A/N: Thankies to all who reviewed!
OM: Me mean? -halo appears over head, only to be held up by devil-horns- I'm never mean…
Sunkistgurl: Yay! Cy, on fire! Fun, ne!
Okay, so I'm a little bored…. . But with this chappie, I had to be slightly…dare I say it…serious…with this chapter…I'm not used to it….But anywhos, here we go!
Disclaimer: Me no own TT, at all. XPP.
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The three remaining Titans were seated in front of the huge window/computer, Raven playing with her cloak like a little five year old, while Beastboy looked on with slight annoyance written on his face. Robin was ignoring them all; instead, he was watching the screen in front of him. He had taken the bug Starfire had squashed and was analyzing it with one of Cyborg's many programs. Starfire, who was thoroughly confused and hungry, was in the kitchen, stirring a icky grey substance that occasionally seemed to speak to her, if you listened close enough.
"I say, will you not stop jesting in that manner." Beastboy commented acidly, after nearly getting covered in Raven's cloak as she zoomed around, imitating a plane.
"Why should I, ya green boogie?" she retorted, huffing like a little child and folding her arms over her chest in a pout.
"Me, a green substance that is found in your nostrils? I say, you browbeat!" he retorted back.
"What did you call me?" she asked, in a half-confused, half-angry tone of voice, staring at him beadily. The two engaged in a very childish staring contest, while Robin slapped his gloved hand over his eyes.
"Please, fighting will not help in our situation." Starfire said from the kitchen, pouring in some much-loved mustard into her mix of eatable poison. Raven and Beastboy, as one, turned to glare at Starfire.
"Stay out of this, you noseybutt/misanthropist!" Raven and Beastboy said as one. Obviously, you don't need to guess which one said which derogatory comment. Luckily, though, Starfire was too busy putting the finishing touches on her grey gooey-pudding-of-death.
"Titans, stop fighting! I may have figured out why you guys are—" Robin started, turning to face the three Titans, only to find Beastboy looking around very confusedly, while Raven was pulling her hood up over her head again.
"Dude, why do I have these glasses on? And why do I smell like Robin's cheap hair gel?" Beastboy asked, taking off the glasses and blinking.
"Because you look better like that, you dunderhead." Raven snapped, pulling her cloak over her frame, glancing up at the screen, where the bug was magnified.
"Did she just call me an idiot?" Beastboy asked, pointing an accusing finger at Raven, who rolled her eyes.
"Can we get back on the subject, please?" Robin said, his voice dripping with sarcasm. Raven was way ahead of him; these breaches of her emotion-walls were getting worse by the minute. Maybe it's because her emotions were so complex…
"This bug I found on Starfire seemed to have been carrying some sort of…virus. I can't quite figure it out, but if you'll look right here- -" Robin paused, using his bo staff, fully extended, to point at a spot on the bug's back. This bug didn't look like a bug when it was closely viewed, Raven thought dully to herself before she blinked and shook her head, focusing on the task at hand. If bugs were suddenly to go robotic, this would be the last thing they would become. The person, villain, most likely, had no idea how to make machinery. The overall appearance of the bug was disarrayed. Occasionally, the bug would twitch as a wire would snap from it's metallic body, sparks issuing from the now-frayed machine. The bug at least had eyes, but they were, in actuality, little cameras, that much Raven was sure of. The eyes would focus, then laze off, as if not used to the work it was being put forth to do. A snap of a wire, and the eyes would focus again. The bug had three legs, two on the right and one unevenly huge leg on the left. The legs were bent in many directions, even if Starfire had squished it with her Tameranian strength. And, where a back was supposed to be on a bug, was a glass jar, probably the size of someone's pinky fingernail, if it was in someone's palm. Raven blinked and glanced at her hand. Damn, the bug was gone. She looked back at the screen. The jar still had some drops of black liquid in it, and scrawled across the glass jar, in a very wild manner, were two letters. An H and a W. The H was bigger than the W, and the W seemed to be a pimple on the H. It was sticking out of the side of the H.
"HW? What's that?" Raven asked quietly, glancing at Robin.
"I don't know. Probably a new villain, I'm guessing." He said, and Starfire flew over to them, holding her concoction in a pure metal bowl, Cyborg had made for this type of occasion.
"An H and a W? Do we know of someone with those initials?" she asked, taking a bite out of her gooey concoction, after pulling and tugging for a few seconds. Beastboy watched Starfire with a disgusted expression, his tongue sticking out of the side of his face.
"No. Only person I can think of is the Hive. But the W?..." Robin said, shaking his head at the end.
"But why is this person sending bugs after us?" Beastboy asked, after watching Starfire gasp and sputter and swallow her gloop.
