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Teen Titans: The Alpha Five

Li - Part 1

Beep beep! Beep beep!

"Li, shut that alarm off and get up, you're going to be late for school!" The young boy pulled the covers over his dark brown head and tried to block out the voice of his mother calling up the stairs. He tried his best to ignore the steps that he heard coming up the stairs, but as the alarm shut off and he suddenly found himself laughing his head off as his mother tickled him it became a bit hard to ignore.

"Come on, up and at them!" His mother said brightly as she always did. Her dark brown hair shimmered with the inner warmth she seemed to possess and she seemed to glow with a sort of rosy happiness. Li looked up at her from his upside down position on the bed, just about ready to fall out as he hung over the edge after the tickle-fight.

"Love you mom." Li said brightly, his mother smiled cheerily back.

"Love you too, now get ready for school."

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That had been two years ago now. He could still smell the perfume that she always wore when he remembered her, it smelt warm, like cinnamon and when he remembered her it made him feel as if it were Christmas day.

That's all he had left of her now. Memories, photos, small trinkets of hers, like her necklaces and ear rings, but he could only see his mom in his dreams now.

When she'd died two years ago he didn't know what to do with himself. He couldn't cry, he had to be strong, had to help dad, but two weeks afterwards he finally found the strain too much and the emotions he had bottled up spilled over like a gushing waterfall that could not be stopped until their was no more water left to flow.

He gradually got better though. Time heals, well close enough anyway. Though Li thought that his life had stopped changing, he couldn't be further from the truth.

One day he was at work with his father, one of those 'bring your kids to work days' you know? Well Li's dad worked as a scientist in a big laboratory, working on some of the most high-tech projects. Li saw some of the most amazing things, things that whirled, banged, fizzed, beeped, lit up, everything. Li was surrounded by chrome, the silver surfaces reflected the dim lights though the rooms felt as if they had been lit up with stars.

The alarm went off, the nuclear reactor was going into overload, everyone was pushing and shoving to get out, to get away. Everyone gathered outside, checking the list of names, but half way through there were shouts as the gigantic blast doors locked down.

"LI! LI! STOP THE LOCKDOWN, MY SON IS STILL IN THERE!" There were frantic calls and running people as they tried to rescue Li from inside…