I'm so sorry that it's taken so long for me to update. Stupid school. Oh,
well. At least I got this chapter up, right? That's all that counts ^_^!
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Disclaimer: Uh, well I don't own the Teen Titans. But this story is so totally mine. All mine... Mwhaha!!
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WhiteTigerClaws: We last left off when ROBIN and RAVEN were going to ROBIN's room to check up on CYBORG to see if he figured out where CHAOS was hiding so that they could find BEAST BOY. Who knows where STARFIRE is during all of this. ^_^ She'll pop up somewhere don't worry. Now I think I'll start you off with some BEAST BOY and CHAOS action. Enjoy.
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Beast Boy lay on the cold floor of the cell, unmoving. He had stopped counting the minutes that had gone by since Chaos had spoken to him and he had faked his drugging. He had counted all the way to thirty-eight when he realized he'd been counting one hundred seconds for every minute instead of sixty. 'Whoops,' he thought sheepishly, 'I guess I'm too nervous to think straight. But that's not good. I have to be able to think clearly when I try to escape. I can't have my mind freezing up then!! I have to calm myself down...' Immediately Beast Boy thought of Raven. Raven could always make her mind and emotions calm by meditation. Beast Boy had no idea how she did it, though. He released and internal sigh. 'If only I had asked her to teach me how to meditate, then I could calm down and think of what to do next.'
Beast Boy shivered slightly from the cold but also from his nerves, but he did not move any of his muscles. He knew that if he moved, Chaos would see him on one of the micro-cameras and his whole advantage of being conscious would be lost. 'As long as I'm awake, I have a chance of escaping,' Beast Boy thought as he continued to lay in silence.
After a few more moments of unmoving agony (he was never good at staying still for long), Beast Boy opened his eye a fraction of an inch, just wide enough for him to see a blurred picture of the room through his lashes. He could see a number of small green objects lying beside his head. "I must have knocked over the plate of food,' Beast Boy thought. The green beans were on the floor around his head. Some of them were stuck in small piles of mash potatoes that were slopped on the floor. Numerous bright orange carrots were scattered across the vast surface of the floor along with the other vegetables. Beast Boy let out a sigh of relief when he saw that the steak had landed just inches from the top of his head. He wasn't sure if he would have been able to stay still if the large slab of meat had been lying on his face. The urge to move it off would have been too great for him to refuse.
The sound of a electric door sliding open almost made Beast Boy jump inches off of the floor, but he was able to contain his surprise. His body tensed up in fear as he heard footsteps approaching him. 'What if she came to drug me again? What if she knows I didn't really eat the food? She could have been pretending that she thought I had just so I wouldn't suspect her of knowing and so I would think that I had an advantage!' Beast Boy's mind buzzed with incomprehensible thoughts. He gulped in a breath of air to calm himself. 'I can't give myself away now. I have to stay calm...' He thought. The door the visitor had come through was on the wall which Beast Boy was not facing. He silently cursed at himself for facing the wrong direction when he fell from the chair. He wanted to be able to see who was in the room with him, although the trepidation he felt did not last long.
A low chuckle drifted to Beast Boy's ears. He immediately recognized the laugh as one of Chaos's cronies. Beast Boy felt relieved of some of the heavy tension when he discovered that it was not Chaos. He feared her much more than he feared either Silver or Cold. He had a feeling that Chaos could do things to him that was much worse than anything the brothers could do. She gave the boys orders; she was in charge. 'If she had something especially horrible planed to do to me, I'm sure that she would do it herself. She wouldn't send one of them.' Beast Boy thought with some relief. 'She's the kind of person who finds it fun to cause pain in others.'
