GAM 1: Blue Fire: Out of Circulation

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Prior Appearances of Blue Fire:   The Golden Age Origin of Blue Fire   Read all the chapters in the introduction to   'The Greatest American Movie'   Chapter 1: Blue Fire in: Out of Circulation   Chapter 2: Black Zero in: Submarine Sabotage   Chapter 3: Lady Fairplay in: Mississippi Mayhem   Chapter 4: Mirror Girl in: Kidnapped   Chapter 5: Dr. Diamond in: War Zone Fort Rosecrans   Chapter 6: Fearless Flint in: Intrigue in Washington   Chapter 7: Willow Wisp in: Cold Justice   Chapter 8: Master Mystic in: The End of the Beginning (Read me last!)

Blue Fire Adventures! Volume 1, Issue 2

A New Player: Misty Blue

Failing Powers

Jack Knapp, a University of Toledo student majoring in Biochemistry (and secretly the new heroic mystery man "Blue Fire"), was juggling multiple classes over the summer 1943 term. His parents had high expectations for him to become a doctor, but today he was more focused on picking up his girlfriend Hazel and catching a doubleheader baseball game at Swayne Field, home of the Triple A Toledo Mud Hens. As he drove through downtown, he heard police sirens blaring and hoped he could help resolve the problem quickly in his secret superhero identity of Blue Fire (the Cobalt Comet) so he wouldn't be late to pick up Hazel. 

"It's Blue Fire time!" Jack thought with excitement. "I hope Blue Fire can handle this in a hurry! I was going to be a bit early to pick up Hazel; that ought to be enough time!" He quickly parked his car at the curb and slipped into an alley, pulling out one of his special 'teabags' from a pouch on his belt. He squeezed the capsules inside until they popped, releasing a bright blue mist. Inhaling deeply, Jack felt his whole body shiver as he entered his Blue Fire powers. Despite feeling some increasingly familiar pain during the transformation, he pushed it aside and flew off towards the source of the sirens. Blue Fire zoomed into the air, a man-like being totally engulfed in flickering blue flames, leaving a short trail of flame behind him as he flew. As he flew off towards the sirens, he was appalled to discover that no matter how much he strained, he couldn't reach anywhere near his best flying speed.

"There's something wrong with my Blue Fire powers," he concluded reluctantly, a thought that had been lurking in his mind for a few weeks, but which he had never allowed himself to actually consider before. "I'll need to investigate... tomorrow, after I deal with the source of these sirens, and catch the ball game with Hazel!"

Fortunately, he didn't have far to go - he was approaching the tallest building in Toledo, the PNC Bank Building on Madison Avenue - and it was coated from the ground to the 2nd floor windows in a block of ICE!

"That has to be the Frost!" Jack thought exultingly. "I've been waiting for another chance at him since last winter!"

Shortly after the chem lab accident that had given Jack his Blue Fire powers, he'd twice fought with an Axis spy named Alatt Hóvihart (code name: The Frost), who had powerful cold powers provided by pills he took (for the first battle, see: The Origin of Blue Fire). Unfortunately after both inconclusive battles between fire and ice, the spy had managed to escape, and since then, nobody had heard from the Frost... until today!

By the time he finally reached the bank, Blue Fire realized he was too late... the sirens were fading towards the east, and no matter how he pushed himself, he couldn't catch up. When he finally reached Maumee Harbor, far away across Lake Erie he could barely discern a boat speeding away. He knew that at his present speed, he could never catch up. Defeated and totally discouraged, he flew as quickly as he could (not very fast at all, actually...) back to the alley near his car, and dispelled the Blue Fire.

He was left panting and achy and he felt weak all over, almost as if he'd just lost a tough fist fight. He sat behind the wheel for a good 10 minutes recovering before he felt good enough to drive, and then hurried off to pick up Hazel for their date. He was a few minutes late...

Hazel was somewhat alarmed when she first saw him - not only was Jack usually predictably punctual, but she noticed that his skin appeared to have a very faint bluish tinge. Within minutes it was no longer noticeable, so she didn't say anything - maybe it had been a freak reflection from the navy blue Mud Hens jersey he was wearing.

