So how do you get an English name out of 'Komand'r'? … I'll just call her Katie.
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"Central Jump High School has been closed down today for a full-scale police investigation concerning the disappearance of several students. Police are refusing to call these events 'kidnappings'," said the well-dressed woman on the TV screen. "Students of Central Jump High are being advised to stay indoors."
"DUDE! FREE DAY," Garfield yelled as he ran out of his house.
- - -
"Well, I guess this counts as a birthday present too," said Raven. She and Malchior were seated in front of a TV screen in the 'lobby' of the T Tower. The room was deserted except for the two. Raven was eating an apple absentmindedly while Malchior stared at her. There was a light blue shirt in her lap.
"Oh, but there's more," Malchior declared. He reached behind his back to pull out a large, black bound, book and handed it to Raven.
Upon seeing it, Raven's eyes expanded slightly. "Is that…?"
"The Stones of Syr," Malchior announced. He looked rather proud of himself.
Raven slowly opened up the tome. "You handwrote this from memory?"
"I was trapped in a book for a thousand years, reading can only get you so far. Besides Raven, I had help," Malchior said.
A tall, muscular, man with white hair walked into the room. "Raven, I think it's time we had a talk," said Trigon.
The room temperature seemed to plummet to sub zero temperatures.
"Let me put it simply. You have Power, Raven. You have this Power because you are a demon," he continued.
"What?" Raven asked incredulously. She shifted to put both Malchior and her father into her vision, waiting for the punch line of the joke.
"You are a demon because you are my daughter. Your mother never loved you, Raven. She hated both you for what you were in her eyes, an abomination. The sniveling monks on Azarath told her that you would grow up to destroy this world, and other worlds as well."
Raven looked directly at Trigon now. Saying anything about Her was forbidden, much less using Her as part of a joke. "Are you serious?"
"When have I not been serious, little black bird?"
"Demons are a figment of fairytale, they're not real."
At this point Malchior cut into the conversation, "Dragons are not supposed to be real either, sweet Raven."
"I AM NOT A DEMON!" The TV was covered in a shroud of black and exploded.
- - -
"NO, I WILL NOT let you have your stupid moths back for the day! School may be out, but I WILL NOT let that stop me," declared Kitten to 'Daddy'. Without giving 'Daddy' a second look, she walked out of the door wearing a pink dress and headband.
"Ah, Kitten, maybe you shouldn't go out with all the disappearances," 'Daddy' called after her. Sighing when she ignored him, 'Daddy' went down to his basement to work.
Meanwhile, Kitten stepped into her pink limo. "Oh Richie-poo, I'm coming to get you," she sang to herself. "And when I do, you'll be as happy as I am too!"
"Hi baby… OOF!" A gigantic spider head stuck itself into the limo, only to be repulsed by a slap. The head was attached to a human body and eight extra long spider legs.
"OH NO YOU DON'T FANG! You. Missed. My. Dance. Rehearsal." Kitten spat.
"Awe come on babe," Fang would have continued, but something explosive hit him.
"Just because school's out doesn't mean crime's in." Robin was standing on the roof of Kitten's vehicle. "Step away from the lady."
Fang didn't say anything as he spat some sort of goop in Robin's general direction.
The Human Traffic Light dodged, and threw yet another exploding birdarang at Spider Boy. In the resulting explosion, a knocked out Fang was thrown against the pink limo, tipping it over onto its side.
"YOU RUINED MY LIM… ousine…" Kitten screeched, faltering when she noticed Robin offering her a hand out of the car.
"Can I help you up ma'am?"
"OH ROBIN! Will you go with me to my Junior Prom, you're even better than Richie," Kitten squeaked out with little hearts replacing her eyes.
"AH!" Robin nervously jumped back to hand Fang over to police custody. Glancing over his shoulder at Kitten, who was still in her sideways car, he shot off a grappling hook and swung off.
"Well, if you need a little time to think about it, that's OK too… I know I can be a bit overwhelming…"
- - -
"Oh give up Kori, Richard is out of your league."
"But Katie, he is… cute," Kori said to the telephone.
"He is? Do tell."
"Well, he has dark black hair that is always in glorious spiky patterns and he is intelligent and tall and athletic and…
-Half an hour later-
"strong and handsome and noble and…"
-Later-
"AND," Kori was about to continue when Katie cut her off.
"So where did you two first meet," she questioned.
"Oh, we have not done the 'meeting' yet, but I have observed him from a distance. Today he dressed himself in the colors of a traffic light and fought with a man who had a strangely shaped head."
"Well Kori, this was an interesting chat, but my phone bill can't take much more," CLICK, Katie hung up on her sister.
- - -
"School'soutsowecangoovertoCy'shouseandplayvideogamesallday," Garfield blurted out.
"Whoa! Slow down," Tara complained.
The green boy took a deep breath. "School's out so we can go over to Cy's house and play video games all day!"
A grin broke on Tara's face. "Race you there?"
"You're on."
- - -
"I assure you, there is no need to further investigate this area," Mr. Wilson stated calmly.
"I'm sorry sir, but this is standard procedure," the officer in charge of the investigation replied.
"Standard procedure be damned, you've already broken it! If all this were really about the children, you'd have the entire city looking for them," Wilson growled as he resisted the urge to pick the officer up by the front of his shirt. "So either decide the children have been kidnapped and look for them, or let me get on with running a proper school."
Cowed by the enraged principal, the cop stepped away slightly. Nodding, he turned and went into the building.
Wilson glared at the several TV cameras and reporters set up on the grounds of his school; they began to pack up after his single eye glared at the group.
- - -
Two panting teens arrived at a large house a few blocks from the local S.T.A.R. Labs site. The house was white with different shades for blue for trim, and it had very few windows.
Garfield walked up to the massive door and knocked. He yanked his hand back when he realized he was hitting metal painted like wood. "Ack, that wasn't there last time."
"I think you're supposed to ring the doorbell." Tara pushed the dark blue button next to the door. She waited a minute before jamming her thumb down again.
Garfield pressed one ear against the door. "I don't think anyone's home. Let's go to the park!"
- - -
"Wilson, Wilson, Wilson… Interfering with my plans simply will not do," Mr. Blood muttered to himself. After a moment of thought, he got up from his yellow throne-like chair and walked to where Victor was working on something. The teen put down his wrench as Blood came over.
"I've finished the optical array, Mr. Blood."
"Why thank you Victor!" Blood smiled and bent over to examine Victor's work. "Now I'll be able to finish my science experiment."
"Anytime sir." Victor said as he opened the door to Mr. Blood's garage.
After making sure that the teenager was long gone, Blood threw the black tarp off of a large something in a corner of the garage. Picking up the robotic eyes, he placed them into the empty sockets of the deactivated robot that had been covered by the tarp.
Blood's eyes briefly glowed bright red as he said, "Steamroller, at midnight tonight, go out and destroy Central Jump High School."
The yellow and black robot grunted an affirmative as its eyes also glowed for a moment.
"I never liked my job much anyway…"