My Season 4 - VOL. I
Abashed Enchanters, Part 1
The 2nd Teen Titans Fanscript – Fanfic Adaptation
By RavenStar
Author's Note: The plot for Abashed Enchanters is as follows: Jinx defects to the Titans, quickly quelling thoughts that she's trying to subvert them, and soon becomes a powerful new addition and friend to the group. But when an unexpected attraction starts forming between her and Raven, both girls find themselves confused over their feelings and emotions - and Cyborg finds himself needing a more efficient circuit breaker for his jealousy fuse.
ACT ONE
None of the Titans stayed their weapons.
Jinx shrunk down, cowering, her eyes frantically waving a white truce flag. She still shook, very scared. "I wanna join you! I wanna be a Titan!" she repeated.
"I find that hard to believe..." Robin growled.
"I-I'll explain everything, j-just get me inside before he discovers I'm here!" Jinx continued.
"He?" Raven asked
Jinx looked at Cyborg, her eyes pleading with him. Cyborg looked down and sighed as he realized who she was talking about. "Gizmo," he said, detested by the name alone.
"He won't leave me alone!" Jinx went on. "He started following me after you destroyed the HIVE headquarters, and now he won't stop! Said I was "acting suspicious!""
"He always was kinda jealous of "Stone showin' him up, wasn't he?" Cyborg laughed, clearly trying but failing horribly to hide his ego.
"Give us one good reason why we should believe you," Robin said intimidatingly.
"Um, heh..." Jinx took a long pause. The silence was like knives as time dragged on.
Suddenly, Raven sighed, let the dark energy coiled around her fists evaporate. "If she wanted to hurt us, she would've already done it," she said as she walked over to Jinx, holding her hand up for the pink-haired girl to take in order to help her get down.
Jinx looked at her, surprised. Raven stopped. Did I really just say that? Why? she wondered. The faces of Cyborg and Robin asked the same question as they looked at her. Raven turned, hiding her own bewildered face.
Cyborg harrumphed and turned back to Jinx, sonic cannon still armed and ready to fire.
"Well, I still say she could be lying."
Jinx sighed. "I could be a lot of things," she said solemnly.
Hit deep, Cyborg sighed, and powered down his cannon.
Maybe Jinx is telling the truth, Robin thought. But he was having hard time getting himself to accept that.
"C'mon, Robin, let's at least get her inside where it's warm," Cyborg said.
Jinx finally accepted Raven's hand, and came down from the rock, huddling underneath the dark energy "umbrella" of Raven's. Noticing she was still shaking a little bit, Raven put her arm around Jinx's shoulder in order to try and calm her down a bit. Tired, Jinx leaned her head on Raven's shoulder. Raven was surprised, but let it fly. She's had a long day, Raven told herself. There was something comforting about that.
"I still don't like this." Robin seemed set in his position. He usually was.
"I ain't completely convinced either," Cyborg replied. "But what I am 100 percent sure of, is that Gizmo's gizmos can't see inside the Tower because of the defense system. Now, I don't know about you, but I do not feel like getting involved in some late-night brawl with a jealousy intoxicated pipsqueak!"
"This is a mistake, Cyborg..."
"So was Red X."
Robin got the point: he'd lost the argument. He grudgingly walked over to Jinx, taking out a pair of handcuffs.
"This doesn't mean I can't take some extra precautions."
Jinx immediately lifted her hands up to let him put the cuffs on her. Once finished, Robin turned to the others.
"Let's go."
They all turned and walked back to the Tower.
When they were almost there, Jinx stopped, gasping.
"What?" asked Raven and Cyborg almost simultaneously.
"I just remembered I left my suitcase behind that-"
"I got it," Robin interrupted, holding up the suitcase with a half-grin on his face.
"Thank you." Jinx took the suitcase - or rather, awkwardly took it, considering the fact that her hands were in handcuffs.
They headed for the door.
Inside the Tower, Beast Boy and Starfire watched TV. Starfire ate what appeared to be Tamaranean French Fries - but instead of the Tamaranean equivalent of Ketchup - or regular – she was using mustard for the dipping sauce. Beast Boy was pigging out on a bag marked "TofuSoy Chips - Better than Olestra!"
Their ears caught the sound of the front door opening and closing. They looked over their shoulders.
Instantly, Beast boy leapt up and turned into a tiger, while Starfire shot into the air and started to hurl a starbolt at Jinx - only to be stopped right before doing so by Raven and Cyborg, who quickly ran in between the two.
"Don't lay a hand on her, Starfire," Raven told her alien friend.
"She wants to join us, B. She didn't come here to hurt us," Cyborg pleaded to the green tiger.
But neither Beast Boy nor Starfire were convinced - until Robin walked through the door.
"They're telling the truth."
"She wishes to join - us?" Starfire asked.
Beast Boy changed back to himself, confused. "She wants to be a Titan?"
