"Ha! What did I tell you General Eddington?" Bolivar Trask gloated. "The new prototype Sentinel Mark Two is exceeding all expectations!"
"I'll admit it does seem to be performing well." Eddington said from the monitoring booth as the gigantic robot battled two figures in a pit below.
"This is all your fault Beast Boy!" Jinx shouted at the green shape shifter.
"My fault?" He yelled back at the pink haired witch. "How is this, my fault?"
"You're the idiot that led us into the trap!" Jinx bellowed as she fired off another shot of magic energy at the Sentinel. "How the hell did you think that a job advertising for a mutant and a magic user was legit?"
"Well, they were offering a free Moped." Beast Boy said lamely as he turned into a rhino and tried to bash the Sentinel in the shin. All he accomplished was to give himself a headache. "Oww…It's true what they say. It isn't easy being green!"
"I am impressed, Trask." Eddington admitted. "The new Sentinel is proving capable of handing both mutants and magic users. That will be most useful, especially considering what happened in San Francisco…"
"With an army of Sentinels, mankind will never have to worry about mutants, witches, aliens, or any other freaks ever again." Trask boasted. "I really must thank Slade for providing us with the tip on how to capture these two. This way neither the X-Men nor the Misfits will come barging in after one of their own!"
"Smooth." Eddington nodded.
Meanwhile, Beast Boy and Jinx were having no luck against the Sentinel.
"Beast Boy…" Jinx panted. "If we don't make it out of here…I just wanted you to know…"
"…Yes?" Beast Boy asked.
"…That you're an annoying little rodent and I hate you." Jinx concluded.
"Gee, thanks. Real touching Jinx." Beast Boy drawled as the Sentinel powered up for a final attack. Trask was already issuing orders.
"Dispose of the bodies as soon as the Sentinel finishes them. Then ready send the plans in order to begin mass production of the new Sentinels. Then order some lunch, I think the General is hungry."
"What do you mean?" Eddington asked, confused.
"Well I could hear your stomach growling from over here."
"I had lunch before I came here! My stomach isn't growling."
"Well then who—" Eddington and Trask turned around to see a wolf, a lion, and a dinosaur standing behind them, growling menacingly.
"What the crap!" Eddington shouted. "What's going on?"
Wolfsbane barked out an order and they charged.
"AAHHH, NO! I'M ALLERGIC TO CATS!" Screamed Trask as Catseye tackled him.
"AND I'M ALLERGIC TO PAIN!" Was Eddington's cry as Old Lace started clawing at his uniform. He fell backwards against the panel that controlled the Sentinel.
Beast Boy and Jinx looked up as the Sentinel started to twitch and shake. "ERROR! ERROR!" The robot droned. "PRIMARY CIRCUITRY DAMAGED…MEMORY FAILING…TALKING LIKE ANNOYING CLICHÉ…ERROR!"
"What's going on?" Beast Boy asked.
"No idea." Jinx answered.
"TRANSFORM AND ROLL OUT!" The crazed Sentinel shouted as it leapt into the air…only to come crashing down again as it seemed incapable of flight. It fell down and didn't get up again.
"That was unexpected." Beast Boy blinked. "But cool."
"IIIIEEEEE!" A high-pitched scream sounded from somewhere above them.
"Someone's in trouble! Beast Boy!"
"I'm on it!" Beast Boy turned into a pterodactyl and flew Jinx up to the control both. With a little magic, the two of them broke through the glass to help whoever was in trouble…only to find Trask screaming hysterically as Wolfsbane and Catseye leaped at him as he cowered on top of the control panel.
"Ooookay." Jinx said, blinking. "Didn't expect this."
"Should we help them?" Beast Boy asked.
"Why? We don't owe Eddington or Trask any favors." Sure enough, it didn't look as though Wolfsbane, Catseye, and Old Lace needed any assistance in handling Trask and Eddington. A few guards rushed in through the door and promptly rushed right back out of it when they saw what was happening.
