Chapter 4: Marionette
Alert! Alert!
Titans tower began to fill with flashes of red light. A loud, rumbling sound was signaled throughout the tower. Immediately, the Titans woke up and got out of their beds. They met in the main room and Raven put her cloak hood over her head.
"Whom is the villain this time and what is he doing this early in the morning?" Starfire asked Robin, as he walked over to the main monitor.
"The Puppet King. He's at the old warehouse where we fought him last. Titans, lets go." Robin demanded while leaving out the door.
Robin was so caught up, Cyborg and Starfire were too tired, and perhaps Raven didn't care, but when they arrived at the warehouse, they noticed that they hadn't woken Beast Boy!
Before they could argue about what they hadn't done, the Puppet King voice goes off in the darkness, "Oh. Long time no see Titans. I have a special surprise for you."
And then, the Titans saw a blinding blue light and it was as all of a sudden their souls and their very beings were being lifted. It was a wonderful feeling as if all your worries and sadness was finally taken away and all was peaceful. This feeling though, only lasted a few minutes. After that, the Titans filled bodiless, as immobile dolls. No they were not dolls, they were puppets."
"Ah, yes. I do believe I like you better like this," the Puppet King said triumphantly.
Two hours later…
"Ahh…" Beast Boy awoke and rubbed his eyes. He got out of bed and went to the kitchen expecting a large breakfast.
"Hey Star, serve up some of those Glorbs again," Beast Boy said still sleepy and rubbing his eye.
He then noticed that he was talking to no one.
"Star! Robin! Cy! Raven! Anyone?" he called out, but no one answered.
"Hm… They must have gone out without me. Oh well, I'll just have to make my own breakfast. How hard could that be?"
"Now how does this work," Beast Boy said while pushing a square button on the stove. Four giant blue flames erupted from the vents on the stove and Beast Boy immediately pushed the button again, turning is off.
"Maybe I should just use the microwave," Beast Boy went over to the microwave and put a breakfast burrito inside it. He pushed some buttons and the burrito exploded, opening the microwave door, and getting burrito goop all over Beast Boy's face.
"You can never go wrong with good ol' cereal. Hehe," Beast Boy said while sitting down at a table with a box of cereal, milk, a bowl, and a spoon. He opened the cereal box and turned it upside down and began to shake the box. Once nothing came out, he began to shake more violently. Eventually, one grain of cereal fell out of the box and into his bowl.
"Oh, I give up. Cyborg always has to eat all the cereal…" Beast Boy said angrily putting away the bowl, milk, and spoon, "I'll just go out for breakfast."
Beast Boy walked around town until he finally reached his destination: Bakin' Bagels, the city's famous breakfast diner. Once he entered inside, he rang the small hand bell and waited for someone to come out from the back and serve him. After a minute, Beast Boy rang again. After another minute Beast Boy began to ring the bell multiple time. Enraged, and without service, Beast Boy left Bakin' Bagels.
As he walked around the deserted streets, he noticed just that, there were no people walking around the city. Usually, the city streets were crammed with people trying to reach their destinations as quickly as possible. Beast Boy knew something was up. First, no Titans, now, no people!
He began to walk back to Titans tower, until he heard a scream come off in a separate direction. He began to run towards the source of the scream.
"There is no need to squirm. Your soul will be mine in a matter of minutes." The Puppet King said while chasing a civilian with a small, oddly shaped blaster.
Beast Boy transformed into a bear and attacked the Puppet King, but it was too late. The Puppet King pulled the trigger of the blaster and a blue beam shot towards the running man. He transformed into a small, lifeless puppet. After the shot, Beast Boy managed to tackle the Puppet King and knock out the blaster from his hands. He then stomped on it with his enormous paws.
"No matter. Everyone in the city is now a puppet, except for you that is. I guess I will leave you now and create a new blaster and worry about you later. There is nothing you can do now, but wait until your impending doom," the Puppet King said.
Beast Boy attacked again, but this time he was too late. Fog began to emit all around the Puppet King and he disappeared.
