Dec. 11, 2025

A Blue Christmas: A Dark Superhero Holiday Horror Story

A Blue Christmas: A Dark Superhero Holiday Horror Story
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Dive into a chilling Christmas horror tale with “A Blue Christmas,” where eerie folklore and superhero dark fantasy collide in the snow-covered streets of Shore City. This feature-length episode blends spooky stories and urban legends during the spooky season, delivering mature themes and an anthology vibe that horror fans will love. Follow reporter Miranda Mason-Phillips as she uncovers Blue Girl, an alien superhero, and The Jeweler, a gem-clad vigilante, confronting a demon goddess and a deadly war machine on Christmas Eve.

Experience mass hallucinations, terrifying battles, and emotional stakes as heroes and villains clash in a neon-lit winter battleground. This story brings together horror stories, folklore-driven villains, and eerie anthology elementswrapped in holiday terror. Perfect for fans seeking mature, spine-chilling tales this spooky season.

Bundle up, turn off the lights, and press play for a snow-soaked Christmas horror epic where alien heroes, dark fantasy, and urban legends fight over the soul of the season. Expect intense showdowns, supernatural folklore, and a heartfelt Christmas dinner amidst the chaos.

A Blue Christmas — by Rob Fields

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Snow Smother's shore city as the bells strike midnight, and

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a red giant stalks the streets while people crash and

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claw at ghosts. Only they can see somewhere above the chaos,

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something new is born, fear itself whispering Merry Christmas? How

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did you get in here?

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Ho? Ho?

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What's that you want to be scared? Come with me?

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This is Weekly Spooky. Hello, my spookies, it's not Wednesday,

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no no, but it's the holiday season and there's always

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room for another scare. I'm your host and narrator, Enrique Kuto,

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and tonight we have a very special treat for you

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to unwrap, a novella length story about love and loss

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and fear. But before we get to that, I want

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to say thank you so much for joining us. I'm

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so honored to bring a little festive fear to your

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holiday season. And if you love what we do here

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at Weekly Spooky and I want to support us in

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undying gratitude, as well as over five years of audiobooks

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But as for tonight, imagine it's Christmas Eve and the

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whole city is wrapped in snow and panic. People are

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crashing their cars, running from things no one else can see,

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screaming at shadows that vanish when the lights come on. Cops, kids,

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strangers on the street, all haunted at once, like someone

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flipped a switch in their heads. Now, imagine there's something

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out there that likes it that way. Not a ghost,

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not a demon you can vanish. Just a shape made

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of every ugly thought you've ever had, every moment you

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wished someone would suffer. It walks the city in bare

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feet and a wicked smile tonight. We're not just telling

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a Christmas story about heres and monsters. We're asking what

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happens when fear itself decides you are its favorite present

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and it starts unwrapping you from the inside out. A

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blue Christmas by Rob Field's prologue. Have you ever heard

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of fear? Okay, yes, I'm sure you know what fear

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itself is, But I'm talking about this creature named Fear.

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I have no idea where the hell she came from,

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but I'm down here in the sewer system on Christmas Eve,

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cowering in a corner. I've just pissed myself, which should

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tell you how scared this thing has made me. By

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the way, I'm a reporter. I came all the way

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to Shore City to get a story for Josh Caller,

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my editor. I learned that superheroes are actually real, and

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now Blue Girl and the Jeweler are at the mercy

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of this thing named Fear. Mm. Yes, I'm loving my

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new powers. Now my dollies show Fear what scares you

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the most, then she shall use your fear to destroy you.

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Just seeing Fear made me fall to my knees. But

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hearing her, she sounds like a little girl. Definitely one

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of the creepiest things I've ever heard. That's why I

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ran away and hid back here. Like I said, I'm

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still scared as hell. Maybe I'm still too close to

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that thing. Ugh? How did I get myself into this situation?

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Maybe I'd better start from the beginning, which was earlier today. Boy,

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do I ever know how to pick him? Take? Right? Now?

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It's Christmas Eve. This man finds me sitting in Shakers,

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a bar in Strickfield college kids like to frequent anyway.

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I'm wearing this tight fitting dress and heels and nursing

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a tall glass of beer. You'd think I'd be having

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red or white wine, but I hate wine. Give me

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a good old fashioned beer any day of the week.

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When I'm taking another pull, that's when I feel the

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man directly behind me and glance over my shoulder. He's

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wearing an all white suit, well practically all white. He's

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got a black shirt on inside his vest. He's also

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got a piece of eye candy on either side of him.

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Yet this asshole is clearly interested in me. Honestly, I

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couldn't tell you how many times men wanted to pick

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me up once they see my sexy ass perched on

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a barstool, it gets their rocks going. At the end

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of senior year at Bellevue High School, people told me

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I'd easily win the unofficial Girl with the Hottest Ass award.

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Not to toot my own horn, but they weren't wrong.

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Even when I got out of that shit town and

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went on to higher education, I still had all kinds

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of guy hitting on me, likely after checking out my ass. Okay,

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a bar is definitely no place for someone like me,

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But when I want a beer, I want a goddamn beer,

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and I should be allowed to sit my hot ass

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wherever I want without being bothered. I'm drinking my goddamn

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beer when this guy with his arm candy is hitting

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on me. Oh, he's really bold. When he grabs two

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handfuls of surgically enhanced tits from behind me and says

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into my ear how he'd really appreciate me. Then he

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gives my fun bags another gentle squeeze when he feels

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me moved. I slowly turn around with my beer in hand.

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Any other time I'd have thrown my beer right in

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someone's face for touching me like that. And that's just

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the start the fish come. Next problem is Shakers has

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my favorite beer on tap here o'hanlan's Irish lagger. He'd

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be ashamed to waste such an excellent beer. I actually

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let this Don Juan take me with him. The bouncer

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stops me and says I can't take my beer outside,

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so I chug it and hand over the mug. Then

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I let out a long, satisfying belch. Even then, Don

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Juan seems to still want me. Once we reach the

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suite at Strickfield In it doesn't take long for us

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to get naked. The two arm candies are watching us

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doing some serious fucking on the bed. He can't keep

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his hands off of my ass as I'm riding him

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like a bitch in heat. Suddenly the door bursts open

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and a want team rushes in. Two of them pull

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my naked ass off of Don Juan. As a Strickfield

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detective enters, don Juan is yelling in some language I

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really don't recognize it. Sure ain't Spanish, since I do

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speak that. Hey, what the hell? I shout at the

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cops as they start to arrest me. Don't I even

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get to get dressed first? Shit? The detective tells them

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to let me go. I want to talk to her alone.

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He points to the two arm candies. You can take

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them away. Once it's just the detective and naked me.

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He closes the door and faces me. You can get

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dressed now, Miranda. I laugh and give him a good

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look at me. What's the matter, Detective Kasmarak? Do I

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make make you nervous? I purr while sliding my thong

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back on. Kasmarak sits at the desk and faces me.

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I retrieve the camera I hid in the lampshade by

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the bed, and hand over the micro cassette more than

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it missible in court. Dear sir, enough there to convict

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de Louis de Marco for good. I knew exactly who

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don Juan was, and Kasmarak knows exactly who I am

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and what I do. For the record, I ain't no hooker,

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and I didn't record De Marco and me fucking on

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the bed. I only hid the recorder there. Very very

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long story short. DeMarco took us bitches to his pad

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for after some drinks. Right in front of us, he

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pulls out his gun and kills one of his henchmen

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for skimming off the top. Those were his words. It's

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all on tape. I also slipped into his office and

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recorded his books. There's enough on that micro cassette to

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send DeMarco's ass to prison for life, hell for multiple lives.

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Kasmarak eyes my nearly naked body. Seriously, Miranda, why do

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you do it? Why do you risk your life for stories?

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Allow me to introduce myself. I am Miranda Mason Phillips,

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Ace reporter for the Strickfield Journal. People all over Feldner

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County and even in Eerie City and Shore City know

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my name. I've been on The Tonight Show and Sixty

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Minutes for some of the huge cases I've busted open,

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and De Louis de Marco is one of the biggest

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stories I've bagged. Yet. It doesn't take a rocket scientist

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to figure out if you want to make it big

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in this business, you gotta be willing to do absolutely

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anything to both get the big stories and remain relevant.

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You do that by taking the most serious of risks,

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including sleeping with a crime lord over and over again.

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In other words, this ain't the first time I used

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my body as a weapon. Hell, I even shot up heroin,

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snorted coke, and popped ecstasy while going under cover just

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to get headlines withdrawls can be hell, but it comes

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with the job. Other newspapers have been offering me big

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contracts and incentives to get me to come work for him,

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but this little village newspaper continues to keep me rolling

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in dough and benefits. Also, my editor doesn't give me

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any shit, not when Miranda Mason Phillips sells a shitload

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of papers. And on top of that, Strickfield's got major

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headlines flowing out of fountains here. For one thing, there's

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actually this giant Lady Spider, a creature with a human

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female's upper body and a spider's entire lower I proved

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she was real when I snapped multiple pictures of her.

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When my editor first wanted me to get those pictures,

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I said he was full of shit when he talked money. However,

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I went out and brought home the picks. Now what's

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going on with me? In Detective Kasmarak? Well, no, I

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ain't sleeping with him, but I sure wouldn't be opposed

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to it. Shortly after he transferred here from Erie City,

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he busted me when I went under cover and an

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illegal pornography ring. Months later, he busted me again, thinking

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I was a prostitute at Strickfield University when a big

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drug bust went down. My editor vouched for me. Both times,

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Kasmarak and I got into some huge arguments. He loved

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saying I was interfering in police business. I kept shoving

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the First Amendment in his face. When he threatened to

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arrest me again, I dared him to. Eventually we started

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working together. Now him arresting me is his way of

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getting me to safety so I can give him crucial evidence.

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Much like just now. He gets credit for the arrest,

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and I get the top story in the Strickfield Journal

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and any other papers that negotiate with mine to syndicate

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my stories. Why do you do it, Miranda, Kasmarak asks

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me again. I give him my wicked smile because I

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ain't got nothing else better to do. He shakes his

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head slowly as I finish getting dressed. When the coast

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is clear, Kasmarak drives me into downtown village to the

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home office. When I get out of the car, I

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close the door and lean in the window until next time.

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Detective I purr. He sighs and shakes his head slowly.

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I back away from the car and head inside the

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Strickfield Journal just as it starts to snow. My editor,

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Josh Callers, sitting behind his desk. The look on his

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face says he's expecting something from me. I pull out

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my smartphone and remove the micro SD card. After I

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give it to him, he loads it up and looks

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my shit over. Yes, yes, good, Hell, yes, he looks

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at me now. Yeah. He may be my boss, but

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he treats me like a real friend. Why do you

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do it, Miranda. You're good enough to be the top

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newshound for USA Today or any paper you want, and

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here you are still working for a little village rag

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like mine. He quickly holds up his hands. Believe me.

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I appreciate everything you do for my little paper. Hell,

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I was just printing village news before you came along,

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wanting a job, saying you had to start somewhere. So

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I take a chance on you, give you a job,

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and what do you do. You turn my little village

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paper into the biggest goddamn newspaper in the state of Ohio. Hell,

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we're shipping lots of papers to Erie City and Shore

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City and even outside of the state. Why me, Miranda

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suddenly the phone rings, Josh quickly answers it. Yeah, yeah,

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what's that you say? Are you serious? No, I'll get

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my ACE reporter over their stat Josh slams the phone

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down and looks at me. Get that sexy ass of

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yours on the roof. Ernie's gonna fly you to Shore City.

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There's some mechanical monster running rampant there, and I want

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that story. I squeal like I just lost my cherry

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and haul ass to the roof Ernie Smith, our resident

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helicopter pilots waiting and ready to fly me wherever the

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boss says to even on Christmas Eve, and with snow

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coming down fast like he said, the paper has grown

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a lot since I joined the staff. Ernie's already getting

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the machine warmed up, and soon he's taking us up

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and on our way to Shore City. With all the

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amazing stories I get, you'd think my shit would be

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in the supermarket tabloids, right, Hell no, what I find

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is real. But you know what I always wanted since

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becoming an ACE reporter, I want the story the Holy Grail.

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I want to discover something so goddamn amazing it'll be

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my crowning achievement, my Swan song my life's work. Remember

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I was the first reporter to uncover the mutant spider Chick.

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I snapped a picture of a teenage girl flying on clear,

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glowing discs at Strickfield Town Center Mall not too long ago.

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If there's those two, then there have to be others.

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Believe me. I know I did plenty of drugs for

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the sake of getting headlines, but I promise you I

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ain't out of my gord. Seeing all that tells me

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there's something more out there, and I want to know

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what it is so badly. What is it that makes

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mutant spider chicks real? What gave that teenage girl the

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ability to fly around on red discs made of light?

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And then there's all the other weird shit I've discovered.

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Like I said, Strickfield's got stories flowing out of fountains.

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I'm beyond excited when Ernie's getting me ever so closer

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to Shore City. You know how many times I've scooped

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other reporters who were too chicken shit to do what

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I do. Call me a braggart. I don't give a shit,

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but I can back up everything I say, and I'm

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willing to do whatever it takes to get stories, even

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if it means my sexy ass I am Miranda Mason Phillips.

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God damn it, perspective, Candace, I bite into yet another

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green apple. How many of these delicious delicacies have I

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eaten since coming to call both Earth and the village

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of Strickfield my home. Ever since Luscious and Norma Redmont

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discovered me back in eighteen twenty two and shared their

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home with me, my life took a completely different turn.

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I felt so lonely. Even after being the sole survivor

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against hell Weaver in the Battleguard's last stand, I felt

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great pain at having lost all of my allies to

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that demon mother that day. In all probability, I should

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have died with them. I gave it all I had

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to wreck her reality sphere, banishing her to the hellish

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dimension of Perdition and me into whatever universe or reality

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this is. I've tried time and time again to either

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find a suitable substitute or the actual element of peritonium

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with which I can repair my wrist comp and return

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to Universe zero. Unfortunately, my efforts have been unsuccessful. I've

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been stranded on Earth for more than two hundred of

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its years. During my time, I remained with Lucius and

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Norma Redmont for my keep. I would learn their trade

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of farming apple orchards. When I tasted my first apple,

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it literally brought me to my knees. Even today, I've

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never grown tired of eating them, baking pies from them,

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or drinking their juice. I came to be a part

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of the Redmont family when I allowed myself to be

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joined with Lucius in both our emotional bond of being

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beloved and in his world ceremonial ritual called marriage. I

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swore never to allow myself to become beloved with another

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after my ninth in the Hulky was slain by hell

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Weaver herself. Unfortunately, a contrast such as myself has no say.

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It's as if my chemistry can sense others close to me,

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If it determines a suitable match for the both of us,

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then we become pared as beloved. This is as close

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to a scientific explanation as I can come. Being a

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part of my beloved pairings has given me such joy

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in so many wonderful ways. In my many years in existence,

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I have been beloved with seven males and three females.

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The worst thing about being beloved with another is that

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I've lost every single one in death. Once the connection

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is severed, I feel the immense emotional pain. It hurts

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me even more than physical pain in many instances. My

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most recent loss was Lucius Redmont. I remained with him

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as both beloved and his wife until his life force

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had burned itself to its end in old age. I've

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lived many lifetimes compared to the people of Earth. I

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hate that this world's people grow old and die. Then again,

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this kind of thing happened on a similar world in

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Universe zero called Third World. I've been to many different

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worlds where their peoples don't experience what is called aging.

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Lucius's death was the most painful one yet. I was

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an intense suffering for many Earth years before I finally

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started to heal. I've never healed completely from losing any

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of my beloved. Lucius was so kind and compassionate. He

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was entrusted to care for his younger sister, Norma after

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their parents had died. Norma came to be a great

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friend and a sister, and her death hurt me deeply

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as well. But Lucius and I became beloved upon his death.

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I remained here at Redmont's orchards for a great many

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years in solitude, never aging, and caring for these apple

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trees left to me. You can call me a coward

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for not choosing to venture out into this world again.

