CHAPTER 4
From the small corner, she can see him going after her. He thought that she works for Slade, and now everything goes wrong. 'If he thinks I'm trapped, he's mistaken,' she thought. He charged at her at full speed. Suddenly she jumps forward, and Robin felt as though he was immobilized by a kind of force. "Secret weapon works every time," he heard the girl mutter. That secret weapon must be a stun shock device to halt a person's movements temporarily. The girl brought him to join his friends.
He expected this from those people: 'There you go, North Titans. You must really know that now there's someone stronger than you are. We are the Titans from the South, and we are unstoppable! Slade will really appreciate that we did this easy job.' No. Instead, what he heard is: "North Titans of Jump City, if you don't trust us, just tell us you don't. We don't have to get through all this just over an argument about us South Teen Titans. On behalf of my team, I will apologize for the trouble done," Dove said it. A moment's silence rose in the room. Robin thought for a moment while being held up by the barrier formed by Crow's magic. 'If they really are pretending to be good, I had to pretend, too.' "Geez, I thought the North Titans also had to apologize to us for all that dumb mistrust," Protea whispered to Android.
"Very well, then. If you show us that we can trust you South Titans, we'll let you stay in this Tower, if you want to. We'll let you stay a night here to begin with. If we see one wrong move," before Robin can end his sentence, Crow's barrier was removed. They fell to the floor. "We know, fellow Titan. We'll get what we deserve for trying to sabotage the North Teen Titans," Dove half-sarcastically said, releasing him from the device's effects. "Can we now meet in a normal way like most people do?" Moondragon asked, a bit of impatience sounded in his tone.
The day had been tiring indeed. Moondragon went into a group guestroom (it's a room of many beds for people in groups to stay together). The other South Titans followed him. "Nice room," Dove remarked, breaking the silence. "Thanks," Cyborg replied. Somehow, no one really felt like talking to each other for now. Android and Protea went straight to bed. Dove stayed awake that night until midnight. She looked forward to the training tomorrow, but at the same time, she can feel a shroud surrounding her. What kind of shroud, she doesn't know. Her past memories came to her in a flash. Every glimpse of sorrow. The most vivid memory to her is of a man in a dark blue suit with a mid-length cloak. He wore a mask like she did, and he first appeared when she was ten. On her fifth solo mission, he appeared again, saving her from a deadly drop down an old elevator. There is nothing ordinary about him. He barely seemed human, but she can feel that he is related to her, in some way. Dove tried to forget about these thoughts and pulled the blanket over her face like Crow did.
Moondragon almost hit the ceiling when he woke up (he flew, not just jumped!). Dove tried to find the source of the radio alarm clock. Crow found the radio under Protea's bed. "Really looks like Protea here needs some auditorial canal cleanings. Don't ask," he said to the others when they suddenly stared at him. "Who put that clock in this room in full volume?" Android asked. "I think our hosts would like to have us up early in the morning," Dove replied. Protea woke up. "Finally," Crow muttered under his breath. Before the radio plays another Simple Plan tune, he turned it off. "Hey! It was about to play my fave song!" Protea said. "The only thing in the song that makes sense is the words, but the volume's reached its limits," he replied. "Enough now. Let's just get our morning shower and get ready for the day," said Dove. "I wonder what's for today's breakfast," Moondragon said.
Cyborg prepares the breakfast this morning. There are the usual 'tofu' arguments at the table between him and Beast Boy. This is too familiar to what happens back at the South Tower, between Android and Protea. After their breakfast is over, the Titans went to the obstacle course. "Guys, if you know home, you know this," Dove said to her teammates. Little did they know that the North Titans have added something new to this course: an anti-gravity floor, a water obstacle, sandstorm tornadoes, mutated plants and net guns. "Who wants to go first? I'm asking you guys just in case you're pretty enthusiastic to go and show the way we're very similar to those North Titans," Dove said. "I am unsure about this," said Moondragon. "Okay. In that case, let's plan out by rock-paper-scissors," said Protea. "Oh yeah, the good old R-P-S," said Android.
"ROCK, PAPER SCISSORS!" they said together. Here are the results:
Dove
Android
Protea Girl
Moondragon
Crow.
"You guys ready?" Robin asked the South Titans. "I'm going first. The rest of them will be ready," Dove replied. "Good luck. You'll need it," Raven said to her as she entered the course. "Bring it on."