It was up to Beast Boy to save his friends and the city. But, he could not do it alone…
Beast Boy ran all the way back to Titans tower and readied the T-ship for launch. He programmed the coordinates and took off. He knew how to work the T-Ship so well because he once helped Cyborg rebuilt it.
Within a couple of minutes, Beast Boy arrived at Steel City. He landed the T-Ship on top of Titans East tower. He entered the tower using the roof's entrance.
Titans East were in there main room arguing over letting Steamroller get away.
"We could have defeated him if someone hadn't shot an arrow in my face," Aqualad was yelling.
"Well, if someone wasn't splashing water all over the place, it wouldn't have gotten into my eyes and make my aim go off!" Speedy yelled, getting aggravated.
"Come, on. We are a team we shouldn't be arguing, but working together," Bumble Bee told her team.
"Usted debe hablar, Señorita Lío," Mas y Menos told Bumble Bee, who was now getting annoyed and verbally exploded on Mas y Menos' mistakes in the battle.
They were arguing so much, they didn't even notice Beast Boy had walked through the door.
"Um… Hi?" Beast Boy said a little confused.
Once they noticed he was there, they stopped arguing and Mas y Menos held hands and rushed over to him, "Hola, el titán verde estúpido," they said.
"Yes, welcome back to Titans East tower, Beast Boy. How may we help you?" Bumble Bee said trying to cover up her embarrassment about the fact she wasn't helping her team very much.
"Beast Boy, good to see you pal," Aqualad said while shaking hands with him after a high-five.
"Well, anyway," Beast Boy said taking in a big breath, "The Puppet King is back and turned all the Titans and everyone in the city into puppets and when I woke up it was too late and he plans to turn me into a puppet next and I still haven't had ANY BREAKFAST!"
"Ok, ok. Calm down. We'll help you. We'll all get into the T-ship and go over to the city and help you defeat the Puppet King and get your friends back," Bumble Bee told him.
"Good, but first. I am very hungry," Beast Boy said, "You got anything to eat?"
After a long, complete breakfast meal, Beast Boy burped and scraped his teeth with a tooth-pick. The table was covered all over by empty plates, some even had scraps of food still on them. Bumble Bee, Speedy, Aqualad, and Mas y Menos were astonished by the enormous stomach of Beast Boy. They were also a little upset at the fact that they have to clean up that big, gruesome mess.
After an hour spent eating and cleaning, Beast Boy and Titans East entered the T-Ship and prepared to take off back to the city.
"All systems go," Beast Boy said and they took off heading for Titans Tower.
Once they had arrived, they went straight to the main room to try and find out exactly where the Puppet King was hiding.
"If I could just find the coordinates of the Titans communicators… Ah-hah! There they are at the old warehouse near the pier. Titans East, Go!" Beast Boy exclaimed as he ran through the door.
Bumble Bee quietly said to herself, "That's suppose to be my line…"
"¿Quién lo hizo el jefe de nosotros? ¿Y dónde está Starfire?" Mas y Menos said with heart-shaped eyes from their mention of Starfire.
Just as planned, Titans East followed Beast Boy to the warehouse. It looked bare and empty. All of a sudden a blinding, blue light shined in the distance.
"Look out!" Speedy yelled, warning his comrades about a beam that struck seconds later.
It was a good thing Speedy warned them, or they would have had the same fate of there fellow Titans.
"Titans East, ATTACK!" Bumble Bee shouted, "And Beast Boy too…"
Bumble Bee withdrew her dual stingers and shrunk until she was normal bee size. Mas y Menos grabbed hands and ran to the source of the beam. Aqualad readied a water ball out of the pipes on the sides of the warehouse. Speedy readied his bow and pulled and arrow back awaiting the Puppet King to show up. Beast Boy transformed into a dog and began to sniff out the scent of the Titans to find them.
All of a sudden, another blast came and Mas y Menos barley dodged it. They had found the Puppet King. Hen they dodged, they lost the grip of their hands and fell to the ground. They ran to each other as fast as they could and grabbed their hands again and ran around him in circles to signal the other Titans to come there.
