(I am back, my lovely readers!)
"Can I share a room with Speedy?" Everyone stared at Cheshire's sudden remark. Everyone had decided to get the rooms switched to make room, and Cheshire had been strangely quiet up to that point. "Uh... why?" Robin asked. Cheshire grinned under her mask. "He's interesting." She said simply. Speedy was trying not to laugh.
Argent rolled her eyes. "Girl, you seriously need to be more subtle." She said. "I'll do that when Punk Rocket and Feral get back together." Cheshire said. "Feral?" Vega asked. "It seemed suiting for a code name." Cheshire said. Vega cocked her head to a side, then grinned. "I like it." Johnny rolled his eyes. "Can we get over the girl squealing and get back to rooms?" He said sarcastically. "Why, it past your bedtime?" Billy Numerous drawled.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Time has passed~ ~ ~ ~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~
"Argh!" Vega walked into the room. Angel, who had set up a cot, looked up calmly. "You and your boyfriend having troubles?" She asked. "He's not my boyfriend, for one, and for two, he THINKS he can earn me back by 'playing' the good guy for a bit!" Vega said, climbing up on her bed. Argent groaned and said, "I think he's being serious, Vega." "Well, I don't. I'm going to bed." She said sharply.
Angel glanced at Argent. "I believe she is in denial." She said. "Ya think?" Argent replied.
"Both of you shut up!"
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Meanwhile...~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~ ~
Everyone at Purity was shocked. One of the thugs lay dead on the floor, while Caleb stood above him. "That fool botched the jail purifying. Several of the villains now have taken up sanctuary at Titan's Tower." The members gulped. Caleb was turning more and more into a psychopath. "Everyone, I do this for our own good. We cannot have weak links." He said, turning to the crowd.
"Start moving in on houses of confirmed un-humans in two days. If you refuse," He nodded at the corpse. "You'll end up like him."
Two of the members, Joseph and Adam, walked away from the meeting. "This is getting insane, man! He just killed him, whacked him over the head with a hammer!" Joseph said, shocked. "I know, dude. But we leave, some other members will drag us back- and our fate will be worse than his, I guarantee it." Adam said.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Back at Titan's Tower~ ~ ~ ~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Speedy walked into his room. He and Aqualad had agreed to share, but currently the Atlantean was installing a pool thing in the main room.
He began taking off his shirt when he turned around and felt a small pair of lips on his. "What the!" Speedy backed off. A small Asian girl in a lacy green nightie stood across from him, grinning. "You taste like chocolate. You just had a snack, yes?" She asked. Speedy recognized the voice. "Cheshire?" He said, completely shocked.
"Exactly, Speedy." She walked up to him. "Let's just say I'm craving company tonight- and you are the one who can satisfy it." She pressed her lips against his again, and this time, Speedy didn't push away.
~ ~ ~ ~~ ~ ~ ~~ ~ Lets leave those two alone, shall we?~ ~ ~~ ~ ~ ~
It was morning. Johnny Rancid- who had roomed with Punk- walked out and looked in the fridge. "Thank goodness." He grumbled, grabbing the soy milk. "Dude, that's mine!" Johnny turned around to see Beast Boy. "Well, I don't drink real milk." Johnny replied, pouring himself a cup.
"Why not? You... seem like a guy who wouldn't be vegan." Beast Boy said. "Health choice. I may kill myself on a motorcycle someday, but I do not want to die of poor health." Johnny said. Beast Boy blinked in surprise. "That's... pretty cool." He said, stealing back the carton.
"I hate being in a tower with a bunch of teens- hey guys!" Vega walked in and wrinkled her nose. "Soy milk, yucky. I'm making an omelet." She grabbed some eggs and some fish. "You are NOT adding fish to an omelet." Johnny said. "I'm not. I'm just frying it up too. Want some?" Johnny shook his head. "I'll... pass."
"So, why don't you like being in the tower?" Beast Boy asked. "Its nothing against here." Vega said. "Just... some people are a little... loud when it comes to intimacy." Vega shuddered and Johnny started laughing. "Its not funny, its kinda creepy! You don't have enhanced hearing, so it doesn't suck as much for you!" Vega snapped.
Beast Boy shook his head, slightly snickering. "Hey guys, ooh, omelets!" Speedy walked into the kitchen. Vega sighed and grumbled, "I guess I'm the morning chef..."
Then Vega slightly inhaled and looked horrified. "Speedy! Why... why!" She said, looking very creeped out. Speedy looked confused. "Huh?" He said. "I have enhanced smell as well. Seriously, why her! I may be friends with her, but I'm not suicidal!" Vega shrieked. "Take a shower or something... please. My senses are murdering me!" Vega was almost pleading while Speedy, snickering, just walked out.
Johnny raised his eyebrows. "Do I want to know?" "No!" Vega said, throwing some omelets on a plate. Aqualad had walked downstairs and it was obvious he didn't sleep well the night before. "Hey Aqualad... wait... did you sleep in your room?" Vega asked. "No, he crashed on my floor last night." Red Star said, walking out. "I do not know why, however." "Because Speedy kicked me out." The Atlantean grumbled.
