Watch out Magicians! Beware Robots! Miko Takes No Prisoners!
(A/N: For my loyal fans- I decided to make this a double-header chapter… Two for the price of one… So it's almost twice as long and hopefully twice as fun as my other chapters… After you've read, please review! And if this message doesn't work then I'll try subliminal! P.S.: More Miko action was wanted, more Miko action is given!)
(P.S.S.: My Dad's doing great! Fantastic even, and I'm planning on visiting my parents soon! Yellowstone here I come!)
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The Teen Titans, minus Beast Boy and Cyborg (who was in the kitchen) and Kikyo were watching TV, well Kikyo was trying to watch TV but it was full of Daytime dramas and commercials.
"…She made me want to leave my wife and children, and I'm not even married. "Hello Gorgeous…" I said, then a piano crashed into my head and the floor came up and smothered me." Came the voice of the main male actor from the TV, Miko flipped the channel; not wanting to watch the old detective drama. She'd much rather watch the news, than this, but even the news was boring. So when Star-Fire spoke up, she turned the TV off to face her.
"Tell me 'Kikyo'- why is it that you spend so much time trying to make 'her' better when there is most always crime followed by explosions that undermines the structural integrity of Jump City?" Star-Fire asked Miko Kikyo (aka Kagome).
"Simple- the faster I find out what's wrong with her the faster I will be allowed to help you."
"But you AS Kikyo are only here long enough to cure 'Kagome' before returning to Japan… So wouldn't it make sense to delay 'making' her well enough so you can continue helping us out?" BB asked.
'Kikyo' hadn't thought of that throughout all their elaborate planning. 'Kikyo' was startled about that train of thought, that and the fact that her cousin was the one that came up with it.
"So- any news from the DP?" She asked, changing the subject abruptly. "I mean- according to Cyborg, you tried to contact them and didn't receive an answer.."
"I dunno- I mean Mento was pretty pissed about me… So I doubt that he's going to let Elastigirl actually contact me." He shrugged. "Look- can we Not talk about this? I mean there's nothing we can actually do about this, there's no actual way that we can do anything about that… So- yeah. Changing subject! How about them Dodgers huh?"
"BB- I do not watch golf…"
"Wow that was… So right field." Beastboy said grinning. "So are you going to come outside with us?" He asked.
"For what?" 'Kikyo' asked.
"We are to be attending a function known as a pick-knick, please why are we to be picking knicks?" Star-Fire asked Raven.
"Star- a picnic is basically a casual meal prepared for eating in the open air…" Cyborg clarified, as he swung a large picnic basket over his arm from the countertop.
"And we have plenty of food to go around…" Robin said walking into the multi-purpose room. "So you really don't have an excuse…" He said smirking.
"You mean besides my 'patient' in the infirmary…" Miko 'Kikyo' said with a wry grin.
"Well- yeah besides 'her'…" Robin said answering her wry grin with one of his own.
"You know we're going to have to lose these inflections…" 'Kikyo' said.
"What do you mean?" Raven asked.
"Everyone is using inflections with my 'name' and 'her' "name"…" 'Kikyo' explained.
"I am afraid I do not understand Miko 'Kikyo'…" Star-Fire stated.
"You're saying my name with extra meaning…" Kikyo stated. (A/N: And I'm getting tired of using apostrophes around Kikyo and Kagome's names.) "And if you keep doing it, we're going to be found out, like by that weird Taxi-cab guy or some other enemy of yours…" She said. Not wanting to mention Slade and ruining Robin's good mood.
"She has a point guys…" Cyborg said considering her. "Okay from now on: Don't enunciate her or …her-" Cyborg paused as he said this before shaking his head, his circuits hurt in the brief moment it took for him to process what he was talking about with Kagome-Kikyo-Miko's three names. "Names… So Kikyo, are you going to join us or what? It's going to be a fantastic day outside and it would be a shame to waste it…" He said leading her with his speech. (A/N: Please Review!)
"Alright, fine… You talked me into it…" Kikyo said as she lifted herself from the couch.
"Hooray!" Star-Fire declared as she leapt into the air and spun around, bringing Miko into the air with her. After spinning around six times in under a second, Star-Fire then released Miko to the ground where she wobbled and her head followed a spinning course.
