"I think I've got it!" Copycat said as he looked at the water and beams of light didn't shoot out of his eyes.

Galatea nodded at Magik, who wrapped her arms around him and kissed the side of his neck.

Red beams struck the water once more.

Copycat closed his eyes and groaned, "I have no idea how you keep from frying the fish."

"My memories from Kara show that it's just a simple mental connection; once you realize that heat vision prevents you from responding to the source of arousal, your control grows by leaps and bounds."

"Huh?"

"If you don't learn this you'll never get laid again," Magik translated.

"Back to work!" Copycat ordered. "Magik, use those hands and remember to stop anytime I start boiling the fish."

Galatea nodded. "Remember to do your part too," she ordered Cannonball.

"Don't you already have this down?" Cannonball asked, as he stepped forward and wrapped his arms around her.

"I believe showing him what he can no longer do will help inspire him," Galatea replied. "Are you complaining?"

"No ma'am!" Cannonball declared as he went back to 'work'.

"Did you have to traumatize my teammates?" Robin asked.

Mirage nodded. "He asked for it."

"I know he can be obnoxious at times," Robin began.

"No, he literally requested I use my power on him and badgered me until I did."

"Oh," Robin fell silent for a moment. "That wasn't very bright."

Mirage shrugged. "And yet people still request it."

"Everyone has fears, but few have examined their lives enough to reveal what their worst fear actually is; the temptation to find out that tidbit of knowledge without all that tedious soul searching must be pretty strong."

"I never thought of it like that," Mirage said thoughtfully.

"The first step to improving yourself, is knowing yourself," Robin said, "you have to find the flaws before you can fix them."

"That's surprisingly deep."

"I have been taught by the best," Robin declared, "to face my fears and rid myself of all earthly desires."

Mirage looked at him skeptically. "You aren't going to ask to face your biggest fear are you?"

"No, I know better than that. To seek out fear is to give power to fear. Just because I can fight my fears doesn't mean I will always win or even that I should fight them."

"That makes a surprising amount of sense," Mirage agreed.

"It's simply the truth," Robin replied, "fear is to be avoided, that's why it repels. But desire has to be released; that's why it attracts. I don't seek to face my fears for that would empower them and weaken me, I'll simply deal with them as I must, now if your power was to show someone their greatest desire I would laugh, as desire is easily ignored."

"Oh really?" Mirage asked, narrowing her eyes, annoyed.

0oOo0

Spider Man in his new outfit as Comrade Spider swung into the Avenger's property, aiming for the Black Widow's window as she'd directed him to.

"Natasha?" he asked as he landed on the floor and saw the red haired woman lying naked on the bed.

"You look different," she said, slowly sliding from the bed and swaying to her feet, her every movement a study in seduction techniques as she displayed her body to best effect.

"I – I had to change my look to help get rid of Jonah for a while," he stuttered nervously.

"He is an annoyance," she agreed as she slunk toward him and he backed away.

"You said you needed my help?"

"Yes, indeed I do," she agreed as she followed him up the wall and onto the ceiling as she spoke, not allowing him to escape.

"You can wall crawl?" he exclaimed in shock.

"Of course," she replied, "we spider people share a lot of common traits, for instance we can only have children with each other."

"C-children?" Spider Man stuttered as she closed and webbed shut the window and door.

"Of course, the spider genes don't mix well with normal human DNA so when the time is right, our instincts kick in," she explained, pressing her naked body against his.

"So you can't control yourself?" He gasped as she ran her tongue along the edge of his ear.

"I could, but where's the fun in that?" she purred. "And really, don't you want to continue our species? There really aren't that many of us."

"I am ecologically minded," Spiderman admitted with a groan as she ground herself against him. "I don't know about raising children though."

"Why would you need to?" she asked curiously, and the symbiote, she had borrowed, painted a red hourglass on her stomach while making her look like she had compound eyes and a pair of black fangs.

Pulling back Spider Man took in the markings and other changes for a split second before showing exactly how fast his reflexes were, as he leapt through the closed window and was running away screaming before anyone could blink.

"And, that's a wrap!" Xander said as the invisibility spell faded away, leaving him naked and standing there holding a camcorder.

0oOo0

Starfire stared in shock as she watched a doppelganger of herself molest Robin. Seeing as her new friend Mirage was there and appeared unalarmed, if annoyed, she forcibly calmed herself and didn't incinerate the hussy who had her hands all over her … friend Robin.

"What is happening?" Starfire asked.

"Robin claimed he had complete control over himself and my powers to show him his deepest desires were completely useless against him," Mirage explained.

"Show me some more of this Earth thing they call kissing," Starfire's double declared.

"Of course Star, all you needed to do was ask," Robin said leaning forward.

Starfire hip checked the illusory being aside and slid into her place just in time to catch Robin's lips.

After a minute Robin pulled back to catch his breath and Star said, "So all I have to do is ask?"

"Of course Star, I'd do anything for you."

"So we can go to my room and you'll show me anything I've been curious about?"

