These chapters are sooo long. Well, I got two chapters up in one day!
I got a message asking if they could use my characters in a fic of their own. I want to reply to all right now that anyone is allowed to use gender bendered titans without my permission, because I don't own them. I mean, in a very small way, I do, but that isn't the point. If you do use the same names and costumes, however, give me some credit. Don't forget to mention that I didn't make up all the names, like Revan's.
I'll give you the character's desc's, if you want to use them:
Beast Girl - Long green hair, green skin. Petite body, purple boots and purple shorts. Black, quarter-length long sleeved shirt baring some mifrift. Unzipped/unbuttoned purple vest.
Revan - Blue cloak, blue boots. Not exactly skin tight clothes, black long-sleeved shirt and pants. Jed jewel in the left hand corner of his shirt, and two red jewels at his waist. Two waist jewels are on a golden thread, tied like a belt. Violet hair that isn't shoulder-length, but not in the classic boy cut either. Make sense?
Bionica - Just like Cyborg, just with a more...feminine build. Black hair braided into cornrows that move into tighter wound braids that stop slightly past her shoulders.
Blazefire - Purple sleeveless shirt and pants, with darker purple boots. Armored belt, chest plate and arm bands. Orange hair that's cropped neatly at his shoulders.
Robyn - Black combat boots, green spandex Capri pants, red form-fitting sleeveless shirt. Cape just like male Robin's, as well as mask and gloves. Black, shoulder-length hair. Wozah!
"Revan, have you seen Robyn?"
Revan's eyes blinked open furiously, unbeknownst to the innocent Blazefire.
"No."
"Oh…" He turned to go, but stopped, as though remembering something. "Have you seen Bionica, perhaps?"
Revan felt the dark energy flickering inside to be let out in anger. "No," He hissed.
"Beast Girl, then?"
Still barely keeping he anger in check, Revan felt the dark light lick his body like flames. "My eyes are closed, Blazefire. I haven't seen anyone."
Blazefire flushed, rubbing the back of his neck. "They must be doing 'the girl thing'. Possibly we could do 'the boy thing'? We have never done it before, and plausibly, it could be fun. We could go to the beach and pick up baby chickens, or perhaps indulge in the games of videos that you say turn our brains into the goo of a Trilkian Zompmar, or—"
He paused, watching Revan slowly turn to look at him with eyes filled with unkempt ferocity. "Oh…you wish to be alone?"
His eye twitching, Revan let out a breath of relief. "How did you guess?"
Blazefire gulped and slowly inched away from the meditating teenager. Revan just pulled his legs back into lotus position, beginning his mantra, when—
"Mails here!" Bionica bellowed at the top of her artificial lungs, a large brown box in her hands.
Blaze rushed to them, resisting the urge to pull them into one of his death hugs. "You are back!"
"And check this out!" Bionica pointed to the brown box, now resting on the yellow table.
"It was just sitting outside. Probably a gift from one of my many, many adoring fans!" Beast Girl giggled, primping her hair. She winked at Revan, who rolled his eyes and walked over to the box.
Bionica and Beast Girl both let out a small squeal as Robyn pulled out the contents, though Beast Girl's was definitely louder.
"Adorable!"
"I don't know. I'm better looking then this!"
"They got all the details, just right."
"I have never seen a more fanciful entity!"
"Uh…what he said."
"Look at that! Li'l Bionica has a light up eye!" Bionica exclaimed, snuggling her puppet close.
"Mine has a retractable belt," Robyn spoke up, not wanting to be outshined.
Beast Girl frowned, for she had nothing particularly additional to hers. So she rammed her puppet into Robyn's, the puppet's hands on her wooden his triumphantly.
"Yeah? Well…my puppet totally kicks your puppet's ass."
Robyn let out a series of all-in-fun grunts, and then kicked Beast Girl's puppet with her own puppet's leg. "Well…take that!"
Robyn's puppet kicked the other puppet with such a force, that it sent puppet-BG into Bionica's puppet, who she was twirling in a circle.
"Hey!" Bionica frowned, making a swiping movement at Beast Girl's marionette.
Beast Girl pulled her puppet out of the way, just in time, and the wooden fist hit Robyn's hand-puppet. This up started a very immature and boyish puppet fight between the three girls, all of which would deny anything later.
"Glorious!" Blaze exclaimed from across the room. He held up his own marionette, a lean figure with stringy orange hair and jade green eyes. "Shall my tiny replica do battle with your tiny replica?"
