

"There's no way someone like you could've managed to survive the dracs. You can't remember where you're from or how you got here. Do you even know your own name?" He did have a point, I was lucky to get out alive and the draculoid (as they were apparently called) had cheated on time out, yeah I'm not gonna be dropping that any time soon.

As for my name I had no idea what it was, I couldn't remember it at all, not even a letter or something it rhymed with. I knew basic things like maths and books but I couldn't think of anything personal to me, it was like my identity was a clear, polished piece of marble.
I could also say it was like a reset button had been hit.

Did I have friends, family, pets, a house?
I don't know.

"Not really." I just shrugged, it was hard to care about something you don't remember just like anyone I might have previously known. I don't remember them so there's no grief.

"This is getting us frickin nowhere." Ghoul said as he slid into the booth of the table I was sitting on. He was right, this was getting us nowhere, Party Poison had been asking me questions for the past half hour and I still didn't know anything more than I did when I woke up.

"Why don't you just send her back to BLI and let them figure out what to do with her." Great another word I don't know, I thought as I looked around Party Poison. A new voice had entered the room, yippee, it's probably gonna be someone else with a really weird name

"Pony don't be such an asshole. We can't send her back, they'd ghost her or something even worse." I smiled a little when Party Poison defended me.

Even if I was kinda pissed off at him for semi kidnapping me, dragging me without my permission and then calling me a liar, which is a lot of stuff now that I think about it.
It was still really nice of him to defend me even though we hadn't met that long ago and he knew about as much about me as I did.

"She ran into you on the street. How do you know she's not really a scarecrow or something?" Well I knew I definitely wasn't one because I got the feeling they weren't talking about the thing that stood in the field and shooed off crows.

"Don't be ridicules, she's a Killjoy like us. Does she seem smart enough to be with BLI? No she doesn't." I instantly felt insulted the second the words left Ghoul's mouth. So what did I do?
I turned around and slapped him hard on the arm.

"Ow, jeez someone's got anger issues." I gave him a smug smile that said 'you betcha' before turning back to Party Poison who looked on the verge of laughing.

"Fine. Do you want me to go tell Dr. D that we've got someone new?" Aaaand another name that confused me, I have a feeling this thing is a trend out here in the desert. Ugh I hate the desert, I know that for sure.

"Na we'll get to it in a minute. I've got to ask her some more questions first." He made shooing motions in the direction of Pony then turned back to me.

The guy who'd been in the rollerskates and tights turned around to go back through the door he'd come in, I got a disturbing view of what I was pretty sure was a thong, causing me to shudder and pray my brain could hit reset again.

"And after seeing what we saw, can we still reclaim our innocence?" I muttered under my breath, making Party Poison and Ghoul laugh loudly like I was the reining queen of humour.

"Good words, you should use them in something. sometime." Party Poison commented and I blushed bright red at his simple compliment. I bet my cheeks are even redder than his hair and that's saying a lot.

"Aw isn't that cute. She doesn't just hit me, puke on the floor of the car and have the memory span of a goldfish, she also changes colours." My blush was absorbed back into my blood stream immediately at Ghoul's words, blush kill.

"Big talk coming from a goldfish." I stuck my tongue out at Ghoul and internally started snort laughing at the sigh evoked from Party Poison who was stuck sitting there as a silent observer.

"Hey I can play the guitar. Bitches love guitar skills." The laughter I'd been trying to hide broke through and I almost fell off the table which wouldn't have been pretty since Party Poison was sitting close.

The conversation between Ghoul and I wasn't even an argument and we weren't being mean, it was just a game of who can be more insulting.

"That's enough talk of bitches, Ghoul how about you gas up the trans am while I ask her a few more questions?" He nodded then left the room while I wiped away tears of laughter, that guy had a really good sense of humour.

"So if you can't remember your name or where you come from could you think of a friend? Maybe a landmark you might remember from somewhere." I mulled over his question for a moment with my thinking face on that probably made me look like a squirrel that'd been dropped too often at birth.

