A/N: Standard Disclaimers Apply

Chapter Eleven: Horror Movie Blues

"Hey, dudes."

Speedy and Beast Boy jumped out of their skins and snarled at Kid Flash.

"Dammit, KF!" Speedy growled, "You nearly gave me a heart attack!"

BB hadn't realized he transformed into a mouse and resumed his human form. "Dude, I thought you were still in Central City!"

Kid Flash kicked the dust on the ground. "I was, but… um… I forgot to get Star her birthday present."

"Riiiiiight," Speedy drawled and grinned roguishly. Kid Flash tried to force back a blush, but failed.

"What did you get her?" Beast Boy asked obliviously.

"Say, have either of you seen a clip board lying around?" Kid Flash said, changing the subject. "Robin says that one of the goons here had it."

"Aqualad to Titans, I've been questioning my prisoners, and I don't think it's a weapons cache."

Robin hoisted one of the thugs and slammed him into the container, pressing his face against the steel. The Teen Wonder cranked the gunman's arm and twisted his wrist painfully against his back.

"Spill it! What were you smuggling?" Robin demanded.

The gunman groaned and winced in pain.

"Beast Boy to Titans: I found the paper! It's got really long series of numbers highlighted."

"Give me that," Speedy snapped and ignored a rather nasty hand gesture made by the green boy. The crimson clad archer read the container identification number over the communicator.

Kid Flash nodded and became nothing but a blur. "Found it!" he reported and sent out a homing signal. Robin finished wrapping plastic ties, exactly like the ones riot police use, around the hands and ankles of the eight gunmen before meeting with the others. Speedy, Aqualad, Beast Boy caught up with the young speedster who leaned against a rusted blue container.

"Man, what is that smell?" the green Titan complained.

Robin and Cyborg appeared on the scene. The massive Titan glanced down to his left forearm and widened his eyes in shock. "I'm getting life readings from in there!"

Robin scowled. "Open it!"

Aqualad and Beast Boy (who transformed into a green gorilla) ripped the locks off the container and flew open the door. The rank smell of rotten food and human waste rolled out of the container. Speedy covered his nose and mouth.

The container was full of sick men.

"We need ambulances here, now!" Robin ordered.

…..

"Avast me harties!" Control Freak bellowed as he dodges a barrage of green starbolts. "Go forward men! There be yer… um… booty?"

The undead pirates laughed. "Aye, and what fine booty it be!" one of them exclaimed. The horde advanced, even as they were being decimated by Jinx's and Raven's spells and Argent's and Starfire's energy blasts.

"Where are all these guys coming from?" Argent asked.

Donna narrowed her eyes. "He's recreating them."

"Digital clones! First used in Braveheart!" Control Freak cackled pressing a button on his remote. "And then used to replicate armies ever since! Ha ha ha!"

"His remote is the source of his power!" Starfire exclaimed.

"Jinx! Behind you!" Bee warned as she swept away the grasping, disembodied arms of zombies, still crawling toward their prey.

"Eww! Gross!" Jinx yelped.

Control Freak watched and frowned as his zombie creations relentlessly surrounded the girls. He could make thousands more and thousands beyond that, but he's much rather see that insufferable jerk Robin and that nerdy Beast Boy pounded by the pirates than five extraordinarily cute girls and the hottest thing ever to walk this or any other planet: Starfire. If there were only a way to get her away from that skater/rock star/arrogant goody-two-shoes and show her that there were more witty handsome guys in the world. Someone… someone like me, he thought as he tapped his remote aimlessly in his hand.

"Oh, yeah," Control Freak said as he realized he already had that power. The rotund villain grinned wildly as he pointed his remote at the willowy Starfire.

Argent's eyes widened. "Star! Look out!" she shouted as she knocked the alien away.

The silver-skinned girl vanished with an electric pop.