Teen Titans; the island of doctor maniaca
Chapter three: I see Green People!
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The door behind her slammed shut and she leaned hard against it, Teri had been running for about half an hour solid and her lungs and legs were burning. Her mind was spinning in terror as she struggled to comprehend what she had just seen.
A green boy.
It wasn't possible, people came in a lot of different colours but green, she knew for certain, was not amongst them. Her mind kept flicking back to the look on the boy's face as she fell over screaming and crawled backwards in terror through the sand; he knew her.
It was unmistakeable, he had definitely recognised her and couldn't believe he was looking at her. Teri walked slowly over to her bed in the simple wooden hut that was her home. She had insisted on living alone and the Doctor had let her but he always had someone look in on her everyday and deliver groceries so she wouldn't starve.
Did the strange looking boy really know her, she thought as she sat down, maybe he knew who her family were and who she really was and her last name. Teri always wondered what her last name was and struggled every day to see if she could remember it but every day she failed. Teri now wondered if she would ever see him again, if he was a link to her past then she had to find him. She reached out and pulled a great stuffed animal towards her, an orange and black cat named Garfield, he was her favourite. She had to find him again.
Tim and Bruce sat in the back of the limo as it insinuated itself through the Gotham City traffic on the way to the airport. Starfire was sitting in the front with Alfred and the two of them were talking excitedly about something that neither of them could hear. "K'oriandor gets on well with Alfred, doesn't she?" said Bruce watching Starfire. "Alfred just enjoys having someone around who isn't moody like us" replied Tim. Bruce nodded in silent agreement, over the past few years the two of them had become increasingly similar in temperament. Alfred was at heart a kindly soul who was often, and especially since Tim left, the only person who could bring Bruce, or Batman, out of his dark, suspicious moods.
"Have you thought everything through, you won't have the backup of your team or me this time" Bruce continued to look out of the window at the passing traffic. "I'll have K'ory, that'll be enough" said Tim.
"Will it?" said Bruce " before you had a team of individually skilled specialists now you have only yourself and your girlfriend-"
"You say it like it's a handicap"
"It could be. Why won't you let the league help with this?" Bruce turned to face his protégé "you have no idea what could be going on there"
"Bruce," said Tim "Terra is the Titan's business, and we need to handle this"
"But there is no we, you're only taking K'oriandor for appearances sake. You want this yourself!" Bruce looked at Tim darkly "what is it about this Terra? There are no records of her in your Case Reports of the Titans"
"That's because we didn't want Terra's association with us to ever become public, she damn near destroyed the city and we're not exactly top of the city's Christmas card list as it is". Tim grumbled as he looked out of the window at the passing traffic. "Hero work has it's disadvantages," said Bruce "It took Commissioner Gordon years to realise he couldn't force me out. And, it's only through the Titan's loose affiliation with me through you that the JCPD hasn't shut you down and arrested all of you". Tim snapped his head back to look angrily at Bruce "So should I be grateful that the mighty shadow of the Batman hangs over the Titans? Or is it the oh-so-great Justice League that keeps the cops and the FED's off us. We can take care of ourselves, Bruce!"
"Easy Tim," Bruce was surprised, Tim rarely spoke like that to him, it must have taken something huge to upset in such a way "I know that Terra was Slade's apprentice, don't blame yourself for not being able to save her". Tim's shoulders sagged,
"I just always wonder if I would have ended up like her, if it wasn't for…"
"You're friends?" asked Bruce.
"No," Tim looked at Starfire chattering away with Alfred in the front of the Limo "K'ory" and in his minds eye he saw Starfire glowing a deep orange as billions of Nanoprobes began to tear her apart molecule by molecule. In his sleep he still saw her face locked in silent agony and the tears running freely down her face.
The Doctors house was a large modern affair that looked more like a small office building than a place someone lived. The interior was all glass and black marble and the front hall lead straight into the main living area that boasted enormous windows offering a view of the bay in which the tourist resort was situated. Tiny pleasure craft zipped around the larger yachts and in between the jet skis and powerboats and further out to sea the large ocean liners wallowed in the deeper waters. Teri stood and watched them as she waited on the Doctor, she liked this room in his house, it felt familiar to her somehow.
