Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys

I opened my eyes for the first time I what felt like years. I hurt. My back hurt, my neck hurt, my shoulders hurt. Everything was hurting me. It didn't help that I felt a tremendous weight on my abdomen. When looked down to my waist, I noticed what was causing the weight. It was a person. It was actually a woman. She was small, dressed in high waisted pants and a black crop top, topping it with a leather, black motorcycle jacket. Her brown hair was shorter, and hit right at her collarbones. When I looked at her face, in realized that this person was a girl I knew.
""Dolly Pop!" I exclaimed, wrapping my arms around her and pulling the small woman into a kiss. The moment I felt her lips pressed against mine made me feel whole again. Inside, my body began to warm and my heart began to race. I was alive again. And it felt fucking good
"Well," she said, pulling away. "Someone missed me"
"I missed you very fuckin much" I replied. She stood up from the ground and helped me up. "What's happened?"
"Battery City is under siege. The people of the zones are rebelling."
"Good." I replied, beginning to walk out of the room. The katana Dolly used to stab me was placed in a sheath now, and strapped to Dolly's back. She handed me a ray gun, and my smile grew wider. It was my beautiful yellow and pink beamer. Nothing better then that.
"I got him" Doll said into a radio, I'm guessing it was Dr. D or somethin'. "Here" she said, handing me a small button. "Attach it to you ear and tap it. It'll be on" I nodded, placing the small button onto my left ear and tapping it.
"Sup! Poison!" I heard a young voice say.
"Grace?"
"Yep. Comin' at you live from the S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W unit"
"Your in BL/Ind?!"
"She's actually really good at computers" Fun Ghoul said into my ear.
"What's more important is that we get our asses out of here" Dolly said.
"Agreed," I replied.
"Okay," Dolly started "Blu, unhook from the main frame. Fun Ghoul, get Girl to the van. The trans am should be right below Party and I." My ears perked up at the thought of my car.
"My little turd"
"Yep, we kept it safe for ya!"
"Guys" Ghoul started. "You have company coming" we stopped in our tracks and listened. More Dracs and exterminators were coming.
"What's the quickest way out?" I asked.
"The window in front of you." Girl replied "other then that, there's no other way. Every entrance has been blocked by something"
"Is there something for us into land on?" Doll asked.
"It looks like a big thing of bushes" Fun Ghoul replied. At that exact moment, a mass of men dressed in solid white and Dracula masks bombarded us.
"RUN!" I yelled, grabbing Doll's hand, and running at full speed. Right in front of us, there was a giant window. It was almost too convieniant where this window was.
As we neared the window, I pulled Dolly's body close to me, making sure to cover her face and head with my arms. With a hard push off from the white tile, I managed to forcefully jump, shattering the glass at the moment I was in contact with it. We were in mid air. Defying gravity. Floating before we went crashing down. You know that moment on a roller coaster, where you drop and you get that funny feeling in your stomach, only to safely get off and go ride another ride. That's almost what this is like, but without the safety. Instead, we hit the ground(thankfully in a shit ton if plants) with a hard thud. Next to those bushes, stood my pretty baby. The mother fuckin' Trans Am.
"Let's get out of here!" I exclaimed, helping Dolly to her feet and running to the car.

The sounds of little feet running on the old wooden floor is what I awoke to the next day. I smiled, knowing my Girl was coming in to bother me, something I had missed in the four years I had been gone. I was right.
She looked so different now. She was definietly taller, and her bushy curls weren't so bushy. her old clothes had been changed and she was becoming a young lady.
"Poison!" she exclaimed, running into my room. Thankfully, she stopped at the bed.
"Yes, Pipsqueak" I replied.
"Do you still have Radio Rash?" She asked. I laughed, sitting up and leaning against the wall. "Not that I know of. Four years of BL/Ind testing can cure it."
"Good, because I'll kick your ass if you die on me now!"
"Language!"
"You talk worse then me."
"You're still a kid"
"I'm ten!"
"I'm thirty"
"So"
"I win. watch your fuckin' mouth" I scolded, sarcastically. I honestly didn't really give a shit about Grace cussing. It was just funny to mess with her.
"Poison" Doll called, stepping into the room. "Dr. D is here"

"So what happened?" Doctor Death Defying asked.
"I died." I started "They killed us all. Of coarse Better Living Industries managed to revive us with no hassle and use us as test dummies. They stripped us, laid us on hospital beds and stuck us with needles. They shocked us, and poked our brains. At one point they just 'rewired' us. This completely changed us. We were drones for BL/Ind"
"So, they brainwashed you?" Girl asked.
"Yeah" Fun Ghoul replied. "In a sense. It was almost like having a fucking labotomy."
"Or being trapped in our own head" I added. "We knew what was happening, but we weren't ourselves"
"All four of you?" Dr. D asked.
"Yeah."
"There's been no word on Jet Star and Kobra Kid." Dolly started. "I've been talking to Blu daily to figure out where they could be, but there's no news"
"I figured." I replied.
"I'll keep talkin' to the Killjoy Nation" Dr. D said. "Hopefully they'll have heard any news"
"Thanks" I replied

Standing out in the desert was always calming to me. I liked being out here and feeling the sun on my face. I ran my hand through my still black hair. It was one of the only thing that I had remaining from my time at BL/Ind. That and my damn left eye. When Blu looked at it, she discovered that if it was removed it would damage my nerves. Meaning, I would be blind in one eye. I couldn't have that. So she ended up disconnecting my left eye's contact with Better Living Industries.
Pretty much, everything was almost perfect. There were just two things missing. My brother and my best friend. I needed to fix it. I needed to find Jet and Kobra. Nothing would be complete without them. We wouldn't be the 'Fabulous Killjoys'.
"What are you doing?"
"Thinking about my missing buddies"
"I figured you would be" Dolly replied, wrapping her arm around my shoulders. "Right now, we need to focus on rebuilding the city"
"I agree"
"They're out there." she said, looking up to me. "We will find them."
"Are you sure about that?"
"Yeah, Party Poison,"
"I hope so." Dolly Pop smiled, stood up on her tip toes, and placed a tiny kiss on my cheek.
"Do you want to look for them?" She asked.
"Yeah. I do."
"Then lets do it."
"You know, when I was young people told me that you only hear the music when your heart breaks" I said, reminiscing about childhood.
"That must of have been a long time ago."
"Yeah. Kobra and I still had our parents."
"My folks used to to tell me that immortality is in the lights you help create. Then, they would say 'shut that fucking light off and go to bed'"
"that must have been forever ago too" I laughed.
"I just remember one thing, dear Party Poison" Dolly smiled, holding up a single finger. "The sun can go black, radiation can kill thousands of people. Hell, even Better Living can come back. But we were taught to not care about their rules"
She was right. You only get once chance at this life you have. I learned out here in the zones that everybody wants to change the world. But the thing about it is that no body wants to die. I had already done that. And now, I had a second chace at everything. Things weren't ever going to be the same for any of us. We all could actually survive now. We all had a place to go. But, I kinda didn't want to change, but it's time to change.
I looked back down to little Dolly Pop, and smiled to her.

"We are the Kids from Yesterday"

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