Toxic Panda

[Toxic Panda]

I was brought into the world on April 18, 2002. My name was Miaka Cortez, but that name has long since left my mind. Before the war I lived in Aspin, Colorado with my parents and my older brother Jazz. We had a normal life. I went to school, I would play in the yard when it was nice out and I was happy. That is until Better Living came into the picture. Once the bombs dropped, my family and I moved closer to Battery City to escape the worst of the radiation. My father went to work for Better Living to support us, but once inside he was disgusted. After two months of working for them he moved us into the zone away from BL.

I took the name Toxic Panda and my brother was now Statix Noise. My parents kept their names but they still caused trouble in the zones. I was eight when Dracs found our safe house in zone four. That day has haunted me to this day. That’s the day when everything changed. At first I thought the whole killjoy and Better Living thing was a big game. I found it actually…fun. I was only eight at the time so who could blame me? I was in the main room of the small warehouse with my brother when the doors were flung open and all hell broke loose. Lasers everywhere and Dracs ambushed my family and me. I watched my parents get murdered right in front of my eyes at the age of eight. Since then my mission was to destroy everything that Better Living was.

Statix moved us to the city to see if he could find work. He was about sixteen at the time so he entered the Draculoid training program without me knowing about it. A year pasted and I found out he was secretly working for BL. He said it was for our own good and that Better Living had so much more to offer. Outraged I fled into the zones not caring about what may lay ahead.

Once in the zones I met some killjoys my age. Looking back it’s actually funny to see a group of ten year olds running around a God for sake desert. Grizzly Kid, Venom Shot, Nuclear Bullet and Acid Clown had taken me in when no one else had. They cared for me and I finally had a family that loved me when my brother had not. I lived in Zone 5 for a while with my newly found team causing trouble and ghosting Dracs any chance we got until we got separated by a BL/ind ambush.

In 2017 we were in Battery City on a raiding mission when they found us. In all the chaos we got separated. I was surrounded in an alleyway on the outskirts of the city when THEY saved my life. The Fabulous Four, Party Poison, Jet Star, Kobra Kid and Fun Ghoul had saved me. I stayed with them for at least two months before I was out on my own again looking for my lost team. That’s when I got a transmission that helped me meet so many new killjoys.
I found a family I guess you could say for the second time. Retro Rebel, Calamity Queen, Stellar Manx, Poison Shot, Adrenaline Earthquake, Arson Anthem, Sugar Queen, Bunny Killightly, Ghost, Battery Cola, IA, Hip Hooray and many others. Though some chose to fight for the opposite side I still consider them family and friends.

I recently just found Grizzly Kid and Acid Clown fixing up our old diner in zone 6 and they joined our little family. There isn’t much else to say except my brother and Nuclear Bullet are undercover agents for the killjoys. Venom Shot is dead by my hand. I can say that without my family of killjoys I would be ghosted by now.
So like Dr. D says, Keep your boots tight, You guns close and die with your mask on if you’ve got to.
This is Toxic Panda signing out.