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I just don't want to become entangled in the bindings

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of being beloved again. I just can't bear to lose

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another in death. I'll admit I am very lonely, but

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I'd rather remain in solitude and tending to these orchards

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than become beloved with another and feel that intense pain

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again upon their death. I stay busy by keeping these

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trees healthy so they may bear their abundance of delicious apples.

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I keep enough of them to enjoy while I sell

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the others in season. The autumnal months are the one

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occasion I must risk interacting with earth people. I need

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to keep making money to keep these orchards bearing fruit.

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I myself don't need to eat. I have my very heart,

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which is both the source of my sustenance and of

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all of my incredible powers. It's Christmas Eve and it's snowing.

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Just seeing this beautiful white stuff coming down makes me

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love this time of the year. It was also a

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snowy world many years ago that caused me to become

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the being I am today. I'll have to tell you

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my full origin story when there's time. After pouring myself

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some cider, I sit in front of the television and

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activated to look for more Christmas specials and movies to watch.

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I immediately stop changing channels when I see a special

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report coming from Shore City. There's some large mechanical being

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walking around and creating chaos. I've lived in isolation for

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many years. It's true there have been reports of criminal

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activities such as murder and theft. I've often wondered if

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I could have made a difference with my great powers.

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Then I remember the pains of losing each beloved and withdraw.

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This is why I don't blame you for calling me

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a coward, perhaps also selfish. I want to change the channel,

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but I just can't. That mechanical monster is creating devastation

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on the streets of Shore City. Far too many innocent

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lives could be lost if this isn't stopped. I have

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the power to both combat that monstrosity and to stop it.

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I no longer have a choice. I've lived in isolation

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for many years. Though I knew it couldn't last forever.

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That day has ultimately caught up to me. At long last,

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Blue Girl must return after all of these years, I

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stand up and turn off the television. I move into

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my bedroom that I once occupied with Lucius as his wife.

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I find my wrist comp and apply it. It activates

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an transforms my clothing into a totally new costume. Blue

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boots nearly touching my knees, a full body suit transitioning

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from the darkest blue to the snowiest white from the

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center to the sides, gloves matching my boots, and a

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purple vest that's open, and a mask covering the majority

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of my face. Only my shimmering blue hair, my sepheric eyes,

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and my mouth are visible. For a brief moment, my

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anxiety forces me to stand still. I really don't want

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to leave the safety of these grounds. Then I remember

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what Shore City is faced with, and no, I can't

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be selfish any longer. I've mourned long enough. For the

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first time in many earth years, I speed forth from

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the Redmont apple orchards and race to Shore City. Thanks

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to my super speed, I can get there in a

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matter of seconds. Seeing how fast I move, it's like

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nothing has changed. My powers haven't diminished in the slightest

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I'm still the fastest one there is period. Soon i'm

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crossing one of the many suspension bridges to enter Shore City.

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I finally come to a stop when I see the

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mechanical being. I also see another costumed female attempting to

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fight that thing on her own. I've seen her in

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action on the television before the Jeweler. I don't know

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if this costumed hero has superpowers or not. I know

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she uses many forms of likely modified jewelry as weapons,

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hence her name. I'm thinking that she's just a human,

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but she's quite trained as both a fighter and an athlete.

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She's able to keep that metal monster from grabbing her

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as she tries using her jeweled weapons against it. When

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the Jeweler lands on her feet, both she and the

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machine see me standing not too far away. Seeing the

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look on the Jeweler, she doesn't know who I am,

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but she doesn't waste any time breaking the ice with me.

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No pun intended, new girl. If you're able to help,

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I could sure use it. After hearing the Jeweler, the

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machine raises its hands and makes blue fire appear. But

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two can play at that game. The only difference is

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this machine's fire can hurt me if I let it

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touch my skin. Mine is a cold fire. I nod

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to the Jeweler. We are allies. Then I glare at

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the machine and show it my own blue fire. The

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Jeweler soon comes to my side. From there, the two

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of us make a quick plan perspective Miranda. After Ernie

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lands the chopper, I don't waste any time and haul

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ass to where the action is right away. I'm seeing

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this big red mechanical thing moving around in the middle

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of the snow covered street. It definitely left a trail

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of destruction behind, including the police cars that thing blew up.

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I have no idea what the casualties are. Now I'm

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seeing that thing staring down two chicks. They're wearing Halloween costumes.

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Then I see the hair on one of them is blue.

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Where did she get that fiber optic wig she's wearing.

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Then there's the other one wearing a catsuit decked out

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in jewels. She's the vigilante known as the Jeweler. I've

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been following her story for years. You'll learn more on

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that later. Suddenly, the monster machine raises its arms and

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fires a mini rocket at a nearby apartment building, one

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full of innocent people in their homes on Christmas Eve.

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When the building starts crumbling, the blue haired chick suddenly

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takes my breath away. She moves at the most incredible

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speed I've ever seen, leaving a trail of neon blue

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light behind her. Now she's bringing people out of the

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building two at a time, putting them down by the police,

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then running back in to get more. This is it.

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This is the amazing phenomenon I've been looking for since

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I became a reporter. There's no way that blue Chick

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is from Earth. I'll bet my life on it. Josh

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is probably shitting bricks back in Strickfield watching the footage

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I'm live streaming to him. As expected, not a single

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other reporter is here. They don't want to risk their

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asses over this thing. The Blue Chick keeps bringing out

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more and more people. Finally, the building finishes collapsing just

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as she's bringing out two more. She places them with

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the others. I didn't see any others inside. Are you

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all out here? Everyone looks at one another, Then a

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mother yells to the Blue Chick that her daughter is

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missing and to check the basement apartments. The Blue Chick

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doesn't waste any time and runs back inside. She must

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have gotten into the basement, meaning the rubble hadn't fully

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collapsed it. The mother's really scared now. Then she cries

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out for joy when the speedster returns with the little

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girl in her arms, looks like she's okay. When the

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Blue Hero confirms everybody safe and accounted for, she goes

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back to helping the Jeweler fight that thing. Speaking of

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the Jeweler, she's hauling ass away from that monster after

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she attached some jewels to its leg. When she's far

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enough away, she reveals a device and touches the screen.

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The jewels blow up and cause the monster to rock,

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but only a little. The Blue Chick lowers herself to

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one knee, puts her fist on the road, and oh

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my God, turns the snow into a glistening sheet of ice,

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which goes right underneath the monster's feet. She gets back

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up and miraculously makes piles of snowballs appear on either

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side of her. Then, with incredible speed, she picks them

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up and goes all rapid fire on that thing. The

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snowballs hit the monster with a lot of noise. Those

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aren't just snowballs. They gotta be packed with ice or something.

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Then the jeweler moves and climbs up the thing's back.

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She sticks something inside the neck area more explosives. The

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00:37:44.039 --> 00:37:47.920
thing tries to reach for her, but finds itself slipping

459
00:37:48.000 --> 00:37:51.880
and falling to the street. The jeweler gets away as

460
00:37:51.960 --> 00:37:57.039
the thing makes a big loud thud. How's this for

461
00:37:57.119 --> 00:38:00.519
being a real pain in the neck, the jeweler yells.

462
00:38:01.159 --> 00:38:06.039
Then she detonates the bombs she placed there. After the explosion,

463
00:38:06.119 --> 00:38:10.039
that thing crackles with a shit ton of electricity. Now

464
00:38:10.119 --> 00:38:13.599
that blue chick is right there, you might want to

465
00:38:13.639 --> 00:38:18.639
stand back, she says. The jeweler doesn't argue and gets back.

466
00:38:19.480 --> 00:38:21.639
The blue Chick puts her hands on the head of

467
00:38:21.679 --> 00:38:26.280
the mechanical giant and is making herself shake super fast,

468
00:38:26.519 --> 00:38:30.519
causing the monster's head to vibrate until it falls away

469
00:38:30.559 --> 00:38:35.599
from the body. The blue chick stops vibrating. Well, I'll

470
00:38:35.639 --> 00:38:40.760
be damned, there's two other chicks inside that thing, probably

471
00:38:40.880 --> 00:38:44.719
piloting it or something. The heroes grab each one and

472
00:38:44.840 --> 00:38:49.320
quickly lay them out. Look out, there's one more, the

473
00:38:49.440 --> 00:38:53.199
jeweler tells her blue friend. A third one comes out

474
00:38:53.239 --> 00:38:57.159
with this high tech rifle in her hands. Go to hell,

475
00:38:57.920 --> 00:39:02.639
she yells at the heroes. Then she has this demented

476
00:39:02.719 --> 00:39:08.159
grin on her face and turns her weapon on the police.

477
00:39:08.559 --> 00:39:14.039
Die you, inferior cretans. The Blue Chick shows how incredibly

478
00:39:14.159 --> 00:39:17.239
fast she is by moving in front of the blast

479
00:39:17.599 --> 00:39:21.159
and making the most reflective ice mirror I have ever seen.

480
00:39:22.079 --> 00:39:25.480
The blast hits the mirror and goes back to the gun,

481
00:39:26.199 --> 00:39:30.480
causing it to explode. The bitch goes down, but she's

482
00:39:30.559 --> 00:39:34.000
not out. She pulls out a remote control of her

483
00:39:34.039 --> 00:39:39.239
own and presses it. Suddenly, what's left of that mechanical

484
00:39:39.360 --> 00:39:44.440
giant explodes. That's when this jewel the size of a

485
00:39:44.519 --> 00:39:48.440
golf ball hits her right between the eyes and dazes her.

486
00:39:49.320 --> 00:39:53.719
The jewel immediately returns to its owner. The Blue Chick

487
00:39:53.800 --> 00:39:58.239
runs again, using her super speed and ice powers to

488
00:39:58.320 --> 00:40:02.360
keep the debris from hitting any I'm going on record

489
00:40:02.400 --> 00:40:09.079
and saying she is not human. I've seen things like vampires, werewolves,

490
00:40:09.119 --> 00:40:13.840
and other monsters. Not to mention that teenage girl flying

491
00:40:13.920 --> 00:40:18.079
on discs of red light at the mall. But this

492
00:40:18.280 --> 00:40:23.239
blue woman, God, my heart is really pounding. And if

493
00:40:23.239 --> 00:40:26.559
things aren't bad enough already, the heads of two of

494
00:40:26.599 --> 00:40:32.519
those three chicks suddenly explode. The cops that were taking

495
00:40:32.559 --> 00:40:37.719
them to squad cars are covered in blood and brains. No,

496
00:40:38.599 --> 00:40:43.079
the girl who detonated the monster yells, hurry up, detonate

497
00:40:43.119 --> 00:40:49.000
my bomb, hurry up, But her bomb never goes off.

498
00:40:49.800 --> 00:40:52.800
She's screaming all kinds of shit as the police put

499
00:40:52.800 --> 00:40:55.760
her in the back of a wagon and slam the

500
00:40:55.800 --> 00:40:59.800
door shut. The Jeweler quickly smacks the Blue heroes for

501
00:41:01.159 --> 00:41:03.440
let's get the hell out of here before the police

502
00:41:03.480 --> 00:41:07.440
think to arrest us. They don't exactly take too kindly

503
00:41:07.519 --> 00:41:11.960
to vigilantes here in Shore City. The Blue Chick lifts

504
00:41:12.000 --> 00:41:16.760
the Jeweler into her arms and speeds away. Well, you

505
00:41:16.840 --> 00:41:20.119
know what, I don't care how fast you are, speedster,

506
00:41:20.960 --> 00:41:24.880
even you ain't getting away from me. In fact, I

507
00:41:24.920 --> 00:41:28.679
ain't stop until I track you down and learn just

508
00:41:29.039 --> 00:41:34.800
who you are. I have to Miranda Mason Phillips isn't

509
00:41:34.840 --> 00:41:39.320
a household name in journalism for nothing. You Blue Chick

510
00:41:39.679 --> 00:41:43.159
are gonna be my next big story. I'm gonna make

511
00:41:43.199 --> 00:41:46.320
an even bigger name for myself by the time I'm

512
00:41:46.360 --> 00:41:50.840
through exposing you. In fact, I just figured out how

513
00:41:50.880 --> 00:41:54.800
to track you. See, I'm not just a pretty face.

514
00:41:55.719 --> 00:41:59.960
I also have a reputation for being a detective. In fact,

515
00:42:00.159 --> 00:42:05.760
it's in my job title investigative, reporter and now alien.

516
00:42:06.679 --> 00:42:17.480
I am so coming for you perspective Blue Girl. When

517
00:42:17.519 --> 00:42:20.360
the Jeweler and I are safe enough, I set her

518
00:42:20.360 --> 00:42:24.360
on her feet. She raises an eyebrow. Her face is

519
00:42:24.519 --> 00:42:29.119
concealed by a similar mask to mine. I've never seen

520
00:42:29.199 --> 00:42:34.400
you before tonight. I've been out of action for several years.

521
00:42:34.920 --> 00:42:38.760
I reply, I'd rather not go into my life story.

522
00:42:39.679 --> 00:42:44.239
She nods once. I can respect that, especially since we

523
00:42:44.280 --> 00:42:48.639
really don't know each other at all. She quickly changes

524
00:42:48.679 --> 00:42:54.880
the suspect. You've really got some incredible powers. What's your name,

525
00:42:56.079 --> 00:43:00.519
Blue Girl, I reveal, and I already I know you

526
00:43:00.760 --> 00:43:05.760
are the Jeweler, she smiles. We worked pretty well together

527
00:43:06.159 --> 00:43:10.679
taking that thing down. In case you don't know, those

528
00:43:10.760 --> 00:43:14.599
little girls we stopped are part of some secret society

529
00:43:14.719 --> 00:43:17.880
called the Blue Ribbons. You can always tell one of

530
00:43:17.920 --> 00:43:22.000
them by their tattoos, a figure eight like a breast

531
00:43:22.000 --> 00:43:27.639
cancer ribbon, except it's all blue. Anyway, Those blue ribbons

532
00:43:27.679 --> 00:43:30.320
have been making life hell for the people of Shore

533
00:43:30.400 --> 00:43:34.679
City for some time. I don't know their whole story,

534
00:43:34.719 --> 00:43:38.280
but I have a feeling something huge is in the

535
00:43:38.320 --> 00:43:43.079
works with them. When I nod once, she continues, Normally

536
00:43:43.159 --> 00:43:46.000
there'd be more of us out here, but the others

537
00:43:46.000 --> 00:43:49.679
are out on missions elsewhere. Right now, there's only four

538
00:43:49.719 --> 00:43:53.639
of us in our new group. We're called the Final Defense.

539
00:43:54.519 --> 00:43:59.280
She raises her eyebrow again. You know, we could definitely

540
00:43:59.400 --> 00:44:03.559
use someone like you. I slightly raise my hand and

541
00:44:03.920 --> 00:44:09.000
shake my head slowly. I'm sorry, but I can't. I

542
00:44:09.039 --> 00:44:12.639
appreciate the offer, but I've got problems of my own.

543
00:44:13.480 --> 00:44:17.840
Before the jeweler can persist, I turn and speed away.

544
00:44:18.639 --> 00:44:21.440
I don't go too far. When I feel my grief

545
00:44:21.519 --> 00:44:27.440
overcoming me again, I stop and remove my mask. Even

546
00:44:27.519 --> 00:44:31.639
after these many years of solitude, the pain of losing

547
00:44:31.719 --> 00:44:37.480
Lucius still surprises me, and it grips me tenaciously. I

548
00:44:37.559 --> 00:44:41.679
fall to my knees and sob. I hate being so

549
00:44:41.840 --> 00:44:48.119
alone in whatever this universe is. I am truly alone.

550
00:44:49.119 --> 00:44:52.559
Ever since I came to be marooned here, I've been

551
00:44:52.639 --> 00:44:56.639
separated from my family as a whole. I made a

552
00:44:56.679 --> 00:45:01.360
new one with Lucius and Norma. Loss of Norma was

553
00:45:01.519 --> 00:45:07.719
easier to deal with since she was not beloved but Lucius.

