Author's Note: Um... I'm going to be crammed on this computer all day most
likely. Isn't fun when your step-brother invites only God knows how many
loud and wild boys over for the night and you're not feeling well? Yes,
it's great. Mmm kay, I'll get started on this cos I have nothing else to do
right now, stuck in my room and their voices interrupting the peace. Stupid
ventilation shafts...
Disclaimer: I think by now you already know that I don't own the Teen Titans (at the moment). Oh and no flames!
~*~Double Agent ~*~
She sat in the darkness on the roof. She could hear the busy street from below, the tireless wind, and the people from below. They could be heard laughing and talking, not knowing what she was going through at this moment. But would they even care if they did know? That question had haunted her for years. If anyone knew what she was going through, would they extend their hand to help her to her feet? Would they catch her as they saw her fall? Would they even care? Or would they just ignore her? Would they watch as they saw her fall? Would they laugh at her—and at her defeat? She was a strong warrior and she was falling. Would they even notice? Would they even notice at all?
Her spirit and emotions were restless—very restless. Through her struggle, they had once again appeared on the roof top with her, waiting; sleeping; falling in time. Words had failed each emotion. Laughter had come back again, but even as she sat by the spot light, she couldn't help but wonder: Has my only emotion failed me?
Lethargic lay on the ground, her body still and her eyes closed. She was not sleeping though, like she wanted to be so badly. Even though the only emotion in her body wanted sleep, the restlessness of the day had kept her awake. Her eyes only saw the back of her eyelids and darkness. She wished that she could be trapped in a dream, but dreams would also fail her.
Happy was sitting by the light with laughter, but she was frowning. Happy never frowned, but this was not a time for trying to be positive. She agreed with Despair, this was terrible to live with on her chest, knowing that she'd be betraying the twin brother she never knew and desperately wanted to know. She sighed deeply and sadly.
Confusion was pacing in the air, a foot in the air off of the roof top. She was walking on air, literally. Unlike the other emotions, she just wanted to not be confused so she must think hard. Although she was prominently confused, she sometimes—just sometimes—realized things and found the meaning. This was going to be tough, but she was in for a long night. She continued to argue with herself out loud.
Despair lay on the very edge of the building. She wanted to just roll off the side of the building and die, but not being in control of the true body form they were all trapped inside, she would just float in the air or fall through the ground until she reappeared in the same position. Every single type of pain built into her. The negative and depressing thoughts were thick like black liquid.
Hatred was unusually quiet. She was thinking about Slade and how she hated him. She wanted to scream it out to the world, but there was so much hate, she couldn't let it out. It just built up inside her, an explosion waiting to happen.
Anger was glaring down at the city. Those people didn't even know what was about to happen. They were completely clueless. They were all so thick headed. Yet, she wished that she was one of them. She had never asked for these abilities. She had never really wanted them, but she had them and they made her life miserable and a living Hell. Fire burned inside her and she just wanted to release it, but she couldn't do that.
Swiftness was taking a walk around the entire roof top. She couldn't stand to sit still in a time like this, just waiting on their signal to start. She had to move and she had to keep her mind straight. It was killing her slowly. Everywhere she walked, she could feel the prying eyes of Slade. Vulnerability was the one emotion she couldn't take. Rain and she hated the emotion that had not come to form yet. The emotions Rain felt the most had actually taken form in her minds eye. She hadn't been vulnerable for a long time. But Swiftness remembered what Logic had once said. Logic had said that in many ways, Timid was the form of the emotion, vulnerability. Swiftness felt the prying eyes of Slade again and pressed on her walking as fast as she could.
Sarcastic was unable to make any joke out of this situation. She felt hallow and cold as she stared at the dark sky with the clouds covering the stars and moon. They did not blink. She could usually make any joke out of any situation, but she couldn't. It was deadening. She felt dead to the world. And in many ways, she was.
Deception was not being deceiving. She was sitting on a square box impatiently. She just wanted to get this over with. Usually, she enjoyed being conniving and loved to deceive people. But her own twin brother? It felt wrong for once. She hated it, but it had to be flawless. She designed a plan for Rain to execute. Rain mainly controlled the body so she actually new what to do.
Timid was silent. She stared at the black nothing, her eyes glazed with a hazy look and no tears. Her hair flowed in the whistling wind and strips into her face. She didn't care though. She just stared at the black nothing, hallow, alone, and cold. She didn't feel like speaking ever again. And maybe she wouldn't...
Rain heard the noise. She heard the signal and groaned inwardly. She didn't want to do it, she just couldn't do it, but she had to do it. As much as it pained her, she had to do it. She stood up and looked at all of her emotions. With one simple word in her mind and close of her eyes, they were gone and back in her head again. She pulled the sunglasses over her eyes. If there was one thing memorable about her, it was her eyes. Robin would never forget them and she didn't want that. Never in a million years. She no longer had her normal black hair. She was lucky enough that her anger had changed her hair to red and her skin slightly darker.
Rain slipped into the dark tunnel and slid down into the museum. She swiftly and silently walked through the dark passage ways. She had to do this correctly, for the Teen Titans' sakes.
First Objective: Take out all of the guards. Second Objective: Get the two first rings without setting the alarm off. Third Objective: Trigger an alarm off on purpose while stealing the third ring. Fourth Objective: Defeat/trap/stop four of the Teen Titans except Robin. Five Objective: Taunt Robin. Six Objective: Defeat Robin. Seventh Objective: Return back to Slade's hideout. Simple enough, right? Right, it was too easy to do.