Jack couldn't shake off the disappointment and frustration as he drove to the park, absolutely certain that there was something wrong with his Blue Fire powers. But for now, he tried to push those thoughts aside and enjoy the doubleheader with Hazel by his side. As Jack and Hazel settled into their seats at the baseball game, the vibrant energy of the cheerful home crowd around them was a stark contrast to the heavy weight on Jack's shoulders. Despite all Hazel's attempts to lift his spirits, his mind kept drifting back to his failed attempt to stop The Frost and his failing powers. About the third inning, Hazel decided to address his distraction directly.

"You seem distant, Jack. Is everything alright?" she asked softly, her eyes full of concern.

Jack hesitated for a moment, unsure of how much to reveal to Hazel about his secret life. He'd never told her that he was the Blue Fire. But her genuine care and unwavering support made him feel safe enough to share a small piece of his burden. He thought for a second, coming up with a story about almost getting embroiled in a bank robbery, then began...

"I had a run-in with The Frost today. As Blue Fire, I was unable to stop him!" he admitted, without thinking - and then stopped in stunned panic - he hadn't meant to tell Hazel the Blue Fire part! It had just slipped out. He hoped it wouldn't shock her too much, or scare her away!

To his surprise, instead of shock or panic, Hazel's expression turned stern. "It's about time you admitted you're Blue Fire... I figured it out weeks ago, and was just waiting... you were on thin ice, buster!" Then she turned thoughtful. "Oops, sorry... I've read about the Frost in the papers, and he's nothing to joke about. He sounds dangerous."

Jack was taken aback by Hazel's calm reaction and her revelation that she had known his secret identity all along. He couldn't help but feel a rush of relief at finally being able to share this heavy burden with someone he cared about.

"Yeah, The Frost is no joke. I tried to stop him today, but he slipped through my fingers," Jack confessed, grateful for Hazel's understanding gaze. "I think my Blue Fire powers are failing!"

Hazel squeezed his hand reassuringly. "You can't save the world every day, Jack. You're doing the best you can, and that's what matters."

Her words added to his determination to find out what was wrong with his powers and do everything he could to fix them. And maybe Hazel, who was in the UT nursing program but also had ambitions of going to med school, could help. "There's something wrong with my powers - I'm afraid I'm becoming allergic to the blue mist that activates them. I'm going to investigate after the ball game - will you help?"

"Why wait?" she asked with a smile. "It's a boring game anyway, and I've been hoping we could skip the second game for something more exciting. Let's go back to your lab and get started right now!"

"Yeah, what could be more exciting than lab work on such a bright, sunny day?" he joked feebly. "Let's go!"

Sad News

"At first I thought you had another girlfriend. Lucky for you I figured it out before long," she noted, a warning tone in her voice. "But you never treated me any different, and all of your frat brothers insisted I was still your only date, and then it dawned on me that whenever you disappeared, Blue Fire would show up someplace. And..." a dramatic pause, "you eventually gave yourself away when you talked about Blue Fire's exploits - you knew details nobody else knew, or things we didn't find out until we read the newspaper stories the next day. You really need to be a lot more careful about that!" Another warning, this one much less subtle. "Then I was starting to wonder if I really wanted to continue as your steady date... if you feel like you can't trust me with your secrets, what does that say about our future together?"

"I'm sorry. I didn't know how to tell you or what to say. Nobody I know has ever had a secret like this before," he replied apologetically, then plaintively, "What if I told you, and it scared you away, and I never saw you again?"

"Well, you finally told me - and I'm still here," she said pointedly. "So why don't you tell me the whole story, and fill in the holes between my guesses?"

Jack related his origin and how he learned to use his powers - and his encounters with the Frost and the strange villain who had called himself 'Old Sam'. (The first two Blue Fire adventures are recounted in his origin story, linked above.)

"So, you control your powers just by thinking about them?" she asked curiously when he was done 

"It seems like they are almost instinctive," he agreed. "But," he continued, "I did get better with practice!"

"So tell me about your problems!" This took longer, and they were still talking when the reached the small house Jack rented. As soon as they entered, Hazel asked to look through one of his pre-med textbooks.

And she was quickly back, showing him a section of the book. "Your symptoms, as Jack, sound similar to cyanosis, a condition where the ability of the blood to carry oxygen is diminished, and which can cause, among other things, a bluish tinge to the skin, tiredness, muscle fatigue and aches and pains." The discussed this and came up with a series of tests they ran on a sample of Jack's blood...

"So, exposure to the Blue Mist somehow lessens my blood's ability to carry oxygen," Jack summarized sadly when they were done. "It's a temporary condition which in my case wears off very slowly."