"There you are, you little animal. I hope you are feeling well today." Cold's voice dripped with false kindness. Beast Boy felt a strong grip on he shoulders pulling him up into a sitting position. He complied with the strong hands, but to Beast Boy's great delight, it took his adversary numerous times and much cursing to get Beast Boy to stay sitting upright. Every time Beast Boy was in a sitting position, his "unconscious" limp body would slump and fall back over. Cold held on to Beast Boy's shoulder with one hand when he was finally sitting vertically. 'WOH, MAN!! What is he doing!!!' Beast Boy thought frantically as yet another fright came to his already troubled mind. Cold was taking off his clothes!! Beast Boy tried to stay as limp as possible, but he could feel himself tensing up with shock.
Cold was muttering angrily to himself, currently in a bad temper because of the difficulty the animal boy was causing him. "Why couldn't we have gotten the other boy like mistress Chaos wanted? Then she wouldn't be angry at us. I know that now she's in a better mood than she was before, and I am very grateful for that. She has probably thought of another plan to get the boy." Cold said as he worked at getting Beast Boy's tight uniform off. Beast Boy flinched but kept himself limp. He thought of serene, collective Raven and was able to keep himself calm. Beast Boy listened to everything Cold was saying as he toiled at his task. Anything he heard might be useful to him later. "You're probably part of that plan, too, kid." Cold said to Beast Boy, though he wasn't expecting the green boy to take notice of his voice. Cold thought that Beast Boy was still unconscious.
As Cold pealed Beast Boy's shirt off, the poor boy was surprised, yet again, to realize that he had another layer of clothing on under his uniform. 'When did THAT happen?' Beast Boy thought as his squinting eyes carefully gazed at the clothes visible on his chest. 'They must have put this on me when I was unconscious for the first time.' Beast Boy shivered, repulsed at the thought. 'Ew! They changed my clothes!!' He remained still as Cold pulled off the rest of his original uniform, leaving him wearing completely different attire.
His new outfit was made entirely out of a thin, silver, malleable metal. Beast Boy had never seen or felt anything like it before. It shimmered in the dull light. A large dark blue "C" was spread across his torso. It wasn't too difficult for the animal boy to realize what it represented. His belt was made of an expensive looking colored metal. It was dark blue, and felt quite heavy on his waist. The belt buckle, like the shirt, had a "C" engraved deeply into the large metal oval that faced outwards from the front of his waist. Beast Boy was disheartened to see that his shoes had also been exchanged for a new pair. 'I liked my shoes...' The new shoes were (you guessed it) dark blue and made of a similar metal to that which the belt was forged from, but the shoes were surprisingly light. On the bottom of the soul of each shoe was another large "C" engraved into a plate of regular silver metal which covered the bottom (like his old shoes). A smaller "s" and "c" were engraved closer to the toes of the shoes. Beast Boy's gloves were still on his large hands, having not been removed. 'Well I'm glad she at least approves of ONE part of my clothing!' Beast Boy thought, gazing at the gloves through squinted eyes.
"Hmm..." Cold frowned as he looked at Beast Boy as if he was trying to remember something. "Oh, that's right!" He reached into his pocket and pulled out a pair of gloves. 'Well so much for the "she likes my gloves" idea...' Beast Boy thought as Cold took off his old ones to exchange for the new. They looked almost exactly like his old pair except they were made out of a light flexible metal. Also, each glove had a "C" (very blue against the metal) on the cuffs of the gloves. Beast Boy slightly twitched his fingers experimentally. The gloves felt as if his hands were bare. 'Wow, these are a lot better than my old gloves,' he thought.
Cold looked Beast Boy over, and when he was sure he was satisfied with what he saw, he pulled the boy (with some difficulty for Beast Boy was taller than he was!) to his feet. "I should have gotten Silver to come and help me with you, but Nooo! I just HAD to tell Chaos that I could do it by myself. I guess sometimes my head does get to big for it's own good." Cold sighed. "Well, you should be really easy to handle now that you've got your uniform off. I have no idea what that thing was made out of, but whatever it is, it's very strong and impenetrable. You were lucky to have such a powerful outfit." Cold was looking at Beast Boy as he spoke. "But now, you are completely metal. And... what do yah know... I can work with metal." Cold held out his hand and a ball of blue magic immediately filled in his palm. A jet of the blue magic traveled from his hand and surrounded Beast Boy's metal coated body. He was lifted right off the floor and was left to float helplessly several inches in the air. Cold shuffled over to the door and beckoned the boy to him with a flick of his wrist. "Now let's go. I'm not exactly sure what she's planning, but I know that Chaos has a need for you."
