Chapter 7. Still own only the Talons ~Tygger


It was the hardest thing the Titans had ever done, just sitting and waiting for something to happen. The fact that it was like waiting for death was only made worse by the defeated way that the bird-kids acted and the fact that the room had some kind of dampener on it to keep them from using their powers. The only ones who had working powers were the ones who couldn't use them to help them escape. Robin continued to hear things that no one else could, the Titans tried to recall this ever happening before and he explained that he'd tried to keep it quiet. Faith kept right on having visions of the near future, most of which were unfortunately of them sitting the the white room. Hope continued to read the minds of anyone who let their guard down out of boredom. Dragon still retained his ability to "See" things with his mind, though he told them that he didn't do it often because it was tiring and gave him headaches, much like Faith's visions, but it was his choice to use his power, Faith's visions came at random. Truth was still amusing herself by turning invisible for short periods of time and Midnight was drumming her fingers on the floor at lightning speed causing a sort of humming sound to fill the room, Robin mentioned that he didn't remember anyone having super powers when he left. Truth explained that they'd still been mutating and probably still were, besides, he'd been hearing things since before he'd left and it made sense that he'd gotten powers first, him being the oldest. Eventually the subtle conversations petered out as they started running out of things to say, even Starfire had nothing to say. Everyone was pretty sure they knew everything about everyone else, from Dragon attending a magical school during the school year to the fact that Hope used to have a huge crush on Robin when she was eleven. The most shocking information that the Titans obtained was that the bird-kids were lab rats, most of them kidnapped or sold to the lab by their parents. Robin's parents had been murdered and him and his sisters and brother had been brought here.

"I'm bored." Beast Boy stated for the thirty eighth time.

Raven glared at him, "Alright Fuzzy, if you say that one more time I'll..."

Robin's head shot up, "I hear footsteps! Someones coming!"

Truth nodded to Hope as if confirming something no one else knew about, "You know what to do."

The younger girl nodded as the door swung open. Two men dressed as doctors came in and started placing trays containing some mystery food on it in front of them.

"Excuse me?" Hope smiled up at them, "I need to pee."

One of the men sighed and turned to his partner, "Brian, take it to the bathroom. I'll finish up here."

"Alright, Phil, I'll see you back in the lab, eh?" the man named Brian walked over and after a moments hesitation punched in something on the number pad next to Hope's chain. The clamp released and he picked up the chain leading her out of the room. The other man, Phil, finished handing out trays and left.

"What was the point in that?" Cyborg asked, "What good is a bathroom break? We shouldn't split up!"

"Look, you take orders from Dick, right?" Truth asked.

"Yes, he is our leader," Starfire answered in her sad little voice.

"Well, Dick takes his orders from me," She snapped, "So there for, so do you."

"Dude!" B.B. protested, "You take orders from your little sister?"

"When it came time to take charge of the family, he wasn't willing." Truth said coldly, "Someone had to step up and take control, so I did and he had to settle for second in command. A position that was given to Morg when he left, hm, I guess that makes him third now."

"So what do we do now, Boss." Robin asked submissively.

Truth nodded approvingly, "We wait again."

And so they waited, some of them tried to stomach the food, namely the bird-kids, but the other Titans opted not to touch it. Eventually when Hope didn't return from her pee brake the Titans started to get nervous. The door swung open again and a new doctor came in. Without a word he marched into the room and unhooked Midnight's chain, she struggled a little as he half dragged her out of the room. Truth's face saddened the slightest bit and the other kids seemed to have their emotions in check, but all of the color drained from Robin's face.

"What's wrong, Sweetie, you gone soft since you left us?" she asked him, but the cold bite was gone from her voice and a shiver seemed to run down her spine.

"I just thought I could forget all of this," His voice was little more than a whisper, "How bad this all really was. Mae'n wir ddrwg gennyf, Christina, mae'n ddrwg gennyf am bopeth."

"Whoa!" Cyborg's eyes widened, "What language was that?"

"Welsh." Ren answered, "They're Welsh, they used to speak it all the time, but not so much now, since for the longest time Middy didn't speak and True had no one to speak it with."

"Mae'n iawn, Richard, ar ôl i chi adael, mae'n debyg y byddai'n iawn." Truth replied, for the first time since they'd met her, she didn't sound like she was picking a fight.

"It must be a pretty deep conversation," Dragon smirked, "They're using real, full, first names. Next thing you know, they'll be call us by our first names, too."

Starfire giggled, "You have the first names?"

"Yeah," Dragon laughed a little, "I'm Derrick."

"And I'm Mathew!" Ren said grinning, showing the first bit of real emotion since they'd entered the White Room.

Out of no where, something fell from the ceiling and hit Raven on the head, "Ow," she picked up the object, a small screw and glanced upwards. it seemed to have come from the vent above her head, "What the...?"

The other screw bounced off the floor and the vent opened. after a few seconds, Hope climbed out of the vent shaft, followed by a boy with shaggy, wavy brown hair and hazel eyes. They both dropped to the floor silently and the boy grinned at Truth, "I told you I'd be back."

"Koma!" True grinned getting to her feet and kissing the boy lightly on the lips.

Robin looked away from them, a slightly embarrassed look on his face as Hope undid the chains around his wrist, before moving on to Faith, Baby, Dragon, Ren and the Titans. She glanced around the room, "Where's Midnight?"

"They took her," Faith whimpered as Truth lifted her up so she could climb into the shaft.

"We'll save her, right?" Baby asked as Robin lifted her.

"Right." He confirmed, giving Ren a boost. Once they were all inside the vent they followed Hope down a series of tunnels until they were met with the strong smell of hospitals, "Down here?"

"We'll get out here, this is the Lab section," She explained, seemingly having gotten over the fact that she wasn't speaking with him, "We'll have to find her from the floor."

They dropped down through the roof and were overwhelmed instantly with the smell of antiseptic overlaying the smell of death, they seemed to be in another kind of holding area where the room was lined with metal bunks. The bunks were caged in and a wall of metal caging cut down the middle of the bunk, too, meaning that each expariment only got half a bunk. But the bunks were not the focus of their attention at the moment, one of the bunks had an arm falling out of it, between the bars. The hand was twitching uncontrolably on the end of an imposibly skinny wrist that was covered in an almost tranparent layer of bloody skin, Raven thought she would be sick when she glanced in and saw the rest of the little boy. He was all bones, his ribs sticking out of his sides grossly, his eyes bulging out of his bloody skull. In the other half of the bunk was a small girl with no eyes at all, her body was to skinny as well, but not as bad as the boy, horns were growing from her head and she had bones growing through her skin in several places. Her breath was thin and whispy, everytime she inhailed it sounded like her last, like the effort of living would just be to much for her. Raven glanced around the room, most of the other bunks were empty, but she was horrified to see that they had shiny silver name tags on them, each one with a different name and number on it, the one closest to her said Demon on it, a name she'd heard one of the bird-kids use when refering to Robin. She glanced back at the girl in the bunk to find that she'd stopped breathing, "This is Horrible."

"This?" Baby said blinking up at her with her adorable, four year old, dark brown eyes, "This is home."


Sweet, so, this really starting to pick up now, I'm obiously going to get them out of here eventually, but I was thinking of dragging Batman into this. What do you think? ~Tygger