Marlis stayed quiet about her brother's name. She kept telling herself over and over again that it couldn't be true but deep down she knew it was. Nobody, maybe not even her parents, except her brother had called her Marly. Nothing but that and her gut insticnt told her that it was her brother which helped her deny it. The voice, obviously, had changed. But the flexiblilty and quickness of Slade had not; he had to have taken some sort of classes or had been trained to be able to fight as well as that. Her brother had always seemed to live in her shadow since she had such an unusual "condition." Other than a small jealousy the two hadn't fought very much unless over something useless like ice cream. It was spring now and the team had taken on a few other criminals but there was no sign of Slade or a plan he had or might have.
"Marlis, are you okay?" The unusual teenager was snapped from her thoughts when she saw that the Titans were staring at her. "You were just kind of zoning out," Robin said a bit concerned. With a nod and a smile Marlis seemed tobe back to normal.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Just thinking, I guess. So, what did you guys ask me?"
"It's time to pick a uniform for you!" Cyborg and Beast Boy yelled out.
"Hold on...A what?"she asked in a voice that was almost identical to Raven's.
"A uniform. You know, like how Raven always wears the cape and leotard and how I always wear my gloves and stuff!"Beast Boy said in the hyper-active voice he always talked in. Before Marlis could protest her and Raven were dragged into Marlis' room by Starfire who was rambling on about another Tameranian tradition. "Oh boy, here we go again," Raven muttered. Starfire grabbed some of Marlis' clothes, gave them to Marlis and stuffed her into the bathroom. After a few not-so-good-looking outfits, Marlis had stormed into the kitchen and grabbed a pair of scissors. A few minutes passed and Marlis came out wearing black leather pants and a matching tank top that had obviously been cut out of something and exposed most of her stomach. With a few shocked looks, Marlis twirled the scissors on her finger. "I know. I'm a genius. A creative genius...But a genius nontheless," she said smuggly. Grabbing the clothes she had tried on, Marlis quickly tossed them in her room and walked back out. "Well, who's making lunch?"
It was about two weeks until the H.I.V.E members attacked the city. Now they were targetting a large jewelry store; Jinx was trying on many of the store's earrings and necklaces while the other two were collecting it all. "Blue isn't your color," Raven said as they entered.
"But pink is yours," Jinx said while sending a wave of bad luck in the empath's direction. Starfire and Robin ran to take care of Mammoth while Cyborg took care of Gizmo. "Who do we get?" Marlis asked Beast Boy and was answered with a hit to the chest by a laser from See-More's large eye. Beast Boy transformed into a large tiger and pounced on See-More but was easily shot off. Marlis took flight and shot flames at See-More. "Do you know how good it is to have X-ray vision?"he said with a giggle. Marlis grew angrier and dove at him while the flames seemed to spew from her hands. By this time Beast Boy had turned into a large rhinoscerous and ran into the very perverted villain. See-More was knocked out almost instantly and Beast Boy returned to his human form with a triumphant smile. By now the others had defeated the other two and now all they had to do was wait for the cops. As they sat down (With the H.I.V.E members tied up) they talked about random things. Whenever Beast Boy seemed to grin Raven seemed to blush; Marlis had been noticing this recently and had been meaning to talk to her fellow Titan. But now she was too busy telling jokes. "Okay, what's the difference between meat and fish?" After a pause, Marlis continued. "If you beat your fish it'll die." After a minute or so the others cracked up and shook their heads. "Where do you get this stuff?" Raven asked with a raised eyebrow.
"I've worked in a few places. It didn't pay much but it gave me experience." As the lights and sirens of the police cars grew closer the Titans dragged the three H.I.V.E members onto the street and made sure they were picked up. As they were heading home the Titans went out for pizza. As they ate, Raven seemed to be staring at Beast Boy and whenever she wasn't looking he stole glances at her. With a small smirk, Marlis thought that she knew what was going on. As they argued for the last peice of pizza (Starfire winning of course) Raven seemed to blush under her cloak when her and Beast Boy made eye contact. 'Awww...' Marlis thought with an inward giggle.
"Okay Beast Boy. Truth...or dare?" The Titans sat in a circle and smirked at one another. Another day of boredom had driven them to a very rare game of truth or dare.
"I'm gonna go with dare," he responded to the spikey haired leader. With a smirk, Robin thought a while.
"Okay...Beast Boy, I dare you to kiss anyone here." Marlis smirked a bit before crossing her arms over her chest; she knew who he would kiss she just knew it! Imagine her surprise whent he green changeling leaned over and kissed her. With a few "Woooo!"s and "Go BB!" Beast Boy pulled away from her and blushed a bit. As she felt her face grow hotter than the sun she hid herself behind her large wings and giggled a bit without meaning to. 'No! Beast Boy is supposed to like RAVEN! Not me!' she thought to herself before slowly peeking from her wings to see half the Titans staring at her with large grins. Seeing how Raven had left and feeling a bit guilty, Marlis tried to act normal enough by folding her wings back and trying to let the blush fade from her cheeks. "I'm okay..."she muttered not daring to look at anyone in the eye.
"Your turn Beast Boy," Robin said trying not to laugh.
"Okay...Marlis? Truth or dare?" he asked trying to hide his embarassment.
"I'm playing safe and going with truth," Marlis smirked, regaining her posture. With a short smile, Beast Boy too regained the smug look he got when he tried to be funny."Alright then. Who is the most hilarious Titan here?" he asked.
As if it was obvious Marlis put a hand on her chest and said,"Well, me of course! Okay, my turn? Hmmm..Robin? Truth or Dare?" The Boy Wonder thought about it for at least twenty minutes befire finally deciding on truth. "Tell me everything you know about Slade." Marlis' voice was beyond serious.