Revan sighed, throwing the hand-puppet to Blazefire. "Knock yourself out."
Blazefire sighed, mumbling. "Sklin'tal esktor'tan, X'hal…" he murmured under his breath.
Blazefire's eyes snapped open, sitting upright in the round, purple sheeted bed that he didn't understand why Beast Girl had called 'gay'. Was gay not a feeling of ecstasy or joy?
He eyed his replica puppet, which lay sprawled out on his bedside table. Just as he'd left it. He sighed, wanting to back to sleep. He lay there for what felt like eternity (more likely a few seconds) when he heard footsteps echoing down the hallway.
"Hello…? Is someone there?" He called, stepping out into the hallway. The door he was passing opened, and he let out a yelp.
"Revan! Thank X'hal! You have also heard the strange noises?"
Revan calmed himself, ignoring the now shattered vase in his room. "Sure, if you mean the strange noises of you talking outside my room." He folded his arms, eyebrow cocked.
Blazefire gulped, scratching his head nervously. "Oh, well, uhm…"
He trailed off as a disk was thrown at his feet. It beeped rapidly, exploding in a mixture of smoke and ice. The smoke cleared, and Revan pulled down his hand and the force field that came along with it.
"Robyn? What are you—" Blazefire was abruptly cut off, darting out of the way as a green stegosaurus charged at them.
"What in Azar…Beast Girl, stop!" Revan shouted, bringing up a black force field again. "I don't…want to hurt you!" Sensing she wouldn't stop, he pushed her back with a telekinetic force. She rammed into a wall, reverting back to her human form.
Robyn pulled out her a rope and twisted it around Blazefire's ankle, bringing him to the ground with a noticeable thud. She gave another tug on the rope, and sent Blazefire into Bionica's arms. She closed her arm tight around him; alien strength wouldn't help him out of this one.
Giving an ape-battle cry, Beast Girl grabbed Revan by the arm and flung him into the wall. He gave her a disbelieving look, though he probably could've counterattacked had he not been so blinded by the fury in her usually happy eyes. There was something different about her eyes…
She grabbed his arm again, throwing him in Bionica's direction. She caught him easily, also trapping him.
"Friends, why do you attack us!" Blazefire questioned while struggling in Bionica's hold. He may be stronger then Bionica, but her mechanical muscles held a firm grip.
A deep, inhuman voice chuckled. "They're not your friends…these are your friends." Out of the shadows stepped a miniature man, one that looked exactly like those dummy puppets that ventriloquists use that give you nightmares. He was dressed like a nutcracker, with a crown rested above his head. He held up the three female puppets, dangling them tauntingly.
The puppets, surprisingly, looked up at their male teammates. Their puppet eyes moved around slowly, as though trying to say something.
"…And soon, you shall join them." The puppet-man held up a controller that puppeteers use to give their marionettes movement. On each end, a different color rested. The blue, the red, and the green were lit up like lights, where the violet and the orange remained dull.
He aimed the controller in their direction, and the violet and orange lights began to light up. Revan and Blazefire winced; they could feel their souls being drained.
"I am the Puppet King; master of all things marionette, you cannot possibly think to defeat me," He continued, pushing the controller closer.
"Azarath…Metrion…Zin…thos…" Revan managed to whisper as their spirits left their bodies, outlined in orange and violet. A black light sparked from Revan's chakra, knocking the controller from the puppet-man's hands. The violet and orange light flickered; then shot out of the controller and towards the two boys.
The boys opened their eyes to see the puppet-man and their three female teammates lying on the ground. Wasting no time, they both got up and ran down the hall. Their eyes landed on a vent, and they both jumped into the darkness, waiting in silence.
The puppet-man awoke, seeing two lights dim and he less two slaves. He grabbed the controller, bringing it into the air. The three girls rose instantly, eyes dead and glowing a faint aquamarine.
"After them," He commanded.
They could hear the clack of Beast Girl's and Robyn's light heels passing over them, as well as the stomp Bionica gave.
Once they had gone, a hand reached for the light. The two boys blinked at each other. Blazefire's mouth opened, but it was not his usual perky voice. It was Revan's, cold and emotionless.
"…Blazefire?" Blazefire—Revan asked.
"What…"
"You…are me!"
Revan looked across the room to see himself, looking straight at him. And with no mirror, either. Was he really that short?
A zap of black energy crackled from his chakra, burning out the light.
"This is awful, Revan! Awful, awful, truly awful!" Blazefire's voice shouted from Revan's body,
"Tell me about it."