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Cyborg stared intensely at the computer screen as he read the small words that were on its surface. He was sitting in Robin's room, surrounded by a mess of books and papers which they had been using to research about Chaos before Cyborg found their "legendary" lead. "Yah, this looks like what I'm lookin' for." Cyborg said aloud as he began to thoroughly read the article that had just loaded onto the computer. With each word he read, his expression changed. By the time he had finished, his face consisted of looks of pity, sadness, fear, and triumph.
"ROBIN!! HURRY! I FOUND IT!" Cyborg yelled at the top of his lungs. He knew the boy was with Raven, but he felt that this was just too important to wait. They were so close to finding Beast Boy... Time could not be wasted.
Cyborg did not turn around when he heard the door to the room open behind him. He continued to look at the article he had found, re-reading it for any information he might have missed. "Did you find something, Cyborg?" The voice caused Cyborg to swivel his head around so quickly that it seemed as his head would go flying right off of his neck. "Raven! What are you...? I mean how are yah doin'?" Raven ignored his questions as she approached the computer.
Cyborg looked at her determined expression with questionable eyes. He reached over and picked up a printed copy of the article about Chaos that he had found earlier. He handed it to Raven when she was standing next to him and the computer. "Here. You should read this before you read the article I just found. It will make more sense." Raven took the offered paper and began to read. Her eyes were narrowed in an expression of hatred. She finished and handed the article slowly back to Cyborg who placed it back onto the table beside the keyboard.
"Thanks, Cyborg." Raven's voice was soft as she tried to conceal the hatred which was trying to come to her surface. She took a few large deep breaths and then had herself under control again. She hated Chaos and anything that had to do with the girl. She wanted her out of their lives.
Robin entered the room seconds later, panting slightly. Raven had flown up through the floor so she could get to Robin's room quicker. He had to take the stairs, not able to fly through walls himself.
Cyborg turned and looked at Raven suspiciously. "Hey Rae, have you by any chance seen my MP3 player? I can't find it anywhere." Raven stared Cyborg straight in the eyes and said without any expression of emotion in her voice, "I do not know where your pointless object is, nor do I care." Cyborg smiled a disbelieving smile and made a small grunt of doubt. By this time, Robin had approached Cyborg and was standing on the opposite side of the large teen from Raven. He tapped his shoulder. "Cy? What did you find!!"
"Oh, right!" Cyborg turned from Raven to face Robin. "Check this out!" He motioned for both Raven and Robin to read the article he had found on the internet. Cyborg was sporting a grin that clearly showed that he was really smug with himself. "I think ya'll will really be interested in this. It's dated June 2, just days after the other article was published."
"Tragic death of local scientist disheartens all."
Written by Tony Marcus
Davis Barhaning (local scientist, inventor, architect, and father) died Sunday due to an experiment that went out of his control. The same tragic end had also befallen his wife six years ago; a faulty experiment had cost them her life. Now his daughter, Chaos Barhaning, is left orphaned since both of her parents are now deceased.
Barhaning had been recently working on a project for the US Army, designing a new local army base. The base he designed was made entirely out of metal which has never been done before. It had taken him eight years to build, and then finally on May 24, he announced that he had finished the project. The date for inspection was set for May 30. Continue on page C5
Continued from page C1 The inspection was preformed two days ago. Barhaning had been entirely disheartened to discover that the results of the inspection were negative and the base was not going to be used. "It was just too dangerous," Commander Thomas Bowander said. "There was no need for him to use so much metal! It's a safety hazard and it will cost a lot of money to have the base fixed whenever something happens to damage it. Mr. Barhaning says that he will be able to fix any damage done to it by himself, free of charge, but we still do not feel it is safe enough. The US isn't currently at war here in America either, so we really don't need a base of such high defensive structure."