Bumble Bee flew in that direction shooting stinging blasts at the Puppet King. Speedy stayed where he was, shooting many arrows in the direction Bumble Bee was. Aqualad threw the water ball at the Puppet King. Beast Boy turned into a T-rex and went to Mas y Menos, but stopped right next to Bumble Bee. Mas y Menos continued to spin and spin, and once they stopped the Puppet King was gone.
"Where did he get too?" Bumble Bee asked.
"AHHH!" a scream came from the distance where Aqualad and Speedy were. The four Titans hesitated at first, but then followed the screams.
The Puppet King was on the upper level of the ware house, and Speedy and Aqualad were shooting arrows and water balls. Eventually, Aqualad busted open one of the pipes and controlled the water to spill out and hit the Puppet King in a full front attack of water rushing at him. After the rush, the Puppet King was no longer there. They assumed he was hit to the ground, knocked out.
Speedy stopped shooting arrows at this sight and said, "Gloy Hog!"
"Am not!" Aqualad said, "I just wanted this to be over fast." He tried to make himself seem as little cocky as possible.
"Sure…" Speedy said sarcastically.
All of a sudden a voice came from behind them, "Um. Titans…" the Puppet King said.
"Huh?" they said while looking around and saw a blue light flash and all of a sudden they were puppets.
"Speedy! Aqualad!" Bumble Bee shoutedwhile picking up the puppet replicas of her teammates.
"¡Ah no! .. Bien por lo menos nosotros no tenemos que preocuparnos por Sr. Macho," Mas y Menos said.
Beast Boy turned into a rhino and charged the Puppet King.
"Oh yes. The one Titan I didn't get earlier. Since I thought I got all the Titans, I didn't bother to check Titans tower, which I assume you were at?" the Puppet said, dodging the attack.
"Beast Boy. Don't worry, we can handle him. You go look for your friends." Bumble Bee shouted to him while turning back into her original size and handing over the Aqaualad and Speedy puppets to him.
"Sí, no preocupa. Con nuestros poderes combinados, nosotros somos más de suficiente," Mas y Menos said while running and grabbing some crowbars from the side of the warehouse.
"If your sure," Beast Boy said and then ran up the stairs to the next level.
Bumble Bee looked from Beast Boy to the Puppet King, "Let's get this party started," she said while shrinking back to bee form.
"Oh. It has already begun," the Puppet King said with an evil glare.
Once Beast Boy reached the next level, he began to look frantically for his friends. The Puppet King managed to transform the whole city into puppets, where could he be hiding that many puppets?
Beast Boy ran all over the upper level, searching all over for his friends. He finally tripped on something and crashed down to the ground. He looked behind himself and saw none other than the half-machine, android Titan, Cyborg!
"Yo, I'm back to my regular body again," Cyborg said, "And what are you doing on the ground?"
"Hehe. I tripped," Beast Boy said, a little embarrassed.
"On what?" Cyborg asked.
"I don't know, but let's not worry about that, we have to find the other Titans," Beast Boy said while getting up.
"Ok, I'll see if I can trace them," Cyborg said while holding his arm out in front of him. A screen opened and he tracked the other Titans down, "There all over the place. Well the closest one is on the roof. Let's go."
They took a second flight of stairs all the way up to the roof, where lying in the middle was a Raven puppet. It was now early night and there were barely any clouds in the sky.
"Cy, there's Raven," Beast Boy said, running over to the puppet and holding it up, "But she's still a puppet, how do we get her back?"
"I don't know. Try shaking her," Cyborg suggested.
Beast Boy did as he said, but Raven remained a puppet.
"Maybe you have to… Um…," Cyborg thought out loud, "stretch her?"
Beast Boy tried to stretch her, but she wouldn't buge.
"Beast Boy, I really don't know. But, you know about the Frog Prince story, right? Well maybe you have to kiss her to turn her back to normal," Cyborg said.
Beast Boy turned red out of embarrassment and said, No way, dude. There is no way I'm kissing a puppet," Beast Boy now became angry, "I should just give up. We have no way of knowing how to help them."
Beast Boy threw the Raven puppet in anger and it broke.
Cyborg gave Beast Boy and evil, angry look at Beast Boy said, "Uh-oh. My bad. Hehe."