She stalked silently behind all of the guards and slipped her hand around there mouth so they couldn't scream. She sent a small electric charge through her body, causing the guards to become unconscious. She electrified the alarm systems and caused them to shut down temporarily while she got the first two rings. She electrified the alarm again and it came back on. She slipped into the next ring and stopped. She took a deep breath and waved her hand in the red light. Immediately, the alarm went off—and the Teen Titans were coming. She lazily took the ring and started to walk into the darkness. She stood in the corner and heard them. She looked at them in the darkness and wished that she hadn't seen them with this point of view. She felt like dying. She stepped out of the shadows.
"Who are you?" Robin questioned. He skipped the corners like she did. There was no point in beating around the bush when you could just ask. She forced herself to grin brazenly.
"The question is, Robin: What are you doing here?" Rain said, but it was not her own voice. It was not Rain's voice. It was the strained voice of Deception, posing as Rain. Rain was still in control of the body, but not in control of her tongue. The other Teen Titans were standing still.
"We're here to stop you!" Robin replied vehemently. She grinned.
"But I just got started," Rain whined with her playful grin. "And besides, you'll have to catch me first to get these little beauties." She flashed the rings in her hand and stepped out of the shadows completely. Beast Boy, the green little boy, about fell. Cyborg looked questioningly at Robin who returned a confused expression. How could someone so small cause so much trouble? Starfire didn't see a problem with her. Raven floated in the air, trying to read her mind most likely. But with all of her emotions scattered everywhere, she couldn't really find a mind to read straightly.
"You guys really are slow," Rain sighed. This seemed to kick their senses into place.
"Titans, go!" Robin shouted. Each one came after her. Cyborg shot his sonic cannon at her and she merely took a step to the left calmly. He went to grab her and she simply grasped his hand like she was giving him a hand shake. Immediately, electricity coursed through her and transferred into his body. And being that he was half robot, it was too much of a jolt. Immediately, his system went crazy and started doing random things. She laughed victoriously, but she felt defeated.
"Hey, that's no fair!" Cyborg shouted while he knocked a vase over. Starfire caught it and replaced it in its rightful position.
"Cyborg, do not break these items that are beautiful and wondrous!" the Tamaranian girl squealed as she picked up a picture and hung it back up. Beast Boy hesitated. They were in a museum. If he changed into something big, he was likely to destroy something valuable.
"Um..." Beast Boy stood still, thinking of what to do. Raven rolled her eyes and turned her attention to Rain.
"Azarath Metrion Synthose!" Raven called out. Her hands turned black. Four trash can surrounded by black energy came crashing through the air at Rain. She yawned and pointed her finger at the trash cans. Lightening bolts shot out of her fingers and hit each trash can, making them explode in mid-air. Raven got angry and threw something fire extinguishers at Rain, knowing that if she blew them up, they might all explode. Rain muttered something under her breath calmly and rose into the air. The extinguishers flew underneath her and crashed into the wall behind her. Raven stared in shock. She didn't know that this unknown girl could fly.
"You really need to light up, Raven!" Rain sniggered before sending another shock wave at Raven. Raven blocked it, but was hit by another shock wave that had been sent right after the first. She felt to the ground in a heap. She heard a whistling behind her and she immediately dropped to the floor on her stomach; a green beam flew over her head. She turned on her back and saw Starfire dropping down on her with her eyes bright green. Rain caught her foot, but it hurt her still with Starfire's amazing strength. She was winded, but still managed to electrify Starfire.
"Star!" Beast Boy shouted. Rain let go of her and heard the jingle of the rings in her pocket as she rolled on her stomach to get up again. Starfire lay on the ground, electricity flowing through her body.
'At least they'll live,' Rain thought before taking a step back.
Suddenly, Beast Boy disappeared. He'd transformed, but into what? Nothing big because she couldn't see him and he might break something priceless. Suddenly, she heard a rattling noise. She looked down to see a large diamond back rattlesnake at her feet. She muttered something quickly and floated high into the air as it striked at her feet.
"Nice try, Beast Boy, but no fair game is left to play on my field," Rain snickered loudly. He changed into a raven and flew after her. Rain did a simple back flip in the air and the raven missed her. Suddenly, the raven turned back into a rattlesnake in mid-air and landed on her shoulders. "Whoa!" Totally surprised, Rain was caught off guard. The rattlesnake snapped at her and she moved her face. It snapped her again, but this time, she caught it by its head. It spit and hissed at her as she grinned at it.
"I like you better as a green boy," Rain sighed. "Hope you get a shock out of life." A very small electric bolt coursed through the snake's body and she dropped it on the ground. When the snake hit the ground, it immediately turned back into a dazed Beast Boy. All that was left was Robin, until Cyborg had fixed his system again.
"I need some fresh air," Rain said cockily. "Does anyone but me?" She grinned and then took off running into another room. Robin and Cyborg chased after her. She leaped into the air and grabbed onto a robe. She stuck her tongue out at them as she swung on the robe and it began to pull her up quickly. When she got on the roof, she waited. In a few seconds, Robin and Cyborg had gotten on the roof.
"My, aren't we persistent," Rain chuckled mockingly. Cyborg shot another sonic cannon at her. But instead of moving out of the way, she shouted and sent a large flash of lightning at the sonic wave. When they crashed together, there was a loud explosion and a bright light. When the light faded, the two boys saw the girl simply standing there with a grin, her red hair blowing in the wind from the explosion. They were both aggravated by her laughter.
