No comments yet, but I think I'll post the next chapter anyway.
Beast Boy had only been in the basement to look through the box of things he'd thrown down their during last year's Spring cleaning. He was missing one of his old video games, and it had to be down there somewhere.
That's when he had stumbled upon "The Thing" again. Just a huge black tube that the team had once found at a crime scene, about a year back. They'd taken it back to the tower to see if they could open it, or study it, or something. However, nothing had ever worked, and every device they tried to use got scrambled trying to scan the insides. So they had put it down here, where it had been quickly forgotten. Looking at it now, he wondered why they had ever bothered with it at all.
He ran one hand along the cool black surface, silently making up silly stories about what might be inside, even though he knew it held nothing. Maybe it was full of rare comic books or something. He tapped on it. It sounded solid enough. With a shrug he turned to continue looking for his box.
He was stopped by a clicking noise. He turned back to the tube, and noticed a soft whirring noise coming out of it, followed by a series of short clicks that sounded like...locks?
Suddenly there was a noise like air coming out of tires, and he watched in amazement as the tube's exterior began to part.
As the outer shell folded into itself, bright blue light spilled into the dim lit basement and Beast Boy had to squeeze his eyes shut for a second. As his eyes adjusted, he slowly began to realize that the "Thing" wasn't a "Thing" at all...it was some kind of containment chamber or something.
With a...a girl in it.
He stared in awe at her, floating contentedly in her...whatever it was. She wore a very simple combination of shorts and a turtleneck tank top with the number "251" emblazoned on the breast, and her wavy turquoise hair (was it turquoise? He couldn't tell, what with the blue light and everything.) barely grazed her shoulders.
It took him a second to realize that she was...well, awake! She was looking down at him with a dazed expression, her violet eyes a little dulled with sleepiness. She began to move, to really wake up, and looked at him, smiling ever-so-slightly and reaching out to touch her side of the glass, as if to be closer to him.
He was entranced. As he touched the glass from his side, he could feel how relieved she was that someone was there. Almost as if, even though she had no idea who he was, or where they were, she was happy just to see someone breathing.
Finally, he pulled himself back from the glass and did the first thing that came to mind...
"DUDES! YOU HAVE GOT TO COME SEE WHAT I JUST FOUND IN THE BASEMENT!"
She watched the people outside her chamber curiously. After the green one had shouted, four more had rushed to his side. They must be a team of some sort. Yes, her brain told her. The Teen Titans, that's who they were.
The green one, who had found her. His name was Garfield Logan...no, it was Beast Boy...No, both. Perhaps she would ask which he preferred...His powers were...shapeshifting into animals and...making bad jokes?
He was talking very animatedly to..."Robin", who has no "powers" but is still strong and...sarcastic? She looked around at everyone else. Koriand'r, or Starfie, an alien princess...Raven, a sorceress...Cyborg, the human robot...she struggled to remember why she already knew these things...
Koriand'r was waving to her outside the tank, introducing herself as "Starfire".
With a smile, she waves back.
"How are we to get our new friend out?" Starfire was saying.
"I'm trying to figure that out," Cyborg responded. "But her tech is crazy progressive...even for me! I can't read any of the codes, much less figure out how to work this thing."
"We don't even know who she is," Robin said. "She's been living in our basement, undetected, for a YEAR. How can we be positive she isn't a threat?"
"She's not! I can feel it!" Beast Boy pleaded. "We just need to get her out, I swear she isn't going to hurt us."
"I don't like where this is going," Raven said with a sigh.
"Do not worry, new friend," Starfire said from the other side of the glass. "We will get you out, and then we can do the exchanging of the names and the braiding of the hair, yes?"
While it was amusing watching the Cyborg's feeble attempts at hacking her living tech, it was time to release herself. Tapping the glass to get their attention, she pointed to herself, and quickly sent the command prompt to the stasis system center to release. The tubes on her neck and back released, and...something was wrong...she couldn't open her eyes again...it was all...black...
That went pretty well...I know, kind of short, but i'm having trouble ironing out the kinks in how SLOW the startup of this story is. Any way, I hope you liked it.
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