"Nope. I really can't think of anything and it's not like my brain won't let me. There's no memory's at all." I thought I'd made it really obvious I couldn't remember anything, apparently not.

"Do you know your birthday?" I moved from the table and slid into the booth just so I could dramatically drop my head on the table. It made a hollow thonk that hurt and resulted in my eyes watering, god I'm stupid.

"The most I can say it that I'm about fifteen and as I've said for the millionth time now. I can remember anything!" I yelled into the table, it was getting annoying how often he kept asking for an answer that I'd made it obvious I didn't have.

"You're around the same age as my little brother." I lifted my head up curiously, Party Poison had a brother?

He noticed my interested look and nodded, confirming that he really did have one.

"Kobra, he's the one who freaked out when you barfed in the car." I don't get to see Kobra's face much since he was cringing the whole time but I could see the resemblance.

"How old are you then?" I asked, I kinda wanted to know how okay it would be for me to have a crush on him.

"About twenty, give or a take a year. We don't celebrate birthdays much out in the Zones. Although we have these really awesome party's at the end of the year to honour the ones we've lost and those who've made it through another year." The words he said sounded very somber even though he said them with a smile and to top it off I started laughing again when he said the word 'party.'

The childish part of my brain that was in control of me most of the time thought it was hilarious that he said party when his name was Party Poison, real mature brain. This is like giggling over when someone says butt.

"Okay I've got no more questions and you're all out of answers, how do you feel about meeting everyone?" I got out of the booth as enthusiastically as I could and stood there with my hands on my hips.

"Lets do it!" To my mind those words sounded completely wrong and I immediately started laughing like a lunatic. Party Poison took a moment to catch on with what I was laughing about but when he did he laughed as well and his laughs was possibly the strangest one I've ever heard or at least will ever hear.

"Alright that's enough now. You've already met Show Pony, I'm sorry about him being a jerk by the way. He's a bit nervous around new people. Once you've been around for a while I'm sure you'll become great friends." I didn't want to tell Party Poison that he was wrong but from what I'd seen looking at Show Pony, he didn't want to be friends anytime soon.

"I'll introduce you to Dr. D and Girl. I think he's on a break from sending out transmissions so you'll probably get to meet him." Party Poison took my hand which caused my heartbeat to start racing then led me over to the same door Pony had disappeared through.

We walked through a room then through another door and into what looked like the inside of a radio station, a microphone sat on a table that was surrounded by discs, vinyls and cassette tapes. The room was quite dark and the walls were covered with posters, signs, flags and tons of neon paint that glowed.

The man sitting at the table looked up as Party Poison and I entered, he gave us a smile and I awkwardly waved back.

"We've got a new Killjoy." Party Poison said as he let go of my hand and gestured to me. I didn't look anything like the rest of the group who were somewhere outside.

I was barefoot, in a white dress that made me look so girly I wanted to barf and god knows what my hair is like, I have yet to look at it in a mirror.

"Hey there, I'm Dr. Death Defying or Dr. D or just Doc, whatever you wants fine. What's your name?" I was thinking as Doc came over to us and surprised me, I thought he'd been sitting in a chair and was gonna just get up and walk over. Instead I was wrong and it was a motorised wheelchair.

"She doesn't remember anything." Party Poison explained and saved me from having to give a reason as to why I can't remember my own name.

"Do you think she might have been one of the comatose?" What does that mean, I thought as I looked at Doc who was thinking intensely.

"Probably." Party Poison nodded and turned to me to explain since I was left in the dark.

"About a year ago BLI did this whole mind erase thing that got rid of all personal memory's of the people who were in comas before they took over. It'd explain why you don't remember anything." I nodded and agreed with him, it was the most reasonable excuse I could think of and it was either that or aliens.