The Doctor eventually breezed in and quickly walked over to her and gave an enormous hug "And how is my favourite patient today?" he asked her, his voice radiating warmth and genuine concern for her "you don't visit me as often as you should Teri". Teri returned the hug and smiled back at the Doctor,
"I just have so much to do, you know, with adjusting to life here and trying to regain my memory that I rarely have time for our little visits" she said but that wasn't the truth.
Teri didn't want to tell the Doctor that she often found his appearance frightening, the mechanical hand was bad enough but when it was coupled with the lifeless red light of that eye it was too much for her to take. He did his best to comfort her and tell her that it took some people a long time for them to get used to how he looked, he said himself it had taken years to adjust to his new appearance. He had told Teri that he had been in an accident when he was conducting an experiment years ago and had been saved by his partner and that if it were not for that man he would have died.
"And what brings you to see me again?" the Doctor asked walking over to a small fridge in the corner of the room and removing a bottle of water from it "it isn't time for your check up this month, is something bothering you?". Teri squirmed a little inside, she wasn't sure she should tell the Doctor about the boy but he was the only link to her past and the Doctor was the only person she knew with the resources to help her find him. She took a deep breath and said "I saw someone out by the lake, someone not like anyone I've ever seen before," the Doctor watched her intently listening with sharp interest " It was a boy, probably about my age, but he was the wrong colour"
"Now Teri," the Doctor glowered darkly "I don't take kindly to that kind of comment!"
"No Doctor," Teri smiled nervously tucking her blonde hair behind her ear "he was green, bright green. Like a Martian in one of those old stories. Do you know who he was?" The look in her eyes shocked the Doctor severely, he had never seen her look so open and hungry for truth before. He wondered if she suspected this green boy had a link to her past. "Teri, I have no idea who he was but I'll have some people search the area you saw this boy in. Now run down to the kitchen and Ralph will make you whatever you want" he grinned at her and took a drink of his water. Teri smiled back,
"Okay Doctor, sorry" she turned and walked out of the huge room toward the distant corner of the house that held the kitchen. The Doctor turned to look out of the window and pulled a slim black cell phone out of his pocket. He pressed the speed dial button for the kitchen, "Ralph," he said "Teri's coming down for a spot of lunch, yes I know it's not Sunday, Could you double the usual dose please? Thank you, Ralph" he ended the call and pushed another speed dial. "Have you foundhim yet?" he asked "If it's who I think it is then he won't be alone, just find him quickly before anymore of them show up, we've stayed hidden from even the Justice League for this long I don't want the Teen Titans interfering this close to the end of the project!". He clicked the phone shut and followed Teri to the Kitchen.
Tim knew this was going to be awkward. When he had told K'ory that they would be flying to this island she had asked if he could stand to be carried for that length of time. It taken a while to explain it to her that they would not be flying as they knew it but in an aeroplane.
"We will be flying?"
"Yes, K'ory!"
"In a plane of the air?"
"Yes K'ory!"
"But we will be sitting down?"
"Yes K'ory!"
"Sitting down and still flying?"
"Yes K'ory!"
"And we will be in the First Class?"
"Yes K'ory!"
"The First Class has nothing to do with School?"
"Yes K'ory!"
"Yes it does, or yes it does not?"
"Does not K'ory!"
"So we will be sitting down but flying and in a first class that has nothing to do with an education system in a plane of the air and I will not have to carry you but instead the plane of the air will carry us?"
"Yes K'ory!"
"Are you still listening to me Tim?"
"Yes K'ory!"
"I am going to shave my head and leave you to date Alfred now!"
"Yes K'or- what?"
"TIM!"
Now they were at the airport and he had managed to deflect all of K'ory's questions and explain away her ability to carry a suitcase even the baggage handler couldn't lift alone. He looked at the man as K'ory ambled off to buy a supply of magazines to read and said "She grew up on a farm". An innocent question about her skin coloration by the check in desk attendant was answered with "She hit the fake tan a little too hard this morning, you know women!" K'ory made a little noise that didn't seemed pleased by all this and scowled at him from behind the enormous pair of dark glassed he had made her wear to conceal her green on green eyes.
