And now for the next chapter! Yay!

I'm really running out of things to say.

BTW, I don't really know the details of Joey's powers, just that he can posess peeps, so don't be miffed if I get stuff wrong.

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Chapter 5: Shown

somewhere across town somewhere

Rose tried to keep up with the Titans. She hoped it wasn't...him. It couldn't.

They got into the middle of town. Someone, something was blasting stuff, making a mess. Bright yellow blasts...

"Aww, it's just Dr. Light," Beast Boy said. "I thought this was a threat." He laughed.

"Dr. Light," Rose repeated to herself. "It's just Dr. Light. Whoever he is."

"Yeah, uh huh, sure." Robin turned around. "You three, stay out of the way. This should take about five minutes."

"You know, underestimation is the ticket to defeat," Grant warned. The Titans didn't hear him. To them, defeating Light was routine. Raven would hide behind a building, pretending she wasn't there. Then, the other four would go into battle. They would trick Dr. Light into thinking that he was winning, then Raven would pop out, and he'd surrender. Light was dim enough for them to use that trick over and over. (Ha, dim.)

Or so they thought.

Raven hid herself. The other four Titans stood in plain sight of Light.

"Ah, the Teen Titans," Dr. Light said with confidence. "Come to waste some more of your time, I see?"

"Yeah. Let's go with that. Titans, GO!" They fanned out in a long-practiced manuver.

Rose, Grant, and Joey had heard of the Titans, as any of you who read the comics will know, but they had never seen them in action. Well, actually, they had. Once. But that was just one Titan alone. As five, they were even more amazing. They moved so fast they were nearly blurs. Their defttity and skill was unimaginable. It was almost impossible to belive that all this was only teasing. They wondered what they worked as when they really meant to defeat the bad guy.

After about five minutes of fooling, Raven came out from the shadows. But it didn't look much like Raven. She was twenty feet taller, and had black tendrils shooting out from under her cape. "Hi there," she said as spookily as she could.

But Dr. Light, instead of screaming like a little girl, running to the nearest police office, and begging them to arrest him like they always did, he...

Laughed.

"Yes, scary," he said teasingly. "Or at least, it probably would be if you hadn't tried that trick fifteen other times!"

Cyborg slapped his forehead. "There goes routine."

"Well, then, just slug it." Robin ran up and tried to kick him, but missed.

Now that Dr. Light wasn't scared of Raven, he was actually pretty formidable. What started as a laugh actually became a battle. Five minutes became twenty. Twenty minutes that the Titans were steadily losing.

Over in the corner where the kids were watching, six eyes were horrified as they saw the Titans get beat.

"I told them," Grant said. "They shouldn't have been so cocky."

"M...maybe we should help," Rose said. "I mean-"

"Rose, relax. They're the Teen Titans. They can- hey, Joey, what are you doing?"

Joey was staring intently at Dr. Light. He was noiselessly groaning, trying to push himself to bore a hole in him. But Rose and Grant knew what he was doing.

"Joey, no!"

"They can handle this on their own!"

It was too late. Before they could pull Joey away, Light saw him. Their eyes locked.

Suddenly, both pairs of eyes glowed blue. Joey was now stuck staring, completely inert. His sibs couldn't even move him. But Dr. Light was the sight. He was spinning around in circles, banging his head on anything possible, and doing a little tap-dance routine. The Titans watched in awe.

"Uhh..."

"Please, what is wrong with the Dr. Light?"

"Besides what was wrong with him before? I'm not quite sure."

This continued for another three minutes. Then, his eyes glowed red, and he collapsed. The Titans gathered around him as he yawned and stretched, rubbing his head.

"Ayaah! Oh, I must have dozed off there for a second. Now, where were we?"

Before he could figure that out, the Titans were on him, tying him up, jumping on him, and calling the police. A few minutes later they were there, hauling away the baffled Light, and leaving the even more baffled Titans standing there.

"Okay." Robin shrugged. "What just happened?"

The children walked over. "We...uhh...don't know," Rose said. "You have nothing on us!" Her voice had a tone of fear in it.

Joey tapped Robin on the shoulder. I helped you,he signed. He was hurting you. I made him hurt himself.

Robin's eye twitched. "Ehh...what?"

Grant grabbed Joey's arm. "We'll...um...explain back at the tower. C'mon, let's go." They raced off.

Raven blinked. "Ever have the feeling that they're hiding something from us?"

Robin nodded. "Yeah. They're wierd...a little too wierd. Let's go." They walked down the street back to the Tower. The walk was uneventful, except for the fangirl assault halfway there.

Little did they know what shock awaited them in just twenty-four hours.

Ah, the joys of the cliffhanger.

-SP