Barhaning was extremely put down by their decision. He had spent eight years of his life working on building the base after all! Two days after hearing this news, Barhaning was performing an experiment in his home lab and was killed in the process. His daughter Chaos Barhaning, six years of age, is going to be sent to Saint Mary's Boarding School for Orphaned Children where she will be taken care of.
Barhaning's army base was going to be torn down but now the community has decided to leave it standing in his memory. That way, whenever we see his metal building, we will remember the life and accomplishments of Davis Barhaning.
"Wow," Raven said, voice still completely devoid of emotion, "I kind of feel sorry for her." Both Cyborg and Robin turned to look at Raven with shocked expressions. "I said 'kind of', but not enough to stop me from putting HER in a cage and prodding her with a sharp pointy stick." The boys laughed at Raven's comment. 'I'm sure she'll do more than just POKE her with a stick,' Robin thought, 'she'll probably poke her so hard with it that she'll end up IMPALED on the stick!'
Cyborg glanced back at the article and gave a grunt of a laugh. "Yah, I'm suuure that Chaos has been going to Saint Mary's Boarding School for Orphaned Children. That's just so explains why she is the wonderfully nice young lady that she is today."
"She must have run away or something," Robin said as scanned through the article one last time. "I wonder what the experiment was that killed him."
"Well, he must have been pretty angry or upset while he was performing the experiment, yah know. Because of the whole 'we don't like the building you spent eight years making' thing." Cyborg said. Raven nodded in agreement.
"Maybe it was suicide? If I had just spent eight years of my life making something, and then had been told that they weren't going to use what I made, I might just go ahead and kill myself." Robin said thoughtfully.
"Yes, some people can get so wrapped up in the things that they do that they stop caring about everything else that matters in their lives," Raven said as she looked at Robin. He blushed and had to look away from her accusing eyes.
"Yah, like maybe your children." Cyborg said as he held up a copy of the first article he had found. He looked at the picture of Chaos and her father in front of the building. She looked miserable, standing under her father's arm.
"Hello?" Starfire asked timidly as she stuck her head into the room through Robin's door. "I looked all around the house but I could not find any of you!" She glanced nervously at the three Titans huddled around the computer. "I hope that I am not intruding on any activity that you may be engaged in." Robin glanced at a grinning Cyborg who was watching Robin with interest and then walked over to Starfire.
"You're not intruding, Star. We were just trying to find where Beast Boy is. And I think we know where that is now." Robin and Starfire walked back over to where Raven and Cyborg were sitting and standing.
"Here, Star, read these." Cyborg held out a copy of the first and second article (which he had just printed out) to Starfire. She carefully took them in her hands and began to read. When she had finished reading both of them, she looked up at her fellow teammates with a look of pity and realization in her face.
"So this is where Chaos is? This army building?" She pointed at the picture from the first article. Robin stood beside her and looked at the picture also.
"Yah, that's where I think she's probably hiding," he said as he slowly and delicately took the articles from Starfire's hands and placed them back on the desk.
"Why are we still at this residence, then?" Starfire asked. All three titans looked at her questionably. "We should be there, getting our friend Beast Boy back!"
"Agreed!!!" Cyborg said as he got up from the computer chair. He took a paper with directions on how to get to the army base off of the table and handed it to Robin.
"Yes, let's get going," Raven said in her usual dark, emotionless monotone even though she was filled with strong emotions on her inside. 'I must get my Beast Boy back...'
Robin clutched the paper tightly in his hand, wrinkling it slightly. He looked from Cyborg, to Raven, to Starfire. Each one of them looked back at him with an expression of trust and determination. They were ready to get their friend back. And so was he. "We're coming Beast Boy!"