"RUN AWAY LIKE LITTLE GIRLS!" The chief guard screeched when Old Lace smiled toothily at them. Clawing and falling all over each other, the guards fled.
"Oooogggh." Trask moaned as he swayed on his feet, his face covered with scratches and his clothes shredded. "Check please." His eyeballs rolled up and he collapsed on the floor.
"Nighty-night." Eddington murmured as he fell on top of the unconscious scientist. The room emptied of any enemies, Rahne and Catseye turned back to their human selves.
"Catseye starting to like this." Rahne rolled her eyes.
"You would. Still, seeing as it is Trask and all…" She nudged him none too gently with her foot. "I guess I can see where you're coming from. Sentinels suck."
"Ladies!" Beast Boy said putting his most charming grin on as he strode up between the two of them. "Nice work. You know I always appreciate a good woman who can turn into animals."
"Oh brother." Jinx groaned.
"I'm something of a wild man myself. Beast Boy's the name. What're your signs?"
"Oh for the love of—" Rahne growled as she smacked the little green idiot across the face. Beast Boy turned around only to have Catseye smack him across the other side. Woozy, Beast Boy dropped after Jinx punched him in the head.
"Well I didn't want to be left out." Jinx said defensively when Catseye and Rahne looked at her strangely. "I'm Jinx and this sorry green goober is Beast Boy."
"You're Titans, aren't you?" Rahne asked in amazement.
"Yeah, I guess so." Jinx said a little hesitantly. The ex-HIVE student was still adjusting to her change in venues. "Thanks for the save."
"Anytime. I'm Rahne Sinclair and this is Catseye." Rahne said introducing themselves.
"Catseye pleased to meet you."
"Likewise." Jinx grinned. "Did Robin send you guys to help find us?"
"Actually we're a little lost." Rahne admitted.
"A lot lost." Catseye corrected.
"Well, take these." Jinx said, handing them both a Teen Titan communicator. "Just in case you ever really need some backup, give us a call."
"We get that a lot." Rahne drawled. "Thanks. Now, if only we could make sure that there won't be anymore of these Sentinels…"
"No problem.' Jinx said with a wave of her hand. Suddenly the control panel and all the computers began to short out and malfunction. "Oops. Looks like Mr. Trask had a little…bad luck. His mainframe crashed, all his data lost. What a pity." She said with complete insincerity. Catseye and Rahne grinned.
"Too bad." Catseye purred.
"Yeah, really." Rahne agreed. "Thanks so much!"
"Anytime."
"Well," Rahne said as she stepped back with Old Lace and Catseye. "Once more unto the breach…darn it I've been listening to Beast too much." She grumbled as she teleported herself and her friends away.
Jinx just sighed as she started dragging the still unconscious Beast Boy out. "The others are never going to believe this one…"
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"Ms. Blake this is the honorable Senator Robert Kelly and Mayor Chandler. Senator Kelly, Mayor Chandler, this is Ms. Bonnie Blake."
"Thank you Ms. March, Mayor Chandler." Kelly said with a smile as they walked into his office. "I'm told you're interested in an intern position in my office."
"Yes, sir." Bonnie said. "You're the one true senator who sees things the way they are. You understand the problem with mutants." She said venomously. Kelly looked at Ms. March and Mayor Chandler.
"You've found a good choice." He told them. "Ms. Bonnie I cannot tell you how glad I am to have met you. There aren't enough people who truly understand the mutant threat for what it is or recognize the steps needed to confront it."
"I know that muties ruined my life." Bonnie snarled. "I know that I will get back at Angelica if it's the last thing I do!"
"And I'm not through with Xavier and his hordes." Ms. March agreed.
"Amen!" Chandler agreed.
"No one has had a worse history with mutants than me." Kelly said. "But all that will be corrected as soon as we get my campaign for Mutant Registration back on track. Now, the first thing we'll need to do is—what?" Kelly gasped as a wolf, lion, and dinosaur appeared in his office.