"So what's your name gonna be?" Doc asked and I didn't know what he was talking about, Party Poison just told him I didn't know my name.

"Let me elaborate, wait no, never mind. Party you should put her through the initiation and let her come up with her name." Initiation? Please don't tell me this means I have to drink twenty litres of beer.

"Relax it's nothing too bad, Kiddo. It's just a way of coming up with your own identity. It's simple." Party Poison clapped me in the back and almost knocked me over, then laughed and righted me.

"We should go now. Dr. D needs to get back to his DJing and I need to introduce you to Girl." He took me by the hand again and once more we went through a bunch of doors, this time ending up outside.

The desert stretched out in all directions, the only thing disrupting it where the shrubs, some huge rocks and some tin cans lined up on a wooded bench, quite far away from the shack I'd just been in.

Jet and Kobra were sitting against the wall with a little girl who was writing something on a piece of paper, she would have been around eight years old. I actually have no idea, I'm horrible at guessing people ages.

"Hey Party, you're back. Ghoul and Jet kept on telling me you were busy." She jumped up and ran over to Party Poison then wrapped her arms around his waist, giving him a hug.

"You have a daughter?" I wondered aloud then automatically clapped my hand over my mouth, I can't believe I just said that.

Party Poison started laughing hard as if I'd just said one of the funniest things in the world, Jet and Kobra joined in and I stood there with my face bright red. I felt really embarrassed for asking that, it was none of my business.

"I am way too young to have a kid. I'm only twenty remember? I'd have had to have her at twelve. Girl's just a friend of the group, we keep her safe." Oh, well I now feel like the leader of the idiot parade.

"Anyway this is, Girl. Sometimes we call her Bluejay, she never makes up her mind about what she wants to be called." She surprised me by hugging me as well, I was expecting something more along the lines of 'hello' but this was okay.

"You must be the girl who puked in the car right? Kobra hasn't shut up about it. Next time aim for his shoes." She gave me a high five and I laughed, yeah he looked disturbed for life after I did that. It wasn't even that bad anyway.

"I also run into things, people and get chased around by draculoids." The word draculoid was weird in my mouth but I could get used to it. I'd probably pick up their lingo after hanging around with these people for long enough.

"So what's your name?" Once again Party Poison stepped in and explained everything, I should just have a brief bio of myself hanging around my neck at all times so I don't have to explain and neither does Party Poison.

"We'll go over to Zone 5 later and get you some things to wear, unless you like your dress." Jet said as Girl got me to sit next to her on the ground so she could show me what she'd been drawing.

"Fuck yes, get me out of these clothes right now!" I hated dresses and hated white just as much, I'd rather drink five litres of ketchup than wear this for another day. I don't even know if this is my dress and if it is then I'm glad I can't remember who I was.

"Alright. I just wouldn't say those words around Fun Ghoul if I were you. He's likely to take it literally. He's got quite a reputation among the android girls. Probably because he can't find a dust angel who's stupid enough to get together with him." I didn't understand all the words but got the gist of it and laughed a little.

After what Ghoul had said about bitches loving guitar skills it wasn't much of a surprise that he didn't charm the pants off everyone.

"So what's up with your names? I've heard you say your name is one thing then you get called another." I was seriously confused about how their names worked and wanted to get to the bottom of it. Haha, bottom.

"Okay. I'm Party Poison but I usually get called Party. Kobra Kid is my little brother but we'll call him Kobra. Jet Star is the guy with the magnificent hair and we call him Jet. Then there's Fun Ghoul who is god knows where and he gets called Ghoul and his full name when we're bitching about him behind his back." Party smiled at me and I smiled back. I felt much more enlightened knowing what to call them.

"Do you want a blaster lesson?" Party asked as he stood up, they should just give me a book that explains all the words they use.

"What's that?" I stood up as well even though I had no idea what he was talking about. Whatever a blaster was it sounded interesting.