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My final piece of advice for you today is never try to drink chocolate milk through your nose with a straw while you are eating a piece of toast. It just won't work.
WhiteTigerClaws signing off. Until next time! Hasta Luego!
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Disclaimer: Uh, well I don't own the Teen Titans. But this story is so totally mine. All mine... Mwhaha!!
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WhiteTigerClaws: We last left off when ROBIN and RAVEN were going to ROBIN's room to check up on CYBORG to see if he figured out where CHAOS was hiding so that they could find BEAST BOY. Who knows where STARFIRE is during all of this. ^_^ She'll pop up somewhere don't worry. Now I think I'll start you off with some BEAST BOY and CHAOS action. Enjoy.
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Beast Boy lay on the cold floor of the cell, unmoving. He had stopped counting the minutes that had gone by since Chaos had spoken to him and he had faked his drugging. He had counted all the way to thirty-eight when he realized he'd been counting one hundred seconds for every minute instead of sixty. 'Whoops,' he thought sheepishly, 'I guess I'm too nervous to think straight. But that's not good. I have to be able to think clearly when I try to escape. I can't have my mind freezing up then!! I have to calm myself down...' Immediately Beast Boy thought of Raven. Raven could always make her mind and emotions calm by meditation. Beast Boy had no idea how she did it, though. He released and internal sigh. 'If only I had asked her to teach me how to meditate, then I could calm down and think of what to do next.'
Beast Boy shivered slightly from the cold but also from his nerves, but he did not move any of his muscles. He knew that if he moved, Chaos would see him on one of the micro-cameras and his whole advantage of being conscious would be lost. 'As long as I'm awake, I have a chance of escaping,' Beast Boy thought as he continued to lay in silence.
After a few more moments of unmoving agony (he was never good at staying still for long), Beast Boy opened his eye a fraction of an inch, just wide enough for him to see a blurred picture of the room through his lashes. He could see a number of small green objects lying beside his head. "I must have knocked over the plate of food,' Beast Boy thought. The green beans were on the floor around his head. Some of them were stuck in small piles of mash potatoes that were slopped on the floor. Numerous bright orange carrots were scattered across the vast surface of the floor along with the other vegetables. Beast Boy let out a sigh of relief when he saw that the steak had landed just inches from the top of his head. He wasn't sure if he would have been able to stay still if the large slab of meat had been lying on his face. The urge to move it off would have been too great for him to refuse.
The sound of a electric door sliding open almost made Beast Boy jump inches off of the floor, but he was able to contain his surprise. His body tensed up in fear as he heard footsteps approaching him. 'What if she came to drug me again? What if she knows I didn't really eat the food? She could have been pretending that she thought I had just so I wouldn't suspect her of knowing and so I would think that I had an advantage!' Beast Boy's mind buzzed with incomprehensible thoughts. He gulped in a breath of air to calm himself. 'I can't give myself away now. I have to stay calm...' He thought. The door the visitor had come through was on the wall which Beast Boy was not facing. He silently cursed at himself for facing the wrong direction when he fell from the chair. He wanted to be able to see who was in the room with him, although the trepidation he felt did not last long.
A low chuckle drifted to Beast Boy's ears. He immediately recognized the laugh as one of Chaos's cronies. Beast Boy felt relieved of some of the heavy tension when he discovered that it was not Chaos. He feared her much more than he feared either Silver or Cold. He had a feeling that Chaos could do things to him that was much worse than anything the brothers could do. She gave the boys orders; she was in charge. 'If she had something especially horrible planed to do to me, I'm sure that she would do it herself. She wouldn't send one of them.' Beast Boy thought with some relief. 'She's the kind of person who finds it fun to cause pain in others.'