"It looks like whatever the mist does to your blood, it was still affecting you hours after you came out of the Blue Fire, and probably lingers for days," Hazel agreed. "The effects must be cumulative. No wonder you've been so listless recently."

It clearly hurt for him to go on. "I'm probably going to have to stop being Blue Fire! Crime in Toledo will run wild!" 

Hazel didn't think right now would be a good time to remind Jack that crime in Toledo had hardly been excessive before Blue Fire appeared... and privately, she thought that maybe if he only became Blue Fire once a week or so, he would be able to escape the debilitating effects of the Blue Mist. "Let's check again in a week, Jack," she tried to comfort him. "Maybe you'll have recovered fully by then!"

But neither student had expected what similar tests on Hazel's blood had showed - the Blue Mist seemed to have no effect on Hazel's blood's ability to carry oxygen.

So, she continued thoughtfully. "I wonder if that means I can safely use the Blue Fire? I could fill in for you until we figure out..."

"No WAY!" Jack snapped back instantly. "It's TOO DANGEROUS for a GIRL!"

Furious and disappointed but determined to use the Blue Fire abilities herself, Hazel stormed off, slamming the door violently on the way out. 

"That was pretty stupid," Jack berated himself. "Have you EVER known her to listen when someone told her a girl can't do anything a man can? I wonder how long it will be before she forgives me?" That thought alone kept him up half the night. If he'd realized that several of his special tea bags were missing, he probably wouldn't have slept at all!

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A Cold Day in... Toledo

Jack had classes the next day, regardless of how he felt. After breakfast he stopped at Hazel's sorority house (Eta Theta Tau) but she had already left for class. They didn't share classes, but she wasn't where they normally met up for lunch either. Today he had no afternoon classes, he took a box of candy back to the Eta house, and left it with one of her friends, who was intent on asking him some questions.

"So, Jack, did you guys have a fight or something? We missed you at the beach party last night. Hazel was there, but all by herself..." She left that one hanging for a few seconds. Last night, the sorority had held a bonfire party on the beach of nearby Maumee Bay State Park. It was unusual for one of the girls to go alone; what usually happened was once the fire was going and it started to get dark, one couple or another would wander off into the dunes, and pretty soon the fire would be unattended for a couple of hours. When Jack didn't answer the question, she continued, "Well, if you guys are breaking up, there are a couple of girls here who wouldn't say no if you asked them out instead..." 

"Please give her the chocolates and tell her I came by," he replied, a bit miffed. "It was just a spat!"

He went to his fraternity house rather than back to his cottage off campus; maybe he could find one of his brothers to play handball with. Almost everyone was in class right now so he sat in the living room to wait. As usual the radio was on low volume and tuned to 'Speedy 1370' and suddenly the soap opera de jour was interrupted by a breaking newscast!

"Eyewitnesses report another unusual appearance of ice in Toledo. Somehow a 10 foot high cube, seemingly made of gleaming white ice has appeared in Navarre Park in eastern Toledo! Police believe this to be another appearance of the mysterious super powered spy called 'The Frost', who was also assumed to be the super villain who robbed the PNC Bank yesterday after coating it with ice!"

That was enough for Jack. Be it dangerous to his health or not, whether his powers were failing or not, he had made a vow to use his Blue Fire powers in the cause of right. He hurried from the house into an area of the yard hidden from most views by a thick hedge and crushed the capsules in one of his special tea bags. "It's Blue Fire time!" he spoke firmly as he breathed in the blue mist and manifested the Blue Fire!

He expected the change to cause him to feel uneasy; he was right, and it was probably worse than yesterday. He raced east across town at the best pace he could muster, probably about 50 miles an hour - it would take him about 5 minutes before he could even see this 'ice cube' from the distance. Hopefully today he'd get there before the Frost could run away! And there it was! There were already some police officers around the perimeter, trying to make sure nobody got too close. From above, Jack could see that it wasn't a solid cube of ice, it was a giant box with walls of ice at least 6' thick, and in the middle of the box, lounging on an incongruous sofa was a human figure in a glittering costume!

"That's strange - the Frost never wore a costume before, he always wore a business suit, even when he coated himself with ice." And then he realized that this wasn't the Frost - but someone else he recognized!

