Look Alive, Sunshine - Ferard

109 in the sky

I sat up nearly drenched in sweat out of my bed and looked over at the clock 6:32 am.

"Thank god you're up, I almost thought you were dead, you were sleeping like a baby" Kobra Kid said, he's my baby brother. He's got smokey blonde hair, big brown doe eyes and a jawline that could cut a steak. You can tell we're brothers but we don't look identical.

"Baby's pushing it" I grumbled sitting up and putting on my killjoy jacket over my black t-shirt, it's blue and has light blue, red, and white on the sleeves. My messy dyed red hair framed my face perfectly every morning no need for brushing, I have the same doe brown eyes as my baby brother Kobra Kid, my entire look honestly just screams my name which is Party Poison. I guess we've never gotten official names, sometimes I ponder what life before the company was like, I was 1 when they took over, Kobra wasn't born, he's three years younger than me. Before my parents were offed, Thrill Kill and Nicotine Kat they said their names where Linda Way and Steve Way. Now me and my baby brother are just Party Poison and Kobra Kid but I can't help but dwell upon what my name was before all of this.

"You're pushing it, we need to jam if we're gonna reach the millhouse in time for breakfast" he put on his sunglasses hiding his pretty eyes, Mikey was easily the prettiest person here in the S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W unit. Now my baby brother ain't no whore but he has slept around with a few ladies here and there, don't get me wrong he never enjoyed it though.

I put on my combat boots and we headed for the millhouse. On the way there a viper slithered out and hissed at us, me and Kobra walked right passed it, we've taken down full units before it's not like we can't handle a little bitch the animal kingdom calls a viper.

We reached the millhouse and got in line to get some canned beans, canned beans is about the only thing the S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W serves. It was humid in here, but every killjoy knows that taking your jacket off could get you killed. A guard could mistake you for an outsider and you could get ghosted.

Once we got our beans we sat down with Jet Star and Fun Ghoul, our mission group and also our best friends.

"Party poison, you're lookin' mighty fine today" Fun ghoul winked his shoulder length black hair making his face appear rectangle, in a good way. He was gay, not that I have a problem with that, he also never stops flirting.

"I wear the same thing every single day" I said taking a bite out of my beans, the beans taste like nothing. They've always tasted like nothing, but you've got to get your protein.

"Well something's different maybe it-" Jet Star cut him off.

"maybe it's your dumbass not knowing how to talk to anyone like a normal human being" Jet Star is the reason of our group, I work a bit outta of heart and he works more outta logic, he is a bit of a sarcastic asshole though.

"Someone's jealous" Ghoul scoffed. He had a cute face I have to admit, but I don't have time to worry about that. We have a mission today, Dr. Death Defying has a destroya unit planning to attack our S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W unit and we killjoys have to stop him.  You see us the S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W units are the good guys, well to us we defend and protect the good people and the destroya units well they believe the weak should be terminated, they believe they should clean out the trash. 

"Jealous of you?" Jet Star scoffed. 

"Children" I Kobra said. "Stop before I take your beans away and put you and timeout" he said glancing over at a female killjoy, her name is melody twist, eyecandy but not pleasant to be around, i'm sure Kobra is just trying to enjoy her before we take out the unit. 

"Listen when we take out this unit today you gotta be on your top guns so talk with your lazer blades and eat up for now" I said picking up my can and finishing it off like a drink.  I slid it down the table and stood up before walking out of the side door of the millhouse.  I opened my pack of cigarettes and lit one leaning against the outside and putting it in my mouth.  I huffed it taking in my surroundings, they've always been the same, ever since I was a baby and I taken here with my parents. I glanced over at the fish pond, well that's just what it's called all the fish in that pond are long gone.  I looked at the charred seat and remembered sitting in me and Kobra's cabin when he was 4 and I was 7. 

"This is mommy and this is daddy and this is me and this is you" Kobra said holding out a piece of paper covered in four sloppily drawn stick figures. 

"That's good Kobra" I said smiling down at him. 

"Thanks P" he said. 

"Kobra?" I asked looking over at him and then the drawing. 

"Party?" he responded. 

"When do you think we'll die?" I asked my clueless four year old brother, but I was clueless myself. 

"When we're old like 1,000" he responded. 

"But like really?" I asked, he took a crayon and scribbled out mom and dad on the picture. 

"We'll never die" I stared down at my scribbled out parents before pulling him into a hug.  Suddenly the ground started shook and a giant boom that shook the entire house and ground came, I grabbed onto Mikey and we clenched together.  A few seconds later when the shake went away. 

"Stay here" I said handing Mikey the drawing and he stared at me doe eyed, I opened the door handle and looked out.  There was fire everywhere across from us, half of the unit was on fire. I ran out into the flames over to the fish pond. I stared down at the sight before me, my parents splattered across the now charred bench. 

"P?" I gasped before putting out my cigarette. "Are you ready to go?" Kobra asked. 

"yeah" I responded. "more than ever" I added and off we went.