"Robin, if you got the sonic, I got the boom!" Cyborg called to his friend. Robin nodded his head. They ran for her and were ready. They shot the beam at her and she was still. They were sure it was going to hit her, and she was still. Then, she shot another electric bolt and a trash can lid flew in the air. Rain caught it just in time and shielded it in front of her. The sonic boom did not hit Rain, but instead shot back at the two boys. Robin jumped out of the way, but before Cyborg could do anything, it hit him square in the chest. He flew off of the building.
"Cyborg, NOOO!" Robin screamed loudly, jerking his head over the edge of the roof. Cyborg was no where to be seen. Rain chortled, but felt like killing herself; she was already dead inside though. The people she could've been friends with... she was hurting. Her twin brother she could be bonding with... she was destroying. She felt terrible and yet, fought back the tears and sobs. She hid her despair and it did not rain. She thanked despair for not wrecking havoc yet.
"Look what you've done!" Rain stopped chortling and stared at him blankly. "Look what you've done! How can you do something like this and live with yourself? How can you? How can you hurt innocent lives and steal valuable things and laugh like it's funny? How can you live a life of crime?"
As much as she tried to stop herself, she could keep it from rolling of her tongue. Anger had pushed Deception aside and caution to the wind. Rain had no control over the mouth. "Hey, you don't even know what my life's like, okay!" Rain yelled angrily. "My life's a living Hell and you're over there cracking on me! You don't get it and you never will! Not everyone has choices on what they're going to do in life! Not everyone has a say in what they're going to do in the future!"
"Everyone has choices," Robin simply said. Rain swept Anger aside.
"No... they don't." There was a period in silence in which the two teens stared at each other. Trying to think of what to do and say next. Robin was having difficulty and so was Rain. Deception took the opportunity to seize control of the mouth again. Rain gave in.
"I do hope your friends are alright," Rain mocked in a completely different tone. Robin was taken aback. It was so different, like so many people were controlling her at once. Like she was being possessed or something. He was never really that religious. "But you know, rules are rules and Slade didn't want them in the way." Robin was taken aback more.
"Slade? You're working for Slade?" Robin questioned her. He fiddled with his bo(w?) staff behind his back. If he could just catch her off guard, maybe he could stop her. But she seemed unbeatable.
"Slade? What Slade? Which Slade? Where's Slade? Who's Slade?" Rain replied quickly, her eye brows raised and a grin on her face.
"You're working for him, aren't you," Robin said, glaring at her. His staff was really being difficult at the moment and he was getting frustrated.
"Maybe I am, maybe I not," Rain mocked, her hands on her hip. "You never know."
"You are," Robin sighed. He finally got it.
"I never said that, did I," Rain said softly. "Now if you'll excuse me, I must meet this... Slade character. He sounds a little dodgy to me though."
'But I'm the dodgy one,' Rain thought to herself in her mind. Deception agreed painfully.
She grinned. Robin knew that she was working for Slade. He just didn't know why. What would he say if he knew the truth? Would he try to help her? Would he by sympathetic? Would he hate her? The last one seemed to suite it. She hurt all of his friends ruthlessly. But if he only knew the truth that they had been denied for years...
"Who... who are you?" Robin questioned. He stared at her and she stared at him.
"Elektra, I'm Elektra," Rain lied flawlessly. "Remember that name, Robin."
"Well, Slade says hello and hopes that your friends and you are doing well," Rain said, waving good-bye. "I'll tell him that I have... ah... enlightened you all." She grinned sardonically. She turned around and walked to the edge of the building.
"NOOO!!" Robin boomed. He charged after her and jumped in the air. He slammed the bo(w?) staff at her. He was going to hit her for sure. But at that exact moment, Rain spun around and grabbed the metal staff. Robin saw her eyes flicker maliciously—or so it seemed like it. For a small looking girl, she was very strong. She was holding Robin limply in the air by holding his staff.
"I really didn't want to do this to you, Robin," Rain said quietly. "But all in all, it won't hurt you." Robin's mind told him to let go of the staff, but he couldn't. He was frozen still and searched her eyes for any emotion of innocence and kindness. There was none but anger, but the anger in her eyes didn't look right for some reason. It almost looked... fake to him. Or like it wasn't meant for him, but for someone else.
"I'm... s—s—... sorry," Rain whimpered. And then he saw it. He saw it before everything went back. It flickered in her eyes before he knew it. Timid. He felt the electricity and then everything went black.
Rain stared at her twin brother's comatose body on the ground at her feet. He wasn't hurt that badly, but the shock she'd sent through to him was enough to knock him out. Timid had done something she never had done before. She had extended her hand out and apologized. It was unlike anything any emotion in Rain knew. But Timid had disappeared in the corners of Rain's mind before anything was said.
She cursed Slade and herself under her breath and muttered something. She floated in the air and was off for Slade's hide out. But this was the hard part. She could finally be herself. But being herself was also deceptive. Rain was going to be a double agent.
~*~(One Week Later)~*~
"Titans, go!"
The Teen Titans chased Mammoth into an alley way after he had robbed a jewelry store. Cyborg was about to do something when he fell into the cracks Mammoth had made. Robin jumped, but got hit by a rock. Raven dodged it and sent some things crashing into him. Starfire continued to shoot green beams at him. Beast Boy changed into a rhino, but Mammoth stopped and jumped on the rhino's back. He pulled on its horn, causing it to crash into a wall right after Mammoth leaped off. The rhino changed back into Beast Boy with a bad headache.