"Tanya Gerhst! How did you get the power of the Frost?!" he exclaimed as he landed. Tanya Gerhst had been an Axis spy, partner to the Frost the first two times he'd encountered her, but she'd never exhibited any super powers.

"Why, Blue Fire, it is so nice to see you again, too!" she purred, speaking with a slight accent. "Perhaps you'll recall, on the occasion of our last meeting, that Alatt undervalued my services?" Alatt Hóvihar was the Frost's civilian name (maybe, unless it was an alias...), and he had once plainly stated that he would sacrifice Tanya's life if by doing so, he could kill Blue Fire as well. "He was trapped by the FBI, and tried to trade me for his freedom - something he will never try again! His pills work as well for me as for him - better, perhaps, as one of the agents knocked him down as I made my escape and he was so solid that he shattered into thousands of tiny shards," she snarled. "No more than he deserved."

Jack shuddered at the fury in her voice. "So, why are you here? Is this some kind of spy game?"

Tanya shifted from a cold hard tone of voice to one much more sultry. "You know I've always liked you, Blue Fire," she almost whispered. "I want you to join me! What a team we would make - fire and ice! Eiszauberin and Feuerführer!"

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"That'd be a cold day in Toledo!" he sneered. "I can't see us as a couple... There's no future in being a pile of soggy ashes soaking in a puddle of warm, muddy water... Fire and Ice don't mix well..."

Her mood changed instantly. "You DARE to mock me?!" she interrupted him with a scream. "You'll PAY!"

She gestured at him, and suddenly he was encased in a thick block of ice. Initially he wasn't worried - the Blue Fire should melt him free of this in seconds... but he wasn't at full power any longer! As the seconds went by, he could feel his blue flames dimming and retreating towards his body. "I'm TRAPPED!" he screamed in his mind... "...unless... YES!!" He suddenly recalled another aspect of his powers, one that he had ignored so completely since he had first confronted the Frost and Tanya that he had almost totally forgotten about it. By concentrating, he could become intangible, and just walk right through this icy barrier!

Yet he found even this aspect of his powers diminished - instead of the feeling of walking into a stiff breeze, it felt like he was trying to walk upstream on the bed of a deep, swift river. Still, a few seconds later, he stepped out of the pillar of ice in front of the astounded spy.

"I had vergotten that aspect of your powers, Blue Fire... very impressive."

"Yes, you've seen that you can't hurt me - surrender peacefully and I won't have to hurt you!" he bluffed sternly, hoping she wouldn't remember....

But her instantly laughing boast quashed that hope. "You forget, you can't touch me either!"

"Maybe he can't... but I can!"

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Battle of Fire and Ice

Both Jack and Tanya looked to the sky in surprise - floating above them was a flaming figure. Through the blue flames it was difficult to make out any features, but the strident voice sounded like a woman. Jack could see the ice nearby starting to melt; Tanya was forced to divert part of her focus on the icy shell surrounding her body in order to maintain it.

Almost instantly, Jack realized who this must be. He had to warn her: "Stay away! She's dangerous!" he could barely croak.

"In case you haven't realized it by now, buster, I'm pretty darn dangerous myself! Stand back!" A wall of blue flame appeared between Blue Fire and Eiszauberin. Jack could actually feel the heat and took a startled step backward - and tumbled to the ground, feeling debilitated and nauseous. In his weakened state, the effort he'd made to become intangible had sickened and weakened him further.

The blue flaming woman landed next to Jack; even in her defiance the blue icy woman had to take her own step back. "From all the news stories, I had expected the Frost to be a big, strong, handsome man," Hazel said, a little mockingly. "Instead all I see is a frigid chorus girl... Never trust the news, I guess is the moral of THAT story!"

"I am Eiszauberin, and I will not be mocked by some weak blue spark!" Tanya grated, and gestured, and suddenly Hazel was encased in a pillar of ice, much as Jack had been. She instantly willed her flame to higher intensity, and was stunned when, rather than vaporizing, the pillar of ice exploded violently, sending Eiszauberin flying tumbling backward, flailing helplessly, until she crashed into the thick ice walls surrounding them. Tanya's ice shell shattered as she struck, protecting her from most of the force of the impact, and reformed almost instantly.

