Hello boys and girls and once again the now mandatory apology for the late update before moving on to reviews. Now today I'm going to answer a review and then go into a rant so here it goes. Mortal Guardian, yes I do plan in a future storyline to use The Beasts, notice the plural. Now how they will be unlocked and what they will look like I'm not going to tell cause I don't want all the surprise to be gone. Now, if you read Guardian's review he mentions that he sent me a private message. I sent one back but I guess it didn't get there, sorry, but just so you know I think the pm service is horrible flawed. I got three in the course of making this chapter and only one of them was in the format I think the pm system should be used in. Just so you know I think you should only use the private message system to get in contact with me or to alert me of something outside of my story. So now on to the rest of the reviews. Ok really only one of you asked a question or more like sent a pm that needs responding to. T.v-aholic, you sent a private message going against your review but please this is an alternate universe story and you could have just sent another review instead of a private message. Ok well that's the end of that so now here you go, chapter twenty of The New Teen Titans.
Chapter 20: Girls Night Out: Part 3
A world without men can sound like the greatest thing on earth, or the worst thing to ever happen in its history. In reality it falls somewhere in-between. You see because some panic and even as the day wears thin and the sun goes down they still light fires and starts riots. But elsewhere they party in whim of their success. They live it up and have no idea of just what is coming. In a warehouse near the docks a lone car pulls up with its lights off. The Titans have arrived.
"This the place?" Black Bird whispered as she looked at the warehouse which has light coming from all the window and the muffled sound of loud music and partying coming from its walls.
"According to those two it is," Android replied as she pointed over her shoulder at the two girls chained and gagged in the backseat, Alakazam holding them at wand point.
"Alright, everyone out" Black Bird said as all the girls made for the car doors. Before she got out though Black Bird remembered something and turned to Alakazam, "oh and if you don't mind?"
"Not at all," Alakazam smiled and looked at the two girls, whose wigs were falling off, with a look that made them began to sweat and panic.
Twelve minutes later Alakazam and Black Bird both came back from behind a dumpster adjusting two identical blond wigs. Alakazam, wearing a pair of denim jeans with rips along the side and a large chain on her right pocket to her back pocket. On her top she wore a tee shirt with the anarchy sign on it with a denim jacket that had the sleeves ripped off over it. Black Bird sported a black puffy miniskirt and a tube top with a long sleeved black jacket over it cut short just under the top.
"You two look fabulous," Android said as she clapped at the two girls and laughed at Black Bird who looked rather uncomfortable adjusting her top. "Hope you have fun partying it up in there."
"Ha ha, what are you laughing at?" Alakazam said with a snicker as she blew a bubble with gum, stolen from the jacket pocket.
"You're coming with us," Black Bird said as she fiddled with her blond wig, using the car window as a mirror.
"Um no offence, but I don't think a styling blond wig will help to hid all this!" Android said as she fanned her hands over her body to demonstrate just why she couldn't pass for a regular teenage girl.
"Yeah and me being blue an her being half Beast Boy are going to tip them off too," Alakazam said with a smirk before holding her wand up, "that's where magic comes in."
"Oh no I'm not getting into that," Android said, taking a step away and holding her arms out in protest.
"Oh come on," Alakazam said as she advanced, "just call me the blue fairy because now…" she began, tapping Android on the head with her wand. A wind picked up around the robotic girls feet and as it rose Android's structure turned to bone, her metal plating to flesh, her wires to veins and muscles. Her cloths also changed becoming a combination of what Android and Black Bird were wearing with knee-high boots thrown in for good measure. The wind passed her face and it changed, turning into the face of a very attractive young black girl, her hair changing to the blond curls of the wig. "…you're a real girl," Alakazam finished as Android looked at herself with shock filled eyes.
"Are you ok?" Black Bird asked as she saw Android standing there just opening and closing her hands just to feel the difference.
She didn't even pay attention to the question, just continued to stare at her hands until a blond curl fell down in front of her face, "I always pictured myself with black hair." She quickly snapped out of her self made hypnoses when she realized it all wasn't real and said, her eyes with just a little sadness in them, "come on lets go."
