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Chapter Four: Control Freak

What the Titans and Mad Mod didn't know was that Silkie's last stop with Mad Mod was an electronics shop which was where he had misplaced the Silkworm.

However, Silkie didn't seem to mind. He chewed on the wires on equipment in the store, and no one had seemed to notice him yet. He observed the people in the store as he chewed.

There was a little girl who pointed to him and cried at her mother to look, but her mother didn't look Sikie's way and put a pacifier in the child's mouth. The girl had red hair, and that made her seem familiar. The little girl made him gurgle, and suddenly Silkie stopped chewing and wondered about the nice red-headed girl who took care of him, his knorfka called Starfire. He hadn't seen her all day, and it seemed that she wasn't really looking for him. Suddenly, Silkie wasn't hungry anymore and he whimpered. He crawled behind a huge television set and tried to sleep off his worries. That didn't work, because nearby, he heard someone speak.

"Cool! The mega super ultra big screen TV!" The boy shouted as he stood in front of it. He was watching whatever was on the T.V. which happened to be old reruns of Warp Trek. The male sighed in contentment. Silkie watched him with interest for a few moments, and began to chew on wires behind the big television again. The one wire that was being penetrated broke into two pieces, which happened to make the occupied TV screen go blank. The voice of the person watching the T.V. was heard again. "What the--?" He held his head in despair. "NOOOOOOO! MY TV! IT CAN'T BE! HOW WILL I SURVIVE WITHOUT MY TV?"

Silkie gurgled and then burped, and the geek looked down at him. He pointed his large index finger at the Silkworm. "You...what have you done!"

Other people in the store began to turn around to see why the young man cried out and the manager of the store walked over and examined the TV. "Well, well, well...a broken TV. You know what they say, you break it, you buy it." He looked up at the person who was actually Control Freak and shrugged with a forced look of pity on his face. Silkie turned and started to chew on the manager's shoe, while Control Freak looked at the other TVs. In response to the manager he picked up another small T.V. and said, "Nah, I'd rather have a fixed one."

After running through the store, while trying to keeping his balance, and knocking down other shoppers, Control Freak took a basket to put the T.V. in, and ran out while Silkie without knowing it distracted the manager. The Silkworm was picked up by the manager

and threw him out in disgust. Silkie plopped outside of the store door and whimpered as he heard the manager yell something… that wasn't very nice. Usually he wasn't treated this way when he was with his Knorfka. Silkie figured that since the manager didn't like him, and since his owner seemed to have abandoned him, he would decide to go and follow the loud, nerd-like fellow, who had just run out of the store. Maybe he'd let him chew on some more wires.

The Titans had met back at the Tower and told each other what happened. Everyone was unsuccessful in finding Silkie, but at least the whole animal and Mad Mod problem was solved.

"Mod said that he had Silkie to use against us," Beast Boy told Robin and Starfire as he stuck his pipe in his mouth.

Cyborg nodded and added, "Yeah, but Silkie wasn't with him when he came to clock shop. He didn't even know where Silkie was." He plopped down on the couch where the other Titans were located and sighed, "It doesn't matter anyway. The cops took Mad Mod away before we could ask him anymore questions."

Starfire's face had fallen and it was quiet for a few moments. Robin put his chin in his thumb and index finger. He started to pace back and forth. "Ok, team. Then we're just going to have to search harder. We are going to find Silkie, no matter what it takes."

"Since when were you so fond of Silkie, Robin?"

Robin stopped and gritted his teeth while looking for a smart answer for Raven but before Robin could answer her, Starfire screamed, "Silkie!" She pointed her index finger to the Titan mainframe that had just come on, and it showed Control Freak who held a mutant Silkworm in him right arm.

"Hello, Titans. Looking for this?" He snorted as he began to cackle and smiled at Starfire. "You see losers, I found this mutant following me from the electronics store today.

He might come in handy, since some foolish child told me that he's your pet."

Silkie whimpered and cried as he looked at Starfire. Ok, so maybe he shouldn't have followed this guy. Robin scowled. "We will find you Control Freak. You're not going to get away with this."

"So sue me for taking your girlfriend's pet. But I'm NOT giving him back! You don't even know where I am." He threw Silkie to the ground and snickered. "Later, Titans."

Beast Boy heard a sniff behind him and immediately was sure what it was. "Hey, it's ok Starfire. If we don't find Silkie I'm sure he'll take care of Control Freak himself."

The Changeling turned around to comfort her some more, but she was not crying. The girl's eyes glowed green and she had two green starbolts ready in each hand. "Silkie's not going to take care of the Control Freak himself." Her voice was trembling but she still looked angry. "I am."

"Now that's what I'm talking about!" yelled Cyborg.

Starfire flew out of the exit to the tower with Raven, Robin, and Cyborg following her, surprised at Starfire's anger.

"Now THAT is one angry mother," Beast Boy said to himself, and he followed his friends out of the door.

It was getting late, and most stores in the city had closed for the night. However, after the majority was closed down, three robberies at other electronics stores were reported.

The security cameras in the stores were all out of order because the wires connecting them were chewed up.

The Titans went to investigate the scene of the crime and were careful not to damage the evidence.

"Control Freak," Robin muttered.

"And Silkie," Cyborg pointed out. "Look at how the wires are all chewed up."

"But why would Silkie do such a thing? He was so scared and hurt earlier today as we talked to the Control Freak."

"Eww!" Beast Boy pointed to pink goo near the wires and hid behind Raven. "The alien forces of Trikton have attacked and left their markings." He squinted his eyes. "I knew they were coming."

"That's not alien scum," Raven said as she scowled at Beast Boy. "That looks like squished Zorka Berries."

"How in the world did Control Freak get the recipe for Zorka Berries? He's not even from Tameran," Cyborg stated.

"Because those are not Zorka Berries. They are regular berries," Starfire said quietly.

"Silkie did this for a mock off of Zorka Berries? Dude, that's terrible!"

Robin knelt down and examined the goo. Control Freak was pretty messy, and usually left some evidence, so this was not a surprise. He thought to himself, 'But this is way too obvious.' No villain would leave that much evidence unless they were trying to lead their enemy into something.

"We're not that stupid. I think Control Freak is trying to lead us into a trap. He may have even left a trail of berry goo for all we know."

"So are we still going to follow the Control Freak?" Starfire asked Robin, but Beast Boy answered for her.

"Yeah, we're going to follow him! We're not afraid of anything! Especially of some...some long-haired pet stealing geek!"

Robin sighed. "He's right. The only way to get Silkie back is to follow the trail if there's one. We just have to stick together and try not to get hurt.

"You're not serious are you, Robin? We're not going to get hurt. Let alone by Control Freak," Raven said to him.

"It's pitch black outside and I'm not looking forward to be snuck up on by him and his new sidekick." Starfire winced at the words 'his new sidekick'. It sounded dreadful but she listened to the rest of what Robin had to say which was only, "Let's go."

AN: FINALLY I updated! I don't know if anyone is reading this, but if you are review!