"There you are, you little animal. I hope you are feeling well today." Cold's voice dripped with false kindness. Beast Boy felt a strong grip on he shoulders pulling him up into a sitting position. He complied with the strong hands, but to Beast Boy's great delight, it took his adversary numerous times and much cursing to get Beast Boy to stay sitting upright. Every time Beast Boy was in a sitting position, his "unconscious" limp body would slump and fall back over. Cold held on to Beast Boy's shoulder with one hand when he was finally sitting vertically. 'WOH, MAN!! What is he doing!!!' Beast Boy thought frantically as yet another fright came to his already troubled mind. Cold was taking off his clothes!! Beast Boy tried to stay as limp as possible, but he could feel himself tensing up with shock.
Cold was muttering angrily to himself, currently in a bad temper because of the difficulty the animal boy was causing him. "Why couldn't we have gotten the other boy like mistress Chaos wanted? Then she wouldn't be angry at us. I know that now she's in a better mood than she was before, and I am very grateful for that. She has probably thought of another plan to get the boy." Cold said as he worked at getting Beast Boy's tight uniform off. Beast Boy flinched but kept himself limp. He thought of serene, collective Raven and was able to keep himself calm. Beast Boy listened to everything Cold was saying as he toiled at his task. Anything he heard might be useful to him later. "You're probably part of that plan, too, kid." Cold said to Beast Boy, though he wasn't expecting the green boy to take notice of his voice. Cold thought that Beast Boy was still unconscious.
As Cold pealed Beast Boy's shirt off, the poor boy was surprised, yet again, to realize that he had another layer of clothing on under his uniform. 'When did THAT happen?' Beast Boy thought as his squinting eyes carefully gazed at the clothes visible on his chest. 'They must have put this on me when I was unconscious for the first time.' Beast Boy shivered, repulsed at the thought. 'Ew! They changed my clothes!!' He remained still as Cold pulled off the rest of his original uniform, leaving him wearing completely different attire.
His new outfit was made entirely out of a thin, silver, malleable metal. Beast Boy had never seen or felt anything like it before. It shimmered in the dull light. A large dark blue "C" was spread across his torso. It wasn't too difficult for the animal boy to realize what it represented. His belt was made of an expensive looking colored metal. It was dark blue, and felt quite heavy on his waist. The belt buckle, like the shirt, had a "C" engraved deeply into the large metal oval that faced outwards from the front of his waist. Beast Boy was disheartened to see that his shoes had also been exchanged for a new pair. 'I liked my shoes...' The new shoes were (you guessed it) dark blue and made of a similar metal to that which the belt was forged from, but the shoes were surprisingly light. On the bottom of the soul of each shoe was another large "C" engraved into a plate of regular silver metal which covered the bottom (like his old shoes). A smaller "s" and "c" were engraved closer to the toes of the shoes. Beast Boy's gloves were still on his large hands, having not been removed. 'Well I'm glad she at least approves of ONE part of my clothing!' Beast Boy thought, gazing at the gloves through squinted eyes.
"Hmm..." Cold frowned as he looked at Beast Boy as if he was trying to remember something. "Oh, that's right!" He reached into his pocket and pulled out a pair of gloves. 'Well so much for the "she likes my gloves" idea...' Beast Boy thought as Cold took off his old ones to exchange for the new. They looked almost exactly like his old pair except they were made out of a light flexible metal. Also, each glove had a "C" (very blue against the metal) on the cuffs of the gloves. Beast Boy slightly twitched his fingers experimentally. The gloves felt as if his hands were bare. 'Wow, these are a lot better than my old gloves,' he thought.
Cold looked Beast Boy over, and when he was sure he was satisfied with what he saw, he pulled the boy (with some difficulty for Beast Boy was taller than he was!) to his feet. "I should have gotten Silver to come and help me with you, but Nooo! I just HAD to tell Chaos that I could do it by myself. I guess sometimes my head does get to big for it's own good." Cold sighed. "Well, you should be really easy to handle now that you've got your uniform off. I have no idea what that thing was made out of, but whatever it is, it's very strong and impenetrable. You were lucky to have such a powerful outfit." Cold was looking at Beast Boy as he spoke. "But now, you are completely metal. And... what do yah know... I can work with metal." Cold held out his hand and a ball of blue magic immediately filled in his palm. A jet of the blue magic traveled from his hand and surrounded Beast Boy's metal coated body. He was lifted right off the floor and was left to float helplessly several inches in the air. Cold shuffled over to the door and beckoned the boy to him with a flick of his wrist. "Now let's go. I'm not exactly sure what she's planning, but I know that Chaos has a need for you."
