I do not own the Teen Titans or anything related to them, however I do own this story and all of the non-original characters except for Isis, who I have been given permission to use by a friend of mine and all are copywrited. This means you can not copy the story or any of the characters or use them without permission from their original owners. Check out the mini-fics by my friend, Starfire Fury, called Teen Titans: Alpha Humor, they're mini-fics about these characters and they're really good and absolutely hilarious, so go read them!
Chapter two already, aren't you lot special :) Anyway, enjoy :)
Teen Titans: The Alpha Five: Undercover admission
The International Academy of Rome
------The following morning at 10:55AM------
"Come on guys, the jet will be here soon!" Phoenix called out. They'd each packed a trunk, full of the uniforms, books and other equipment they'd been given, plus a few items of their own clothing and a couple of personal items.
Taiyou and Phoenix had been sitting in the common room, drinking orange juice and chatting while they were waiting for the others. Taiyou looked at Phoenix in her cream turtle neck jumper and her red and brown checked skirt and thought how strange, yet still pretty she looked out of her uniform, she'd even changed her black boots for flat red buckled shoes. He sub-consciously fidgeted, wondering if he looked remotely presentable in his red t-shirt, jeans and trainers with his black zip through fleece that his mum had bought him last Christmas and he ran his fingers through his hair wishing he could have at least managed to make his messy mop of hair somewhat tidy.
Zeru and Li came thundering down the corridors, slowly followed by Isis who was still reluctant and grumpy about the mission and her role.
Zeru looked like he'd pulled something out of his wardrobe at random, but somehow he'd got lucky and his white t-shirt and jeans went well together, he'd pulled on his pair of comfiest trainers and pulled his jacket on over the top. Li had almost knocked Zeru out in his haste to put his jacket on, zipping the white hoody up over is grey and black graffited shirt. He pulled his jeans up as they reached the common room so that they weren't completely covering his trainers, it seemed they were getting tired out and the fabric didn't tighten up in the wash as they used to, causing them to be slightly baggy on him. Isis rolled her eyes at the enthusiasm of the boys and fixed her pale blue v-neck jumper, before brushing off her dark blue skirt and brushing some dust off her blue wedge shoes. She looked into the mirror and sighed, her blue hair was now a light brown, a compromise Phoenix had suggested as Isis had objected to dying her hair blonde. She pulled on a loose fleece lined blue jacket and said in a very reluctant tone,
"Fine, let's go." Phoenix smiled at her and pulled on her old dark brown leather jacket and the Titans dragged out their respective trunks, and were helped by the jet drivers to load them onto the jet.
"Bridge?" Phoenix asked as the taller one of the two drivers helped her.
"Hi ya." He smiled. Taiyou began to scowl slightly as he helped load his trunk into the jet.
"I didn't expect to see you!" Phoenix beamed and Bridge grinned.
"Your Dad sent me, I was on the team that helped hook you all up with the school. I've got your next batch of information for you when we get to the airport. Oh and sorry about all of your profiles, I didn't have any say in those." Isis, who looked like she had been about to hit him, looked less tense and more forgiving.
"Well, it can't be helped can it?" She said, with a small smile as she boarded the jet with the others and Phoenix and Bridge were left to load Phoenix's trunk into the cargo area.
"And here's me thinking you wanted to see me again." Phoenix grinned and Bridge blushed.
"Actually I did."
"Oh." Phoenix went red this time too and almost lost her grip on her trunk. "Ummmm, why?"
"Nothing major, a part from the mission of course, I just wanted to see a good friend of mine that's all. I've missed talking to you at the Academy." Phoenix blushed as she smiled. Bridge hadn't gotten onto a Titans team because the Professors had decided he was too good at mechanics and ICT to let him go, so they'd kept him back at the Academy to help them organise missions and other teams and divisions.
"I've missed talking to you too." Phoenix smiled and Bridge grinned. They boarded the plane and Phoenix guessed her face must still be a little pink because Isis immediately asked her as she sat down;
"So, who was that?" She smiled shyly and noticed that Taiyou looked grumpy all of a sudden. She wondered what could be wrong with him, but decided not to say anything, just in case she made it worse.
After a half hour ride in the jet to the airport, Bridge and his fellow jet pilot helped the Titans unload their luggage.
"Right, now that you're here, you need to board flight 369 to Rome leaving from terminal 4, it leaves at 12:20, once you get to Rome, there will be cars to pick you up and take you to the school, just look for the guys with a sign that says 'International Academy of Rome, TA students', here are your tickets." The Titans all nodded.
"Thanks Bridge." Phoenix smiled and Bridge smiled back, causing Taiyou's blood to boil, but somehow he managed to control himself.
"Don't mention it. Good luck you guys."
"Thanks." Li, Zeru and Isis replied simultaneously as Bridge and his co-pilot walked back to the jet.
So the Titans began to lug their trunks towards terminal 4, Zeru, Li and Isis led the way, followed by Taiyou and Phoenix.
Phoenix looked sideways at Taiyou, noting the slightly put out look on his face.