"For that, you will pay!" she screamed a promise, and focused her attack directly on Hazel rather than the air around her. "Kälter als mein Herz!!" she promised...

and even through the Blue Fire, Hazel could feel the bitter cold. She had to intensify her fire, without vaporizing everything around her! This required her concentration, and the instant she turned her attention inward, Tanya continued her attack, creating a giant ball of ice in the air above Hazel, which crashed down on top of her, crushing her to the ground. Meanwhile, the wretchedly ill Blue Fire, trapped in his semi-intangible state until he could concentrate again and too weak and sick to rise, could only lay partially imbedded in the ground and watch in horror...

Hazel's flaming aura was so hot the ice instantly flashed into steam before it could even touch her, and though she was knocked to the ground and the ice crashed down on top of her, the expanding envelope of superheated steam between her and the ice ball protected her from much of the impact, as Tanya's ice shell had protected her. It was only instants before the ice had totally sublimated, and the steam was quickly condensed into fog by the thick walls of ice surrounding the arena of combat. The fog was tinged an eerie blue by Hazel's fire. As both women rose to their feet, Jack saw Hazel as a glob of blazing blue, while Tanya was a glob of dark blue, almost black.

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Suddenly the fog flared even more brightly blue as Hazel launched a brilliant blue fireball - and there was another explosion as it was blocked by a speeding ball of ice, and the heat of the explosion blasted away most of the fog.

Before the blast of the explosion had faded, Hazel rocketed into the air and swooped away!

"Coward!" Tanya sneered scornfully, then turned towards Blue Fire, who had been finally been able to drag his partially intangible body out of the ground. He was concentrating, trying to restore his Blue Fire before it was too late. "Now for..."

She was interrupted by a massive crash as a blue hot missile crashed into the outside of the ice wall behind her! When she burst through the wall, Hazel wasn't moving as fast as she'd hoped, and instead of flying out, she dropped down to the ground and rolled to a stop. Tanya, who was struggling to her feet, cackled as she gestured in the downed girl's direction.

"This will put your plans on ice!" she laughed as ice started to form around Hazel. Her returning Blue Fire was melting the rime closest to her, but in her current dazed state, Eiszauberin was creating ice faster than Hazel was melting it.

Jack struggled desperately to his knees and raised on arm to point at his prone girlfriend. "Hope this is enough..." he panted "...because its all I got left..." A dim wave of blue flames sprayed the frozen ground, and then petered out, and Jack slumped back to the ground.

Apparently, at least for the moment, it was enough... Hazel was free from the ice on the ground and managed to climb to her feet - in time to meet a sucker punch to the side of the face. The surface of the ice coating Tanya's fist sublimated and and puff of superheated steam slightly cushioned the blow, and though Hazel was staggered, she remained on her feet and 'put up her dukes'. For a few minutes, the women circled each other, trading blows. Somehow this had become a personal fight, no longer a duel of super powers!

It wasn't a fair fight; it wasn't even close. Hazel had never been in a real fight before and Tanya's espionage training had included hand-to-hand, and she had never been taught to fight fair! She rained blows on Hazel, who could do nothing other than try feebly to block, and Hazel was getting pounded. If Hazel's Blue Fire hadn't continued to soften the blows, it would have been over in a few seconds. However, every ice-covered punch into the Blue Fire produced a blowback of superheated steam that made Tanya feel like she was punching deep into a soft feather pillow, instead of the weakling in front of her, and it was becoming more and more difficult to 'heal' the heavy blocks of ice protecting her hands. She realized her 'freeze pill' must be wearing off.

She needed another pill, but she didn't have one at hand - there were no pockets in her skimpy skin-tight costume, and sometime during the battle, she'd dropped her small, silvery clutch. It couldn't be far away, but it had probably been trampled deep into the muck under the several inches of muddy water now surrounding the fighters.

She took a few seconds 'break' to partially recover, just blocking Hazel's sad attempts at attacks, then leaped backward out of range, turned, and fired her last blast of cold at Blue Fire, who was now just Jack Knapp, freezing him into the muck. She turned back to Hazel and mockingly taunted her.

"You can have your soggy pile of ashes back. If he ever awakens, tell him I'll be back - for both of you!" She then turned and raced off into the park through the big gap Hazel had blasted through her ice barrier.

"Who's the coward now?!" Hazel shouted scornfully, then quickly turned her attention to her boyfriend, frozen to the ground in 2 inches of ice.

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Escape!