"Miko- you okay?" Robin asked.
"Gimme a few seconds- Robin would you? Could someone take the T-Tower off the Merry-Go-Round? Please?" she asked as she clutched her head.
"Come on Kikyo!" Cyborg declared grabbing her and seating her still dizzy form on his shoulder. "A picnic will fix you up in no time!"
"Cyborg- I have been in no time… It's foggy, floaty, and has a blue tint." Kikyo said quite seriously, or as serious as she could get at the moment; her head was still following a slightly elliptical pattern.
"Come on girl- you have to experience an American style picnic while you're here with us!" Cyborg declared, having handed the picnic basket to Star-Fire. Then he and his cargo followed by Robin, BB, and a semi-reluctant Raven. Peeking into the basket, Star-Fire made sure the picnic had everything they needed, including Beastboy's Tofu "hotdogs". She was as yet uncertain if the Tofu-dogs did have any insects in them as the regular beef hotdogs did. In her thought process, she grabbed a few different colored bottles from the fridge thinking they were all soda, one was a bright yellow color that she thought was quite lovely.
Star-Fire shrugged, grabbed the now heavier picnic basket and flew out the multi-purpose room to join the rest of the Teen Titans before they left the Tower.
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'"Mm-mm! would you look at that! A little sunshine, a little breeze… Only one thing could make this day better. Four and a half pounds of baby back ribs!"' Cyborg declared taking his lunch off the grill and sitting down at the table where Kikyo, Robin, and Star-Fire were already sitting. Kikyo was enjoying her burger that Robin made for her when Cyborg slid a rib onto her plate.
"Here you go Miko! Try one! I made my special sauce, and they are de-lish! I guarantee it!" Miko smiled around a mouthful of her hamburger, and nodded in thanks. '"Man, I love picnic food…"' He declared before chowing down on the massive rack of ribs, getting sauce and piece of meat all over his place setting and face.
Robin must have agreed because he took a large bite out of his burger and chewed with gusto.
"'Agreed, Cyborg.'" Star-Fire said grinning in his direction as she swallowed her gulp of the yellow beverage she'd taken out of the fridge earlier. '"This tangy, yellow beverage is truly delightful.'" She said flushing in enjoyment.
Miko, Robin and Cyborg stopped eating for a moment to stare at her in disbelief. Miko's burger didn't have enough spice to it so she opened up the bun and painted some wasabi delicately on it.
'"Uh- Star-Fire…"'
Star-Fire took another gulp of the yellow beverage. And Miko looked at the queasy look on Robin and Cyborg's faces before turning to look at Star-Fire again.
'"That's mustard."' Robin said, his level of grossed-outness rising.
'"Is there more?"' Star-Fire asked, hugging the condiment to her chest.
Miko calmly passed the wasabi to Star-Fire who enjoyed the Japanese condiment even more than the Keinz mustard from before. Cyborg's electronic eye bizzed slightly and Robin barely held back from throwing up.
Miko only smiled. Inuyasha had a very different reaction to wasabi. But in aspects, he and Star-Fire were curious beings about things they didn't understand, like Fireworks.
Miko did however raise an eyebrow in BB's direction. He'd just hung over the grill and picked up his Tofu dogs. If his tofu dogs were anything like his Tofu eggs, then she'd pass.
"'All right y'all. Who wants to play some foo-ball?" Cyborg asked as he ran out into the middle of the park.
"Fuu Ball?" Miko asked Robin for clarification.
"He means football. American football, and I'm in!" He shouted the latter to Cyborg running over to his position.
'"Oh, yes I do!'" Star-Fire said as she flew over to land in front of Cyborg.
Beast Boy ran toward Cyborg as well from his position in the field. '"Oh, yeah, oh, yeah. Gimme the ball…"' Beast Boy said grinning.
"I don't get it… why do Americans insist on calling it football if it never touches your feet?" Miko asked Raven, as the rest of the Teen Titans turned to face them sitting underneath the shade of the tree. Raven had been meditating before BB had interrupted her with an offer of tofu dogs.
Raven looked at Miko, rolling her eyes before standing to join the rest of the Teen Titans. '"I'll be referee."'
