Baloo and Kit smiled as they flew through the cliffs of the cape, they where returning from a trip from Thembria, and for once where on time. As they landed at the Higher for Hire docks Kit smiled as he looked at Baloo who was smiling ear to ear. “Oh just wait until Becky sees us walk in she wont know what to say.” Baloo said, as he looked at Kit. “On time and everything.” Once inside the office of Higher for hire, Rebecca stood up and glared at the two.

“Where have you been.” Rebecca said, getting a stunned look from both Baloo and Kit. “This beats all Baloo, I mean what is it going to be this time Air pirates, Thembria law, time warp, flying saucers, Ghost ships.” Rebecca said, as she walked out from behind her desk and up to the two who where still stunned. “What ever it is, maybe you should get attacked by it a little more often.” Rebecca added as she smiled at her flight crew. “On time for once, what happened Louis burn down?” It took a moment for both Kit and Baloo to realized that Rebecca was playing with them, and got a smile from Kit, but not Baloo.

“Now that’s a mean thing to say Becky… Louie loves you so much.” Baloo said, as he took his hat off and started to make a kissing noise. Prompting a snicker from Kit, but getting Rebecca to grab his ear. “OW!! hey Becky come on lay off.” Baloo said, as he looked at Rebecca.

“What was that Baloo? something about saying your sorry?” Rebecca said, as she smiled at Baloo.

“O.K., O.K. I’m sorry.” Baloo said, as he looked at Rebecca. As Rebecca let Baloo go he rubbed his sore ear and smiled at he looked at Rebecca. This only got Kit to smile as he looked at the two adult, in the past month since the return of Molly he had noticed something between the two, Baloo seemed more willing to listen to Rebecca, as well as Rebecca didn’t seem to complain about everything Baloo did, and there had been a few times that he had noticed the two alone.

“And this just inn folks, it seems that the Ghost is at it again, this time breaking up an early morning bank robbery.” The Radio said, getting the attention of the 3 bears. “It’s been a month since this ghostly figure appeared in are fair city, and in that short period of time he has made a name for him self, so far this brings his tally up to 4 bank robbers, 2 burning building saves, 1 run away car incident, and let’s not forget how he is bringing cooked cops to justice.” the announcer said, as the three listened. “What do you think Mark?”

“I think his name fits, almost all of them swear they shot this person but he kept coming, and the fact that many people swear they’ve seen him flying around the city roof tops, as well as the street, this person has to be a real ghost.”

“Oh come on Mark, a real ghost.”

“Real or not, he’s gotten the citizens attention, as well as the attention of the criminals of the city, You said it your self it’s only been a month and I’ve already started seeing some toy stores selling cheaply made stuffed Ghost toys. give him another month and he might get his own radio program.”

“Might even give Danger woman a run for her money.”

“Might, but right now I’m wondering what’s driving this person, I mean why is he doing this, and why are city.” just then Rebecca turned off the radio and looked at it as if she was concerned about the news, then turned to Baloo.

“Right you have one more delivery today, and I think you’ll like this one.” Rebecca said, as she held up the clip board.

“Ah come on Becky can’t we get a break.” Baloo whined, as he flopped into his arm chair.

“Baloo look at the clip board.” Ignoring Rebecca, Baloo handed the board to Kit.

“ I mean we’re on time, can we at least get a bite to eat.” As Baloo complain, Rebecca leaned up against her desk and crossed her arms, as she watched Kit looking at the manifest, after a few minutes the young navigator tugged on Baloo’s arm getting his attention as he held the manifest up to Baloo’s face. “What is it li’l britches?” Baloo looked at the shipping list then smiled as he saw the place he had to drop off the cargo. “Well I guess work is work, and we really can’t put it off now can we Kit.” with that Baloo stood up and left leaving Kit and Rebecca smiling.