"Of course," Robin replied.

Mirage released her hold on Robin's mind, just as Starfire picked him up and flew off with him.

"You are dangerous," Raven declared from where she sat with the recovering Cyborg.

Mirage looked at the group of superhuman teens scattered around the room and then back at Raven.

Raven sighed. "Point taken."

0oOo0

"It's getting easier," Copycat said, closing his eyes as Magik took her hand out of his pants.

"Harder too," Magik teased him playfully.

Galatea chuckled as she snuggled in Cannonball's arms. "It should be like flipping a switch by now. Feel for it in your head."

Copycat took a couple of deep breaths and suddenly felt a dozen people's thoughts clattering away against his shields; happiness, sadness, fear and joy sang loudly from everyone on the Titan's little island.

Copycat rarely intentionally copied telepaths if he could avoid it. He'd felt the iron control needed to keep from abusing the power and decided it was just too much of a hassle for a power that required an entire new ethical framework to keep you from slipping to the dark side.

Of course, rarely doesn't mean never; he'd copied more than his fair share of psionic surprises from the spandex set and learned quite a few tricks that could be pulled off using raw psionic strength in place of rare gifts. He'd even copied Professor X's abilities on several occasions for either training purposes or to act as a psionic amplifier for him and the knowledge of psionic powers and tricks Professor X knew was almost beyond comprehension.

Copycat had automatically suppressed the telepathic abilities he'd copied from Martian Manhunter, until he'd tried to open his mind and it had suddenly jumped him like he owed it money.

He instinctively dumped it into the quasi-psionic bond he'd developed with his roommate and the three girls they were close to.

Thanks to Xavier's training it only took a minute for the five of them to adapt and reinforce their shields as they were all five functioning as low level psions now.

Raven tensed up and her eyes darted around as she felt what felt like several people awakening psychic gifts at once.

"Relax," Cypher said, sensing Raven's concern. "Copycat was simply sharing, or shedding really, the mental ability he copied from the big green M&M."

"Why and come to think of it how?" Raven asked.

"The how is some complicated psionic trick he found, the why is because he's lazy," Cypher explained.

"Lazy?"

"Being a 'path requires iron control and a whole lot of rules to keep from abusing it right?"

"That's true," Raven agreed, nodding thoughtfully.

"He says its only really worthwhile to be a telepath if you're evil, being good means rendering the power all but worthless in most situations so he shared it with us, reducing it from a decent amount of power requiring iron control to minor gifts, abuse at will."

"That … makes a lot of sense actually," Raven agreed, thinking of how different her life would be if she only had minor gifts and could laugh and enjoy … everything.

0oOo0

"Okay, I'm good," Copycat announced.

"You have mastered it?" Galatea asked.

"I have released it," Copycat corrected. "I could make a speech about great power and responsibility, but truthfully, me being able to see through clothes pushes Wolfbane waaay outside her comfort zone and really that's the only power you had that I was interested in."

"Out of all the dozens of powers I have, you are only interested in the ability to see through clothes?" Galatea asked dumbfounded.

"I'm a teenage male, seeing girls naked is only secondary to the ability to breathe."

Magik nodded at Galatea's questioning glance.

"Well, you two kiddies have fun, I'm going to go brainstorm with the others on how to get a massive amount of gold and jewels so I can bribe someone," Copycat said just before he and Magik vanished via light disc.

0oOo0

Xander placed the tape of their prank on a shelf of tapes with labels like, 'Wanda fills Iron Man's Armor with Cheez-Whiz', 'Thor shaves the Hulk's eyebrows while he sleeps', 'The Black Widow convinces Captain America to ski down Everest on his shield as training'.

"You guys are a lot more fun than I thought you'd be," Xander admitted.

"If you want to work hard you've got to play hard too," She-Hulk declared.

"How long does a game actually last?" Xander asked.

"Until one of three things happens," Wolverine explained, "one; we get called into battle."

"Two; a prank backfires badly enough to require someone to seek medical attention," She-hulk said with a grin. "Like when my cousin Bruce convinced the local gay community to picket wearing t-shirts proclaiming Flame On and encouraged the human torch to come out of the closet. Even with gamma enhanced healing it took weeks before he started growing hair on his balls again."

"And three," Thor grinned, "The President orders us to stop."

"The President orders you to stop?" Xander asked.

"Let's just say when Goliath moons someone, he really moons them," Black Widow said before everyone burst out laughing.

0oOo0

"Okay step one," Copycat said having gotten everyone together … well with the exception of three couples; Cannonball/Galatea, Robin/Starfire, and Amara/Sunspot. "Think of a place where there's a large amount of gold and gems we could morally take."

"You're kidding right?" Raven asked.

"Nope, and keep in mind we have two people here who can teleport through time, space and dimensions."

"Too bad you couldn't teleport us into Warp Trek," Beastboy said with a sigh.

"Why can't we?" Copycat asked.

"It's only a movie."

"And the Justice League is only a cartoon," Copycat replied.

AN: Typing by Godogma, all hail!