"Who'd he hook up with?" Johnny said, finishing off his soy milk. "I don't know and I don't care." Aqualad grumbled, glaring at Vega's fish patties.
When everyone got down there (And Speedy, once he had showered twice over) it would've seemed they were all normal teens instead of enemies on a normal basis.
"Hot Spot, I swear, you steal one more bite of my omelet, I will blow you through a wall." Argent said, glaring. "Aw, come on, 'gent-" Hotspot complained. "And don't call me 'gent!"
"Beast Boy. I may be going out with you in a while, but that doesn't mean you can steal bits of my omelet." Raven said. "It's called flirting, Raven. Ow!" Beast Boy said, rubbing his arm after Raven smacked him. "Someone just got owned by their girlfriend." Kid Flash said, chuckling. "Shut up, Kid Flash!" Beast Boy said. "Plus, I could beat you any day, Wal- Kid Flash." Jinx said, catching herself when she almost said Kid's real name. "Aw, but that's because I love you, Jinx." Kid Flash said, pecking his girlfriend's cheek. "Please don't make me regret super hearing, guys..." Vega said, wincing.
Not so subtly, Billy Numerous reached over and poked Calypso's side. "Eep!" Calypso jumped away, accidently falling off her chair. Billy duplicated himself and the dupe caught Calypso in time. "Damn it, Numerous." Calypso said. "What? You ticklish?" Billy said. Calypso's eyes widened and she shook her head. "You are a really bad liar." Billy said, attempting to poke her again and Calypso squeaking. Aqualad just rolled his eyes and said, "Knock it off with the PDA." Billy smirked and shot back, "Why? You jealous?"
Jericho and Kyd Wykkyd had struck up quite the relationship. Because they were both mute, they could have quite the conversations. Kole sighed and pretended like she was staring into space, but in reality staring at Jericho.
Then the alarms started blaring. Then they shed the normal teenager disguise and went to the main screen. "Two Purity attacks! One of them is attacking a local hospital, designed for treating out-of-control powers. The other attack is in a homing district where several of the registered un-humans live." Robin said. Bumblebee nodded. "Titans East, Red Star, Pantha, Hot Spot, Argent, and Bushido, follow me to the hospital." Kyd Wykkyd opened up a portal to the hospital.
"Alright, Titans West, Thunder and Lightning, Kole, G'narrk, Jericho, and Kilowatt, follow me to the homing district. Everyone else, stay home unless we call you." Herald opened up another portal. "Teen Titans, Go!" Robin and Bumblebee yelled, and they ran into the portals.
The rest of the people, (The various villains, Kid Flash, Jinx, Wildebeest, Herald, and Vega) watched as the heroes headed off.
Vega sighed and flopped on the couch. "Hope next time I get brought along." She grumbled. "You still aren't a titan." Jinx said coolly, sitting next to her. Wildebeest snorted and headed upstairs. "Where's Raven?" Timmy, Melvin, and Teether had walked down the hall, still in their pajamas. Vega walked over. "Raven is out helping people right now. Come on, let's get dressed, okay?" She said. Melvin nodded and cleared the sleepy dust out of her eyes. "Okay! Then we can watch a movie after breakfast, okay?" Vega shrugged. "If you obey, we can watch a piece of a movie before breakfast." The little ones cheered and were marched to their bedroom.
Gizmo snorted. "Kids are annoying." "Um, Gizmo, you are a kid." Kid Flash said. "Well... grr." He said, plopping down on the couch. Jinx looked around, and decided to bring her bossiness back into order. "Guys. Let's keep an eye out. I'll have Vega use the smaller T.V." Billy opened his mouth, but was silenced with a glare by See-More. "Yes, ex-hive queen!" He said jokingly. Jinx smirked at that.
"Dang it, how do you work this thing?" Vega was downsized to the normal T.V., but she still had to make the kids breakfast and she didn't know how to make the DVD player work. "I'll help." Vega turned around to see Gizmo. "What movie are you guys watching?" "The Lion King." Melvin said. "I love that movie." Gizmo shrugged. "Haven't seen it." He said.
Melvin's eyes widened. "You haven't seen the Lion King?" She said. "No. Now shut up so I can get this thing to work." Gizmo snapped at the younger girl. "Oh... okay... sorry." She said. "It's okay. You can't help that you're a dumb kid." Gizmo said. Melvin giggled and said, "I'm not that much younger than you!"
Vega came back with omelets to see Gizmo looking sad. "What's wrong, Gizmo?" Gizmo looked up sorrowfully and said, "They... they killed Mufasa..." Vega hid a smirk and said, "Well, time for breakfast." She handed the three their breakfast. When Vega turned away, she caught a glimpse of Melvin sharing her food with the genius hive member.
With Robin...