"Do we need to say it four times?" Raven groaned.
"Why did you guys even let her IN HERE?" protested Beast Boy.
"Beast Boy, relax..." replied Robin. "She's in handcuffs, okay? She can't do anything to you."
"She can't do anything? She's a witch! She doesn't need to use her hands to hurt us! And besides, we don't know anything about her! How can we even know if she's lying or not?"
"Correction:" countered Raven, "YOU don't know anything about her."
"Neither do you!" Beast Boy shot back
"But I do," Cyborg cut in.
"How do you know anything about-"
Cyborg cut him off. "I did go to school with her, remember? I almost turned on you guys when I went undercover at the HIVE headquarters?"
Beast Boy shrunk in embarrassment. "Oh yeah, heh heh. Forgot about that."
"I'll bet," Raven chirped sarcastically.
"Why does she wish to join us?" asked Starfire.
"We all want to know that, Starfire," said Robin. "Why don't we just let her tell us herself?"
"Yes, please, that would be acceptable." Starfire still wasn't sure what to think.
"Can I sit down first?" Jinx asked.
"Sure, go ahead," replied Robin.
Jinx sat down and started to talk.
"After Cyborg destroyed the HIVE building, Brother Blood just, well... left - us."
"Yeah, to go after me," Cyborg grumbled.
"We didn't know what to do," Jinx went on. "So Gizmo, Mammoth, and I - we..."
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"...and now he can't get it through his head that I left the group. He shows up everywhere I go, won't even stop to listen to me...He just won't accept that it's over. I couldn't take it any more. I just had to get away from him. So I packed my things, unplugged the phone so he couldn't trace me, dumped that old HIVE communicator, threw on this cloak, and got out of there. I ran through the whole city as fast as I could, I-I was s-so, so scared that he was behind me or would pop out in front of me at any time. But I had to leave. The more I thought about what you said to me before the building collapsed, Cyborg, the more I kept finding myself wishing I hadn't done a lot of those things I did. I kept seeing the people I'd hurt in the process, and just couldn't bear to do any more of that harm to anyone anymore." Jinx paused.
"And besides - I'm sick of Attack Pattern Alpha."
No one moved. They all sat, shocked by Jinx's story.
"That was - one...heartbreaking - story..." Starfire finally broke the silence, her eyes twinging in shock.
"Yeah, wow..." Beast Boy was almost frozen.
Robin pondered for a moment. Then he spoke.
"Titans, conference. Other room."
Once in the other room, Robin went back to being...himself. "I still don't like this," he said plainly.
"Yeah, neither do I," seconded Beast Boy. "Who's idea was it to even let her into the Tower, anyway?"
Robin looked at Cyborg with a partially angry glare.
"Hey, ya know what?" Cyborg replied. "I know her better than all of you. She ain't that bad of a person. If she does turn out to be telling the truth and joins us, she can help all of us in one way or another.
Starfire piped up. "I must inquire - how shall she help us?"
Cyborg explained. "Robin, she can help you understand the HIVE's methods a lot more. Starfire, she can - uh, well, she likes shopping. Raven, she can help you learn how to control those dark magic spells you learned from Malchior. And Beast Boy - where do you think I learned all those pranks I've been pulling on you lately?"
"Wait - she taught you all of those? Hah hah! Those were great, man!" Catching himself, he added, "Erm, uh - that still doesn't change my opinion about her - much..."
Raven couldn't hide her grin of personal amusement at that.
"Look," continued Cyborg, "if she turns on us like Terra, you all know who to blame. Sides, we didn't spend all that time building that new Guest Room for nothin'."
"Guest room?" Beast Boy asked. "You mean the jail cell?"
"It is NOT a jail cell!" Cyborg shot back.
"Dude! There are bars on the windows!"
"Invisible bars!"
"She did seem genuinely scared..." Raven said.
Beast Boy snorted. "Oh, so Terra was evil, while she was just scared?"
Raven stopped. She wasn't exactly sure why she said that. She never answered Beast Boy's question.
"I'm not taking any chances," Robin interrupted. "Starfire, Raven, take her into the other room and search her. Make sure she's telling the truth about not having her HIVE communicator. Cyborg, search the perimeter. See if Gizmo and Mammoth are on the island. Beast Boy? Prepare the Guest Room in case she is telling the truth. I'll - go make some hot cocoa."
Once back in the living room, Beast Boy headed for the stairs, Starfire and Raven went to Jinx and took her downstairs for some privacy, and Robin foraged the kitchen, looking through the cupboards.
Downstairs, Cyborg headed outside.
BOOM! The door blew off its hinges, sending Cyborg skidding backwards down the hallway.
Through the smoke, Gizmo and Mammoth appeared. Jinx stood up wide-eyed.
Mammoth cracked his knuckles.
Gimzo cackled. "I missed you, Jinx - traitor!"
END ACT ONE