Disclaimer: I do not own anything related to the Teen Titans. I do, however, own the new villian, because I invented them.
Chapter 5: Hidden Identities
"Robin?" Raven whispered through Robin's door. It was late, and she didn't want to wake anyone up. Except Robin, of course.
His door slid open. "Huh? Oh, Raven! Hi. What do you need?"
Raven stepped inside as his door slid shut. "Robin, you and I are together now, so I was wondering if you could, er...take your mask off? If you don't want to it's ok, I understand..."
Robin reached behind his head and started to untie his mask. The moment was ruined before he had time to pick at the double knot.
ALERT! ALERT! INTRUDER IN JUMP CITY! RETURN TO WAREHOUSE IMMEDIATLY!
Raven and Robin sighed at the same time. "Let's go," Robin mumbled.
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"Friends, I fear we must once again search the house of wares." Starfire moaned, looking all around at the boxes. The warehouse was very large, and last time it took them an hour to do a brief search.
"Fear not, little Fire of the Sssstar! You need not ssssearch. I am here before you." a voice from behind a stack of boxes said.
The figure stepped forward, and they saw someone they had never seen before. A mysterious cloaked stranger was there. They seemed rather short, but the voice was enough to intimidate the Teens. It was a mixture of a whisper and a hiss, and it made their skin crawl.
"Who are you?" Robin asked, his voice sounding braver than he felt.
"I am..." it hissed, "IT."
"So, your name is 'IT'?" Robin asked with an eyebrow raised.
"Yessssss..." it whispered.
"So, IT, what are you planning?" Robin took a shot in the dark. "You wouldn't be trying to blow up the city with a nuclear bomb, would you?"
"Assssssss a matter of fact, I am, Robin. Fission issss sssuch a nice invention, don't you think? Ssssso dessstructive and powerful."
"How do you know our names?" Robin asked the creature.
"I am not a fool. Everyone knowssss the namesss of the Teen Titanssss." the cloaked figure answered, sounding condescending.
"Azorath Metrion ZYNTHOS!" Raven shouted. Black energy erupted from her hands, inverting the colors of everything it touched. However, when it drew nearer to IT, the black tendrils of energy stopped, as if they'd met a wall.
"Hehehehe...Raven, did you really think your little charmssss would work againssst me?" IT chuckled. "Cause if you did, then I musssst sssay, you are ssseverely missstaken."
"Dude, what is up with your voice? Why do you keep hisssssing?" Beastboy asked, imitating IT's habit of hissing on the S's and transforming into a snake.
"Don't mock me, Beassstboy. I will retaliate if you do it again." IT seethed with anger. "Besssides, you don't have time for gamesss. This whole warehoussse issss ssset to blow in 10 minutessss. Farewell, Titans." IT disappearing in the swirling of it's cloak.
Robin cursed under his breath. "Titans, go!" he cried.
Immediatly everyone began searching for the detonation device. Raven was systematically crushing all of the uranium in her path, and within five minutes half of the uranium was crushed into a harmless lump in her hand. She worked even faster, Beastboy turned into an elephant and began stomping on the uranium, then handing her the pieces. Starfire was melting uranium and giving globs of it to Raven. Robin helped Cyborg search for the detonator in case Raven couldn't compress all of the uranium in time. With 10 seconds left on the clock and an eighth of the uranium still there, the Titans were very tense.
"EIGHT SECONDS LEFT!" Robin shouted. He searched frantically for the device. "AHA! I GOT IT! CYBORG!" Cyborg rushed to where Robin was and deactivated the detonator with 2 seconds to spare.
The Teen Titans let out a collective sigh of relief.
"Thissss issss jusssst the beginning, Titanssss..." a voice hissed. Then IT departed once more, leaving the Titans feeling very insecure.