Miko merely looked on in confusion as the ball was passed between Cyborg's legs to Robin who jogged back a couple paces while BB stood in front of him counting off as Cyborg ran down the field and Star-Fire flew after him.
Suddenly the counting stopped and BB changed into a green Triceratops to run at Robin. Robin freaked out for a moment before running up BB's face and down his back to throw the ball to Cyborg.
She watched as Cyborg seemed to dim slightly, and unknowingly she jogged closer to his position down the field. Suddenly his cries of: '"I got it! I got it"' stopped as he did, frozen in place before crashing to the ground.
"Cyborg?" She asked running to his now prone form.
'"Cyborg? Cyborg!"' Robin he said in alarm as he ran to Miko's side next to Cyborg.
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After it was found out that it was his power cell that was dying, and that he needed to change it out, Miko decided to join him.
'"You keep playing. I go home and change batteries."' Cyborg said disappointed.
'"You sure you don't want help?"' Beast Boy asked.
'"Just 'cause I can't have fun doesn't mean y'all can't"' Cyborg said walking away from the group.
Miko waved to the group and jogged after Cyborg. "Hey Cyborg… I'm coming with you."
"No need… Stay with the rest of the team… It's rare that we get to picnic what with all the city attacks and everything…"
"I understand that…. Believe me…" She said with a semi-sad understanding grin. "What I don't understand is American football… What's the point?" She asked, looking up at him. (a/n: please review…)
Cyborg sighed and tried to explain American football to his Japanese friend. Twenty-five minutes remained on his battery.
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He sighed as they continued to walk down the path having abandoned talk about American versus Japanese football. '"Sure was a nice day…"'
Miko frowned at him from her position next to him. "You are killing this beautiful day for me Cyborg…" She said. "Do you realize that I rarely got to enjoy these kind of days when I was younger?"
He never replied because they were stopped by a kid who had Cyborg as his favorite Titan, because of similarities… The kid was missing some of his right arm. At least he didn't let it get him down… How could the kid? He had Cyborg, constant glass is half-full kind of guy.
When Cyborg's arm began to beep Miko leaned over to look at it as well. '"Nice meetin' ya kid… But I got butt to kick."' He said as he ran off.
"Maybe we'll see you again…" Miko said roughing the kids ball cap on his head.
'"Cool!"' The kid declared, as Miko quickly chased off after Cyborg.
She easily caught up. "How much longer?" She asked.
"Unless I get another power source, less than thirteen minutes…"
Knowing Cyborg didn't like to leave his teammates hanging, Miko grinned. "Then let's get you a quick fix!"
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They met up with the rest of the Teen Titans in Tito's Junkyard. Cyborg quickly grabbed Robin out of the way of a blast from Mumbo…
Miko was on top of a pile of junk out of the way trying to get a bead on Mumbo, but his erratic jumping made it difficult not to get a killing shot, and she didn't want to waste her arrows with near misses.
The only shot she got off was just as Cyborg fired his sonic cannon. She was trying to shoot his top-hat off his head, but the arrow merely lodged itself into the hat, like one of the Indian-arrow-through-the-head-gags. "Great…" she muttered. Mumbo's magic tricks were annoying, but effective. So was the elevator music that was being played as they fought him. It was making her lose her focus.
What she did see was Cyborg land in the dump truck before it dumped its load in a dumpster.
'"Exit, stage left…"' Mumbo said replacing the dump truck driver and driving off in the dump truck himself.
"'Titans, he's got Cyborg!"' The other Teen Titans didn't realize it however, and before she could tell them what she saw, they chased after Mumbo.
"And me without a communicator… Great… Just Great…" Miko said ass she looked into the dumpster to realize that it had a hole in the bottom that lead to a cavern.
"Well this just keeps getting better and better…" She said jumping down. She found the external battery pack that she'd helped Cyborg into, but no Cyborg.
That was when she realized that she could see in the dark. A perk for being Sesshoumaru's adopted sister no doubt.
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"Great these caverns seem to go under the whole city…" Miko mumbled before a metallic scent filled her nose. Maybe the rest of the changes from the adoption were kicking in finally… Oil, rust, a distinct smell of ionization, and… barbeque sauce. Cyborg was close, but still, another sniff, at least another twenty minutes walk. Miko paced herself. Who knew what she would run into in these caverns…
But she was seeing more and more metal parts around her. And every now and then she came across a small robot with red eyes. But it was easy to knock out and put out of the way.