554
00:45:08.360 --> 00:45:10.639
In the past, I've had to deal with the loss

555
00:45:10.679 --> 00:45:15.719
of every beloved in this way. With the previous nine,

556
00:45:15.800 --> 00:45:19.079
I would throw myself into my work to cope with

557
00:45:19.119 --> 00:45:25.480
the pain. It's not so easy with Lucius's loss. Perhaps

558
00:45:25.519 --> 00:45:28.639
it was because Lucius didn't live as long as the

559
00:45:28.679 --> 00:45:33.480
others before him. I came back out into the world

560
00:45:33.519 --> 00:45:38.480
again to help the jeweler, but I can't remain among

561
00:45:38.679 --> 00:45:44.079
these humans. After my pain subsides, I collect myself and

562
00:45:44.199 --> 00:45:48.639
return to my feet. It's then when I feel I

563
00:45:48.719 --> 00:45:55.159
no longer have solitude. I turn and see, Oh no,

564
00:45:56.519 --> 00:46:00.480
Why does it have to be her? Is that the

565
00:46:00.599 --> 00:46:07.840
reporter from Strickfield, Miranda Mason Phillips. She has a smartphone

566
00:46:07.880 --> 00:46:11.800
in her hand and she's recording me with my mask off.

567
00:46:12.800 --> 00:46:16.880
Damn it. It had to have been those blue ribbons

568
00:46:17.280 --> 00:46:22.519
and their mechanical monster that brought her here. You are

569
00:46:23.360 --> 00:46:30.039
truly amazing, Mason Phillip's gushes. Of course, I would have

570
00:46:30.440 --> 00:46:35.199
never imagined you were Candae Redmont, owner of Redmont's Orchards.

571
00:46:35.920 --> 00:46:41.119
I turn and boldly stand toward her. What do you want? Human?

572
00:46:42.440 --> 00:46:46.679
She laughs a little. Oh, I already got what I want?

573
00:46:46.800 --> 00:46:51.760
And then some she lowers her phone. I can literally

574
00:46:51.960 --> 00:46:57.639
feel her elevated excitement. I want your story, blue girl?

575
00:46:58.519 --> 00:47:02.800
Or do I just call you Candice? Her eyes are

576
00:47:02.880 --> 00:47:07.360
wide open when she sees I now have her phone.

577
00:47:07.519 --> 00:47:12.519
How did you? Oh, that's right, you got super speed.

578
00:47:13.320 --> 00:47:17.199
She laughs a little. You could destroy my phone, but

579
00:47:17.960 --> 00:47:22.360
it won't keep your secret identity from being revealed. See

580
00:47:22.400 --> 00:47:27.559
it's already in that little thing called the cloud. Even

581
00:47:27.719 --> 00:47:31.400
you aren't fast enough to determine which servers the video

582
00:47:31.519 --> 00:47:37.800
might be on. What do you want? I insist, I've

583
00:47:37.880 --> 00:47:42.360
never felt such excitement in a human. I'll tell you what.

584
00:47:43.079 --> 00:47:47.400
If you give me your life story, I'll consider deleting

585
00:47:47.440 --> 00:47:51.239
the footage on Earth we call it. You've got to

586
00:47:51.360 --> 00:47:57.440
give to get. She sees an opaque wall forming behind me.

587
00:47:58.800 --> 00:48:01.840
She looks over her should to see one now forming

588
00:48:01.920 --> 00:48:08.599
behind her. Do you really think you can blackmail me? Human?

589
00:48:09.760 --> 00:48:13.719
Even if you were to reveal my current secret identity,

590
00:48:14.559 --> 00:48:19.079
I can always create new ones. I narrow my eyes

591
00:48:19.199 --> 00:48:24.760
on her. I can even put you on ice. You

592
00:48:24.840 --> 00:48:31.320
wouldn't die, Just be carefully preserved. I grab hold of her.

593
00:48:32.360 --> 00:48:35.480
I could even run with you on my shoulder. The

594
00:48:35.559 --> 00:48:39.960
velocity would ultimately kill you, since you would freeze and

595
00:48:40.039 --> 00:48:44.880
then fall apart. I know normally you're supposed to burn up,

596
00:48:44.920 --> 00:48:51.440
but velocity works quite the opposite with me. But Mason

597
00:48:51.599 --> 00:48:56.840
Phillips is anything but scared. You won't kill me. I

598
00:48:56.880 --> 00:48:59.639
can see it on you. You'll have to do better

599
00:48:59.679 --> 00:49:04.159
than threaten my life. I back up and pass through

600
00:49:04.199 --> 00:49:08.360
an ice wall. I can simply leave you in here.

601
00:49:08.440 --> 00:49:16.039
Then there's nowhere for you to run. The reporter's expression

602
00:49:16.239 --> 00:49:22.239
says she knows I have her, but she's not backing down.

603
00:49:23.320 --> 00:49:26.880
I know you're an alien. You're the story I've searched

604
00:49:26.920 --> 00:49:31.360
for my entire life. I just want to know you,

605
00:49:31.519 --> 00:49:35.960
blue girl. Please don't turn your back on me. She

606
00:49:36.159 --> 00:49:40.719
tightens her jaw. I know you won't kill me. You're

607
00:49:40.800 --> 00:49:46.440
not a murderer. I roll my eyes as you say,

608
00:49:46.519 --> 00:49:53.719
on earth whatever, I turn and walk away in truth.

609
00:49:54.000 --> 00:49:58.519
Once I've gone far enough, the ice walls will become

610
00:49:58.639 --> 00:50:04.440
unstable and disappear, since I'm not close enough to maintain them.

611
00:50:04.920 --> 00:50:09.400
I just want to get away from this reporter. Come on,

612
00:50:10.000 --> 00:50:14.280
don't don't leave me like this. I'm serious, she calls out.

613
00:50:15.239 --> 00:50:19.360
I just want to know you. Come with you. Please,

614
00:50:19.480 --> 00:50:24.679
don't don't crush me like this. Come on, I stop

615
00:50:25.400 --> 00:50:31.079
and remove the walls soon. Mason Phillips attaches herself to

616
00:50:31.119 --> 00:50:37.360
me again. Go home. I tell her you've got no

617
00:50:37.679 --> 00:50:40.960
story with me. You will not be able to make

618
00:50:41.079 --> 00:50:47.400
revealing my secret identity stick. For the record, Candace Redmont

619
00:50:47.440 --> 00:50:51.320
is not even my real name. I put my mask

620
00:50:51.480 --> 00:50:56.280
back on. Now leave me be. I have my own

621
00:50:56.360 --> 00:51:01.239
problems to deal with without you adding to them. Then

622
00:51:01.519 --> 00:51:07.920
Mason Phillips snatches my wrist. Fortunately for her, my insulated

623
00:51:08.039 --> 00:51:14.360
costume keeps her hand from getting very very cold. With

624
00:51:14.440 --> 00:51:19.400
my skin fully exposed, the temperature is easily twenty degrees

625
00:51:19.480 --> 00:51:24.920
fahrenheit to the touch. I'll give you something and then

626
00:51:25.199 --> 00:51:29.280
you'll let me come with you. Now, the reporter gives

627
00:51:29.320 --> 00:51:35.039
me something that changes everything. I heard you and the

628
00:51:35.119 --> 00:51:39.880
jeweler talking about the blue ribbons. I know exactly where

629
00:51:39.960 --> 00:51:43.360
those crazy bitches are hiding out here in Shore City.

630
00:51:44.599 --> 00:51:49.840
I raise an eyebrow, So what exactly do you want

631
00:51:49.880 --> 00:51:56.000
from me? Her emotions are elevated higher still. I told

632
00:51:56.039 --> 00:52:00.360
you I want your story I want to be your friend.

633
00:52:01.320 --> 00:52:06.840
You're amazing. I know you're up. What the now her

634
00:52:06.920 --> 00:52:13.159
wrists have suddenly been shackled too busy running your mouth, reporter,

635
00:52:13.920 --> 00:52:18.760
the jeweler says with a smirk, How did you find us?

636
00:52:19.400 --> 00:52:23.760
I ask her. The jeweler chuckles and reaches behind my

637
00:52:23.880 --> 00:52:28.599
ear with this, I planted a micro transmitter on you.

638
00:52:29.440 --> 00:52:32.400
I wanted to find you and convince you to join

639
00:52:32.440 --> 00:52:36.000
the team. I know you said you've got your own problems,

640
00:52:36.039 --> 00:52:40.800
but who doesn't I know, I sure do. The jeweler

641
00:52:40.960 --> 00:52:45.440
turns to Mason Phillips. Now, I believe you were saying

642
00:52:45.519 --> 00:52:49.679
you know something about the location of the Blue Ribbons

643
00:52:49.800 --> 00:52:55.239
layer here in Shore City. The reporter shakes her head slowly.

644
00:52:56.280 --> 00:52:59.840
Go to hell, I ain't giving you shit with me.

645
00:53:00.280 --> 00:53:03.599
You don't get something for nothing. That's the way the

646
00:53:03.639 --> 00:53:09.480
world we live in works. Fine, the jeweler answers. Mason

647
00:53:09.599 --> 00:53:14.000
Phillips smiles big. Now, since it's going to be us

648
00:53:14.119 --> 00:53:19.039
three working together, I'll gladly share what I know. What

649
00:53:19.079 --> 00:53:24.920
do you mean us three? Reporter Jeweler mutters, Blue girl

650
00:53:24.960 --> 00:53:29.159
and I have powers and skills. What exactly do you have?

651
00:53:30.639 --> 00:53:35.239
She scoffs now how do you think Miranda Mason Phillips

652
00:53:35.519 --> 00:53:40.519
became a household name. Huh, She quickly raises her finger.

653
00:53:41.320 --> 00:53:44.800
I'm constantly risking my ass out here for my headlines.

654
00:53:45.519 --> 00:53:48.519
I ain't afraid of anything. I laugh in the face

655
00:53:48.559 --> 00:53:52.559
of death over and over again, just to get my stories.

656
00:53:53.400 --> 00:53:57.920
She tightens her jaw and glares at the jeweler. Face it,

657
00:53:58.320 --> 00:54:03.159
super bitch, you need me come on, quid pro quo,

658
00:54:03.920 --> 00:54:08.039
Hugh Ladies, scratch my back and I'll scratch yours. You

659
00:54:08.119 --> 00:54:11.760
get the idea. The jeweler and I give each other

660
00:54:11.960 --> 00:54:16.599
an uneasy look. But the greater good will win with

661
00:54:16.760 --> 00:54:21.519
me today, forcing me to put my grief behind for

662
00:54:21.639 --> 00:54:26.840
the time being. Taking down those Blue Ribbons would mean

663
00:54:26.960 --> 00:54:32.280
saving countless lives. I already showed I still cared by

664
00:54:32.320 --> 00:54:37.159
coming here in the first place. Looks like we're allies again,

665
00:54:37.280 --> 00:54:43.280
blue girl. The jeweler says, very well, let's do this.

666
00:54:44.079 --> 00:54:49.079
I agree, And it looks like this overly excited reporter

667
00:54:49.960 --> 00:54:58.039
is also our ally for the time being. The fifth Precinct,

668
00:54:58.519 --> 00:55:02.840
Shore City, the arrested Blue Ribbon was placed in a

669
00:55:02.920 --> 00:55:06.920
jail cell after she was forced to change into a jumpsuit.

670
00:55:07.679 --> 00:55:11.679
The young woman refused to say anything when she was apprehended.

671
00:55:12.599 --> 00:55:15.880
Her superiors had taught her to obey the first part

672
00:55:16.400 --> 00:55:20.639
of the miranda warning, a key teaching as she was

673
00:55:20.679 --> 00:55:26.519
assimilated into the secret society bent on world domination. When

674
00:55:26.519 --> 00:55:29.760
the police saw her, they likely determined that she just

675
00:55:29.800 --> 00:55:33.760
wouldn't talk. While that was part of it, the real

676
00:55:33.840 --> 00:55:38.840
reason she was aggressively upset was the bomb failing to

677
00:55:38.920 --> 00:55:43.159
detonate in her head. She knew it would be only

678
00:55:43.199 --> 00:55:47.440
a matter of time before methods would be utilized to

679
00:55:47.519 --> 00:55:53.280
make her reveal her secret societies, very secrets she most

680
00:55:53.320 --> 00:55:58.119
certainly didn't want to betray her sisters. She remained in

681
00:55:58.199 --> 00:56:01.920
her cell for a time before she would finally have

682
00:56:02.039 --> 00:56:05.920
a visitor. It would be a woman, but not any

683
00:56:05.960 --> 00:56:10.239
of her fellow Blue Ribbons. The prisoner couldn't believe her

684
00:56:10.280 --> 00:56:14.760
eyes when she saw the figure was horned and wearing

685
00:56:14.880 --> 00:56:20.840
a metallic outfit that covered her large breasts and her bottom.

686
00:56:21.800 --> 00:56:26.800
What really got the prisoner's attention were her great wings.

687
00:56:27.679 --> 00:56:32.880
The prisoner still refused to speak, even though she was horrified.

688
00:56:33.159 --> 00:56:37.920
Do not worry, mortal, I am not here to harm you,

689
00:56:38.480 --> 00:56:48.880
the being said, I am here to perhaps be your salvation? Who? Who? Who?

690
00:56:49.159 --> 00:57:04.800
Or what are you? The prisoner finally spoke, trembling. I

691
00:57:04.840 --> 00:57:09.800
am hell Weaver, and I can free you from your prison.

692
00:57:10.800 --> 00:57:14.480
I can do more than just that. I can give

693
00:57:14.559 --> 00:57:19.599
you power. The reason you are inside that cell is

694
00:57:19.679 --> 00:57:24.880
because the device implanted within your head failed to detonate.

695
00:57:26.159 --> 00:57:30.960
You would truly die for these women, whom you call

696
00:57:31.159 --> 00:57:37.400
your sisters. Suppose they were to come for you, do

697
00:57:37.480 --> 00:57:41.880
you believe they would take you back into their ranks

698
00:57:42.760 --> 00:57:47.039
or do you feel they would end your life believing

699
00:57:47.119 --> 00:57:52.599
that you have disclosed valuable information to the authorities. The

700
00:57:52.639 --> 00:57:58.559
prisoner sat down on her cot Okay, what you would

701
00:57:58.679 --> 00:58:02.519
just open this cell and let me out? What's it

702
00:58:02.559 --> 00:58:06.400
going to cost me my soul? Come on, I ain't

703
00:58:06.519 --> 00:58:13.599
stupid your servitude. I shall grant you your release and

704
00:58:13.760 --> 00:58:18.679
the power to avenge yourself. In return, you shall serve

705
00:58:18.760 --> 00:58:24.679
me as I wish. Of course, you are not obligated

706
00:58:24.760 --> 00:58:29.880
to accept my offer. Upon my departure. You shall remain

707
00:58:30.039 --> 00:58:36.760
in here until such time. The prisoner was indeed interested.

708
00:58:36.880 --> 00:58:42.199
Now you say you'll give me power? What kind of

709
00:58:42.280 --> 00:58:46.679
power are we talking about here? What sort of power

710
00:58:47.199 --> 00:58:53.360
do you desire? Enlighten me? The prisoner stood up and

711
00:58:53.480 --> 00:58:57.320
went to the door. I'm so sick and tired of

712
00:58:57.320 --> 00:59:01.159
being scared all the time. I want the power to

713
00:59:02.199 --> 00:59:06.199
literally scare the living shit out of people. I hate

714
00:59:06.239 --> 00:59:10.760
always having to fear authority. I want authority to fear me.

715
00:59:11.519 --> 00:59:14.679
I want everyone to fear me the way they make

716
00:59:14.800 --> 00:59:21.559
me fear. I want them to have horrible nightmares about

717
00:59:21.639 --> 00:59:28.920
me whenever they sleep at night. I see, I can

718
00:59:29.039 --> 00:59:34.199
indeed grant you the very power that you seek. And

719
00:59:34.280 --> 00:59:39.159
to prove that to you, hell Weaver suddenly reached inside

720
00:59:39.280 --> 00:59:42.920
the cell and put her index finger and thumb to

721
00:59:43.039 --> 00:59:47.639
the prisoner's head. She cried out for a brief moment

722
00:59:48.239 --> 00:59:53.760
before hell Weaver withdrew her hand. The demonic goddess now

723
00:59:53.880 --> 01:00:01.239
held a microscopic device. I believe this is failed device

724
01:00:01.400 --> 01:00:08.320
that once resided within you, the explosive as you now witness,

725
01:00:09.239 --> 01:00:14.239
I have removed it. Your will is your own again.

