"Yeah, let me just come down there where you can get me!" Alex screamed down in frustration as she watched the cheetahs explode into shards of ice. She reached over to the wire she had spliced into the lines and gave the wire a good strong yank. The device she had affixes to the pole came off with a soft pop and knocked against the pole. "Run." She grumbled derisively and she pulled the device up hand over hand. "Run where, you idiot. I'm on a stick hanging in the air. This is how they hunt raccoons."

She pulled the device into her grasp and hugged it to her chest. She hoped the yank hadn't done any damage. She hardly had the resources to build another one. She knocked the receiver out of its holder and let it dangle toward the ground as quickly went to work with the rotary dial. The number of a certain apartment within the nearby building was spun into the phone. There was sudden thrum of power, a blue light that shot out of the device and up the line. It merged into the normal phone line and sped away to the apartment before suddenly shooting back down as quickly as it came, landing back into the device with a sharp thump.

Dangling below, the receiver began to twitch violently back and forth while a strange noise began to emanate from it. It was like the sound of many people trying to speak over one another but too angry and full of vitriol to listen to what the others were saying. Buried underneath was a steady electronic screech. Something black and sickly began to bubble out of the end of the receiver, a putrid slime that smelled of battery acid and burnt ozone. It bulged a wriggled there at the end until it was the size of a bowling ball before being dislodged and falling with a splat on the ground where it broke open like clotted blood. It still continued growing though, becoming more solid. More defined. Features became apparent as it grew to the side of a large dog, then a man, the a car. It was like a lizard, dark scaled with a coat of platinum blond hair that ran in curls all the way down its back to the tip of its whiplike tail. It's four long legs ended in ruby red talons, and all throughout its body were embedded jewels and pearls and gold that twinkled in the sun when the creature moved. It settled there in the midst of everything, turning its hidden eyes this way and that before they settled on shadow boy. It raised a finger and pointed to them. "HELLLLLLLLP!" it screeched, its voice a shredded and distorted parody of a womans. "SHE'S FALLEN!" With that it rushed at his and his bears, rearing up on its hind legs to bring its claws down on them.

Alex looks sheepishly up at the ice lady. "I was here to kill that." She said. "That's why I was up here."