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Cyborg stared intensely at the computer screen as he read the small words that were on its surface. He was sitting in Robin's room, surrounded by a mess of books and papers which they had been using to research about Chaos before Cyborg found their "legendary" lead. "Yah, this looks like what I'm lookin' for." Cyborg said aloud as he began to thoroughly read the article that had just loaded onto the computer. With each word he read, his expression changed. By the time he had finished, his face consisted of looks of pity, sadness, fear, and triumph.
"ROBIN!! HURRY! I FOUND IT!" Cyborg yelled at the top of his lungs. He knew the boy was with Raven, but he felt that this was just too important to wait. They were so close to finding Beast Boy... Time could not be wasted.
Cyborg did not turn around when he heard the door to the room open behind him. He continued to look at the article he had found, re-reading it for any information he might have missed. "Did you find something, Cyborg?" The voice caused Cyborg to swivel his head around so quickly that it seemed as his head would go flying right off of his neck. "Raven! What are you...? I mean how are yah doin'?" Raven ignored his questions as she approached the computer.
Cyborg looked at her determined expression with questionable eyes. He reached over and picked up a printed copy of the article about Chaos that he had found earlier. He handed it to Raven when she was standing next to him and the computer. "Here. You should read this before you read the article I just found. It will make more sense." Raven took the offered paper and began to read. Her eyes were narrowed in an expression of hatred. She finished and handed the article slowly back to Cyborg who placed it back onto the table beside the keyboard.
"Thanks, Cyborg." Raven's voice was soft as she tried to conceal the hatred which was trying to come to her surface. She took a few large deep breaths and then had herself under control again. She hated Chaos and anything that had to do with the girl. She wanted her out of their lives.
Robin entered the room seconds later, panting slightly. Raven had flown up through the floor so she could get to Robin's room quicker. He had to take the stairs, not able to fly through walls himself.
Cyborg turned and looked at Raven suspiciously. "Hey Rae, have you by any chance seen my MP3 player? I can't find it anywhere." Raven stared Cyborg straight in the eyes and said without any expression of emotion in her voice, "I do not know where your pointless object is, nor do I care." Cyborg smiled a disbelieving smile and made a small grunt of doubt. By this time, Robin had approached Cyborg and was standing on the opposite side of the large teen from Raven. He tapped his shoulder. "Cy? What did you find!!"
"Oh, right!" Cyborg turned from Raven to face Robin. "Check this out!" He motioned for both Raven and Robin to read the article he had found on the internet. Cyborg was sporting a grin that clearly showed that he was really smug with himself. "I think ya'll will really be interested in this. It's dated June 2, just days after the other article was published."
"Tragic death of local scientist disheartens all."
Written by Tony Marcus
Davis Barhaning (local scientist, inventor, architect, and father) died Sunday due to an experiment that went out of his control. The same tragic end had also befallen his wife six years ago; a faulty experiment had cost them her life. Now his daughter, Chaos Barhaning, is left orphaned since both of her parents are now deceased.
Barhaning had been recently working on a project for the US Army, designing a new local army base. The base he designed was made entirely out of metal which has never been done before. It had taken him eight years to build, and then finally on May 24, he announced that he had finished the project. The date for inspection was set for May 30. Continue on page C5
Continued from page C1 The inspection was preformed two days ago. Barhaning had been entirely disheartened to discover that the results of the inspection were negative and the base was not going to be used. "It was just too dangerous," Commander Thomas Bowander said. "There was no need for him to use so much metal! It's a safety hazard and it will cost a lot of money to have the base fixed whenever something happens to damage it. Mr. Barhaning says that he will be able to fix any damage done to it by himself, free of charge, but we still do not feel it is safe enough. The US isn't currently at war here in America either, so we really don't need a base of such high defensive structure."