Suddenly, a foot was stuck out of the shadows. Mammoth tripped right over it and fell face first into the gravel. The foot retreated into the darkness.
"So... you like robbing jewelry stores, huh," a girl's voice scoffed, hidden in the shadows. "You must like things cost because both jewels and crime are very lavish!" He stood up and went to grab the person in the shadows. All of a sudden, lightening flashed and lit the alley way, a girl's figure was revealed. Thunder immediately retaliated and it began to rain. Her anger was up high, but she managed to keep her hair black, wanting to talk to Robin badly. Robin ran to save the girl when a bright light flashed before his eyes. The alley way immediately lit up when fire seemed to come out of the palms of the unknown girl's hands.
"Crime is just like fire, you know?" the girl scorned. "You don't want to play with it!" She thrusted her hands out and the flames were thrown at Mammoth. When they hit him, he yelled in pain, and flew backwards. He was on fire, but the rain extinguished it quickly. Though burnt badly, Mammoth charged towards her again.
"Do you ever learn?" the girl sighed sarcastically. She threw her hands out in front of her again and Mammoth was thrown backwards by hard winds. He hit the wall and was immediately knocked out. The girl sighed, happy with herself for conquering one more thug. She'd missed it a lot. The rain slowly came to a halt and she walked out of the alley way and into the moon lit street where the Teen Titans stood. They all stared at her. She seemed familiar to Raven, but she couldn't quite put a name on the face.
The girl had long, silky black hair and imploring green eyes. She had the creamiest of coloured skin. She was grinning brightly. She was wearing light blue jeans and a long black sweater that was buttoned up down to the waste, the rest of the long sweater was loose and showed her jeans. She was wearing old tennis shoes and gray gloves. Sunglasses sat on top of her head.
"That was very impressive," Robin declared hoarsely. They all stared at her.
"Uh... thanks," the girl simply said. She held out her hand to Cyborg. "The name's Rain." Cyborg looked at her hand. She wanted to shake hands. After his little incident with the new Elektra's hand shake, he didn't know if he should. He hesitate. Being that she was also Elektra, Rain realized it. She grinned sardonically. "I don't bite, you know." Cyborg laughed nervously and shook her hand. He was relieved when he wasn't shocked with electricity and going crazy. They started talking.
"I'm Cyborg. That was pretty tight back there."
"Wow, you've got a lot of cool gadgets! Rock on!" Rain said loudly, her mouth open as Cyborg showed her his sonic cannon that she'd already seen, but she was still amazed.
"Beast Boy, I'm the amazing Beast Boy!" Rain giggled while Beast Boy shook her hand wildly.
"I can't believe that you can turn into animals! Can you turn into a wolf? They're my favorite animals." Beast Boy immediately changed into a wolf and howled. "That is so wicked!" He changed back.
"I am Starfire and I am a Tamaranian! Will you stay? Will you become a Teen Titan with us? Will you be my friend?!" Rain smiled.
"Um... yeah, of course," Rain sighed.
"Oh, goodie, I can show you all around the living place and my place of sleep and teach you the ways of the Tamaranians!" Starfire screamed loudly, giving her a bone crushing hug. Rain thought her brains were about to explode out of her head. She finally let go of Rain.
"Mmm kay," Rain said, her head spinning, but smiling.
"Raven."
"How do you control your abilities so well? I mean, with your emotions and all. I have loads of trouble with my emotions," Rain asked, wanting to know every detail.
"Your emotions control your powers?" Raven asked with an eyebrow raised underneath her hood.
"Well... part of my powers," Rain replied coyly. "I'm a weather controller, but my emotions control the weather a lot of the time and I can't stop them. Yesterday, did you notice when the weather went crazy?" Everyone nodded their heads.
Rain chortled softly and went a little pink. "Heh heh, that was me," she admitted guiltily. It suddenly got very hot. "I was confused about something and the weather went berserk. Do you think you could help me?"
"Yeah, no problem," Raven sighed in her monotone yet slightly different voice. The heat disappeared immediately and went back to normal.
"Great, I need all the help I can get," Rain said, relieved. "See, there I go again with the temperature." Beast Boy and Starfire laughed.
"The name's Robin." Robin shook hands with Rain. He searched her eyes for something, but it was different than what he had been looking for. Happiness was flickering in her eyes.
"I've heard a lot from you around this country," Rain noted reverently, bowing her head. "You're really something."
"I just try hard to stop crime, that's all," Robin replied.
"Yeah, don't people like us all do that," Rain sighed with relief.
"Hey, let us take Rain to the living place so I can show her my place of sleep and the inside!" Starfire insisted over excitedly. "We can order pizza and the bringer of pizza can come. We can watch movies of some sort on the picture screen while we eat the pizza and popcorn from the miniwave! We can talk about each other and we can learn everything about each other! We can be best friends!" Everyone stared at her.
"It's the tower, your bedroom, the pizza man, the TV, and the microwave, Star," Raven muttered.
"OoOoh, let us go then to show our newest friend everywhere!" Starfire spoke eloquently.
"Mmm kay," Rain sighed.
"Come on, everyone!" Starfire shouted before grabbing Rain by the arm and pulling her in the air for a crazy flight back to the Teen Titans tower. Finally, Rain felt at home. But something in her spirit and mind told her something wasn't right. But no one cared what the emotion said. No emotion cared to listen to Timid.