Black Bird led the pack as they tried to causally make their way towards the building. They reached a back door and Black Bird reached forward and knocked timidly. A bar near the top of the door opened and two sharp eyes looked down at the three girls. "What's the password?" came a tough female voice from behind the door.
"I need some courage, she needs a brain, she needs a heart, and we really want to see the wizard," Alakazam said as she pointed at herself, Black Bird, and then Android.
"Ha ha ha," the voice said dryly, "but if you don't know the password then I can't let you in. Sorry girls." With that she went to close the slot in the door but Black Bird shot her hand up and stopped it halfway.
"Come on! We've been out all day, and we were late cause of one of the riots downtown, and we forgot the password!" Black Bird said with a fake panic in her voice.
"Harassing citizens can be so tiring," Android said as she crossed her arms and rolled her eyes at the whole situation, but was quickly distracted by how her fingernails looked on her.
"Well?" the voice said as she rolled her eyes in thought, "the boss did say that everyone had to be here and I wouldn't want someone to miss it just cause they forgot some stupid password." The girls all looked up with the biggest eyes they could manage and the guard gave, "fine. I'll let you in," she said making the girls sigh with relief as they heard the sound of many locks being unlocked, "but don't let it happen again."
The guard then opened the door to reveal the party. The entire room was filled with women dancing to a techno beat coming from a huge DJ's booth in the far corner. Lights ran down from different coloured flashing lights and a disco ball. The smell of sweat and illegal substances filled the girls noises. They walked in slowly and heard the door close behind them with a bang. "Now this is a party," Android said, looking around at the large room of dancing women.
"Come on we have to find where Porcelain Doll is hiding," Black Bird said as she led the girls into the crowd of women. The music was too loud to hear each other once they were inside the crowd but Black Bird silently directed them to split up and look. A good half hour later they met back up near a half eaten table full of every junk food imaginable, all of it probably stolen.
"Find anything?" Android asked as she walked out of the crowd to find both Black Bird and Alakazam eating at this table.
"Yeah," Alakazam said as she stuffed her face with chips and bobbed her head to the song, "this is the best party I have ever been to!" Both the girls looked at her strangely and she just said, slightly muffled by the fact her mouth was full of half eaten chips, "What?"
"Lady like," Black Bird said rolling her eyes. It was this simple annoyed jester that made her notice something she hadn't before, a walkway stretching across the top of the warehouse. She followed the walkway and came to an office door with light coming through the thick glass window. "How do we get up there?" Black Bird asked pointing at the walkway.
"Well I think flying is out of the question," Alakazam said as she looked up at the walkway with a puzzled look.
"There," Android exclaimed as she pointed to a set of stairs right behind the DJ on the stage the DJ was set up on.
"Come on," Black Bird said as she led the way over to the DJ table. As they got closer the music got much louder until they could physical feel it bouncing in their stomachs. "Hey can we get up there!" Black Bird yelled at the top of her lungs.
"What?" the group of incognito teens heard the DJ yelled back as she removed one of her ear phones. The scream sounded like a whisper over the music and forced all of the women to squint their eyes and lean forward in a attempt to hear better.
"Can we get up there?" Alakazam yelled out, slowly sounding out each word and pointing at herself when she said 'we' and the door when she said 'there'.
The DJ seemed to not hear them again as her face contorted in confusion and she finally just put up a finger as if to say 'one second'. She unplugged her headphones and put them around her neck as she walked down and moved the teens a bit away from the speakers. "What you guys want?" she asked, chewing on some gum.
"We wanted to know if we could get up there to see the boss," Android said pointing up at the door.
The DJ followed her finger and looked at the door to make sure she knew what she was talking about. She broke into a small chuckle as she looked back at the teens, "no way are you newbies are getting up there," the girl said as she shook her head, "boss is putting her finally touches on that master plan of hers. The one she's telling us about tonight."