726
01:00:15.880 --> 01:00:20.559
Now I give you the choice of either remaining here

727
01:00:20.840 --> 01:00:24.079
in your cell and being at the mercy of the

728
01:00:24.119 --> 01:00:32.559
authorities here, perhaps even your fellow Blue Ribbon sisters, or

729
01:00:32.880 --> 01:00:39.280
you may accept my offer of freedom and power. All

730
01:00:39.360 --> 01:00:46.960
that I ask is for your servitude. What is your answer.

731
01:00:47.639 --> 01:00:52.199
The prisoner looked hell Weaver in the eyes. If you

732
01:00:52.280 --> 01:00:56.119
can give me everything I want, then I'll gladly switch

733
01:00:56.199 --> 01:01:02.400
sides and join up with you. Splendid, hell Weaver replied.

734
01:01:03.440 --> 01:01:07.159
The demonic goddess easily broke the lock on her cell.

735
01:01:08.159 --> 01:01:13.519
Once the former prisoner stepped out, Hell Weaver took her hands.

736
01:01:14.280 --> 01:01:18.320
Now I shall grant to you the power that I

737
01:01:18.440 --> 01:01:24.519
have promised. Hell Weaver transferred an enormous charge of power

738
01:01:25.079 --> 01:01:31.320
directly into her new servant. Do not resist me, child,

739
01:01:31.960 --> 01:01:36.119
Accept the power that I am giving you. Allow it

740
01:01:36.519 --> 01:01:42.000
to flow throughout your body. Allow my power to transform

741
01:01:42.079 --> 01:01:47.679
you into that for which you've always wanted. Relinquish your

742
01:01:47.800 --> 01:01:56.320
humanity and surrender yourself to the power. Surrender yourself to me.

743
01:01:57.840 --> 01:02:03.159
The former Blue Ribbon felt self transforming into something far

744
01:02:03.239 --> 01:02:09.320
more than any advanced bioweapon her former secret society could

745
01:02:09.320 --> 01:02:14.800
have created. She moaned as hell Weaver continued to infuse

746
01:02:14.880 --> 01:02:19.119
her with power. Her clothes tore and flew away from

747
01:02:19.159 --> 01:02:23.760
her body as it was transformed into what the former

748
01:02:23.920 --> 01:02:30.239
mortal envisioned. When hell Weaver was finally finished, the new

749
01:02:30.360 --> 01:02:36.920
creation looked over herself. She was fully nude, except now

750
01:02:36.960 --> 01:02:42.199
she had missed. Covering her breasts and bottom. She turned

751
01:02:42.239 --> 01:02:45.840
and looked into the mirror above the sink in what

752
01:02:46.199 --> 01:02:50.559
was at one time her cell to get a glimpse

753
01:02:51.119 --> 01:02:57.559
of her face. She still retained her beauty, but at

754
01:02:57.559 --> 01:03:03.239
the same time, she knew she would be feared now.

755
01:03:04.800 --> 01:03:10.159
She turned to face her new goddess. What do you

756
01:03:10.320 --> 01:03:14.519
want me to do, the creature asked in her new

757
01:03:15.280 --> 01:03:21.400
childlike voice. First, I shall give you a new name.

758
01:03:22.400 --> 01:03:30.320
From this moment on, you shall be fear For now

759
01:03:31.039 --> 01:03:36.480
you control the very emotion that is your namesake. Your

760
01:03:36.559 --> 01:03:41.800
limits are only your very imagination or of those who

761
01:03:41.840 --> 01:03:48.199
would be unfortunate enough to cross you. Fear smiled. Now

762
01:03:49.159 --> 01:03:55.199
I'd like to test my new power, Hell Weaver smiled back.

763
01:03:56.679 --> 01:04:04.280
By all means, The goddess stepped aside to let the dark,

764
01:04:04.400 --> 01:04:10.199
bluish humanoid with the luminescent yellow eyes exit the jail.

765
01:04:11.440 --> 01:04:15.360
Fear found she didn't have to open the door as

766
01:04:15.400 --> 01:04:20.920
a human would. She simply passed right through it. Hell

767
01:04:20.960 --> 01:04:26.039
Weaver stood by and watched as the police beheld her

768
01:04:26.159 --> 01:04:33.960
newest creation. Fear me, the creature said, simply. Suddenly many

769
01:04:34.000 --> 01:04:39.199
of the police were becoming terrified. Hell Weaver knew that

770
01:04:39.360 --> 01:04:43.519
Fear was causing their greatest nightmares to come to life

771
01:04:44.119 --> 01:04:48.800
in their own minds. The only difference was that Fear's

772
01:04:48.920 --> 01:04:55.800
victims could literally see their greatest phobias and anxieties in

773
01:04:55.880 --> 01:05:00.239
the real world. Fear watched the horror she had had

774
01:05:00.280 --> 01:05:06.639
created with her new power and smiled with satisfaction. She

775
01:05:06.840 --> 01:05:11.280
gasped when the mortals were unholstering their weapons and shooting

776
01:05:11.320 --> 01:05:17.360
at their worst fears, except they were actually shooting and

777
01:05:17.599 --> 01:05:22.480
killing each other. A few of the mortals had dropped

778
01:05:22.519 --> 01:05:28.400
dead from an overdose of fear. Fear glided across the

779
01:05:28.519 --> 01:05:33.159
floor and finished off the rest of them. Then she

780
01:05:33.400 --> 01:05:40.079
turned to her new goddess. Yes, this is exactly what

781
01:05:40.199 --> 01:05:46.920
I want, all right. What do you want me to do?

782
01:05:53.599 --> 01:05:58.280
Hell Weaver smiled. My first command is for you to

783
01:05:58.440 --> 01:06:03.079
simply return to the those two heroes who put you here.

784
01:06:03.920 --> 01:06:07.440
I want you to instill the fear you now command

785
01:06:08.199 --> 01:06:12.119
into them. When it comes to the mortal known as

786
01:06:12.599 --> 01:06:17.679
the Jeweler, do with her what you will. She raised

787
01:06:17.719 --> 01:06:23.599
a claw like finger. However, I do not want Blue

788
01:06:23.639 --> 01:06:29.239
Girl dead. Simply grant under her as much fear as

789
01:06:29.280 --> 01:06:36.000
you wish, nothing more. Do I make myself clear, child,

790
01:06:36.840 --> 01:06:42.559
Fear looked disappointed. I'd like nothing better than to kill

791
01:06:42.800 --> 01:06:48.440
Blue Girl. She looked at her transformed body once more.

792
01:06:49.360 --> 01:06:53.159
But you were here for me. You made sure the

793
01:06:53.159 --> 01:06:58.920
Blue Ribbons can't ever have me again. All right, Hell Weaver,

794
01:07:00.159 --> 01:07:05.559
I won't kill Blue Girl, But why would you spare her?

795
01:07:06.559 --> 01:07:09.800
It sounds to me like there's more to it than that.

796
01:07:10.960 --> 01:07:16.079
When the time comes, you shall know. For now, I

797
01:07:16.199 --> 01:07:19.840
want you to go and play with your new powers

798
01:07:20.480 --> 01:07:27.000
and bring those heroes to their knees. Fear sneered and

799
01:07:27.079 --> 01:07:33.920
her eyes sparkled with pleasure. Hell Weaver watched as her

800
01:07:33.960 --> 01:07:38.719
newest creation floated across the station and out through the

801
01:07:38.800 --> 01:07:44.239
double doors. She knew that the heroes would have their

802
01:07:44.360 --> 01:07:55.599
hands full perspective, Miranda, I'm with Blue Girl and the Jeweler.

803
01:07:56.280 --> 01:07:58.920
Who'd have thought we'd be walking around down here in

804
01:07:59.000 --> 01:08:02.960
the system. I told them I knew a way to

805
01:08:03.039 --> 01:08:08.039
get inside the Blue Ribbons compound through here. I got

806
01:08:08.079 --> 01:08:11.480
the feeling they're getting impatient with me after we make

807
01:08:11.639 --> 01:08:16.840
some interesting turns. Hell, it takes us almost twenty minutes

808
01:08:16.880 --> 01:08:21.760
to get to that one particular door, unlike the many

809
01:08:21.840 --> 01:08:26.399
others we've passed. This one has an advanced security system

810
01:08:26.479 --> 01:08:31.000
on it. This is it, I tell them. I saw

811
01:08:31.039 --> 01:08:33.039
a couple of the Blue Ribbons go in here a

812
01:08:33.039 --> 01:08:37.600
few months ago. While I am a very good investigator,

813
01:08:38.319 --> 01:08:42.279
I'm not tech savvy enough to crack a sophisticated lock

814
01:08:42.479 --> 01:08:48.159
like this one. I'll handle this, blue girl says, raising

815
01:08:48.199 --> 01:08:51.680
her left wrist. She has this thing on it that

816
01:08:51.720 --> 01:08:57.640
she's working like an advanced personal supercomputer. Got it? I

817
01:08:57.800 --> 01:09:02.640
gasp when I hear a beeping sound and the door unlocks.

818
01:09:03.239 --> 01:09:06.079
The heroes look at each other as if knowing we

819
01:09:06.199 --> 01:09:10.880
could be potentially walking into a trap. Before we discuss

820
01:09:10.920 --> 01:09:16.399
a plan, this thing suddenly appears right behind us. She's

821
01:09:16.520 --> 01:09:19.520
floating as she puts a hand on each of the

822
01:09:19.600 --> 01:09:26.760
hero's heads. Two beautiful dollies for Christmas. To start my collection,

823
01:09:27.960 --> 01:09:33.680
the creature says, talking like a little girl. Now let's

824
01:09:33.680 --> 01:09:40.119
see what my newest toys most fear. Oh shit, I

825
01:09:40.239 --> 01:09:43.960
shriek and fall to my knees. Now the heroes are

826
01:09:44.000 --> 01:09:49.439
on theirs. Whatever this this thing is has them under

827
01:09:49.439 --> 01:09:53.560
her spell. She's a naked woman with navy blue skin

828
01:09:53.720 --> 01:09:59.560
and black hair and two glowing yellow eyes. She has

829
01:09:59.640 --> 01:10:03.079
cloud codes billowing around her to provide her some modesty.

830
01:10:04.319 --> 01:10:11.199
She's also got this evil, demented smile. Shit. I have

831
01:10:11.319 --> 01:10:15.159
never been so scared in my entire life. Ever since

832
01:10:15.199 --> 01:10:18.960
this freak showed up, I feel I feel so cold,

833
01:10:19.840 --> 01:10:23.319
like during winter nights back in Bellevue when I was

834
01:10:23.399 --> 01:10:27.760
homeless as a little girl. Now the creature looks right

835
01:10:27.800 --> 01:10:32.720
at me. You're just a cheap dollar store dolly. I

836
01:10:32.800 --> 01:10:38.319
don't want you. I want these two leave before you

837
01:10:38.600 --> 01:10:43.359
die from that which you fear most. I am so

838
01:10:44.199 --> 01:10:48.800
unbelievably scared, but I make myself get up to get

839
01:10:48.840 --> 01:10:52.560
away from that thing. Once I'm at a safe distance,

840
01:10:53.359 --> 01:10:56.840
I'm trying to get a better vantage point. The eyes

841
01:10:56.880 --> 01:11:01.920
on both heroes are plain white. Now, whatever that thing

842
01:11:02.039 --> 01:11:05.840
is doing to them, she's really got them under her spell.

843
01:11:06.760 --> 01:11:12.039
M Yes, I'm loving my new powers. Now, my new

844
01:11:12.199 --> 01:11:18.199
dollies show fear what scares you the most. Then she

845
01:11:18.520 --> 01:11:24.000
can use your fears to destroy you. I know I

846
01:11:24.119 --> 01:11:27.199
like to brag that I'm a total bitch, but I

847
01:11:27.239 --> 01:11:31.039
ain't leaving them at the mercy of that thing. They're

848
01:11:31.159 --> 01:11:36.359
superheroes for Christ's sake. Plus, I need Blue Girl's story.

849
01:11:37.319 --> 01:11:41.079
I'm feeling better now that Fear is not concentrating on me.

850
01:11:42.279 --> 01:11:44.680
Problem is that I can't get too close to her.

851
01:11:45.359 --> 01:11:51.560
I'm still taking deep breaths. Christ I even pissed myself. Okay,

852
01:11:52.159 --> 01:11:56.800
maybe I'm still too close to fear. If I can't

853
01:11:56.840 --> 01:11:59.960
come up with some kind of plan, I'm just gonna

854
01:12:00.159 --> 01:12:05.479
have to throw myself at her. All right, Calm down, Miranda,

855
01:12:06.399 --> 01:12:16.840
think this one through perspective, Blue girl, Where am I?

856
01:12:18.119 --> 01:12:22.359
When everything starts to come into perspective, I'm seeing my

857
01:12:22.600 --> 01:12:28.920
home back in Strickfield. The scenery tells me it's Christmas Day.

858
01:12:29.800 --> 01:12:34.279
I'm indulging in yet another apple when I feel my

859
01:12:34.399 --> 01:12:39.960
beloved wrap his arms around me. There you are again,

860
01:12:40.560 --> 01:12:47.520
eating more apples, Lucius says, squeezing me lovingly. He knows

861
01:12:47.680 --> 01:12:52.159
how cold my body is, yet he never hesitates to

862
01:12:52.159 --> 01:12:57.000
touch me. He knows I'm not of this world, and

863
01:12:57.079 --> 01:13:01.880
he doesn't fear me in the least. I put my

864
01:13:02.000 --> 01:13:07.239
apple down and turned to face him. The two of

865
01:13:07.359 --> 01:13:12.439
us share an intimate kiss. I've come to learn about

866
01:13:12.520 --> 01:13:19.039
this earth holiday known as Christmas through Lucius and Norma.

867
01:13:20.560 --> 01:13:25.880
I remember this point in my life so clearly. It's

868
01:13:25.960 --> 01:13:31.079
eighteen thirty four, and it's our first Christmas as both

869
01:13:31.159 --> 01:13:36.920
beloved and as husband and wife. I had been with

870
01:13:37.119 --> 01:13:42.680
many different species as beloved, but none of them were

871
01:13:42.800 --> 01:13:48.920
as unique as Lucius. For a human male. He truly

872
01:13:49.079 --> 01:13:53.960
understood what it meant to have me in his life.

873
01:13:54.079 --> 01:13:59.319
He truly loved and cherished me, never seeking to exploit

874
01:13:59.399 --> 01:14:05.319
me any way. Yet, why do I feel something is

875
01:14:06.600 --> 01:14:18.800
terribly wrong here? I did not wish to ever become

876
01:14:18.880 --> 01:14:24.399
beloved with another after my loss of Hulky to hell Weaver.

877
01:14:26.399 --> 01:14:29.920
The feeling is most wonderful when you are beloved with another,

878
01:14:30.960 --> 01:14:36.600
but when that connection is severed, the feedback hurts greatly.

879
01:14:38.079 --> 01:14:42.000
I had expressed this concern with Lucius when I felt

880
01:14:42.079 --> 01:14:46.479
we were forging our bonds. I knew I would not

881
01:14:46.720 --> 01:14:51.479
have too many years with him. I was completely honest

882
01:14:51.600 --> 01:14:58.760
about everything. Still he didn't care. On Christmas of eighteen

883
01:14:58.960 --> 01:15:03.239
thirty four, he had told me he didn't really have

884
01:15:03.399 --> 01:15:07.800
money in order to buy Norma and I gifts due

885
01:15:07.920 --> 01:15:12.520
to a bad crop that year. I didn't care. I

886
01:15:12.640 --> 01:15:15.159
was always grateful that the two of them had not

887
01:15:15.439 --> 01:15:20.319
judged me upon first seeing me, even knowing that I

888
01:15:21.000 --> 01:15:24.760
was an alien. They took me into their home and

889
01:15:24.920 --> 01:15:29.119
gave me shelter on what was a completely new world.