They eventually got onto the plane and Starfire still wasn't speaking to him, he guessed she was a little annoyed about the fake tan remark. As the plane took off he fell into a light relaxing sleep and woke up only once before landing as he heard a voice asking "Could I have more of the hot towels please?" and then said "They are most delicious!"
Cyborg was analysing data on the T-car's on board computer and he wasn't liking what he was seeing. The car had an uplink to the mainframe on the JLA Watchtower and he was downloading all the information it had on this island. The only item worth noting had been recorded just a yesterday and it was about an unusual earthquake. The island didn't sit near a fault line or have any active volcanoes but a small earthquake had been detected. This normally wouldn't have intrigued him as he was a man of technology both literally and figuratively and had almost no interest in the natural world. It was the energy spike the sensors had registered that had peaked his curiosity, it had been detected as Metahuman energy and Geokinetic in nature.
Cyborg knew that only one Geokinetic signature had been detected to date and no matter what Beast Boy said it wasn't possible for that one to still be active. He checked the sensor log and ran a comparison check on the new energy reading and the only other Geokinetic reading on file. The computer registered in the positive for a comparable reading. He then asked what the comparability rate was.
100
"That's impossible!" he said but knew that it was only improbable. He had seen too much in his life to call anything impossible, he was travelling with a green changeling, he lived with an alien and a girl who could give Batman a run for his money in the dark and moody stakes but only when Robin was asleep, which he rarely did. People coming back from the dead was almost normal for a guy who saw a mechanic more than a doctor.
Raven lay in bed unable to sleep, she had been like this ever since she had spoken to Robin. What was it about that boy that made her feel this way, all hot and angry and happy and sad at the same time. She thought she was past this, past ridiculous romantic longings for Robin. But was that why she couldn't sleep?
Raven was quite accustomed to living without romance or the closeness of another person but she wasn't quite accustomed to the life she was trying to live now. Raven had never been normal, in Azarath she was feared by her fellow students for being the daughter of Trigon the terrible and had found it difficult to form friendships. When she had come to Earth she had first been rejected by the Justice League as Dr Fate sensed the evil of her father in her. The Titans hadn't exactly warmed to her in the beginning, Beast Boy was annoyed by her, Cyborg just couldn't figure her out, Starfire didn't understand why she didn't want to e best friends, and Robin had just left her alone for the most part.
Now she was trying to blend in and hide part of who she was. It was weird, it was the most normal life she would ever probably have and it didn't feel right to her.
Her alarm clock said it was ten to five in the morning, Raven rolled over and tucked her head under the blanket resolving to just skip class tomorrow, she was never getting to sleep now.
Teri had fallen asleep on the large couch that dominated the main living area of the Doctors house, the medication always made her sleepy . He watched her as she dreamed for a second then turned round and strolled out the room and down a corridor floored with black marble and walled with brushed steel until he came to a door at it its terminus. Itslid to the side to reveal a small elevator large enough only for one person. He stepped inside and was bathed in cool blue light from the neon strips that went round the floor and ceiling and pressed the only button on the panel inside. It wasn't marked as this elevator had only one destination.
There was very little sensation of movement he rocketed down the thirty stories towards his destination, he could almost believe he wasn't moving at all. As the lift door opened the blue light of the interior was dominated by a soft yellow light and the Doctor strode out purposefully into a corridor composed of large hexagonal yellow tiles on the floor, walls and ceiling. He met two heavily armoured soldiers in bright yellow and black power armour with featureless mirrored visors who saluted smartly and chorused; "All Glory to the HIVE!".
Author note; I know I said I'd update more often than the last time but I keep being really busy with stuff. The plot thickens with the Doctor, just who exactly is Teri and why is he drugging her? What is his project? And where did the Geokinetic energy reading come from? I know this might not seem so good just now and this chapter was mainly just filler but we have to get through the next two parts to get to the good stuff.
COMING SOON TO AN AUTHOR ALERT NEAR YOU; Chapter 4; There's something about Valerie!