“Tell him that since this is the last job for today he can have fun their, I’m heading home once I’m done with these papers.” with that Rebecca walked up to Kit and smiled as she opened the door. “Have a good afternoon Kit, and try to keep him out of trouble.” with that nodded and left the office. Once outside Kit could hear the radio being turned back on in the office.

“No I’m telling you this person is just want the police need to get the criminal element out of the city, I mean look at all the laws that protect criminals now a days.”

“Oh come on mark, I’m not going to argue with you that the Ghost is doing a heck of a job out there, but the sad truth is that right now the police are looking to stop him.”

“The good cops or the bad cops, as we have seen are finest are un corruptible, what was that last cooked cop busted for?”

“I can’t say that over the radio and you know it, but the cops are looking to stop him because he’s endangering his own life.”

“Why does it have to be a he, it could be a she under that mask.”

“I think you’ve been listening to Danger woman one to many times with your daughter Mark.” Kit snickered slightly as he headed for the Sea Duck. Several hours later Baloo landed at Louis and smiled, as he headed inside followed by Kit.

“Hey Cuz, been a while, what will it be?” Louie asked, as he looked at Baloo.

“Let me have one of those Krakatau specials.” Baloo said, as he looked at Louie, as Kit sat down beside him.

“And your signature.” Kit said, as he held out a manifest.

“No problem Cuz.” As Louie started to fix his Baloo’s ice cream he signed his name to the manifest and then smiled as he looked at Kit. “What about you little cuz.” Louie asked, as he looked at Kit who didn’t really seem very interested in anything. “Hey space ace you there?” Louie asked, getting Kit to shake his head as if he was snapping out of deep thought. “Hey man what’s up.” Louie asked, as he looked at Kit and saw Baloo turning his attention to his navigator.

“Uh nothing Louie, just had my mind some where else.”

“Some where else?… why don’t you tell Louie about this some where else, must be pretty swinging if your mind wants to be there and not here.” with that Kit smiled, and shook his head.

“Nah no place is better then here Louie, just been thinking about a few things that’s all.” with that Louie nodded and then slide Kit a Krakatau special.

“Eat up cuz.” Louie smiled as Kit, and then turned up the radio.

“We have just gotten a special report folks, seems the Ghost is already on the prowl tonight, there have been reports flooding in about a lone figure stopping a run away trolley, seems the cable broke on the trolley, and it started to role down hill out of control, in response a lone figure… ran up to the trolley and stopped it by,… are we sure these sources are reliable?… alright well folks according to the reports the figure slimed the wheels of the trolley and it slowed down to a stop.” as Louie listened in, he smiled as he looked at Baloo.

“What you think about that cuz, you got your self a real life comic book hero in your city.” Louie laughed as he shook his head.

“Don’t laugh Louie, the kid is doing good out there, he helped us save Molly a while back.” Louie stopped cleaning a glass and set it down getting a stern look on his face.

“Yeah don’t remind me, you four came over the next day and filled me in on everything… You ever hear what happened to that sludge banana.”

“Not yet the trial hasn’t happened.”

“Yeah well he better not think about stepping in my place again, I got a special place for him if he does.” Louie said, as he pointed to the ejection boat. “And that’ll be if I’m feeling nice that day.” with that Baloo nodded and then slammed his right fist into his left palm.

“Yeah well if he does keep him in here for me I want to escort him to his special seat personally.” with that Louie nodded, and the two friends shook on it. As the night went on Louie kept the radio on and as the party started to swing, Kit sat next to it, each time a special report came on he glared as he heard about yet another thing Shade had done, under his new identity. The anger had been growing for a while, not only had Rebecca been listening to these reports, as well as Louie who normally only turned on the radio when his band was out, but his friends at school didn’t stop talking about Shade, heck even at the school on the play ground kids had started to play a game of cops, robbers, and ghost. On his way to and from school Kit hand noticed that most of the stores had something to do with ghost, or something that meant ghost, even a toy store where he normally bought models from had started to carry Ghost action figures, thought they didn’t look anything like Shade, it was just getting to be to much. The final straw was when Kit