Ooh goody! Contest prompts! This one was for a contest involving people (or androids, in my case) being locked in or out of different places in the YJ universe. Uh, the contest runner person is Secrets of the Arts. And before I forget, I have to say that I really know nothing of Red Tornado… so this might be super ooc.

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Anyways, I hope you enjoy my failish attempt at writing about Red Tornado, some lip gloss, and being LOCKED IN!

Disclaimer: I own nothing. Not even the lip-gloss.

He'd never wanted to play den mother. It wasn't the most becoming job for an android. After all, wasn't that what most of those science fiction novels were about? Robots and androids taking care of the house, washing the dishes, changing nasty babies diapers? Well he wouldn't stand for it. He was a crime-fighting machine. Literally.

But for now, he was watching the kiddy heroes. It wasn't too bad. He was paid the same rate as always and he wasn't in constant danger of being taken apart or whatever else was lethal for an android. And for the most part, they took care of themselves.

But the one thing he was always responsible for was breaking up Wally and Artemis' fights. And today, today he was headed out to the garage where apparently they were fighting over lip-gloss.

But as the doors slid open, the huge room was silent. The only thing in there was the bioship.

Hang on…

The bioship.

That was usually left on invisible, wasn't it? Even stranger was that the door to the ship was down, as if ready for a mission.

There wasn't a mission.

The android approached the ship cautiously and entered. But as he looked around, there was nothing out of the ordinary. He turned to leave only to see the exit sealed off. Scanning the interior, he deduced that the ship had seen him as a threat, closed off the exit and had locked him in. Immediately, he tried his communicator, but it seemed as though the ship had shorted it out.

Red Tornado was locked in the bioship and there was no way out. All he could do was wait.

Waiting is hard for any human being, but for an android, he figured, it shouldn't be to difficult.

10 minutes passed, and nothing had changed. There was no sign of anyone outside the garage.

30 minutes passed with the same result. It wasn't until 45 minutes were gone that Red Tornado noticed a pink plastic tube. Artemis' lip gloss.

He picked it up and sniffed it experimentally. Well, it wasn't sniffing per se, maybe… analyzing the chemical compounds? Anyways, he swiftly deduced that it was raspberry flavored.

"What is this doing here?" he asked to no one in particular.

The ship began to shake as if… as if it were laughing.

"Oh no. Absolutely not." Red Tornado was going off on a whim here, but if he were right (which he usually was) he'd have to assume that the ship wanted him to put the gloss on.

"I refuse to wear a human girl's makeup."

The ship sank a little, as if disappointed, but then righted itself to its normal height.

"Let me out of here."

The ship stayed silent.

"No, I'm not wearing the lip gloss."

An angry vibe could be felt in the air and he sighed.

"If I put it on, will you let me out?"

This was crazy. He was talking to a ship! But after all, he was an android…

The ship moved up and down as if it were nodding.

Slowly, he uncapped the plastic tube and brought it up to where his mouth would have been if he were humanoid.

Then, as if he were possessed, he quickly smeared the gloss onto his metal face.

The ship began to shake again and the door opened. A very angry teenage girl stormed in.

"What are you doing with my lip gloss!" Artemis screeched.

"I was simply trying to get out of the ship."

"By wearing my makeup?"

He knew the whining wouldn't stop for many hours to come, but as he passed by a window, he couldn't help but notice how attractive the gloss made his metal shine.

Of course, this was purely just an observation.

The prompt I was given was

Character: Red Tornado

Place: The Bioship…

Object: Raspberry Lip Gloss

Did I nail it or fail it? Did you love it or hate it? Tell me pretty please! I want to know! Sorry for any oocness… I did my best to research Red Tornado, but its surprisingly hard to write about an android!

Love always,

Val