Robin wiped some dirt off his forehead, and it came back as a reddish grit. "Robin, you are bleeding!" Starfire flew over. "Star, keep rescuing the people. I'll be fine." He ordered, then brought out his spare bo staff. His previous one had snapped when a Purity member brought down a heavier staff on it. Luckily, Robin had disarmed him and sent him to where the cops were.
Thunder flew over. "I cannot find my brother!" He said worryingly. "Have you tried calling him?" Robin asked. Thunder nodded. "He isn't answering." Robin glanced around what used to be a happy suburb now turned into a burning hell.
Some firebug which was part of Purity had used a compromise of dynamite and kerosene to make a truly terrifying weapon. Robin glanced around, searching for the original starter.
Lightning zipped out of a burning building, holding a little girl. "I'm sorry I could not answer, brother." He said, and then headed to the ambulance.
"I'm gonna get you, little wimp!" Robin felt himself being tackled by a larger person. He struggled away and gasped. "Adonis?" He said, then Robin felt pure fury. "You sick bastard. You started the fires?" Adonis nodded and said, "Yeah! It's a pretty nice workout, lifting all that dynamite!" Robin's fury was purely ignited. He switched to his heavier bo staff.
"I'm going to kill you, Adonis. You pulled the last straw." Robin said, then charged. Battering away at his Mecha armor, Robin wasn't letting Adonis get in any blows. He wasn't about to let him walk away this time. This time, he was going to murder him, with all that fury he was holding inside.
Finally, the armor collapsed in, and Adonis was a puny person again. Robin's eyes seemed to be on fire as he lifted his staff for the final blow. "Wait man, don't do it!" Adonis looked horrified. Then he was tapped on the shoulder. He took an extremely quick glance- and that was all Jericho need to possess him.
Adonis breathed out a sob, but then Raven grabbed him using dark energy and threw him in the armored truck. "Make sure that the idiot doesn't get out. Took all my self control not to kill him myself." Raven said. The guard nodded, indicated that he understood.
Finally, Jericho unpossessed Robin. "Jericho!" Robin yelled, intending on removing him from being a Titan. Jericho sighed and signed, 'If you killed him, you only would've proved Caleb right. We are not murderers, Robin. We are heroes. I thought Batman taught you better than that.' Robin almost hit Jericho, but then the truth of his words sunk in. "I... I'm sorry, Jericho. I should know better than that. But... kids were in that blast, thankfully, none of them were killed right away, but several are going to be missing limbs... and some not ever wake up." He said.
Jericho nodded. 'I know... but when Adonis reports back to Caleb... I'm assuming he'll get his desserts.' Robin raised his eyebrows. "But... he's in prison now." 'Remember, the court system is rigged too. Adonis will probably die, but not by you.' Jericho signed.
Back at the Tower...
"Hey, Kyd?" Kyd picked up his communicator that Kilowatt had loaned him. "Get us back home. We did a good job." Bumblebee said. Kyd grinned and opened a portal. Slowly, all the Titans walk/limped/crawled through.
"Man... that was rough." Argent said, slightly singed. "I have never been so thankful for my powered up stage... ever." Hot Spot said, powering down.
Then Herald blew his horn after receiving a message from Robin. The rest of the Titans came through. "Dude... I need a shower. I smell like smoke and lighter fluid." Beast Boy said, one of his sleeves missing. "What happened to your sleeve?" Angel asked. "Tore it off. I had to bandage up some little kid's arm." Beast Boy replied.
Slowly, the Titans returned to their rooms.
Vega walked in to check on Argent. "Hey Argent, you okay-" She stopped short. Argent and Hot Spot were making out in the middle of the room, and the top of Hot Spot's uniform was missing. Vega whistled and Argent pulled back, her hair slightly messed up and she was blushing like mad. "You guys... go do that in Hot Spot's room, please?" Vega said. "Can't. Herald is in there." Hot Spot said. Vega threw up her arms and walked out, saying, "Fine!"
Then she bumped into the one guy she had managed to avoid all day. Punk Rocket. "Vega. You've been avoiding me." He said calmly. Vega glared and said, "Maybe I don't want to see someone who broke my heart." Punk Rocket pinned her to the hall wall and he said, "Maybe I want to see the girl who's heart I wanna fix."
Vega almost hissed, but she just shut her eyes and said, "I don't need you to fix it." Punk Rocket then leaned closer and said, "I wanna fix it though." Vega eyes snapped open and she scratched Punk's arm. "F*** YOU!" She yelled, then she stomped off.
"Damn... that hurt." Herald poked his head out of his room. "You okay?" Punk nodded slowly, then grabbed his arm. "I guess... I just blew it with Vega though..." He walked off, and Herald slowly went back into his room, almost feeling sorry for his British enemy.
(Poor Punk Rocket... but can Vega really trust him? I think we know the answer to that... byebyes! Remember to review!)
(By the way, I've wanted to do a scene like when Vega freaked over someone's scent for like EVER. And I ship Cheshire/Speedy with a passion.)