890
01:15:29.920 --> 01:15:33.560
In return, I worked for them and let them teach

891
01:15:33.680 --> 01:15:38.039
me the ways of their orchards. I told Lucius that

892
01:15:38.119 --> 01:15:42.399
my family here was the greatest gift I had ever received.

893
01:15:43.479 --> 01:15:47.600
Even though I loved my new husband, I was always

894
01:15:47.640 --> 01:15:53.399
in great fear at knowing one day I would lose him.

895
01:15:53.600 --> 01:15:58.800
And that was when things took a turn for the worst.

896
01:15:58.840 --> 01:16:05.000
Norma appeared, but she wasn't herself. She and Lucius had

897
01:16:05.039 --> 01:16:12.760
both transformed into these unspeakable creatures. Something was horribly wrong.

898
01:16:14.319 --> 01:16:20.560
Why am I experiencing this particular Christmas again? But in

899
01:16:20.640 --> 01:16:28.199
this way? Then those things speak as one voice? How

900
01:16:28.319 --> 01:16:34.000
dare you continue to live? We die giving you a home.

901
01:16:35.000 --> 01:16:39.359
This is how you repay us. I've never felt so

902
01:16:39.640 --> 01:16:44.239
grief stricken in all of my thousands of years in existence.

903
01:16:45.439 --> 01:16:50.239
I'm holding myself and sobbing at how much this fear,

904
01:16:50.920 --> 01:16:57.079
anguish and pain hurts. We contrasts, feel these things far

905
01:16:57.119 --> 01:17:01.800
more than most beings in the multiverse. We have great powers,

906
01:17:01.840 --> 01:17:07.319
but we are also creatures of emotion. I'm so sorry

907
01:17:08.520 --> 01:17:12.039
I choke out. I warned you that our bond as

908
01:17:12.119 --> 01:17:17.520
beloved and our marriage would be short I cared for

909
01:17:17.560 --> 01:17:22.800
you until your last day. Lucius. It wasn't enough. You

910
01:17:22.920 --> 01:17:29.800
should have died with us, Jenesa. It's not fair. That

911
01:17:29.960 --> 01:17:35.560
last part just kept echoing in my mind again and again.

912
01:17:37.319 --> 01:17:40.920
I fall on to my back and feel the tears

913
01:17:41.000 --> 01:17:44.760
freezing to the sides of my face as they trickle

914
01:17:44.880 --> 01:17:51.000
from my eyes. The reality of being lost in another universe,

915
01:17:51.760 --> 01:17:56.760
becoming beloved with one of this world's inhabitants, and losing

916
01:17:56.880 --> 01:18:00.359
him to old, age and death had been a great

917
01:18:00.520 --> 01:18:07.039
emotional burden. I never regretted my days with Lucius, even

918
01:18:07.159 --> 01:18:13.520
knowing I would feel this great pain someday. It's not fair.

919
01:18:13.880 --> 01:18:20.159
It's not fair, the voices keep repeating. Then those things

920
01:18:20.239 --> 01:18:25.119
are hovering right over me. It's time for you to

921
01:18:25.279 --> 01:18:30.359
come with us, Genessa. It's time for you to join

922
01:18:30.560 --> 01:18:37.239
us in everlasting death. I scream my loudest as they

923
01:18:37.399 --> 01:18:42.479
descend upon me. Now I'm feeling as though someone is

924
01:18:42.520 --> 01:18:50.039
shaking me. Everything around me turns into a distortion. Soon

925
01:18:50.199 --> 01:18:54.199
I see the jeweler standing in front of me and

926
01:18:54.279 --> 01:18:59.039
shaking me again. Come on, blue girl, pull yourself together.

927
01:18:59.720 --> 01:19:05.079
The jeweler snaps. Now I remember we were getting ready

928
01:19:05.119 --> 01:19:10.720
to enter what might be the Blue Ribbons Compound. Then

929
01:19:11.039 --> 01:19:15.800
everything went wonky. I know that it's Christmas Eve of

930
01:19:15.880 --> 01:19:23.359
my current time, but I'm still feeling disoriented. I I

931
01:19:23.479 --> 01:19:29.680
remember now, I tell the Jeweler. But didn't you feel

932
01:19:29.720 --> 01:19:34.840
it too? She nods. I don't know what that thing is,

933
01:19:35.520 --> 01:19:38.560
but it found out the hard way. You don't ever

934
01:19:38.680 --> 01:19:41.680
want to be poking around in my head. It's never

935
01:19:41.720 --> 01:19:45.520
a nice place to be. She helps me to my feet.

936
01:19:46.399 --> 01:19:49.960
Don't let your guard down. That thing is still lurking

937
01:19:50.000 --> 01:19:54.000
around here somewhere. The only way to beat it is

938
01:19:54.079 --> 01:19:57.880
to not be afraid. I sigh and shake my head.

939
01:19:59.000 --> 01:20:05.319
Easier said than done. I'm not like you, Jeweler. What

940
01:20:05.560 --> 01:20:11.239
is it you're so afraid of? She demands. No, you

941
01:20:11.359 --> 01:20:15.840
don't get it. I tell her, I'm not of your world.

942
01:20:16.680 --> 01:20:21.720
My emotions are like yours, but greatly amplified. I'm not

943
01:20:21.840 --> 01:20:26.119
going to go into my alien physiology with you, but

944
01:20:26.279 --> 01:20:30.920
I am heeding your warning as best I can. I'm

945
01:20:30.960 --> 01:20:37.279
looking around. Where is that creature? The Jeweler looks at

946
01:20:37.279 --> 01:20:43.000
the open entrance into the Blue Ribbons Compound, then looks upward.

947
01:20:43.800 --> 01:20:48.199
We should probably look into stopping that thing first. It's

948
01:20:48.239 --> 01:20:54.279
out there somewhere, another voice calls out. We see Miranda

949
01:20:54.359 --> 01:20:59.800
Mason Phillips coming toward us. She's looking very scared herself.

950
01:21:00.560 --> 01:21:03.720
I don't know if that thing entered her mind the

951
01:21:03.760 --> 01:21:07.560
way she entered ours, but she seems to be hanging

952
01:21:07.600 --> 01:21:12.920
in there. I'm finally beginning to think clearly again myself.

953
01:21:14.399 --> 01:21:20.600
Are you sure, the jeweler asks Miranda. Positive, she answers.

954
01:21:21.600 --> 01:21:25.039
The jeweler looks at the entrance into the compound again.

955
01:21:26.159 --> 01:21:30.640
Then I tell her what I'm thinking. Why don't you

956
01:21:30.880 --> 01:21:35.119
go inside and see what you can find. I'll head

957
01:21:35.199 --> 01:21:39.000
up and try to find that creature. It can't hide

958
01:21:39.039 --> 01:21:44.119
forever with my speed. The question is can you both

959
01:21:44.760 --> 01:21:55.479
not get caught? She smirks. I'm not the jeweler for nothin.

960
01:21:56.239 --> 01:22:00.760
I'll be all right. She nods at Miranda, What about her?

961
01:22:01.920 --> 01:22:07.359
I look at her and shrug. She'll do whatever she'll do, I imagine.

962
01:22:08.279 --> 01:22:12.319
I don't wait for Miranda to say anything, and speed

963
01:22:12.359 --> 01:22:16.960
through the sewer system. I find no sign of that creature.

964
01:22:18.039 --> 01:22:21.000
Once I make my way back to the street, there's

965
01:22:21.079 --> 01:22:27.039
already chaos with people being terrified. Then I see her

966
01:22:27.520 --> 01:22:34.239
floating above and energy radiating from her body. Um the

967
01:22:34.319 --> 01:22:38.880
fear that all my new dollies give off. She moans

968
01:22:39.119 --> 01:22:47.319
like she's enjoying an intense massage, so delicious and so fulfilling.

969
01:22:48.600 --> 01:22:54.319
That eerie, childlike voice is most nerve racking. The creature

970
01:22:54.439 --> 01:22:59.680
not only has people cowering, there are multiple automobile accidents.

971
01:23:00.479 --> 01:23:04.239
I've got to direct that creature's power at me. I

972
01:23:04.399 --> 01:23:07.960
just have to remember what the jeweler said and not

973
01:23:08.239 --> 01:23:14.279
fear her. This is easier said than done, but I'm

974
01:23:14.279 --> 01:23:19.600
the only hope these people have right now. Also, I'm

975
01:23:19.600 --> 01:23:24.520
an icy cold speedster. How good could that creature's powers

976
01:23:24.560 --> 01:23:27.600
be if she doesn't have the speed to use them.

977
01:23:28.680 --> 01:23:33.760
I'm the fastest one there is, period. I make sure

978
01:23:33.840 --> 01:23:37.000
the creature sees me when I ascend into the air.

979
01:23:37.800 --> 01:23:41.920
Now she sneers at me. I was wondering when my

980
01:23:42.159 --> 01:23:47.399
new favorite Dolly might return. Come to me. I want

981
01:23:47.399 --> 01:23:51.720
to feed on more of what frightens you. You'll have

982
01:23:51.920 --> 01:23:57.279
to catch me first, I tell her. Her eyes gleam

983
01:23:58.359 --> 01:24:03.840
with pleasure. When I turn to fly away, She's suddenly

984
01:24:03.960 --> 01:24:09.680
right on me. N nn, your fear is the tastiest

985
01:24:09.760 --> 01:24:13.560
of all, my Dolly. I don't care what you are,

986
01:24:14.319 --> 01:24:18.239
but I want to be you. I can feed off

987
01:24:18.279 --> 01:24:23.000
your fear for all eternity. She moves to shift her

988
01:24:23.079 --> 01:24:27.640
hand into my brain again. I didn't realize this creature

989
01:24:27.800 --> 01:24:31.279
could be so fast. I'm trying to fly us away

990
01:24:31.319 --> 01:24:35.720
from everybody to keep her solely on me. The problem

991
01:24:35.840 --> 01:24:41.119
is I can't fly at super speed, only run. That's

992
01:24:41.680 --> 01:24:45.640
when I let myself drop. When I feel the creature

993
01:24:45.840 --> 01:24:49.479
trying to hug me from behind like her lover. My

994
01:24:49.640 --> 01:24:54.359
boots brush against something and I see I'm near a building.

995
01:24:55.319 --> 01:24:58.039
I've got to get this thing out of Shore City,

996
01:24:58.640 --> 01:25:05.279
and right now more. I must have more. The creature

997
01:25:05.479 --> 01:25:10.039
moans as she continues to squeeze me to her. I

998
01:25:10.119 --> 01:25:15.000
can feel my elevated fears beginning to overcome me yet again.

999
01:25:16.159 --> 01:25:19.640
I have to focus on my running. The creature hangs

1000
01:25:19.640 --> 01:25:22.520
on as I bolt down the side of the building

1001
01:25:22.760 --> 01:25:26.520
and on to the street. I'm running throughout Shore City,

1002
01:25:27.039 --> 01:25:29.680
trying to make it to one of the suspension bridges

1003
01:25:29.960 --> 01:25:33.319
and get out of town. My hair is leaving a

1004
01:25:33.399 --> 01:25:37.840
trail of neon blue light behind me. That creature is

1005
01:25:37.920 --> 01:25:42.199
still holding on, but she won't be affected by the velocity.

1006
01:25:43.079 --> 01:25:46.359
I believe I generate a protective field when I run

1007
01:25:47.239 --> 01:25:50.920
when holding people in the past, they haven't frozen up

1008
01:25:51.079 --> 01:25:55.920
or burned. So yes, I lied to the reporter earlier

1009
01:25:56.000 --> 01:26:01.319
about how velocity works. In my case, you can run

1010
01:26:01.479 --> 01:26:06.720
as much as you wish, my Dolly, I am fear.

1011
01:26:07.319 --> 01:26:13.239
There's nowhere you can run where I cannot follow, especially

1012
01:26:13.279 --> 01:26:18.399
when I'm attached to you. I'm focused on my running

1013
01:26:19.000 --> 01:26:24.199
and don't think about my fears. This creature calls herself fear.

1014
01:26:25.279 --> 01:26:28.920
Where did she come from? She must be drawing off

1015
01:26:28.960 --> 01:26:34.800
what leftover fear I'm experiencing. I'm concentrating on running, so

1016
01:26:34.880 --> 01:26:39.079
I'm not giving her my actual fear. Soon I'm crossing

1017
01:26:39.119 --> 01:26:45.640
the bridge and leaving Shore City. Yes, keep feeding me.

1018
01:26:46.319 --> 01:26:49.960
You make me want to truly merge with you. With

1019
01:26:50.119 --> 01:26:54.680
your fear. You could feed me and be my Dolly forever,

1020
01:26:55.199 --> 01:27:00.079
since you're an immortal like me. When we reach an

1021
01:27:00.119 --> 01:27:05.000
open area, I stop, and fear is suddenly removed from

1022
01:27:05.039 --> 01:27:09.880
me and tumbling on the snow covered ground. When we

1023
01:27:10.000 --> 01:27:14.399
reach an open area, I stop, and fear is suddenly

1024
01:27:14.479 --> 01:27:18.720
removed from me and tumbling on the snow covered ground.

1025
01:27:20.079 --> 01:27:23.680
When I used to be a vampire, winters on Earth

1026
01:27:23.920 --> 01:27:27.920
never bothered me. Now that I've been transformed as a

1027
01:27:27.960 --> 01:27:32.960
result of that freak accident on that alien world ages ago,

1028
01:27:33.920 --> 01:27:41.439
Winters feel so unbelievably wonderful. Fear manages to stop herself

1029
01:27:41.800 --> 01:27:47.039
and levitates in the air. Who or what are you?

1030
01:27:48.039 --> 01:27:55.359
I ask? Fear laughs like a child. Don't you recognize me?

1031
01:27:56.279 --> 01:27:59.399
I was one of those young women you recovered out

1032
01:27:59.479 --> 01:28:04.600
of our machine. Earlier, the bomb my former sisters planted

1033
01:28:04.640 --> 01:28:10.479
in my head malfunctioned, resulting in me being arrested. But

1034
01:28:10.600 --> 01:28:14.720
as I was sitting in my cell, my hell Weaver

1035
01:28:14.960 --> 01:28:20.000
came and offered me both power and freedom in exchange

1036
01:28:20.039 --> 01:28:28.199
for my services. She kept her promise, now I'm keeping mine.

1037
01:28:28.239 --> 01:28:32.760
She especially wants me to play with you, my Dolly,

1038
01:28:33.760 --> 01:28:39.159
I gasp when I hear hell Weaver's name. So she

1039
01:28:39.439 --> 01:28:45.000
does still exist after our battle for the multiverse over

1040
01:28:45.079 --> 01:28:49.439
two hundred years ago. I don't know how hell Weaver

1041
01:28:49.600 --> 01:28:54.079
found this girl and made her arrangement with her, but

1042
01:28:54.720 --> 01:28:59.600
if that demonic goddess is free once more, it's no

1043
01:28:59.760 --> 01:29:04.840
seat she would target me. I'm the one who thwarted

1044
01:29:04.880 --> 01:29:11.279
her plans during that last stand, and Fear is right

1045
01:29:11.359 --> 01:29:15.319
about hell Weaver when she makes a bargain with you.

1046
01:29:16.279 --> 01:29:20.880
She will always keep her end of it, but woe

1047
01:29:21.000 --> 01:29:32.560
beyond to you if you don't keep yours. I myself

1048
01:29:32.720 --> 01:29:37.159
know Hell Weaver all too well. She's been a part

1049
01:29:37.239 --> 01:29:41.279
of my life from the time I was born. I

1050
01:29:41.319 --> 01:29:46.159
have thwarted her plans for various conquests again and again.