*Don't... go too... deep, Rain.* Timid whispered fearfully. *You'll only be hurt... in the end.*
But nobody listened to her. Rain heard, but she just didn't do anything about it at the time. She was finally truly happy and home.
Disclaimer: I think by now you already know that I don't own the Teen Titans (at the moment). Oh and no flames!
~*~Double Agent ~*~
She sat in the darkness on the roof. She could hear the busy street from below, the tireless wind, and the people from below. They could be heard laughing and talking, not knowing what she was going through at this moment. But would they even care if they did know? That question had haunted her for years. If anyone knew what she was going through, would they extend their hand to help her to her feet? Would they catch her as they saw her fall? Would they even care? Or would they just ignore her? Would they watch as they saw her fall? Would they laugh at her—and at her defeat? She was a strong warrior and she was falling. Would they even notice? Would they even notice at all?
Her spirit and emotions were restless—very restless. Through her struggle, they had once again appeared on the roof top with her, waiting; sleeping; falling in time. Words had failed each emotion. Laughter had come back again, but even as she sat by the spot light, she couldn't help but wonder: Has my only emotion failed me?
Lethargic lay on the ground, her body still and her eyes closed. She was not sleeping though, like she wanted to be so badly. Even though the only emotion in her body wanted sleep, the restlessness of the day had kept her awake. Her eyes only saw the back of her eyelids and darkness. She wished that she could be trapped in a dream, but dreams would also fail her.
Happy was sitting by the light with laughter, but she was frowning. Happy never frowned, but this was not a time for trying to be positive. She agreed with Despair, this was terrible to live with on her chest, knowing that she'd be betraying the twin brother she never knew and desperately wanted to know. She sighed deeply and sadly.
Confusion was pacing in the air, a foot in the air off of the roof top. She was walking on air, literally. Unlike the other emotions, she just wanted to not be confused so she must think hard. Although she was prominently confused, she sometimes—just sometimes—realized things and found the meaning. This was going to be tough, but she was in for a long night. She continued to argue with herself out loud.
Despair lay on the very edge of the building. She wanted to just roll off the side of the building and die, but not being in control of the true body form they were all trapped inside, she would just float in the air or fall through the ground until she reappeared in the same position. Every single type of pain built into her. The negative and depressing thoughts were thick like black liquid.
Hatred was unusually quiet. She was thinking about Slade and how she hated him. She wanted to scream it out to the world, but there was so much hate, she couldn't let it out. It just built up inside her, an explosion waiting to happen.
Anger was glaring down at the city. Those people didn't even know what was about to happen. They were completely clueless. They were all so thick headed. Yet, she wished that she was one of them. She had never asked for these abilities. She had never really wanted them, but she had them and they made her life miserable and a living Hell. Fire burned inside her and she just wanted to release it, but she couldn't do that.
Swiftness was taking a walk around the entire roof top. She couldn't stand to sit still in a time like this, just waiting on their signal to start. She had to move and she had to keep her mind straight. It was killing her slowly. Everywhere she walked, she could feel the prying eyes of Slade. Vulnerability was the one emotion she couldn't take. Rain and she hated the emotion that had not come to form yet. The emotions Rain felt the most had actually taken form in her minds eye. She hadn't been vulnerable for a long time. But Swiftness remembered what Logic had once said. Logic had said that in many ways, Timid was the form of the emotion, vulnerability. Swiftness felt the prying eyes of Slade again and pressed on her walking as fast as she could.
Sarcastic was unable to make any joke out of this situation. She felt hallow and cold as she stared at the dark sky with the clouds covering the stars and moon. They did not blink. She could usually make any joke out of any situation, but she couldn't. It was deadening. She felt dead to the world. And in many ways, she was.
Deception was not being deceiving. She was sitting on a square box impatiently. She just wanted to get this over with. Usually, she enjoyed being conniving and loved to deceive people. But her own twin brother? It felt wrong for once. She hated it, but it had to be flawless. She designed a plan for Rain to execute. Rain mainly controlled the body so she actually new what to do.
Timid was silent. She stared at the black nothing, her eyes glazed with a hazy look and no tears. Her hair flowed in the whistling wind and strips into her face. She didn't care though. She just stared at the black nothing, hallow, alone, and cold. She didn't feel like speaking ever again. And maybe she wouldn't...
Rain heard the noise. She heard the signal and groaned inwardly. She didn't want to do it, she just couldn't do it, but she had to do it. As much as it pained her, she had to do it. She stood up and looked at all of her emotions. With one simple word in her mind and close of her eyes, they were gone and back in her head again. She pulled the sunglasses over her eyes. If there was one thing memorable about her, it was her eyes. Robin would never forget them and she didn't want that. Never in a million years. She no longer had her normal black hair. She was lucky enough that her anger had changed her hair to red and her skin slightly darker.
Rain slipped into the dark tunnel and slid down into the museum. She swiftly and silently walked through the dark passage ways. She had to do this correctly, for the Teen Titans' sakes.
First Objective: Take out all of the guards. Second Objective: Get the two first rings without setting the alarm off. Third Objective: Trigger an alarm off on purpose while stealing the third ring. Fourth Objective: Defeat/trap/stop four of the Teen Titans except Robin. Five Objective: Taunt Robin. Six Objective: Defeat Robin. Seventh Objective: Return back to Slade's hideout. Simple enough, right? Right, it was too easy to do.
