Yay! A new story! I always love writing new stories, mostly because the first chapter of a fic always gets the most reviews, usually. I've been lucky enough to have a few fics that got a large amount of reviews for a good deal of the chapters, but those were both anime, so it's expected.
So, for those of you who've read the Teen Titan fic I just finished, A Strange New Déjà Vu, you'll have known this was coming. This is a different pairing, or at least, focus-pairing, than that one, so be warned.
Title: The Body-Snatcher
Summary: When the Titan Boys go out and play, the Titan girls decide they get a turn too. What happens when jealousy and anger causes the situation to flare out of control, resulting in missing Titans, and in misunderstandings?
Couples: MAINLY Kid Flash/Jinx, Starfire/Robin, Raven/Beast Boy, and others...
A/N: There will be hints of other pairings, featuring the people above, but be aware, that those couples you see will not stay for long. I will feature some Titans not included in the cartoon or the comic, so be aware. For those of you who know who I use, YAY! For those who don't, feel free to PM me and ask.
Also, this is partly based on the cover for Teen Titans Go Issue 35. Y'all know the one I'm talking about. The one where the boys are all agape at the wonder and beauty of Wonder Girl. While we know what went down now, at the time this idea popped up, I was foreseeing major crushing on the boys' part. So...that should explain how this insane idea came to me.
Chapter One: Happy Days
In every young girl's life, there comes a time. A time when said girl looks at her faithful boyfriend and realizes he is nothing but a slimy ball of waste with a roving eye and a mind for cheating. Most girls then assume that said bastard wants to cheat because something is wrong with them. Are they too skinny? Too fat? Unattractive? Dumb? Pick a reason, and a normal girl can build a whole case for why her boyfriend is right to move on, and why she is the problem.
No one could ever claim that the Teen Titan girls were normal. Three weeks, two days, and seven hours into the World Tour of the Teen Titans, four of the Titan girls were glaring at the screen of the large television in Titan Tower, and were doing the most sensible thing of plotting dark and dirty revenge for their smiling, maybe cheating, boyfriends.
Since the funding for the Titans came from a certain company, and said company liked good publicity, they'd handpicked five Titans to go on a whirlwind press tour, using the recent defeat of a large criminal organization, namely the Brotherhood of Evil, to parlay a rise in stock price. Not surprisingly, the company had chosen five of the most "human" and "normal" looking Titans to go. All of them tan and smiling, lined up behind the publicist; Robin, Speedy, Aqualad, Kid Flash, and Wonder Girl, sidekicks of famous heroes, well-known by the world before their indoctrination as Titans.
"And not a black person among them," Bumblebee scowled, "what a coincidence."
Jinx, Raven, and Starfire turned to stare at Bumblebee. "And?" They asked in sync.
"I'm just saying, it's suspicious."
"Yeah, and them not including the alien, the half-demon, or even me, the bad luck witch isn't?"
Starfire spoke next, seeking to make light of the situation. "I'm sure they had a good reason for choosing who they did."
Raven scoffed. "Yeah, sure, and the fact that they didn't even think of just using the original five Teen Titans is completely excusable."
The teen girls watched as Wonder Girl wrapped her arms around her "boys", kissing each of them on the cheek for the cameras, causing all four boys to blush and laugh. The tabloids were having a lot of fun, implying relationships and crushes amongst the five, not to mention causing much strife for the boys' real girlfriends, not that any of the boys realized it, so caught up in the tour that they were. Jinx scowled. Kid Flash, fastest kid alive, could have visited her any number of times while on this tour, taking only seconds for him to traveled around the world. Did he? No; instead he spent his spare time "training" with the other Titans, and "solving crimes" that they encountered. She turned good for him, and he does this? Let's just say that anger doesn't quite cover it.
It's true that not all of the male Titans were on the tour. However, in a fit of testosterone bonding, the male Titans left in the Tower, Cyborg and Beast Boy had decided to skip over to East Titan Tower to stay with Mas y Menos. That left the girl Titans with the first Titan Tower to station out of. Not that they actually were doing anything lately. Robin, the head of the Titans, usually was more proactive and sent them out doing things. However, with him gone, the girls found themselves in "clean-up" mode. They went out, stopped rampaging bad guys, got patted on the head, and went home to sulk. Personally, Jinx was tired of this.
She stood and sent a hex bolt into the television, causing it to short out and the picture to disappear. "I'm tired of us sulking and sitting around like little bitches. We are not weak like this."
Raven raised an eyebrow. "I'm not sulking. I've no reason to sulk."
Jinx grinned. "Yeah? Then why are you down here with us?"
"You were all quite depressed and I felt I might be able to stand contact with you all at this time." Raven shrugged and stood. "Now that I can feel your emotions bolstering, I'll return to my room and my isolation."
Jinx sighed and pulled Raven back down to her seat by the hood of her cape. "Stop that. I've an idea."
"Uh-oh," Bumblebee muttered while she ate a sixth chocolate bar. She too, had no real reason to be down. Maybe it was a girl thing? Your friends are depressed, so you must be as well?
"No uh-oh, this is a good idea!"
Starfire clapped and smiled though everyone could tell it was forced. "Tell us, my friend, what is your idea?"
Jinx smiled, and pure evil danced in her eyes. "Well, since we're all fed up with being lazy and hating the Wonder Bitch, I'm thinking we go out and do something that we're not allowed to do when the boys are home."
The trio of girls before her cowered and their eyes widened. Together, they dared to ask just what was on Jinx's evil mind. "What?"
"We're going wild."