1051
01:29:47.239 --> 01:29:52.119
I should have died during that last stand. However, I

1052
01:29:52.239 --> 01:29:56.920
came to be stranded in whatever universe this is and

1053
01:29:57.039 --> 01:30:01.279
on Earth. If Hell Weaver truly is free of her prison,

1054
01:30:01.800 --> 01:30:06.159
that I must work towards finding peritonium and repairing my

1055
01:30:06.279 --> 01:30:11.399
wrist comp to escape my prison. I must be able

1056
01:30:11.439 --> 01:30:16.479
to find hell Weaver and stop her, even if it

1057
01:30:16.600 --> 01:30:24.760
means my own demise. Suddenly, Fear tries to appear behind me,

1058
01:30:25.439 --> 01:30:28.840
no doubt, attempting to FaZe her hand into my brain

1059
01:30:29.520 --> 01:30:33.760
and access my fears again. She has a look of

1060
01:30:33.800 --> 01:30:38.680
surprise when I easily move away from her. Let's see

1061
01:30:38.720 --> 01:30:43.840
how fast you can truly move, I tell her. Then

1062
01:30:44.000 --> 01:30:48.439
she laughs and flies straight toward me. I turn and

1063
01:30:48.600 --> 01:30:51.800
use my super speed to stay one step ahead of her.

1064
01:30:52.680 --> 01:30:56.920
I'm aware she's capable of teleporting, but I'm faster than

1065
01:30:56.960 --> 01:31:02.600
even teleportation itself, and easily run around her to keep

1066
01:31:02.680 --> 01:31:08.520
on moving. Oh no, you're being a very bad Dolly.

1067
01:31:09.560 --> 01:31:15.439
I demand to know more of your delicious memories. Show

1068
01:31:15.479 --> 01:31:20.880
me more of what frightens you. I'll follow you wherever

1069
01:31:21.039 --> 01:31:27.000
you go. Have I now become your obsession? I say,

1070
01:31:27.600 --> 01:31:32.199
feeling her fly close to me again. Clearly she's much

1071
01:31:32.279 --> 01:31:36.680
faster than me in the air. I've got the advantage though,

1072
01:31:37.199 --> 01:31:41.359
on the ground. Aren't there enough humans on this world

1073
01:31:41.439 --> 01:31:46.520
to satisfy your hunger? Not the way you do, my

1074
01:31:46.880 --> 01:31:51.520
favorite Dolly. I don't know what you are, but your

1075
01:31:51.640 --> 01:31:58.880
easily premium food compared to these plain style mortals. I

1076
01:31:59.079 --> 01:32:04.800
have such a east for you. Now I want more.

1077
01:32:06.319 --> 01:32:14.000
Then she looks away. Huh, yes, a shiny new Christmas

1078
01:32:14.039 --> 01:32:18.439
train to play with. When I see Fear moving away

1079
01:32:18.479 --> 01:32:22.600
from me, I quickly shift and run her way. Soon

1080
01:32:23.159 --> 01:32:27.960
she's flying right over a passenger train speeding down the track.

1081
01:32:28.920 --> 01:32:32.199
I know she's got something in mind for it. I

1082
01:32:32.319 --> 01:32:36.600
run ahead to try and anticipate what Fear is planning.

1083
01:32:37.399 --> 01:32:40.720
I'm well ahead of the train when I see she's

1084
01:32:40.920 --> 01:32:45.840
channeled her powers and destroyed the bridge on the track ahead.

1085
01:32:48.079 --> 01:32:53.520
It's time to choose you, naughty Dolly, continue to evade

1086
01:32:53.600 --> 01:32:58.920
me or save these plain dollies in the little toy train.

1087
01:33:00.159 --> 01:33:05.720
But to save them, you'll permit me to invade your

1088
01:33:05.880 --> 01:33:11.800
psyche and hm feast upon your fears again. More of

1089
01:33:11.840 --> 01:33:16.000
your secrets shall be revealed to me. You don't have

1090
01:33:16.119 --> 01:33:24.079
much time to chew, chew, chew. I don't know what

1091
01:33:24.239 --> 01:33:28.840
that human was before meeting hell Weaver, but she's proven

1092
01:33:28.960 --> 01:33:34.199
to be both creepy and intelligent. She can easily make

1093
01:33:34.279 --> 01:33:39.840
plans based on her environment or situation. She knows I'll

1094
01:33:39.920 --> 01:33:44.079
have to save the people on that train. The problem is,

1095
01:33:44.960 --> 01:33:48.399
it's not just fear. I have to worry about. The

1096
01:33:48.520 --> 01:33:53.399
gap she created in destroying the bridge is vast. What

1097
01:33:53.520 --> 01:33:57.039
I'm about to do could cause great injury to me,

1098
01:33:58.399 --> 01:34:05.039
possibly even my death. But I don't have a choice.

1099
01:34:05.239 --> 01:34:10.159
I cannot let those people die. The only way I

1100
01:34:10.199 --> 01:34:14.600
can save the train is to utilize my power over ice.

1101
01:34:15.560 --> 01:34:19.800
I can construct things by thinking of them and making

1102
01:34:19.840 --> 01:34:24.079
them appear. As long as I can focus, the ice

1103
01:34:24.159 --> 01:34:28.720
will maintain its shape and not melt away, even in

1104
01:34:28.800 --> 01:34:32.720
the hottest of Earth's summers. I create a new bridge

1105
01:34:32.760 --> 01:34:36.880
from my ice powers. The structure is great and will

1106
01:34:36.920 --> 01:34:42.159
require incredible concentration, just to keep it in place as

1107
01:34:42.199 --> 01:34:47.079
the train comes and crosses over. But fear will not

1108
01:34:47.239 --> 01:34:52.640
allow me to do this. In fact, I feel fear

1109
01:34:52.760 --> 01:34:56.920
wrapping her arms around me from behind and rubbing the

1110
01:34:57.039 --> 01:35:04.239
sides of her face against mine. M such new fears

1111
01:35:04.359 --> 01:35:10.760
you're creating for me now, my favorite dolly, Ah, Yes,

1112
01:35:11.880 --> 01:35:19.319
you are scared to allow these mortals to die. Such deliciousness.

1113
01:35:20.479 --> 01:35:24.039
I don't know why your fear tastes the greatest, but

1114
01:35:25.199 --> 01:35:33.439
I want you feed me. Fear is making my elevated

1115
01:35:33.479 --> 01:35:38.039
emotions more evident. I can feel my own fear growing

1116
01:35:38.720 --> 01:35:42.680
as she squeezes me to her like her lover. If

1117
01:35:42.720 --> 01:35:46.239
I can't control it, I won't be able to maintain

1118
01:35:46.359 --> 01:35:51.079
the bridge. The train will cause it to collapse, and

1119
01:35:51.119 --> 01:35:56.439
those people will die. I can't let that happen. I

1120
01:35:56.520 --> 01:35:59.399
can't run at super speed to keep fear away from me.

1121
01:36:00.199 --> 01:36:03.159
The distance would weaken my ability to hold the ice

1122
01:36:03.199 --> 01:36:08.720
structure together. Fear would maintain her hold on me and

1123
01:36:08.800 --> 01:36:14.760
not let go. Ooh, what's this? She shrieks, as if

1124
01:36:14.800 --> 01:36:19.319
she got the greatest Christmas gift she truly wasn't expecting.

1125
01:36:20.239 --> 01:36:26.720
More of your memories are revealed to me. Such pleasures

1126
01:36:26.760 --> 01:36:33.079
you give me, my Dolly. Christmas truly has come early

1127
01:36:33.359 --> 01:36:45.079
for me this year, such a tasty memory the far past.

1128
01:36:46.760 --> 01:36:50.680
I'm reliving my earliest days, when I was but a

1129
01:36:50.720 --> 01:36:55.720
young woman and first lived among the humans of a

1130
01:36:55.840 --> 01:37:02.439
parallel earth. This world was called and was in Universe

1131
01:37:02.680 --> 01:37:08.640
nine one zero. Looks like both fear and you will

1132
01:37:08.720 --> 01:37:14.279
learn a little of my ancient past. As you now know,

1133
01:37:15.159 --> 01:37:19.880
my birth name is Genessa. I was an abomination to

1134
01:37:19.960 --> 01:37:24.439
the people of my home world of Treylon. My mother,

1135
01:37:25.000 --> 01:37:29.680
Queen karah thran Dail, had borne me with a vampire

1136
01:37:29.840 --> 01:37:35.640
from Terra. Like all children, I took on many qualities

1137
01:37:35.680 --> 01:37:39.960
and traits of both of my parents. No matter what

1138
01:37:40.199 --> 01:37:43.479
mother would have told her people, they would never have

1139
01:37:43.600 --> 01:37:47.479
accepted me as her own daughter and would have overthrown

1140
01:37:47.560 --> 01:37:51.720
her to destroy me. In order to keep me safe,

1141
01:37:51.760 --> 01:37:54.920
it was agreed that my father would take me to

1142
01:37:55.039 --> 01:38:00.439
Tara with him. I knew him as father, but many

1143
01:38:01.039 --> 01:38:20.399
the universe over knew him as Dracula on Ta. Dracula

1144
01:38:20.560 --> 01:38:25.000
gave me a family known as the Ta Bons, but

1145
01:38:25.159 --> 01:38:29.399
with no I in the name. It sounds exactly like

1146
01:38:29.600 --> 01:38:33.239
the Ta Bonds of the Earth. I currently live on now.

1147
01:38:34.319 --> 01:38:39.239
In fact, I think the families may be mostly similar.

1148
01:38:40.479 --> 01:38:45.520
I was raised as Cassandra Tabon. Though I knew Dracula

1149
01:38:45.880 --> 01:38:49.199
was my father, I only came to know the Ta

1150
01:38:49.319 --> 01:38:54.800
Bonds as my real family. I loved them and was

1151
01:38:54.920 --> 01:38:59.079
most loyal to them. In this family, I came to

1152
01:38:59.159 --> 01:39:04.199
have a younger sister in Bella. At first, getting along

1153
01:39:04.279 --> 01:39:08.600
with her was difficult, but knowing she was my sister

1154
01:39:08.720 --> 01:39:11.960
in this family, I made every attempt to win her

1155
01:39:12.000 --> 01:39:16.399
to my side. Eventually, Bella came to trust in me

1156
01:39:17.199 --> 01:39:20.159
when I would risk my life to save hers in

1157
01:39:20.239 --> 01:39:26.279
battles again and again. The reason Bella came to hate

1158
01:39:26.319 --> 01:39:31.760
me was because her natural parents died to make sure

1159
01:39:31.840 --> 01:39:37.039
I would reach Grandma and Grandpa Tabon. When I came

1160
01:39:37.119 --> 01:39:43.760
to understand this, I felt horrible and empathized with Bella's feelings.

1161
01:39:44.560 --> 01:39:49.520
Bella finally came to accept me as her sister once

1162
01:39:49.560 --> 01:39:54.159
we became very close. We almost always did everything together,

1163
01:39:55.000 --> 01:40:00.239
not just training to face down the supernatural. But then

1164
01:40:01.039 --> 01:40:06.159
that day came when I would lose Bella. We were

1165
01:40:06.199 --> 01:40:11.439
in our mid twenties when a powerful vampire named Genevise

1166
01:40:11.560 --> 01:40:18.199
Hawthorne came to challenge our family. On Christmas Day, Bella

1167
01:40:18.319 --> 01:40:23.600
and I would learn that Genevese was Dracula's first wife.

1168
01:40:23.640 --> 01:40:27.199
She came to kill me when she learned that Dracula

1169
01:40:27.279 --> 01:40:32.239
had fathered me with an alien woman. She was so

1170
01:40:32.399 --> 01:40:35.960
consumed with madness to end my life that she sought

1171
01:40:35.960 --> 01:40:40.760
out members of the Tabon family and massacred them. When

1172
01:40:40.800 --> 01:40:44.600
I pleaded with Grandma and Grandpa to just give me

1173
01:40:44.720 --> 01:40:49.960
to Genevise, to stop the bloodshed, to stop the Tabon

1174
01:40:50.119 --> 01:40:55.319
bloodline itself from becoming extinct, they wouldn't hear of it.

1175
01:40:56.800 --> 01:41:01.840
Bella became greatly upset with me. She and I truly

1176
01:41:02.000 --> 01:41:08.039
had a sisterly bond that death had finally broken. Genevise

1177
01:41:08.079 --> 01:41:11.600
would eventually get her hands on me, even though I

1178
01:41:11.680 --> 01:41:15.720
had grown powerful as a vampire alien hybrid and was

1179
01:41:15.840 --> 01:41:21.560
trained very well in fighting. Genevise's insanity, jealousy, and rage

1180
01:41:22.119 --> 01:41:26.479
fueled her power. She had killed Bella when she took

1181
01:41:26.520 --> 01:41:31.960
a lethal hit in order to protect me. Then Genevise

1182
01:41:32.079 --> 01:41:36.159
damn near beat me to death, but I wouldn't yield

1183
01:41:36.239 --> 01:41:44.840
to her. You didn't protect me, Cassie. Bella's voice suddenly

1184
01:41:44.920 --> 01:41:52.600
rings out Bella's dead seemingly zombified form sits up and

1185
01:41:52.720 --> 01:41:59.239
approaches me. Genevies did kill Bella on this Christmas Day.

1186
01:42:00.760 --> 01:42:05.279
She died to save my life. Now she's returned as

1187
01:42:05.359 --> 01:42:11.920
this abomination. Bella and I had made plans to eventually

1188
01:42:12.039 --> 01:42:17.119
leave the Tabon homeland and roam the world in order

1189
01:42:17.159 --> 01:42:21.560
to save those who would need our help. Because of

1190
01:42:22.439 --> 01:42:29.760
Genevive's Hawthorn, that would not happen. In fact, when I

1191
01:42:29.920 --> 01:42:34.600
held her dying body in my arms, she caressed the

1192
01:42:34.680 --> 01:42:41.760
side of my face and uttered her last words, I

1193
01:42:42.000 --> 01:42:50.960
love you, sister. Stick to our plan. After I laid

1194
01:42:51.000 --> 01:42:58.600
Bella's body down, it soon became this zombified thing. I

1195
01:42:58.680 --> 01:43:03.279
don't even listen now as it chastises me. I know

1196
01:43:03.520 --> 01:43:07.279
what happened and focus on Bella's final words to me.

1197
01:43:08.319 --> 01:43:11.560
She was the reason why I didn't give up after

1198
01:43:11.640 --> 01:43:16.520
Genevese Hawthorn killed her. This is why I bounced back

1199
01:43:16.800 --> 01:43:20.640
and took the fight to Genevi's. I fought that powerful

1200
01:43:20.680 --> 01:43:27.960
master vampire until I emerged victorious. As for Genevise, she

1201
01:43:28.319 --> 01:43:33.159
would never rise again. But the more fear was placing

1202
01:43:33.239 --> 01:43:38.079
these falsehoods into my mind. The angrier. I was becoming.

1203
01:43:38.960 --> 01:43:43.199
My anger was allowing me to resist fear. It was

1204
01:43:43.439 --> 01:43:47.560
just as the jeweler said, standing up to my fears

1205
01:43:47.600 --> 01:43:55.800
and facing them was the best possible tactic. Current day,

1206
01:43:57.199 --> 01:44:01.880
my hair highly illuminates and cause fear to be repelled

1207
01:44:01.920 --> 01:44:05.960
from me. I feel the feedback on my mind as

1208
01:44:06.000 --> 01:44:10.399
the train begins to cross my ice bridge. My mind

1209
01:44:10.479 --> 01:44:14.680
is still jumbled from the attack and what she fed

1210
01:44:14.720 --> 01:44:20.840
from me. I force myself to focus. The feedback continues

1211
01:44:20.880 --> 01:44:26.079
to cause great pain, but I hold steadfast to keep

1212
01:44:26.119 --> 01:44:31.960
my bridge solid. Curse you and your light. Fear groans

1213
01:44:32.079 --> 01:44:38.319
behind me. Nonetheless, I shall possess you, my dolly. I

1214
01:44:38.399 --> 01:44:42.279
want more of your fears. I will my hair to

1215
01:44:42.359 --> 01:44:46.880
illuminate brighter. Fear cries out and is forced to retreat.