The Titans looked confused before Alakazam quickly tried to cover up by going, "oh yeah of course the plan." The other girls all nodded in false acknowledgement adding little comments like, "yeah we knew about that."
"Hey don't I know you?" The DJ said when she heard Alakazam's voice squinting in the girls direction. She turned her head to look at the magician and it became angled so that Alakazam noticed something she hadn't before. A scar she had personally given one of the Baby Dolls that attacked the Titans just yesterday.
"Um no don't think so," Alakazam said quietly in a slightly deeper voice as she turned her head as if to look at something else that wasn't there. The DJ continued to look toward Alakazam's face as she continued to turn it out of her sight before her attention was pulled back to Black Bird when she asked a question.
"Please? I mean what will it take to get up there?" Black Bird asked as she put her hands together like in prayer.
"Well?" the DJ stretched out as she trailed her eyes up and down the girls figures. Both Black Bird and Alakazam took one large step backwards and Android's eyes went wide as she glanced back at the girls with a mixture of anger and fright.
Luckily, at least for Android, just at that moment the music stopped and everyone looked up to see no other but Porcelain Doll standing with a very straight face. One arm behind her back and the other holding the needle that had just been dragging across the record it was playing. "Hello girls," Doll said, her straight face curving into a large Cheshire Cat smile, insanity filling her eyes. The crowd of women erupted in applies as Doll laughed and raised her arms, taking a bow for her loving audience.
The DJ finished a long whistle before turning back to look at the shocked Titans with a happy look on her face. "No time for that," she said as she sprinted back up the stage to the DJ's booth, leaving the female Titans quite confused and still in shock. He space was quickly filled by other gang members who wanted to be closer to their leader, the Titans pushed towards the middle of the warehouse.
Porcelain Doll smiled as the crowd calmed down and then looked at the DJ who was standing straight as a solider awaiting command from her leader. Doll nodded and began to prowl the stage, walking across it, her hands still behind her back. The DJ took her cue to remove the record she had been playing and spun it in-between her fingers back into a pile behind the table. She then grabbed a record sitting at the edge of the table and placed it on the turntable, laying the needle across it. Classical music with a slow but commanding sound filled the room. As she heard the music the leader of the group of twisted females smiled and stopped in the middle of the stage, turning towards her awaiting audience.
"My plain," she said putting a hand to he lip in though, "my plain is not complicated but effective none the less. You see I plan on doing to all the other cities in the world just what we did to this one. Placed in all of the major city in the US, Gotham, Metropolis, Star City, Fawcett, Keystone City, and so many other are devices just like the ones used last night. And I hold the controller," she said with a laugh as she held up a black device with a single red button on it. "So tonight at midnight, for the dramatic effect, I will push this button and America will belong to us." the crowd erupted in applause and Porcelain Doll yelled over them the end of her speech, "and then the world! Any questions?"
The crowd laughed at her final comment but apparently Alakazam didn't get the joke as she raised her hand like she was in school and began to stretch it upwards making grunting sounds like she was trying to get the teachers attention. The entire room glanced at her and Black Bird and Android, who were on ether side of her, quickly downcast their eyes. "I got a question," Alakazam said, not at all threatened.
"What?" Porcelain Doll asked, though it was less directed at the question and more towards Alakazam and why she would even ask a question at all.
"Well I just completely forgot how we turned this city into an oestrogen pool," Alakazam said as she lowered her arm and smiled slightly, adding, "I'm new."
"Is that all?" Doll said as her scowl morphed into a smile, a collective sigh was heard from the crowd, especially the Titans part, they knew what their leader could do when angry. Doll snapped her fingers and one of the girls brought her a large suitcase, which she then opened and handed a large weapon to Porcelain Doll. "As most of us know we took this technology and we wired it into a force field generator in the middle of the city," she said as she hoisted the weapon on her shoulder and it began to charge, "still, clearly marked from the Red X fiasco. We then set the button to male and boom we have ourselves a city." She reset the dial and aimed the gun at Alakazam's head, the rest of the Baby Doll's besides Black Bird and Android moving out of the way. "As I shall demonstrate," she said with a smirk before firing out the blue energy from the gun straight at Alakazam's head.