She was smelling concern, and slight fear. Nothing was really wrong with Cyborg, and the fact that she could smell his emotions meant that he had somehow acquired another battery pack or power cell or whatever he deemed to call it. And… He was Cyborg, he could take care of himself when it came down to it.
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Meanwhile the rest of the Teen Titans were chasing Mumbo in the city.
When they came across a spray painted mural across the building, a disappearing and reappearing bus, and a mail box that was jumping around spitting out live rabbits with every landing, and a woman encased in three rings was flying through the air, they had to stop.
'"I'll say this much for Mumbo…"' Beast Boy said glancing around, "'He's an easy act to follow."' He said smirking at Star-Fire.
"'Oh. I would commit myself to a life of much shoveling in the filth mines of Cornex if Cyborg could only be returned safely…" Star-Fire said wishing.
'"He was malfunctioning. He shouldn't have been helping."' Raven said, almost grumbling.
'"I tried to stop him, but he's Cyborg…"' Robin said clenching his fist.
Their recriminations stopped however when they heard: '"Mumbo Jumbo!"' The chase was on again.
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Miko was able to get into the room where Cyborg was being held. He was strapped down to a table with four wires coming out from his chest plate.
"'Do not be afraid. You were dreaming. Sleep will not be necessary once repairs are complete."'
'"What if I don't want to be repaired? What if I like me this way?'" Cyborg demanded of the other being in the room.
Miko winced. He smelled sour, old, like rusted metal and acid. It wasn't a pleasant scent. But mentally she cheered Cyborg on in his thinking.
'"Such thoughts come from your imperfect biological components… They will be replaced momentarily…" The unknown being said, with less feeling than Sesshoumaru. Kikyo didn't think it was possible, apparently it was.
"'"Not if I can help it."'" Cyborg declared at the same time as Miko whispered.
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Cyborg broke free, but the being closed the doors. And with a glow from the device on his head caused several cords to entangle and restrain Cyborg's attempts to harm him. Cyborg was able to tear off a portion of the beings cloak, revealing an abomination of a human's digestive system and being. Miko shared Cyborg's shock and revulsion.
Once again Cyborg was strapped to the table and with his defensive mechanism shut down, he was unable to defend himself.
"'Do not resist. It is for the best…" The being said about to place a metal encasing over Cyborg's face.
"'No it isn't. If you take out my biological components, you take out the best part of me. The part that makes me who I am." Cyborg said as he tried to stop the being with words.
'"Your memories, your self… Will be preserved. I will download them into your new brain…" Kagome at that exact moment that the metal tentacle that would extract memories from Cyborg connected with Cyborg's head Miko changed the nature of the command the being was using and instead of just downloading, and saving, Kagome made him copy the memories into his brain.
As Cyborg's memories flooded the being's mind, Miko was easily able to remove the metal facing from Cyborg and shared a smile with him before she un-strapped him, the memories became too much for the being and he tore himself away from Cyborg.
Just then the doors to the room opened and the rest of the Teen Titans came jogging in as Miko helped Cyborg down from the table.
"'Cyborg, are you okay?"' Robin asked, placing a hand on his friends metallic shoulder.
'"Yeah…"'
'"So, beautiful… I had forgotten how beautiful. The world… Through your eyes…"'
'"Through human eyes. The same kind you have"' Cyborg turned to Miko. "Was that your doing?"
She nodded, moving to help the being up.
"'Perhaps, I am the one in need of repairs…"'
'"And maybe I'm the guy who can help repair you…"' Cyborg said as together he and Miko led Fixit to the surface. "Hey," Cyborg said turning to look at Miko over Fixit's shoulder. "Thanks for coming after me…"
"Any time…" She said as they climbed through the hole into the sunlight. As they were taking Fixit to the surface, Kikyo was focusing on toning down her hearing that Sesshoumaru insisted on her practicing. By the time that they exited the Junkyard, Kikyo had toned down her hearing to what she assumed was the normal level. She could no longer hear Robin heartbeat, nor the rhythmic thrum and chime she had heard from Star-Fire.