"Taiyou, are you ok?" Taiyou snapped back to reality from his anger induced thoughts and managed to force a smile.
"Yeah, why wouldn't I be?" He had managed to feign a cheerful voice and just hoped that Phoenix hadn't seen right through it, unfortunately for him, she had but had decided not to press the matter any further.
Soon enough they were on the plane to Rome, with Taiyou and Phoenix on one side of the aisle and Isis, Zeru and Li on the other. Taiyou hadn't spoken a word since they'd boarded and kept staring out of the window. Phoenix looked at him, concerned, she looked to Isis who shrugged and went back to her book, trying to ignore Zeru and Li as they played on their portable Game Station.
"Taiyou, are you alright?" Taiyou nodded silently as he stared out of the window. Phoenix pouted.
"Look, if I've done something wrong please tell me because I'm not spending the rest of this flight next to you while you sulk." Taiyou glared out of the window and stayed completely silent. "Fine. Be that way." Phoenix said angrily, crossing the aisle to tap Isis on the shoulder. Isis looked up from her book, startled.
"Will you please swap seats with me? Taiyou's in a mood and I can't stand it." Isis nodded and the girls swapped seats.
Isis continued to read her book for a few sentences before closing it in desperation.
"What is it?" She said exasperatedly, closing her book with a snap.
"Nothing." Taiyou muttered and Isis rolled her eyes.
"Then why are you sulking like a spoilt child?" Taiyou turned angrily.
"I am not."
"Oh yes you are."
"I am not."
"Yes you are and I think you're being incredibly stupid."
"Oh yeah and how do you work that out?" Taiyou glared and Isis smiled slightly.
"Because I know why. Green is not your colour Taiyou so get over yourself." Taiyou's eyes narrowed.
"If you're saying I'm-"
"Jealous? Only a guilty conscience would jump to that conclusion, but while we're on the subject, yes I think you are."
"Don't be so stupid."
"I'm not being stupid. You like Phoenix right?"
"I, err… umm…"
"I'll take that as a yes. So if you like her, nobody else can like her, is that it?"
"No!" Taiyou said hotly, but Isis raised a brow at him and he sighed. "Its stupid isn't it?" Isis nodded and Taiyou slumped in his chair. "And I was really rude to her just now."
"Don't worry, she'll probably put it down to you being a boy and won't think anything of it." Taiyou looked slightly offended, but then grinned.
"Cheers Isis." She nodded and went back to her book, then looked extremely miffed a couple of minutes later when the captain's voice came over on the intercom and the plane landed.
After getting off the plane and retrieving their luggage, the Titans dragged their luggage trolleys out to the collection area.
"Look guys!" Li called, pointing to two shiny, black limos, with the International Academy of Rome's crest on the side and two drivers, holding signs and waving them over.
"This is too cool!" Zeru grinned excitedly, running to the cars with his trolley rolling around wildly behind him. Li followed him, as did Taiyou, leaving Isis and Phoenix to catch up with them.
"Titans Alpha?" The one driver asked. They were wearing matching black chauffeur's uniforms, complete with hats and everything.
"That's us." Phoenix nodded as she and Isis pulled their trolleys up to the limos, beside the boys'.
"We're to take you to the Academy, please allow us." They opened the doors for them and the girls grinned at each other, before climbing into the first limo, the boys high fived each other and climbed into the second, the drivers shut the doors and proceeded to load the teens' luggage into the boots of the cars.
"How cool is this?" Phoenix grinned, Isis nodded, looking out of the blacked out windows.
"Look it has a TV and everything!" Zeru said excitedly in the boys' limo, flipping the TV on and plugging in their portable Game Station.
"Multiplayer?" He asked, handing Taiyou and Li two extra controls.
"What's the betting they've already got the Game Station out in their car?" Phoenix asked, the car was still stationary as they waited for their drivers to set off.
"I'd say they've already got it out, loaded that racing game they've got and Zeru's lost two games by now." Phoenix laughed as the driver got in and with in moments the limos jerked into life and began to roll away from the airport.
"I can't believe I have to be a cheerleader." Isis suddenly remarked as she and Phoenix watched TV whilst they were driven to the school. The ride had been pretty normal, just watching TV, chatting and in the rarest of instances, well for Isis anyway, giggling.
"Don't worry about it, its just a character on a mission, you'll be fine."
"Phoe, if you haven't noticed, I'm not the most popular of people." Phoenix looked at her.
"Isis, you'll be fine, don't worry. If you get into any trouble, I'll be there and the guys'll be there, just relax and try to have fun."
"Fun? As a pompom twirling giggle girl?"
"Yep." Isis looked quite disgusted at the thought. "Don't you think you should get rid of… you know…" She made a swirly hand gesture around her eyes, indicating Phoenix's mask. Phoenix smiled.
"Got it taken care of. She pulled out a pair of dark tinted sunglasses and turned away to replace her mask with them, after all, she'd promised to keep her eyes hidden from everyone unless she decided she could trust them enough to see them. She considered her eyes as the window to her soul, therefore if she kept them hidden, no one could hurt her and she felt safe.