Android saw the beam heading towards her friends head and screamed, "Alakazam!" jumping in front of Alakazam and the beam hit her in the back. The crowd gasped collectively as the laser stopped and Android still stood there, the only sound filling the room was the needle skipping across the record. Alakazam's magic began to phase in and out around Android, the beam affecting it somehow, until Android stood in all her robot glory.
The entire building stood in silence as they all stared at Android's robotic form. That is until Alakazam broke the silence as she learned to her right and pointed at Android saying, "I'm not with her."
"Get them!" Doll shouted and her gang all instantly jumped to her call, running at the surrounded Titans.
"Azarath Arella Azar!" Black Bird chanted out as fast as she could putting a dome around the three girls. The Baby Dolls began to pound on the glob and it made echo sounds inside which hurt the girls ears just a bit.
"Whoa I didn't know you could take this much pressure," Android said as she squatted done when the dome suddenly got smaller.
"…can't…" Black Bird got out as another pound from one of the larger girls caused the dome to go down another inch so that it was touching Black Birds hands, her neck bent like she was trying to support the entire world on her shoulders.
"Foolish little girls," Porcelain Doll said as she kept the gun up on her shoulder, "you really think you can stop me when I have this-" She began to reach for the detonator on her built but she couldn't find it. She began to look around franticly for it before a lone voice from a high window attracted everyone's attention.
"Looking for this?" said no other then Red X herself, crouching on the window sill like a cat and throwing the device back and forth between her slender hands.
"How did you get that?" Porcelain Doll shouted as she pointed an accusing finger at Red X.
"Took it when you were making your big master plan speech. Turns out everyone dose make one," Red X said as she winked in Black Bird's direction.
"Forget them, get her!" Doll shouted out as she re-aimed the gun and it began to charge up, her smile spreading across her face.
"Don't like that sound," Red X murmured as the girls all still looked up at her, "hey maybe you hero people want to move."
The girls took their cue as the shield feel when Black Bird passed out from the streets it had been taking on her. The gun was now fully charged though and Porcelain Doll re-aimed it again at the last second, firing at the Titans. Alakazam jumped into the air and was replaced by a puff of red smoke which then cleared to reveal her in her regular costume and a flying card under her feet. Android grabbed Black Bird and kicked her heels together, taking off just as the laser hit where she had just been. The crazy women trailed the beam after the flying females and her own gang members who got in the way of disappeared. Finally the three Titans all got out the window and just as the laser made it to the window Red X gave a little wave and back flipped out right out of it.
Red X landed on the ground with ease and saw the Titans landing near their car and sitting Black Bird in the front seat. She ran up and grabbed the doorframe of the back seat, swinging into the car. She quickly changed direction and swung back out, this time with her feet forcing out the two tied up Baby Dolls. "Make room for the new girl," she said before jumping back into the car and slamming the door.
The two girls struggled to get up as they were tied up and only in their bras and panties. They managed to get up and began to hop towards the speeding car but were toppled over by two blond wigs slapping them in the face. As they fell the rest of warehouse emptied out with Porcelain Doll in the lead, her large gun still on her shoulder, "Get them!"
"Ok, explain," Android demanded as she sped through the town in a random direction, Black Bird knocked out beside her.
"It's boring steeling when no one tries to stop you," X said simply as she relaxed in her seat, quickly shaken when Android took a sharp turn.
Alakazam was about to say something about Android's driving when Black Bird began to stir. "Stop the car!" she screamed as she came to completely. Android stopped suddenly sending everyone including herself launching forward.
"What?" she asked in a frustrated tone as she turned towards Black Bird.
"That entire gang is looking for us right now," Black Bird said as she turned to face the people in the backseat. "There is no place for us to hide," the dark Titan said as she bowed her head, "so lets go to them." The rest of the group looked up at Black Bird like she had gone mad but the look on her face was far to serious for that, "we stop them tonight."