Barhaning was extremely put down by their decision. He had spent eight years of his life working on building the base after all! Two days after hearing this news, Barhaning was performing an experiment in his home lab and was killed in the process. His daughter Chaos Barhaning, six years of age, is going to be sent to Saint Mary's Boarding School for Orphaned Children where she will be taken care of.
Barhaning's army base was going to be torn down but now the community has decided to leave it standing in his memory. That way, whenever we see his metal building, we will remember the life and accomplishments of Davis Barhaning.
"Wow," Raven said, voice still completely devoid of emotion, "I kind of feel sorry for her." Both Cyborg and Robin turned to look at Raven with shocked expressions. "I said 'kind of', but not enough to stop me from putting HER in a cage and prodding her with a sharp pointy stick." The boys laughed at Raven's comment. 'I'm sure she'll do more than just POKE her with a stick,' Robin thought, 'she'll probably poke her so hard with it that she'll end up IMPALED on the stick!'
Cyborg glanced back at the article and gave a grunt of a laugh. "Yah, I'm suuure that Chaos has been going to Saint Mary's Boarding School for Orphaned Children. That's just so explains why she is the wonderfully nice young lady that she is today."
"She must have run away or something," Robin said as scanned through the article one last time. "I wonder what the experiment was that killed him."
"Well, he must have been pretty angry or upset while he was performing the experiment, yah know. Because of the whole 'we don't like the building you spent eight years making' thing." Cyborg said. Raven nodded in agreement.
"Maybe it was suicide? If I had just spent eight years of my life making something, and then had been told that they weren't going to use what I made, I might just go ahead and kill myself." Robin said thoughtfully.
"Yes, some people can get so wrapped up in the things that they do that they stop caring about everything else that matters in their lives," Raven said as she looked at Robin. He blushed and had to look away from her accusing eyes.
"Yah, like maybe your children." Cyborg said as he held up a copy of the first article he had found. He looked at the picture of Chaos and her father in front of the building. She looked miserable, standing under her father's arm.
"Hello?" Starfire asked timidly as she stuck her head into the room through Robin's door. "I looked all around the house but I could not find any of you!" She glanced nervously at the three Titans huddled around the computer. "I hope that I am not intruding on any activity that you may be engaged in." Robin glanced at a grinning Cyborg who was watching Robin with interest and then walked over to Starfire.
"You're not intruding, Star. We were just trying to find where Beast Boy is. And I think we know where that is now." Robin and Starfire walked back over to where Raven and Cyborg were sitting and standing.
"Here, Star, read these." Cyborg held out a copy of the first and second article (which he had just printed out) to Starfire. She carefully took them in her hands and began to read. When she had finished reading both of them, she looked up at her fellow teammates with a look of pity and realization in her face.
"So this is where Chaos is? This army building?" She pointed at the picture from the first article. Robin stood beside her and looked at the picture also.
"Yah, that's where I think she's probably hiding," he said as he slowly and delicately took the articles from Starfire's hands and placed them back on the desk.
"Why are we still at this residence, then?" Starfire asked. All three titans looked at her questionably. "We should be there, getting our friend Beast Boy back!"
"Agreed!!!" Cyborg said as he got up from the computer chair. He took a paper with directions on how to get to the army base off of the table and handed it to Robin.
"Yes, let's get going," Raven said in her usual dark, emotionless monotone even though she was filled with strong emotions on her inside. 'I must get my Beast Boy back...'
Robin clutched the paper tightly in his hand, wrinkling it slightly. He looked from Cyborg, to Raven, to Starfire. Each one of them looked back at him with an expression of trust and determination. They were ready to get their friend back. And so was he. "We're coming Beast Boy!"
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