"A ray gun." He pulled the thing he was talking about out of the holster on his hip and spun it around his finger. The gun was red, yellow and black, it also looked incredibly awesome.

"Uh, yeah!" I took the gun he held out to me and almost immediately dropped it, it was much heavier than it looked.

With the gun still in my hands Party walked me away from the shack and closer to the cans lined up on the wooden bench, so that's what they were there for. To aim at.

"Stand here and turn off the safety switch." Party made a mark in the dirt with his foot and I stood over that X then pushed the button he pointed to on the gun.

I feel so unbadass holding a gun like this while standing in a white dress that looked like something a nun would wear or something you'd see dudes wearing in the really old days before they made pyjamas and boxer shorts.

"Now hold the blaster out in front of you and look down the barrel." I did as he said, apparently not right because I felt him step behind me. He put his hands on my arms and readjusted how I was holding the ray gun.

"Until you get good enough to shoot by just winging it like I do you'll need to use that little thing at the end of the barrel to aim." His chest was pressing into my back and I could gradually feel my face getting redder and redder. This is not helping me focus at all.

He'd think nothing of it since he was just showing me how to aim but this is one of the most heart pounding moment I think I'll ever have.
In the background someone wolf whistled and Party stepped away from me for a moment.

"Shut up Ghoul I'm trying to teach her how to aim!" He yelled out at Ghoul who'd just shown up and I felt a small smile cross my face. There was no doubt Fun Ghoul was the dirty minded one in the group.

"Well you look like you two should be in a issue of Shiny. Get a room!" I started laughing, I had no idea what Shiny was but the 'get a room' was still funny.

Once more Party stood behind me and put his hands back on my arms and readjusted the position I'd dropped when I started laughing.

"Just ignore Ghoul, he's made jokes about me hitting on a cactus." A snigger escaped my lips but I pulled myself back into line an tried to focus on where I was aiming. The tin can not too far away from me with the words 'Power Pup' written on it.

I slowly pulled the trigger and nothing happened, no magic healing light beam, no bullet, nothing.

"The trick with these things is that you don't take your time pulling the trigger. You have to pull it back quickly and there should be a clicking sound alright? Now take aim again and try one more time." Party put his chin on my shoulder, probably checking that I was aiming correctly, then he stepped back but stayed close enough that I could still the warmth from his body as he stood behind me.

I took a deep breath, focused myself to the point of taking my mind off the incredibly smoking hot redhead standing inches away from me and aimed once more at the Power Pup can.
Just like Party said I quickly pulled the trigger back, I heard the almost silent clicking sound then a beam of light came racing out the tip of the gun making a loud PEW sound as it missed the tin can.

Normal people who had knew a bit about ray guns would have been upset they missed the can then they'd take aim and try again.
Not me, I had no idea it was gonna make that sound and did something completely typical of me.

"Aaah!" I screamed my seagulls mating call as Ghoul liked to refer to it as then did one of the stupidest, most sissy like things in the world.

I threw the gun at the cans.

It actually hit them and knocked the one I'd been aiming for down.

"What the hell was that for?" Party asked as I stood there feeling guilty for just throwing his gun that would have probably cost a lot of money at a bunch of tin cans because it scared me.

I also felt like I was about to start laughing at any moment for doing something so stupid. Why the hell would I want to throw it, it's just a ray gun, it can't hurt me unless I aim it at my own foot.

"I'm sorry, Party. I'll go get it." I sauntered over to the collection of tin cans and picked the dust covered blaster up off the ground. Since I was here I picked up the cans and put them on the bench as well.

As I jogged back I saw Ghoul who was literally on the ground laughing, it was kinda funny but I knew he was laughing at me, not with me.

So in one of my anger fits I lifted the gun up, stared down the barrel and pulled the trigger back quickly.
A beam of light shot through the air towards Fun Ghoul who was still lying on a ground laughing. The beam of light scorched a hole on the scarf that had been on the ground next to him and luckily enough for him he hadn't been wearing.

