Hello. It's me again. Though I doubt anyone has read this story yet I am writing chapter 2!
Don't own Teen Titans.
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"IQ to Invisible Raider: are you in?" a voice rang out through the cramped and hot vents of Central Liv Bank.
"Invisible Raider to IQ: I'm in." The Invisible Raider, A.K.A Nialliv Pierce replied softly as she scooted her way into the inner workings and more valuable products of the bank. "Tell me again why I have to do this? Why not Crimson?" Nialliv asked as she hit a particularly tight spot.
"Hey! I'm the decoy so keep your mouth shut!" a younger voice said. It belonged to a girl; Nialliv's long time partner in crime, Crimson Blades.
"Well, I think it would be easier for you to get through these tight spots." Nialliv snapped.
"C'mon, Nai, we both know that you are smaller and more experience than me." Crimson replied.
"Flattery gets you no where, Little Red Bloody Hood." Nialliv, or more commonly known as Nai, said.
"It got me a place on this team." Crimson answered smugly.
"That's just because Father is a big softy." Nai answered in her normal monotone.
"You do know I can hear you, right?" Nai's father, Cloner Pierce said into his walkie-talkie back at base.
"I do now." Nai mumbled as her three accomplishes laughed at her expence.
Suddenly up ahead of Nai something hit the metal and Nai heard faint curses.
"IQ to Invisible Raider: you are not alone. I repeat: you are not alone." IQ's voice said quietly.
"Abort mission! Abort mission!" Her father's voice said quickly. "Nai! Get out of there!"
Nai quickly scooted backwards and turned around trying to escape.
"IQ to Invisible Raider: he is closing in on you! Nai get out of there!" IQ shouted through the walkie-talkie.
"I'm trying!" Nai said, not even using the code.
"He's right on top of you!" IQ said, for once letting his panic seep through and into his voice.
"Nai?" Crimson said. There was no answer.
"Nialliv?" Her father tried. Again there was no answer.
"Guys! I lost signal!" IQ shouted. Back at base Cloner got to his feet and began his nervous habit of pacing.
"Nai! Please don't get hurt!" Crimson shouted in her walkie-talkie.
Back at the bank's vents Nai was crawling for her life when something latched onto her ankle.
"Let go of me!" she screamed shrilly. She tried to shake her foot free but her captor wouldn't cease.
"Shut up, will you?" It was the voice of a young boy. Most of Nai's panic fled her body.
Gaining her confidence, Nai faced the boy, "What are you doing on my turf?" her voice was cold and unfriendly, though that was to be expected knowing that Nai thought she was going to be killed or worse; arrested.
"Your turf? I heard that this is the great Invisible Raider's turf. Not once has he gotten caught or arrested." The boy responded sounding surprised. At least Nai though it was a boy; he was wearing a mask.
"I am the Invisible Raider! Who said I was a he? I'll kill them." Nai growled while brandishing a large knife.
"Whoa, no need to get violent! I just sort of assumed." The boy said.
"Then maybe I should kill you." Nai turned her knife on him.
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"What could make it loose power like that?" IQ asked himself.
He sat down at his computer and started to work.
"Nothing can take off my signal unless… Oh no."
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Cloner sat down. He just needed to sit down and stay calm. He knew his youngest would get through it; she was the most cunning out of all her siblings, including the one he didn't sire.
He took a sip of wine.
He spit out the wine.
The world started spinning. The colors all faded into one: Black.
His mind went fuzzy and he fell out of his seat.
Cloner Pierce was no more.
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Crimson sat back. She knew she had to keep faith in Nai. She would make it out. Right? Right…
She sighed as she watched the fire before her. It was lovely. She had never seen one as big as this one. So beautiful…
Maybe if she could touch it…
Yes…she had to touch it…
She just needed to walk forward a bit more…
The heat so alluring… the pain marring her head, all the scars it would produce…she needed it…so close…
Someone grabbed her thin arm and yanked her back. She shook her head and saw how close she was to it. It looked so much like the one that took her family…she needed to get away from it.