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The next day they went on another picnic to make up for the one that was botched. Miko smiled at the boy from yesterday who felt a kinship with Cyborg. Today he brought a friend, and the friend was in awe that the boy and Cyborg had something in common.
Miko heard Cyborg say something of great morality to the kid. Mentally she thought if only every lesson in life had a moral…
'"Wheel or morality turn, turn, turn, tell us the lesson that we should learn…"'
She said chuckling to herself.
"What was that Kikyo?" Star-Fire asked.
Grinning, Miko looked at her. "Nothing… Just me being me…."
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Time Flows and Weeks Pass Till Once Again Mumbo Is Out Of Jail and Terrorizing The City….
Today It Just So Happens To Be A Bank.
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"'And now for my next trick: I, the Amazing Mumbo, shall make all your money vanish, into thin air… Hocus-pocus!'" And all the money in the three large money sacks in the middle of the room spewed their bills into the air, where in a stream, they flew into Mumbo's hat. Only a few of the bills remained and they floated to the floor.
'"I just love a captive audience."' Mumbo said as he pulled a waxy penny from the teller's ear.
'"They may be captive now, but you're the one who's getting locked up!"' Robin declared.
'"You forget… I'm an escape artist…"' Mumbo said as he procured several ping-pong balls and tossed them at the Teen Titans, who scattered as they exploded. In an attempt to stop a few from bouncing towards innocent civilians, BB transformed into a crocodile and snapped several up, causing them to explode in his mouth… A lot like Star-Fire's attempt to make four-alarm vegetarian chili… It did not end well and the bay was two feet lower than it was a week ago…
The Teen Titans including Miko were fighting Mumbo in the bank, throwing their attacks at him, which were made ineffective by his magic, while Miko was attempting to get the civilians to vacate the premises lest they be caught up in the damage and hurt themselves.
She saw Raven and Mumbo going at it, and grabbed several employees, two of which had been injured and escorted them to the paramedics. When Miko was helping the two injured persons to sit, she felt something odd. And upon focusing her hearing she heard:
'"Raven!"'
"'Robin!"'
'"Star-Fire!"'
"'Dudes!"'
And she quickly ran back into the building. She witnessed Raven being pulled into a Kazanna that was, in a top-hat?
She quickly formed a barrier around herself, and ran towards the Titans who were trying to prevent Raven from being sucked in. Miko was too late however, as one-by-one, the Teen Titans were sucked in with thomp-pops, and Mumbo put the hat back on his head with a smirk, and disappeared.
Swearing, Miko chased after his scent, musty silk and, she sniffed again discretely, sparklers? But her chase was to be put on hold when the communicator she was finally given gave off the 'Titan Alert'. Mumbo would have to wait… The Teen Titans were taking a hat-nap, and Miko was the only Titan left to defend the city.
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Miko was in the middle of blasting Plasmus with her powers when she heard what she thought was a foghorn… But then she realized that she had a connection to Beast Boy and when he was particularly agitated, she was acutely attuned to him. But why was he imitating a fog horn?
Then as she was throwing two ofuda, she heard him again:
'"Hey, let me help! I could crank call 'em!"'
Miko blinked and looked around in confusion. "Beast Boy?" Before she was gooked by Plasmus. She snarled at the stench and then with her powers enhancing her blows, she was able to physically attack Plasmus while her powers attempted to stun him. Having read over the file on Jump City's villains; she knew that if she could get Plasmus asleep, or knocked out, he would revert to human form.
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'"What… Happened?"' Star-Fire-cat read from the ticker tape Beast Boy was spitting out.
"'He made me do a jig…"' Cyborg-bear gasped out lying on the bottom of his cage in absolute exhaustion.
Star-Fire-cat gasped, her hackles rising. '"That mad man must be stopped!" She paused and looked confused at Cyborg. '"Please, what is… a jig?"
Meanwhile Robin-monkey was up onstage.
"'And now for the comedy portion of our show…"' Mumbo said as he looked at Robin-monkey.
'"We'll see about that…"' Robin-monkey said as he took two bananas and squirted their fruit into Mumbo's eyes. Growling at Robin-monkey laughing at him, Mumbo made a musical-box appear and started cranking the box.
