Chapter dedicated to Blue-Black Horror!
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Cy: So what's going on?
Star: To explain would be like trying to explain the plot of an opera of soap to Robin.
Cy: That bad, huh?
Star: Yes. Beast Boy is angry at Raven, who will not come out of her room, though Iris, who isn't speaking to Krimson, waits outside all day, and Robin attempts to make them all be friends again... It is very confusing.
Cy: I'll bet.
Krimson: Iris has been acting strangely since she told... (claps her hand over her mouth) Sorry, I meant...
Cy & Star: (?)
Krimson: I... (looks away)
Star: What is wrong friend Krimson?
Krimson: Hn... You remember the criminal that looked like Raven?
Cy: Yeah...
Star: The one that fled.
Krimson: ... It was...
Star: Who?
Krimson: Iris. She was trying to frame Raven, at the same time as getting the Makino Diamond. We need it.
Star: But why would she do such a thing?
Cy: Why do you need that rock?
Krimson: To get home. And... It seems stupid now. I don't know what's happening anymore. Iris won't tell me. She... I don't know...
Star: But...
Cy: Why would Iris want to frame Raven anyway? She hasn't done anything to her!
Krimson: Not yet anyway. Do you remember what Iris was like before?
Cy: Well-
(Titan alarm goes off. A worn out Robin enters)
Robin: The diamond... Again.
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(Back in the storeroom containing the Makino Diamond, the makeshift team of Robin, Cyborg, Starfire, BB and Krimson appear in the doorway. The same cloaked figure is reaching for the diamond)
Krimson: Iris!
(The figure looks at them, cape billowing. The leotard underneath is not green, as they expected, but black)
Krimson: (stumbling backward) Not Iris...
Star: Raven?
Cy: (scratches head) What's going on here?
Robin: That's what I want to know...
BB: I should have guessed!
Star: I am so confused!
Raven: Don't worry, I'm not stealing it. (reaches to touch the diamond)
Caped person in rafters: Stop! (Everyone looks up, the person jumps down and is revealed to be Iris in the dark-green cloak of the last robbery) Don't touch it! (The woolly hat is gone, so we can see her pointed ears and green hair. The resemblance to both Raven and Beast Boy is immediately recognisable, yet BB dosn't see it...)
BB: Why not? If she gets zapped into another dimension, we'll be rid of her!
Iris: No! (takes on mysterious persona) If she does, we will not be able to leave here.
BB: Huh? But... Why can't you stay?
Krimson: We have to go home sometime...
(Ravens hand hovers over the stone)
BB: You don't have to! (walks up to the stone and pushes Raven out of the way. Krimson powers up a Red-bolt)
Iris: No! Don't!
Robin: Leave it be, BB!
Cy: Triple B?
Star: What are you going to do with that, Krimson?
BB reaches slow mo. toward the diamond, Krimson fires her red-bolt and Raven stands up, turning her back to Krimson and shielding Beast Boy with her body. The red-bolt hits her square in the back, tears of pain escape her eyes as her back arches, before she drops to her knees, then sideways, still.
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AN: Mwah-ha-ha-ha! Hope you like this, this one was typed up in a hurry thanks to Blue-Black Horror!
I know about the script thing - I've been writing a Xiaolin Showdown fic in prose, and that sounds so much better! But the fic was written in script, so I'm typing in script... It's s'posed to be... I can't remember why I wrote it like that, oh well. And yes, you are the only one that noticed - You're the only one that reviewed! BB's been getting more and more angry through the last few chapters is why he was kinda like that, it's going somewhere, I promise...