She stalked silently behind all of the guards and slipped her hand around there mouth so they couldn't scream. She sent a small electric charge through her body, causing the guards to become unconscious. She electrified the alarm systems and caused them to shut down temporarily while she got the first two rings. She electrified the alarm again and it came back on. She slipped into the next ring and stopped. She took a deep breath and waved her hand in the red light. Immediately, the alarm went off—and the Teen Titans were coming. She lazily took the ring and started to walk into the darkness. She stood in the corner and heard them. She looked at them in the darkness and wished that she hadn't seen them with this point of view. She felt like dying. She stepped out of the shadows.
"Who are you?" Robin questioned. He skipped the corners like she did. There was no point in beating around the bush when you could just ask. She forced herself to grin brazenly.
"The question is, Robin: What are you doing here?" Rain said, but it was not her own voice. It was not Rain's voice. It was the strained voice of Deception, posing as Rain. Rain was still in control of the body, but not in control of her tongue. The other Teen Titans were standing still.
"We're here to stop you!" Robin replied vehemently. She grinned.
"But I just got started," Rain whined with her playful grin. "And besides, you'll have to catch me first to get these little beauties." She flashed the rings in her hand and stepped out of the shadows completely. Beast Boy, the green little boy, about fell. Cyborg looked questioningly at Robin who returned a confused expression. How could someone so small cause so much trouble? Starfire didn't see a problem with her. Raven floated in the air, trying to read her mind most likely. But with all of her emotions scattered everywhere, she couldn't really find a mind to read straightly.
"You guys really are slow," Rain sighed. This seemed to kick their senses into place.
"Titans, go!" Robin shouted. Each one came after her. Cyborg shot his sonic cannon at her and she merely took a step to the left calmly. He went to grab her and she simply grasped his hand like she was giving him a hand shake. Immediately, electricity coursed through her and transferred into his body. And being that he was half robot, it was too much of a jolt. Immediately, his system went crazy and started doing random things. She laughed victoriously, but she felt defeated.
"Hey, that's no fair!" Cyborg shouted while he knocked a vase over. Starfire caught it and replaced it in its rightful position.
"Cyborg, do not break these items that are beautiful and wondrous!" the Tamaranian girl squealed as she picked up a picture and hung it back up. Beast Boy hesitated. They were in a museum. If he changed into something big, he was likely to destroy something valuable.
"Um..." Beast Boy stood still, thinking of what to do. Raven rolled her eyes and turned her attention to Rain.
"Azarath Metrion Synthose!" Raven called out. Her hands turned black. Four trash can surrounded by black energy came crashing through the air at Rain. She yawned and pointed her finger at the trash cans. Lightening bolts shot out of her fingers and hit each trash can, making them explode in mid-air. Raven got angry and threw something fire extinguishers at Rain, knowing that if she blew them up, they might all explode. Rain muttered something under her breath calmly and rose into the air. The extinguishers flew underneath her and crashed into the wall behind her. Raven stared in shock. She didn't know that this unknown girl could fly.
"You really need to light up, Raven!" Rain sniggered before sending another shock wave at Raven. Raven blocked it, but was hit by another shock wave that had been sent right after the first. She felt to the ground in a heap. She heard a whistling behind her and she immediately dropped to the floor on her stomach; a green beam flew over her head. She turned on her back and saw Starfire dropping down on her with her eyes bright green. Rain caught her foot, but it hurt her still with Starfire's amazing strength. She was winded, but still managed to electrify Starfire.
"Star!" Beast Boy shouted. Rain let go of her and heard the jingle of the rings in her pocket as she rolled on her stomach to get up again. Starfire lay on the ground, electricity flowing through her body.
'At least they'll live,' Rain thought before taking a step back.
Suddenly, Beast Boy disappeared. He'd transformed, but into what? Nothing big because she couldn't see him and he might break something priceless. Suddenly, she heard a rattling noise. She looked down to see a large diamond back rattlesnake at her feet. She muttered something quickly and floated high into the air as it striked at her feet.
"Nice try, Beast Boy, but no fair game is left to play on my field," Rain snickered loudly. He changed into a raven and flew after her. Rain did a simple back flip in the air and the raven missed her. Suddenly, the raven turned back into a rattlesnake in mid-air and landed on her shoulders. "Whoa!" Totally surprised, Rain was caught off guard. The rattlesnake snapped at her and she moved her face. It snapped her again, but this time, she caught it by its head. It spit and hissed at her as she grinned at it.
"I like you better as a green boy," Rain sighed. "Hope you get a shock out of life." A very small electric bolt coursed through the snake's body and she dropped it on the ground. When the snake hit the ground, it immediately turned back into a dazed Beast Boy. All that was left was Robin, until Cyborg had fixed his system again.
"I need some fresh air," Rain said cockily. "Does anyone but me?" She grinned and then took off running into another room. Robin and Cyborg chased after her. She leaped into the air and grabbed onto a robe. She stuck her tongue out at them as she swung on the robe and it began to pull her up quickly. When she got on the roof, she waited. In a few seconds, Robin and Cyborg had gotten on the roof.
"My, aren't we persistent," Rain chuckled mockingly. Cyborg shot another sonic cannon at her. But instead of moving out of the way, she shouted and sent a large flash of lightning at the sonic wave. When they crashed together, there was a loud explosion and a bright light. When the light faded, the two boys saw the girl simply standing there with a grin, her red hair blowing in the wind from the explosion. They were both aggravated by her laughter.