Jinx jumped over the couch and marched upstairs. Just before she got out of sight, she leaned back in and grinned, happier than she had been for three weeks, two days, and seven hours, the exact amount of time since Kid Flash had decided to spend the rest of the month ogling the newest female Titan. "Get up, get dressed. We're going dancing." She started up then turned back one more time. "And we might just do a little crime-solving while we're at it."
The trio on the couch watched as the pink-haired Titan flounced out of sight, and then they turned back to each other. "I am slightly scared, my friends." Starfire admitted.
Bumblebee grinned. "Don't be. Jinx has only one thing on her mind right now, and it doesn't involve any scary plots. She's going to try and make her boy toy jealous."
"Kid Flash?" Raven ventured.
"Oh yeah. See, Kid Flash is a flirt. Not that Jinx minds, because honestly, she's a bit of a flirt too. Here's the thing though, until now, Kid Flash, for all his flirting, still came home to her."
"Kid Flash has not been here since the publicity tour started," Starfire noted as she stood and started towards the stairs.
Bumblebee grinned and pointed her finger in the air. "Exactly."
Raven stood and followed Starfire out, pausing to stare at Bumblebee thoughtfully. "How do you know this? I thought you and Jinx weren't on the best of terms."
The tall dark Titan stood, floating over the couch before settling on the ground to walk up the stairs with Raven. "At first, we weren't. Then just before this started, we hashed it out. I was a spy and a traitor to H.I.V.E., but now so is she. We found a common ground."
Raven gave a small smile. "Gives us hope that maybe we can find common grounds with other such enemies."
"Jinx isn't so bad. She'd never known anything but H.I.V.E. She didn't have a choice like most of us do."
Raven nodded and sighed as she reached her door. "What does one wear to 'go wild'?"
Bumblebee grinned. "Something short and shimmery."
"I don't do shimmery."
"Then do short."
"I wear a leotard. How much shorter can I go?"
"...that's a good point. You'll think of something," Bumblebee gave her a thumbs-up as she strode into her temporary room. "I have faith in you."
Raven watched as her friend disappeared from sight, and turned to go into her own room. She'd admit it to herself that even she was a bit apprehensive about this night. She rarely spent time with her friends, even less time not fighting crime. Even less time than that was she with just her friends that were girls. Raven sighed and began to cycle through her closet of leotards, looking for something that she could wear that was not her uniform. She couldn't do short, and she wouldn't do shimmery, but she could and would do something civilian.
Just one floor above, Jinx let herself into her own room. Inside, it was just a bit chaos, with clothes laying all about, her own and Kid Flash's. It would surprise some people outside of the Titans to know that they shared a room, but truly it was strictly platonic. They'd been dating for several months now, and Kid Flash so rarely stayed in one place that he found it easier to just leave his stuff in her room, wherever her room might be.
Picking up her pink cell phone where it lay on her dresser, she checked for voice messages and found none. Sighing, she sank onto her bed and fought not to pout. Jinx wasn't naturally a dark person, preferring to be out and about having fun than to sulking around and moping over some boy. Kid Flash was nice, that was true; handsome, smart, witty, and who would be fool enough to truly believe that he'd be content with staying with a pale, pink-haired witch?
Okay, so she had been the fool.
Standing up, Jinx shook off her blues and reached down for a glittery shift of silver. It was short, it was shimmery, and on her long and skinny figure, it looked great. Resolve straightened her spine and made her nonchalantly throw the cell phone over her shoulder. Kid Flash didn't have the balls to break up with her in person, or hell, even by phone? Fine. She didn't need him. She'd find herself another fish in the sea, someone to entertain her.
Just down the hall from Jinx, who even now was amping herself up by cursing Kid Flash, Starfire was looking at the picture on her bedside. It was taken earlier this year, when Starfire and Robin and her fellow Titans had been in Japan. Taken just after Starfire and Robin had shared their first kiss, they were both blushing and looking away from each other. Starfire had believed that it would be the beginning of a new relationship between them. Instead, after a few dates and some very awkward moments, it seemed they had come to an impasse, neither sure how to move past it. Robin wasn't comfortable dating another member of his team, yet he had feelings for her, it was clear. Starfire wasn't sure how to help him move past it, so she stayed silent.
Now, here she was facing video of him being kissed by another woman, a team member no less, and he didn't look very awkward with her. Maybe it was because Starfire was alien? Did he not find her attractive anymore?
She wasn't sure, but she didn't like the feeling this situation was causing in her. All the gloriousness of life that Starfire usually reveled in had faded, leaving behind a cranky and somewhat bitchy alien princess with attitude. (Secretly, this was the reason Beast Boy and Cyborg had left. The sight of not one, but two women in very "scorned" mode had sent them packing in just the first week of the month).
Starfire sighed and turned to look through her clothing. She was determined to at least try and have some fun tonight. It was the least she could do for her friends.
Once the four women had reunited in the front hall, the spirit of the night lifted almost immediately. Just the thought of getting out and having fun was enough to make things so much lighter. Jinx smiled and giggled through the evening, Starfire managed to smile and even dance with someone; whereas Bumblebee was a social butterfly, flying all over and flirting with every single, hot man in attendance. Shocking enough, even Raven managed a smile.
There are some who think that that was the night that started the entire plot. Then again, there are some that think the plot didn't form until the last minute, in the Titan girls' attempt to get some good out of the entire thing. However, truth was that the plot started a few nights into the girls' week of fun, purely circumstantial. Two weeks later, however, with the Titan girls missing, the police baffled, and the Titan World Tour over, no one was quite sure what happened, least of all why.