Blackmail

Ancient Egypt Dreams: I know. I had to leave it on a cliffhanger, which resulted in it being short. (is sad) And you'll have to wait to find out. (evil grin) I'd love to tell, but I love to leave people in suspense, too. (evil grin again)

Winged-Raccoon-The-Dragon: TAKE THAT, FALCO CLONE NUMBER 1028308540479584836937309474048958540509!

Cess & Nes: (IS SHOCKED (Cess IS ANNOYED TOO, DUE TO THE FACT THAT AM LEFT THE CAPS LOCK ON)

Les: AREN'T YOU GOING TO REVIEW?

AM: HUH? OH YEAH. (TURNS off caps lock)

Cess & Nes: (sigh of relief)

AM: Anyways, WHY DO YOU THINK I'M KILLING FALCO! HE IS AN EVIL GUY! TEN TIMES WORSE THEN CROW!

Les: YOU SURE ABOUT THAT?

AM: YES!

Les: (IS SHOCKED)

AM: And GO ISILWEN! HELP ME KILL ALL THE FALCO CLONES!

Cess: (IS TEMPTED TO UNPLUG KEYBOARD TO TURN OFF THE CAPS LOCK FOR GOOD)

AM: (TURNS IT off for her) Anyways, I have to be evil because…I'm me! (evil grin) BTW, I started working on this chappie soon after getting your review! (lol) How's that for updating right away?

Nes: And this matters because?…

AM: (is annoyed) I never update this fast.

Nes: Right. (rolls eyes)

AM: (Tries to decide between killing more Falco clones and beating up Nes. Goes back to killing Falco clones as Les and Cess beat up Nes).

spiecas: I can't tell yet! (evil grin) And thanks! (mischievous grin)

BTW, I've got killable Falco clones for sale!

Les & Cess: JUST GET BACK TO THE STORY! (Cess INSTANTLY TURNS off the caps lock)

Nes: NO! Delay it so I can be there at the end of the story! After I get out of the hospital…

AM: (doesn't want him to be there and starts working on story instantly)


"Beast Boy!" Starfire said as she saw the strange man in Raven's room drop him. She immediately flew over and out the window, barely missing being punched by Falco.

Of course, a bird-a-rang pinning him to the wall by his sleeve might have stopped the stranger.

"Titans, go!" Robin said unnecessarily. He was the only Titan still standing next to the door.

Cyborg had already run into the room, ready to pummel their mysterious assailant. By now, he had freed himself of Robin's trap.

Cyborg expected to knock the guy over with a rather weak punch, and was shocked when he didn't even budge. The man punched Cyborg back, but didn't push him very far.

Robin leapt above the Bionic Titan and his opponent and kicked him (the man) squarely in the jaw while he was sparring with Cyborg. This caught him by surprise and sent him flying into a wall. He quickly recovered and threw two disks at Robin and Cyborg, blinding them both with a flash of light. He used this opportunity to leap at them, quite ready to attack.

Meanwhile, Starfire caught the mostly-unconscious Beast Boy and flew back up to Raven's room. After dropping him on the floor (gently), she saw the light and saw the stranger attacking her friends. Eyes blazing green with her righteous fury, she blasted the man, unfortunately, flying into Robin.

"Robin!" She cried as the two slightly stunned men fought to get up.

The man won. Robin was sent flying back into Starfire's arms, who had been flying over to help her friends. He stood up and jumped back to fight the man, Starfire following, and help Cyborg, who's systems, for some reason, started going haywire.

Thud! The man was once again thrown back. As Robin and Starfire advanced, their opponent regained his senses and pulled a small disk out that neither Titan got a good look at.

Their assailant vanished, only to shove Starfire into Robin, sending them hurtling into Cyborg, whose systems were starting to work again.

The man, nearly victorious, stood over his currently incapacitated opponents. "You should have stopped when you had the chance."

He pulled out an exploding disk, and was about to hurl it at the Titans when he was pushed into a wall by a green ram.

"Beast Boy!" Starfire exclaimed, glad to see that their friend was up again.

"You again!" The man growled. "I thought I got rid of you."

Beast Boy morphed into his human form. Angrily, he shot back, "Think again."