"Very well!" Blazefire replied, a mixture of spry and misery. Revan twitched at how strange it looked for his body to be talking in such a perky voice. "A cruel villain with the power of soul stealing has stolen our friends bodies and we are not in our bodies and—"
"Blazefire, wait. You need to control your emotions. My powers are emotion driven; the more you feel, the more it unleashes," Revan instructed, sounding slightly creepy with the cold voice and eyes now coming from the usually happy-go-lucky Blazefire.
A lamppost blew up.
"Blazefire, I'm not joking around."
"But…our predicament is so dreadful! I am in your body and you are in mine and—"
A mailbox melted into a puddle of black light.
"Blazefire…"
"But what if I am stuck looking like this forever!"
"Hey, it'll be okay. We will save the girls and we will get our bodies back…wait. What's wrong with the way I look?"
A car shot into the air and landed on its roof.
An eagle sounded from above, swooping down near them. As it soared into the moonlight, its feathers could be seen. They were green.
"Beast Girl!" Revan exclaimed, pointing up at them. Blazefire in Revan's body yelped as it neared. Revan, in Blazefire's body, grabbed his friend's hand and pulled him into an alley.
They paused around the corner, catching their breaths. "I do not wish to fight them, Revan."
A low growl came from behind them. A green tiger, as though stalking its prey, approached them dangerously. They turned to see Robyn, eyes the light aquamarine, staring with a dull look on her face. She pulled out her Bo stick slowly.
"How do I use blaze bolts?" Revan asked, clenching fists together in Robyn's direction.
"Righteous fury!" Blazefire cheered. A garbage can enveloped in black light.
Revan groaned. "Never mind. How do I fly?"
"Joyous thoughts!"
"Dear Azar." Revan smacked his forehead.
A zombie-like Robyn lurched at them. They moved just in time as Robyn brought her Bo stick down on Beast Girl's tiger form.
"Run!" Revan shouted, ducking around another corner.
Blazefire didn't need to be told twice.
"I think we'll be safe here, Blaze."
No sooner had the words left Revan's lips, the wall cracked and crumbled, revealing a zombie Bionica. She walked towards them, arms outstretched. They whipped around to see Beast Girl, this time in wolf form, and Robyn with ice disks in hand.
Revan, in Blazefire's body, put his hands on his own shoulders. Which is a little weird to think about—oh, right story. "If I can't fly, you'll need to levitate."
Blazefire's eyes darted around nervously. "You know those three words I always—whoa!"
No sooner had he finished saying 'words', Blazefire had chanted the mantra. He darted into the sky, grabbing Revan's hand as he ascended.
Revan looked back to see Beast Girl in near pursuit in the form off a falcon.
"How do I stop, Revan?" Blazefire shouted.
"Look at the ground and imagine—wait! I haven't explaiiinnneed...!" Revan wasn't given time to finish, his last word trailing off as he fell through the air.
They landed in a pile of trash bags. Revan in Blazefire's body immediately began to stack them in a wall around them.
"What are you—MMF!"
"Shh," Revan whispered, clasping Blazefire's hand over his mouth.
Revan gestured through a small hole. Taking a quick look, Blazefire saw Bionica and Robyn circling the street, looking dumb as posts.
"I think they're going," Revan smiled faintly, loosening his grip on Blazefire's, or Revan's, mouth.
Before Blazefire could reply, a green rat passed the opening. It sniffed around curiously, coming closer to the boys with every sniff. The rat was almost to them when…
"Return, my puppets. We will get the boys once the ceremony is complete."
"C-ceremony?" Robyn squeaked through her puppet mouth.
The marionette-man laughed eerily. "Oh, do not be afraid. It is just a spell that will give me power over your bodies forever."
"Come, my puppets," he called once more, giving a tug to the control. The female titans immediately stood still, then followed after him as he disappeared into the shadows.
"Oh, Revan! This is even worse than before!" Blaze exclaimed once they had gone.
"You think I hadn't noticed that?" Revan shouted, pointing a finger in his own face. He would probably never get over how weird it felt. Was that really what he looked like from behind?
"Do not yell at me! It will not help our dilemma at all!"
Revan relaxed slightly, straightening his shoulders. "You're right. Yelling won't get us anywhere."
"Perhaps, if we were to learn about each other, it would not be so hard to use each other's powers?"
Revan nodded, pondering it over in his head. "Okay. I'll start. I was born in a place called Azarath, raised by several monks…"
Revan continued for a good ten more minutes, leaving out a great deal of his past. He decided he'd tell Blaze all he needed to know, and leave out the intimate details.
