Guess who's back...back again...Truthful's back...and I'm cringing...

Anyway, here's to bringing this out of a 3 year hiatus! Love you, Hurry...

"Hurry, you little shit, where is the purple dye?" Truthful glowered at her slightly shorter friend.

"Idunno," Hurricane Bunny shrugged, leaning nonchalantly against the bathroom wall. The light of day was fading against the desert horizon outside, meaning the close of another day for the Killjoys at the abandoned Automotive Station. Truthful Blasphemy rolled her eyes as she dug through the closet again. "Maybe we're out."

"Damn," Truthful huffed. The bright purple of her bangs had faded and she wanted to fix it soon. "Maybe we'll have to do a raid."

"The S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W units have been a little heavy-handed lately, maybe you shouldn't. Addy hasn't even been able to go for a run on the open road in three weeks, he's had to hit the back pathways across the dunes," Hurry warned. Truthful sighed. Addy, or Static Adrenaline, was Truthful's significant other.

"Addy doesn't take many risks," Truth argued. "I can take Misty and hit up that abandoned beauty salon a few miles away with Party and Jet tomorrow. I know they don't have any other missions."

"I guess that's true," Hurry said. "Just don't take the highway."

"I don't really feel like getting ghosted, honestly," Truth nodded in agreement.

"What about getting ghosted?" Addy asked, stepping into the small room and taking a seat on the slowly cracking counter. He vaguely hid the disappointment in his voice as he asked, "Are we talking about Lee again?"

"No," Hurry replied, "We're talking about Truth being out of hair dye and wanting to hit up that busted Sally's a few miles away tomorrow with Party and Jet, since they're not busy."

"I'd go with you but Kobra and I have to run to Dr. Death's and get a few supplies to fix our radio."

"I know, that's why you weren't included in my plans," Truth glanced over at him. He got touchy whenever Lee came up. Illegal Download had been ghosted two years before, shortly after Addy had been successfully freed from his brainwashing at Truthful's capable hands. Lee and Addy had been rather aggressive towards each other trying to curry Truth's favor. But she was head over heels in love with Lee at the time because of their shared past.

"So what colors are you going to pick up?" Addy asked.

"Blue, purple, red, maybe some green and orange," Truth listed off. "Plus I'll see if they have any good nail polish. We can always use that."

"Nail polish?" Party Poison popped his head into the room with a smile. "I miss that stuff."

"I'll grab you some if you come with me tomorrow to Sally's," Truthful bribed.

"Sounds good. We can't take the highway though," Party stated. Truth rolled her eyes.

"I know."

"G'night," Party smiled, ducking back out of the room quickly and heading to he and Mikey's shared room.

"I'm gonna head in and see how Ghoul is doing," Hurry said, also leaving and heading for her and Fun Ghoul's room.

"Bed?" Addy asked, making eye contact with his clearly very tired girlfriend. She nodded, and he lifted her into his strong arms and carried her to bed.

He quickly fell asleep, leaving Truthful alone with her thoughts. It had been a long time since she'd thought about Lee or his death.

Lee, Truth, Hurry, Ghoul, Jet, and Kobra were out on a mission clearing up some debris from a sandstorm near Dr. Death Defying's old headquarters in 2020. They'd cleared up the sand and were on their way home when a S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W unit and three Dracs on motorcycles pulled up behind them. Hurry and Ghoul took out the motorcycles easily but the S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W was not so easy. It was heavily fortified, a tank full of Dracs ready for battle, and they couldn't outrun it.

After doing some damage to their tires and slowing them down, the Trans Am screeched forward and Lee ended up falling out of the back. They quickly came to a halt, and he scrambled to his feet. But he wasn't fast enough. Truth remembered only hearing him screaming like a dying animal as he was grabbed by three Draculoids and hauled into the large grey vehicle. Ghoul was already speeding away, knowing that Lee had no chance. Truth assumed he was ghosted or turned back into a draculoid.

With those thoughts, she fell into a deep sleep, curled up next to Addy.