Next in line for production, chapter two

Chapter two: Head Hunters

Okay, before I begin into great detail this story, which you are no doubt reading, I first must explain the couples with which we have.

First there's Malice and Raven, my parents, obviously. They've got me, Alexandria, and my sister Jessica.

There's Robin and Starfire (duh) who have a son and daughter: Jarek and Angel.

Then Beast Boy and Terra, who somehow got out of being pure rock. They have Luke and Luis. Seeing as how their last name is Logan, I guess that had something to do with their decision.

Finally is Cyborg and Sarah. Sarah coincidentally is not super-powered, but not at all freaked by our powers. They have one son, and the only one with a super-hero name. Victor Stone Jr., A.K.A. Metalhead.

We've all been contemplating names, myself flicking between Despair and something… darker. Jess, I don't know about, Angel's been keen on Angelfire, though I can't personally see that. Jarek uses Jarek, and Luke and Luis are arguing over Changeling, though Terra won't have it. Vic Jr. got Metalhead because his dad is Cyborg… yeah, point made/taken.

Anyway, back to Capture the Flag. Robin explained the rules

"Absolutely no powers, gadgets, or tech. Only brains and stealth. Cyborg, that means no sonic cannons, or trackers. Malice, no invisibility, only raw abilities."

My dad raised his hand. "Question"

"Yeah?"

"By raw ability, do I get to jump 300 feet into the air?"

"No"

"But it's ability"

"No jumping above the trees. No running faster than the eye can travel either."

"Damn."

"Anything else?"

"Nah, I'm out."

"Okay, me, Starfire, our kids, and Beast Boy, Terra and their kids, against the rest of you." Robin said, finally. "You have fifteen minutes to find, and set up a base."

"What if we get tagged?"

"IF you're tagged by a defender, you walk backwards for 15 minutes. If someone else tags you, you freeze for 10 seconds. Mississippi seconds."

"Okay. Do we get team names?" My dad inquired, sounding, for all the world, like a little kid.

"Okay. Fine. What team name do you want?"

"Head Hunters." Cyborg, and his family nodded their heads, as did Mom and Jess.

"We'll be… the Revenants." Robin's team seemed to agree, and so it was on. How little did we know how ironic our team name was.

Ten minutes later, somewhere in some woods.

My dad and Cyborg stood, arguing.

"A frontal assault is the best way! The ONLY way!"

"To you maybe, but to me, I'm as weak as a normal human! We need to rely on stealth, not brute force!" I was mortified. As always, Raven and Sarah sought to make peace.

"Maybe we should split the 'assault force,'" Sarah suggested. It evidently piqued them, since they quit arguing.

"Like, we can be stealth, and you three can be the full frontal assault force." Raven said, monotonously. They were silent for a moment, then they simultaneously said

"Sound good."

"Good, it's settled." I said, relieved to be getting somewhere. Then we set out. Cyborg, Sarah, and Metalhead set off to the left, we opted to go right. It was slow going, really, because my dad thought every sound was the sound of approaching enemies. After what seemed like the hundredth time he'd stopped me, by putting his hand up, and me running into his hand. It's not that it knocked the wind out of me, it's just he'd put his hand up, right where my tits are. Enough was enough. Even though I'd seen worse, this was too much.

"Dad. Look, it's them, and you know what? I'm tired of you stopping us every five feet."

"Ever heard of stealth?"

"Duh."

"This is it."

"Stealth is you putting your hand up where my tits are to stop me?"

"If you would've said something, I would've stopped you differently. I didn't know that's where my hand was. No powers, remember?"

"Well, please do."

"Okay." After that he stopped me by putting his hand where my stomach was. Sure, he could've stopped, and I would've too, but this was at least better. After another half hour, Cy radioed us via walkie-talkies.

"Malice, you found anything?"

"No. You?"

"Yeah. Drop zone Omega."

"Be there in ten."

"Alright." So, in ten minutes, we were standing beside Cy, Sarah, and Metalhead. Cyborg spoke first, his rich, deep voice sounding like chocolate.

"Since we're going to assault them head on, what're you guys going to do?"

"Sneak in while you're attacking."

"We're bait then?"

"Diversion."

"Yeah, sounds better. When I give the signal, we'll attack, and you sneak in, get the flag, get back to base."

"Done." When we were in position, Cy plucked a tree, and then they rushed forward, attempting to draw the defenders away from the flag. After they had lost sight of us, we ran forward, and my dad plucked the flag from its pedestal.

"Alex, if they see us, I'll give you the flag, and attempt to draw them away from you."

"Okay." So we ran for our base. We ran for what seemed like forever, but was actually only half an hour. We finally got to our base. Finally.

"We did it!" I said, running in, but seeing our problem. We had their flag, and they had ours. Shit.

"They got past us. Obviously." Jess said, leaning against a tree.

"Well, hurry Alex, put the flag where it goes." Dad said, urging me on. I ran up, and placed the flag in its proper place. A sound occurred that nearly deafened me, but was a relief. It was over. We had won. Time to see how far they'd gotten with our flag.

After finally getting out of the forest, we ran to the computer, which kept track of all the contestants, and would determine the time we had placed their flag in our base.

"Huh. Looks like we tied." Raven said, consulting the monitor.

"What? We tied with them? How?" Sarah asked.

"Easy. We both placed the flags in at the same time."

"Heh. What are the odds of that?" Vic Jr. queried in his raspy voice. Robin and the others showed up. Smiling.

"So, how much did we beat you by?" Robin asked, smirking

"You didn't. We tied." I informed Robin, rather smugly.

"What the hell?"

"Don't know how, but it happened."

"Well, that was interesting. Anyone up for pizza?" Robin asked, scratching his head. Everyone agreed to go. Except my dad and my mom. I wanted to go, and so did Jess, but since our parents weren't going we couldn't either.

"Come on, can we go?"

"We're not. But you two can. Have fun." Mom answered, walking towards the Tower with my dad's arm around her waist.

"Thanks Mom!" I yelled, as Jess simultaneously yelled the same. We hugged each other, finally releasing all of our pent up energy. Pizza was our favorite food, as can be seen here.

One thing I must note though, my dad is extremely weird. He does at least 3 things daily for which I remember why he told me did them. The fourth, I forgot why he said he did that. The three things are: He hangs from a ceiling fan for about five minutes to make sure his equilibrium is intact. He hugs a tree to make sure Nature's not mad at him, and to scratch his head, he rubs it on whatever is close by and won't move. Be that thing be wall, tree, of wife. The fourth thing he does, is something I'm not really proud of, but wouldn't be fair to say he doesn't. I might be dark, misunderstood, but I wasn't a liar. Every day, he touches Raven's clit, which is the thing I forgot why he said he did. I'm sure it's something to do with intimacy.

As we walked with the rest, I took a look back at my dad, and saw my mom punch him playfully on the shoulder, indicating he'd done that fourth thing. Although you think she'd be used to it. He'd been doing those things for fourteen years now. I shook my head, and laughed. My dad was crazy in his own way, but I still loved him anyway, as did the rest of us.

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