"Robin, if you got the sonic, I got the boom!" Cyborg called to his friend. Robin nodded his head. They ran for her and were ready. They shot the beam at her and she was still. They were sure it was going to hit her, and she was still. Then, she shot another electric bolt and a trash can lid flew in the air. Rain caught it just in time and shielded it in front of her. The sonic boom did not hit Rain, but instead shot back at the two boys. Robin jumped out of the way, but before Cyborg could do anything, it hit him square in the chest. He flew off of the building.
"Cyborg, NOOO!" Robin screamed loudly, jerking his head over the edge of the roof. Cyborg was no where to be seen. Rain chortled, but felt like killing herself; she was already dead inside though. The people she could've been friends with... she was hurting. Her twin brother she could be bonding with... she was destroying. She felt terrible and yet, fought back the tears and sobs. She hid her despair and it did not rain. She thanked despair for not wrecking havoc yet.
"Look what you've done!" Rain stopped chortling and stared at him blankly. "Look what you've done! How can you do something like this and live with yourself? How can you? How can you hurt innocent lives and steal valuable things and laugh like it's funny? How can you live a life of crime?"
As much as she tried to stop herself, she could keep it from rolling of her tongue. Anger had pushed Deception aside and caution to the wind. Rain had no control over the mouth. "Hey, you don't even know what my life's like, okay!" Rain yelled angrily. "My life's a living Hell and you're over there cracking on me! You don't get it and you never will! Not everyone has choices on what they're going to do in life! Not everyone has a say in what they're going to do in the future!"
"Everyone has choices," Robin simply said. Rain swept Anger aside.
"No... they don't." There was a period in silence in which the two teens stared at each other. Trying to think of what to do and say next. Robin was having difficulty and so was Rain. Deception took the opportunity to seize control of the mouth again. Rain gave in.
"I do hope your friends are alright," Rain mocked in a completely different tone. Robin was taken aback. It was so different, like so many people were controlling her at once. Like she was being possessed or something. He was never really that religious. "But you know, rules are rules and Slade didn't want them in the way." Robin was taken aback more.
"Slade? You're working for Slade?" Robin questioned her. He fiddled with his bo(w?) staff behind his back. If he could just catch her off guard, maybe he could stop her. But she seemed unbeatable.
"Slade? What Slade? Which Slade? Where's Slade? Who's Slade?" Rain replied quickly, her eye brows raised and a grin on her face.
"You're working for him, aren't you," Robin said, glaring at her. His staff was really being difficult at the moment and he was getting frustrated.
"Maybe I am, maybe I not," Rain mocked, her hands on her hip. "You never know."
"You are," Robin sighed. He finally got it.
"I never said that, did I," Rain said softly. "Now if you'll excuse me, I must meet this... Slade character. He sounds a little dodgy to me though."
'But I'm the dodgy one,' Rain thought to herself in her mind. Deception agreed painfully.
She grinned. Robin knew that she was working for Slade. He just didn't know why. What would he say if he knew the truth? Would he try to help her? Would he by sympathetic? Would he hate her? The last one seemed to suite it. She hurt all of his friends ruthlessly. But if he only knew the truth that they had been denied for years...
"Who... who are you?" Robin questioned. He stared at her and she stared at him.
"Elektra, I'm Elektra," Rain lied flawlessly. "Remember that name, Robin."
"Well, Slade says hello and hopes that your friends and you are doing well," Rain said, waving good-bye. "I'll tell him that I have... ah... enlightened you all." She grinned sardonically. She turned around and walked to the edge of the building.
"NOOO!!" Robin boomed. He charged after her and jumped in the air. He slammed the bo(w?) staff at her. He was going to hit her for sure. But at that exact moment, Rain spun around and grabbed the metal staff. Robin saw her eyes flicker maliciously—or so it seemed like it. For a small looking girl, she was very strong. She was holding Robin limply in the air by holding his staff.
"I really didn't want to do this to you, Robin," Rain said quietly. "But all in all, it won't hurt you." Robin's mind told him to let go of the staff, but he couldn't. He was frozen still and searched her eyes for any emotion of innocence and kindness. There was none but anger, but the anger in her eyes didn't look right for some reason. It almost looked... fake to him. Or like it wasn't meant for him, but for someone else.
"I'm... s—s—... sorry," Rain whimpered. And then he saw it. He saw it before everything went back. It flickered in her eyes before he knew it. Timid. He felt the electricity and then everything went black.
Rain stared at her twin brother's comatose body on the ground at her feet. He wasn't hurt that badly, but the shock she'd sent through to him was enough to knock him out. Timid had done something she never had done before. She had extended her hand out and apologized. It was unlike anything any emotion in Rain knew. But Timid had disappeared in the corners of Rain's mind before anything was said.
She cursed Slade and herself under her breath and muttered something. She floated in the air and was off for Slade's hide out. But this was the hard part. She could finally be herself. But being herself was also deceptive. Rain was going to be a double agent.
~*~(One Week Later)~*~
"Titans, go!"
The Teen Titans chased Mammoth into an alley way after he had robbed a jewelry store. Cyborg was about to do something when he fell into the cracks Mammoth had made. Robin jumped, but got hit by a rock. Raven dodged it and sent some things crashing into him. Starfire continued to shoot green beams at him. Beast Boy changed into a rhino, but Mammoth stopped and jumped on the rhino's back. He pulled on its horn, causing it to crash into a wall right after Mammoth leaped off. The rhino changed back into Beast Boy with a bad headache.
Suddenly, a foot was stuck out of the shadows. Mammoth tripped right over it and fell face first into the gravel. The foot retreated into the darkness.