I dropped the gun down and smirked at Ghoul who had stopped laughing and was now staring at me with a look of complete horror, then he want back to laughing. Now harder than before. Is this guy crazy? I would've only had to move the tip of the gun a inch higher and I would have shot him in the ribcage. I didn't want to hurt him though, he was nice when he wasn't making smart arse remarks and I just wanted to teach him not to make fun of me.

"Don't laugh at me bitch!" I called out to him as Party came running up and quickly took the gun from me before I could do anything else with it.

Despite saving everyone by taking the blaster Party Poison was laughing so hard he looked like he was gonna crack a rib.

"Calm your tits, baby Killjoy!" Ghoul called back and without saying a word Party handed me his gun back.

"Don't sass me you ho!" The next thing I did was seer another set of holes in Fun Ghoul's scarf as he bent down to pick it up, then for good measure I managed to scorch some of the rubber off the tip of his shoe. This ray gun thing is really fun and is what makes it even better is that I'm good at it.

"Okay! I'm sorry! Stop!" I grinned evilly as Ghoul surrendered laughing with his hands in the air, checkmate.

I gave the gun back to Party Poison and he took it from me with a smile, he obviously thought it was funny what I'd done to Ghoul.

"I think you're set aiming wise for now. Do you wanna take a trip out to Zone 5 with us? I think Sunshine Throttle will probably have something for you to wear." Whoever came up with these names is really creative, that's for sure.

"Sure, just whatever allows me to change my clothes." I said as we walked back to the shack where Ghoul was holding up his scarf that didn't even count as a scarf anymore.

"You guys wanna go to Zone 5?" Party asked them while he put his gun back in its holster. Now I've gotten used to it I want my own ray gun. It's addictive, like chocolate coated peppermints.

He got some casual shrugs meaning yes from Jet and Ghoul but Kobra decided to talk instead.

"Yeah I don't mind. Girl do you want to come with us or stay here with Pony and Dr. D?" She thought for a moment before picking up her notebook and coming back over to us.

"I think I'll stay here. I'll probably be squashed in the car with you guys and the car probably still stinks." She's made a smart choice, I got squashed being in the car with them. For her to be in the car with five people instead of four would be almost claustrophobic.

"Okay I'll see you soon, Bluejay. Remember where I told you to hide if any exterminators or draculoids show up?" She nodded, her curly hair bouncing slightly before she ran through the door and into the shack.

"So off to the car we go." Party said before marching off around the shack towards what I presumed was the car.

"Oh so you're not planning to throw me in this time, what a gentleman." I laughed as I jogged over and caught up with him.

"Well if you insist." Party Poison picked me up and put me over his shoulder which instantly resulted in me squealing.

"It was a joke, put me down!" Now the situation wasn't as filled with tension as it had been when we were standing on the side of the road it was now funny and I was laughing as I protested.

He stopped outside the car and put me down before sliding into the drivers seat, I stood there. There was no way I want to be in any moving vehicle with him behind the steering wheel. I'm lucky I survived with my insanity intact the first time. There's no way I'm putting my nerves through that again.

"What's the matter?" He asked and I have him a look that said 'do you really need an explanation?'

"Alright, Jet you drive." Party slid over into the passenger seat as Ghoul called out shotgun so he sighed and got into the backseat.

Now feeling much more comfortable about being in the car with someone whose got to be a better driver than Party I got into the backseat and sat between Party Poison and Kobra Kid who kept looking at me as if I might vomit on the floor again. I wouldn't if I could help it, it's not like I meant to do it in the first place.

"Please put your seats in an upright position. Buckle your seatbelts and make sure your luggage is stored safely in the overhead compartments. Thank you for flying with Killjoy airlines." Ghoul said in what I imagined to be an air hostesses voice.

I laughed as the car pulled away from the shack with Jet safely behind the wheel and headed off to Zone 5.