Pairings: Implied KidFlashJinx, implied AqualadSpeedy
Warnings: Kickass girls, starfire being competent, bad language, idiots
Genre: Action/Adventure, Humor
Rating: PG-13
Summary: The girls can take care of themselves.
A/N: Well. My ideas solidified, so I had to write them. Then I kept getting the urge to post this, and I was having trouble ignoring it, so I finally just did. A few notes; ever notice how in the flame wars, the girls always get bashed? I think I've only seen one of the guys bashed once, and that was Cyborg. Why is that? I think the guys are just as likely to bug or take advantage of the girls as the girls are to do the same to the boys. Strangeness. You're going to see a few season 5 characters in this, but Terra will not be a part of it. Why? Because I honestly dislike her, and I know that if I try to write her I'll end up insulting her, and that's not fair to the people who do like her. Hope you guys understand.
This chapter is dedicated to Rosemage, my best reviewer who has reviewed all my stuff, and supported me in everything. She is one of the best people I have met on this site.
Three girls sat in the spacious control room. One was cross-legged, floating, and reading. Another was lounging on the opposite end of the couch, flipping through a magazine. The third was curled up in the middle of the couch, watching 'Fungus World' avidly.
"So, how long are you going to be in town?" Raven broke the silence.
"Dunno." Bumblebee replied lazily, not looking up from the magazine, "A few days probably. The guys just really wanted to hang out, and we all needed a vacation."
Starfire sighed as her program ended, then glanced at Bumblebee, curious, "You did not want to hang out?"
"Ah, you know me Star. I could do combat practice forever and be happy." She looked up with a grin, and received one in return from the alien.
"Robin is like that too. Perhaps it is a leader thing?"
Raven smirked slightly behind her book, "I think you're right about that, Star." Starfire smiled and settled back into her seat, tilting her head in confusion at what she saw on the TV.
"Friends…why is Gnarrk on the television?"
A magazine and a book were set down at the same time as the other two girls looked, "What's a Gnarrk?" The leader of Titans East blinked at the others.
"That's a Gnarrk." Raven said grimly, nodding towards the TV as she pulled out her communicator, "Robin, you there?"
A masked boy appeared on the small screen, "Hey Raven. Robin's…" Speedy paused, then smirked, "Busy. What's up?"
The sorceress scowled, wondering why she could never get a hold of the person she wanted, "Tell him Gnarrk is calling."
Speedy blinked, "What's a Gnarrk?"
Raven scowled, "Just tell him!" She snapped the communicator closed, and shook her head. It was going to be a long day.
After a long conversation consisting mainly of 'Gnarrk!' and 'What?', the Titans had finally gotten the story out of the distraught boy.
"So…Kole is missing?" Robin chanced, hoping he had gotten it right.
Gnarrk nodded, "Gnarrk! Gnarrk gnarrk gnarrk."
Bumblebee stared at the screen, head tilted, mouth hanging open slightly, "Can you guys really understand him?"
Cyborg grimaced and shrugged, "Kinda. We basically just guessed 'cause Kole isn't there, and because he's so freaked."
Robin rubbed his chin, ignoring the people talking behind him, "Was it Dr. Light again?"
The caveman shrugged, and hung his head, "Gnarrk…"
"Alright, Gnarrk. We'll start looking for her. Robin out." The masked leader closed the screen, then sighed and leaned against the console, "Cyborg, I need you to go pick him up."
"What? Man, he's half-way across the world!"
"We need his help."
"We can't even understand him!" The two boys glared at each other, but Cyborg was the first to look away, "Alright, ya spiky-haired, paranoid little…" He left the room, still grumbling.
Robin watched him go, then sighed and turned to the others, "Alright, we need to –"
"Hey!" A blast of wind hit them as a red streak flew by. It darted through all the rooms, checking them thoroughly, before appearing in the control room again, "You guys seen Jinx?"
The teens stood, blinking, then scowled. Speedy pulled out a comb in an attempt to fix his hair, and glared at the boy, "Who are you?"
"Me? I'm Kid Flash!" He grinned, then craned his neck to look around the room, "So have you?"
"Seen Jinx? No. Why are you here? And how did you get in here?" Bumblebee flailed her arms and glared at the boy.
He simply grinned in return. "I can move through stuff. So you haven't seen her?" He paused, "Weird. She was supposed to meet me for lunch."
Robin stood for a second longer, stunned, then shook his head, "Um…okay." The dark haired boy frowned, "Wait…first Kole, and now Jinx. Anyone else see a pattern?"
"It's only happened twice. It could still be a coincidence." Raven said, frowning as she saw movement on the screen from the corner of her eye, "What the…?"
"Waven!"