"Not again." He moaned. "And it's not even Christmas!"
"What the—HEY!" Ms. March shouted as Old Lace leapt at her. "This is Xavier's work I know it!"
"No! It's gotta be those Misfits!" Bonnie argued as Wolfsbane chased her around the office, knocking over chairs and bookshelves.
"It's both of them!" Chandler insisted as he tried to use Kelly's chair to keep Catseye at bay.
"It's a curse. I'm cursed, plain and simple." Kelly moaned as his office was ripped apart and its occupants weren't much better off.
"WAAAAH! MOMMY!"
"HOW'D THAT FIRE START!"
"I'M TOO YOUNG TO BE MAULED!"
"OH GOD, OH GOD, OH GOD! "
"OOOF! SINCE WHEN COULD A WOLF RIDE ON A DINOSAUR!"
"AAAAAHH!"
"OWWWWWW!"
"WHAT DID I EVER DO TO DESERVE THIS!"
"CURSE YOU MUTANTS! CURSE YOOOOOUU!"
"RAAAAWWWWR!"
"I'M CALLING 911!" Kelly bellowed.
Within minutes, several large orderlies flooded into the office just after the mutants and Old Lace teleported out.
"Oh God it's Kelly again." One of them groaned.
"Look at this place! It's totally trashed." Another observed.
"They must have been seriously drunk."
"WE WERE NOT DRUNK!" Kelly roared.
"Okay fine, drugged up. Whatever."
"WE WERE NOT ON DRUGS EITHER! THERE WAS A PURPLE LION, A RED WOLF, AND A DINOSAUR IN HERE AND IT WRECKED MY OFFICE, AND IT'S A MUTANT PLOT I TELL YOU!"
"What do you think?" One of the orderlies asked his boss. "Think he's telling the truth?"
"Please." The first orderly said as he grabbed Kelly. "This guy is one of the most famous drunks in Washington! And that's a pretty crowded field."
"Yeah, and that girl used to be in rehab for drugs! I remember her."
"And the other two have rap sheets longer than my arms. Let's take them all in for a good long detox."
"NO, NO, NO!" Kelly screamed as the orderlies grabbed him, Ms. March, Mayor Chandler, and Bonnie and bustled them out the door. "IT WAS THE MUTANTS, THE MUTANTS I TELL YOU!"
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Lest you think I forgot about the X-Men and the Misfits at the Institute…
"When was the last time anyone saw Rahne?" Logan demanded of the assembled X-Men and Misfits after Low Light called, reporting seeing a red wolf on TV involved in a riot against the Friends of Humanity and the Purists.
"I thought I saw her in the kitchen." Lance said. "Turns out it was just my imaginary coyote looking for some tuna to smack people with."
"Note to self: up the dosage on Lance." Althea groaned.
"Anyone else?" Asked Xavier, groaning as well.
"I thought I saw her going through Jean's and Kitty's underwear drawers and filling them with itching powder." Pietro said with a grin.
"WHAT?" Kitty yelled as she squirmed uncomfortably.
"I thought Jean was scratching herself a lot." Toad blinked.
"Pietro, that was you." Wanda said. Rogue rolled her eyes.
"Figures."
"He also went into your room." Wanda told her.
"What! Rogue screamed as she tackled Pietro. "DIE YOU ALBINO HUMMINGBIRD!"
"Hey, that's my job!" Wanda protested as she joined in the maiming of Pietro. "This is for using all the hot water this morning you preening creep!"
"Well that was inevitable." Scott sighed. "Not that I'm complaining, mind…"
"Hasn't anyone seen Rahne?" Storm asked in exhaustion.
"I did." Everyone turned to look at Shipwreck. "I thought I saw her in your room. Maybe you and I should go take a look…uh-oh." He gulped as he heard an ominous rumbling of thunder.