All of a sudden purple smoke erupted around the puppet and then vanished, revealing regular Raven. The puppet was gone. She looked at her hands and her body realizing she was normal again.
"Oh great. I'm back with you guys again…" Raven said sounding as if she didn't care if she was saved or not.
"That must be it! Beak the puppets and save the people!" Cyborg said.
"Yes, and I tripped over the Cyborg puppet and that's why you were there when I looked around because I broke the puppet when I tripped," Beast Boy said.
Cyborg began to track down the remaining two Titans, "The next one is inside on of the walls on the second level."
They ran down the stairs again. They found the wall and Cyborg readied his sonic cannon. He blasted a blue sonic beam at the wall, making a small break in it. Inside they found the Starfire puppet.
"Let me do the honors," Raven said and chucked the puppet against the opposite wall violently.
"Glorious, I am back to normal! My head aches very much, though," Starfire said happily and then a little upset.
"The Robin puppet is in the basement," Cyborg said.
"But Bumble Bee and Mas y Menos are fighting the Puppet king down there. We have to go down fast," Beast Boy said.
And they did go fast. They did not even notice that no one was on the first level. They reached the basement and found the Robin puppet and stepped on him to turn him back to normal.
"Come on, the Puppet King is still on the loose. We need to defeat him," Robin said immeadietly.
"He's upstairs, Bumble Bee and Mas y Menos are upstairs fighting him," Beast Boy explained.
"Titans East are here? And what about Aqualad and Speedy?" Robin asked.
"Oh yeah! I almost forgot!" Beast Boy drew out the Aqualad and Speedy puppets and broke them in his hands.
Beast Boy dropped the puppet's remains on the ground and Blue and Red smoke erupted and there they were, Speedy and Aqualad.
"AHHHHHH!" Speedy and Aqualad said in unison. They were still reliving the blast.
"Aqualad, Speedy, come on, fast, we have to go and help Bumble Bee and Mas y Menos fight the Puppet King," Beast Boy said as he lead all the Titans upstairs to find a Bumble Bee and Mas y Menos puppets on the floor.
Beast Boy stepped on them and they came back to life.
"We're sorry Beast Boy," Bumble Bee said, "We couldn't stop him."
"Sí. Sinceramente arrepentido," Mas y Menos said.
"It doesn't matter, we have to find him," Robin said.
"Oh. I wouldn't worry about that," the Puppet King said.
"Teen Titans Go!" Robin yelled.
"Titans East Go!" Bumble Bee yelled.
Raven threw crates that were scattered across the warehouse. Cyborg shot sonic blasts from his cannon. Starfire threw multiple star bolts and sometimes used her eye beams.
Aqualad threw some water balls. Speedy shot an assortment of arrows. Mas y Menos grabbed the crowbars again and began to hit him at super fast speeds.
All of the attacks were pointless however, he was immortal… Or almost immortal. Beast Boy transformed into a T-rex and came from behind him and stepped on him, destroying him.
Millions of puppets poured out into a large pile. Cyborg pushed the pile out into a large plain on the side of the warehouse
"I'll take care of this," Robin said while he threw an exploding disk into the pile. A huge explosion occurred while puppet parts flew everywhere and before anyone knew it , the plain was filled with a large amount of people.
The titans went back to Titans tower. They were all in the main room.
"Thanks again guys for coming and helping Beast Boy," Robin said while shaking Bumble Bee's hand.
"No problem. If you ever need us, you know where to find us," Bumble Bee told him.
"Today was actually fun, we never get to see this much action in Steel City. In fact we barely ever defeat an enemy, " Speedy said and was jabbed in the side by Bumble Bee for saying that they are rarely ever successful.
"Starfire, usted mira hoy aún más hermoso," Mas said with heart-shaped eyes.
"Usted lucha maravillosamente," Menos said with heart-shaped eyes.
They began to fight over her and Starfire simply giggled.
"We'd better get going, and next time you need us Beast Boy, remember to eat breakfast. That was all the food we had," Bumble Bee said slightly annoyed.
"Hehe. Sorry about that," Beast Boy said, a little embarresed.