"So... you like robbing jewelry stores, huh," a girl's voice scoffed, hidden in the shadows. "You must like things cost because both jewels and crime are very lavish!" He stood up and went to grab the person in the shadows. All of a sudden, lightening flashed and lit the alley way, a girl's figure was revealed. Thunder immediately retaliated and it began to rain. Her anger was up high, but she managed to keep her hair black, wanting to talk to Robin badly. Robin ran to save the girl when a bright light flashed before his eyes. The alley way immediately lit up when fire seemed to come out of the palms of the unknown girl's hands.
"Crime is just like fire, you know?" the girl scorned. "You don't want to play with it!" She thrusted her hands out and the flames were thrown at Mammoth. When they hit him, he yelled in pain, and flew backwards. He was on fire, but the rain extinguished it quickly. Though burnt badly, Mammoth charged towards her again.
"Do you ever learn?" the girl sighed sarcastically. She threw her hands out in front of her again and Mammoth was thrown backwards by hard winds. He hit the wall and was immediately knocked out. The girl sighed, happy with herself for conquering one more thug. She'd missed it a lot. The rain slowly came to a halt and she walked out of the alley way and into the moon lit street where the Teen Titans stood. They all stared at her. She seemed familiar to Raven, but she couldn't quite put a name on the face.
The girl had long, silky black hair and imploring green eyes. She had the creamiest of coloured skin. She was grinning brightly. She was wearing light blue jeans and a long black sweater that was buttoned up down to the waste, the rest of the long sweater was loose and showed her jeans. She was wearing old tennis shoes and gray gloves. Sunglasses sat on top of her head.
"That was very impressive," Robin declared hoarsely. They all stared at her.
"Uh... thanks," the girl simply said. She held out her hand to Cyborg. "The name's Rain." Cyborg looked at her hand. She wanted to shake hands. After his little incident with the new Elektra's hand shake, he didn't know if he should. He hesitate. Being that she was also Elektra, Rain realized it. She grinned sardonically. "I don't bite, you know." Cyborg laughed nervously and shook her hand. He was relieved when he wasn't shocked with electricity and going crazy. They started talking.
"I'm Cyborg. That was pretty tight back there."
"Wow, you've got a lot of cool gadgets! Rock on!" Rain said loudly, her mouth open as Cyborg showed her his sonic cannon that she'd already seen, but she was still amazed.
"Beast Boy, I'm the amazing Beast Boy!" Rain giggled while Beast Boy shook her hand wildly.
"I can't believe that you can turn into animals! Can you turn into a wolf? They're my favorite animals." Beast Boy immediately changed into a wolf and howled. "That is so wicked!" He changed back.
"I am Starfire and I am a Tamaranian! Will you stay? Will you become a Teen Titan with us? Will you be my friend?!" Rain smiled.
"Um... yeah, of course," Rain sighed.
"Oh, goodie, I can show you all around the living place and my place of sleep and teach you the ways of the Tamaranians!" Starfire screamed loudly, giving her a bone crushing hug. Rain thought her brains were about to explode out of her head. She finally let go of Rain.
"Mmm kay," Rain said, her head spinning, but smiling.
"Raven."
"How do you control your abilities so well? I mean, with your emotions and all. I have loads of trouble with my emotions," Rain asked, wanting to know every detail.
"Your emotions control your powers?" Raven asked with an eyebrow raised underneath her hood.
"Well... part of my powers," Rain replied coyly. "I'm a weather controller, but my emotions control the weather a lot of the time and I can't stop them. Yesterday, did you notice when the weather went crazy?" Everyone nodded their heads.
Rain chortled softly and went a little pink. "Heh heh, that was me," she admitted guiltily. It suddenly got very hot. "I was confused about something and the weather went berserk. Do you think you could help me?"
"Yeah, no problem," Raven sighed in her monotone yet slightly different voice. The heat disappeared immediately and went back to normal.
"Great, I need all the help I can get," Rain said, relieved. "See, there I go again with the temperature." Beast Boy and Starfire laughed.
"The name's Robin." Robin shook hands with Rain. He searched her eyes for something, but it was different than what he had been looking for. Happiness was flickering in her eyes.
"I've heard a lot from you around this country," Rain noted reverently, bowing her head. "You're really something."
"I just try hard to stop crime, that's all," Robin replied.
"Yeah, don't people like us all do that," Rain sighed with relief.
"Hey, let us take Rain to the living place so I can show her my place of sleep and the inside!" Starfire insisted over excitedly. "We can order pizza and the bringer of pizza can come. We can watch movies of some sort on the picture screen while we eat the pizza and popcorn from the miniwave! We can talk about each other and we can learn everything about each other! We can be best friends!" Everyone stared at her.
"It's the tower, your bedroom, the pizza man, the TV, and the microwave, Star," Raven muttered.
"OoOoh, let us go then to show our newest friend everywhere!" Starfire spoke eloquently.
"Mmm kay," Rain sighed.
"Come on, everyone!" Starfire shouted before grabbing Rain by the arm and pulling her in the air for a crazy flight back to the Teen Titans tower. Finally, Rain felt at home. But something in her spirit and mind told her something wasn't right. But no one cared what the emotion said. No emotion cared to listen to Timid.
*Don't... go too... deep, Rain.* Timid whispered fearfully. *You'll only be hurt... in the end.*
But nobody listened to her. Rain heard, but she just didn't do anything about it at the time. She was finally truly happy and home.