1216
01:44:47.760 --> 01:44:50.000
I won't be able to keep this up for long.

1217
01:44:50.680 --> 01:44:55.520
The feedback from my mind is so painful. Now I

1218
01:44:55.560 --> 01:45:00.319
can see the pillars of the ice bridge cracking. Oh.

1219
01:45:00.960 --> 01:45:06.399
I stammer, feeling my weakened knees give way. Please No,

1220
01:45:08.119 --> 01:45:12.880
my willpower is fading more. I keep pushing to make

1221
01:45:12.920 --> 01:45:18.079
the pillars become solid again. The train is halfway across

1222
01:45:18.159 --> 01:45:22.039
the bridge. Now I can feel myself bleeding from my

1223
01:45:22.239 --> 01:45:28.039
nose and my eyes. I know I'm getting weaker and weaker.

1224
01:45:29.399 --> 01:45:34.600
My head still hurts fiercely. I just can't shake fear's

1225
01:45:34.640 --> 01:45:39.920
effects on my mind. While I'm not afraid, now she

1226
01:45:40.039 --> 01:45:46.680
has left her residue behind. I collapse and fall. The

1227
01:45:46.760 --> 01:45:50.880
pillars are cracking again. If my ice bridge collapses, there's

1228
01:45:50.960 --> 01:45:54.880
no way I can possibly save that train. All of

1229
01:45:54.920 --> 01:45:59.920
those people will die. I couldn't save Bella all those years,

1230
01:46:00.560 --> 01:46:05.920
and now this effort will be all for nothing. Yes,

1231
01:46:07.239 --> 01:46:12.720
your light is fading, and when it fades enough, I

1232
01:46:12.960 --> 01:46:19.159
shall enter your body and merge with you such delicious fears.

1233
01:46:19.840 --> 01:46:25.680
You will sustain me with one more time. I remember Bella.

1234
01:46:27.079 --> 01:46:30.239
Even though she could give me a hard time the

1235
01:46:30.279 --> 01:46:35.880
way a younger sister could, she understood things and helped

1236
01:46:35.880 --> 01:46:40.159
me to adapt to tera. She had just as much

1237
01:46:40.239 --> 01:46:46.960
to teach me as our grandparents. I'm so very weak

1238
01:46:48.680 --> 01:46:54.520
and in a great deal of pain. Now I'm slipping.

1239
01:46:56.239 --> 01:47:05.039
I don't know how I can continue. I'm doomed. I'm

1240
01:47:05.039 --> 01:47:13.199
a failure to my family, to my beloveds, to these

1241
01:47:13.239 --> 01:47:30.800
innocent people on this train. I am weak and pathetic. No,

1242
01:47:32.039 --> 01:47:36.079
this isn't about me. I have to save these people,

1243
01:47:36.399 --> 01:47:40.239
no matter the cost. I force myself to my feet.

1244
01:47:40.920 --> 01:47:44.520
I feel my heart growing more powerful as it sends

1245
01:47:44.600 --> 01:47:49.640
bitterly cold energies throughout the rest of my body. My

1246
01:47:49.800 --> 01:47:56.199
hair illuminates brightly yet again, to drive Fear back. I

1247
01:47:56.239 --> 01:48:00.560
can keep my bridge together. My heart is a source

1248
01:48:00.600 --> 01:48:06.159
of my vast power. It is what sustains me. The

1249
01:48:06.279 --> 01:48:09.640
train is almost to the end of the bridge. I

1250
01:48:09.800 --> 01:48:13.800
watch as the last car is off. I did it.

1251
01:48:15.439 --> 01:48:22.920
I saved those people. Now I turn and face Fear.

1252
01:48:24.439 --> 01:48:29.600
You never should have entered my psyche again. You were

1253
01:48:29.640 --> 01:48:34.840
the one who inadvertently helped me save those people. Fear

1254
01:48:35.039 --> 01:48:39.039
raises her hands in front of her. I don't care

1255
01:48:39.119 --> 01:48:45.039
about that, I sigh. That's why you joined the Blue Ribbons,

1256
01:48:45.359 --> 01:48:51.159
Wasn't it because you no longer cared. I can't say

1257
01:48:51.239 --> 01:48:54.479
for sure, but you gave up your life to them.

1258
01:48:55.600 --> 01:48:59.760
You gave up your very soul to hell Weaver. You

1259
01:48:59.800 --> 01:49:03.560
may think you've got the bigger and better deal, but

1260
01:49:03.680 --> 01:49:06.880
the time will come when hell Weaver will place you

1261
01:49:06.960 --> 01:49:11.039
in a situation where you will wish you had never

1262
01:49:11.199 --> 01:49:15.680
made your arrangement. Hell Weaver gave me a new life

1263
01:49:15.720 --> 01:49:18.560
and a new purpose. When the Blue Ribbons would have

1264
01:49:18.600 --> 01:49:23.520
found and killed me, I have power now with it,

1265
01:49:23.920 --> 01:49:27.680
I gained my revenge on all of them, and now

1266
01:49:27.720 --> 01:49:34.359
I shall finally claim you, my dolly. Not today, I

1267
01:49:34.520 --> 01:49:37.840
tell her. I speed right to her and drop her

1268
01:49:37.840 --> 01:49:41.479
with a punch. She wipes the glowing yellow blood from

1269
01:49:41.520 --> 01:49:45.760
her mouth and looks up at me. You're not supposed

1270
01:49:45.800 --> 01:49:50.840
to be able to touch me. I'm intangible. I raise

1271
01:49:51.000 --> 01:49:57.439
my finger. You said so yourself, it's your name. You

1272
01:49:57.800 --> 01:50:01.760
are Fear. As long as I let myself feel that emotion,

1273
01:50:02.359 --> 01:50:07.319
you have power over me. But I don't fear you. Now.

1274
01:50:08.760 --> 01:50:13.840
The sepheric light radiating from my hair seems to affect you,

1275
01:50:15.119 --> 01:50:20.560
and since you are corporeal. Now, I grab Fear and

1276
01:50:20.720 --> 01:50:24.840
place her up on my shoulders, then run at super speed.

1277
01:50:26.039 --> 01:50:33.640
Now now I run around the world again and again.

1278
01:50:34.720 --> 01:50:38.319
As long as I hold on to Fear, my intense

1279
01:50:38.439 --> 01:50:48.800
velocity will not destroy her. Let me go, please. Eventually

1280
01:50:49.279 --> 01:50:53.159
I do stop and put her down just outside a

1281
01:50:53.239 --> 01:50:58.600
set of double doors. Clearly, Fear is most vulnerable when

1282
01:50:58.640 --> 01:51:03.159
she herself is made to feel the very thing she

1283
01:51:03.479 --> 01:51:07.560
is to embody. From there, I take her hands and

1284
01:51:07.800 --> 01:51:12.079
encase her in ice. The police of the sixth Precinct

1285
01:51:12.720 --> 01:51:16.640
see that I've given them fear. They don't know what

1286
01:51:16.800 --> 01:51:20.079
to make of me and my cargo, but the officers

1287
01:51:20.159 --> 01:51:24.800
ask me to wait and go back inside. Before long,

1288
01:51:24.960 --> 01:51:30.239
this team from mirr In Technologies comes and takes the

1289
01:51:30.359 --> 01:51:35.319
frozen creature away. They load her into what appears to

1290
01:51:35.359 --> 01:51:40.640
be a refrigerated truck that should keep her on ice indefinitely.

1291
01:51:41.399 --> 01:51:46.439
Suddenly I hear the bells and turn to look up

1292
01:51:46.479 --> 01:51:53.000
at the big clock near by. It rings twelve times.

1293
01:51:53.840 --> 01:51:58.039
The other humans know it too, because they wish each

1294
01:51:58.079 --> 01:52:03.279
other a merry crisis. I can't help but feel my

1295
01:52:03.439 --> 01:52:09.640
own icy tears rolling down my cheeks and freezing. As

1296
01:52:09.680 --> 01:52:13.840
long as Christmas Day continues to come every twenty fifth

1297
01:52:13.840 --> 01:52:19.960
of December, I'll always be forced to shed tears for Lucius,

1298
01:52:20.000 --> 01:52:24.720
since Christmas was our favorite time of the year. It

1299
01:52:24.880 --> 01:52:31.560
was this earth holiday that he loved sharing with me most. Hey,

1300
01:52:32.680 --> 01:52:36.920
A voice calls out to me. I turned to see Miranda,

1301
01:52:37.039 --> 01:52:41.800
Mason Phillips and the Jeweler approaching. When we're not with

1302
01:52:41.920 --> 01:52:45.840
an earshot of the police, I ask them, how was

1303
01:52:45.880 --> 01:52:51.279
your expedition into the Blue Ribbons headquarters? The reporter growls

1304
01:52:51.319 --> 01:52:55.479
in frustration that goddamn creature got to all of them

1305
01:52:55.479 --> 01:52:59.640
before we could. I don't know how, but she managed

1306
01:52:59.640 --> 01:53:04.279
to kill every single one of them. I mean, those

1307
01:53:04.319 --> 01:53:09.560
looks of anguish and horror on their faces even scared me.

1308
01:53:10.840 --> 01:53:16.680
She tightens her fists, and I don't scare easily. You

1309
01:53:16.720 --> 01:53:19.800
can't afford to get scared when you're in my line

1310
01:53:19.800 --> 01:53:24.520
of work, the Jeweler adds, And with those women all dead,

1311
01:53:25.039 --> 01:53:27.119
it would have taken a great deal of time to

1312
01:53:27.199 --> 01:53:32.199
access all those supercomputers and other advanced technology the reporter

1313
01:53:32.279 --> 01:53:36.399
and I found there. She raised her finger. Time we

1314
01:53:36.479 --> 01:53:41.399
wouldn't get since the self destruct sequence suddenly initiated. I

1315
01:53:41.439 --> 01:53:43.760
had to grab Miranda and get us the hell out

1316
01:53:43.760 --> 01:53:51.119
of there. Unfortunately, the Blue Ribbons were well prepared somehow,

1317
01:53:51.199 --> 01:53:55.840
I'm not surprised, I agree. I even feel a bit

1318
01:53:56.479 --> 01:53:59.520
let down. I would have liked to have seen if

1319
01:53:59.560 --> 01:54:04.880
they had some equivalent of a peritonium chip. Even though

1320
01:54:04.880 --> 01:54:08.520
I've been stranded on this world for many years, I

1321
01:54:08.640 --> 01:54:12.319
know I can't give up, especially since I know hell

1322
01:54:12.359 --> 01:54:17.159
Weaver has finally resurfaced. I've seen these Blue Ribbons before,

1323
01:54:17.920 --> 01:54:21.600
The Jeweler mutters. Once they clean up in here, they'll

1324
01:54:21.640 --> 01:54:25.239
either abandon their compound or set up again with a

1325
01:54:25.279 --> 01:54:29.520
new crew. Either way, we haven't seen the last of them.

1326
01:54:30.439 --> 01:54:34.560
She looks at her communication device. The other members of

1327
01:54:34.600 --> 01:54:38.000
the Final Defense are finishing their mission, but they won't

1328
01:54:38.039 --> 01:54:42.680
be back anytime soon. I'm ready to leave and head

1329
01:54:42.720 --> 01:54:48.640
back to Strickfield. Then the Jeweler quickly snatches my wrist. Wait,

1330
01:54:53.640 --> 01:54:56.479
I'm not sure that I'm ready to join your team.

1331
01:54:57.279 --> 01:55:06.159
I tell her I'm still not okay. She nods once understandable,

1332
01:55:07.399 --> 01:55:11.039
But I was going to ask you, if you don't

1333
01:55:11.039 --> 01:55:15.119
have any plans for Christmas, would you like to join

1334
01:55:15.199 --> 01:55:19.560
me for dinner at my home. I could hear the

1335
01:55:19.600 --> 01:55:25.479
melancholia in her tone, which triggered my own emotions. I

1336
01:55:25.520 --> 01:55:30.119
could understand that, like me, she herself had lost someone

1337
01:55:30.239 --> 01:55:35.439
dear to her and was alone for the holiday. Clearly

1338
01:55:35.600 --> 01:55:41.000
she could sense the same thing from me. I don't

1339
01:55:41.199 --> 01:55:46.239
wish to be alone on Christmas again this year. I

1340
01:55:46.319 --> 01:55:50.399
agree to have dinner with the Jeweler, and much to

1341
01:55:50.520 --> 01:55:56.000
my surprise, she invites that reporter. I could sense the

1342
01:55:56.079 --> 01:55:59.960
sadness she felt, which is why I believe she accepted

1343
01:56:00.199 --> 01:56:04.239
the invitation. She did not want to be alone on

1344
01:56:04.319 --> 01:56:09.439
Christmas Day either. I'll leave the reporter side of me

1345
01:56:09.760 --> 01:56:15.920
at the door, she promises, Yeah, please do. The jeweler

1346
01:56:16.000 --> 01:56:26.159
responds perspective Miranda. It's not often I promise not to

1347
01:56:26.199 --> 01:56:31.840
be a reporter. Remember, I'm all about me. Still, these

1348
01:56:31.920 --> 01:56:35.159
two did save a bunch of people and on Christmas Eve,

1349
01:56:36.079 --> 01:56:40.359
and they weren't looking for any reward or accolades. They

1350
01:56:40.399 --> 01:56:43.119
did it because it was the right thing to do.

1351
01:56:44.399 --> 01:56:48.079
I still have my angles though. I've been looking into

1352
01:56:48.159 --> 01:56:52.640
the jeweler for some time and already determined her secret identity.

1353
01:56:53.479 --> 01:56:57.840
All I gotta say is, Charlie Evans is definitely one

1354
01:56:57.880 --> 01:57:01.600
of the wealthiest women I know. I mean, this woman

1355
01:57:01.800 --> 01:57:07.479
has a fortune and jewelry, among other things. What's her story?

1356
01:57:08.319 --> 01:57:13.319
Ten years ago Christmas Day, Wilmont Evans attended a special

1357
01:57:13.319 --> 01:57:17.920
event with his wife Shar at the Masonic Auditorium. After

1358
01:57:18.039 --> 01:57:21.640
they were leaving the event, these thugs came to rob them.

1359
01:57:21.960 --> 01:57:25.960
When they tried assaulting Shar, Wilmot fought for her and

1360
01:57:26.119 --> 01:57:30.439
was gunned down in the street. Shar was shot repeatedly,

1361
01:57:30.560 --> 01:57:33.720
but the thugs didn't have time to make sure that

1362
01:57:34.159 --> 01:57:39.680
either one was finished off. And this was my very

1363
01:57:39.760 --> 01:57:43.319
first story as a reporter. I was sent to take

1364
01:57:43.399 --> 01:57:47.439
pictures of the Evans and maybe get some quotes. I

1365
01:57:47.560 --> 01:57:51.119
wasn't expecting to cover the horrible scene that had taken place.

1366
01:57:52.399 --> 01:57:57.279
I wasn't being exploitative like I am now. I truly

1367
01:57:57.800 --> 01:58:00.960
just felt awful for those two. They were pillars of

1368
01:58:01.000 --> 01:58:04.680
Shore City and always gave to charities and programs to

1369
01:58:04.760 --> 01:58:09.560
help the needy. Char survived and took her time to recover.

1370
01:58:10.600 --> 01:58:14.800
Of course, I never guessed this horrible event would send

1371
01:58:14.880 --> 01:58:20.079
her down a path to becoming the jeweler. Unfortunately, Shar

1372
01:58:20.279 --> 01:58:23.880
didn't get revenge on the thugs. They had been rounded

1373
01:58:23.960 --> 01:58:26.720
up and sentenced to life in prison with no parole.