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Miko had just finished handing off the sleeping human form of Plasmus to the police, when the Titan alert sounded again.
Sighing she answered the call, and using the T-car, was able to get to the north docks of Jump City. There she encountered Killer-Moth, and was battling him when Slade's robots joined in the action. No doubt Slade wanted to see what Miko could do.
Several of the workers, ran for it seeing Killer-Moth, and Slade robots. Miko gestured them out and turned to face the robots, quickly stringing and shooting two arrows in succession, taking out two of the robots. She had to do a tuck-roll when two of Killer-Moth's creatures dove her, a quick slap of her bow pushed them back a couple feet but they came right back at her. She withdrew two ofuda and slapped them to the creatures turning them back into maggoty things, which by Miko's opinion were even worse than the moth creatures they had been before the ofuda.
"Behind you!" Was the yell of a male voice. And she heard metal connect with metal and then a thud sounded.
One of the workers had decided to man-up and help her, arming himself with a large wrench which he'd used to great effect as he'd hit one of the robots. "Thanks," Kikyo said with a smirk, "But you do realize, if you can keep your head when all about are losing theirs you probably haven't checked with your answering service"
"Who said that?" the man asked swinging his wrench at a moth creature connecting with it easily and it hit the wall and didn't get back up.
"George Brenard Shaw…Hawkeye Pierce, and me." Miko said with a grin, as another arrow took out yet another Slade-bot. "Augh!"
A couple Slade-bots fired shots at her and she dodged but not before she got grazed. Luckily her fire-rat armor held out and she merely bruised.
Soon however, the creatures and the robots were too close for Miko to loose her arrows and she was reduced to hand-to-hand combat. The man however, was still having great success with his wrench swinging.
Miko took a right cross across the face from Killer-Moth and she used her momentum to kick his legs out from under him.
"How long did you play baseball?" Miko grunted as she used a Judo move to flip the robot into three of the creatures, none of them got back up. In fact two of the creatures went splat! And the third was pinned underneath the unmoving robot.
"Still play it on weekends at Vault Park…" He said as he hit two more creatures. "This is better than batting practice!"
Miko executed a flip-spin-kick-karate-chop combo and took out the last of the robots. At the same time as the Man splatted the rest of the Moth-Creatures.
"No Way. No-how, is a young upstart to the Teen Titans, and a common factory worker gonna win!" Killer-Moth declared as he smacked the wrench from the man and had one of his creatures, the one that had been underneath the downed robot decide that the wrench was a decent meal. Then he threw the man into one of the supporting pillars and knocked the man out.
"You need a Time Out!"
Tired of Killer-Moth's mouth, Miko used her powers to form a barrier around his head. (A/N: Please Review!)He struggled to pull the barrier off his head, for a couple seconds, but it didn't work and the barrier held firm.
"Time Out? Time Out? Let me tell you something 'Miko' of the Teen Titans, Killer-Moth will not-! Did I just use up all my air?" Killer-Moth asked before he passed out from lack of air. Using her powers, she let him slump to the ground, before calling the Police and the paramedics.
Once both had arrived they insisted on checking Miko over before gathering up Killer-Moth and the maggoty-creatures and what was left of the Slade-robots.
Once that was done, Miko jumped back in the T-car and headed back to the bank. The only thing she remembered was the fact that: 'They always return to the scene of the crime.'
She found Mumbo back inside the bank, leaning into his top-hat… For some reason his torso was inside there… But then again so were the rest of the Teen Titans…
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"Ala-ka-zam!" was the shout as Miko witnessed Raven's foot kicking Mumbo from inside his hat.
"O-of!" Mumbo said as he bounced back to the ground
The whirl wind appeared again as the Teen Titans and the money were expelled from Mumbo's top-hat
"Alright I'm back!: Cyborg shouted grinning "with a vengeance" he said smirking evilly at mumbo.
Raven on the other hand pulled the hood to her cloak back to make sure her ears were not at the top of her head.
Mumbo freaked out and summoning his hat to him ran for the front doors.
A bird-a-rang from Robin tripped him up and he crashed to the floor. Miko picked him off the floor and secured his arms the police would be there in a dew moments anyway.