All the Titans were standing now. They stood, almost menacingly, around their opponent, who had yet to stand up.

Angry, and without the Titans noticing, he pulled out a device that anyone who had been in Raven's room the night before would have recognized easily.

"I don't have time for this! My mission is too important!" He snapped. Then, he revealed and used his device. Again, the portal that Falco used to make a quick getaway appeared. He dived into it.

Beast Boy transformed into a tiger and leapt at the portal as it closed. It was gone just as he reached it.

Cyborg, as soon as the device was revealed, started having a systems crash. Strangely enough---at least, at that point in time---he was fine after the man was out of sight.

Beast Boy morphed back into his human form and hit the ground with his fist. He stood up. "We have to find him, NOW!"

"Why?" Asked Robin, confused.

"He kidnapped Raven!" Beast Boy exclaimed.

Starfire gasped. "We must find him and bring our friend home!"

"We'll split up." Robin said. "Beast Boy, you go south. Starfire, go East, Cyborg, take the T-Car---"

"Yo, Robin!" Cyborg interrupted. "We don't have to do that!"

"Why not?" Robin asked, as question marks appeared above the other two Titans' heads.

"Because I threw a transmitter with practically a light-year for a radius on him while right before he got away."

"You were able to do it while your systems were crashing?" Robin said.

"No; I faked it." Cyborg retorted. Before Robin could get on his case for not helping earlier, he said, "ONLY THE SECOND TIME!"

"Enough talk; let's go!" Beast Boy said. "Where is he, Cy?"

Cyborg shook his head. "I've got to use a special device to trace him. I've got one in the garage. I'll get it."

As the robotic Titan left, the changeling turned to his friends and asked, "How did you guys know to come up here?"


Meanwhile…

Someone with a hooded black overcoat made her way through a crowd of creatures of all sorts.

'Aliens.' She thought as several of them started laughing out of the blue. She avoided bright areas, and, although she avoided as many people as possible, stayed blended in with the crowd. As she walked, she adjusted her hair, only to have it partially come off. Luckily, no one was looking, or else someone might have seen that her midnight blue hair was a wig.

What no one knew was that that "someone" was Raven, the Teen Titan. She had bought a black overcoat, wig, and make-up to make herself look like an alien and look completely different from her normal self.

'I should have thought of this the first time.' She thought as she made her way through the transport.

She was a transport for aliens that wanted to go to or leave different planets, like an airplane service in space. She learned about it from Starfire, who had taken it part of the way to Earth.

She finally made it to the place that she was going to ride to some other planet it. 'Maybe Varish 3.' She thought. 'I can hide there for a while. Starfire said it was a fine planet.'

She hid in the darkest corner of the room. No one paid any attention to her at first, but then an alien with green skin and a smile plastered on her face walked over.

"Hi!" She said in a chipper voice. "Can I help you?"

'Yes; you can go away.' Raven was tempted to say, but instead, she just shook her head.

"Oh." The alien said. "You want to sit with me? I'm right over there?"

Raven shook her head again, determined not to speak to her.

"Why not?" The all-too-happy alien insisted. "You'll have fun. Come on!"

Before Raven could react, the alien was dragging her away.

As soon as she was in the light, Raven acted like she was burning. She did a wonderful job of acting; the alien let go and she went back to her corner.

"Oh, you're sensitive light! I see." She said, disappointed. "You sure you don't want to talk?"

Raven finally said, in the meekest tone she could manage while suppressing frustration, said, "I'm sure."

The alien left to pester other people that were alone, while Raven realized what this meant: She would have to act like she was a meek, shy alien girl that was sensitive to light.

She didn't mind. 'As long as no one bothers me, I'm fine with that.'


Flashback (back at Titan's Tower)

Beast Boy tore out of the room as Robin shook his head. "I will never understand him…" Then, he turned to Cyborg. "Why did you try to make it worse with you 'she'd always be in there' comment?"

"I was trying to lighten the mood!" Cyborg said, a little aggravated that Robin thought he was trying to make it worse.

"Please, do not fight!" Starfire said, worriedly. "We do not need more troubles!"