The two teams watched nervously as the mage paced, her dark eyes glowing, "Okay, it's not a coincedince!" She snarled, not noticing how much she was scaring the two children on screen.
"Raven, calm down. We'll find her." Aqualad ventured hesitantly.
She whirled around and glared at him and he cowered as something in the kitchen exploded. "They took my kid!"
"Waven!" The older of the two children whimpered as the younger began to cry, "We want Melvin back!"
Titans East exchanged glances as Raven attempted to calm them down, "Hey, what's going on? Who are these kids?"
"While we were fighting the brotherhood of evil, Raven took three children to a place that was supposed to be safe for them. They were attacked, and Raven attempted to defend them. However, they saved themselves. I believe during the trip they became very close." Starfire said softly, watching as her friend soothed her 'adopted' children.
"Butwhydid she call the one her kid?" Speedy asked, eyebrow arched.
"Because, they are. After all the time she spent defending them, she basically claimed them." Beast Boy muttered, making sure that Raven didn't hear.
After a few minutes, the young heroes said good-bye, and Raven turned back to the others, pulling up her hood to hide her fear. "We need to find them. They took Melvin, and she was supposed to be safe. Who else are they going to kidnap?"
"Well…how do we know they were kidnapped?" They jumped, and glanced at the speedster. After being unusually quiet for the past few minutes, his voice had startled the others.
"Three heroines go missing, all in the same day?" The harsh, clipped tones in Robin's voice made them wince, "What other explanation is there?"
They stood in silence for a second, then Beast Boy scowled, "But if that's true..." His eyes turned to the three girls in the room, "That means they're in danger too!"
Raven, Bumblebee, and Starfire exchange quick looks that clearly said 'Oh dear god, no. Please don't let this happen. Unfortunately for them and their egos, it did.
"We have no other choice. You three will have guards with you twenty-four-seven until we find them."
Half-way through town, Cyborg shuddered for no obvious reason. He had the strangest feeling that Robin had just done something amazingly stupid, and that some one was in danger. He made a face and shrugged, deciding that that feeling was produced by nerves over what had happened to Kole. Of course, nothing else was going wrong, so there was nothing to worry about.
Starfire's room was being used by all three girls that night, because it was less creepy then Raven's, and because the boys all wanted the girls in one room, since it would be easier to protect them. Speedy sat outside the door, while Beast Boy sat perched on the windowsill in hawk form. The others were in the main room, keeping an eye on the security cameras.
"Couldn't you teleport us out?" Bumblebee's boredom had gotten to the point were she was willing to bug Raven.
"No." The gothic girl didn't even bother looking up from her book.
"But why?"
"Because, Beast Boy is watching us, and if we close the blinds he'll know something is wrong and he'll call the others." She sighed, then lay her book down on the aliens bed and let her cloak envelope her. For the first time, Bumblebee noticed how tired she looked, "I know you're bored. I am too. If it was up to me, I'd be meditating on the roof right now." She bit her, lip, trying to think of something, "Maybe one of the guys would be willing to bring a TV in or something."
"Friends..." Starfire broke into their conversation hesitantly, rubbing her arm in an unconsciously nervous gesture, "If we are to be watched at all times, how do we change?"
The other two scowled. "They'll close the blinds and have Aqualad or Speedy come in here." Raven muttered, pulling up her hood to hide a blush.
The innocent redhead hesitated, eyes darting around the room, "But...why..."
"Because.They're the only gay guys on either of the teams." Bumblebee rubbed at the bridge of her nose. She had known about her teammates sexuality, and who they were dating, for while now. Hell, everyone did. But that didn't make the thought of them watching her change any less embarrassing.
Starfire stared at her, one eyebrow arched slightly. "What is 'gay', and why does it allow them to watch us?" She said, now sounding slightly angry.
The leader of Titans East looked at her, blinked, then turned to Raven, "You get to tell her."
Raven sighed again and rubbed at her temples, "Well, you see Star, it's like this. Not all guys like girls..." Bumblebee walked over to the windows, trying to ignore the conversation behind her. Hearing Raven give this explanation was something she could have lived all over her life without. She glanced towards Beast Boy's perch and frowned.
"Guys? Where's BB?" Raven stopped halfway through a sentence and glanced towards the window, then frowned and walked over beside Bumblebee.
"He should be right there..." A figure dropped down in front of them suddenly, causing them to jump back and scream. The boy standing in front of them had pure white eyes and wore white pants, shirt, and shoes, along with a white mask that hid all but his eyes. All were covered in strange black markings that seemed oddly like symbols from Raven's books.
"What in Azar?" Raven spoke for all of them, but the only response was a small smirk obvious even through the mask, and the hiss of gas as he set off a smoke bomb that had been hidden in the room all day.