It took them about another half hour to reach the front gates of the school. The Titans gazed at the large building in excited awe, the gardens stretched out across the grounds and the large building had a strong, old presence about it, as though it had been there for years, but as they got out of the limos, retrieved their luggage and made their way into the entrance hall everything seemed state of the art inside.
"Remember, mission names from now on guys." The Titans nodded and approached the reception desk.
"May I help you?" There were two people who worked at reception, a thin, sharp looking man with a carefully combed and trimmed moustache and a young lady, her hair was cut into a neat bob around her shoulders and the top few layers had been pinned back with a silver hairpin. They were both tanned, but the lady's skin had an almost golden glow to it. They were both obviously Italian as the man was speaking on the phone in Italian and the lady had spoken to them in an Italian accent.
"Yes, we're new here, I'm Sarah Grayson, we're from-"
"You'll be the new students, let me see. Ah yes, I have your dormitory numbers and your timetables right here. Dormitory rooms are usually shared between two and three people." She pulled out a file, and smiled. "Here we are. Who is Zack Madison?" Zeru who had been looking around the entrance hall hadn't realised his 'name' had been called, so Li elbowed him in the ribs.
"Ouch. What? Oh, right here." He walked forward and grinned sheepishly.
"Here's your timetable you're in the boys dormitory, obviously, room 328." Zeru nodded and took the paper from her and his key.
"Thanks." She smiled at him and looked to the next piece of paper.
"Li Levitt?" Li walked forwards to receive his timetable and discover that he was sharing a dormitory room with Zeru.
"Taiyou Hikari?" Taiyou walked forward and received his timetable and his dorm room key. He looked at it to find '238' on the handle. 'Well at least the Professors seemed to have got us all together.' He thought as they waited for the girls.
"Ah, Sarah Grayson, here's yours. Here's your dorm key, girl's dormitory, obviously, room 372, same for you, Miss… Isabelle Henning. Here's you're timetable. The dormitory buildings are down that corridor, to the right, carry on down and then the boys' is on the left and the girls' to the right. The 300s are on the third floor."
"Thank you." Phoenix smiled as they all set off, dragging their trunks to their respective dorms.
"See you later." Phoenix said as she and Isis began to walk down the right corridor as the boys nodded and began to walk down the left one.
The boys had managed to find their dorm room after Zeru has taken them past it once. Once they found it again, they unlocked the door that had silver numbers saying 328 and a white board for their names hung on it and went inside. The walls were blue, as were the carpet. On one side there was a set of bunk beds and a single bed. The bunk beds were chrome, the top bed had blue sheets with silver grey pillows, the bottom bed had the reverse. The single bed stood near the computer and desk, complete with light orange sheets and a dark orange pillow. Zeru immediately grabbed the top bunk, leaving Taiyou and Li to look at the single bed, luckily for Taiyou he was closest to it so he managed to grab it first, leaving Li with the bottom bunk.
"You better not start snoring Zeru." Li glared grumpily, to get a grumpy reply from Zeru of,
"I don't snore!" Taiyou laughed as he wrote on their whiteboard 'Taiyou Hikari, Li Levitt and Z-' He'd gone to put Zeru, but stopped himself before he wrote it and finished their sign with 'Zack Madison'.
"Here we go… Isabelle." Phoenix said after a moment's thought and Isis nodded. Two flights of stairs later they were on the third floor, outside a room with silver numbers denoting it as room 372 and a white board underneath for them to write their names on.
Phoenix pulled out her key and unlocked the door, pushing it open as she dragged her trunk in. It was a nice sized room. The walls were painted in a pale purple and there were two beds, one with blue sheets and one with deep violet and pink. There was a desk with a computer near the window, which was dressed with lilac, turquoise and lemon squared curtains. The carpet was slightly springy under their feet as they grinned, knowing instantly which bed would be whose and claiming them appropriately. Phoenix smiled as she went to the door to write 'Sarah Grayson and Isabelle Henning' on the white board as Isis sat down on her bed.
"So what happens now?" Isis asked and Phoenix shrugged and closed the door before sitting on her own bed.
"Meet the boys I expect, go to the welcome back dinner then come back to bed. I'm guessing lessons won't start until tomorrow." There was a knock at the door and Isis looked at her.
"Who could that be?" Phoenix shrugged again and went to open the door.
"Hi!" There were cheery hellos from the three girls outside their dorm room door.
"Um, hi." Phoenix and Isis replied as the girls came in.
Dunh, dunh, duuuuuhn! Lol, this chapter was cool, but I don't think it was as funny as chapter one, eh that's life :) . Anyway, next chapter, who're the girls that have come into Isis's and Phoenix's dorm room? Will they actually find Dana Simes? What will they have for dinner? Lol, you think I'm kidding.Stay tuned to find out!
Oh yeah, rate and review if you like and read my other fics and my friend StarFire Fury's fics, especially her Titans Alpha Humor ones because they're hillarious! Anyway, toodles!