Robin sighed. "You're right, Star. I guess I'm a little on edge. For Beast Boy's sake, I didn't want to say it, but I thought it was kind of fishy when Raven didn't show up when she's usually awake soon after dawn to meditate."

"Yeah, and I wanted to help." Cyborg said. "I mean, Beast Boy seemed pretty on edge, too." What he failed to mention was that this was helping his earlier theory about Beast Boy feeling different about Raven then about Starfire.

Just then, they heard yelling from around Raven's room. "I think Raven's grouchy." Cyborg said.

"Should we not investigate what is happening?" Starfire said.

"I think they should just work this out." Robin said. "Besides, I did warn him."

They waited awkwardly for a bit more, and noticed that the yelling had subsided. When they heard a thud, Cyborg said, "Okay, now they've gotten themselves into a fist-fight."

"I think now is a good time to see what's going on." Robin said as the Titans left to see what was happening.

They arrived at Raven's door and heard more thuds. Cyborg opened the door, and they couldn't believe their eyes.

A stranger was holding a seemingly unconscious Beast Boy up by the collar out the window. They heard the man say, "I would've let you live if you had just stayed out of it!" Then, he let go of Beast Boy's collar.


"The rest you know." Robin said.

Beast Boy nodded. "Next time you hear yelling, get there right away."

Robin chuckled. "I'll keep that in mind."

"What happened to you, friend Beast Boy?" Starfire asked.

"Well," Beast Boy said, "I went to Raven's room and knocked on the door. When all I got for an answer was rustling, I opened it and saw that guy. I guess he didn't hear me, because I got him by surprise. I think he was looking for something."

"But what?" Robin asked.

Beast Boy shrugged.

Just then, Cyborg came back. "Found it!"

The other Titans, who where back in the main room and sitting down, stood up and crowded around Cyborg as he plugged the odd rectangular-shaped metal thing with lights into the main computer.

They watched as, for a minute, a map appeared on the screen, with a yellow blinking dot in one area. Just as Cyborg was going to zoom in on it to see what it was, the screen went blank.

As the Titans looked confused, Cyborg groaned. "The internal battery burned out."

The other titans groaned too. "You can replace it, right Cyborg?" Beast Boy asked.

"Yeah, but it'll take a few minutes." He said. "I'll go get a new battery." He left to go get the fore-mentioned battery.

'I hope we find her before Mr. Wacko does anything to her.' Beast Boy thought.


Falco paced, angry. "YOU LOST HER!I TOLD YOU TO FOLLOW HER!"

His minion snapped, "You told me to come back so that we could 'discuss' it! Besides, you failed yourself!"

"I didn't expect the Titans to be so loyal to her!" Falco growled. "And you shouldn't speak to me in that manner!"

He jumped at his minion, in a way that completely threw him off guard and thrust him into a wall. Eyes blazing with anger, he said, "Do you really want to end up like all the others that defied me and the Master?"

With fear-filled eyes, due to the ten-times-as-intimidating Falco glaring at him so hard he felt like he was going to burn up, his minion shook his head. Falco dropped him.

"We'll just have to find her." Falco said. "Because we were unable to get it, we'll have to wait for her to use her powers."

His minion nodded, terrified, and left.

'It won't be much longer now.' Falco thought.


Ack, the ending was REALLY bad. Oh well.

(is being squished by the countless Falco clones filling up all of her cyberspace) AH! SOMEONE TURN OFF THE STUPID MACHINE!

Les: (RUNS OVER AND SHUTS IT OFF)

AM: (HITS THE caps lock button) Phew! Now I have to get rid of them! Cess! Les! Help me out!

Cess: Why?

AM: Because, a) Falco is a jerk, and b) Nes isn't hear to torture.

Cess: Good---

Nes: (walks in on crutches and with four black eyes (lol (he's really only got two))) Ow.

Cess & Les: (Abandon AM to torture Nes again)

AM: Wait! I want to help! But I---(Realizes that she's the authoress and types "All but a few Falco clones that are for sale die slowly and painfully". It happens.) (Rushes over to make sure that she gets a chance to beat up Nes, but not before yelling,) REVIEW AND BUY FALCO CLONES TODAY!