The same person threw her over their shoulder. They backed up and away from the heat slowly. Slowly, very slowly Crimson came to her senses.
"Can you put me down?" she asked her savior. She didn't even know who she was. He placed her on the ground and looked at her. Only then did she realize who had saved her. It was the most wanted criminal, sixteen year old Jeremiah Smit.
"Are you crazy?" his voice was deep and alluring. She wanted to hear more.
"The question isn't if I am crazy it's was I ever not crazy." Crimson answered in the way that Nai thought her to.
Jeremiah chuckled, "Cute, kid. Really, cute. Where do you live?"
"Where haven't I lived? I have lived in that ally way in a card board box, behind the dumpster on Fourth Street, and now I live in a tree." Crimson answered.
"Crimson, right?" Jeremiah questioned.
"How did you-?" Crimson began to ask but then realized that she was in her costume. Her full crimson body suit and black belt with the multiple deadly weapon that Nai had said everyone needed.
"Why don't you let me walk you to your 'secret' base?" Jeremiah suggested with an evil glint in his eyes.
"Why don't I take over your mind and make you drown yourself?" Crimson shot back.
"Listen, kid, either you let me walk you or we can stay here all night." Jeremiah replied.
"If you put it that way…" Crimson ungracefully plopped onto the ground. "Well get comfy, because I'm keeping the secret base a secret until I get the okay from The Invisible Raider.
"You work with The Invisible Raider." Jeremiah sat down next to her and leaned in close ready to listen.
Crimson smiled evilly, "Work with her? I live with her!"
"Do you think you could tell me some crimes she commited?" he asked like a little kid.
"Oh yeah…"
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"Listen, Sunshine, I'm just doing my job." The boy said.
"At least tell me your name." Nai snarled, "I usually like to know the name of my competition."
"They call me Prince from where I'm from." He answered, "What do they call you?" He added slyly.
"Evil." Nai answered almost sounding smug.
"I thought it was something along the lines of Blackmist." Prince answered watching Nai closely for a reaction. He got one. Her normally silver eyes flashed black but only for a second.
"Blackmist is dead. Didn't you read the newspaper? Supposedly they found her body. How sad, really." Nai answer carelessly.
"That is sad. It's sad that you sent a clone to do all the work." Prince answered distastefully.
"I don't know where you got all this information but you better stop. Now. My boss is not one to mess with." Nai said darkly.
"Neither is mine. I think the saying, 'like father like son', works in this instance." Prince said smugly.
"What are you talking about?" Nai barked. Her calm silver eyes once again an evil black.
"I'm talking about your brother."
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"You can't be serious!" Jeremiah exclaimed loudly.
"Yeah, she never was good at cooking." Crimson smiled at the memory.
"I could imagine the stove but the couch too?" he asked.
"Okay maybe my last statement was an understatement…"
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"C'mon! Work faster!" IQ yelled at the computer screen.
"Loading…loading…loading…" he mumbled. "Aha! Two can play at that game, JR." IQ hit the button with zealousness, "Eat your own medicine!"
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"Ah!" Prince yelped in pain and held his ear.
Nai took it as her time to escape. She crawled all the way to the back ally that she had entered in when he caught up to her.
"Stop!" he yelled and grabbed for her.
She was already out of the vent when he grabbed fabric. He pulled up when he heard tearing. He looked in his hand to see a mask. Her mask.
She screamed. He jumped out of the vent to be blinded by many camera flashes.
Paparazzi.
The Invisible Raider was mask less…and it was his entire fault.
He was so dead.
He did the first thing he could think of…he grabbed her and ran.
But the damage was done…and all over the next day news…
Imagine everyone's surprise when they saw their favorite missing superhero as to be the unmasked super villain that even the boogeyman checked his closet for before he went to bed.
Aw hell…
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How was it? Next chapter, Nai finds the dead body of her dad! Yay! No.
Anyways. Review, please.
Love,
O.o LiviLou o.O