stunned Shade appeared beside her in the Ghost outfit.

“How did we get here?” Rebecca asked, and Shade smiled slightly.

“I did this with Kit to help solve his case, and now I’m doing it with you, these are events in your memory I need to see what happened and.” Shade noticed Baloo, Kit, and Molly standing on the stairs looking at Rebecca. “Where they there?” Rebecca turned and looked and shook her head.

“No Kit was in school, and Molly outside with Baloo… Why are they standing there now?” Rebecca asked, as she looked at her family, and Shade shook his head.

“It’s because of you.”

“Me what am I doing?”

“You’re letting your mind wander, you’re thinking about your family and how you wont be able to see them again if we don’t solve this case.”

“But I don’t even know anything else past this point.” just then the phone rang and both turned and looked at Rebecca’s desk to see the phone lift up. “What’s doing that?”

“You are.”

“The bank is open, shouldn’t you take some money out?” a voice rang through out the memory and then Rebecca and Shade where standing in the middle of the street in front of the cape suzette national bank, with cops around them pointing guns.

“You see I got that call and then I was here, holding a gun and a bag of money.” with that Shade looked at the scene and then turned to Rebecca.

“If the conscious part of your mind doesn’t know what happened, then maybe your subconscious will.” with that the scene went back to the office, only everything seemed slightly off almost wavy.

“What’s going on?”

“This is what your subconscious part of your mind saw.” Just then they watched as a ghostly figure of Rebecca appeared and slowly walked out of the office, as they followed they both watched as it went into an ally and received a gun from a shady dog. And then followed her to the bank where she held the place up, before walking out and stopping in the middle of the street and waited for the cops to arrive and arrest her. “That doesn’t make any since.” Shade said, as he looked at Rebecca.

“What doesn’t?”

“Well the entire thing. First I’ll give them credit for the hypnotizing you to do this, I have to admit that is interesting since if this did go bad only you would get into trouble and not the one behind it.”

“Great why don’t you just give them a pat on the back.” Rebecca said sarcastically as she folded her arms and started to tap her foot. Shade looked at her and smiled slightly.

“I’m planning on giving them a boot to the face, but that’s not what makes no since, you robbed the bank, you could have gotten away free and clear and they would of gotten the money, but instead they had you stop here and wait for the cops as if wanting you to be arrested.”

“But why would they do that?” Rebecca asked, as she looked at Shade.

“That’s why this makes no since, and unfortunately this can’t be used to get you off, I need to get better proof before your trial.”

“That’s in three days, do you think you can?”

“I think I can give it my best shot.” with that Rebecca found herself back in her cell looking at Shade through the bars. “I’ll do what ever I can to get the proof to clear your name ma-am, but you need to stay strong.”

“Alright, but please hurry.” with that Shade left and Rebecca went back to her prison bed with a little more hope for the future. Early the next morning Witherspoon walked into his office he found Shade sitting in his desk waiting for him.

“Well this is a surprise, the famous Ghost breaks into my office.” Shade gives Witherspoon a distasteful look as he sized him up real fast.

“You’re a good man Witherspoon, I can tell.”

“That doesn’t mean a lot coming from you, so how about you tell me why your in my office before I call the cops.”

“Have fun, call the chief, but first let’s talk about the Cunningham kids.” Witherspoon was slightly setback by Shade’s response, but then got serious.

“What about them, their mother was arrested for bank robbery, their father is a lazy slob, that’s a cargo pilot he could be gone days at a time leaving those children uncared for.”

“Those children are in the best hands they can be in, I’ll admit that Baloo isn’t going to win father of the year anytime soon, but he cares for those kids, on top of that their mother is innocent of the crime.”

“You have proof on that?”

“I will, I’m not asking you to not take the children in time, what I am asking for, is that you give me at least the day of her trial, if she is found guilty then you take them, if I can prove her innocents you leave them alone.”

“And what kind of proof do you have to even make me consider this?”

“I know that she was hypnotized into robbing that bank, she was not in control of her own body at the time there for the crime was not hers.”

“Are you kidding me? that’s all a bunch of bull.” with that Shade looked Witherspoon in the eyes and then smiled.

“Tell me Witherspoon what time did you come into work today?”

“Seven in the morning like I always do why do you ask?” with that Shade looked outside and the sun was already high in the sky.

“Seem a little later now doesn’t it.” Witherspoon looked out the window shocked before he looked at his watch it was now 1 in the afternoon.

“And do you normally come to work dressed in clown shoes?” Witherspoon looked down and noticed that he had a pair of clown shoes on. As Witherspoon looked up he was about to yell at Shade but found his office empty, as he sat down at his desk and took off the clown shoes he found a note sitting on his desk. “By the time you read this it should be the afternoon, and you just came out of my trance, I’ve been long gone since this morning, if this isn’t enough proof for you, then wait until you get home.” Just then Witherspoons phone rang and as he picked it up he heard the sound of his wife on the other end.

“Honey, I know your busy and everything, but can I ask why you took one of my bras this morning?” with that question Witherspoon looked around his office and then felt something binding under his shirt, as he started to feel his chest he blushed slightly before closing his eyes.

“It was to prove a point honey, I’ll bring it back when I come home I promise.” As wither spoon hung up the phone he grabbed the note left by Shade and tore it up before throwing it away. “Next time I see him I’m going to pop him one.” Earlier that morning when Shade got back to his lair he laid down and closed his eyes, once back in the world of dreams he found himself back in the training dojo where he found his father waiting.

“I need answers.”

“You wish to know how to break a mental block?”

“That but also how to trace a hypnotist.”

“You can’t.”

“What do you mean I can’t, there has to be someway to find out when a person was hypnotized, to find out who did it.”

“There is but your not ready for it, You have let your emotions cloud your judgment in these matters and if you learn any more, the power given to you, it could turn you against your very goal.”

“I am trying to save a person’s life.”

“You are trying to save a person you like, you already mentally attacked one person because of the acts they had committed. You locked them in their worst nightmare for hours, nearly scarring them to death. If I taught you more you would only twist it.” Shade clinched his fist and glared at his father. “DON’T YOU DARE GIVE ME THAT LOOK YOUNG MAN!” Kouken walked up and looked down at Shade. “Maybe you’ve been doing this to long, maybe you’ve forgotten that once you start using the Shadow skills the way you have been, the worst it’s going to get, you will find it easier to torture people in such away, you will soon learn how to control their actions and then kill them at will, that is not the Shadow guard way and you know that.”

“The Shadow Guard? I’M THE LAST OF THEM!!! And if you haven’t noticed yet times have changed, criminals have changed, and right now I’m trying to save a city that is falling in on it self.”

“AND WHO SAID YOU HAD TO!!”

“I DID!!! I REFUSE TO LET ANOTHER CITY BURN!!” As both father and son stood against one another, fur raised in the heat of anger. After a few minutes both turned away from one another.

“I will not teach you anymore Shadow skills until I think you are ready to handle the power, until then you’ll just have to deal with what you know.” Kouken turned and looked at Shade’s back and signed slightly. “I know this is hard for you to understand but I do this for your own good.”

“And while you do what’s for my own good, and innocent woman gets locked up and her family torn apart.”

“You can’t save everyone my son, sometimes you have to let people go.” The following evening Shade woke up and could see the sun starting to set. As he got dressed he headed for Higher for hire and entered through the top of the building, as he listened to Baloo