'"Yes! You have no bananas!"' BB declared, pointing at Robin. Cy was thrilled at this as well.
Miko could hear from inside Mumbo's hat, the sounds of cheering and looked over his shoulder to see a crowd of blue skinned white haired people dressed in black, white, grey and red, cheering in what looked like a theater setting.
'"That was the greatest trick ever."' Said one of the two 'men' in the balcony inside the hat to the other 'man'.
'"Eh- it was old hat…"' And then the two 'old men' on the balcony inside the hat laughed. Miko was momentarily reminded of 'The Muppets' and sighing, tightened her grip on Mumbo the police, still not having arrived, as Raven's powers took Mumbo's hat from him.
'"We're going to make sure you don't have any encore performances…"' Raven said, holding the hat in front of her.
'"But- but… my magic… How did you escape?"' Mumbo asked, leaning forward. Miko held onto his arms tighter, so he wouldn't get free… She really needed handcuffs, that or some enchanted rope.
'"I had a better trick up my sleeve…"' Raven said smirking.
'"I gotta know… C'mon kid, just between the two of us; tell me what you did."' Mumbo said leaning ever closer to Raven. Miko winced as the muscles surrounding her ribs tightened. She had bruised her ribs when she tangoed with Plasmus.
'"A magician never reveals her secrets…"' Raven said flipping the top-hat onto her head with a smirk and a wink.
Robin and Cyborg took a closer look Miko from her position behind Mumbo; Kikyo was bruised and battered, with her uniform smudged standing triumphantly behind Mumbo; holding his arms behind his back.
"So, how was Oz?" She asked smiling, she winced as her split lip was pulled. Finally the polive came and she was able to hand Mumbo off to them.
"Really, Kikyo?" BB asked semi-glaring at her, "So. Not. Cool…"
"Way to go girl!" Cyborg cheered her. "Any problems while we were gone?"
Miko grimaced, not really wanting to spout her accomplishments, and decided to imply that it was no problem.
"What it is…" She said shaking her head and grinning, the corner of her mouth bruised, and her lip split, but not detracting from her triumph. Giving the Teen Titans a 'V' for Victory.
"And what it will be…" Robin said grinning, returning the sign with one of his own, a thumbs-up.
They returned to the T-Tower and Robin asked Kikyo how she dealt with it all while they were gone… And she explained what happened while she defended Jump City while the team was taking a "hat-nap".
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They made it back to the Tower in one piece, and headed to the sick-bay where Cyborg and BB played nurse for Miko.
Robin, Star-Fire, and Raven came into the room.
"Well Miko- we just saw some news-cast's… That was some fight you had with Plasmus." Raven said.
"Yeah- I had loads of fun…" Kikyo said, wincing as Cyborg applied alcohol to her split lip.
"Kikyo's got some bruised ribs, Raven would you help bind them?" Beast Boy requested.
"Sure…" Raven acquiesced.
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"Any news?" Robin asked Beast Boy and Star-Fire going back to the problem of Aqua-Man sending fish to contact them.
Kikyo walked into the room escorted by Raven and Cyborg. "I did…" She stated. "While you were uh… out I sent a quick wave of my powers out into the bay surrounding the T-tower and as a result on the T-car scanner there suddenly showed sixteen very real threats; how they remained undetected before my power wave, I have no idea.
"I thought I sensed something odd while inside Mumbo's hat…" Raven said.
"But our powers were gone…" Star-Fire said confused.
"When did you send the power wave?" Raven asked.
"Around 1:30.…" Kikyo said leaning against the kitchen counter.
"Here…" Beast Boy said handing Kikyo a glass of iced tea.
"What I find is odd is that, why when Miko's power wave was clear and undetectable to those of no mystic or mythological origin, I was able to sense the power wave while we were inside the hat…" Raven said
"Maybe the magic amplified the power wave?" Star-Fire asked.
"Could be… But why didn't either of us sense anything before?" Miko asked, a frown painting her masked face. Then a yawn erupted from her.
"Tell you what-" Robin said, "This has been such a long day, especially for you Kikyo… We'll take this up tomorrow."
Kikyo nodded, and decided not to tell Robin about how she encountered Slade's robots, at the north docks.
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