(despite the name of this chapter, I have nothing against parents, this is just a sort of 'theme' for this chapter)
AN: This chapter will alternate between Robin, Starfire and Beast Boy's part, and Raven and Cyborg's. Plus, I kind of made this up as I went along, so forgive me if it doesn't seem up to scratch, because I'm being a lazy ass with my writing these days.
This part of the story focuses more on the Friendship/Family element of this story, as opposed to the humor.
Four hours after the disappearance of Raven and Cyborg, Robin (having put his Nightwing outfit in the wardrobe for safe-keeping, as he only had one set) still had very little to go on. He had interviewed three girls that Cyborg had picked up, while he was meant to be doing his job, mind you, but they had only said that he had left the car and not returned. Robin informed them that there had been a misunderstanding, and walked them back to their respective houses. He'd asked several of the people who were present at the incident, who told him that they had seen a man speaking to a girl and an old woman, before all three vanished.
Cross-checking the information with the security cameras around the area, Robin found those words to be completely true. The were there one moment, and gone the next. Nothing was making any sense.
He found the highest quality camera that had been on at the time and tried to zoom in on the face of the old woman, knowing that identifying her would be a huge leap in the investigation. But as soon as he had a clear image of the woman, the screen turned black, and large block letters appeared on the black background.
CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT.
Robin scrambled back, as the same message came up on every screen.
CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT.
CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT.
CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT.
Frantically, he grabbed the plug and yanked it out of the socket, watching as the images died.
"Robin?" an innocent voice asked, turning round, he saw that it was Beast Boy, "Are we gonna get dinner?"
"Y-yeah, just give me a second, and we'll order pizza." Robin reassured his young teammate, and led Beast Boy to the kitchen.
There wasn't an argument over what kind of pizza to order that night, nor jokes followed by sarcastic remarks. The leader of the Titans was becoming anxious. He observed as Starfire and Beast Boy watched some kind of cartoon on the TV, and realized how much responsibility he really had now that he had two kids to look out for. Robin clenched his fists, and vowed not to let whoever was kidnapping the Titans hurt BB or Starfire.
No matter what.
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Cyborg was angrily trying to make a call to the tower, but, surprisingly*, he couldn't get any signal from where Mother Mae Eye had transported him and Raven. He had woken up over two hours ago, feigning sleep every time his captor came in to check on 'her children', Raven had yet to regain consciousness.
He'd figured out that Mae Eye had been coming in roughly every forty minutes, and Cyborg was fairly certain that he had around twenty-five more minutes before she came back in.
The room that he and Raven were in was like the perfect bedroom for a child, if not a little creepy. The walls were a bright blue and had small clouds painted onto them, a large yellow bed sat in the corner, the sheets perfectly aligned, too perfectly. Under the bed was a huge toy box filled with every toy imaginable, many of which moved and twitched every time Cyborg moved.
He had to use a lot of will to stop himself wanting to jump on the bed or play with the toys, he was inexplicably drawn to them by the bright colours and promises of comfort and fun. The strangest thing was, though, that all the things in the room were extremely out of proportion compared to the two in the room, as everything was at least twice the normal size.
Suddenly, Raven stirred, clutching her head.
"Where...?" she began, before almost slipping back into unconsciousness.
"Yo, Rae! Raven! Stay awake! Stay with me!" Cyborg cried, grabbing her by the shoulders, and she snapped back to normal, "Phew..."
"Where are we?" she asked, shrugging off Cyborgs hands, "I remember realizing that I was talking to Mother Mae Eye... then... nothing. How did you get here? Wherever here is."
"I saw you disappear, then the same thing happened to me when I tried to talk to her. I've tried calling the Tower, but I can't get through."
Raven nodded, "The chances are, she's going to try and bake us into pie again... or at least control us with mind-control."
"So, we've just gotta try to take her down as soon as possible, then get the hell outta here, without getting controlled. You think you can teleport us home?" asked Cyborg. Raven shook her head.
"I didn't realize it before, but my powers are severely limited in this state. I can pick things up and fly a little, but that's about it." she admitted, hanging her head a little, "We'll just have to find an exit and work our way out from there, unless you feel like waiting two years for my powers to develop."
"Okay, we've just gotta stay focused, and don't let her control us!" Cyborg stated, standing up a little straighter.
"Why, who said anything about controlling you?" a bitter-sweet voice chimed, "I just wanted to spend a little time with my favorite children!"
"Mother Mae Eye!" growled Raven, taking on an offensive stance, "Where are we!?"
"Well, you're home, dears!"
"Sorry, Mae Eye, but we're not buying it!" yelled Cyborg, shooting his sonic cannon, only to look on in horror as a stream of silly strings came out in it's place.
"Uh-uh-uh!" tutted Mae Eye, wagging her index finger, "Play nice now, Borgy-Bear!"
Cyborg glared at her, gritting his teeth as he spoke, "I'm gonna ask one more time... where are we?"
"You know, it's not nice to pry! Isn't that right, Rae-Rae?" she spoke the last part looking directly into Raven's eyes.
"Mother's right." said Raven, looking at Cyborg, "You shouldn't pry. Mother does everything because she loves us."
Panicking, Cyborg stared into Raven's now purple-tinted eye's.
"Good girl," praised Mae Eye, walking out and locking the door, "Maybe she'll rub off on you, Borgy-Bear."
Once the door was closed, Raven hopped up onto the giant bed, and began swinging her legs, happily. Eye's glazed over, not blinking once. Cyborg tried his best to snap her out of it
"Hello? Raven, listen to me, she's not our mother, you're under influence! If you snap out of it now, then... I'll cook you waffles every day! O-or hit Beast Boy over the head with a baseball bat! Or... uh... Raven! Look! Trigon's wearing a pink bikini!"
Raven blinked, lurched forward, then almost hit the floor.
"Where?!"
Cyborg grinned, relieved to have her 'awake' again, "Nowhere, I just needed you to get out of her control."
"You mean... dammit." Raven berated herself, angry that she let herself be manipulated like that, "I'm guessing she couldn't fool the robot part of your brain."
"Nope, I'm free. Her control on you seemed to break as soon as you closed your eyes... that must be the key!" Cyborg punched the air, glad that he'd managed to figure something out that could be useful.
"So, I'm going to have to wear a blindfold, now?"
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After dinner, Robin tried again to locate Cyborg and Raven. He was just about to shut down the computers for the night, when a little red dot started blinking on the map. Cyborg's locator chip! He zoomed in to find that the signal was coming in from...
The North Pole?
Robin frowned, why would they be there? How would they be there?
Curiosity killed the cat.
Was that supposed to be a warning... or a threat? Whatever it was, whoever sent it was most likely the same person who took Cyborg and Raven. A force to be reckoned with.
He was going to need a stronger team, as well as a baby sitter.
"Okay," Robin said to himself, taking a deep breath and picking up the phone, "first I find a baby-sitter, then I call Titans East and head for the North Pole."
He dialed and held his breath as he waited for the person on the other end to pick up.
"Hello?"
"Heee-eeey, Bruce!"
"Goodbye."
Robin slouched, that had been a long shot, anyway. He tried a few more people, with similar results. After about an hour of attempts, he finally got through to someone.
"...thanks a lot, Wally. I'll give you the brief tomorrow."
"Can't you just tell me what I gotta do, now?!"
"Nope, but it's a big mission, I promise you that!"
"But-"
Robin hung up. Now to call Titans East...
AN: Ptooo! That took a long time, even though it's my shortest chapter yet. Please review!
Stay safe! And don't do drugs!