Emotions
Still don't own. Short chapter.
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Chapter 2
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Robin followed the giggling Raven through the streets of the fair city, a grim look on his face. This was a bad day. All he wanted to do was rest and now he was trudging down the streets with a laughing Raven and, of course, Cyborg…
…Cyborg was skipping along behind the both of them, humming a merry tune and waving to everyone who passed. People were keeping a wide berth of them, however- after all, it wasn't hard to hear Cyborg coming, as his light and joyful skipping sounded more like someone throwing garbage cans down stairs.
Robin wanted nothing more than to scream at Cyborg to walk like a normal human. But the last time he had said anything to Cyborg, Cyborg had tried to hug him.
So silence, in this case, was probably best.
Between fits of laughter, Raven had tried to elaborate on what Starfire had already told him. They had been breaking up a bank robbery, involving Jinx, Mammoth, and Gizmo- nothing too difficult, as three teen-villains had lost the edge of surprise that they had had when first attacking the Titans.
However, that was when one of Gizmo's little gadgets ("Gizmo, what a sweet kid," Cyborg mumbled happily) had attached itself to Cyborg's face and doused the half-metal man with some sort of powder. After that, the H.A.E.Y.P. members had run off, leaving a very confused and annoyed Cyborg, and the rest of the team, behind.
From the way Raven was telling the story, Robin half expected there to be a punch-line attached.
"So you didn't think anything of that powder until Cyborg started acting strange?" Robin asked.
Raven shook her head. Her lips were pressed grimly together to hold back a laugh. "No…" she mumbled after a second, "we assumed it was a stun-spray, or something of the like that backfired," she told him. And then gave a particularly loud and obnoxious guffaw. Cyborg laughed merrily along with her.
Raven gave Robin a very sympathetic look, undermined somewhat by the fact that she was still chortling merrily. "Cyborg touched you so you're going to start showing symptoms fairly soon…" she managed to spit out through her laughter.
"Hopefully not," Robin said, evenly, shuddering at the very thought, "maybe it's worn off of Cyborg."
"Are you my friends?" Cyborg asked, staring dreamily at nothing.
Raven and Robin both ignored him. "It appears to get worse the longer it infects you," she giggled, and looked truly disgusted at the idea.
"Are you my friends?" Cyborg repeated.
"Yes," Robin said evenly, "don't worry, I'm sure there's some sort of cure. Maybe it just wears off."
"When? If it doesn't wear off soon, Starfire is going to blow up the Tower," Raven chuckled, "or she'll kill Beast Boy."
Robin was silent for a moment. "Do you think it was okay to leave them there together? One of the two of them might be killed."
"Who
cares," Raven said, darkly sarcastic, and then laughed
"I do! They're my friends," Cyborg noted.
"Here it is," Raven said, and then laughed merrily. She clamped both hands over her mouth. Soft, whimper-like giggles escaped from between her lips. Robin shook his head.
Cyborg giddily laughed and slapped Raven on the back so hard she let out a yelp and was knocked face-first onto the ground. She jumped up, laughing hysterically, and began to hit Cyborg with every nearby object her powerful telekinesis could grab. Robin ignored them both and began investigating the area.
Broken windows had already been repaired, the shattered glass replaced. Nevertheless, there were a few tell-tale signs that a major fight had gone down here- enormous cracks in the concrete in the shape of Mammoth's mighty fists, for example. He continued wandering, looking for some sign of whatever had attacked Cyborg- nothing. Whatever had done it had either been picked up by Gizmo or had been utterly destroyed. Robin sighed.
Cyborg hit the nearby wall- Raven giggled, and Cyborg laughed merrily, not at all hurt, or at least pretending not to be. Robin sighed. "I think we're going to have to catch up with the H.A.E.Y.P. team itself," he said, keeping back a yawn, "because they didn't leave anything note worthy here.
"Cyborg is not in a proper state to fight," Raven giggled.
Robin nodded, working very hard to keep from rolling his eyes. "Neither are you, really," he said. Raven nodded, though her glare was frighteningly dark. "But I know someone who is…"
Within minutes the tree were heading back towards Titan's Tower. Even before they reached the island they could easily see the holes blasted in the side of the tower. Starfire had obviously vented some of her rage. Robin gave a shuddering sigh- what else could possibly happen?
Another blast of green energy suddenly knocked out half a floor of the Tower. A green sparrow came rocketing out of the tower, just ahead of the blast, and dove down towards Robin, the giggling Raven, and the cheery Cyborg. Beast Boy landed in front of them, turning back to his human form. The Changeling looked terrified. "Help! She's making a huge mess! There's dust everyone!" He cried.
Obviously he wasn't frightened for the same reason the rest of his teammates would have been.
Starfire came rocketing out of the hole she had just created, a ball of energy in either hand, her eyes glowing dangerously green, and a look of rage on her golden face. She stopped short when she saw that Beast Boy was hiding behind Cyborg. "GET OUT HERE AND FACE ME!" Starfire screamed.
Beast Boy cowered, wiping at his hands compulsively.
"Uh,
Star? Please don't hurt Beast Boy," Robin said evenly.
"AND WHY NOT?" Starfire shrieked.
Raven had her teeth clenched together and had tried to hold back her giggling, but could control herself no longer and burst into laughter. With a cry of rage Starfire started throwing starbolts at the Telekinetic. Raven threw up a shield of darkness around her- when Starfire's attack relented, the shield faded, and Raven had wisely disappeared. Robin rather wished *he* could disappear right about now…
"Starfire… come on. We have someone who you should REALLY be angry at…" Robin said slowly.
"And who is that?" Starfire demanded.
"The ones who started this whole mess… come on…" Robin said.
He turned and led the prancing Cyborg, the fuming Starfire, and the twitching Beast Boy back towards the city. "I love field trips!" Cyborg exclaimed, and tried to capture Robin in another friendly hug. Robin ducked quickly away.
There were limits to Robin's patience and he was quickly reaching them.
He hated days like this.
~~End part 2~~