"DIE SAILOR!" Yelled Storm as she began zapping him with lightning.
"OWW! HEY!" Shipwreck yelped as he ran outside and Storm chased him across the lawn.
Xi winced. "There goes another statue." He told the X-Men. CRACK! "And a tree." Xi blinked as a car alarm sounded. "Your neighbor's going to want to know why his car is on fire."
"He usually does." Sam said wearily.
"That was inevitable too." Tabitha agreed.
"Getting back on topic…" Beast sighed.
"We had one?" Toad asked Fred, who merely shrugged.
"News to me."
"…Has anyone seen Rahne?" Beast finished. Fred blinked.
"Oh wait, I think I did!"
"Please tell me you didn't eat her." Bobby groaned, only to smacked upside the head by Angelica.
"Don't push it." She warned him.
"When was that?" Xavier asked Fred.
"Well, she bumped into me in the hall, then she was talking with Lina. That's the last time I saw her."
"Dragonfly?" Xavier asked. "What happened after that?"
Lina flushed as she felt the attention of everyone on her.
"Um, well…we got to talking. Most of it was confidential and—"
"Wait, Lina, where's your teleportation watch?" Toad asked. Lina flinched.
"Well, you see…" She began hesitantly. "I sort of…gave it to her…"
"YOU GAVE IT TO RAHNE!" Logan yelled. "Don't you know that there is a large pack of wolves in Bayville that's after her!"
"Don't yell at Lina!" Althea snapped. "I'm sure she had a good reason…she'd better have had a good reason." She muttered to herself.
Lina turned red and looked like she was about to cry. Fred put a comforting arm around her and quietly asked,
"Why'd you give her the watch?"
"Well," Lina sniffed. "She was so upset about Aiden and being stuck in the Institute that I thought she could use the chance to go outside and I—" Large tears started rolling down her cheeks and Fred gave her a hug.
"It's okay, Lina. I'm sure she's okay."
"But she should've been back by now!" Lina said.
"Can't you track where the watch transported her?" Xavier asked Spirit. He shook his head.
"We've been trying, but we can't get a fix on it. It must've been damaged somehow. We know it's working, but we have no idea where she is."
"We have an idea of where she was though." General Hawk said as he walked into the room.
"General Hawk? What did you find?" Kurt asked.
"This." He took out a small plastic bag full of green hair and tossed it to Althea. "I trust you'll recognize what this is."
Althea blinked. "Isn't this—?"
"It is. It's Zanya's hair. A little while ago the police in Cleveland found the Dreadnoks, unconscious and muttering about teeth and claws. They were completely thrashed, and in Zanya's case, nearly bald. They also found this." Hawk held up several bits of reddish fur. "It's wolf hair."
"That's definitely Rahne." Logan said as he sniffed them.
"Rahne beat up the Dreadnoks?" Scott asked in surprise.
"Okay, I've got to put her on my Christmas card list." Althea grinned.
"So Rahne was in Cleveland?" Sam asked.
"The watch must've been broken." Remy groaned. "Who'd want to go to Cleveland of their own accord?"
"But where is she now?" Xavier asked. "I've been trying to get a reading with Cerebro but someone reprogrammed it to simply play that annoying Badger song!" He glared at the Triplets and Forge.
"What you're doing to Cerebro wasn't any better!" Arcade snapped. "She isn't just a tool!"
"Yes it is. It's a machine!" Scott yelled right before Arcade leapt at him. "OOOF! GET HIM OFF ME!"
"FREE CEREBRO!" Arcade shouted as he ran off, pursued by half the X-Men.
"I'm starting to understand why Rahne ran off." Xavier groaned as he went to get a drink to relive his headache.
"Is there anything else?" Beast asked Hawk. Hawk nodded, looking grim.
"We found one other thing at the scene." He held up a strand of purple hair for Logan to examine.
"Hellions…" He growled.
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N/A: Teen Titans are not mind, etc. etc.