1374
01:58:27.960 --> 01:58:31.199
But she would train and push herself until she became

1375
01:58:31.359 --> 01:58:35.079
the best she could be. Now she prowls the night

1376
01:58:35.680 --> 01:58:39.720
taking down pieces of shit like those thugs. As many

1377
01:58:39.800 --> 01:58:43.479
times as I could have published Char's story, I just

1378
01:58:43.840 --> 01:58:47.600
couldn't bring myself to do it. I guess even a

1379
01:58:47.640 --> 01:58:51.720
stone cold bitch like me does have a heart just

1380
01:58:51.880 --> 01:58:57.039
a little bit. Char still lives in this luxurious mansion

1381
01:58:57.159 --> 01:59:00.960
her deceased husband moved her into after they got married.

1382
01:59:01.880 --> 01:59:06.359
Even though she's hosting Christmas dinner here, she's still dressed

1383
01:59:06.439 --> 01:59:10.079
up in a formal evening gown like she's going out later.

1384
01:59:11.600 --> 01:59:15.439
And Blue Girl, Wow, she showed up wearing a gown

1385
01:59:15.479 --> 01:59:19.079
that looked like it could have been made from crystalline ice.

1386
01:59:19.840 --> 01:59:23.039
Both of them didn't need to wear masks since they

1387
01:59:23.079 --> 01:59:26.680
seemed to trust each other. Now, for the record, I

1388
01:59:26.760 --> 01:59:30.279
said I wouldn't publish Charlie Evans's secret, but I never

1389
01:59:30.359 --> 01:59:34.640
said anything about Blue Girl. As if reading my mind,

1390
01:59:35.199 --> 01:59:39.039
Candace looks right at me. Go ahead and reveal my

1391
01:59:39.159 --> 01:59:43.279
secret identity. I'll just create a new one and move

1392
01:59:43.399 --> 01:59:47.720
to a new place. Candace Redmont is not even my

1393
01:59:47.880 --> 01:59:52.960
real name. Shar speaks up. Now, I invited you into

1394
01:59:53.000 --> 01:59:56.560
my home to spend Christmas with us, Miranda. If you

1395
01:59:56.640 --> 02:00:01.000
can't even be respectable for just one day, then I'll

1396
02:00:01.000 --> 02:00:04.840
have two of my staff show you the door. I

1397
02:00:05.000 --> 02:00:09.399
raise both my hands. Okay, you win. I won't publish

1398
02:00:09.479 --> 02:00:14.439
either of your personal stories. I stand up, But god

1399
02:00:14.520 --> 02:00:17.920
damn it, I want your stories. I want the ones

1400
02:00:18.000 --> 02:00:22.399
you too will create with with saving people. Those will

1401
02:00:22.439 --> 02:00:27.039
sell newspapers, for sure. Shar stands up and points at me.

1402
02:00:27.880 --> 02:00:31.600
But not today. Need I remind you of your agreement

1403
02:00:32.000 --> 02:00:36.399
to leave the reporter in you outside. She's got me.

1404
02:00:37.359 --> 02:00:42.239
I nod once and tell them I understand. I will.

1405
02:00:43.079 --> 02:00:47.079
The three of us enjoy Christmas together. Shar even shows

1406
02:00:47.159 --> 02:00:51.239
kindness to her servants and lets them enjoy this magnificent

1407
02:00:51.399 --> 02:00:55.560
feast they helped prepare. Her husband was a kind and

1408
02:00:55.640 --> 02:01:01.640
generous man, and she honors his memories by being the same. Eventually,

1409
02:01:01.680 --> 02:01:05.319
the three of us do leave the Evans mansion and

1410
02:01:05.399 --> 02:01:08.560
head out to a Christmas event at the Masonic Auditorium,

1411
02:01:09.079 --> 02:01:12.560
where we see a Broadway level performance of Charles Dickens

1412
02:01:12.800 --> 02:01:17.479
a Christmas Carol. Shah explained that it was Wilmot's favorite

1413
02:01:17.520 --> 02:01:21.199
story of all time, and she keeps this memory of

1414
02:01:21.279 --> 02:01:26.199
him alive by always attending the special Christmas Day performance.

1415
02:01:27.800 --> 02:01:33.319
Even Candace seems to shed some icy tears. Funny thing

1416
02:01:33.439 --> 02:01:38.680
is Candace's skin is snow white. I'm sure people think

1417
02:01:38.760 --> 02:01:42.520
she's an albino. Her blue hair is more of a

1418
02:01:42.560 --> 02:01:47.000
reddish violet. Now turns out she can make her fiber

1419
02:01:47.079 --> 02:01:52.000
optic like hair into any color she wants. I can't lie.

1420
02:01:52.039 --> 02:01:55.600
I'm pretty jealous. This alien woman is going to be

1421
02:01:55.680 --> 02:02:06.399
my obsession. Just sitting next to her is exciting. Candace

1422
02:02:06.560 --> 02:02:11.600
is the most amazing phenomenon I've ever seen. Forget your

1423
02:02:11.720 --> 02:02:16.479
vampires and ghosts, or even the mutant spider girls out there.

1424
02:02:17.039 --> 02:02:22.119
Candace is an actual alien with powers beyond our comprehension,

1425
02:02:23.039 --> 02:02:26.720
things people like me can only ever dream of seeing,

1426
02:02:26.840 --> 02:02:30.560
let alone doing. I gotta find a way to stay

1427
02:02:30.600 --> 02:02:35.960
close to her somehow. Imagine if I could actually visit

1428
02:02:36.039 --> 02:02:40.800
her world and see the things she's seen. I know

1429
02:02:40.840 --> 02:02:43.800
I'm not getting any sleep tonight. When we're leaving the event,

1430
02:02:44.600 --> 02:02:48.079
Shar poses for a few pictures with Candace and I.

1431
02:02:49.000 --> 02:02:51.640
At least I'll have something else to send Josh for

1432
02:02:51.720 --> 02:02:56.479
tomorrow's edition. For the record, Josh already got the footage

1433
02:02:56.520 --> 02:02:59.279
from me of when Blue Girl and the Jeweler took

1434
02:02:59.319 --> 02:03:03.720
down that mechanical monster yesterday. When the photo ops here

1435
02:03:03.800 --> 02:03:07.439
at the venue are done, we get into Shar's limo

1436
02:03:07.640 --> 02:03:11.159
and return to her house. I still can't take my

1437
02:03:11.279 --> 02:03:15.960
eyes off Candace. When we reach Shar's mansion, we head inside.

1438
02:03:17.079 --> 02:03:22.039
We spend some time talking about things. Eventually, those blue

1439
02:03:22.119 --> 02:03:26.439
ribbons bitches come up. Shar says she'll keep looking into them.

1440
02:03:27.279 --> 02:03:30.479
Doesn't it strike you funny that a secret society of

1441
02:03:31.159 --> 02:03:34.760
college aged women had a compound right here in Shore City.

1442
02:03:35.840 --> 02:03:39.640
Suppose there are more of them in other cities, maybe

1443
02:03:39.640 --> 02:03:43.920
even around the world. I've been pondering the same thing,

1444
02:03:44.600 --> 02:03:49.880
Candace admits. Shar raises her finger, and once I inform

1445
02:03:50.000 --> 02:03:53.399
the rest of the team about them, I'm sure investigating

1446
02:03:53.439 --> 02:03:56.399
them is going to become a priority for the Final Defense.

1447
02:03:57.560 --> 02:03:59.880
Shar and Candace look at each other for a moment,

1448
02:04:00.840 --> 02:04:07.920
then Candace says, okay, fine, I'll join your team. Shar

1449
02:04:08.159 --> 02:04:14.279
brightens up. Are you sure, Candace nods. It's clear this

1450
02:04:14.359 --> 02:04:19.039
world needs me again, especially with those Blue Ribbons being

1451
02:04:19.119 --> 02:04:23.039
a very real threat. I can't be the only other

1452
02:04:23.119 --> 02:04:26.680
one you'll need to recruit. It can't just be the

1453
02:04:26.760 --> 02:04:31.279
five of us to defeat this, she points at Candace.

1454
02:04:32.359 --> 02:04:36.119
But maybe with you joining us, it'll entice other heroes

1455
02:04:36.159 --> 02:04:38.760
to want to join up too. You're not the only

1456
02:04:38.840 --> 02:04:43.640
one with superpowers, elementor hot Shot and Street Warrior they

1457
02:04:43.680 --> 02:04:47.319
also have them, although you are the only one who's

1458
02:04:47.800 --> 02:04:53.560
an actual alien. Shar extends her hand. Welcome to the

1459
02:04:53.640 --> 02:04:58.720
Final Defense, Blue Girl. Candace shakes her hand to seal

1460
02:04:58.800 --> 02:05:03.960
the deal. Then Shar looks at me. I know what

1461
02:05:04.119 --> 02:05:07.439
you want. Don't worry. You'll get your headlines for your

1462
02:05:07.520 --> 02:05:12.159
village's newspaper so long as you cooperate with us. Shar

1463
02:05:12.319 --> 02:05:16.760
stands up quickly. And if you even think of screwing

1464
02:05:16.840 --> 02:05:19.920
us over, I'll make sure you go from being an

1465
02:05:19.960 --> 02:05:23.840
ace reporter to becoming a laughingstock of the newspaper world.

1466
02:05:24.840 --> 02:05:28.359
Your good name will forever be tarnished. Believe me when

1467
02:05:28.399 --> 02:05:33.239
I say I do not make idle threats. Then I

1468
02:05:33.399 --> 02:05:36.760
just point at Candace and blurt it out. I want

1469
02:05:36.800 --> 02:05:41.840
her story too. I look at Candace. I'm so fascinated

1470
02:05:41.880 --> 02:05:45.880
by you. I want more than anything to know your background.

1471
02:05:46.760 --> 02:05:51.000
I want to know you. Candace shakes her head. No,

1472
02:05:51.840 --> 02:05:55.640
I don't want you publishing anything regarding my life. I

1473
02:05:55.680 --> 02:05:58.720
don't believe this world is ready to accept the existence

1474
02:05:58.760 --> 02:06:02.479
of alien beings, not with the way your people can be.

1475
02:06:03.920 --> 02:06:09.199
She's right, Shara agrees. Then I say those three words

1476
02:06:09.279 --> 02:06:16.159
I very much hate saying, most off the record. Now

1477
02:06:16.199 --> 02:06:19.479
I have their attention. I don't want to publish your

1478
02:06:19.520 --> 02:06:23.760
life stories. I mean I do, at the same time

1479
02:06:23.880 --> 02:06:27.199
I don't. It's just it's just me here. I know

1480
02:06:27.319 --> 02:06:31.600
your story, shar But I really want to know your story, Candace.

1481
02:06:32.760 --> 02:06:35.840
You're what I've been waiting for my whole life. Then

1482
02:06:35.880 --> 02:06:39.720
I declare I would even quit my job if it

1483
02:06:39.760 --> 02:06:43.439
meant I could really know you. Char and Candace look

1484
02:06:43.479 --> 02:06:48.119
at each other again. Then Candace tells me it won't

1485
02:06:48.119 --> 02:06:51.119
come to that. For me to share my life's story,

1486
02:06:51.760 --> 02:06:55.279
You'll have to prove to me that I can trust you.

1487
02:06:55.279 --> 02:07:00.239
You did threaten to expose me just yesterday. Fine, then

1488
02:07:00.279 --> 02:07:03.359
I'll earn your trust. In front of them, I delete

1489
02:07:03.399 --> 02:07:06.920
the footage of her unmasked. I want to be a

1490
02:07:06.960 --> 02:07:11.960
part of your life. Please. We talk about it some more.

1491
02:07:12.640 --> 02:07:16.520
The heroes agree, I get exclusives for my paper, and

1492
02:07:16.600 --> 02:07:20.119
I promise Candace in Shah I won't publish their personal

1493
02:07:20.199 --> 02:07:23.680
stories and if I can't be here in Shore City

1494
02:07:23.760 --> 02:07:28.800
when shit goes down, they agreed to contact me exclusively

1495
02:07:29.439 --> 02:07:32.760
and fill me in on all the juicy action. Then

1496
02:07:33.000 --> 02:07:37.000
Candace gives me a little something this Christmas, just a

1497
02:07:37.039 --> 02:07:42.920
little I'm not just an alien, Miranda, She tells me,

1498
02:07:44.399 --> 02:07:48.279
I'm not even from your universe. There are a great

1499
02:07:48.399 --> 02:07:52.439
many stories about my existence that I could share with you,

1500
02:07:53.640 --> 02:07:56.640
as long as you show me, I can trust you.

1501
02:07:58.159 --> 02:08:00.880
Of course, I promise to do things on their terms.

1502
02:08:01.520 --> 02:08:04.960
I have to. I can't lose this great Christmas present

1503
02:08:05.000 --> 02:08:08.479
that literally fell right into my lap. As long as

1504
02:08:08.479 --> 02:08:11.479
I get to work with the Final Defense, I can

1505
02:08:11.520 --> 02:08:16.880
make the name of Miranda Mason Phillips even bigger. But

1506
02:08:17.000 --> 02:08:21.560
when the time comes, Blue Girl, I swear to Almighty God,

1507
02:08:21.800 --> 02:08:25.039
I'm leaving with you and going wherever you end up going,

1508
02:08:26.079 --> 02:08:30.239
if you ever leave earth. One day, we three ladies

1509
02:08:30.319 --> 02:08:34.239
toast to both a very merry Christmas and to our

1510
02:08:34.279 --> 02:08:38.720
new arrangement. Believe me when I say he'll be seeing

1511
02:08:38.760 --> 02:08:42.680
a lot more of yours truly down the road. And

1512
02:08:42.720 --> 02:08:45.880
I don't mean just my name across the headlines in

1513
02:08:45.960 --> 02:09:01.960
the Strickfield Journal each and every day until next time. Well,

1514
02:09:02.039 --> 02:09:06.800
my spookys, I hope you enjoyed having a blue Christmas

1515
02:09:07.399 --> 02:09:11.239
snow in the streets monsters in the sky. You know

1516
02:09:11.319 --> 02:09:14.800
it's been a rough Christmas Eve. When no one died

1517
02:09:14.920 --> 02:09:19.600
horribly counts as a win. So as you're driving home tonight,

1518
02:09:20.159 --> 02:09:22.960
keep an eye on the rear view mirror. If the

1519
02:09:23.079 --> 02:09:26.680
road starts to look a little too empty, if the

1520
02:09:26.760 --> 02:09:31.359
snow seems to swallow the world. Just remember sometimes the

1521
02:09:31.399 --> 02:09:37.279
scariest hauntings happen between destinations, which brings us to tomorrow.

1522
02:09:37.640 --> 02:09:40.600
When cutting deep into horror, covers the two thousand and

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02:09:40.720 --> 02:09:45.840
seven holiday winter horror film wind Chill, that icy little

1524
02:09:45.880 --> 02:09:48.840
ghost story about two college kids on a lonely stretch

1525
02:09:48.840 --> 02:09:52.920
of highway and some angry spirits who don't care that

1526
02:09:53.000 --> 02:09:56.640
it's Christmas break. And then on Saturday, we're stuffing your

1527
02:09:56.680 --> 02:10:00.239
ears like a stocking with another big compilation and of

1528
02:10:00.319 --> 02:10:04.960
festive frights, a full sleigh load of Christmas horror stories.

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So make sure you're subscribed to the weekly Spooky feed

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1542
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But now it's time for me to get back to work.

1543
02:10:49.079 --> 02:10:52.279
There are so many more shows before the big day,

1544
02:10:52.399 --> 02:10:56.760
and I am beat, but I never get tired of

1545
02:10:56.840 --> 02:10:59.960
bringing you a fright. So for myself, for my executive

1546
02:11:00.079 --> 02:11:04.439
producers Rob Fields and Babbletopia dot Com, my producer Dan Wilder,

1547
02:11:04.439 --> 02:11:08.800
and my creepy composer Ray Maddis, I'll see you tomorrow.

1548
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Thank you for listening to me.

1549
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Make sure to find your way back next week, but

1550
02:11:15.199 --> 02:11:20.319
for now you are safe, trust me.