Since Jack was no longer in the Blue Fire state, she knew she'd have to be cautious as she unthawed him. Even with all her practice at the otherwise unattended Eta Theta Tau bonfire last night, she wasn't sure she could melt the ice gripping him quickly enough without burning him. And then she had a brilliant idea!

She willed herself out of the Blue Fire state and knelt next to Jack, and with her head turned away from him, she broke a special tea bag under her mouth and inhaled deeply of the Blue Mist, all the while forcing herself not to ignite. Bending over Jack she exhaled, briefly and gently, into his mouth and nose. He shuddered and moaned, and the Blue Fire faintly rose from his skin and surrounded him. She went back into the Blue Fire state herself and waited a few seconds, then reached out, pushed against him, and he was free!

"I wouldn't dare try this if you were just Jack, but we have to get you out of here," she told him, though she doubted if he could hear her. As she touched him, she noted that his own Blue Fire responded by growing stronger. She reached under him and lifted him into a sitting position. Underneath him where the ground was still relatively dry she spotted a small silver clutch. It was the same color as Tanya's costume - it might be a clue! She quickly doused her Blue Fire, picked it up and slid it into a pocket, and turned her aura back on again. She lifted Jack easily in her arms, lifted quickly, and rocketed away!

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Navarre Park was bounded to the south by a heavy strip of woods which mostly concealed the railroad tracks that passed by. Tanya ran quickly into that strip of woods, where she'd earlier concealed a grip filled with her civilian clothes. She pulled on a long skirt and long-sleeved blouse that totally covered her brief Eiszauberin costume. A blonde wig, and it was a different woman who crossed the tracks and got into a car parked along a nearby street... "I'll be back!" she promised her foes. "More deadly than ever. You've not seen the last of the Empress of Ice!"

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Changing of the Guard

Jack was finally responsive again by the time they reached his cottage, and after a lot of urging from Hazel, he doused his Blue Fire... and immediately regretted it as he was instantly wracked by coughing, incredible joint pain, and fatigue, and his skin was a darker blue than anything he'd noticed before. He was gasping for breath and writhing in agony as Hazel ran out to her car and ran back in, carrying a heavy bag, which she opened to reveal... an oxygen cylinder and breathing equipment.

"I 'borrowed' this from the clinic I work at. Stop squirming while I strap on the mask - it should help!" she ordered. Using all the patient-handling skills they'd taught her in her nursing program, she eventually was able to hold Jack steady enough to strap the mask over his mouth and open the valve.

In only a few minutes, the blue tinge was gone from Jack's face and hands, and he was breathing much more comfortably. In another few minutes, he felt good enough to take the mask off on his own. He motion to his friend to come closer; his throat was still dry and scratchy. He reached out and took her hand.

"Thanks, Heather... I think you just saved my life..." he squeezed gently.

"Probably at least the third time today, in fact," she noted sternly. "I hope you're grateful, buster! Do you STILL think the Blue Fire is too dangerous for a mere GIRL?"

He smiled apologetically. "I think..." he paused for a second, then started again, "I think... the Blue Fire is definitely too dangerous for ME! You keep being Blue Fire. I don't ever want to come that close to death again! I'll fire up and help you in an emergency if you really need it, but I'm going to have to find some other way if I want to keep being a full time comic book hero!"

"Hmmm..." she rummaged around in her pocket, and pulled out Tanya's silver clutch. "I may just have an answer for that..."

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Your First Official Mystery

A few minutes later, Jack suddenly opened the drawer of his desk and pulled out a small envelope. "Do you remember that weird story in the paper day before yesterday, about how Police Chief Thayer wanted to set up some way to easily contact Blue Fire?" he asked Hazel.

She nodded, it had been on the front page of the morning paper, below the fold, and she'd discussed it with several of her friends. It certainly didn't seem like something that deserved to be front page news!

"Well, yesterday morning, I dropped in on the Chief..." he paused, then continued musingly... "you know, that might be what made me so sick that day, changing to Blue Fire twice, so close together! I hope it doesn't start affecting you the same way!"

Then he realized he was still holding the envelope. "So, anyway, Chief Thayer gave me this, and with everything else going on since then, I totally forgot about it until just now. Anyway, here's your first 'official mystery' as the new Blue Fire!" He handed her a small envelope. It was addressed simply to 'Blue Fire, Toledo, Ohio'. "Chief says he was given this by a Secret Service agent who told him it was direct from President Roosevelt himself!

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