"...Your turn," He finished, holding his knee.
Blazefire sighed, then smiled. "Very well. As you know, I was born on the planet Tamaran, a warrior globe. As a boy just entering manhood, my brother and I were sold into slavery in order save our planet by destruction of the Gordainians.
"All Tamaraneans are born with the gift of flight, but my brother and I underwent a series of experiments by our captors, giving us our abilities to convert solar energy into our…blaze bolts. They were transferring me to the Citadel when I escaped and landed on Earth…"
Revan was surprised. He'd expected Blazefire to come from a planet full of happy, smiling people. And for Blazefire not to have been born with the gift of blaze bolts, instead given to through experiments.
He blinked at Blazefire, though in Revan's body, he looked surprisingly solemn, but also at peace.
After a few seconds of awkward silence, Blazefire cleared his throat, "How are we to find where the marionette-man took our friends?"
Revan allowed a small smile. "As you know, I'm empathic. If you concentrate, you will be able to find them."
His friend nodded, sitting in lotus position. "They're at the docks," He said finally, opening his eyes.
Nodding his head approvingly, Revan smiled again. He couldn't too get used to it, but he could afford it in Blaze's body. "Good job."
"Perhaps you could fly us there? I do not wish to try and levitate again; it was most uncomfortable."
Revan bit his lip, sighing. "We can't waste time, I understand."
"Choose something you find enjoyable. You could try the pudding of happiness, or—" Blazefire's voice trailed off as he felt himself being pulled into the air. He looked up to see Revan in his body, pushing himself into the air.
Not wanting to disrupt Revan's concentration, Blazefire remained silent throughout the flight. As soon as his feet touched the building's roof, he gave his friend a "thumb's up".
"Very good! What did you choose?"
Revan's cheeks, or Blazefire's cheeks, flushed a light pink. "Um…no time to talk about it now. Your turn. Now, focus your energy on that lock," Revan pointed to the locked cellar-like doors.
Blazefire took a deep breath and pressed his hands together as though he was praying. "Azarath…" His eyes glowed white. "Metrion…" His chakra sparked with black light. "Zinthos!" The lock, engulfed in black light, snapped open.
Revan smiled in his friend's direction. "Good job," He said.
Blazefire laughed and struck a disco-like pose. The doors flung open, sending a ricocheting noise throughout the building.
Revan slapped his forehead. "Good job," He repeated, this time sarcastically.
The Puppet King looked up from the blue flames licking the bronzed pot. His eyes rolled around in his head, looking to the zombie-like female titans. Save for Beast Girl, who had been patrolling outside.
"I do not want an audience," he commanded. "Search and destroy."
Now joined by Beast Girl, the female titans took off. Robyn twirled her retractable belt in a circle, attaching it to a pole. Beast Girl morphed into a pterodactyl and grabbed Bionica's shoulders, rising into the air.
Unbeknownst to the Puppet King, his "audience" was only a few feet above, on the opposite side of the building he had sent the titans in.
He chuckled maliciously, letting go of the Titan's marionettes doubles. Just before they hit the blue fire, they floated back into the air by a black light. Blazefire, using Revan's telekinesis, smiled and pulled the puppets into a hug.
"What…the…?" Robyn managed.
"Blaze?" Beast Girl added. Though the puppets couldn't show emotion, it was obvious they were confused.
Revan looked around nervously. "No time to explain, come on!" He grabbed Blaze by his cloak, running down the metal deck.
They were blocked off by a large green gorilla with a dull look on its face.
Bionica, as though coming from no where, knocked into Blaze. The puppets went flying over the railing and landed on the ground.
"Friends!" Blaze called as they tumbled. The minute they hit the floor, his eyes glowed white fury. "Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!" He pushed his hands in Bionica's direction, sending her back into the wall.
"Righteous fury…righteous fury…whoa!" Revan jumped into the air, somersaulting and kicking off the pole so he wouldn't land straight into it.
Robyn kick flipped, snagging Revan in the waist. He caught her foot and threw her into the rail.
He turned see Beast Girl, still in gorilla form. She brought her fists down, and he rolled out of the way just in time.
"How do I work this thing?" He shouted out to no one in particular, barely dodging another one of Robyn's toys.
As he flew from one trap, another one was waiting for him. Flying straight into Beast Girl's gorilla arms, she closed her arms around him tightly.
"Anger…anger…just let go of your emotions for once, Revan!" He shouted, his hands flickering with the green energy. They sparked with the fury, releasing a surge of power into the green gorilla.