"To control your emotions. See, I analyzed the liquid, but it's really complex. Maybe if I had a few days, I could figure it out. All I could figure is it sends little nano-bots to attack the brain, where the emotions reside. From there, they lodge themselves onto the brain, and the person who sent these bugs can control you." Robin explained, folding his arms over his chest.
"So, someone's messing with our heads?" Beastboy said, grabbing his head and gulping.
"Yes, Beastboy. Though I don't know why they are even trying to mess with your brain. You don't have one to mess with." Raven said acidly, and Beastboy glared over at her.
"You two, stop it." Robin said, finally fed up with their childish fighting. Raven snorted, not about to give up, but Cyborg walked into the room, covered in oil. Starfire glanced over at him, then flew over to him hesitantly.
"Friend Cyborg, I wish to offer my apologies. I did not know what I was doing, and I—" she started.
"I know. I heard what's goin' on. So, someone's stuck little bots in our heads, huh?" Cyborg said.
"Not us, Cyborg. I haven't had any changes of mood, and you haven't."
"Other than you totally flipping out at Star." Beastboy said helpfully, only to be glared down by four Titans. He morphed into a spider and crawled under the couch, to avoid their gazes.
"How can we control the thing that is controlling us?" Starfire asked, and the three Titans, excluding Beastboy, who was still hiding under the couch, and Raven, who didn't add any of her thoughts into the matter. She was furious, to be short and simple. Someone was messing with her head, as Beastboy had put it. The most protected thing she had. She had kept her mind controlled for as long as she could remember, and had fought to keep the control. Many times, she wished she could ease off, be happy, actually laugh at Beastboy's jokes, play games, but she couldn't. If she did, her powers would skyrocket out of control, and she could easily hurt someone. They would call her dark, creepy, grumpy, and rude, but that was just the way it was. She didn't want to hurt any of her friends, probably the only friends she's had since she was born.
Wait…her powers…they would skyrocket if she let her hair loose, as the phrase went. Raven blinked and glanced around. All of these outbursts, every breach in her emotions, had never once sent her powers out of control. Maybe this villain, this HW, had some way of controlling EVERYTHING. Her fists clenched at the thought, her eyes narrowed. Her powers, fused to her anger, suddenly lashed out, and the couch flew up into the air, slamming on the roof. Beastboy, who morphed into human-ish form when the couch was removed, yelped and dove out of the way, as the couch fell back to the ground. The Titans turned to look at Raven, who merely growled and stalked from the room, surrounded by a dark aura.
"What's up with her?" Beastboy asked, getting up and dusting himself off. Robin watched Raven go, his masked eyes more narrow then normal.
"She has the most frequent and weirdest outbursts of emotion. Maybe this villain is targeting her, for some reason." He said slowly, and Starfire gasped.
"We must assist her in her troubles! Let us go to her!" she said, fully intending on flying to the furious Raven. She was stopped, however, by Robin, who grabbed onto her shoulder.
"Look, I agree with you. But we can't help her in that way. We have to figure out how to know when an emotion-changing is going to happen. When you two were changed, did you feel anything?" Robin asked, glancing at Beastboy and Starfire.
"I felt this weird prick on my shoulder, then I felt the need to get glasses…" Beastboy said, rubbing his shoulder in rememberance.
"Same with I. I had this pricking sensation on the nape of my neck." Starfire agreed.
"So, maybe a prick? Pain, then emotions change?" Cyborg said, but they couldn't continue, for the alarm starting going. The screen changed from the bug to a map of Jump City. A red flashing light kept blinking on the screen, near an electronics store.
"Titans, trouble! We'll discuss this later!" Robin shouted, and he saw Raven walk into the room, dressed in…sweatpants and a t-shirt?
"Raven! We've got a problem!" Cyborg said, glancing at Raven, who shrugged and burped loudly, sitting down on the couch.
"I heard. Have fun, I wanna watch some telly." She said, looking for the remote, picking her nose with one finger. Beastboy glanced at her, resisting the urge to laugh and gasp in disgust.
"Cyborg grab her! We'll make her come!" Robin said, running out the door. Cyborg nodded and grappled with her over the remote.
"Here, I'll stay behind. Get her moving." Beastboy volunteered, raising his hand. Cyborg nodded, was that in relief, Beastboy wondered, and ran out the door.
"Enjoy, Friend Beastboy." Starfire said, before following.
"So, wanna get me some chips?"
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A/N: Yay! Another chappie, finished! And yeah, I finally got the plot going a little! XDDD, . Questions:
1.) Who is HW? (Use common sense, figure it out… )
2.) Is he/she/it really after Raven, or what?
3.) Will Lukittymuffin ever stop using that Thesaurus she found, thanks to another person…-prods OM-…hint: I never knew it was in there…o.o….XDDD.
That and more, to be found! R&R! I will not update until THREE peoples, at least, have reviewed…MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA….I think I was nano-botted….-craves kumquats- AACKKK!
