police out of bed.

“Hello?”

“Sir it’s the station, we have a problem.”

“What kind of problem?”

“The Ghost sir, we’re being over whelmed by Ghost.”

“Excuse me?”

“They just keep coming in confessing to crimes, sir they keep begging us to protect them from something, saying that they have to confess or something is going to get them, we’re already at are capacity sir, and they’re still coming, what are we going to do?” Baldwin thought about the situation and only knew one reason this could be happening, as a smile slowly crossed his face now knowing that the real Ghost was innocent, he pondered what they need to do now.

“Alright call the prison tell them to send a few busses down, we’ll put them in the prison until their trials.”

“Yes sir.” As Baldwin hung up the phone he smiled slightly as he started to get dressed, but then noticed something on his nightstand near an open window, a card in the shape of a ghost. As he flipped the card over he smiled as he read the words.

“You’re Welcome.” Else where in the city Shade stood in the shadows smiling as he watched his only target of the night coming into view, their was no way for him to be everywhere at once, but with a minor hypnotic suggestion put into each of the imposters minds it seemed like he had been, when in truth he had been standing watch over the Cunningham residence knowing that when things started to get rough that Slade would try and use the Cunningham’s as leverage against him.

“You really shouldn’t have come.” Shade said as he looked down at Slade who looked up at him in freight.

“You, how are you doing this, how are you able to be everywhere at once, when the imposters started to roll in I got over to my storage place as fast as I could already to find that you had beaten my men into submission, now I find you where while I’m still hearing radio reports about more imposters turning them selves in all over the city, NO HUMAN BEING CAN BE THAT FAST!!” Shade looked at the officer and smiled slightly.

“You think I’m human, that is a comical. Do you not understand my name?” to Slade, Shade vanished from sight only to appear behind him. “I am a ghost officer Slade, I can be anywhere and everywhere at one time.” Slade watched as from behind Shade more Ghost appeared slowly walked around him until he was surrounded. “I can appear to be a child, or an old man, I can be male, or female, I can be anyone or anywhere I choose to.” the other ghost started to change shape and started to look like other people. As Slade watched in horror as he started to fear what was going on until finally all the other figures vanished and left Slade looking at Shade. “In the end justice will prevail Slade, and you will face it, but I’m not going to take you down tonight, I‘m not going to finish you off like Kage, what you’re going to do is tell that nice little group of yours of what you witnessed here, and warn them, I want you to tell them how it’s a bad idea to use people to get to me, I want you to warn them that should they try this course of action again I wont be just making your people turn them selves in I will ensure that none of them ever causes trouble for the good people of this city again. In other words Slade I’m telling you and your little group that should anything happen to people that you may think have a connection to me, or should your actions be intended to draw me out, I will gladly come, but upon are meeting I will ensure that you or anyone in your group aren’t able to cause such problems again, do I make my self clear?” As Slade hesitated on his answer a large shadowy figure from Slade’s deepest darkest nightmares appeared before him. “I SAID DO I MAKE MY SELF CLEAR!”

“YES!” Slade collapsed in terror as the image vanished before his eyes and the last thing he watched was Shade, the ghost, vanish into a thin mist. A few minutes later Chief Baldwin pulled up with several squad cars, finding Slade on the ground whimpering slightly.

“What’s going on out here.” Rebecca asked, as she walked outside to find the police on her front lawn.

“Sorry to have bothered you madam it seems officer Slade here has been running a ring of thieves posing as the Ghost for the past few weeks, and from what I have been able to gather the real Ghost stepped in tonight and dealt with the problem him self.” Baldwin informed her as he walked up to the front porch of the house.

“What’s all the noise.” Shade said, as he walked out from inside the house rubbing his eyes dressed in a night shift. “Oh cool real cops, did you catch a bad guy mister officer?” Shade asked, childishly getting a smile from Baldwin.

“In away, sorry for waking you people up, we’ll be leaving now.”

“Alright.” with that Rebecca moved Shade back inside and smiled as she shut the door, and looked down at him. “Was that really needed?”

“I’m sorry.” Shade said still in the childish voice.

“Oh knock it off.” Rebecca flicked Shade’s nose getting him to laugh slightly as Rebecca smiled at him. “Now that your name has been cleared, the Ghost can finally vanish into the shadows.” with that Rebecca started to walk up stairs and looked back at Shade smiling as he looked up at her. “I’ll see you at breakfast tomorrow morning, and we’ll get you some new cloths as well, you’ll see Shade it’ll take some time getting used to it but you’ll enjoy being a normal person after all this.” As Rebecca looked at Shade she kept smiling for several minutes, before she realized that he wasn’t smiling back, he had the same serious look on his face that she had seen many times before, a look that told her that he still had to do something. “It’s not over is it?” Rebecca asked, slightly irritated as her smile vanished. “You’re not finished are you.”

“I’m sorry no, I was able to get a quick look into Slade’s mind his memory, it’s never really been over. The drug ring, The imposters, it seems that they’re connected, and it seems that the group that they where connected to is actually trying to destroy Cape Suzette.”

“That’s crazy.”

“Not really, it seems that they are trying to set the ground work for an invasion of a Hauser military force.”

“Hauser? Isn’t that the group that tried to take over Thembria?” Shade didn’t answer Rebecca’s question as he walked over to a window and looked outside, and watched as Slade and forced into a squad car. “Shade if this deals with that military group shouldn’t we inform the police, maybe even the military?” Shade turned his attention from the window and looked at Rebecca. He no longer had the stone cold serious look in his eyes, he no longer looked like a fearless warrior ready to face a force of unknown number, instead he looked like a frightened child that had just gotten in way over his head. “Shade what’s wrong?”

“I looked into his mind Ms. Cunningham, I saw the faces of those apart of the group, and I was able to only get a glimpse into each of theirs, the group,… this syndicate that he was apart of have been trying to cripple this country for a long time, they have members in every field and are ready to move when the time is right, Slade was only the beginning he was in charge of keeping those apart of the police department in line, and it worked for the longest time, until I showed up, I saw past the lies I through their smiles, and I brought them to justice, it was a simple plan really. Get the people to believe that those that were here to serve and protect were no better then street pirate, have a group come in and pose security group and flood the city with them, then when all the pieces were in place take over the city. I through a wrench in their operation when I started to take down the cooked cops, so they had to come up with another plan, thus came about the drug ring. From what I could gather on this one from Slade it was meant to cripple the city’s industry causing economic rune and let them come in like a knight in shinning armor to save the city and it’s people. Again my presence here foiled their plans because I was able to destroy the drug ring piece by piece and Khan industries were able to come up with a cure for those addicted to the drug. To top that case off by looking into Helmut’s eyes.”

“Helmut?”

“Helmut Von Stryker, the leader of this syndicate. You would know him better as Archimedes Volentes.” As Shade mentioned this name Rebecca felt like a cold wind had just blown through her home, as terror started to wash over her.

“The man trying to become mayor?”

“Yes, it seems the Kage was his son.” Shade let that bit of information sink in before he turned back to the window and looked at the empty street running past the house with a very dark image of the great city of Cape Suzette being destroyed like the small village back in Thembria. “Knowing that if they where going to have a chance to full fill their goal they would first have to take me down, but also knew that they wouldn’t be able to do so with the people still protecting me they devised this scam, destroy the people’s hero, make them believe that I had turned to a life of crime and become the terror of the city, Helmut would run on a platform to bring me to justice,