He closed his eyes as he saw Robyn and Beast Girl recuperate themselves and slowly make way towards him. "Just…remember the time Blaze went in your room!" His hands flashed with the green light.
"The time Beast Girl and Bionica went into your mind!" A stronger glimmer, but not near to what he needed to overcome the two advancing mind-controlled titans.
"The time Beast Girl called you gay!" Stronger, but still not enough.
A powerful, older memory passed through his mind. Revan closed his eyes and clutched his head in pain. The two titans stopped and looked at each other in confusion. He wasn't supposed to be doing this, was he?
He forced his eyes open, glowing a radiant lime green. He called out in a battle cry, bringing a fist of green energy down on Robyn, who was in front of Beast Girl. Not too powerful to actually harm her, but enough to knock her out of his way. Fighting to keep the anger coming, despite how much it pained him, he charged up another energy bolt.
On the deck below this scene, Blazefire was having his own troubles. His childhood had given him a very emotional demeanor, and keeping his sentiments in check was never easy for him.
"Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!" He cried, knocking Bionica over the railing. Realizing his mistake, he caught her just before she landed on top of the puppets.
"Please, Bionica! I do not wish to fight!" He shouted, ducking a blow.
The metal deck began to shake, rattling in black light.
"Blazefire!" Revan shouted from above.
"I am sorry!" He shouted back.
"No, not that!" Revan, in Blazefire's body, leaned over the railing and pointed to the marionette-man carrying the puppets to the blue fire anxiously. "That!"
Gasping, Blazefire followed Revan's gaze. "No!"
Chanting the mantra in a serious voice, he sent a black whip of energy down at the Puppet King.
The Puppet King gave a cry as his controller and puppets flung from his hands. They both hit a light fixture and were beginning to fall towards the blue fire, flames reaching out like arms.
Revan let go of Robyn's shirt, throwing her into Beast Girl, and swooped downward. He altered course at the last minute, catching the three puppets before they hit the fire. The controller, however, he let fall.
The Puppet King, who'd collapsed to the ground as the black energy hat struck him, was crawling towards the blue fire desperately. "No! My control! The magic! Without it…I'm just…a—"
He never finished his sentence. As the words left his wooden lips, a blue light shot out from his eyes and mouth. The marionette-man's chest levitated off the ground, the blue light flying into the fire. The fire rose into sparks, rising out in three directions.
The three flames flew into the girls' bodies, their eyes and mouths absorbing gray-blue, red, or green white. As for the boys, an orange light shot from Revan's body, where a violet let one exploded from Blazefire's. The two streams of light intertwined as they altered route, the orange returning to Blaze's body, violet to Revan's.
Robyn in his arms, Blazefire, who really was Blazefire, floated to the ground. Revan, carrying Beast Girl by the arms and Bionica in a black light, also descended.
"Revan! I am me and you are you again!"
Blazefire jumped at Revan, grabbing him in a hug. "Um…you're hugging me."
On the way back to the tower, the girls couldn't help but notice a smirk on Revan's face. "By the way, girls, who ended up winning that puppet fight?"
With no means for transportation, the titans were bound to the street. At least, most of them were. This left them an easy target for paparazzi or raging fans.
The girls, all on foot, froze. "What puppet fight? I don't…know what you're talking about," Robyn replied nervously.
"Nonsense!" Blazefire laughed, not even catching on to Revan's ploy. "Surely you remember the duel your puppets underwent! Who was victorious?"
The girls winced, for Blazefire was shouting. Revan resisted a very difficult urge to crack up, knowing it could result in him ending an innocent streetlamps life.
"Azarath…Metrion…Zinthos—"
"Revan?"
Revan winced slightly, peeking an eye open.
"I haven't seen Robyn, Bionica, or Beast Girl."
"Actually, I was seeking your companionship."
Now opening both eyes, Revan peered up at his friend curiously. "Oh. What did you want, then?"
"I was wondering if I could perhaps join you in meditation."
Revan looked somewhat skeptical. "Really?"
Blaze smiled faintly and nodded.
"Okay. Find your center; focus your energies…"
"Revan?"
"Yes?"
"After this, would you like to play the video games?"
Revan nodded, softly smiling.
Not much to say except review.
Oh, and I'm not telling what Revan's happy thought was. I'll let your imaginations wander. I know what it hinted at for ME, though.
Deep Six is probably next; introducing Aqua...lass! Or anything else I can think of.